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The Chelsea FC Newsletter: Friday 23rd May 2025!
Morning all,
We have arrived, we are here, it’s the final day of the Premier League season and for the first time in a long time, Chelsea actually have something big to play for. It will be nervy, dramatic, and hopefully very entertaining. But most of all, it can be hugely rewarding. It’s the Champions League play offs on Sunday, and I am here for it! Buzzing for it, in fact. I could be miserable come Sunday night, but I think we beat them Sunday I really do. Once again, I urge the lads to not shoot down my optimism because I’ve not always had that in recent seasons!
We have to be fully up for this game for the entire 90 minutes, no excuses. Leave it all out there. And this here is the starting lineup I would go for purely so we can get all of our best players on the pitch at the same time. This is the starting Xl to BEAT Forest.
Away from the game now, some debates, info, transfer stuff, and one from Luke Rushbrook too!
Let’s begin with Luke’s, because he’s got most of the SPTC team involved in this one. Incidentally, we also all did a round table Podcast together yesterday, so do tune in for that here as well. And Luke asked us all some taxing questions relating to the transfer window which you can read all about here.
Silly season is in full swing with some weird, contrasting, and downright crazy transfer rumours about this week. Check out all the latest and all the general Chelsea news from across the last 24 hours in the same spot here.
I wonder how many players Chelsea will sell this summer. Are any of them actually untouchable? SHOULD they be untouchable? Got an opinion on that? Then add it to our latest polls in here asking you which Chelsea players should be considered untouchable.
The striker chat is weird this week, the reporting is contrasting, and the profiles we are apparently targeting as priority are all completely different. So what is going on with that? I hope they know what they are doing here, although I’m far from convinced that they do. Words on that as well as some more fresh info on Liam Delap here.
OK folks, this is where I leave you all until the big game on Sunday! I’ll start the live discussion thread for the game on the Substack App and will also be on there if I get any news to report before then. Otherwise, I’ll have my match report and verdict out on the game shortly after the full time whistle on the home page here. See you all then!
COME ON CHELSEA, LET’S GOOOOOOO!!!!!!
Peace, Si.
I love a day out by the Trent, reminis of that Forest team of my youth they reminded me so much of our Chelsea team of 04/5 a power house of a team that played ball with a great manager. I need not see the ghost of Clough though on the day.
BTW The Forest boys think they are going to win as well, bets are on and my greek lunch will be hard to swallow if we are not up in the first half. Marinakis is a vocal man and has real passion for the game and Forest, he is pumping in his own money not someone else's.
This will not be a pretty game for sure