Chelsea ponder new left wingers - profiling Gittens, Williams, and Hudson-Odoi, Could Chelsea turn back to Ivan Toney? Joe Cole co-signs move for Marc Guehi, Chelsea welcome Morecambe, More....
The Chelsea FC Newsletter: Friday 10th January 2025!
Morning all,
First of all as I know many of you will be wanting to ask about him, the Khvicha Kvaratskhelia news. Both David Ornstein and L’Equipe have mentioned Chelsea as an interested club. As you might remember, I put out a report last season saying Chelsea are running scouting missions on him, so yes, they are interested - that is nothing new, the interest did not just go away. But will they enter the race? I’d be SHOCKED if they do. We have heard the interest is still legit, but that he wants to go to PSG. Fabrizio Romano is also reporting that PSG are offer 4x over his current salary. Chelsea’s new wage structure cannot compete with that. So do I think we will enter the race and get him? Not in my opinion. If I hear anything more on this, I’ll report it, but I wouldn’t get any hopes up!
Anyways, welcome to another weekend people! And it’s an FA Cup weekend. I do love the magic of the FA Cup, especially these early rounds when the minnows meet the giants.
And that is what we will have at Stamford Bridge on Saturday afternoon, with League Two relegation battlers Morecambe rolling in to town. They are club in deep financial trouble as well as being on the brink of moving back into amateur football, and as a result, they will be using this game to protest. Some key details in here that are well worth the read especially if you are going to the game, and a bit of a preview to the game too.
Back to the transfer noise though with it being another winter window, and it’s been a pretty dramatic week in terms of Chelsea rumours, when we all expected it to be pretty quiet.
A new left winger keeps being spoken about due to the situation with Mykhailo Mudryk and the expected lengthy ban he is likely to get. Chelsea might look to replace him, and names such as Nico Williams and Jamie Gittens have been reliably linked. I profile them, speak about left wingers, and also throw Callum Hudson-Odoi in there too just for the LOLs in here!
Meanwhile, Joe Cole has co-signed a move for Chelsea to sign Marc Guehi. He has some big praise for the England international but also some criticism aimed at Chelsea for selling their top young academy players then trying to sign them back!! You can read about that in here.
Remember our interest in Ivan Toney? Well, some have been asking whether we would turn to him again if we sold Christopher Nkunku this month. Would a loan to buy move interest anyone? It would me, and I explain why, whilst also poll it out for you guys to make your decisions, in here.
Finally, check in on all of your general Chelsea news and transfer updates from other outlets and our own sources in the live blog from yesterday. This here is where you’ll get the very latest on all the stories across the last 24 hours!
We will have the latest Podcast out later TODAY! That will drop in your emails.
I’ll be back on the site on Sunday. Until then though if anything big pops off, I get any news to report, or if there is anything else I need to speak on, I’ll drop it on the Substack App in the chat section. I must also remember to start a live match discussion feed for the game on Saturday, sorry I keep forgetting!
Have a good weekend people and UTC!!
Peace, Si.