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Chelsea transfer news: Eddie Howe has praised the business completed by the Blues this summer with a message for the present and the future
Newcastle boss Eddie Howe has delivered his Chelsea prediction for the Premier League season ahead before taking on Mauricio Pochettino's Blues in a pre-season friendly. The two English teams are set to collide in Atlanta, Florida in the Premier League Summer Series days after Chelsea beat Brighton 4-3 in their tournament opener.
Throughout the USA pre-season tour, Pochettino has offered chances to the likes of Angelo Gabriel, Carney Chukwuemeka, Ian Maatsen, Malo Gusto, Diego Moreira, Cesare Casadei and Andrey Santos. Those decisions to play younger players looks set to continue on Wednesday when Chelsea take on Newcastle.
Those signings are all ones for the future but that could also be said about the additions of Jackson, Moreira and Gabriel, despite the fact they are in Pochettino's first-team plans. Christopher Nkunku will also be included in those but at 25 and after costing Chelsea £52million, that was a guarantee. However, all but four of the remaining seven summer signings made were free transfers with Jackson costing Chelsea £30million, Paez £17.3million, Gabriel £13million and Samuels-Smith at £4million.
Ahead of facing Chelsea's new-look side, Howe has delivered a brief but exciting message of what to expect at Stamford Bridge this season and for the future following the transfer decisions made in west London.
"I think Chelsea will be very strong this year," he said. "They've got a top manager and top players. They've gone very young in the transfer market but those players will improve."
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