{"id":672676,"date":"2026-07-24T08:00:02","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T12:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=672676"},"modified":"2026-07-24T08:00:02","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T12:00:02","slug":"chelsea-signings-injuries-pre-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2026\/07\/24\/chelsea-signings-injuries-pre-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Two New Chelsea Signings Suffer Injuries Early in Pre-Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea signings are already in training with Xabi Alonso and ready to head out on pre-season, except for two of the newcomers who have already suffered injuries and have not been announced as part of the travelling squad for the Sydney Cup. This will raise some eyebrows among fans as injury issues have plagued the club for many years, dating back to Mauricio Pochettino and through last term when Jamie Gittens, Estevao, Levi Colwill, and others missed vast stretches of the campaign.<\/p>\n<h2>New Chelsea Signings Out of Pre-Season Tour Due to Injuries<\/h2>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"max-width: 600px\"><smartframe-embed class=\"smartframe_wp_element\" customer-id=\"b0c95bc04383cef69c6b47df872135cf\" image-id=\"WmOBn4ZsB8kV\" style=\"width: 100%; display: inline-flex; max-width: 4774px; aspect-ratio: 4774\/3182;\" ><\/smartframe-embed><\/p>\n<h3>Emmanuel Emegha<\/h3>\n<p>New striker Emmanuel Emegha was pre-agreed last year to join from Strasbourg. The attacker has been with his news side since they returned to training. The attacker has featured in some behind closed doors friendlies and after an injury ravaged year, once again finds himself sidelined.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2026\/07\/22\/chelsea-unlocking-negotiations-targets\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Report Reveals Chelsea May Need Help &#8216;Unlocking Negotiations&#8217; for Targets<\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to the BBC&#8217;s Chelsea <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TheBlueDodger\/status\/2080603476292214933\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">coverage<\/a>, the striker picked up a hamstring injury in a win over Bromley that took place in private. The Frenchman is not in the travelling squad for the Australian tour. After missing the majority of the 2025\/26 season with muscular injuries this should have alarm bells ringing for those hoping to see the striker play for his new club anytime soon.<\/p>\n<h3>Geovany Quenda<\/h3>\n<p>The winger\/wing-back signed on a pre-agreement with Sporting but he has had his transition to England interrupted. He was surprisingly left off the travelling squad to Australia which prompted Kieran Gill to report that the wide man has a &#8220;small injury&#8221; and didn&#8217;t travel with the rest of the team.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2026\/07\/22\/josh-acheampong-push-chelsea-exit\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">New Report Indicates Josh Acheampong Could Push for Chelsea Exit<\/a><\/p>\n<p>There are no details provided on what issue the newcomer has but there will be hopes that it doesn&#8217;t totally interrupt his pre-season preparations, as he could have a versatile role in Alonso&#8217;s setup and time to train that role is important to help him hit the ground running.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Featured Image Credit<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>IMAGO \/ Action Plus<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea signings are already in training with Xabi Alonso and ready to head out on pre-season, except for two of the newcomers who have already suffered injuries and have not been announced as part of the travelling squad for the Sydney Cup. This will raise some eyebrows among fans as injury issues have plagued the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2013,"featured_media":649727,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11,30,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-672676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chelsea","category-news","category-premier-league"],"modified_by":"Alex Richards, LWOF Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2013"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=672676"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":672677,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672676\/revisions\/672677"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/649727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=672676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=672676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=672676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}