Confirmed : Chelsea's perfect 25-man squad for next season with five new signings

 Predicting how Chelsea could line up 

on the opening day of next season is 

proving just as difficult as it is to predict

 who will become the next Chelsea owners.

With just under two months to go until

 the 2021/22 season reaches its conclusion, 

Chelsea are gearing up for a rather productive

 end to the season on and off the pitch

. On the field, Thomas Tuchel's side remain

 in strong contention to the Champions 

League and FA Cup, whilst a top four

 position still needs to be secured in 

the back end of the Premier League season

 to ensure European football next season.

It's a different story off the pitch, though

. Chelsea have been looking for new 

owners now for the last few weeks after

 Roman Abramovich was sanctioned 

due to his links to Russia's Vladimir Putin 

- something he strongly denies. 

Consequently, the ownership race had 

been dominating a large proportion of 

the agenda at this current moment and 

the need for the new structure to act 

fast upon their arrival to the special 

government license is imperative if 

Chelsea are to have a productive summer.

Todd Boehly's consortium and Sir 

Martin Broughton's Group are the 

reported two frontrunners with a conclusion

 potentially close by the time the Premier

 League returns from the international 

break. All Tuchel wants to see is for

 whichever party who wins the race to 

match the high ambitions that Abramovich

 had over his 19-year reign.

"It is a huge amount of money," 

the Blues' head coach said in a recent 

press conference. "That’s why I am also

 confident because I think if somebody 

buys a club for this kind of money then

 it’s about challenging at the highest 

kind of level, then it’s about trophies, 

then it’s about winning and it’s about 

being the best you can. It's not about 

developing a project, it's not about 

making money with the club."

If the transfer ban was removed once

 the license is altered by the new ownership

 group, Tuchel has at least four areas in 

which new additions can make a difference

. Whether that is via external or internal

 means to add more quality and depth 

to a squad who aim to bridge the gap to 

Liverpool and Man City at the summit

 of the table remains to be seen.