summer is coming

https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/1375052/euro-2016-chelsea-owner-roman-abramovich-helps-pay-for-seriously-ill-children-to-watch-their-heroes-in-france/?CMP=spklr-_-Editorial-_-TWITTER-_-TheSunFootball-_-20160703-_-Football-_-507828633 Best Owner in club football. Massive Respect.

Well confirmed he's taking a week off.

No probs mate. You shared it better, hopefully it's all true. Would be an immense signing for us.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/chelsea-win-30million-race-capture-8333462 Seems we are close to Koulibaly.

We play our first match of the preseason on the 16th, maybe he will take some days off and resume sometime next week.

Of course he had a victorious performance :).

Lol. A rewatch might help.

Then I wonder what Gareth Bale was. Think Big Blue summed it up perfectly.

Nope he wasn't. Pants was Jordan and Romelu Lukaku

Can hardly disagree.

So as Bale and he's claimed to be a better player.

Telegraph and Mirror quite have good standards.

http://www.marca.com/futbol/atletico/2016/06/30/5774b6d7e2704e59588b45f3.html"Las ofertas se mueven en cifras entre los 50 y 60 millones de euros"

Marca say a bid of between 50-60 million euros has been submitted.

29th of June, 1st of July... :)

If Costa goes and we successfully bring in Morata, I would like Pelle as a 3rd option. He knows Conte system and he's has experience in the EPL.

"N’Golo Kante is poised to turn down a new contract at Leicester City and favours a move to Chelsea over his numerous summer options. Midfielder Kante is emerging as one of Chelsea’s top targets after the Blues failed with two bids for Roma’s Radja Nainggolan. Kante was one of the players of the season Following his superb season in the PremierLeague and at Euro 2016 for hosts France, Leicester have offered Kante a new £100,000-a-week deal to stay with the champions .But Kante is currently siding towards leaving the King Power Stadium, with Chelsea, Juventus, Manchester United and Arsenal battling for his signature. Of the four clubs, Kante is believed to fancy the opportunity of working with Antonio Conte at Chelsea the most but he has not yet ruled out the possibility of going elsewhere."- Telegraph

"Chelsea have submitted a bid of 41.7 million pounds to Real Madrid for Alvaro Morata"- Don Balon

When he started his managerial career at Bari then later Siena his favorite formation was the 442 (with the wingers pushed up to become a 424) which he admitted he wanted to use at Juventus but with the club bringing in Vidal and having average wingers he changed to a 352. Like Coxy said, there's no clear indication of the formation he would be using yet. He's an astute manager,I'm sure he would adapt his tactics to the players he has presently.

Exactly mate. West ham bidded a fewer hundreds of thousands than we did, who would have thought that?. It's crazy money now in the EPL, it's either pay up or remain stagnant.

Well said mate.

"According to Tutto Mercato , the Italian manager’s people had dinner with Batshuayi’s agent on Monday night following Italy’s win over Spain, and convinced the player to join Chelsea.The meeting turned the tide towards Chelsea, who sneaked in from behind to surprise clubs such as West Ham, Palace and Tottenham in the chase for the Belgian. The striker has already agreed personal terms with Chelsea over a five-year contract and will soon become their first summer signing."

Read a scouting analysis on him (difficulty finding it on my browser history) and though no an expert but glimpse I've seen and of course youtube make him see a player comfortable playing along side another. This could a silly observation on my part though.

This. Drogba, Hazard, Zouma. Hopefully the trend continues.

Gianluca Di Marzio reports that Garay is the subject of a tug-of-war between Inter Milan and Chelsea.