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Jorrel Hato coming on strong in the perfect moment
He might need to do more of a regular left back job very soon
https://siphillipstalkschelsea.substack.com/p/jorrel-hato-coming-on-strong-in-the

Jorrel Hato was frustrated with his start at Chelsea and was wanting more chances to play, our sources heard at the time.
But lately, he has become much happier with his game time and has been pleased with the chances he’s had.
And also lately, he has more than taken those chances with an uptick in form and some fine performances.
Hato’s rise of late might come in the perfect moment, because he’s performing well as a left back.
As we know, there’s a real situation brewing up with Marc Cucurella, and despite what might be being reported out there in attempts to sweep everything under the rug right now, Cucurella has been and still is seriously doubting his immediate Chelsea future.
As I’ve reported a number of times, Chelsea are looking into the left back market for this summer just in case they need to make a move there.
So Hato turning up the ante on his own performances and finding for, is good timing indeed, for more reasons than one.
‘It’s my tournament, isn’t it?’ Hato said with a smile reflecting on the Port Vale win this week.
‘I was very happy to score my first goal [against Charlton] and now my first goal at Stamford Bridge, so I’m very happy.
‘It was a great result and we played great football. It’s a good way to come back after the international break.’
Hato has been very good in recent games and I’ve been enjoying watching him play as a left back rather than a centre back, where he can actually look a bit more vulnerable at times.
I rated the signing of Hato at the time, but I also knew that at just 19, he was still a very raw player and still will be. And we’ve seen that in his inconsistencies so far this season.

What I don't like is the long term contracts, giving players deals until 2032/2033 makes no sense.  Same with coaches/managers. 
Anything more than 5 years is only put in place for "book value".  

Best of Como: Cesc Fabregas | Philadelphia Coach of the Month: March 2026 | Serie A 2025/26

they only CMFs and DMFs on the planet I would pay £100m (or more in a few cases) for
it is not a big group (10 atm)
Pedri 
Jude Bellingham  (also plays a lot at AMF)
Federico Valverde   
Moisés Caicedo
João Neves  
Vitinha 
Dominik Szoboszlai   (also plays a lot at AMF)
Sandro Tonali
Adam Wharton
Declan Rice 
close, but probably not
Elliot Anderson
Ryan Gravenberch 
Aleksandar Pavlovic    
next (to make it the sweet 16)
Enzo Fernández
Bruno Guimarães
Warren Zaïre-Emery

🚨🇦🇷 🔵Chelsea still wants to improve Enzo Fernández's contract, despite the pause in negotiations and the strong interest from some elite European clubs.
If the player decides to leave, the stance is clear: they won't let him go for less than £130M (€150M).
(@verobrunati)

Absolutely. Its less about Enzo and more about the club.
Cucurella also came out and pretty much said the same thing, minus the shameless advertising for a club transfer.
Wish it was Fofana that did this tbh. He's a real poison in this squad, IMO. Not too long ago when he was pining for a move to Marseille. 

That is expected when we have no good experiened CB's. 
Would Fofana/Badi/Tosin/Chalobah start at CB for the other clubs around the top 5 race?    
The standard for getting defenders has dropped at this club.  
 

That signing represents everything that is wrong with the club.
     

Negotiated hard.

“Chelsea pushed hard” is funny.  We literally negotiated with ourself 
 
 

☢️🔵Enzo's agent Javier Pastore:
🗣️ "Our plan after the World Cup is to meet with Chelsea again and, if there is no agreement, to explore other options."
Enzo Fernandez's agent, Javier Pastore, says they couldn't come to an agreement with Chelsea on Enzo's new deal because he deserves more money than he is currently earning! 💰
 
💨🗯Chelsea paid big money for Enzo Fernandez; they will not accept a normal proposal. Sometimes I see £60-70m. I don't think Chelsea would be considering this! Would take big money.
(@FabrizioRomano)

I do not believe any of that.
These BlueCo cunts do nothing but gaslight.

This seems to me like a way to deceive the fans at this stage, to make them believe it. I hope the fans aren’t dumb and protest anyway

A leopard doesn't change it's spots. This was always gonna happen at some point.

We all knew Terry had no smartness to him into how he said things. 
Brilliant diffender but not smart in expression.
As opposed to Lampard, men I love that guy as a person and player. And I'm happy that he is doing good, I always thought he was better to be at our club as some kind of director. 
His first season with us showed how good of a vision he has for spotting talent. Much better then Winstanely and company. But sadly these owners don't think like that or see that info. 

He did the same in Benfica for us so not surprising. Even left wife. It's just his personality. 

Could be the first in a domino effect. Well done Blueco

What a sad end to his Chelsea career. Feels like just yesterday where we seemed to be in a decent position and Enzo was one of our best performers. In a season where he was starting to really prove those who had doubts wrong, this happens.
Can’t blame him or any other player for being fed up with “the project,” but there are ways to go about things and there are ways you don’t. When your current club made a massive effort to sign you, paid an absurd fee for you, stuck by you during controversy and poor form, and your teammates made you vice captain, to then go and openly shit on the club by publicly whoring yourself to another club is crossing a line for sure. Especially when there’s still a tiny chance of salvaging this PL campaign.
If he had started agitating for a move to Madrid during the summer after the season was over I think it goes better for him. During the season when the club are in the mud? Just disrespectful to his teammates, the fans, and the club itself. 

Gonna “really really” go for it next season
 
 

We’ve turned into an actual laughing stock under this ownership

Chelsea spent £65m on agents this season — £26m more than any other club
Premier League’s biggest spenders on intermediaries for third year running also announce pre-tax losses of £262.4million — the highest in English football history
https://www.thetimes.com/sport/football/article/Chelsea-spending-agents-record-losses-premier-league-qzqnc2cb7

Chelsea were the highest-spending club on agents’ fees for the third consecutive year as the Premier League set a new record for payments to intermediaries.
Overall, the 20 Premier League clubs spent a record £460.3million in 2025-26, up 12 per cent on the previous year. Chelsea splashed out £65.1million and were also the biggest spenders on agents in the previous two years, £60.4million in 2024-25 and £75.1million in 2023-24.
The FA published the figures on the day that Chelsea confirmed that last season they made the biggest loss ever recorded by a Premier League club, at £262.4million.
Aston Villa were the next highest spenders on agents at £38.4million, followed by Manchester City (£37.4million), Liverpool (£33.8million), Arsenal (£32.1million) and Manchester United (£31.7million).

The amount a club spends on payments is likely to become an increasingly important factor in complying with the Premier League’s new financial rules, as well as Uefa’s. The new squad cost rule that comes into force next season will mean clubs are limited to spending 85 per cent of their revenue on wages, agents’ fees and transfers — Uefa’s limit is an even more restrictive 70 per cent.
Chelsea’s financial losses for 2024-25 eclipse the previous record of £197.5million, set by Manchester City in 2011, but they have passed the Premier League’s Profitability and Sustainability Rules because they posted a profit of £128.4million in the previous year’s accounts, boosted by the sale of the women’s team to a sister company, Blueco Midco, for £200million.
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Chelsea said the losses were attributable, in part, to increased operating costs in 2024-25 compared to the previous year. Revenue was £490.9million, the second-highest on record for the the club, and included some of the prize money from winning the Club World Cup last summer.
About one third of the £86million that Chelsea earned in prize money from winning the Club World Cup was paid to the club in 2024-25, with two thirds paid in this season’s financial year.
Last year Chelsea were fined £30million for breaching Uefa’s financial rules, but that is understood to have been included in the 2024-25 losses.
Chelsea have spent about £1.5billion on transfers since the Todd Boehly/Clearlake Capital consortium bought the club from Roman Abramovich for £2.5billion in 2022.

Apparently berated some of his team mates. Didn’t think he had it in him to be fair although to be fair he should have been on the receiving end of this stuff a lot also. Didn’t think any of them had it in them and honestly, would rather some of them did something like this every now and then than sat sulking like little girls. Shows they have a bit of personality and character.
Would imagine that will be enough for BlueCo to spin a he was toxic in the dressing room PR move and sell him. 
Cucurella will be sold no doubt, given his more recent comments about wanting to win/Barcalona. Plus his wages. Again they’ll spin it some way. 

Palmer situation is worrying also but what did these owners expect?