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🚫🔴Former Chelsea target Fermin Lopez has agreed a 2-year extension with a new contract at Barcelona keeping him at the club until 2031.
(@JacobsBen)

🚫🔴Douglas Luiz to Aston Villa negotiations are progressing favorably.
In the last few hours, the parties have had new positive contacts. Luiz favours a return to Villa where he felt comfortable. 
(@MatteMoretto)

remember Malang Sarr?
it took AGES to get him gone (and he was on an insane £125K PW!)
and of course, he now has dramaically improved with Lens

I feel if I fell asleep for ten years I would wake up and Disasi and Sterling would still be here

I think it is a position of need and BVB were trying very hard to turn his head in demanding to be sold to them. We all know they will only lowball us. It was a good time to get him out of BVB for long term plans. It would different if they would pay a fair price for him. 

🔵L’Equipe say it’s quite possible for Chelsea to return with an improved bid for Jeremy Jacquet.
The French club could accept it if it’s ‘slightly above €50m’.
The Blues are encouraged to raise their offer ‘slightly’ to secure Jacquet’s services.

maybe he will go to strasbourg and we recall sarr?

Hard to know what to believe these days. The club have moved in a really strange manor when it comes to briefing the media. Feels like we hear “Chelsea have moved for ____,” and then it’s just total silence for ages and we don’t hear about any advancement.
Like the Douglas Luiz thing. That brief went out a week ago we haven’t heard a peep since. So are we actually after another midfielder or not? Lavia apparently posted that he’s back fit so does that change the thinking? Not that he’ll be fit for longer than 5 minutes of course.

👀I say Anselmino is going to Racing Strasbourg to join his buddies Barco and Panichelli, and Chelsea is bringing Mamadou Sarr back!

Ornstein story confirms we are not considering selling Josh.

We do have the option of recalling Sarr.

Sources: Cole Palmer's future?
So, what's been happening here and what is the player thinking?
https://siphillipstalkschelsea.substack.com/p/sources-cole-palmers-future

Many of you have been asking me to write on the future of Cole Palmer from what our sources know. So now, I’ve complied a sourced report on the future of our attacking midfielder.
The noise around Manchester United does have some substance to it. Palmer is a Manchester lad and has all his friends and family around there. So of course he is going to miss elements around it. There is also a personal situation that Palmer is facing that I would prefer not to speak about, that will make him more inclined to be around that area again and perhaps miss home a little bit more. He’s back and forth form Manchester to London quite a bit, or at least he has been recently.
So the ‘homesick’ noise does actually have a little bit about it.
On the player side, Palmer is not unhappy at Chelsea. He’s more than content being a Chelsea player. He didn’t really enjoy playing under Enzo Maresca though, as reported at the time; he didn’t feel as though he was able to play with the freedom that he had been playing with when he first arrived at Chelsea. But as a Chelsea player, Palmer has not been described to me as unhappy, he just got frustrated under Maresca and the homesick thing is certainly a thing, but for more reasons than the public know about.
Palmer is also frustrated with his reoccurring injury and also, with his own form. He wants to be doing more for the team and wants to get back to where he was. So he is annoyed at himself as well, hence the body language on the pitch that fans have been noticing.
Right now, I have not heard that Palmer is planning to ask to leave or is looking to leave, but as I have said, it’s not something that would surprise me if I did hear it, based on everything I’ve said above. If Palmer was to leave, I’d be less surprised to see him head to Manchester United rather than back to Manchester City. United is more where his roots are and he was a boyhood fan of the club. On Palmer’s future, a lot will depend on how the rest of this season goes for him in a Chelsea shirt, and how things go at a potential suitor such as United. But look, there’s nothing from sources at this moment to say that Palmer wants out or is going to ask to leave - so that’s the main takeaway for now at this point in the season.
On the club side, of course they are not going to entertain any offers for Palmer. He is one of five players the club see as indispensable in this moment, alongside the likes of Reece James and Moises Caicedo. They are concentrating on getting the best version of Palmer back, and he is not for sale.
However, IF Palmer went to them and asked to leave the club because he was unhappy, then I’d be surprised if Chelsea didn’t then entertain it. I personally do not believe they would want to keep an unhappy player in the squad, whoever that was, and nor should they to be honest - that is where problems start with disgruntled players. Not saying Palmer will become a problem if this did happen, but I’m just saying that I’d be surprised if the club kept any player who put in a transfer request. Again, I’m not saying this is what Palmer is going to do, I’m just going over the possible scenarios. And this bit here is really just my opinion as the club state not for sale.
To sum it up, I’ve not heard that Palmer is unhappy right now as a Chelsea player, the club will not entertain selling him, but there is certainly an element of ‘home sickness’ but due to deeper reasons that it would not be right for me to talk on, but would be understandable to everyone if they knew what it was about. Palmer also likes to play with freedom to be able to feel confident and comfortable on the pitch - so I’m not sure whether he gets that with Liam Rosenior more or not, maybe he does, maybe he doesn’t. Time will tell.

Sources: Chelsea weighing up options around centre backs but still working on Jeremy Jacquet
The latest...
https://siphillipstalkschelsea.substack.com/p/sources-Chelsea-weighing-up-options

It’s been a bit of an up and down last week or so on the transfer front. Chelsea have plans for this window now in terms of incomings, as we reported. But there has been some obstacles in the way that has put doubts around some of these proposed incoming deals the club are trying to pull off.
The main one of course is centre back Jeremy Jacquet from Rennes. So what is the latest on that? Do Chelsea have a backup plan? And are they already working on another idea? Yes, they are. More below…
Chelsea’s sporting directors left France on Monday after holding what SPTC Sources described as positive talks with Rennes regarding a move to sign Jacquet.
There was still some things to sort out in the deal, but everything on the player side was positive and all but done. On the club side, things were not done.
Chelsea have continued a dialogue with Rennes this week but no longer face to face, and it is true that the idea of loaning the player back for the rest of the season was mentioned as a possible option to convince Rennes to let the player go now. But since then, although talks have continued at a tentative level, nothing has been agreed at the time of writing this.
Chelsea do have other centre backs on their shortlist, but they really rate Jacquet and he is the guy they want. So no other moves for any other centre backs have been made as of yet.
One other option that SPTC Sources have been told about is around Mamadou Sarr and bringing him in this month. The centre back is on loan at Strasbourg, but Chelsea have been pondering bringing him back, especially if Jacquet is signed and then loaned back to Rennes until the summer.
The only issue Chelsea have with doing this is that they will need to cover Sarr’s absence at Strasbourg. So there are some ideas they are looking into there as well, and one possible idea mentioned by sources is sending Aaron Anselmino to Strasbourg to cover that.

👀I say Anselmino is going to Racing Strasbourg to join his buddies Barco and Panichelli, and Chelsea is bringing Mamadou Sarr back!

BREAKING...
We have triggered the clause to get Anselimino back from Dortmund to consider next steps
 

well, our women's title streak is likely dead at 6 in a row 😞

Badi ball watching
so was Trevoh
our CBs are shite

Walk away then, we need someone now.
Be ruthless and buy some fucker instead of beating around the bush and flirting with players who don't want to move now

Badiashile still all over the shop. Both with and without the ball. He’s going to cost us a goal if this keeps up.

How come Josh doesn’t get a run of starts ?

haha
badi maldini ashile

It's like Liam Rosenior likes Badiashile a lot. 😏

He is injured.

Time to stop fucking round playing games with Palmer’s injury. He needs to either have the surgery or be sat for a long, long time until he’s back to himself. This is getting ridiculous at this point. In and out, in and out, never looking close to his best. He’s clearly severely compromised. 

🚫🔵AC Milan and Mike Maignan reach verbal agreement over new deal until June 2031!
Formal steps to follow but deal in place for French GK who was out of contract in June 2026.
Huge move for Milan with Maignan seen as key player.
(@MatteMoretto)