Celtic could be set to strengthen significantly for next season with moves for Liverpool midfielder Lucas Leiva and Chelsea starlet Charly Musonda. Brendan Rodgers is forging ahead with key improvements in order for his squad to make Champions League ...

WHEN Chelsea were 3-0 down to Arsenal at the start of the season it looked like it was going to be a: 'Ouch, this is going to be a long season at Stamford Bridge.

He said: "One of the stories of the season has been David Luiz's return to Chelsea. He has well and truly bought into Conte's plan.

PREMIER LEAGUE champions Chelsea have entered the race to lure England midfielder Ross Barkley away from Everton this summer.

Chelsea are prepared to make Antonio Conte the highest-paid manager in their history and bankroll a lavish strengthening of his squad this summer as they seek to build on the team's impressive Premier League title success.

Riyad Mahrez has looked a shadow of the player who won last season's PFA Player of The Year award, during Leicester City's troubled 2016/17 campaign, which saw the Foxes' sack Claudio Ranieri, the man who just a year ago led them to the most ...

The Old Trafford outfit are known to want to overhaul their strike options with Zlatan Ibrahimovic out with a long-term injury and Wayne Rooney set to leave the club.

WEST BROMWICH, England (AP) " Chelsea is back at the summit of English soccer, completing a wild roller-coaster ride over the past three years.

A conversation he had with team-mate Islam Slimani in the tunnel at the Etihad Stadium ahead of Leicester's clash with Manchester City on Saturday was picked up by French broadcasters.

Atsu was hugely impressive on loan with the Toon this season, helping them to win the Championship and gain promotion back to the top-flight.

And Chelsea are just one of a number of sides looking to sign the big Belgian as they prepare to retain their title ahead of next season.

Chelsea's run to the Premier League title may not have had the same romance as Leicester's unlikely success last season, but there is still something to celebrate for the way they have gone about it.

ANTONIO CONTE'S men mathematically secured the Premier League title with a 1-0 win against West Brom on Friday courtesy of a Michy Batshuayi goal that took Chelsea back to the top English football just a year after their devastatingly disappointing ...

However, one former Chelsea player represented another big team in the Premier League once up a time, and his show of public support for the Blues made Reds fans, well, blue.

It was Jose Mourinho's second match in charge of Chelsea the second time around, a punishingly hot evening in Jakarta on the 2013 summer tour with the big guns who had played in the Confederations' Cup yet to join up, and it felt a long way from the ...

1. Michy Batshuayi celebrates as he scores the winner over West Brom to seal the Premier League trophy on Friday night - click the arrow above, right, to check out 19 more pictures as the Blues celebrate their title triumph ...

Chelsea, Arsenal, Bayern Munich and Paris St-Germain are all eyeing the former Tottenham star. And Diario Gol add that Real could be open to selling Modric.

Everton have asked about signing Baba Rahman from Chelsea but he is poised to go back on loan at Schalke. The 22-year-old suffered an anterior cruciate ligament injury in his left knee in January while playing for Ghana in the Africa Cup of Nations, ...

Willian has struggled to get game time under Antonio Conte this season but looked delighted when Chelsea were crowned champions against West Brom last night.

Chelsea's Marcos Alonso is my player of the year, says Arsenal legend Paul Merson. Default author image · Mark Brus for Metro.

Riyad Mahrez basically tells team-mate he'd join Chelsea. George Bellshaw for Metro.co.ukSaturday 13 May 2017 3:09 pm. 87.

Chelsea's Premier League title-winning celebrations at The Hawthorns were in full flow heading into the early hours of Saturday morning, and the players wanted Conte to be part of it.

Which players are likely to join title-winning Chelsea this summer? Latest odds. Friday, 12th May 2017. CHELSEA are the Premier League champions - but which players could strengthen their squad this summer?

Fernando Torres has sparked anger among Liverpool fans by sending Chelsea a special message after they wrapped up the Premier League title on Friday evening.

Jamie Carragher believes Belgian ace Eden Hazard has had a biggest influence at Chelsea this season than N'Golo Kante. Antonio Conte's side wrapped up the Premier League title with a 1-0 victory over West Brom on Friday and could yet complete a ...

Chelsea's Michy Batshuayi was jubilant in victory last night after scoring the winning goal at West Brom that secured the Blues their first Premier League title under Antonio Conte.

Starsport exclusively revealed this week that Manchester United will battle with Chelsea for the Everton hitman. The Toffees star, has informed the Merseyside outfit that he will not pen a new contract.

Chelsea were revitalised by Conte's switch to his preferred three-man defensive system. They hammered out a statement of intent by crushing champions Leicester City 3-0 and then routed Manchester United 4-0 in a miserable return to the Bridge for ...

A post-match address to journalists by Chelsea head coach, Antonio Conte was cut short last night when his players stormed the conference room and literally dragged their beloved manager back to the pitch to continue with the celebrations.

On Wednesday, after seven years, Chelsea Manning will walk out of military prison a free woman. Edward Snowden leads the tributes, and tells the Guardian ...

A post-match address to journalists by Chelsea head coach, Antonio Conte was cut short last night when his players stormed the conference room and literally dragged their beloved manager back to the pitch to continue with the celebrations.

The Chelsea players could wait no longer to celebrate, having been made wait long enough for Michy Batshuayi's title-winning goal.

That means outgoing Chelsea skipper John Terry will raise the prize aloft along with Gary Cahill. What is Costa doing to Terry?

After Michy Batshuayi had put the ball in the net in such wonderfully rugged fashion, Cesc Fabregas put the young striker's season in the most elementarily elegant fashion.

Recap all the action and reaction as Chelsea beat West Brom to win the Premier League. 139 comments. Livefyre · Get Livefyre · FAQ.

Chelsea midfielder Cesc Fabregas highlighted the unpredictability of football in the wake of the Blues' Premier League title-clinching victory over West Brom on Friday night.

At that final whistle, the Premier League title won, the Chelsea players tore around him in unbridled celebration at the Hawthorns.

Jonathan Grant Evans is not just your average bloke from Belfast. He's that guy who invents skills because the step-over is too common for a man of his stature.

The English Premier League has a new champion. It's not as if anyone other than Chelsea were expected to come out on top, but the inevitability of it all sure didn't dampen the excitement of the team or its supporters, who all celebrated Friday's win ...