Chelsea owner Todd Boehly was at the Blues' training ground on Friday to watch Graham Potter's side train.
Boehly was spotted greeting several players and speaking to the former Brighton boss ahead of Chelsea's clash with Wolves on Saturday.
The billionaire American businessman and investor has been a visible presence at the club since he led the consortium that completed a £4.25billion takeover of the Premier League club at the end of May.
Boehly has been acting as interim sporting director for the London side and oversaw £270m worth of spending on new players during the summer transfer window and sacked manager Thomas Tuchel amid a shaky opening to the season.
This followed the departure of several long-serving backroom staff including former chairman Bruce Buck, director and transfers chief Marina Granovskaia, technical and performance director Petr Cech and international head of scouting Scott McLachlan have all left as well.
The American has been outspoken with his views since he took charge of the club, receiving criticism on numerous occasions including when he proposed an All-Star North vs South game and claimed Kevin De Bruyne and Mohamed Salah had come through the Chelsea academy.
Boehly's visit to the training ground comes after reports broke that Christopher Vivell will join Chelsea as their new technical director, just hours after it announced that he had dismissed from the same role with RB Leipzig.
Leipzig took to Twitter on Friday morning to confirm that Vivell 'was dismissed from his role as technical director on Thursday due to a difference in contrasting views'.
And The Telegraph's Matt Law has now revealed that he will take up the same role at Stamford Bridge after he met with the club again during the week.
Petr Cech stepped down from the position in the summer after three years when it was confirmed that the Blues would be getting new ownership.
The Todd Boehly-Clearlake Capital ownership will be pleased to finally find the right man to replace him, having already seen moves for Michael Edwards and Christoph Freund fail.
The club are still on the hunt for a sporting director and it is believed that Freund was also been a candidate for the role before he decided to stay at RB Salzburg.
The addition of Vivell comes at the end of a week in which it was revealed that another Leipzig employee has signed a pre-contract agreement with Chelsea.
Christopher Nkunku is understood to have signed a pre-contractual agreement with Chelsea after having a secret medical with the Blues last month.
Boehly and Clearlake want to follow the Red Bull multi-club model and this move for Vivell would support that ambition.
The German, along with Freund, helped unearth Manchester City star Erling Haaland.