LATEST! Chalobah, Gallagher, Maatsen, Cucurella deadline day drama, Player profile & fan view on Cole Palmer, Sources: Ivan Toney pre-agreement, Wimbledon Debrief, and more...
The Chelsea FC Newsletter: Friday 1st September 2023!
Morning all,
Here we are now smashing into September already, what is going on!? It’s also transfer deadline day!!
Despite it being unlikely that Chelsea make any new signings, there are still a handful of potential outgoing deals to sort out and some dramatic last minute stories potentially involving Trevoh Chalobah, Ian Maatsen, Conor Gallagher, and Marc Cucurella. That brings me to housekeeping…
Who has a Wedding on transfer deadline day? WHO!? I’ll tell you who, my Wife’s oldest ever friend that’s who….. Luckily we are only going to the evening do this time so I’ll be with you all day on today’s live blog (making a special weekend appearance as its deadline day) until around 5/6ish. Then Luke will be taking over from me and I’ll be in touch with him with any info to see us over the line on deadline day!
Right, with all that in mind, head to yesterday’s live blog for all the latest on all those outgoing deals that are still going on here.
So Chelsea have Cole Palmer arriving, and I think this is great news. You can get my full thoughts on him as a player and as a signing here. This also has the thoughts of my best mate Dean, who is a lifetime Manchester City fan. I know many of you enjoyed his thoughts on Raheem Sterling last summer.
Luke of course also did his famous player profile article on Palmer yesterday and you should absolutely read that and watch the videos here if you haven’t already.
I did have a pretty big sourced article out yesterday reporting the latest on Chelsea’s attempts to strike a pre-deal with Brentford and striker Ivan Toney to get him to The Bridge in January! Must read this one here!
And finally for today, I had my debrief article after watching the Chelsea vs AFC Wimbledon game live and in the flesh. Player ratings and my general thoughts in this one here.
We will also be recording a Podcast at some point today as we were unable to record it yesterday after my WiFi and traveling nightmare! I’ll update on the blog later on that one and when we will record! Myself and Luke will be running that together today!
Have a good one!
Peace, Si.
Good morning Si,
16 hours to self destruct. Prayers up to still have Maatsen and Gallagher when the window shuts. I’ll be a little upset if Conor is sold but we’re stacked in midfield now , I’d be super angry if Maatsen leaves though. Probably some loans to sort out wrt Washington, Burstow & Humphreys, Sarr sale pending and hopefully we can do something still about the ex Brighton left back. 🙏🏻🤞🏻