Chelsea Newsletter - Friday 11th February

Covering: Chelsea's De Ligt interest, Opposition Report on Palmeiras, Kovacic saying what we all have been, Wing-backs pinnacle to our attack, Scout Report on Ronald Araujo, and yesterday's Live Blog!

Happy Friday people!

Chelsea are in yet another major final tomorrow, and what a feeling that is as a Blues fan!

First of all, I won’t be around from today until Sunday now, I am off on a stag weekend in London for one of my best friends wedding coming up. But fear not, Thursday’s Podcast will be arriving in your inboxes later today at 3pm in my absence, covering all the latest with Dan, and Football London’s Adam Newson. And also, I WILL be watching the final of course, we will find a bar. So on Sunday, I’ll drop a review once I am alive and recovered!

Still, plenty of content for you today too, starting with a recap on all of yesterday’s big news, including our interest in Matthijs De Ligt plus loads more in our Live Blog here.

We are one game away from becoming the Champions of the World! But, we have to get past a very good and organised team with a top manager in the shape of Brazil’s Palmeiras. I’ve got an extensive opposition scouting report (yes my training is starting to pay off a little!) on Palmeiras here.

Another scouting report here as well that I think a lot of you will be interested to ponder, and that is a on a target that Chelsea reportedly have a serious interest in, Barcelona defender Ronald Araujo.

A couple of comment pieces to finish off with now, including this one here on Mateo Kovacic’s words this week about our lack of ability to finish teams off.

I found it so refreshing that a player/coach came out after a game, a game that we actually won by the way, and said it exactly how it is.

And finally, connected to the above piece, I wanted to deep dive here into the reasons why our attack are not finishing teams off right now, and I believe a lot of it is connected to our wing-backs, or more accurately, lack of them right now.

Thanks for tuning in guys, and thanks again to all our subscribers in this growing community old and new, it’s very much appreciated. I’ll be back Monday with the latest newsletter, have a cracking weekend and let’s hope we speak next as World Champions!! UTC!

Peace, Si.