Some Chelsea insiders have clearly lost their top tier access with the new ownership and management – but others haven’t.
Whoever speaks to Matt Law is clearly still in a job – as the Telegraph’s Chelsea correspondent is still pumping out the exclusives week after week.
Today he’s got interesting information about how the new owners will work in terms of contracts.
They’re said to be restructuring the whole bonus based model of the club, creating greater incentives for players to do well individually and win trophies collectively.
You could hardly say that the system under Roman Abramovich didn’t work – there was no shortage of motivation or of trophies during his ownership.
But football moves on quickly, and perhaps it’s time that the base model that the deals we hand out are based on is brought into line with more current practices as employed regularly by the most cutting edge clubs around.
