Michael Emenalo, has been at Chelsea for years now, starting
off as chief scout for 2007 after the departure of Ray Wilkins, Emenalo was
promoted by Mr Abramovich to assistant first team coach, less than 9 months in
the job, half way through 2011 Emenalo was promoted to Technical Director
overseeing the scouting and academy programs.
This is the interesting part with the return of the special
one in 2013 Emenalo, by request wanted his contract terminating, to free
himself up to take the role of General Manager at Wigan Athletic, however this
request was denied.
When Emenalo was promoted to Technical Director, he was rumoured
to have an unprecedented amount and responsibility over transfers, as in the
summer with the lack of signings coming into Stamford Bridge. There are claims
that Emenalo has made signing without Jose seeing them play, a recent example
of this is, Papy Djilobodji from Nantes who has only appeared once in the
Carling Cup, which basically says to me that, Papy Djilobodji was not Jose’s
signing at all.
Emenalo has been involved in some cracking deals, with the
likes of Kurt Zouma and Bertnard Traore, who especially Zouma has been supurb
since he arrived from St Etienne and flourished under the guidance of Jose and
John Terry. However there have been more huge flops recently they are Mohamed
Salah and of course Juan Cuadrado who both only managed half a season before being
shipped out on loan, after struggling to get past Hazard and Willian respectively.
Both now are now on loan in Italy Salah with A.S Roma who is touted to have a
clause in the loan deal where at the end of season A.S Roma will pay £22
million for the Egyptian International and Cuadrado with Juventus until the end
of the season.
With Chelsea in a state of crisis, these are expensive
failures and with the need to balance the books with the prospect of Chelsea missing
out on Champions League football, some maybe accountable and that someone could
be Michael Emenalo.
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