With the Champions League to contend with next term, a list of appropriate targets has already been drawn up and the club intend to spend heavily on up to six players to build on their Premier League triumph.

It has been a regular source of debate over who is in charge of recruitment at Stamford Bridge but when things do not go to plan, technical director Michael Emenalo is often portrayed, on social media at least, as the bad guy.

In October, the former Nigeria international will celebrate 10 years at the club. He has been employed in his current role for six of them.

Eight major trophies for the first team have been collected since he arrived at the club in 2007, while Chelsea’s academy is now comfortably the most successful in the country.

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