Pedro Neto

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Chelsea
1 Mar 2027
Monday
Process

Marked for Pedro Neto

29 Edition

The Chelsea Chronicle

15 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Robert Sánchez keeps Chelsea in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 10 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Match

Chelsea through in the cup

A 2‑0 win over Tottenham, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.

Match

The run at home goes on for Chelsea

17 matches unbeaten here. Every visiting manager is asked about it in the week before, which is precisely why it keeps going.

Player ratings

A derby belongs to Pedro Neto

Beat anybody else and it is three points. Beat them and it is a story a city tells for a decade. Chelsea have their man.

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

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.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Alejandro Garnacho

At 22 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Squad

Robert Sánchez shuts the door again

11 clean sheets and counting. Strikers leave this ground muttering his name, which is exactly how a goalkeeper measures a good season.

Market

Blackburn Rovers expected to open talks for Deivid Washington

Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Chelsea will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.

In brief

Back issues
28 Edition

The Chelsea Chronicle

8 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Moisés Caicedo raises the bar for Chelsea

“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Chelsea heard it as anything else.

Squad

Trevoh Chalobah has been here 8 seasons

196 appearances across 8 seasons in one shirt. Nobody builds a career like that on purpose any more; it happens to a certain kind of footballer at a certain kind of club.

Squad

Tempers go at Chelsea

Cole Palmer was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Squad

Words at Chelsea training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Moisés Caicedo is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Squad

No hiding place for Reece James

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Reece James, and the manager let it.

Player ratings

Cole Palmer in the eights

A performance of 8.14 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Market

Nottingham Forest expected to open talks for Pedro Neto

Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Chelsea will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.

Loan watch

Shumaira Mheuka counts the days

“I watch every Chelsea game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Manchester United runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.

Match

Chelsea share the spoils with Sunderland

A 2‑2 draw with Sunderland leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.

In brief

12 Edition

The Chelsea Chronicle

19 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Enzo Fernández 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

Words at Chelsea training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Moisés Caicedo is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Match

A bad afternoon for Chelsea against Newcastle United

0‑1 to Newcastle United, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad

A late step up for Filip Jörgensen

At 24 the improving is meant to be over. It is not: 3 points better than the mark taken at the start of the year, which is the sort of thing that happens to players who take the boring parts of the job seriously.

Squad

A muscle injury sidelines Shaun Wade for 14 days

Nobody makes a documentary about a hamstring and everybody in the game fears one. Chelsea will be careful with the return date, because the second one is always worse than the first.

Player ratings

Wesley Fofana never got going

5.14 on the card. Some afternoons a footballer looks like a man who has only just been introduced to the game, and this was one of them.

In brief