🚨 BREAKING: Chelsea captain Millie Bright has retired from football with immediate effect after 12 years, 314 appearances and 20 trophies.

Bright will be staying on at the club as a trustee of the #CFC Foundation and starting a new role as a Chelsea ambassador.

🗣️ Bright: “Representing Chelsea over the last 12 years has been everything to me, but I'm now ready to say goodbye to playing football. I’ve given all I can, and I never wanted to fight for any other badge.

“It’s now time, and I'm ready to go into a new era. I’m always going to be Chelsea, but just in a different way.”

Chelsea will mark Bright’s retirement on May 16 at their final WSL game of the season against @ManchesterUnited.

🔗 Ben Jacobs

🚨 Chelsea are now looking at a list of around 7 or 8 names to take over permanently. One of those under consideration is Iraola.

After hiring and firing 4 permanent coaches in as many years, the club do not want to rush this decision.

(SJohnsonSport) #CFC

𝐁𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐊𝐈𝐍𝐆: The Football Association have handed Chelsea’s Mykhailo Mudryk a four-year ban (the maximum ban) for an anti-doping offence, which is now being appealed in Court Arbitration for Sport.

Mudryk has not played professional football since November 2024, shortly before he was contacted by the FA regarding an adverse finding in a routine urine test testing positive for meldonium. He was subsequently charged with a breach of the governing body’s anti-doping rules in June 2025.

🗣️ An official statement from CAS in Switzerland read:

“CAS confirms it has received an appeal by Mykhailo Mudryk against the FA, filed on 25 February 2026. The Parties are currently exchanging written submissions, and a hearing is yet to be scheduled.

CAS have also confirmed the Ukrainian is now appealing against the "imposed period of ineligibility of four years".

#CFC #Chelsea

Happy Birthday to Aaron Anselmino who turns 21 today 🍾🔵

Jorrel is our Player of the Month for April. 🇳🇱👏

Cole Palmer & his girlfriend in Paris 🇫🇷

🚨🔵 The Brazilian FA have all but ruled Estevão out of the World Cup.

(ESPNBrasil) #CFC

🚨 Mykhailo Mudryk will be 29 years old by the time he completes the ban imposed by the FA.

He was 22 years old when he joined Chelsea. 😢

🚨 Liam Delap wants to stay at Chelsea, and prove people wrong.

(kierangill_DM) #CFC

Trevoh Chalobah has started taking Spanish classes with language coach Sara Duque in order to better communicate with his team mates. #CFC (Saralduque on Instagram)

🚨🔵 Frank Lampard on Reece James:

"What an incredible player and incredible lad. I have been really pleased with how he's taken to the captaincy there as well because I feel like he's grown."

"He was always quite a quiet lad, Reece. He kept himself to himself, but when you did speak to him, he was very articulate."

(talkSPORT) #CFC

🚨🔵 Calum McFarlane's Nottingham Forest pre-match press conference is at 1.30pm (UK) tomorrow.

The game is Monday at 3pm (UK).

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#CFC

🚨 𝗕𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗚: Joao Pedro is @Barcelonaen's alternative if they are unable to sign Julian Alvarez.

However, Chelsea has made it clear they don't want to sell him.

— ESPNBrasil