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The Chelsea FC Newsletter: Friday 16th February 2024!

Morning all,

Today is our due date for our baby boy, but as of now, there is no sign of him coming! It can happen at any time now though, even though both of us feel that he might be late. I’d actually love it if he came this morning, because it would be part of my two ‘days off’ now anyway! As long as he doesn’t decide to arrive when Chelsea are playing City on Saturday, then we good! 😂

On that subject, I have my full match preview for our trip to Manchester City in here. This covers team news, facts, current form, stats, H2H, lineup prediction, score prediction, your predictions, and much more! I spent a lot of time on this one trying to add more info and bulk it up with interesting content, so I do hope you enjoy this!

For further chatter ahead of this big game, and also more reflections on the win at Crystal Palace on Monday night and a look ahead to the summer transfer window, check out the latest Podcast from myself and Jai here.

My next article is on Chelsea’s links with Everton defender Jarrad Branthwaite. This talk does interest me, because it would remind me of the kind of smart move we made to bring Cole Palmer to Chelsea; any move for Branthwaite has that feel to me, and I’d back it. I’ve been calling for more proven experience, and although he is only 21, he DOES have proven experience. I explain much more and detail all that in here.

Luke being the legend he is wanted to put two articles out today due to missing one earlier in the week. So we are lucky to get extra content from our anchor man next! His first is a prop article for Malo Gusto, who is fully deserving all the praise he is getting lately, with Luke the latest to offer it here!

And of course, Luke’s niche is next with the loan army roundup to take a look at how our loan players are getting on during their latest matches here.

All your latest Chelsea news from across the last 24 hours in one place can be found in yesterday’s live blog here. Some great news on Reece James in this, and much more!

Right, hopefully I’ll be able to join you all on the live match discussion thread for City on Saturday, which I will setup on the Substack App chat section. So please do join us all there.

Any big updates that I need to put out from now until Sunday afternoon when I am due back on the site, whether it’s baby or Chelsea news, I will put out on the Substack App and I might even need to email out an article (if baby comes) just to keep you all informed. Otherwise, and this is exactly what I expect to happen because I think he will be late, see you all back on the site on Sunday!

Have a great weekend!

Peace, Si.