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Report has it that Chelsea could move to bring Nathan Ake back to Stamford Bridge from Bournemouth, but face competition from Manchester City. The Dutch defender made his professional debut with the Blues in 2012 and spent time on loan at Reading, Watford and Bournemouth before joining the Cherries permanently in 2017.  The Blues are rumoured to be interested in adding Ake to the squad in January but it seems that Pep Guardiola is also keen to take the Dutch international to the Etihad Stadium.  ‘Manchester City are interested in a January deal for Bournemouth's Nathan Ake, despite a contract clause seemingly putting Chelsea in pole position to bring him back to Stamford Bridge,’ the report on the Sky Sports News website states.  ‘The west London club inserted a £40m buy-back clause into the centre-back's £20m deal to Bournemouth in 2017, and they are now understood to want Ake back after their FIFA transfer ban was lifted.  ‘But City are als...

Blues right-back Reece James is set to be rewarded for establishing himself in the Chelsea side with a new long-term contract.. The 20-year-old defender enjoyed a productive loan spell at Wigan in the Championship last season and has since become a key member of Frank Lampard’s Chelsea squad, making 14 appearances in all competitions and netting two goals. The report in the Sun says: ‘Chelsea are reportedly preparing a bumper new contract for rising star Reece James. ‘The right-back has been one of many young players who has impressed Frank Lampard and he is set to be handed a bumper new contract to extend his existing deal that runs to 2022.’

Chelsea game today against Aston Villa will be a match of mixed emotions for Chelsea head coach Frank Lampard.  Lampard team will be going up against his friend and former team mate John Terry who is now an assistant manager at Aston Villa.   He [Lampard] scored the 202 and 203 record breaking goal against this team in the year 2013 for Chelsea making him the clubs record goal scorer of all time.  The pair played together for the pensioners club for over a decade winning  trophies of different kind including the Uefa champions league back in 2012.     Click to watch Lampard 202 and 203 goal. 

Former Valencia manager Marcelino has been contacted by Arsenal about becoming their new head coach, according to reports. The Gunners are on the lookout for a new boss following last week’s sacking of Unai Emery. legend Freddie Ljungberg has been placed in temporary charge while the club look for a permanent successor to Emery. Ljungberg’s first game in the dugout ended in a 2-2 draw with relegation-threatened Norwich on Sunday, and he will be in charge when Brighton visit the Emirates tomorrow evening.  The hunt for Emery’s long-term replacement continues, and Goal claim Marcelino is high on Arsenal’s wishlist with contact already made.  The report adds the Spaniard ‘kindly declined’ Everton’s advances last month as they also search for a possible successor to Marco Silva. Toffees boss Silva is under huge pressure at Goodison Park with his side 17th in the table after 14 games. Marcelino has been out of work since being controversially sacked...

On Wednesday night, John Terry will be in the thick of things at Stamford Bridge again but, for the first time in the Premier League, he won’t be in Chelsea colours.  Terry is now Aston Villa’s assistant manager, supporting Dean Smith, and in what be an unusual feeling for our former skipper, he will be trying to help mastermind an away victory in SW6.  It will be JT’s first return to the Bridge in an official capacity since leaving Chelsea in the summer of 2017, and looking across to the home dugout will only add to his sense of nostalgia. His good friends and former team-mates Frank Lampard and Jody Morris will be there, along with plenty of other members of staff he knows so well from his two decades at Chelsea. But how will it feel for Lampard, coming up against the man he shared so many incredible experiences with during their playing days?.  ‘Not much difference for me,’ our boss said at his press conference today. ‘I went up against him t...

Frank Lampard has revealed that he hopes to have Tammy Abraham back from injury for tomorrow night clash with Aston Villa, although  concedes that striker is in race against time to be fit.  The striker missed the weekend  defeat to West Ham at Stamford Bridge with hip injury he sustained against Valencia but Lampard has said that Tammy could return against the side he spent last season on loan. 'Abraham is doing  okay and we are giving  him every chance to be fit ', Lampard  comfirmed at his pre-match press conference.  'He still got some pain in the area of the injury,  so we make a judgement call on him tomorrow. It's a painful one I don't want to commit today on whether he will be fit or not.