The Chelsea Chronicle
Match5 Jan 2036
Tottenham take the derby
0‑1, and no way to dress it up. A derby defeat follows a supporter to work on Monday, and this one will follow him all week.
Transfer targets7 Jan 2036
An offer of $17.5M for Rory Wilson
Chelsea have gone to Fulham with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
Market7 Jan 2036
Tottenham 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.
Transfer targets7 Jan 2036
An offer of $10.6M for Gavi
Chelsea have gone to Fulham with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
Market7 Jan 2036
Terms done: David Clarke is going
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Blackpool waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Chelsea is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Squad7 Jan 2036
Benjamin Šeško honoured for the season
The kind of year that ends with a name being read out in a hall. Chelsea had the benefit of it every week and now have the problem of everybody else knowing.
Market7 Jan 2036
Sven Botman hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Chelsea can pretend not to have heard.
Market7 Jan 2036
Samuel Bailey says no to Barrow AFC
“I listened, I thought about it, and I am staying. That is the whole story.” The clubs had agreed a fee. Samuel Bailey had not agreed to go, which turned out to be the part that mattered.
Transfer targets7 Jan 2036
Chelsea make their move for Pablo Felipe
$3.1M on the table at Bournemouth. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
In brief
- Transfer targets An offer of $2.3M for Jamie McDonnell
- Squad Giorgio Scalvini stays put
- The dugout No hiding place for Lesley Ugochukwu