The Chelsea Chronicle
Market21 Jun 2027
Pedro Neto puts it in writing
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Chelsea, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market21 Jun 2027
Josh Acheampong agrees terms with Cardiff City
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Chelsea people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Market21 Jun 2027
Chelsea turn down Derby County for Levi Colwill
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market21 Jun 2027
Business is business: Chizzy Ezenwata goes
Derby County paid $2.1M and Chelsea took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.
Squad21 Jun 2027
Tempers go at Chelsea
Emiliano Martínez was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad21 Jun 2027
Real improvement from Sol Gordon at Chelsea
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Sol Gordon is 19, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad21 Jun 2027
Mao Hosoya wants to go home
“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Chelsea know it.
Squad21 Jun 2027
A row about effort at Chelsea
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Levi Colwill was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout21 Jun 2027
The manager makes an example of Mao Hosoya
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
In brief
- The dugout Moisés Caicedo has become a man the manager trusts
- The dugout Levi Colwill is still being punished for one mistake
- Loan watch Robert Sánchez’s loan is measured in nothing happening