Pre-season week, Hudson-Odoi stays, Two GKs looked at, Midfielder updates, Truth on Haaland
All feature in our latest Chelsea FC Newsletter!
The smile on his face says it all, but Callum Hudson-Odoi looks almost certain to be staying at Chelsea for another season at the very least, and as you know that also makes me very happy.
I have a strong belief that there is a real player in there, and it sounds like Thomas Tuchel is determined to get that out of him. Read all about that here.
Hudson-Odoi will be one of the players joining Tuchel and his coaching team back at Cobham this week, with some of them already filtering in to do Covid-19 tests etc.
Now admittedly, I assumed training would begin right away on the Monday, but that wasn’t the case and we could have to wait a few days for that - find out more and what the plans are here.
Onto some transfer news, but once again nothing majorly significant. I’ll maintain as I always do, this doesn’t mean that nothing is happening, still plenty of time left.
But Chelsea are looking at the goalkeeper situation, that I do know. With Willy Caballero gone, and Kepa Arrizabalaga potentially going as well, Chelsea are eyeing a couple of free agents, you can check in on that situation here.
The midfield situation also looks to be heating up a little, and we have all read the stories of Declan Rice rejecting two West Ham contracts over the last few days.
So get the latest on our midfield targets and what is happening with that, here.
Finally, our man Dan McCarthy jotted down his thoughts, knowledge, and information on the truth about Erling Haaland to Chelsea, you can read that here.
Anyways, I’m getting ready to have Gareth Southgate make me eat my own words this week by getting us to the finals of the Euros. I’m buzzing for it, and I’m actually finally starting to feel confident!
It’s coming home… !
Simon Phillips