Chelsea's scouting team is being completely broken up this year.
Football chief Frank Arnesen has already confirmed he is leaving in the summer for Hamburg.
The Guardian says Chelsea's chief scout Lee Congerton is to accompany the Dane to the Bundesliga club as technical director.
Hans Gillhaus is leaving to join the Dutch team Feyenoord as its technical director and the French scout Guy Hillion is to become the sporting director at Nantes.
Chelsea is to implement a radical overhaul of its scouting department.
Click here for the No1 coverage of all the gossip and transfer news around Chelsea.