Sources: Romeo Lavia's injury and when we expect him back, Poch to make one change for Arsenal? Gallagher POTS (so far), YOUR call on if we need a new ST (latest news on it), and MUCH more...
The Chelsea FC Newsletter: Tuesday 17th October 2023!
Morning all,
One day closer to Chelsea playing football again!
Hope you all had a good Monday and enjoying the week so far. It’s much fresher here this week in the UK and it already feels like winter!
How very British of me to speak about the weather, let’s get to the Chelsea content immediately!
First of all, quite an important sourced update on the ankle injury to Romeo Lavia, because initial reports suggested he would be back any day now, but that is not the case. It’s quite frustrating, but I have my inside sourced update on when we can expect Lavia back now here. I wish I had better news to report on that. Since I wrote this story as well, The Daily Mail put out an exclusive basically saying the same as what I had in this.
I mentioned Chelsea playing football again in my first sentence and I am counting down the hours until Saturday. I’ll be doing little teasers for the Arsenal game all week, and I have my first one here pondering the team selection that Mauricio Pochettino will go for and whether he will be changing much from the Burnley game.
Conor Gallagher is one player who is guaranteed to start on Saturday unless any unforeseen circumstances and the word we don’t like to mention on here but are forced to on a daily basis! Gallagher has received our player of the season so far award (just for a bit of fun) after some polls last week, and I have a big article on him here discussing his role, what he brings, and how people should just accept him for the player he is.
I also looked back on the polls from last week for my next article today - debating whether we need to sign a new striker in January or not. I asked our community what you all think, and most of you share my view. We have that, my opinion, and also the latest news from top sources on whether Chelsea will go for a new striker in January or not in here.
Finally for this newsletter, rounding up all your latest Chelsea news from across the last 24 hours in the same place here!
Right, please join me on the live blog from 8am this morning!
Peace, Si.