An accomplished recluse may be an apt term to describe her given her fiercely private life. Her interviews with members of the press are few and far between. In fact, reports indicate that she is yet to grant a media outlet an interview. Her comments on the Chelsea official website, are short and sweet as opposed to the long-winded statements that her counterparts in other clubs churn out. That is how Marina Granovskaia loves to operate.
She may be a consummate recluse and given to few words, but make no mistake, she is very powerful. When the Blues have offered contract extensions to its players, her name has appeared in the releases announcing the contract extensions. But who is this seemingly powerful lady with a plum job that many people would die for.
Marina Granovskaia is a Russian-Canadian woman. The owner of the Chelsea football Club, Roman Abramovich considers her close ally. The two met for the first time back in 1997 when the Russian tycoon took over an oil company.
Abramovich tagged her along to London, capital of England, having sold the oil company for 250 times the price he had bought it. Granovskaia has established herself as a strategic thinker who thinks long-term. Under her stint as director, she has been responsible for cultivating a relationship with Vitesse, a club that has long played the role of breeding ground for talent for the English club.
Chelsea’s trainig ground in Cobham, arguably one of the best in the world, was procured thanks to the influence of the Russian-Canadian. She is said to have the final say when it comes to transfers and the acquisition of talent. This has sometimes placed her on a collision course with managers.
