EXCL: Chelsea eye 2 other ST's as well as Ekitike, Sources: New name on attacking midfielder shortlist, Sources: Kendry Paez annoyed, Claude Makelele: 'To win trophies you need a good GK (Maignan)'...
The Chelsea FC Newsletter: Monday 16th June 2025!
Morning all,
Chelsea are back already! Today sees the start of our Club World Cup campaign and in all honesty, I’m pretty excited for it. I hope Chelsea don’t do their best to throw shade over my excitement later tonight or at any moment, but even still, I’m looking forward to the competition!
Chelsea take on Los Angeles FC tonight at 8pm UK time.
Before that though, I have plenty of content and sourced transfer news.
We can start with our exclusive report from yesterday on the two other strikers that Chelsea are now eyeing as well as Hugo Ekitike. Enzo Maresca wants to improve his attack even more and a new striker is still being considered despite the arrival of Liam Delap. You can read all the latest on that here as well as hear about these two new names.
Staying with improving the attack, and Chelsea still want to sign another new attacking midfielder who can play a number of roles as well as an out and out left winger. There’s a new name in here via our sources, as well as another name who I am doing a bit of speculating on.
There’s a bit of an unfortunate situation with Kendry Paez, who believed he was going to the Club World Cup with Chelsea until a week before. It turns out he actually is now going with them, so why has that happened and why the change of plans? Why is he so annoyed? All explained in here folks.
To win trophies you need a good goalkeeper, says Chelsea legend Claude Makelele, who also tells the club to sign Mike Maignan. And guess what? He is so very correct with this, obviously. It’s so obvious. Claude has some really sensible takes as well as the goalkeeper opinions in here. Everyone at Chelsea needs to read this and act on it. Don’t listen to all of us fans, but maybe listen to one of the best ever holding midfielders to play the game, yeah?
Finally, round up all of your latest Chelsea news in general from across the last 24 hours here. This has more CWC build up as well as all the latest transfer rumours around the club.
See you all on the live blog from around 8.30am on the home page!
Peace, Si.
I am struggling to look forward to this tournament given I thought Blatter was bad but Infantino is even worse and that takes some doing. This is nothing to do with the global welfare of the game it’s about dollars.