🗣️ Calum McFarlane ahead of Leeds United in the Emirates FA Cup semi-final:

🏥 𝐎𝐧 𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐦 𝐧𝐞𝐰𝐬:

“Estevao unfortunately won’t play for us this season. He will be out for a little bit of time.

“We’re not sure how long he will be out for but he certainly won’t play for us again this season, unfortunately.

“That’s really unfortunate for him, especially for someone so young and talented as he is but we are here to support him and be around him.

“With Joao [Pedro] and Cole [Palmer], they both trained today and are in a good place. We don’t know yet [whether they can feature on Sunday], but we have another day tomorrow to have a look at them and then make a call on them.

“But we hope so [they can be involved], but it’s important we give them time. We are going to train tomorrow, they will both be involved and we will make a call on them after that session.”

🧠 𝐎𝐧 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞’𝐬 𝐛𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐚 𝐦𝐞𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐚𝐝𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐛𝐥𝐞𝐦𝐬:

“We haven’t had a clear-the-air meeting. We are getting the group focused for Sunday, spoken about the game plan and how we’re going to approach the game both in and out of possession.

“It’s really important that we have a real focus for the game on Sunday. You can’t be thinking about anything else. What’s gone on in the past doesn’t need to be spoken about. It’s just everything geared towards Sunday.

“We need to make sure we’re right in every area for the game. We’re playing a really good side and we need to do our best to be there.”

🤔 𝐎𝐧 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐌𝐜𝐅𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐞 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐜𝐨𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐭 𝐖𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐥𝐞𝐲:

“I haven’t coached at Wembley. I’ve been to Wembley. I was at Southampton when we got to the play-off final. That was probably the most recent time I was there.

“Everyone’s excited. The whole group, the whole club. It’s a massive game, a great opportunity to get to an FA Cup final. It’s why you do the job you do. We’re all really excited and looking forward to the game.

“Leeds vs Chelsea is always a big game. There’s a rivalry there for various reasons.”

(Via chelseafc & bobbyvincentfl - Football London)

#CFC

🚨💙 Frank Lampard on Chelsea job: “Chelsea is a big part of my life and at the moment that’s their business and my business is here”.

“I’d like to think Coventry fans would just be enjoying where we are, the world of management, lots are out of control, you just control your work”.

“At the minute I think we should just enjoy where we are, we’ve had an amazing season and I am really proud and pleased to be part of it, I enjoy what I’m doing here, I can’t control who worries or not”.

🔗 Fabrizio Romano

🚨🤕 Estêvão will travel to Brazil soon and has agreed with Chelsea that he will begin conservative treatment for his serious right thigh injury in his home country in an attempt to qualify for the World Cup.

No surgery! ❌️

(diogodantas) #CFC

🚨📲 Reece James on Instagram;

"Thank you mister"

🚨 Chelsea have made a contract offer to Khadija “Bunny” Shaw worth at least £1million per year with her @Manchester_City deal set to expire this summer. Shaw is still leaning towards remaining with City.

(megan_feringa, charlotteharpur & reallycerys) #CFCW

🚨⚠️ Some of Clearlake's largest investors are growing increasingly concerned about how much time the company’s co-founders are spending on sports investments as they’ve struggled to complete the fundraising for the private equity firm’s latest flagship fund.

(business) #CFC

1-0 SAINTS!!!!!!!