Graham Potter could be set to welcome back another one of his key Chelsea players for their Premier League clash against West Ham on Saturday. Reece James made his return to the Blues squad from the start before he was brought off just shy of the hour mark with Ben Chilwell and Raheem Sterling marking their comebacks from injury with cameo appearances from the bench.
Armando Broja and N'Golo Kante remain as the obvious long-term absentees at Stamford Bridge while Denis Zakaria, Christian Pulisic and Edouard Mendy still appear a few weeks from returning to training. Ruben Loftus-Cheek is another name back in the squad after injury issues plagued the final stages of his 2022 and a key summer signing could be set to make his return very soon.
When initially revealing the availability of James, Chilwell and Sterling for Fulham, Potter also gave the latest update on Wesley Fofana. “Ben Chilwell, Reece James, Raheem Sterling, and Ruben [Loftus-Cheek] are back in the squad, not ready for 90 minutes but in the squad," he said. Wesley [Fofana] has been part training partly with the team and he will be stepping it up next week."
