Daniel Price

Striker - Chelsea
22 Oct 2027
Friday
Process

Marked for Daniel Price

52 Edition

The Chelsea Chronicle

26 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Emanuel Emegha has said yes to Manchester United

The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Chelsea have lost him in all but the paperwork.

The dugout

Emanuel Emegha says Chelsea went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Squad

Words exchanged at Chelsea

Cole Palmer and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Squad

Tijjani Reijnders 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.

Market

The Jordan Henderson conversation is coming

Everyone has stopped pretending: Wrexham will make the call about Jordan Henderson this week. Chelsea have a number in mind, and the number is not shy.

The dugout

Morgan Rogers knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Chelsea, and both men came out saying it was fine.

The dugout

Moisés Caicedo gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Moisés Caicedo is on it.

The dugout

The manager has not finished forgetting Maxence Lacroix's mistake

Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.

Squad

Daniel Price signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Daniel Price and Chelsea agree another 3 years.

In brief

Back issues
50 Edition

The Chelsea Chronicle

12 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Chelsea say no — this time

The offer from Flamengo for João Pedro was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Market

Dujuan Richards asks to leave Chelsea

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Market

Malo Gusto attracts admirers

The name of Malo Gusto has come up in conversations Chelsea were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

Squad

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.

Squad

A row about effort at Chelsea

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Moisés Caicedo was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Squad

Real improvement from Daniel Price at Chelsea

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Daniel Price is 17, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Transfer targets

Chelsea rebuffed over Matvey Kislyak

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. CSKA Moscow have kept their man, and Chelsea go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Squad

Aarón Anselmino signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Aarón Anselmino commits to Chelsea for another 5 years.

The dugout

Reece James has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Chelsea will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

In brief