This is Joe Cole, and you're listening to The London Is Blue Podcast.

Alright, Chelsea Fiends, welcome back to another episode of The London Is Blue Podcast.

We got carbon crew today, Phil, joining us at Chelsea Youth. How are you doing, sir?

I'm good, thank you very much. It's been an interesting few weeks, shall we say.

But Academy Football is back, not just preseason proper competitive,

PL2 and under 18 football.

We've got a lot to talk about across everything happening on the pitch and off the pitch.

Yeah.

Which one come to anybody's surprise?

Yeah, that was such a measured. I'm good. I need to be, I need to guard what I say,

make sure it's measured. It's an interesting time for the Academy, both chaotic but also exciting.

Like you said, they're the actual seasons kicked off.

We have results to talk about what we will, but there's no hiding.

The understandable frustrations on your side is, you know, with that as well.

So let's just kick it off. Louis Hall unveiled as a Newcastle loanee.

There's an obligation to buy. So while I tweeted, yes, I'm glad it wasn't the sales only alone.

Everyone was quick to point out, well, there's an obligation to buy.

And I just reminded you all, I'll deal with those emotions in a year.

For now, I'm going to pretend.

But weird saga, Crystal Palace loan, before that, signed a six plus one extension.

And then I know where Newcastle come crashing in.

Apparently they weren't carbon on the left, carbon on the right.

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