Just a reminder that two of the best talents in world football are joining Chelsea in 12 months time.
Kendry Páez is already a starter for Ecuador.
Estêvão Willian will soon be a starter for Brazil.
Huge credit to the owners for securing both in a competitive market.
Thiago Silva will say goodbye to
@ChelseaFC
and the Premier League this Sunday.
From the brink of retirement at 21 years old, to becoming one of the world’s best defenders, here is the Brazilian’s inspiring story.
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🚨🔵 Understand Chelsea and Atlético are getting closer to final agreement for João Félix and Conor Gallagher!
Positive round of talks today, João says yes to contract terms. Rumours on €60m fixed fee for Félix are not true.
All parties working to get it done this weekend.
The difference between the men's and women's team coaches are absolutely staggering.
Sonia Bompastor has an 85% WIN percentage at Lyon... With 100 wins in 117 games... Crazy!
We got obliterated 7-1 in two legs against Bayern Munich with Frank Lampard in charge...
and then won the UCL the following season, conceding just FOUR goals.
We are an elite manager away from everything changing.
One game vs Wrexham and there is already a massive difference in set piece quality.
Massive props to the owners and sporting directors for getting in a proper set piece coach.
🔵🇫🇷 Strasbourg have completed deal to sign Diego Moreira from Chelsea on a permanent move.
It will be permanent rather than loan.
Moreira signs five year deal, seen as winger perfect fit for Liam Rosenior’s system at Strasbourg.
Fabrizio's next 5 tweets are guaranteed to be:
8:06PM - Chelsea closing in on Ugarte
8:45 - Chelsea and Ugarte deal is almost done. Few key details left
9:32 - Cheeky retweet
10:07 - Ugarte to Chelsea just a matter of time
10:46 - Ugarte to Chelsea here we go!
🚨🔵 João Félix will NOT stay at Chelsea next season. Pochettino has decided, João returns to Atléti.
“We have been informed that Poch does not count with João Félix for Chelsea. He will return here, we’ll see… we’ve nothing planned”, Atlético president Cerezo has announced.
Clearlake and Boehly made it very clear at the start and said multiple times
"We will NOT let players enter the last year of their contract" (after what happened with Rudiger and AC)
Gallagher is now close to entering the last year of his contract and won't leave.
Expected.
🚨 🔵 MAJOR BREAKING: Chelsea have banished Conor Gallagher from the first team squad. Chelsea have informed Gallagher he will not be training with the first team when the squad return from USA. (
@alex_crook
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#CFC
Guiu = £5M striker, profile we don't have, can be flipped for profit if he flops
KDH = £25M bargain, again midfield profile we don't have
Tosin = Free transfer, aerially dominant, fast CB
Renato Viega = £12M, LB/LCB/DM hybrid, proper technical athlete
This is a good window 👍
#BREAKING
: Chelsea are preparing to name Estoril U23 and former Benfica academy coach, Filipe Coelho as the new Development Squad Coach.
(
@chelseayouth
)
#CFC
#BlueCo
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Footballers that have played in Ligue 1 have such a high success rate at Chelsea.
Hazard, Cech, Azpi, Essien, Luiz, Silva, Malouda, Mendy, Gallas, Drogba, Remy etc etc
Now Gusto (Lyon) and Nkunku (formerly PSG).
🚨🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Chelsea and Atlético Madrid are now discussing João Félix to
#CFC
as part of Gallagher deal!
Samu Omorodion deal collapsing and the two clubs don’t want Gallagher and Julián Álvarez deals to collapse too…
João Félix, being discussed with Jorge Mendes in London.
That period was genuinely the best I've felt as a Chelsea fan since Conte 16/17.
Still buzzing from the UCL adrenaline, fresh off a SuperCup trophy and top of the league with a PL title beckoning.
We had proper structure, playing style and tactics all nailed down within the first few games.
He would absolutely love the kind of technical ability in this squad.
Let the man finish what he started.
Klopp left Liverpool with 1 Prem, 1 Super Cup, 1 FA Cup, 1 UCL and 2 Carabaos
For practically 10 years of work, is it really much of a ‘golden era’ ???
🔵🇫🇷 Chelsea are super happy with the investment they made on Malo Gusto in January 2023.
Real fee spent to sign French RB was £26m, as
#CFC
anticipated two clubs from abroad also keen on Malo.
7 assists, excellent performances and club more than happy with his development.
🚨🟣🔵 Aston Villa have sent formal proposal worth £50m for Amadou Onana, negotiations are at advanced stages.
Onana has already accepted Villa project as he wants to play Champions League football.
Talks underway to get it done soon, as
@David_Ornstein
reported.
Teams progressing to the next round of the UCL after losing the first leg.
Chelsea = 5 times
Real Madrid = 5 times
Barcelona = 5 times
Juventus = 5 times
Bayern = 4 times
UCL heritage.
🚨 Official: Premier League clubs unanimously agreed to the introduction of Semi-Automated Offside Technology.
The new system will be used for the first time in the Premier League next season.
Mason Mount & Reece James should’ve been the focal point of our Spine going into the future.
Instead we booted the man who won us the champions league and wonder why we are such in a miserable state
Understand AC Milan and Chelsea are closing in on Ruben Loftus Cheek deal for €16m fee plus €4m add-ons, this is the final package 🔴⚫️
#ACMilan
#CFC
Personal terms agreed, RLC understood to be really excited about joining Milan.
Final details discussed then… here we go.
If you want Pochettino here next season, you are an enemy of progress.
It's 2024. He is so washed. Teams have figured out that he leaves massive gaps and can't control games.
DON'T buy Gordon for £60M.
Instead:
1/ Use £10M to pay the extra fee for Fofana.
2/ Use the other £50M to buy a creator like Saint-Maximin or Maddison.
After today.
Cole Palmer 27 G/A.
Nicolas Jackson 16 G/A.
Malo Gusto 8 assists.
We keep moving. These 3 players in particular are never letting us down.
Super consistent.
Tuchel turned up to the Bernabeu and had Madrid on strings with RLC and Alonso starting.
We don't have many average players. They're just being made to look that way.
You'll see once we get Enrique or Nagelsmann.
Lampard out!! Oh wait, Tuchel out!! Oh no, Potter out!! Oh, Lampard out!!
Wonder when people are going to realise that this squad STILL consists of way too many average players and needs gutting? Should have been done already. We signed some right players, but some mistakes too.
No Burnley player has scored more Premier League goals this season than David Datro Fofana (4).
He's only started six PL games for the Clarets. 😮💨
#BURBRE
Even after spending millions in attack, our defence is still by far the strongest area of our squad.
LCBs - Colwill & Badiashile
RCBs - Silva & Fofana
RBs - James and Gusto
LBs - Chilwell and Cucurella/Hall
The players are islands away from each other man...you cannot counter-press like this, which is exactly why all our misplaced passes are extremely costly
So we're playing against all of these in pre-season:
Champions of Spain,
Champions of England,
Champions of Scotland,
Champions of Italy.
Might be the perfect preparation for next season.
Christopher Vivell was appointed as technical director at Chelsea, on 21st December 2022.
Since then, our NEW transfer targets have been:
Joao Felix, Enzo Fernandez, Alexis MacAllister, Mukhaylo Mudryk, Benoit Badiashile and Moises Caicedo. 🎯
🔴⚪️ Bobby Clark leaves Liverpool to join Pep Lijnders at RB Salzburg, here we go!
Fee £10m and 17.5% sell-on clause as package, as
@daveockop
@_pauljoyce
report and club sources confirm.
Liverpool will also have right of first refusal.
Nathan Aké about to win a treble with City.
Raphinha's just won a league title with Barcelona.
De Ligt is about to win the league title with Bayern.
What dialogue?
His dad was shot dead and his mum worked as a toilet cleaner to raise him up in a notorious area and become the footballer he is today but yet you want to hide behind an avi and abuse him
This is the level of depth we should be aiming to have in all positions in our squad.
Two players who can both command a place in Chelsea's first XI.
Reece James and Malo Gusto.
Tactically astute with a compact structure.
Experience working with Caicedo, Colwill and Mudryk.
Took Brighton to the Europa League.
Roberto de Zerbi IN.
Moisés Caicedo in that second half BTW. He was winning literally every single duel and the opposition couldn't get near him.
He's been super good since the start of December.
Enzo Fernández is the definition of Chels.
1/ Left 1st place Benfica for 10th place Chelsea whilst begging Rui Costa to join us
2/ Defended our badge at Old Trafford last season when everyone else were weak
3/ Today against Mount.
🚨 Romeo Lavia: “The interest from Liverpool was there but in my head, I wanted to play for Chelsea. If you look at all the teams, Chelsea is the one that is growing. When I saw a group of young, talented players that at their previous clubs had been the best players, it can only
Marc Cucurella's build up play is underrated.
When being pressed, he's able to find passing lanes with ease and successfully execute his pass.
Perhaps his best trait.
People were blaming Tuchel for wanting to sell this entitled bum.
His biggest career achievement to date is an own goal in a playoff final which his team lost.
Let's be honest, Thomas Tuchel gave scrubs like Mason Mount and Kai Havertz a career.
They would be nobodies if it weren't for that UCL trophy masterminded by an elite coach.
Chelsea's finishing isn't half as bad as you think. ⚽️📊
In fact, we are actually over-performing our xG for the season.
We've scored 74 goals BUT our expected goals according to various stats sites is:
69.4 (Fotmob)
66.7 (Understat)
64.9 (Fbref)
Strasbourg are now one of the options for David Datro Fofana’s loan move from Chelsea this summer — confirmed as L’Équipe called. 🚨🔵
#CFC
Chelsea are considering this possibility but the player also has other options so decision will be made in the next days.