Sources: Chelsea make checks on new CB name! Sources: Plans for Valentin Barco & midfield in general, EXCL: Terms agreed for Disasi to join West Ham, Sources: Assessing players & pushing outgoings....

The Chelsea FC Newsletter: Tuesday 4th August 2026!

Morning all,

Hope you’ve had a good start to your week!

Ah, it’s all going on isn’t it? We are in this sort of crossroads in the transfer window now. The club could go on to finish it strong and have a very good window, or they could take the route of making it end very average indeed…. They have to take the right direction now. I have FOUR sourced articles discussing and reporting all of this.

The first one is a pretty general one with some opinion as well on what needs to happen, and what the plans are and tasks ahead here.

I have another here on possible new centre backs, with another name given to us and being approached by the club. Full drop on this.

And on centre backs, Axel Disasi has an agreed move to West Ham, but he’s waiting to see if anything else develops with other clubs he is speaking to first. Full story here.

Then another one here on the plans for Valentin Barco and the midfield in general with a lot of situations going on. Covers it all in this one.

I had my latest solo Podcast out yesterday delivering all the latest transfer news and bits and pieces here.

And as always, I rounded up ALL your latest general Chelsea news from across the last 24 hours in the same place here.

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

Peace, Si.