Chelsea start their Premier League season away against Everton on Saturday and the Toffees have already been handed a big blow ahead of the fixture.
Thomas Tuchel's squad has seen plenty of changes ahead of the 2022/23 campaign after Andreas Christensen and Antonio Rudiger left on permanent deals, whilst Romelu Lukaku has returned to Inter Milan on-loan. Raheem Sterling and Kalidou Koulibaly have both joined the club, whilst new signing Gabriel Slonina will head back to Chicago Fire on-loan until January.
football.london understands the west London outfit have agreed a £20million deal to sign Carney Chukwuemeka from Aston Villa and have opened direct talks with Barcelona to sign Frenkie de Jong as Tuchel looks to add more creativity to his squad. A trip to Goodison Park is never an easy fixture and the Blues will be hoping that an injury to Everton's star striker will see them get off to a good start this weekend.
