James

After the first few games, many critics are writing Chelsea off already. Ok, so we lost to Manchester United on the opening day, and we let Sheffield United back into the game recently and dropped two points, but is it all really that bad? We’ve got a League Cup game coming up that should give […]View the full article

Chelsea are interested in signing Youcel Atal from Nice this January, if they’re able to sign players. CalcioMercato is the source of the rumours, conjuring the idea that the Blues and Valencia are the two teams most interested in the 23 year old within a singe sentence and leaving it there. Despite the total lack […]View the full article

Looking at this Chelsea team, there’s one obvious weakness – centre back. In all other positions we’ve got either some talented youth or some quality experience, or both. At centre back we have a crop of younger players, and it doesn’t look certain that any of them will be up to the task of being […]View the full article

The BBC’s video feature from this international break is on Jonathan Panzo, a celebratory tale of how and why a 17 year old went to play his football abroad. It’s an inspiring story for many football fans looking for evidence that modern players are opening their minds a little more, and that the England players […]View the full article

I’ll start this off by saying that whenever FIFA release their rankings for their latest game, it doesn’t ever bother me. It’s something of nothing, and some of the decisions they make are just plain ludicrous. However, whilst scrolling down the list, which you can find on the FIFA 20 website today, it made me […]View the full article

It’s the international break, which usually means some time off for club football fans. But Chelsea fans are so hyped up about their season, that they’re actually watching every moment. Here are five things they might be picking out this week: Mason’s progress – Mason Mount got his first England cap against Bulgaria after a […]View the full article

The last couple of days have seen some rather interesting reporting cropping up when it comes to the future of Chelsea. Tabloids like the Daily Express have picked up on a whisper going around that the Blues have been instructing the agents of players to expect them to be able to do business normally in […]View the full article

The culture is changing at Chelsea Football Club and along with that, player power is being escorted directly out the door by Frank Lampard himself. We have seen player power creep in over recent times at the club, and its really ingrained a dark cloud of negativity. Lampard has been a player at the club […]View the full article

An article published not long ago about fallen European football giants had us thinking about how easily clubs can lose their status at the top table. While nobody’s going to forget about Leeds and Deportivo La Coruna anytime soon, it only took them a season of implosion each to put themselves into a spin that […]View the full article

Both Ross Barkley and Mason Mount have been included in Gareth Southgate’s England squad for the upcoming international break, and it will be very interesting to see who gets the nod. They were neck and neck in preseason, and were both probably Chelsea’s two best players through the summer. When it came to the first […]View the full article

Chelsea left back Emerson has had one hell of a year. He finally ousted Marcos Alonso as the Blues first choice left back, and he’s also become the regular choice there for Italy. The gradual improvement seen has been vast but expected after a player is rewarded with solid and consistent game time. The 25-year […]View the full article

It’s clear for all of us to see that Cesar Azpilicueta is a player who is struggling. Not only is he in decline, he’s simply just not comfortable playing as a modern day right back. The demands of this role are different in the type of intensive style that Frank Lampard likes to play, and […]View the full article

We’ve reached the first international break, which means a chance to look back over the first tranche of the season and consider what we’ve seen. While it’s still too early to draw many conclusions, especially from statistics, some things are glaringly obvious. WhoScored have a record of the number of shots taken by each and […]View the full article

We’ve hit the September international break after a hectic start to the season, giving us the chance to look beyond Chelsea’s first team to some of the youngsters on loan doing well. Conor Gallagher has been the breakout loan star for Chelsea this season in the Championship, bagging 3 goals and an assist in his […]View the full article

We’ve hit the international break now, and among Chelsea fans the overwhelming sentiment seems to be “a good start, and we can get a lot better.” Their reasoning is that the return of a slew of players from injury over the next couple of weeks will be a huge boost to Frank Lampard – and […]View the full article

Former Chelsea defender Mario Melchiot has likened the current model at Stamford Bridge to the one at Ajax. The Dutch side, known for their grooming of some of the best young players in the world, made it to the Champions League semis with a youthful squad last season, impressing all the way as they shocked […]View the full article

Frank Lampard’s first month back in the Premier League wasn’t the most rewarding, with his Chelsea side only picking up 5 points from an available 12 in August. Despite his experiment on promoting youth having a bright impact, as shown in Tammy Abraham and Mason Mount’s rise in recent games, Lampard’s defence is still in […]View the full article

Willian is a player who divides Chelsea fans opinions. He is regularly sang about within the stadium, but often criticised by many other Blues fans. He is inconsistent, I think we can all agree on that one. Whilst I don’t think his quality is as bad as some say, he should in no way be […]View the full article

We’re a few games into the Premier League season now, and the pundits are beginning to form their opinions on the teams they will be watching all season. Received knowledge becomes received wisdom, and some of these opinions will soon become deeply entrenched and bitterly fought over. Chelsea’s tropes this season have already been settled. […]View the full article

Football.London have a full set of power rankings every week now, where they go in depth on the Chelsea squad and see who’s having a good time and who’s having… not such a good time. It’s interesting to get an opinion on the squad taken overall, and a look at who a writer who is […]View the full article

If you haven’t already, you need to take note of the name Marc Guehi. It’s easy at Chelsea to get lost in the abundance of young talents coming through the academy ranks, and its also easy to start over-hyping some of them too soon. However, there are some players who you watch and you just […]View the full article

We all thought we had Frank Lampard’s first team plans pretty much worked out, but he continues to surprise us. Everyone had David Luiz as a certain starter in their predicted lineups for this season, only for the new manager to surprise everyone by letting the defender go. With Antonio Rudiger out, the new boss […]View the full article

Frank Lampard has been discussing the reasons his side failed to beat Sheffield United on Saturday, and his comments will be all too familiar for Chelsea fans. Lampard told the Chelsea Website “We needed to move the ball quicker because we were taking too much time in possession.” This is exactly what Maurizio Sarri would say […]View the full article

It was hugely disappointing to draw at home to Sheffield United yesterday and many Chelsea fans will be waking up feeling rather glum. The international break begins, meaning we have to wait even longer to put things right. On the plus side, some of our players will get needed rest. Continuing to look on the […]View the full article

As I watched Sheffield United bring the score to 2-1 at Stamford Bridge yesterday just after the second half began, I knew deep inside that our fate had been sealed. I glanced at the Chelsea players faces, and I could feel the defeatist attitudes from them, and the tension that overcame the stadium. There was […]View the full article