After scoring 12 league goals for a struggling Ipswich side last season, Liam Delap attracted interest from several top clubs over the summer. Chelsea ultimately won the race, activating a £30m release clause in his contract, that had been reduced due to Ipswich’s relegation, and was a deal widely seen as a very shrewd piece […]
Chelsea entered the 2025–26 season with momentum from their Club World Cup triumph and a refreshed sense of identity under Enzo Maresca. A major reason for optimism has been the arrival of João Pedro from Brighton & Hove Albion. The £60 million signing has quickly established himself as a key figure at Stamford Bridge, reshaping […]
With a few days of the summer 2025 transfer window left to run, Chelsea will once again be amongst the biggest spenders in world football. In fact, their current spend – £240 million – will see them rank seventh in the all-time list of highest spending transfer windows. That in itself is an eye-catching statistic, […]
One of the ramifications of Todd Boehly’s Chelsea rebuild is that there’s a stack of players twiddling their thumbs on the sidelines, unable to get any game time. Enzo Maresca has tried his best to keep as many players in the first-team picture as possible, using the Europa Conference League as a vehicle for his […]
As the campaign draws to a close, thoughts turn to Chelsea’s end-of-season awards. Player of the Year and Top Goalscorer are just two of the trophies that will be dished out, while the club will also anoint its Goal of the Season – permed, in recent years, from the results of a fan vote. In […]
Given the demanding nature of professional sport, it’s perhaps good when a footballer has confidence to spare. It means that they can insulate themselves from poor performances and criticism, believing in their talent to the point that they feel a return to form is just around the corner. There’s confidence, there’s hubris and then there’s […]
When you spend as much as Chelsea have on players over the past two decades – and turn over your squad at a rate of knots – there’s always likely to be an expensive flop or two along the way. That likelihood has intensified in the Todd Boehly era, with the Blues owner only too […]
Chelsea’s ladies team made history in January by breaking the world record transfer fee for a female player. Naomi Girma has made the move from San Diego Wave to London for a fee of £900,000… and the first time in history that the $1 million ceiling had been broken in the women’s game. The previous […]
Cole Palmer is no ordinary footballer… and at the age of just 22, he could go on to break all sorts of records for Chelsea and the Premier League as a whole. Incredibly, Palmer has already broken one long-standing EPL record already in 2024/25, while closing in on a club landmark that hasn’t been matched […]
At the time of writing, Raheem Sterling has played more than 80 games for England and has made almost 400 Premier League appearances (split between Liverpool, Manchester City and Chelsea). At the age of just 29, Sterling is widely considered to have plenty to offer… but perhaps that opinion is not shared by the current […]