One of the issues with stockpiling as many talented players as possible is that, inevitably, some will become unhappy with their lack of playing time. They may become disgruntled to the point of making it very difficult for their club – in this case Chelsea – to get them off the wage bill. It’s a […]
There was a time when Chelsea’s lineup would have been reasonably easy to name, with players such as Petr Čech, John Terry and Frank Lampard being nailed-on starters for the Blues. Nowadays, however, things aren’t quite so simple. There have been numerous changes to the way that the club operates since Todd Boehly and Clearlake […]
Chelsea are one of the biggest and best clubs in the world. They have won six English top-flight titles, 13 major domestic cups, as well as two UEFA Champions Leagues and two FIFA Club World Cups. Indeed, they are the only side in world football to have a complete set of UEFA trophies, having won […]
Despite a couple of ill-fated managerial stints at Stamford Bridge, Frank Lampard retains his position as a true Chelsea legend. He is the club’s record goalscorer, having netted a total of 211 goals in the 648 games he played for the Blues from 2001 to 2014. Lamps is one of only two men to have […]
Chelsea made plenty of headlines in the summer as they brought in not one but two marquee strikers in a bid to add some much-needed firepower to their frontline. Out went the injury-riddled Christopher Nkunku and the erratic Nicholas Jackson, and in came Joao Pedro and Liam Delap. The signings were meant to jolt the […]
You can say a lot about Nicolas Jackson’s 2024–25 season, but “boring” isn’t one of them. The guy was everywhere – scoring, missing, arguing, running himself into the ground. Some days he looked like a future Premier League star, other days you wondered if he even liked football. It was the kind of season that […]
Chelsea legend Eden Hazard has finally been inducted into the Premier League Hall of Fame. Between 2012 and 2019, the Belgian notched 85 goals in 245 EPL appearances, served up 54 assists and helped the Blues to two Premier League titles. Hazard was also named in the Premier League Team of the Season on four […]
Football seems somewhat relentless nowadays, such is the nature of the sport in the modern era. Having just come off a summer of the Club World Cup, players have gone straight into a Premier League season knowing that there is the FIFA World Cup to think about next summer. Whilst that is obviously exciting for […]
“You can’t win anything with kids,” famously said former Liverpool defender turned Match of the Day pundit Alan Hansen, in reference to Manchester United’s squad in 1995/96 that was steeped in youngsters from the fabled Class of ’92. Hansen was excruciatingly wrong, as United went on to land the Premier League and FA Cup double, […]
Almost from the moment that Roman Abramovich bought Chelsea and began running the Stamford Bridge side, the club has had a system in place of buying in young players before sending them out on loan in order to gain more experience. The sale of the team by Abramovich in the May of 2022 doesn’t seem […]