Bournemouth sources say they’ll solely entertain negotiations for England’s latest worldwide Alex Scott after they’ve established themselves within the Premier League as soon as once more this season – including they don’t intend on promoting their star midfielder in January.
Chelsea bid for Scott not less than as soon as in the summertime, although contacts exterior of Stamford Bridge have claimed the Blues submitted three provides in whole value as much as £68million.
Bournemouth stood agency on their not-for-sale stance, and insiders on the Vitality Stadium say the identical angle applies in direction of promoting mid-season.
They add now will not be the time to barter with golf equipment, and that they’re focusing solely on profitable matches with Scott’s assist as they attempt to push up the Premier League desk.
Bournemouth are seventeenth after 5 video games, working underneath a brand new head coach in Marco Rose, and juggling Europe for the primary time. Whereas winless within the prime flight this time period, they gained 2-1 away at Actual Sociedad within the Europa League, and beat Championship Lincoln 4-0 within the Carabao Cup.
Bournemouth’s subsequent league recreation is away at Chelsea on Saturday, October 10.
Bournemouth sources insist they do not intend to promote star midfielder Alex Scott in January regardless of severe curiosity from Chelsea
Extremely-rated midfielder Scott gained his first England cap towards the Czech Republic on Tuesday
Scott is contracted till 2028. Bournemouth have tried to tie the 23-year-old all the way down to a brand new deal, opening talks earlier than the summer time to no success.
Scott’s former membership Bristol Metropolis shall be due a sell-on payment when he leaves, having bought him for £25m in 2023. He gained his first cap for his nation towards the Czech Republic on Tuesday.
In addition to Chelsea, a number of different golf equipment enquired about Scott in the summertime. That included Arsenal, Liverpool, Manchester United and Manchester Metropolis, whose present disaster may deter switch targets from becoming a member of, relying on what occurs subsequent of their case.
Whereas Bournemouth allowed Antoine Semenyo to affix Metropolis final January, that was through his launch clause value £65m. Chelsea tried to entice them into promoting Scott by displaying a willingness to prime that payment.
Bournemouth proved they’re prepared to stay to their not-for-sale coverage in the summertime, and so their insistence forward of this January will drive Chelsea into contemplating different choices in the event that they need to add to their midfield this winter. They held talks for Roma’s Manu Kone beforehand, and bid for Monaco’s Lamine Camara on deadline day.
CHELSEA SET UP SECRET FRIENDLY
Chelsea have organized a behind-closed-doors pleasant for this weekend towards Championship facet Portsmouth, Day by day Mail Sport can reveal.
Boss Xabi Alonso has proven a passion for secret fixtures. Two have been organized at Cobham towards League Two Crawley (a 3-1 win) and League One Bromley (a 3-0 win) in the summertime earlier than Chelsea launched into their pre-season tour of Australia and Asia.
The Portsmouth pleasant will assist sure gamers enhance their match health earlier than going through Bournemouth. That features Marco Palestra, Chelsea’s £47m summer time signing who’s but to make his aggressive debut after a quad harm however has been concerned in group coaching this week.
Chelsea are prone to attempt to restrict any particulars of their pleasant with Portsmouth from being leaked – together with who options – to keep away from serving to Bournemouth.
Chelsea will play a behind-closed-doors pleasant towards Portsmouth this weekend, to assist gamers like Marco Palestra (pictured) rise up to health
BBC PULL ENZO FROM MOTD INTRO
The BBC have scrubbed Enzo Fernandez from their Match of the Day opening credit – after beginning this season with their montage together with him in a Chelsea shirt.
Now, he’s nowhere to be seen within the intro, along with his transient cameo changed by footage of one other ex-Chelsea participant in Kiernan Dewsbury-Corridor of Everton.
NINE DAYS OFF… BUT MORE FOR SOME
Chelsea allowed their non-internationals 9 days off initially of this worldwide break, and so they have now returned to group coaching, however some gamers are nonetheless following particular person plans.
The membership ready programmes tailor-made to every participant’s circumstances, considering a spread of efficiency and medical concerns.
Cole Palmer, for instance, was given an injury-specific coaching and restoration plan. Him travelling overseas on vacation met these parameters and was signed off by the membership as he was accompanied by a private rehab coach.
The PFA chief government Maheta Molango defended Palmer this week, saying he’s ‘sufferer’ of a ‘sick’ system after he withdrew from England responsibility.
Molango stated: ‘You see individuals like Cole Palmer, somebody who would have performed 4 consecutive summers in a row had he gone to the World Cup, and also you surprise why is he lacking? He’s lacking as a result of he is a sufferer of the calendar and that is one thing that should completely set off the alarm bells.
‘What we have seen over the previous couple of years is a system that is sick.’
PFA chief government Maheta Molango has defended Cole Palmer’s withdrawal from England responsibility, saying he’s the ‘sufferer of a ‘sick’ system that’s burning out prime gamers
AI VIDEOS CONCERNING CLUBS
Morgan Rogers and Declan Rice have been squaring as much as each other within the Arsenal altering room.
Rogers: ‘Journey me up once more, I dare you.’ Rice: ‘You mad London is pink?’ Rogers punches Rice.
Martin Odegaard barges in. Odegaard: ‘You joined the unsuitable membership, Morgan. You’ll reside to remorse this error.’ Odegaard punches Rogers.
Emiliano Martinez barges in. Martinez: ‘Rogers, I’ll prevent.’ Odegaard: ‘You don’t know the definition of the phrase “save”.’ Martinez punches Odegaard.
And on it goes. Clearly, none of it occurred. It was AI slop. Simply the newest deepfake created utilizing Chelsea gamers. Fortunately, these movies are normally so outlandish that we instantly recognise they’re pretend. In any case, who’s going to imagine Alonso went round his altering room punching his defenders one after the other as punishment for conceding so many targets?
Nevertheless, a few of these AI-generated movies can look life like, and they’re an ongoing concern inside golf equipment.
One Chelsea supply described this new development as ‘uncontrolled’ when requested, and conceded they’re restricted in what they’ll do to stop them, it being a problem to cease Joe Bloggs from importing this slop from his mum’s spare bed room.
When Fernandez was caught on digital camera in 2024 singing a track which the French soccer federation described as ‘racist and discriminatory’, it took time for Chelsea to reply formally. One motive for the delay was they needed to confirm the video was actual.
Morgan Rogers sees the humorous facet in deepfake movies of him confronting Declan Rice – however Chelsea sources concern the development is ‘uncontrolled’
Chelsea have social media monitoring, however that’s extra centered in direction of abuse. The AI deepfake involving Rogers was shared on X, TikTok and the like, after which inside the Chelsea altering room. The gamers noticed it, Rogers included.
The £117m signing selected to see the humorous facet after we requested him. In dialog with Confidential whereas on England responsibility, Rogers instructed us: ‘AI’s going to the following degree now. Something you do now can find yourself in something. If it’s something to do with me, I simply giggle about it.’
We did remind him that it confirmed him punching Rice. ‘Did I win?’ Suppose so. ‘It’s about proper, then!’
Palmer doesn’t discover it fairly as humorous, having signed as much as a marketing campaign known as My Identify, My Face, created by regulation agency Mills & Reeve. They’re asking the federal government to implement a devoted character rights regulation which supplies applicable safety towards unauthorised and exploitative makes use of of names, likenesses, voices and different parts of private identities.
