Chelsea hired law firm to look into club executive’s response to female agent

Chelsea brought in an external law firm to investigate whether their president of business, Tom Glick, acted appropriately when he told a female agent that her complaints to him about the behaviour of a club executive did not interest him and were not relevant to his job.

The club sought outside help over Catalina Kim alerting Glick last year to historical messages of a sexual nature to her from Damian Willoughby, whose brief period as Chelsea’s commercial director ended last September with his sacking over the matter.

The episode was taken seriously by the hierarchy and the club offered safeguarding support to Kim. It is understood the law firm spoke to Glick and Kim earlier this year. The firm has sent a report of its findings to Chelsea and a summary of the report to Kim. Chelsea declined to comment on its contents. Glick, who had hired Willoughby days before the executive’s dismissal, remains in his post.

In an unrelated development Chris Jurasek, an operating executive at Clearlake, is expected to become Chelsea’s new chief executive. Jurasek, who would be above Glick, is set to take charge of the commercial side of the club.

Glick, who had hired Willoughby days before the executive’s dismissal, became the first appointment of the Todd Boehly-Clearlake Capital ownership last July. The American faced questions after he initially sought to play down Kim’s complaints about Willoughby. Glick initially said he had set the issue aside during a phone call with Kim.

When contacted by the Guardian over the story last September, Glick’s lawyers said that regrettably he had not properly reviewed the screenshots before their telephone call. He told Kim on the call that he had just looked at “the headlines”. Before their