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Enzo Maresca on the size of Chelsea's squad, on Wednesday:

It's been a chaotic week at Cobham, and that's putting it lightly.

It's common knowledge that Chelsea have been happy-clappy with transfers ever since Todd Boehly acquired the club in 2022.

They have already made nine this summer with Joao Felix the latest of those, coming in this week.

I'll be blunt, they have a huge squad.

Like, I mean it's massive. The amount of players that walk into the training ground every week is pretty ridiculous.

It means that Enzo Maresca has become pretty brutal with who he allows to train with the first team, although, he doesn't seem to think so.

The likes of Raheem Sterling, Ben Chilwell, and Trevoh Chalobah, have all been frozen out and now train on their own.

The news of this rightfully hit the headlines this week. How can so many top players just be pushed out like that?

It will be interesting to see if the noise around the club will affect their performance on the pitch today.

Club record Evanilson will start in a Bournemouth shit for the first time this afternoon.

He takes his place up front with Antoine Semenyo moving onto the wing.

Marcos Senesi also returns after missing last week's draw with Nottingham Forest due to illness.

Happy, Cherries?

Wow, Romeo Lavia is not in the Chelsea squad...

The Belgian midfielder was a real positive point for the Blues in their loss to Manchester City last week, but he misses out today.

He is replaced by Noni Madueke, who I'm sure is delighted to be in involved in a place he adores so much.

Mykhailo Mudryk is also in as he replaces Christopher Nkunku, while new signing Joao Felix takes a spot on the bench.

Pedro Neto doesn't start on his return to Molineux.

Methus Cunha returns for Wolves!

The forward who netted a hat-trick against Chelsea at Stamford Bridge is the only change to Wolves' side that lost to Arsenal last week.

Jorgen Strand Larsenonce again leads the line for the hosts while Hwang Hee-Chan joins him in attack.

Gary O'Neil is going for it today.

It's a tale as old as time in England, North vs South.

People who have grown up in the north of the country will always say that it's better than the south, and vice versa.

You won't suck me into this debate, you all get the gist. I'm sure it's an argument you have been involved in.

Well, we will see that battle play out on the football pitch today as the Premier League's most northern side, Newcastle, travels down to the most southern team, Bournemouth.

Usually, it's the team that hails from the north that pull the win out of the bag, they have only lost one of their last nine league matches against Bournemouth.

However, that defeat did come last season at the Vitality Stadium.

So, who will win the bragging rights?

What's that saying again, all bark no bite?

Well, Wolves haven't even mustered a whimper for a while.

Including the end of last season, Gary O'Neil's side have lost four Premier League matches on the bounce.

Think that's bad? This stat is even worse. They have only won one of their last 12 competitive matches.

Yep, they've been pretty poor in 2024.

O'Neil needs that to change today. Yes, it's only the second game of the season, but after being ransacked in the summer of his best talent, he needs his side to show they are still not to be messed with.

It's the perfect time to play this Chelsea side while they have not gelled under new management, they will need to take advantage.

Noni Madueke is certainly not the only Chelsea player to not be a fan of Wolverhampton.

The Blues record at Molineux in the last few years has been fairly poor, they haven't tasted victory there since 2019.

Yes, that may only be five years ago, but since that day they have had five permanent managers and signed a gazillion players.

Fikayo Tomori scored that day... that's how much has changed since then.

In their four visits since they have lost three and drawn one, it isn't a happy hunting ground for the Blues.

Enzo Maresca will want to change that today, though, especially after the week he has had.

Will Chelsea break their Molineux curse?

Before we get into the good stuff today, let's just cast our minds back one day.

With no Friday or Monday games this week, Saturday was absolutely stacked with Premier League fixtures.

It's fair to say, they delivered. Here are all of yesterday's results:

Today is going to be a cracker, and that's a Harry guarantee!

I love Premier League Sunday's and the best thing about today is that there is a bank holiday tomorrow.

We have three belters for you to stick your teeth into this afternoon, culminating in Liverpool hosting Brentford.

But before we head to Merseyside we have a tasty double header as Chelsea travel to Wolves and Bournemouth host Newcastle.

Rather than me bumbling on in this introduction, I reckon we should just get the ball rolling, don't you?

Let's get cracking.