Chelsea boss Enzo Maresca will look to trim his squad in the January transfer window with five players potentially moving on from Stamford Bridge. Maresca was firm in his desire to offload players who did not fit into his plans at the start of the 2024/25 season with former captain Conor Gallagher joining Atletico Madrid.

Chelsea boss Enzo Maresca is reportedly set to welcome £16million signing Aaron Anselmino into his first-team squad this week after recalling the teenage talent from his loan at Boca Juniors.

January will test Chelsea’s progress. Maresca doesn’t need any new signings at this moment in time. There might come a point at which the Italian wants certain areas of his squad strengthened or remoulded, but right now Chelsea must get players off its books rather than add new ones. Chelsea must resist the temptation to spend more.

Chelsea have now gone two consecutive Premier League games without a win for the first time since October, when they were held to a 1-1 draw against Nottingham Forest before falling to a 2-1 defeat

Competition will only increase at the end of the season, when Chelsea prepare to welcome two prodigious teenagers. Estevao Willian and Kendry Paez - both 17 - are still pulling up trees in South America and they could make a push to go straight into Maresca's starting XI in 2025/26.

The January transfer window swings wide open in ten days, and Enzo Maresca is expecting his door to be doing the same, with the likes of Ben Chilwell and Carney Chukwuemeka standing on the other side, asking to leave.

It has been a fortnight of vindication for Enzo Maresca, though one he would rather have swerved. Across three Premier League matches either side of Christmas, his young Chelsea side have at last provided some evidence for his long-held theory that this is at least one season too early to talk of the title as a realistic aim.

Ipswich striker Liam Delay has been linked with a move to Chelsea, with Enzo Maresca a fan of the former Man City man