Sep 4, 2026
Chelsea moved on 39 players this summer, and 22 of them are still theirs
Seventeen sold, 22 loaned out and more than £500m recouped by the club’s own count. The loans are the part that comes back next summer.
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Sep 4, 2026
Arsenal have not conceded a goal, and Chelsea have conceded five
Arsenal and Chelsea both go into Sunday’s Emirates meeting on six points from two games. Arsenal have faced one shot on target all season. Chelsea hav...
Sep 2, 2026
Balogun walked away after midnight, and Chelsea lost their Enzo replacement because of it
Everton had the fee agreed, the deal sheet in and the striker in the building. He left as a Monaco player, and Chelsea’s £47m move for Lamine Camara d...
Sep 2, 2026
The Premier League spent £3.48bn this summer, and the other four big leagues combined spent less
A record window closed at 11pm on Tuesday. The gross figure beat last year’s record by nearly £300m, and £2.17bn of it came straight back through sale...
Sep 1, 2026
Manchester City passed on Enzo Fernandez at £120m, and have agreed 140 million euros for him instead
Manchester City let Chelsea’s £120 million deadline lapse on 14 August. On the last day of the window they agreed 140 million euros for the same playe...
Aug 30, 2026
Chelsea had a quarter of the ball at Stamford Bridge and still won 4-3
Brighton completed 549 passes to Chelsea’s 146 and lost a seven-goal game. Xabi Alonso has two wins from two and five goals conceded.
Aug 29, 2026
Villa sold Watkins for £50m and broke their transfer record on his replacement the same night
Ollie Watkins is completing a move to Al Hilal, Nicolas Jackson has signed for a club-record £65m, and Aston Villa also have an agreement with PSG for...
Aug 28, 2026
Chelsea have spent all summer buying, and the £7.5m goalkeeper might be the important one
Chelsea agreed a deal for Emiliano Martinez on 27 August, five days before the window shuts. It is the cheapest signing of their summer and it says th...
Aug 26, 2026
Chelsea have spent 408 million euros on 11 players, and two of them are 35 and 36
Morgan Rogers cost 138 million euros on his own. Jordan Henderson arrived on a free at 36, and no club in world football has spent more this summer th...
Aug 26, 2026
Manchester City have sold three midfielders this summer, and now have six days to sign Enzo Fernandez
Manchester City let Chelsea’s £120 million deadline for Enzo Fernandez pass twelve days ago. Fabrizio Romano says a formal bid is coming before the wi...
Aug 25, 2026
Delap has one Premier League goal in 28 games, and Forest want him before the window shuts
Nottingham Forest are in talks with Chelsea over Liam Delap, a striker who cost £30m last year and is now priced above £50m while training away from t...
Aug 25, 2026
Sanchez let in a near-post shot and spilled another, and Chelsea still won Xabi Alonso’s first game
Joao Pedro scored after 31 seconds at Craven Cottage, the fastest opening-matchweek goal the Premier League has had. Chelsea won 3-2, and both of Fulh...
Aug 24, 2026
Arbeloa took Xabi Alonso’s job in January, and his first Premier League game is against him
Fulham host Chelsea at Craven Cottage on Monday night, 12.30am Tuesday in India, to close the opening weekend. Alvaro Arbeloa replaced Xabi Alonso at...
Aug 21, 2026
Diego Moreira played 45 minutes for Chelsea, and his Milan move could earn them €26m
AC Milan have signed the Belgium winger from Strasbourg for a reported €50 million plus add-ons. Because Chelsea sold him to their own sister club in...
Aug 20, 2026
Nine Premier League clubs start with a new manager, and the last time it was this many was 1946-47
Maresca, Iraola, Alonso, Arbeloa, Sage, Rose, Glasner, Jaissle and O’Neil all take charge of their first league game this weekend. Opta say no top-fli...
Aug 18, 2026
The Premier League has spent £2.14bn before its first match, and a third of it went to other Premier League clubs
English clubs are £2.14bn into the summer window with the season still two days away, but almost £785m of that was paid by one Premier League club to...
Aug 15, 2026
Manchester City let the 5pm deadline pass, and Enzo Fernandez stays at Chelsea
Chelsea gave Manchester City until 5pm on Friday to bid £120 million for Enzo Fernandez. No bid came, and Chelsea now expect the Argentina midfielder...
Aug 14, 2026
Savinho wants Tottenham, and City cannot sell him until Chelsea sell them Pedro Neto
The Brazilian sat out training on Thursday and City called it illness. The hold-up is not the fee, it is that City have nobody to replace him with yet...
Aug 12, 2026
Chelsea’s new left-back was in Spain’s fourth tier at 18, and in a European final in May
Pep Chavarria joins from Rayo Vallecano on a contract to 2031, with Sky Sports reporting an initial fee of £16.3m, and takes the left-back spot Marc C...
Aug 10, 2026
Mourinho signed for Manchester United in 2013, phoned Ferguson in tears, and went to Chelsea instead
A new Netflix documentary has Mourinho and Ferguson both confirming what almost happened in 2013: a signed agreement to succeed Ferguson at Old Traffo...
Aug 5, 2026
Chelsea have six strikers and want three, and Nicolas Jackson is the expensive one
Unai Emery gave him his debut at Villarreal and Aston Villa want him now. Chelsea’s asking price is the only thing in the way, and Tottenham’s reporte...
Aug 4, 2026
Chelsea sign Jordan Henderson on a free, the eighth arrival of Xabi Alonso’s first summer
Jordan Henderson has signed a two-year deal at Stamford Bridge after leaving Brentford as a free agent. At 36, he is the second player over 35 Chelsea...
Aug 3, 2026
Chelsea’s £10m FA fine stands, but the six-point threat becomes a two-window transfer ban
An independent appeal board has replaced the suspended six-point deduction imposed for 74 breaches of the FA’s agent rules with a suspended ban on reg...
Jul 28, 2026
Chelsea chasing Welbeck and Henderson is the clearest sign yet that BlueCo has changed its mind
Positive talks for a 35-year-old striker and interest in a 36-year-old midfielder do not look like anything Chelsea have done in four years. That is e...