Your Chelsea morning digest on Wednesday, September 21.
Potter's international training
Graham Potter is working with a depleted Chelsea squad at the moment with most of the first team stars out on international duty.
It comes in a break for the new manager that coincided with having both scheduled Premier League matches before the international games cancelled following the death of Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II.
Although it gives Potter time to work on his squad, there are less than 10 first team players still at Cobham and they will be eager to impress the manager at close quarters.
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The list of players still at Chelsea includes Ruben Loftus-Cheek, Kepa Arrizabalaga and Edouard Mendy.
First piece of January business done
Before Chelsea know it they will be in the next transfer window and it promises to be an exciting one already despite still being just over three months away.
With a winter World Cup to contend with and Potter having to learn and make snap decisions as to how he sees the shape of his first team squad, Chelsea could yet dip into the winter market to reinforce their squad.
The first new arrival has already been completed though as Gabriel Slonina will be coming back to London following the finish of his loan at Chicago Fire, who Chelsea signed him from over the summer. Slonina may well leave the club temporarily again, but he could yet get the chance to lay down an early marker as to how he fares against the two first team keepers ahead of him.
Freund worry
Chelsea, having believed they were extremely close to announcing RB Salzburg sporting director Christoph Freund as a director of football - or something similar - at the club, have been rebuffed with the latest reports indicating that he may yet remain in Austria.
The Athletic's David Ornstein states that: "Chelsea’s installation of a sporting director is not imminent and there is a good chance that front-runner Christoph Freund now stays at Red Bull Salzburg."
This would be a blow for Chelsea and Todd Boehly who is looking to appoint a new sporting figure at the club in order to run the football side, and Freund had been sounded out for his work with Erling Haaland and Sadio Mane - to name just two.
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