One of games best reveals why he joined Chelsea, Blues welcome new arrival, Boss makes transfer statement

Here is a roundup of the top Chelsea news, gossip and transfer speculation from icchelseanews that we think you may have missed featuring Aaron Anselmino, Ashley Cole and Marc Guehi…

Oliver Glasner expects Marc Guehi to stay at Crystal Palace this month, amid all the speculation suggesting that CHELSEA could make an offer ove rthe next few weeks.

Enzo Maresca has done a wonderful job at Chelsea so far this season and the Blues are now in the race to challenge for that Premier League title, but that hasnt stopped all the speculation about the players that the Blues could look to sign.

Guehi has been brilliant for Crystal Palace over the past few seasons, his stock in the game has really risen and he is now rated as one of the best central defenders in the Premier League and a player that Chelsea have been linked with signing, for a fee of £60 million.

But it remains to be seen whether Palace receive any fresh approaches for him this month, as Glasner expects Marc Guehi to stay at at Palace – Asked whether he expects to keep Guehi past deadline day, Glasner responded: “I think so. No player from our squad came to me and said [they] want to leave. No one.

“No one that played all the games, all the minutes, like Marc, and no one from the players who didn’t play so many minutes. This is the most relevant part: what the player tells me.

”The Austrian added: “If one is coming and says they want to leave and both clubs find an agreement, I think it will happen. But as long as a player doesn’t come — and Marc didn’t come — I am really not concerned he will leave.

“January 31 is a long time [away], and I know I will have to answer this question several times. You will hear the same answer again.”

COLE REVEALS CHELSEA DECISION

Ashley Cole says being ‘disrespected’ and ‘shafted’ by Arsenal during contract negotiations and that is why he made the decision to move across London and join bitter rivals CHELSEA.

After coming through Arsenal’s academy, Cole made over 200 first-team appearances for his boyhood club, lifting two Premier League trophies and three FA Cups.

After his acrimonious departure from Arsenal, Cole went on to enjoy even more success at Stamford Bridge, helping the club win another Premier League trophy, four more FA Cups, the Europa League and the Champions League

Arsenal wanted Cole to extend his stay at the club but the defender says he was ‘shafted’ after being offered a less lucrative contract than he was ‘promised’, and he has admitted that he felt ‘disrespected’ by the Gunners and as a result joined the club on a contract worth more than £100,000-a-week.

‘My situation was I knew what I was worth,’ Cole said on That Peter Crouch Podcast. ‘If you don’t want to pay it, no problem.

‘But we did agree to pay it. Everything was agreed and then they pulled the rug [from] under me. They broke their promise – I couldn’t tell you why.

‘It was hard [to leave]. People [don’t] understand the pressure that I was under to leave or to stay.

‘Ultimately I felt disrespected, this is my point of view, I felt disrespected.

‘It is what it is, but sometimes when I speak to fans [and they say], “You left, you hurt me”, I’m like, “Hold up”. People don’t realise that I was the one who got hurt the most.

‘That was my boyhood club, I’d been living the dream. But I got shafted. ‘It wasn’t that I felt I wasn’t getting looked after because I was a young player. I didn’t ask for [Thierry] Henry’s or [Patrick] Vieira’s [wages]. I didn’t want that.

‘I was nothing to do with them. I just knew what I was worth and they broke their promise. I look back and I was bitter. In my head I was going, “You put me through some s***”. And they just went like, “Ash, you deal with it, and it’s nothing to do with us.”

‘I think [former Arsenal vice-chairman] David Dein came out and mentioned something recently. But it took him like 20 years.

‘For 20 years I got abused. But I don’t blame the fans. I understand their frustration. They didn’t know the full facts, they didn’t know the truth.’

CHELSEA WELCOME ANSELMINO

CHELSEA have officially confirmed that young defender Aaron Anselmino has been recalled from his loan spell at Boca Juniors, and he will now link up with his new team-mates next week.

Anselmino was being touted as a potential superstar after his maiden season as a senior professional at Boca Juniors. His performance in the 2023-24 campaign grabbed the attention of Chelsea recruiters, who wasted no time in sealing a transfer for the young defender for just £17 million ($22m) in the summer.

CHELSEA posted on the club website: ‘The Argentine defender joined the Blues from Boca in August, penning a long-term deal, before heading back to La Bombonera on loan to continue his development.

‘Aaron made 18 appearances for Boca across all competitions during his loan spell and became a regular in the backline.

‘Welcome back to Chelsea, Aaron!’

Anselmino certainly wasn’t expecting the call, admitting that he hadn’t seen it coming when he spoke to ESPN in the airport.

“I always felt the love of the fans with me. This year I had to get injured often (four times). God willing that I come back one day. It’s my home and it’s a crazy thing that can’t be seen anywhere,” he said.

“Everything happened to me quickly, very suddenly. I was in the National Team and I didn’t know if I had to travel or stay. They told me that they wanted to have me in their ranks.

“I spoke with Román (Riquelme-Boca president) on the day of the sale. He called me on the phone and congratulated me. He is a person that I respect and admire a lot,

“(I’m) happy for this new opportunity. It is something dreamed of for anyone. I am very excited.”

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