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Chelsea have been slapped with a £25,000 fine by the FA for how they behaved in their 2-1 loss at @ManchesterUnited.

Referee Peter Bankes showed six yellow cards to the Blues in total, including one to Maresca and a straight red to Sanchez.

[Kieran Gill - Daily Mail]

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🚨UPDATE: Chelsea are providing Sterling and Disasi with coaching sessions and access to facilities at the club’s training ground, there were no major concerns in this department. The duo have had a few training sessions with the under-21s.

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Why Raheem Sterling didn’t leave Chelsea – and what’s happening now?

Sterling posted a picture on his official Instagram account of the training ground and writing ‘20.21’ as a caption to indicate what time he was there.

Within a few days, reports then emerged that the players union, the Professional Footballers’ Association, had contacted Chelsea about how Sterling and Axel Disasi were being treated.

This is not an unusual step for the PFA to take when players find themselves on the periphery at a football club.

As Chelsea were providing the duo with coaching sessions and access to facilities at the club’s training ground, there were no major concerns in this department.

Since then the duo have had a few training sessions with the under-21s.

Sterling has been here before. He was part of the fringe group last year, too, after Maresca decided the winger was not part of his plans following the 2024 pre-season tour of the United States. On both occasions, he had to train away from the senior squad along with others who were up for sale or loan. This summer, the group was overseen by loan technical coach Carlo Cudicini, with former under-18s youth coach Ed Brand taking the sessions themselves.

In saying that, Sterling is continuing to work with his own team. This includes England’s former lead physical performance coach Ben Rosenblatt. Sterling has facilities at his London home to do various exercises as well.

It’s understood Sterling did not want a repeat of last summer, when a move to Arsenal was organised in the final 48 hours before the deadline.

Some European clubs did come in for Sterling earlier in the recent window, although mainly over a season-long loan. But sources close to Sterling say the biggest factor was that he wanted to remain in London, where his family live.

Bayern Munich made a late attempt to convince Sterling to join them after a move was raised during discussions with Chelsea over the loan deal for Nicolas Jackson, but was reluctant to move.

As for a switch to another team in London, there was interest over a loan, but it was never close to formal discussions.

[Simon Johnson - The Athletic]

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🗣️ Enzo Maresca ahead of Brighton & Hove Albion [H] in the Premier League:

🏥 𝐎𝐧 𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐦 𝐧𝐞𝐰𝐬:

“We have decided to protect Cole [Palmer] a little bit, in terms of his injury not getting worse. So we decided to rest him for the next two or three weeks, probably until after the international break, to see whether, with rest, he can recover 100 per cent and be completely fit.

“It’s a matter of managing the pain in his groin. With the amount of games [we have played], it’s something that can happen, so that is the reason why we are trying to be conservative with him to give him rest. Hopefully, he can be 100 per cent fit after the international break.

“We also have Tosin [Adarabioyo] injured.

“He will probably be out until the international break as he has a small problem with his calf.

“Wesley Fofana suffered a concussion the other day against Lincoln [and will miss the Brighton game].”

It’s underwood Fofana will also miss Chelsea’s matches against Benfica and Liverpool due to needing to miss the next 12 days because of concussion symptoms.

“Josh [Acheampong] was ill this week, he had the first session yesterday [Thursday] with us.”

⏳ 𝐎𝐧 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐑𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐨 𝐋𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐚 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐁𝐞𝐧𝐨𝐢𝐭 𝐁𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐚𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐛𝐞 𝐚𝐯𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞:

“Romeo and Benoit are better, we will see if they can join us tomorrow. Otherwise, it will be for the next game.”

🤔 𝐎𝐧 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐄𝐧𝐳𝐨 𝐅𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐳 𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐮𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐟𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐠𝐮𝐞, 𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐝 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐝𝐢𝐩 𝐢𝐧 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦:

“Enzo can play in different positions for us. He can play as a No.6 or he can play as an attacking midfielder. We use him probably 90% of our games as an attacking midfielder. I think he’s very good in that position. The reason why he can have some good moments or bad moments is probably because the amount of games.

“I said many times that for any player, not just for Enzo, but for any players, it’s impossible to think that you can play 45 games or 64 games we played in that season all at the same level. It’s normal that you drop in some games, but we are very, very happy with Enzo.”

(Via ChelseaFC & BobbyVincent - Football London)