Chelsea Newsletter - Wednesday 13th October
Covering Eidur Gudjohnsen's Icelandic family takeover, Is Leipzig Werner back?, Mourinho blamed for De Bruyne and Salah, Edu Mendy's Ballon d'Or exclusion causing anger, and the general news sweep...
We are cracking on through October now people!
It won’t be long before we see those massive pumpkin boxes outside every supermarket and kids walking around with bed sheets over their heads with out of shape eye holes cut out (yep, I genuinely had that as a Halloween outfit one year as a kid!).
Anyways, Halloween soon, then Christmas.. STOP SIMON!
Ok, here’s the news…
First of all, a very heart-warming story that will take many of us down the Chelsea memory lane.
Eidur Gudjohnsen was adored by us Chelsea fans who were lucky enough to watch him play, and probably even for those who didn’t who have researched and watched back the videos. He was absolutely class.
His family are staging an Icelandic international takeover… He has three very talented football players as sons, two of them are already playing for Iceland. Read all about that here.
Do do do do do do do, do do do do do do do, do do do do do do do, TIMOOOOO WERNER! (I really hope you all sang along to that and now it’s in your head for the rest of the day, because it’s been in mine for TWO DAYS!).
Whilst signing along, read my piece on Timo Werner here asking, are we finally seeing the RB Leipzig version of Timo?
Another former Chelsea player I LOVED watching in the 90s whilst growing up as a Chelsea fan is Eddie Newton, and he has pretty much thrown Jose Mourinho into the dirt this week.
Intrigued? Read about that one here.
Just how good has Edouard Mendy been for Chelsea since we signed him from Rennes last summer? Many would say world class, right? If so, then why has he been ignored for the Ballon d’Or?
It has angered a couple of his fellow country men, and Mendy himself has spoken on it. Check that out here.
Finally, I’ve done a big sweep up of any more general Chelsea news you might have missed from Tuesday here.
Hope you enjoyed today’s newsletter, I’ll back back again tomorrow with some news of a pretty cool Podcast guest… Clue is… If you happen to be a dance/jungle/drum n bass music fan… This will interest you a lot! Winning guess (write it in the comments) gets a shout out from me on Twitter!
Cheers, Si.