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20 Feb 2026 19:12:34
I'm probably not understanding the email I just received from CFC correctly but to me it seems like we now have a FOS sponsor.
IFS are our FOS on all our shirts.
I assume details will follow and I have no idea if this a remainder of the season deal or along term deal.
20 Feb 2026 19:44:48
Ok, I think this is a remainder-of-season deal, but there is mention in the email of a long-term "collaboration" between the company and CFC.
20 Feb 2026 20:14:20
All very interesting - how much?
20 Feb 2026 20:22:16
Better late than never. Hopefully, we can get something long term in the summer. Need to make top 5 (or win the UCL again).
20 Feb 2026 21:06:46
Haven't got a clue about terms, as it understandably wasn't mentioned in the club's email. The fact that "continued relationship" was mentioned makes me feel as if all sides are awaiting some sort of development, but that's me making 2+2=5.
20 Feb 2026 21:56:14
I believe it's a FOS for the remainder of the season, then a collaboration on other things. We have been here before.
20 Feb 2026 22:07:11
Bill, I can't see the term "other" in my email.
It does mention "long-term collaboration", and of course that could mean "other things".
It also mentioned "partnership", and I like the idea of an AI company being a long-term partner.
20 Feb 2026 17:27:14
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20 Feb 2026 18:30:49
Awesome updates, guys. Thanks. Feels odd that I was posting on here at 13 or so, but it's still the best football forum. Quiet enough that it's personable but not busy enough that it's full of nonsense!
20 Feb 2026 20:57:32
If you're still visiting mobile.chelsearumours.co.uk, then that's the wrong site to be on. Chelsearumours.co.uk, without mobile in it, is the correct updated site to be visiting.
20 Feb 2026 13:13:38
Choose one.
Spurs to get relgated or Arsenal to bottle the league?
20 Feb 2026 13:27:34
Both Greenaway.
20 Feb 2026 13:40:48
Spurs to get relegated.
I do not want the Gooners to win the Champs League.
20 Feb 2026 13:10:28
For the foreseeable future my treatment will dictate when I can get to the home of the CWC champions. The good news for me is I will be at the game tomorrow.
There are no easy games in the premiership but I fancy us to win tomorrow.
I've been impressed with our managers tactical flexibility so far but at some stage I hope we do move to a more frequent 433. We have another week off after the game so I can't see the point in resting any players.
COME ON MY MIGHTY BLUES.
20 Feb 2026 13:28:32
Hope your treatment is going well Tom.
20 Feb 2026 13:56:41
Bill, that's very kind. I'm back on 10 week gaps between treatments and I have now learned the hard way that I can't go to games before or after treatments.
I'm very lucky lots and lots of people have far more severe side effects to the treatment.
20 Feb 2026 10:03:39
While discussing tomorrow's game a fellow ST holder said he expects to see Lavia on the bench tomorrow. His name didn't come up in the press conference, so I think the boss will wait another week or two before we get to see him in Chelsea blue.
20 Feb 2026 11:21:39
To be honest Tom, i would bring him back very slowly.
On a good note, u noticed that Kellyman has played a lot of games for Cardiff this season.,
20 Feb 2026 11:35:16
Great if he is at least on the bench Tom, but given the amount of time he hasn't played for us with injury one would hope he is brought back carefully of course. We all am sure hugely hope iif so that he could then remain fit until the end of this season. Would be wonderful for the player and for all of us.
20 Feb 2026 12:33:10
That's very good news about Kellyman. Fingers crossed crossed for Lavia when he returns.
20 Feb 2026 13:10:48
Lavia is playing today for the under 21's so I doubt he will play tomorrow Tom.
20 Feb 2026 13:41:44
Greenaway thanks for the news and I think it makes sense.
20 Feb 2026 13:50:23
Good to hear that Lavia is playing for the under 21s. and perhaps not a full game for them. Might well be the best way to get him up to EPL match fitness and even he should probabky be eased back in slowly to different level of physicallity required EPL.
20 Feb 2026 17:03:55
Think he played the whole of the first half for the U21s today. Fingers crossed!
19 Feb 2026 14:34:31
It looks like The Club World Cup will now be expanded to 48 teams in 2029 and the current holders will be allowed to defend their title which means Chelsea FC will be back in the tournament even if they fail to win the Champions League over the next few seasons. Fifa was always open to expanding the tournament from 32 teams, primarily to guarantee the participation of more of the biggest European clubs after Barcelona, Liverpool and Manchester United failed to qualify.
Infantino said in a speech at the general assembly of European Football Clubs in Rome last October that expansion was on the agenda, saying Fifa was working "to see how we can make this event bigger, even better, even more impactful".
While some at Uefa remain concerned that the huge financial rewards of the Club World Cup will have a destabilising effect on European football, an expansion to 48 clubs is regarded as less disruptive than making it a biennial event which Real Madrid were driving.
Although the fine detail has yet to be agreed, European clubs would be among the main beneficiaries of the expansion, with the number of Uefa qualifiers likely to increase from 12 last year to 16 in 2029. Chelsea won around £117 million from the competition last year and adding more European teams would have implications for the competitive balance of the Champions League with those qualifying for the Club World Cup earning huge amounts of money which Chelsea benefitted from in the summer.
19 Feb 2026 17:45:36
RBD, I was chuffed to bits to win the CWC and be the only team to have won it all. I will also be chuffed to be in the next tournament as defending champions.
I find it astonishing that some Chelsea fans do see how relevant it will become to our club's history.
19 Feb 2026 19:49:45
I don't think I've seen anyone play down the successes of the CWC. it was a huge win and a big marketing point to sponsors (or at least should be)
19 Feb 2026 21:42:05
Me too Tom and every Chelsea fan I know says the same. Sadly, some claim to be Chelsea but are just jealous fans of other clubs. It is the world we now live in where the keyboard is so often the best friend of some.
20 Feb 2026 04:55:11
RPD, I will be at the game tomorrow and there will be more than one occasion when our fans will sing "we've won it all" and they can sing that for years to come.
There were one or two on this site who referred to it as a meaningless tournament. In fact some of my ST mates were very negative about us lifting that trophy. They have all now changed their mind.
I enjoy all our triumphs and celebrate them to the best of my abilities.
20 Feb 2026 09:00:27
It was nice to win the both trophies last year, but
I'm not sure how relevant to our history that will be.
I very much doubt Real Madrid, or indeed any of the other top European team would want to sing, we won it all, all they want to sing is we won our league ECL.
20 Feb 2026 09:30:54
Bill, we won both trophies: fair play but teams like Madrid, Barcelona, Bayern Munich PSG will never play in the Europa League never mind the Conference League.
20 Feb 2026 09:31:55
At the moment we are apparently unique in European football. I like that.
What other clubs chose to sing is up to them but I like our little ditty.
20 Feb 2026 11:38:00
Good news RPD and thanks for sharing it.
20 Feb 2026 13:12:21
I'm with you Tom, sing loud and proud. And I bet Real Madrid etc would love win the Club World Cup as well.
{Ed001's Note - Madrid have already won it 5 times.}
20 Feb 2026 13:43:49
Greenaway, I will be in full voice and enjoying it to the absolute max.
19 Feb 2026 07:39:28
{Ed's Note - Ed001 has posted a new article entitled, Matchday 26 - Quick Round Up
18 Feb 2026 18:14:12
{Ed's Note - Ed001 has posted a new article entitled, Matchday 26 - Quick Round Up
18 Feb 2026 17:21:28
Has the profile of the football fan changed? I find myself reading posts about FOS sponsorhip, player trading, stadia development, commercial departments, what the owners are doing blah, blah, blah. Maybe I'm just old school but all I really care about on a day to day basis is our next game and what the side will be, travel arrangements and what lads will be going.
Equally, the only thing that really matters to me is winning trophies.
Now don't get me wrong, I have no problem with people worrying about the clubs finances etc but back in the day that was never an issue although I do remember some of the faces collecting money in buckets for the fines picked up by the likes of Hickmott and one armed babs!
{Ed001's Note - do you not think it comes from the fact that fans now have to spend huge sums to go to a game? In the past it was a cheap pastime, so you would just go along and have fun. Now people are paying so much, they expect more for their money. Even if you just sit at home and watch it on TV, you have to pay so much for the privilege.}
18 Feb 2026 17:33:30
That's a really good point ED01, it was so easy back in the day, tickets were affordable and easy to obtain and then we got to watch MOTD and The Big Match on a Sunday for free. Now we have SKY, TNT and the rest fleecing us!
18 Feb 2026 17:41:37
Ed, maybe but I think it's a more general expectation about most things in life.
Success is craved, maybe achieved and then demanded.
I hope that makes some sort of cynical sense.
18 Feb 2026 17:47:54
In all honesty ed001 I totally get what you are saying.
But from my point of view what can I change. So I don't worry about it and in honest don't care. All I care about is if we are winning or playing well.
18 Feb 2026 18:06:07
Greenaway, I agree with you entirely;it's about the football and winning: unfortunately we get distracted about things we have no control over.
19 Feb 2026 09:52:27
All goid posts but I look at revenue coming in to keep ticket prices down and a new stadia for our future fans in order to keep up with the big spenders and not slip away, they deserve that.
19 Feb 2026 10:08:36
Bill, I may well be wrong but the happy hammers fans were promised a reduction in ticket prices when they moved the Stratford and that didn't happen.
19 Feb 2026 16:00:04
Tom,
I would be gutted with Hold on charge.
19 Feb 2026 16:46:24
Bill, unfortunately that's the premiership world we live in.
I am personally more than happy to veto the current ownership model but would I give up my season ticket, doubtful. There in lies the probable problem/.
18 Feb 2026 07:39:47
{Ed's Note - Shappy has posted a new article entitled, What United Should Look For in the Next Manager
17 Feb 2026 15:21:34
For the longest time I've been calling for improvements at centre back, but, looking at how we set up under Rosenior, I actually think another option in midfield is, at least, just as important. For me, Caicedo, Andrey Santos and Fernandez is the best starting midfield in the league. But, the depth beneath them is either permanently injured or non-existent.
You see the midfield three tire, or require tactical changes, as we saw against Leeds, and the options just aren't there. For me, Adam Wharton would be an excellent signing, whether he'd come for a rotational role, I don't know.
17 Feb 2026 15:43:50
You are 100% correct J when you say that midfield 3 of Caicedo, Santos and Enzo Fernandez is the best in the Premier League. Essugo and Lavia (if fit) just add even more quality as well and don't forget Reece James can also play there too. Add in Wharton or another of our targets and that part of pitch is sorted for years to come.
17 Feb 2026 16:23:06
Further to the above, and in line with reports, Barco would be a very good addition to the squad. Could fill in at midfield, LB, number 10 or LW - he's very versatile. Could ultimately see him being the long term successor to Cucurella. According to reports, Rosenior is a massive fan from the time they spent together at Strasbourg.
18 Feb 2026 08:04:19
A player that contributes in more than one position should always be of value to a club.
Milner springs to mind as an example.
18 Feb 2026 12:42:42
MIlner also an admirably hard working and thoroughly professional player who imho never quite received the plaudits he deserved. Almost especially in his later playing days when he brought that calm - been there done that - ever professional calmness and effectiveness in appearances off the bench.
If Barco coud provide that quality versatility for us - and I haven't seen enough of him myself to be able to say - he could be a wonderful addition.
And I agree that with both Lavia and Essugo injured our other fine trio of midfielders have had to do more work than we woud have wanted or is good for them in longer run.
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