Chelsea end USA tour with third defeat, Who is responsible for defensive issues? What's happened to Carney Chukwuemeka? Loan army season begins, Samu Omorodion HERE WE GO! More...
The Chelsea FC Newsletter: Thursday 8th August 2024!
Morning all,
The Blues have now concluded their pre-season tour of the USA and whilst we cannot and should not take too much away from it or panic at the point of pre-season, it was a disappointing tour in terms of results and performances and has only offered up more concerns for most of us going into a new season.
We have one more pre-season friendly against Inter on Sunday, then it’s time for the Premier League the weekend after that!
Myself and Jai will be been pondering all this and so much more, including the latest transfer info from our own sources, and the latest transfer rumours in the our next Podcast episode out this afternoon!
For me, my concerns are not just around the defence, but this is certainly a big concern. I have written a deep dive article on what I think the issues are, who is responsible for them, and how they can be fixed. For me, it really is and should be so simple. Check that out in full in here.
The above article is led off from my full match report on the defeat to Real Madrid earlier this week. In this here I also rate and speak on the manager and players individually, and breakdown the game and how it played out/ended.
Carney Chukwuemeka only featured in the first two pre-season friendlies so far and question marks are surfacing about his future. Is he just not fancied by Enzo Maresca? Have Chelsea made yet another wasted purchase? And on the human side, are we wasting the development of a top player? All that and more in here.
Grab all your latest general Chelsea news and transfer news in the live blog from yesterday in here, covering the last 24 hours in full all in the same place! In this is where you will find the HERE WE GO for Samu Omorodion to join Chelsea!
And finally, we have the main man rounding up today. With the EFL season starting this weekend, it’s almost time for the regular loan army updates from Luke, his absolute bread and butter! You can check that out in full in here.
See you all on the next live blog from around 8.30am this morning!
Peace, Si.
Another raw and unproven talent for £35 million. No comment. If you play a high line and don’t press well you are going to lose a lot of games and it seems a bit of a blame game. Somebody mentioned red flags and they are not wrong.
Morning all
Breaking triangles is easy it’s taught at Cobham or it was when old peeps in charge.
TTS super press sorted Citeh out and we won the CL
Defence is poor we play about to much sideways at the back, this set up needs season to work on for sure, we don’t have the personnel for it either or a goal keeper if that’s Sanchez, the Dane is the best one to stick with, never thought I’d say that
This team is so far off I fear for the season with this coach
Let’s do a poll