Your Chelsea morning digest with football.london on Tuesday, September 27.
Sterling's dread
Raheem Sterling has revealed that he used to dread going to England camps in his international career. The winger has been a part of Gareth Southgate's struggling team that hasn't won in five matches and failed to score an open play goal in the first five Nations League games.
It comes just two months before a winter World Cup in which England had previously hoped they would be able to challenge for. Sterling hasn't backed down though and refuses to turn on his manager. "The manager can play whatever system he wants to play but when we go on to the pitch, we have to have that mentality that we are not just on the pitch to be on the pitch but we have to have that winning mentality," he said.
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"That's the message over the last couple of days when the boys have been speaking — it's getting more out of each other, push each other, take criticism. If someone is not doing something right then we have to push each other to try and get the best for the team."
Potter to use Salah trick
Graham Potter will need to get the best out of Mason Mount if Chelsea are to progress quickly in the next month. The midfielder put up a set of goals and assists only matched by Mo Salah and Jarrod Bowen last season with no other player getting into double figures for both.
Mount also finished the term with the sixth most combined goals and assists despite playing in a position that is arguably not even his best.
Now, Mount has started this season slowly and is yet to register a goal contribution in the opening six matches. His longest run without one in his three years of first team football at the club is seven, but at this stage last season he only had one assist, proving that things can turn around quickly.
Bellingham makes future decision
Chelsea may well have lost out on Jude Bellingham as reports in Spain suggest the 19-year-old has made his decision over where he will be playing next season.
The England midfielder is a target for Liverpool and a host of Europe's other top clubs with Todd Boehly trying to get the former-Birmingham City midfielder to Stamford Bridge this summer already.
Any attempts to get the teenager may be halted by Real Madrid though as Spanish publication Marca write that his head has been turned towards a move to the Champions League holders.
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