César Azpilicueta likely to stay at Chelsea with Todd Boehly blocking Barcelona move

🚨 Azpilicueta has signed a 2-year deal to STAY at Chelsea!

Cesar Azpilicueta is a certified club legend, keeping him around as a source of stability and sanity through such a dramatic change at the club is highly intelligent.

I don’t expect him to always play, I don’t think he does too. A great leader to help a younger team flourish.

Fabrizio is still saying Cucurella to Chelsea is done and he is having his medical today. To be this firm on it I dont think he would be lying lmao

Chelsea are pushing to take their transfer spending close to a record £300million this summer [telegraph] #cfc

‘Big’ numbers still up for grabs at Chelsea.

2, 4, 9

De Jong, Fofana and Auba.. All positive developments

✅ Fee agreed (£52.5m)
✅ Personal terms agreed (six-year contract)
⏳ Medical tests

We’re nearly there… 🌟

Chelsea ideally want to appoint a new sporting director as early as next month. It is true that they have been in talks with Michael Edwards. Maxwell (PSG) and Paul Mitchell (Monaco) under consideration, too. No advance on Andrea Berta, who Atleti say is happy and committed.

Medical tests successfully completed for Marc Cucurella in London. Now time to check and sign documents… here we go, again. 😉🚨🔵 #CFC

Levi Colwill will join Brighton on loan, as expected.

Add ons don’t bother me cause they only activate if we’re good. And nobody cares about money when you’re winning.

+ We don’t face the potential embarrassment of buying back #Colwill for £20m more than what we sold him for in 2024. An extra £5m is nothing. Only concern is Brighton might not want to develop him 100% cause they are bitter it’s not a option to buy.

The extra price difference which Chelsea are paying Brighton for Marc Cucurella is worth it to keep Levi Colwill considering his age, talent and potential. Will be interesting to learn what the actual fee is.

This saves Chelsea money. £10m more for Marc Cucurella when the initial buy-back for Levi Colwill was reported to be £20m more than the initial fee paid for 19-year-old. Smart, smart business from Chelsea.

🔐 Marc Cucurella created 40 goalscoring chances from open play in the Premier League last season

😳 Only Reece James (42) created more of all Chelsea players https://t.co/zyfDJeuh7S

Colwill and Cucurella might not start their respective games this weekend, but very good chance of both getting into the squad.

Both registered before today's deadline.

If this were Newcastle, Man City or PSG spending £62 million on Cucurella, I can imagine the outcry on here. But its American private equity money so its all good I guess...

Chelsea's latest bid for Wesley Fofana is over £70m and won't be the last one made if rejected. Brendan Rodgers again said Fofana isn't for sale, but Todd Boehly means business. Fofana is Chelsea's number one target between now and when window shuts.

Todd Boehly and Behdad Eghbali understood to be relishing the transformation project at #ChelseaFC this summer. The #CFC co-controlling owners have been described as relentless in their work on transfers

Absolutely lovely to see one of our best players when fit last season, Ben Chilwell, starting today.

Surely there will be rust here & there but it’s brilliant to see him fit enough to get the start.

Chelsea: Mendy; Azpilicueta (c), Thiago Silva, Koulibaly; James, Kante, Jorginho, Chilwell; Mount, Havertz, Sterling #EVECHE

Alonso and Werner do not make the squad with deals being discussed for their exit.

CHO and Chukwuemeka are also not in the matchday squad.