The Chelsea Chronicle
Market12 Jul 2027
Reading come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Chelsea did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad12 Jul 2027
Cole Palmer in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Chelsea this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad12 Jul 2027
Moisés Caicedo falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Squad12 Jul 2027
Jonathan Collins is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 17 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Squad12 Jul 2027
Wesley Fofana has improved at 26, which nobody expected
Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 3 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.
Market12 Jul 2027
Rotherham United join the queue for Roméo Lavia
Add another name to the list: Rotherham United have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Roméo Lavia. The answer from Chelsea has not changed — yet.
In brief
- Market Preston expected to open talks for Dário Essugo
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