Transfer season is closing in, and Matt Law was on the London is Blue podcast today talking about Chelsea’s transfer plans.
He confirmed rumours from earlier in the week that the Blues were going to focus on their midfield in the windows ahead, having missed Dario Essugo and Romeo Lavia all season injured.
Chelsea to focus on midfield improvements after depth disaster
Romeo Lavia sits on the turf after picking up an injury against Qarabag.
Romeo Lavia sits on the turf after picking up an injury against Qarabag.
“It was said to me, ‘if you keep having to play right backs in midfield, you clearly need another midfielder.’ A lot of the analysis and a lot of the homework is going into the midfield at the moment, I think it’s more of a summer thing. It’s going to be focused around the midfield,” Law said.
“I wonder whether Essugo, because he’s had such a false start to life in English football, I wonder whether they now think next season he’s going to need a loan or something, having gone through what he’s gone through and such a lack of minutes.”
“I think with Lavia they’ve going to have to plan for the fact that Lavia you can’t count on his availability.”
That’s putting it mildly. After the run he’s had, we’d suspect their thinking has gone far beyond that to the stage. They surely have reached the point where they ignore him in their squad planning entirely and consider him a lost cause to some degree.
You can see their discussion in the clip embedded here:
♻️ @Matt_Law_DT: As it was said to me, if you're having to keep playing right backs in midfield, you clearly need another midfielder. There's a lot of the analysis and a lot of the homework is going into the midfield at the moment.
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— London Is Blue Podcast ⭐️⭐️ (@LondonBluePod) December 23, 2025
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