Strike

Madrid, Pool fixated on Jude Bellingham (Fabrizio on Caughtoffside). Barca, City stocked with mids. Looking at the moment like Chelsea might be the only ones in the queue in January.

The fee might look huge but we miss out on him and there's a big chance we end up with Rice for a ~80m fee.

How to tide over another month without Reece? With Reece this season P8 W6 D1 L1 Without Reece this season P7 W1 D2 L4 Even the only win (vs Villa) was with a monster Kepa performance

We have just 3 - Kante, Kova, Jorgi - with one of them perma-injured. Carney and Gallagher are not DMs. RLC and Zakaria are squad players at best for me. We needed a DM in the summer and we need a DM now to walk into the XI

Is any reliable source saying Enzo to Chelsea?

He's walking at least. Hope

The happiness lasted fifty minutes 😕

Denis Zakaria has a solid half.

Koulibaly so shaky under pressure there. He should be the one replaced by the Monaco defender we are signing

Players should just play on expecting they won't get decisions like that shirt pull in the box just now

Another W for the Vesper scouting network

Out here we can't get our first choice forwards to string together 3 good games

Arsenal and City look like a lock for top 4. Newcastle could also be getting there. Leaves only one spot to compete with Liverpool, United, Spurs

I don't know how people have any confidence in the Boehly, Eghbali regime? The Badiashile interest is an admission from the people in charge that they got the CB search terribly wrong in the summer. I seriously hope the recruits like Vivell, Shields know more than whoever was advising Eghbali, Boehly till now. There is a real chance we'll end up with a squad that looks like a Football Manager save with an inexperienced manager.

Easy with hindsight but no chance we take that call so soon after the Champions League win. Kante was MOTM or near MOTM level in all of the knockouts.

Looking very much like we are looking to replace Jorginho with Rice in summer 23

Not leftovers I think. Seems to me as the same reason Livramento left. Clubs cannot tie down youngsters to long-term deals so there is a high chance of players switching to get playtime.

I think best case scenario at this point. Poor guy has had a troubled year personally also with the break-in disrupting his WC

Any truth in the news that City and Newcastle were looking to sign him?

Good news

True. They sold Cucurella for good money and coolly replaced him with Estupinan who has been good for them and was good for Ecuador at the WC. Of course the question remains can this be replicated at a club like Chelsea? We are stockpiling talents - apparently signing a striker Brighton wanted - but we also need to move on senior players quickly.

The ref decisions in the final were all correct. You are just stating things that happened. Don't think there was any major controversy in the final. Few weird refs in the tournament as a whole but nothing major that altered the course of the tournament I think?

Is there an alternative available who will seriously consider Chelsea?