Chelsea FC broke the club record for most expensive transfer when they signed Alvaro Morata from Real Madrid less than a week ago. The striker, brought in as a replacement for Diego Costa and as a fallback option when Stamford Bridge missed out on Romelu Lukaku, cost the club £58 million.

That makes him the 13th most expensive signing in world history. Morata made his debut in a blue shirt today, in a 3-2 preseason friendly loss to Bayern Munich.

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Kenedy may have just ended his Chelsea FC career this weekend. When you’re on the fringes as a player, you have no room for error, and what he did on social media was indeed a massive error. The Brazilian, 21, posted a video on his Instagram story in Portuguese, and when you translate the commentary into English, it reads “F**k China.”

He has since issued apology on the same platform, and deleted the post. His apology reads:

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For most of those external to Chelsea Football Club, the realization that Diego Costa would inevitably be leaving the team came in May. Internally, this idea became accepted in January, Chelsea FC Manager Antonio Conte revealed today.

“In January, the Costa situation was very clear for the club, for him, and for his agent,” Conte said at a news conference in Shanghai Friday. “For me, the situation is closed.”

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The blockbuster Chelsea FC summer transfer window that we all speculated about in May and June is now taking shape in late July. Many Chelsea supporters were anxious as the club’s delay in transfer activity was trying their patience, but things are really cooking now. Real Madrid striker Alvaro Morata is on his way to Chelsea, claim multiple reports.

The fee is reported to be in the neighborhood of £70 million, or just £5m shy of what Manchester United paid for Chelsea’s number one summer striker target Romelu Lukaku.

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