If Chelsea sporting directors are adamant that they wanted Maresca due to his style of play, then they must understand the players that fit it.

Cucurella is a must keep, his touches and ability to quickly get out of tight spaces but also keep the ball very well and sustain possession is important, can play LCB on the ball too.

Chilwell can do none of this, he is a press trigger, has worse technique, takes heavier touches etc. Cucurella fits LCB on the ball and LB off it better than anyone in our whole squad.

-Pys

Estevao 🤩🤩

🚨🔵🔴 Chelsea and Bayern are both showing interest in Barça striker Marc Guiu, available for €6m release clause.

Barcelona still want to keep Guiu with new deal to be discussed but interest now growing.

Chelsea, exploring move for Guiu as Guillem Balague reported.

[via Fabrizio Romano]

Unless we don’t hear that you’re underage 😂 Good player tho.

Chelsea Football Club

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Joe Hart on Mudryk 🗣️

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What's your opinion, was it the right thing to pull out of Olise’s deal or not? 🤔

🚨 JUST IN: Michael Olise in discussions for £220,000 a week salary with Bayern.

[Via Christian Falk]

Man of the Match for France vs the Netherlands: N’Golo Kanté.

We rolled the dice on Kante's fitness and lost hard, in hindsight letting him go was a huge mistake

🚨 Chelsea will still attempt to sign a winger this summer and are now likely to look at right-footed options to help balance their squad for new head coach Enzo Maresca.

(Via Matt Law)

David Luiz's celebration after scoring a 94th-minute winner at 37 years old to send Flamengo to the top of the table is truly amazing

Y'all don't downplay this boy 🥵...

His first time passing and awareness is insane and that's where he edges Madueke for me... Although Madueke has better finishing

All i can say is Pre-season is gonna be a movie 🙌

- Jhon Durán
- Samu Omorodion
- Marc Guiu
- Maximilian Beier
- Jonathan David

Who's next? 🤔

Jonathan David could be available for £30m this summer.

~ Alex Crook | talkSPORT

Head of Palmeiras' academy, Joao Paulo Sampaio on Estêvão's mentality: "When we won the 2022 U-17 Brazilian Championship title, Estevao ended up breaking one of his toes during a decisive game.

But even so he still didn't want to leave [the game], so he came to me at half-time saying, 'I'll go back for the second half'. And I challenged him: 'You better go back.'

And so he had a painkilling injection in his toe and told me, 'I'll go back, score a goal and look for you in the stands to shush you.' That's how strong he is mentally."

~ BBC Sport

It is understood that Chelsea are not thinking in terms of loaning Estevao out to gain further experience -- one of the reasons that he chose the London club. They imagine him immediately fighting for a place in the first team -- along, presumably, with Ecuadorian wonderkid Kendry Paez, who will join them at the same time.

~ Tim Vickery