Chelsea opinion

Talk of transfer deals involving Real Madrid refuses to go away. Sami Khedira, Raphael Varane and now Luka Modric have all been mentioned as players Jose Mourinho would like to bring to Chelsea from his former club. Meanwhile, Carlo…

If Chelsea hadn’t been linked with enough strikers already this summer, another name is now in the frame – Inter Milan’s young Argentine Mauro Icardi. Some reports say that he and £10 million will be heading towards Stamford Bridge in…

So now we know where Thibaut Courtois will be playing his football next season. Jose Mourinho has given an interview to the Spanish newspaper Marca and he could not have been clearer about the goalkeeper’s future. “When the World Cup in…

If Sky Sports Italia journalist Fabrizio Romano is to be believed – and all the evidence suggests that he is – then the latest piece of the jigsaw that is the Chelsea squad for next season has been completed. He states that Atletico…

Chelsea fans who witnessed Didier Drogba’s inspirational appearance as substitute for Cote d’Ivoire in the World Cup yesterday might well have been encouraged to believe it was a sign of what he might bring to the Blues if the rumoured…

A fresh name has entered the contest to be one of Chelsea’s back-up strikers to Diego Costa. Borussia Dortmund’s Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang has indicated that he is keen to leave the German club after just one season there, having failed to…

What to make of Diego Costa’s performance against the Netherlands last night? It’s difficult really to focus on just one player amid the shambling ruin of Spain’s display. The way the Spanish midfield were unpicked and left for dead by a…

It has been remarked before on this website that the turnover of players at Stamford Bridge in the last year or two has become quite heavy. For example, of the team that started the 2012 Champions League final, only 4 remain at the club and…

The opening game of the World Cup was full of drama and controversy. The catastrophic early own goal, the penalty that should never have been given, Neymar’s two goals and the red card that he maybe should have had. But the only thing…

So it’s finally official. Cesc Fabregas is a Chelsea player. Cue much wailing and gnashing of teeth, and a spot of shirt-burning, from Arsenal fans, much celebration from Chelsea fans (who, if truth be known, are mostly celebrating the…