The Chelsea Chronicle
Player ratings15 Sep 2031
Jamie Gittens runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 35. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match13 Sep 2031
Chelsea strike at the death to beat Fulham
There were 89 minutes on the clock and Fulham had all but banked the point. Football rarely reads the room, and Chelsea did not stop to explain themselves.
Market15 Sep 2031
Wilson Odobert wants more than Chelsea are offering
“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.
Squad15 Sep 2031
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.
Market15 Sep 2031
Dastan Sätpayev has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Chelsea they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad15 Sep 2031
Reece James 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.
Squad15 Sep 2031
Robert Phillips is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 19 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.
Match13 Sep 2031
Chelsea find a way past Fulham
Fulham made Chelsea work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad15 Sep 2031
The manager makes an example of Simone Lontani
“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
- Player ratings Reece James stands above it all
- Market The Enzo Fernández talk will not go away
- Player ratings Morgan Rogers changes it off the bench