Staveley has vast experience dealing with financials and associated regulations (including brokering the deal that ‘saved’ Barclays during the 2008 crisis that ended up in court) - she’ll want to make sure everything you do is above board (and as you say wouldn’t be surprised if the ownership are completely behind that - partly why she was employed in the first place I suspect).I've no idea if this is the case, but my personal take is that because of who owns us we're going to great lengths to at least appear like we're doing everything above board. I mean even the shirts sponsor and sleeve sponsors are within 'fair market value' all be it at the upper reaches.
Chelsea are going to great lengths to find any loophole they can and the PL are too slow to get ahead of them.