Chelsea are in talks with French club Rennes over a deal for centre-half Jeremy Jacquet.

Discussing between the clubs are ongoing, although a deal has not yet been agreed for the defender.

Jacquet has started in each of Rennes’ Ligue 1 matches for which he has been available this season, and had played every minute before his red card against Paris Saint-Germain on December 6.

[The Athletic]

Woudl you like to see Chelsea sign Jacquet this month? ⬇️

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Star of the match performance on his birthday! 🎉

Mamadou Sarr is a AFCON Champion 🇸🇳:

Sarr vs Morocco 🇲🇦:

- 120 minutes played
- 7 defensive contributions
- 5 clearances
- 2 aerial duels won
- 0x dribbled past
- 67 accurate passes (94%)
- 3 accurate long balls
- 2 blocked shots
- 7.5 rating

He joins Chelsea in the summer. A masterclass in a major final. AFCON and CWC winner since he joined CFC. 👏

Chelsea money spent by position under Boehly and Clearklake. 👀

Chelsea continue talks with Rennes for Jeremy Jacquet. Player keen on the move. Rennes want more than the €64m they sold Jeremy Doku for. French defender is Chelsea's priority for now.

As exclusively revealed last week on talkSPORT, other options Chelsea could explore are Como's Jacobo Ramon and Bournemouth's Marcos Senesi.

Ramon tough to pull off as he only joined Como over the summer. Real have a buyback clause and have not ruled out triggering it at the end of the season.

Senesi a free agent this summer. Bournemouth haven't had any approach from Chelsea or other clubs yet.🔵

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🚨 Levi Colwill is progressing well from knee surgery and is expected to return BEFORE the end of the season. [ESPN] 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🔵

🚨 Chelsea’s Cobham academy has produced almost £1bn-worth of young players who are now owned by a Premier League rival or in a top European league.

Now Marc Guehi has joined Man City, the total accumulated fees for Chelsea academy players is a staggering £931.5m. That figure could be pushed even closer to £1bn this month with Tammy Abraham expected to return to the Premier League and Tyrique George hoping to secure a move away from Chelsea.

Should Abraham return to the Premier League, then there will be 18 former Chelsea academy players owned by their top-flight rivals. There are a further six owned by clubs in Serie A, the Bundesliga and Ligue 1.

Neil Bath deserves a statue. Not just for what he did for Chelsea, but also the number of careers he is responsible for. Bath left Chelsea in the summer of 2024.

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Welcoming Pafos on MD7 of the Champions League. 🔜🇨🇾

Chelsea Football Club is delighted to announce that Academy attacker Ibrahim Rabbaj has put pen to paper on his first professional contract, committing his future to the Blues until at least 2028.

Congratulations, Ibby! 👏

🗣️ Liam Rosenior ahead of Pafos [H] in the UEFA Champions League:

🤒 𝐎𝐧 𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐦 𝐧𝐞𝐰𝐬:

“Enzo Fernandez was ill yesterday and he missed training.

“There were signs of it during the Brentford game, which goes to show the type of performance he put in.

“He did train today, although he isn’t at 100 per cent so we’ll make a decision on Enzo tomorrow on whether he can start or can make an impact from the bench.

“Fortunately, the other guys are looking okay. Estevao has been back in [training], Jamie Gittens has been back in, Liam [Delap] too and so has Malo Gusto, which is great because he’s another outstanding player.

“There are still a few coughs going around but we are working really hard to get everyone back and making sure the players are right for tomorrow.”

🏥 𝐎𝐧 𝐓𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐧 𝐀𝐝𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐨𝐲𝐨, 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐞𝐝 𝐨𝐟𝐟 𝐢𝐧 𝐂𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐬𝐞𝐚’𝐬 𝐰𝐢𝐧 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐁𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐝:

“Tosin won’t be available for this game.

“Unfortunately for Tosin he felt something in his hamstring, which is going to rule him out for the next few weeks. I can’t be anymore precise than that at this moment in terms of any timelines.”

🇨🇾 𝐎𝐧 𝐏𝐚𝐟𝐨𝐬:

“Pafos is not an easy game. They’re still in a position where they can qualify.

“Analysing them, they have strengths in terms of the way Albert has put the team together that we have to be aware of. But we need to go out and perform really, really well and not think too much about how important it is to miss out games. The most important thing is qualifying.”

(Via chelseaFC & Bobby Vincent - Football London)

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