Florent Malouda: “I am grateful to Granovskaya for what she did at Chelsea”

Former Chelsea and France midfielder Florent Malouda believes former Blues director Marina Granovskaya has set high management standards at the club.

Granovskaya worked at the club from 2013 to 2022.

– When she came to the management of Chelsea, it was not easy for her, as it was for Abramovich in his time. The non-British woman had never been associated with Chelsea before… But she proved to be a great leader, chose the right people and represented the interests professionally.

The titles and achievements of Chelsea speak for the people who then ran the club. I am grateful to Granovskaya for what she did, I admire her. I wish her all the best. But in terms of management, she set the highest standards. But it is often difficult for clubs to hire appropriate CEOs, managers, – Sport24 quotes Malouda.

Granovskaya is 48 years old, she was born in Russia and has Russian and Canadian citizenship. She graduated from Moscow State University with honors in 1997 and began her career that same year at Sibneft, an oil company formerly owned by Roman Abramovich. Abramovich owned Chelsea from 2003 to 2022.