Si Phillips Talks Chelsea

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  EXCL: Fernandez saga LATEST, Zubimendi a replacement? Fresh Wharton meeting? Alex Scott still ON!? Acheampong to Coventry? Outgoing missions, More!! 17.08.2026 24min

  Morning all,Let’s run through all the latest Chelsea transfer news then!* Enzo Fernandez saga over? People need to wind their necks in and love the club more than players.* Replacements? One to watch? Martin Zubimendi? Same agent as Xabi Alonso, not going to be playing at Arsenal, Xabi looking for a tempo setter.* Meetings with Crystal Palace on Saturday evening - Wharton discussed again? More positivity on it.* Alex Scott very much still on the cards, Chelsea wanted to operate in silence.* Outgoings this week will once again ramp up, couple big ones? Delap to Forest one to watch. Jackson destined to go. Where is Marc Guiu?!* Pedro Neto to Saudi?* Then what else will be done in the remaining weeks of the window? Versatile attacker to replace Neto? CM, CB? ST?* Rob Pratley ducking out and a word on the abuse. End it.Thanks for tuning in!Si This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit sptc.news/subscribe
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  EXCL: Alex Scott to Chelsea new info 👀 Enzo Fernandez latest, Tosin to Benfica? Tomas Araujo interest, Arsenal looking at Pedro Neto? So much to do in 23 days, PL back SOON!! More... 10.08.2026 17min

  Morning all,Let’s go through the very latest Chelsea insider transfer news then!* Enzo Fernandez latest* Alex Scott still on the cards?* Tosin to Benfica? Chelsea interest in Tomas Araujo?* Arsenal showing some interest in Pedro Neto?* So much to do in 23 days - massive squad needs trimming* Back to Cobham this week, Real Sociedad at The Bridge on Saturday, then it’s down to business with Fulham on the 24thQuick-ish one today because it’s still so quiet. Outgoings needed.Simon Phillips This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit sptc.news/subscribe
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  EXCL: Chelsea make checks on Scalvini, Plans for Barco & the midfield, Outgoing moves now priority, Disasi to West Ham? Plans for Mudryk, Crossroads at transfer window, More!! 03.08.2026 26min

  Morning all,Loads going on and to speak on, lets crack through it…* Valentin Barco arrives - plans for him and the midfield* Outgoing moves priority now* Checks on Scalvini* Axel Disasi to West Ham?* Assessing players now - Mudryk?* Importance of good end to the window - as a crossroads now* Chelsea games this week - a football festival!?Simon Phillips This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit sptc.news/subscribe
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  EXCL: New GK possible? Diogo Costa? Positive John Stones talks, Pep Chavarria pushing for Chelsea, Rodri/Gusto/Enzo/Bruno G dominoes, Plus plenty of discussion topics! 27.07.2026 26min

  Morning all,Welcome to the latest SPTC Podcast!Covering…* Florian vs Romano - what we need to remember here* Chelsea playing tomorrow! Western Sydney Wanderers at 10.45am * Better feeling now around Chelsea? Morgan Rogers, Maxence Lacroix, Marco Palestra* Alonso yet to decide on number one and issues that may bring. Diogo Costa on the cards?* Pep Chavarria doing all he can to force a move, Chelsea calm* Man City hovering for both Enzo and Gusto - domino effect of Rodri going. Bruno G involved? Enzo to Arsenal* Positive John Stones talks and what a huge signing he would be* End the summer strong with some big outgoings now but striker position still a concern for me..* Seeing the show out!Simon Phillips This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit sptc.news/subscribe
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  EXCLUSIVE Chelsea transfer info on Maxence Lacroix, Lewis Hall, Maxi Araujo, Morgan Rogers, Alex Scott, Adam Wharton, Manu Kone, Pep Chavarria, Enzo Fernandez, More!!!! 20.07.2026 23min

  Morning all,Time to round up all your latest exclusive sourced insider Chelsea transfer news!!Join me for a quick update show 👀Si Phillips This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit sptc.news/subscribe
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  EXCLUSIVE! Latest Transfer News on Pep Chavarria, Adam Wharton, Trevoh Chalobah, Maxence Lacroix, Andrey Santos, Alex Scott, Emmanuel Emegha, Liam Delap, & More.... 13.07.2026 25min

  Morning all,Rounding up all your latest Chelsea transfer news on:* Pep Chavarria to Chelsea deal. Alternative name being explored?* New Adam Wharton whispers - my response!* Trevoh Chalobah future - Inter off? Como on?* Andrey Santos latest & Alex Scott news* Emmanuel Emegha and striker news* My short tribute to Ken Bates!* Reacting to the fallout of Thomas Tuchel & Jude Bellingham comments* Much more!Please like and sub on YouTube! :)Thanks for tuning in!Simon Phillips This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit sptc.news/subscribe
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  SPTC Podcast: Andrey Santos to United, Chelsea set to step up Alex Scott attempts - Enzo AND Santos replacement? Alonso is here!! Jesse Derry move, Quenda plans, Ahead to England, More.... 09.07.2026 28min

  Afternoon all,Time to round up all your latest Chelsea news today and deliver my exclusive insider transfer updates.I cover:* Xabi Alonso is here!* Andrey Santos (not Romeo Lavia) out* Alex Scott in? But who is he replacing!? * Good move for Jess Derry* Alonso to assess Geovany Quenda* England vs Norway this weekend* More!!Peace, Si. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit sptc.news/subscribe
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  SPTC Podcast - Quick Transfer Updates! 02.07.2026 25min

  Plus, comment on Marco Palestra being called ‘ready-made’, and reviewing England under Thomas Tuchel!Channels:YouTube: SiPhillipsTalksChelseaX: SiPhillipsSportIG: siphillipstalkschelseaWebsite: sptc.newsThanks for tuning in!Si This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit sptc.news/subscribe
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  SPTC Podcast: Chelsea transfer activity HEATING UP! Exclusive news on Wharton, Rogers, Lacroix, Ramon, Araujo, Neto, Disasi, Acheampong, Chalobah, & more.... 25.06.2026 29min

  Afternoon all,As the weather in Europe heats up to a ridiculous level, Chelsea’s transfer activity follows suit.A full show on the latest insider transfer news from our sources.Enjoy!Si&Jai This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit sptc.news/subscribe
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  SPTC Podcast: New Left Back incoming? Midfield rebuild? Replacing Enzo and another? Transfer news on Wharton, Bergvall, Carreras, Valdepenas, Lacroix, Gusto, & more... 18.06.2026 41min

  Afternoon all,Time to go through all your latest Chelsea summer transfer news and MUCH more! Got some World Cup chatter in this too.Enjoy!Si&Jai This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit sptc.news/subscribe
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  SPTC Podcast: Transfer updates on Marcus Rashford, Ethan Nwaneri, Morgan Rogers, Marc Cucurella, & Enzo Fernandez..... 11.06.2026 43min

  Afternoon all,We finally got back on the Pod together today for some transfer updates and Chelsea discussion! It’s quiet, but we still managed a good show around 45 mins long. Enjoy!Si&Jai This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit sptc.news/subscribe
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  SPTC Podcast! Fresh Xabi Alonso to Chelsea news! Summer Transfer Plans! FA Cup Final Preview! 14.05.2026 21min

  Afternoon!Time for some updates on Xabi Alonso to Chelsea, summer transfer plans, and an FA Cup preview!Solo Podcast today with no Jai. Enjoy!Simon Phillips This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit sptc.news/subscribe
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  SPTC Podcast: Chelsea Reporter Lloyd Canfield joins the show! 06.05.2026 42min

  Welcome, and if you were hoping for a week in which Chelsea Football Club might offer its supporters something resembling encouragement, I am afraid you have come to the wrong place. Joining me today is Lloyd Canfield, Chelsea reporter for The Sun, a man whose professional obligation it is to watch this club at close quarters and report back with a straight face, which in the current climate must require a fortitude bordering on the heroic. Together we shall be picking through the bones of yet another dispiriting chapter in what is becoming an exhaustingly long novel of institutional underperformance.The defeat to Nottingham Forest was, to put it with characteristic restraint, abysmal. Not merely a loss but the kind of performance that leaves you questioning whether the players on the pitch share any common understanding of what they are supposed to be doing out there. We dissect where it went wrong, which frankly does not take long because the answer is more or less everywhere, and we examine the latest managerial rumours that continue to swirl around Stamford Bridge like fog around a lighthouse. There is also a touch of transfer talk, because Chelsea’s appetite for squad upheaval shows no sign of diminishing regardless of who happens to be sitting in the dugout.Finally, and with a degree of trepidation that borders on dread, we look ahead to Chelsea’s trip to Anfield to face Liverpool. Neither Lloyd nor I, it must be said, are approaching this fixture with anything one might generously describe as confidence, and we shall explain precisely why. If you enjoy the sound of two men trying to locate reasons for optimism and finding the cupboard almost entirely bare, then this is very much the episode for you.Jai This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit sptc.news/subscribe
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  SPTC Podcast: Leeds fan Jack Durkin joins Jai Mcintosh to preview the FA Cup Semi Final! 24.04.2026 42min

  Welcome, welcome. There are occasions in football when a fixture transcends the merely sporting and assumes the character of a small moral drama, and I rather think this weekend’s FA Cup semi-final between Chelsea and Leeds United qualifies handsomely. To discuss it with me today is Jack Durkin, a Leeds supporter and football presenter who, I suspect, will require very little encouragement to explain why his side are arriving at this contest not as plucky underdogs but as the altogether more serious and purposeful outfit. The rivalry between these two clubs has never wanted for intensity, but there is something particularly delicious about the present configuration of forces.For Chelsea, one hardly knows where to begin cataloguing the dysfunction. Liam Rosenior has been sacked, which is to say the club has continued its now almost compulsive habit of discarding managers the way a careless child discards toys on Christmas afternoon. The supporters, those long-suffering souls who once had Stamford Bridge as a fortress, find themselves increasingly disenfranchised from a project that appears to lack both direction and conviction. Six consecutive cup final defeats tells you rather a lot, and none of what it tells you is flattering. One loss might be misfortune; six begins to look like institutional rot.Leeds, by contrast, arrive with something Chelsea conspicuously lack: momentum and a sense of collective purpose. Having all but secured their Premier League survival, they are liberated from anxiety and playing with the freedom that comes from having nothing left to lose and everything to gain. A place in the FA Cup Final, the first since the 1972/73 season, beckons like a long-promised homecoming. Jack and I will be picking through all of this, so do stay with us.Jai This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit sptc.news/subscribe
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  SPTC Podcast: A Phillips Family Takeover!! 20.04.2026 47min

  This is something I’ve always wanted to do, get my Chelsea supporting Dad onto a Podcast alongside my Chelsea supporting cousin! It’s taken over five years, but here we are, we’ve finally done it!I wish it was under happier times as a Chelsea fan, but this might be the little bit of a pick me up you needed today. Or maybe not! Either way, I got my old man on, with him being the reason I started supporting the club at age 5. And my cousin Brad has been supporting Chelsea since a young age too, that was pretty much forced on him by us! So it was me, my Dad, and my cousin/best mate! I really enjoyed it, hope you guys too as we dissect and discuss all things Chelsea right now and review the Manchester United game! Much more too!It’s also my Dad’s birthday so Happy Birthday once again legend!!Si, Mike, & Brad This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit sptc.news/subscribe
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  No clue what I’m doing with this.. 12.04.2026 23min

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  SOURCES! Transfer Special Podcast - Insider news & debate on Van Hecke, Murillo, Wharton, Onana, Tonali, Baleba, Nunez, Woltemade & MORE! 09.04.2026 39min

  This week I am joined by Simon as we focus almost entirely on the transfer market, that perennial theatre of optimism where intent is often mistaken for strategy. Chelsea, we are told, are now prioritising the acquisition of so called Premier League proven players, a phrase that carries with it both reassurance and a faint sense of retreat.We examined a number of names currently circulating with varying degrees of credibility. Murillo of Nottingham Forest offers physical presence and composure, Van Hecke of Brighton a more measured and technical profile, while Aston Villa’s Onana represents a different kind of midfield authority altogether. Newcastle’s Woltemade adds further intrigue, and Darwin Núñez, formerly of Liverpool, remains a figure of fascination, equal parts chaos and potential. Whether this collection of targets reflects a coherent plan or simply a change in tone is open to debate.Attention then shifted to the less glamorous but arguably more important matter of outgoings. Selling well has long been an afterthought at Chelsea and yet this summer it may prove decisive. The development pathway for players such as Josh Acheampong also demands careful handling, with the right loan move potentially shaping not just his future, but the credibility of the club’s wider approach to youth.We closed, somewhat cautiously, by looking ahead to the visit of Manchester City. Confidence is in short supply and not without reason. Chelsea may compete, they may even resist, but certainty remains elusive against a side so accustomed to imposing its will.Jai&Si This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit sptc.news/subscribe
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  SPTC Podcast: Order, Ownership, and the Cost of Uncertainty 27.03.2026 57min

  This week on the SPTC Podcast, I was joined once again by friend of the show Jason Young for a conversation that began, almost inevitably, with Tottenham Hotspur, a club currently engaged in what can only be described as a slow and rather public unravelling. Spurs’ decline, once subtle enough to ignore, now presents itself with such regularity that it demands examination, if only as a cautionary tale of how quickly promise can curdle into disappointment.From there, we turned to the return of Nicolas Jackson, a reappearance that raises as many questions as it answers, not least about Chelsea’s attacking coherence and the curious standards by which modern forwards are judged. His presence, welcome though it may be, does little to disguise the broader inconsistencies that have come to define this side.Our discussion widened, as these things tend to do, into the state of the contemporary Premier League itself, a competition increasingly defined by spectacle, finance and narrative, sometimes at the expense of clarity or even quality. Whether this represents progress or merely inflation of a different sort is, as ever, open to debate.We also took time to reflect on Cesc Fàbregas, a figure who, even in retrospective consideration, seems to embody a kind of footballing intelligence that feels increasingly rare. In an era obsessed with systems and athleticism, his subtlety serves as a reminder that the game once made space for something more cerebral.In short, a conversation that ranged from the specific to the philosophical, united by a familiar theme that football, for all its noise and novelty, still finds ways to repeat its oldest lessons, often at the expense of those least prepared to learn them.Jai This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit sptc.news/subscribe
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  SPTC Podcast: Chaos at the Club, Enzo to Real Madrid, Tough Trip to the Toffees! 19.03.2026 40min

  Today, we undertook a fairly waffly meandering examination the stewardship of the club under its present ownership: a project long on grand declarations but, increasingly, short on coherence.The spotlight fell, perhaps inevitably, on the sporting directors, those entrusted with shaping the club’s future, yet whose decisions have begun to resemble a catalogue of expensive miscalculations. This, in turn, has manifested on the pitch, where Chelsea’s limp showings against both PSG and Newcastle suggested a team not merely outplayed, but uncertain of its own identity.We then turned to the rumoured overtures from Real Madrid for Enzo Fernández, a reminder that when the most decorated club in European football comes calling, resistance often proves theoretical rather than practical. If a player wishes to depart for Madrid, one is left with little more than resignation and the faint hope that succession planning exists somewhere behind the scenes.Looking ahead, we previewed the forthcoming encounter with Everton, a fixture that, in more stable times, might invite confidence, but now provokes something closer to unease. Optimism, it seems, must be earned, and Chelsea have lately been poor creditors.Finally, we addressed a more parochial but no less important matter: the tone of discourse within our own community. A handful of rather ungenerous contributions on the Substack live chat prompted a reminder that disagreement need not descend into hostility. This is a wonderful space away from traditional social media, healthy debate is the aim please guys. Have a wonderful rest of the week and weekend! This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit sptc.news/subscribe
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  Sources on Chelsea being a selling club, Burnley lookback, Liam Rosenior so far, Why is John Terry being overlooked? Arsenal next, Shoutouts to the community..... 26.02.2026 20min

  Afternoon all,I smashed out a solo podcast today covering all things below… Jai will be on with a guest tomorrow. Two Pods this week!* Burnley game reviewWorst performance under Liam so far.* Liam Rosenior so far?* Are Chelsea a selling club?Sourced info! * What’s wrong with John Terry?John Terry on being snubbed for the caretaker role: “Not annoyed, probably more frustrated because I was certainly part of that 21s group that went over.So even if I didn’t take the team… Calum took the team, did really well, got a result out the game. I feel like I should have been part of that.Now listen, people have got to make decisions. I love it when people make decisions and they go ‘yes’ or ‘no’. Clearly the ownership or whoever made those decisions, the sporting directors, have gone ‘no’ not to include me for whatever reason, I don’t know why.”* Arsenal at the weekend and Villa after?My predictions!* Shout out to everyone who stays here!And not just those who come and go in transfer windows!Thanks for tuning in and big up my pops for our new shower!!Simon Phillips This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit sptc.news/subscribe