Chelsea owner Roman has always been known to be a lavish spender and at one point after divorce and the issue between Britain and Russia, he considered selling Chelsea. Of course, no one came close to his asking price so he remained Chelsea's owner.

Chelsea for a long time has always been known as a team that buys players who have a short-term impact on the team. Then all changed immediately Marina Granovskaia was moved to director of football at Chelsea. She has been working for Roman for years now and even moved down to Chelsea with him when he bought the club in 2003.

The move has paid off since Marina Granovskaia has been in the care of transfers at Chelsea and most refer to her as iron lady due to her unbreakable and strict nature of conducting business. She is currently one of the most influential women in football at the moment.

She single-handedly brokered a deal for Chelsea to be paid 60 million a year till 2032 from a deal with Nike. Her other success is managing to sell Moratta (a flop at Chelsea) for a deal worth over 75 million even after Chelsea bought him for 60 million 2 seasons ago.

Marina Granovskaia has always managed to get the best of any deal Chelsea is involved in; a quick example is a deal with Yokohama and Nike. Also, not forgetting her dealings with Chelsea in the transfer market.

Over the last five years, Chelsea has made numerous profits in their transfer dealing and what makes it even truly remarkable is the fact that all the coaches employed have always gotten their principal targets. From the tenor of Conte to Sarri and now Lampard, none has ever had to complain. about not getting the required players that suit their styles of football philosophy.

The transfer ban placed on Chelsea helped a bit to get rid of unwanted players at Chelsea, thereby saving up lots of money to help fund Chelsea transfer dealings in the 2021/2020 season. It also afforded the current head coach get to identify what the team lacks and areas to strengthen while also given them the luxury of time to identify and examine their targets.

Marina Granovskaia smart business helped Chelsea secure reinforcement in all position of the squad and lots of players of high quality was brought it. The likes of Thiago Silva, Eduardo Mendy, Ben Chilwell were brought in to strengthen the defense and so far, Chelsea has kept 5 clean sheets in 9 matches. Not also forgotten that the forward players bought in have done their part to make Chelsea rank as the highest goal-scoring team in the league this season.

With Marina Granovskaia as a director at Chelsea, we expect more from Chelsea both on and off as her impact shone through the team.