Chelsea boss Enzo Maresca is reportedly set to welcome £16million signing Aaron Anselmino into his first-team squad this week after recalling the teenage talent from his loan at Boca Juniors.

Chelsea boss Enzo Maresca will look to trim his squad in the January transfer window with five players potentially moving on from Stamford Bridge. Maresca was firm in his desire to offload players who did not fit into his plans at the start of the 2024/25 season with former captain Conor Gallagher joining Atletico Madrid.

Chelsea and Maresca are rightly praised for their success so far, but the number of suspensions being picked up should be a concern

Chelsea have now gone two consecutive Premier League games without a win for the first time since October, when they were held to a 1-1 draw against Nottingham Forest before falling to a 2-1 defeat

The January transfer window swings wide open in ten days, and Enzo Maresca is expecting his door to be doing the same, with the likes of Ben Chilwell and Carney Chukwuemeka standing on the other side, asking to leave.

Enzo Fernandez signed for Chelsea in the final hours of the January transfer deadline day in 2023, costing a British-record transfer fee (at the time) of £106.8m. With such a high fee came high expectations for Fernandez to instantly become the metronome of this Chelsea side,

It has been a fortnight of vindication for Enzo Maresca, though one he would rather have swerved. Across three Premier League matches either side of Christmas, his young Chelsea side have at last provided some evidence for his long-held theory that this is at least one season too early to talk of the title as a realistic aim.

Ipswich striker Liam Delay has been linked with a move to Chelsea, with Enzo Maresca a fan of the former Man City man