🗞 | Chelsea believes Alejandro Garnacho has great potential and can become an important player. Garnacho turned 21 this July. He is still very young.

🗞 | Chelsea believes this is a great opportunity in the transfer market. They really like this player.

📌 | Fabrizio Romano 🇮🇹
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FireSide

Tantrums never work

Whatever the reason, no matter the excuse, Fofana lacked both respect and common sense to have deleted everything to do with Chelsea from his profile.

Of course he is known to throw tantrums. He is in this lot of players who think they are bigger than the rest and even the club.

He may have survived the Maresca Injury public dress down, but by now he should have learnt no one is irreplaceable within this club.

Maresca has proven to have zero chills on tantrums, and Fofana, with his injury record, and zero help with recent trophies, should know better.

He may have pulled the trick at Leicester, but with our toxicity, he should ask Nico and Noni.

Alexis Mac Allister says Moises Caicedo gave him the toughest battle in midfield and says he's a 'very good player.'

A fresh start 💙

Chelsea signed Renato Viega for £12m on a seven year deal with a clause for an extra year in July 2024.

He’s played 18 times for Chelsea.

Starts:
Premier League: 1
Conference League: 8
Carabao Cup: 2
FA Cup: 1

He got his Portugal debut after signings and since played a further 4 more to times for his national side.

Sold for £26m with add-ons included and also heavy sell-on clause.

Well played Chelsea, well played indeed. All the best Renato.

[Via CarefreeYouth]

🚨🔵 Chelsea-Strasbourg closing in on agreement to sign Julio Enciso from Brighton.

Deal details being fixed but Enciso expected to join Strasbourg for season 2025/26 then Chelsea player for the future, as TheAthleticFC reports.

More follows. 🇵🇾

[Fabrizio Romano]

Julio Enciso shoots A LOT, has loads of take-ons, and really good aerial success for a relatively small player.

Very good fee too!

[Via Tom Coley]

Cole Palmer’s attempt to trademark his nickname “Cold Palmer” has hit a snag — French vineyard Château Palmer has formally opposed the application.

‼️ Bournemouth are interested in signing Chelsea defender Axel Disasi. Talks ongoing.

[Via Matt Law]

Instead of us to be on the Sporting Directors necks to buy quality players for the first team, we’re celebrating them making profits on the same average players they bought. How does the profit benefit the first team when they would use the profit to sign more average players to flip for profit?

Strasbourg has signed Enciso.

It is weird to frame that Blueco has signed him and anything regarding his future availability for Chelsea is just a guess at this time.

Maresca is even better than we all think. See the wonders he performed with the squad they gave him this last summer.

‼️ Chelsea were among the league’s poorer defenders of corners, recording the seventh-worst figure (3.89xG per 100 corners).

In attack, no team got a lower rate of shots away directly from corners than Chelsea’s 10 per cent. Part of this was down to them playing 29 per cent of their corners short.

[The Athletic]

Chelsea’s 2025/26 third kit… ✅

A young Garnacho in Chelsea gear...👀

Renato Veiga started 1 League game for us, we are set to make a £11m profit on him.

Noni Madueke had a solid 2.5 years at the club, but we were willing to let him go and sold him for a £21.5m profit.

Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall played 259 League minutes last season, proved to be useful in the Conference League, and we only made a £5m loss (potentially lessening to £3m or £2m).

Djorde Petrovic started for us for roughly half a season, got sent on loan, got sold for a £13m profit.

We still managed to get £26.2m for Joao Felix, a player we loaned out after only 6 months.

Rinse and repeat for unwanted players like Ugochukwu and Armando Broja...

The project was going to fall down if we couldn't shift unwanted players, but these owners have proved to be experts at maximising the value of them.

[Via Doug Critchley]

🚨 Bournemouth are in explorative talks with Chelsea for Axel Disasi over a potential loan move with an option to buy.

[Via Luca Bendoni]

My team to face West Ham. Thoughts? 🤔

FireSide

Internal Solution?

The idea with Colwill is to try and bypass the first defence pressing line with his deep passes.

So far we have not been able to find someone to do it perfectly and hope Tosin and Acheampong are perfect at it.

Another internal solution is to hope the Crazy Fofana is healthy.

Despite his antics, the man is seriously capable of breaking through the first line through adept ball carrying. This is even more effective as it forces the opponent to lunge into marking and tackles leaving holes elsewhere in the defensive shape. You then have Enzo dropping deep to spread the blind spots passes.

The question is whether he'd remain fit long enough. And Whether he can listen to Enzo instructions word to word regarding his recovery.

Buy average players
Sell the average players
Buy average players
Sell the same average players

£2bn spent and we still have glaring issues in the squad (No quality LW , LW cover or depth, Questionable GK, Defenders the Manager doesn’t trust. But i should be happy they sold Veiga for profit😂

It’s like buying multiple houses and selling them while’s the house you and your family sleep in has no toilet and kitchen. Misplaced priorities.

🚨🎙️| Journalist: Why Chelsea? Is it the best option for your career?

Dastan Satpaev: Honestly, I’m not sure if it’s the best option, but I think Chelsea knows how to work with young players. The club really invests in them. Even if it comes to a loan, they can find a good club for me. Of course, I’ll try to establish myself in the first team at Chelsea and become a leader there.