The Chelsea Chronicle
Squad23 Aug 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.
Boardroom23 Aug 2027
Matthew Evans signs on for the long haul
Chelsea moved before anybody else could: a new deal for Matthew Evans, agreed quietly and announced loudly. Boards extend managers for many reasons; the good one is the one this looks like.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Real improvement from Jorrel Hato at Chelsea
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Jorrel Hato is 21, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Player ratings23 Aug 2027
Nobody could get near Morgan Rogers
Successful dribbles: 23. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad23 Aug 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.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Levi Colwill stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Levi Colwill and Chelsea agree another 5 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Market23 Aug 2027
Middlesbrough watching Jorrel Hato
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Chelsea have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Boardroom23 Aug 2027
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.
Market23 Aug 2027
One of our own: Henry Carter joins the Chelsea first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Henry Carter 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 Chelsea promote Simon Scott from within
- Market Jonathan Edwards steps up from the Chelsea academy
- Match Liverpool take the points off Chelsea