Exclusive transfer news from Rob Pratley, FA Cup preview, predictions, team news..., Do Chelsea need an ST this month (your choices)? Cole Palmer must be considered for false 9, Loan army roundup....
The Chelsea FC Newsletter: Friday 5th January 2024!
Morning all,
The transfer window is boiling up, but its boiling up very slowly. There’s a bit of limescale in the boiler right now, but I suspect it will be cleared soon (this is genuinely happening at my house right now btw - we’re having to replace our boiler). I think there’s some things happening behind the scenes right now.
With that said, find out exactly what all those things are with some exclusive transfer updates from Chelsea insider Rob Pratley. Rob joined myself and Jai on the Podcast yesterday for a transfer special, and if you’ve not checked that out yet, you simply must here.
Find out all the rest of the latest transfer news, rumours, injury news (Lavia), and some extra sourced info from myself in the latest live blog here.
It’s staying a bit quiet on strikers, for now at least. So it’s a great time to ask you all, do Chelsea actually need a new striker this month and if so, how badly do they need it? Polls in this one here, as well as some sourced updates and my own opinion.
One of the options of course is to use Cole Palmer as a false 9, and this is something I am actually really keen on doing anyway, especially to cover Nicolas Jackson this month whilst he is away at AFCON. Get my full thoughts on that in here.
The FA Cup is back this weekend, for top flight teams at least, and I am actually really excited for that. I love the FA Cup, and our third round draw was actually quite favourable. The Blues take on Preston at Stamford Bridge tomorrow, and you can catch my full preview, team news, facts, stats, Xl prediction, score prediction, and much more in here.
And we have Luke anchoring the articles today. And he’s anchoring with his bread and butter, the Loan Army Report, a BUMPER edition!! A must read here.
As always, I will be back on the site on Sunday, but if anything happens before then or if I get given any big sourced news that cannot wait, I’ll jump on the Substack App via the chat section on there. Might be a good time to get notifications on there if you haven’t already! I’ll also get a live match discussion thread going on there for Preston too.
Have a great weekend people! COME ON CHELSEA!!
Peace, Si.
Just saw this:
https://www.teamtalk.com/chelsea/osimhen-says-yes-spectacular-blues-transfer-legends-rolled-out-sway-elite-attacker
Do you think there is any weight to it?