Turf Moor trip kicks off decisive set of fixtures for inconsistent Chelsea
Straight Outta Cobham: The Athletic FC's Chelsea show
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🗓️ 19 November 2025
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
No more international breaks until March!? Hallelujah!
Matt Davies-Adams has got Cerys Jones and Luke Bosher along for the ride as we relish the return of the Premier League - and Saturday's long trip to Turf Moor to take on Burnley.
We've got a round up of the international Blues in action - before pondering how that will impact upon Enzo Maresca's ever-unpredictable team selection, why this could be a big opportunity for Liam Delap to kickstart his season - and whether Cole Palmer should be risked with Barca and Arsenal on the horizon?!
CFCW suffered disappointment at the weekend, held to a 1-1 draw by bottom of the table Liverpool to see them fall three points behind Man City at the top of the WSL table. Can they use that as fuel when they face old foes Barcelona in the Champions League on Thursday night?
We'll be back on Monday to round up events in Lancashire - and look ahead to the visit of Spanish champions Barcelona in the Champions League on Tuesday!
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HOST: Matt Davies-Adams
WITH: Luke Bosher and Cerys Jones
PRODUCER: Lucy Oliva
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic FC. |
| 0:03.1 | It's Chelsea, Chelsea, Chelsea, Chelsea, Chelsea. |
| 0:15.2 | It's straight out to Cobham, a show about Chelsea FC from the Athletic. |
| 0:18.8 | Today, rounding up and then saying Sayonara to the internationals, |
| 0:22.4 | previewing the annual four-goal salvo at Turf Moore, |
| 0:25.5 | plus more blues, news, clues and stuff to muse. |
| 0:28.4 | Available for free, wherever you get your podcasts, |
| 0:30.3 | and via the athletic app, this is straight out of Cobham. |
| 0:35.8 | And that's that, then, the final break of 20, 25 done and dusted. |
| 0:41.5 | All eyes on the domestic game then between now and March. |
| 0:45.8 | And it is a big couple of months coming up for Chelsea Football Club. |
| 0:49.5 | We're going to discuss the weekend's action and maybe go a little bit further as well. It's me and Matt, and I'm in the company today of Luke Bois. How are you? Very well, thanks, Matt. How are you? Yeah, I'm all right. Thanks. Kerris Jones is back with this to you. Okay, Kerris? Not bad. I mean, I've got to say, I feel like I'm really bringing the average age of the side up today, which makes me toasting. I'm okay with that, though. Useful, if unspectacular, squad member. I'd go more like Tiago Silver a couple of years ago, Matt. Oh, that's really... I think you need to give yourself more credit. All right. I appreciate that. So, yeah, way past my best, but can still influence things in small doses. I think that's |
| 1:28.5 | about right. Before we do premature adjudications, I just noticed a message that came to us on X, |
| 1:34.3 | which was formerly known as Twitter. As you know, Luke, it comes from Kesman 9. He says, |
| 1:38.5 | one realistic January signing, question mark. And it made me think about this news of Antoine |
| 1:43.0 | Semenio, potentially being available in January. luke would you take him at chelsea for 65 million |
| 1:48.3 | quid so that's a tough one because he's obviously a fantastic player ticks a lot of boxes |
| 1:54.0 | in terms of his kind of age profile just about for chelsea great off both feet very versatile |
| 1:59.9 | is quite direct which which we know Mariska |
| 2:02.5 | likes for his wingers. However, I would suggest I'd put to you, Matt, that there is somewhat of |
| 2:07.3 | a logjam in Chelsea's wide areas right now, so it may not be the most prudent use of funds, |
| 2:14.2 | as difficult as it would be to sort of see Semenio, in theory, go to a sort of top |
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