Chelsea were never really in advanced or concrete talks to sign Rayan Cherki this summer. Club tracking him as top talent but it was never close. Chelsea did track Rayan Cherki but they were ‘never close’ or in ‘concrete talks’ with Lyon to sign him this summer. There were two English clubs keen on signing Cherki but Lyon said no.
Lesley Ugochukwu looks back on his transfer to Chelsea: “When someone tells me, You're young; why did you go to Chelsea? I answer that there are trains that don't pass twice.”
John Terry on Man City making a £29m bid for him at Chelsea: “I said to Roman do u want to sell me? He said no and I said I want to stay here for the rest of my career and that was that.”
Gary Cahill: “When we were successful here, we had the core of the team and then we added one or two players to that and that’s a lot easier to adapt those players into the system and the football club.”
Mikel Obi on current Chelsea: "They'll be fine. I think the club is obviously going through a massive transition. So we need to give them time. They have fantastic young players, we need to make sure that they get time to work on the training ground and start to gel together as a team. I'm pretty sure they will come good. Poch is a really good manager but he also needs time. Once they work and gel together, they will start winning games, easily."
