Morning all,
I hope you all had a good weekend whatever you might have gotten up to away from Chelsea.
Obviously we had some pretty massive news come out around Manchester City over the weekend, and there was some international games played too (boring).
I’ve reacted to the news around City in here, and given my view on what I think will happen as I covered the big story.
I’ve also put out some reactions and opinion on the England game and Thomas Tuchel here, as they lost against Spain on Saturday. I think he might be in danger of losing some of the dressing room already, and he’s known to fall out with players. Some Chelsea fans are turning on him too, but not me yet. I need to keep the faith in him, as an England fan.
I also spoke generally on club football vs international football. There is something very ugly going on out there right now, and Cole Palmer is getting the brunt of it. Roy Keane is the latest clown to jump on and dig at Palmer, and the whole situation around being too many international games in a season has fuelled this. Words here.
Oh, and I also had a sourced transfer article out too! Not many of these around right now, but this is an interesting one here on a Manchester City defender Chelsea are looking at. Do check this out if you haven’t already.
And as always, I rounded up all the latest general Chelsea news from Sunday in our Blues News Report here.
See you all on the next Live Blog from around 8.30am this morning!
Peace, Si.
I went to the game on Saturday and England should have won, they played very well in spells and looked like a good team, remember they played the World Champions and they would have won if not for moronic defending, which a manager as we know, cannot legislate for! Then the once ultra relatable penalty taker, once again did not require a goalkeeper to save it!
As a Chelsea fan I have always wanted to see our homegrown players representing England. Cole Palmer has the right to decide if he wants to represent England. If he is sulking due to not being picked for The World Cup squad then that’s another matter. His performance last season, injury hit I know, but often were not good enough even to play for Chelsea let alone England. I will accept that considering some players Tuchel selected in the squad didn’t get a game. If Palmer doesn’t want to play then he should retire from International Football that’s his choice,but don’t play games! I am sure he is enjoying his holiday and ultimately benefit Chelsea!
As a England supporter, I would create a rule that any player who withdraws from the Squad , I don’t include players with broken bones or chronic conditions , should be assessed by a Independent Dr,if proven that the injury did not warrant withdrawal then the player has to miss the equivalent number of Premier League games as the missed international ones.
Remember if this was in place Declan Rice and other players of title Contenders could benefit us as well! Just a thought.