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The Chelsea FC Newsletter: Wednesday 9th August 2023!

Morning all,

Plenty going on in the world of Chelsea as per usual this morning. Some bad news came in this week regarding Christopher Nkunku and his injury being serious. We are set to be without him until around December time now after he undergoes knee surgery. We are truly cursed.

We did get some sponsorship confirmation though, with a £50m deal for Infinite Athlete to become our new front of shirt sponsors in place! You can read all about that in the blog below.

Chelsea were looking for a new attacking midfielder to add to the squad even before this injury, so what next? I have a big sourced article on all of that here, which includes updates on Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall, Michael Olise, Rayan Cherki, Mohammed Kudus, and more.

Meanwhile, a move for Tyler Adams is advancing this week and discussions are happening. Are Chelsea pursuing a permanent or a loan move for the USA international? Find that out here in my latest sourced news article on that.

To grab all the latest news across all the outlets as well as updated sourced info and news from me, check in on yesterday’s live blog here!

We are also another day closer to our opening Premier League game against Liverpool on Sunday, and all this week we have been building the excitement for it by getting you guys to select your preferred and predicted line-ups for the game. I can now reveal what our community has selected for both Xl’s here!

Finally, I have a comment piece on Chelsea’s transfer strategy here and how it probably means that marquee names such as Kylian Mbappe and Neymar are being shelved by the club, and by Mauricio Pochettino right now.

Podcast news coming out today/tomorrow - we do have a transfer news guest on the show this coming Thursday afternoon, so look out for that!

Live blog will be fired up from 8am as always today!

Peace, Si.