The Chelsea Chronicle
Market17 Aug 2026
Chelsea sell Filip Jörgensen for $33.1M
Filip Jörgensen has left for Atlético Madrid in a $33.1M deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.
Squad17 Aug 2026
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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
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.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
5 academy players handed senior numbers at Chelsea
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Market17 Aug 2026
Eyes on Chizzy Ezenwata again
The phone has started ringing about Chizzy Ezenwata again, and this time the name on the line is Virtus Entella. Chelsea are listening politely and promising nothing.
Market17 Aug 2026
One of our own: George Smith joins the Chelsea first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. George Smith is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Market Adam Pearson steps up from the Chelsea academy
- Boardroom Chelsea are making the ground bigger
- Squad No hiding place for Caleb Wiley
- Squad A wage question at Chelsea