‼️ Chelsea have never been worried about Enzo Maresca’s job. They planned from the start to judge him properly after his second season.

His biggest success so far is getting Chelsea into the Champions League, and the main aim next season is to do it again and keep improving.

Among the fans, Maresca is now more popular — especially after winning the Club World Cup.

[Nizaar Kinsella]

Chelsea are aiming to do something never done before — copy Brighton’s successful player-trading approach while also winning major trophies.

Last season, they had the youngest average starting XI in Premier League history, at 24 years and 36 days old.

Some people in Portugal have compared Quenda to Bukayo Saka, who also played on both wings early in his career, sometimes taking on more defensive duties, before focusing on the right wing.

But those close to Quenda say his real inspiration is someone his own age — Barcelona star Lamine Yamal.

[Via Liam Twomey]

The FIFA Club World Cup trophy will be brought out at the end of today’s match with AC Milan and paraded in front of the crowd at Stamford Bridge. 🏆🌎

🚨 Reggie Walsh is with the Chelsea senior team today! 💫

Via Tom Coley

🚨Chelsea had valued Jackson at £80m but are likely to accept a reduced fee of around £65m.

Via Guardian

Welcome back RLC & Tomori. 💙

No Marc Guiu in the matchday squad for Sunderland again. Two friendlies in two days and not in the matchday squad in either

#INGAME

These days we just breeze through teams like some training exercise

A stat for you all.

Chelsea have played 23 games since March.

João Pedro has more goals for Chelsea than anyone else in that time. (5)

Standing ovation for Ruben Loftus Cheek on his return to Stamford Bridge 🤩

#INGAME

That was a great striker instinct from Delap. Just pounce and finish

#CupWinners

Ooh there's another one😎

A Striker getting on the end of a Neto cross😭😭😭

Reece James: “We are confident, as you mentioned we’re WORLD CHAMPIONS” [C5]

🗣 Enzo Maresca: "To be honest, since I arrived, not many players have arrived. In terms of last summer, last January and this summer, we tried to change the ones that we thought that we need to change. We are trying to do the things that we need to do."

🗣 Enzo Maresca: "It has been a fantastic season. Some moments have been very difficult. We tried to manage all different kinds of situations, problems, but in the end, the way we finished has been great."

🗣 Maresca on Palmer's loss of form last season:

"He had around 18 months where he was fantastic, then it's normal to drop a little bit. So I was not surprised. The most important thing about Cole is that he has always been very professional and works hard. Then at the end, he finished in the way everyone knows."

🗣 Enzo Maresca: "When you are at Chelsea, the target has to be always to win games and titles. This is the minimum required. So we're going to try."

Trev via IG: "Ready to rumble".