Chelsea have raided Brighton once more to snap up their switch chief Sam Jewell.
The Seagulls’ head of recruitment has agreed to a brand new function at Stamford Bridge and is now on gardening depart, simply 15 months after the Blues employed his predecessor Paul Winstanley who now shares the function of co-sporting director with Laurence Stewart, the Mirror report.
Graham Potter additionally departed the Amex to move to west London round that point, spending lower than seven months in cost earlier than getting sacked in April of final 12 months. Jewell is in truth the eleventh Brighton workers member to take action.
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As effectively as Potter and Winstanley, he is additionally following within the footsteps of Billy Reid, Bruno Saltor, Bjorn Hamberg, Ben Roberts, Kyle Macaulay, Robert Sanchez, Marc Cucurella and Moises Caicedo both on or off the pitch.
Jewell, the son of ex-Wigan boss Paul, stepped into Winstanley’s sneakers briefly when he left for Chelsea in November 2022, earlier than formally taking up the function in February.
Announcing his departure, Brighton stated: “Sam Jewell has accepted a new position at Chelsea FC. Sam has now commenced a period of gardening leave. We thank him for his long service to our club.
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“With immediate effect, Mike Cave, assistant technical director, supported by George Holmes, scouting and intelligence manager, will assume Sam’s responsibilities.”
Chelsea have repeatedly focused Brighton since Todd Boehly and Clearlake Capital took over. Jewell is prone to take up a world scouting function at Stamford Bridge, overseeing negotiations for golf equipment beneath the BlueCo umbrella.
He’s climbed the ranks from chief scout at Swindon Town to move of recruitment at Brighton. Jewell beforehand spoke concerning the significance of planning for departures like Dan Ashworth and Winstanley. Now, Brighton should hope they will handle with out him.
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He defined: “We’re very lucky at Brighton because our succession planning means there is very little upheaval when people do move on.
“Departures are half and parcel of soccer, and whereas it was unhappy to see two actually good folks depart us, it has opened doorways to others, together with me. Following Paul’s departure, I took on the top of recruitment function on an interim foundation and it was very a lot enterprise as ordinary.
“There’s nothing in the job that I hadn’t done before, to be honest. I was lucky in the fact that Paul Winstanley trusted me a lot with many elements of the role, so I just got on with what I needed to do.”