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Joao Pedro is a better footballer than Erling Haaland - but not a better goalscorer

One or two players from Brentford and Bournemouth for example might be capable of getting close t…

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Last season, even though we had a bad finish and not a good season in the end, we were actually helped by just how poor the Premier League was and just how inconsistent it was.

No team were really ru…

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Might we see a Jordan Henderson debut this week against his former team Brentford on Friday night? Well, it looks like there might be a chance he at least makes the squad as he returns from his hand …

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We’ve all been giving our opinions this week as to why Chelsea continue to leak goals, and everyone has something to say on it or a reason for it.

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Morning all,

I hope you’ve all had a good start to the new week.

We’re still reacting to the Hull City game here plus discussing other bits and pieces, including a bit of transfer news for January.

Let’s start with that then. Chelsea will be looking to bring a new midfielder in for the January window, and as we reported last week. Manu Kone is still a name we expect to be looked into. That story has been backed up now here.

Chelsea cannot stop conceding goals, and it’s become a big problem. I came across a reaction article to the Hull game that I’ve dissected here, and it’s not hyperbole, just straight realism. Check it out!

We have seen Xabi Alonso take responsibility against Leeds United for a terrible first half, and now we are seeing him point aim at his players. I think he was right to do so on both occasions. Read here.

I analysed a sequence of play that led to the Morgan Rogers goal against Hull City, and we were very lucky it finished in a goal for us and not for Hull. See what I mean in here.

Round up all your latest general Chelsea news from across the last 24 hours in the same place here. This covers all you need to know!

I also put out the latest Podcast yesterday covering and speaking more on all the latest Chelsea news! Check that here if you haven’t already! OH and also, please don’t forget to subscribe to my YouTube channel please people! :)

See you all on the next Live Blog from around 8.45am today on the home page!

Peace, Si.

Obviously we are in a bit of a down period around transfers and transfer news, that was always expected after the summer. But as I keep saying, things will start filtering in now as we head through S…

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Yesterday I wrote that some of these Chelsea players have not been anywhere near good enough yet and need to step up.

I like as much transparency as possible from my manager. I like to hear honesty a…

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Football is a game of fine margins, a game of different situations that could have easily gone a different way.

And whilst analysing the 2-2 draw with Hull City on Saturday, I noticed a concerning se…

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Afternoon all,

Time to round up all your latest Chelsea news and react to the weekend’s action now!

• More noise on Manu Kone to Chelsea

• Chelsea 2 Hull City 2 - General reactions

• Emi Martinez looking shaky?

• What about Levi Colwill?

• Romeo Lavia, Malo Gusto, & Wesley Fofana just don’t cut it for me

• We need a dominant CB as well as a destroyer-type physical midfielder

• John Terry’s reactions to the game

• Rest of the weekend’s results and league standings

• Away to Brentford Friday night could get sticky

• Outros

Thanks for tuning in!

Simon Phillips

As I will often do after a Chelsea game, I have been scouting around to read some reactions from various fans and writers. And I’ve come across a nice little reaction piece written on Captial Football

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See you all tomorrow!

18.07pm - Remember, Chelsea tried for Kone BEFORE pivoting to Camara (they like both though)

Chelsea remain ‘huge admirers’ of Senegal international Lamin…

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Morning all,

Wasn’t a great weekend for Chelsea was it? Dropping points at home to Hull City after a defeat last weekend. These are the games we need to be winning.

You can get my thoughts as well as a bunch of reactions from some Chelsea fans who I respect here in our review of the game.

I’ve also got some spin off articles written in reaction of the game, but before that, I had a positive sourced article around Pedro Neto and leadership in the group here that is well worth checking out if you haven’t already.

Back to the game now, and I’m so annoyed that they didn’t sell Malo Gusto in the summer, and equally annoyed that Xabi Alonso keeps starting him!? What on earth is going on? Words here.

I think a few other players should have been sold in the summer too as we still have too many average players in our squad. But also, we got so close to getting the summer spot on, yet we still have big gaps in our team. I explain what should have been done and why I’ve always still consistently had concerns in the summer and into the season here.

Round up all your latest general Chelsea news from Sunday here in our Blues News Report. Covers more reactions and everything you need to know around the club!

See you all on the next Live Blog from around 8.45am today on the home page!

Peace, Si.

Evening all,

Time to round up all your latest Chelsea news from Sunday!

First of all, let’s look at the rest of the results from today…

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There are some Chelsea players who really need to step up now, along with Xabi Alonso.

Alonso can coach and do what he can do from the side lines, but the players have to play well too. The players h…

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It was announced over the weekend that Chelsea’s Pedro Neto had signed a new contract extension at the club, with a couple others to soon follow suit.

Now, it’s worth saying that just because a player signs a new contract, it does not mean they are declaring their future to a club. Sometimes it even means the opposite. I am not saying that any of these new contracts at Chelsea will have these, but you see many examples of players signing new deals that end up having hidden release clauses or certain conditions allowing them to leave the club, basically making it easier for them to leave, should they wish to. Also, it’s simply a way for a player to earn more money, which has been an issue at Chelsea with the new restricted wage structure. So all I am saying with this is that signing a new contract does not always mean the player is staying at the club for the long term.

However, in Neto’s case, there has very much been a real turnaround in feelings on his part.

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Malo Gusto is so bad so far this season he’d even look poor in the amateur level that I play in. He simply cannot seem to string a couple of passes together and is full of mistakes, yet he still keep…

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Chelsea dropped points at home to newly promoted Hull City on Saturday afternoon in the 3pm kick off.

Unfortunately you can only look at this as dropped points, points we may well end up really missin…

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Morning all,

Welcome to another weekend! Chelsea have a normal weekend game this week, playing home to Hull City in the 3pm Saturday kick off! Hoping for all three points!

Round up all your latest general Chelsea news from across the last 24 hours in the same place here, this covers all you need to know on everything!

I’ve now put in place four moderators to join Rob Pratley as part of the SPTC team looking after the chat section! Please read this here to understand the new setup, and one simple rule that all users need to follow. So pleased to have finally got a team in place for this.

Xabi Alonso took the blame for Chelsea’s terrible first half against Leeds United in the week, and I say fair play to this. You can check on that and every word he said in the aftermath of that very entertaining League Cup game here.

A couple articles on the midfield now. And one player I never want to see play there again is Malo Gusto. He’s truly awful there and I don’t know why anyone can’t see that. Words on that here.

Also on the midfield, I’ve been speaking about the profile that I really think we need to add in January here. I really believe that due to how Alonso players, we need that defensive midfielder to truly screen the back four.

We also had the latest SPTC Podcast out yesterday, so do check that out here if you haven’t already!

Right, have a good weekend all, I’ll be on the chat section if I have any news to report over the weekend or if anything big pops off. Otherwise, see you back on the website on Sunday when I’ll be reviewing the Hull game and more!

Peace, Si.

I’ve spent the last week or so asking you to take part in polls so we can plan for the new chat forum/format, with the idea being to make it a much cleaner experience for users and freeing it up from…

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