Colwill warns signings: Chelsea 'for winners only'

Levi Colwill has warned Chelsea's caller signings that the nine is "for winners only" arsenic the squad prepares to look Palmeiras successful Friday's Club World Cup quarterfinals.

João Pedro has go Chelsea's latest summation aft helium completed a move worthy up to £60 cardinal ($82m) from Brighton & Hove Albion connected Wednesday.

Chelsea are hopeful helium tin beryllium registered earlier Thursday's FIFA deadline truthful helium tin beryllium eligible for the crippled successful Philadelphia.

Jamie Gittens cannot beryllium added to the radical having played for Borussia Dortmund during the contention already but the 20-year-old is connected the brink of completing a £55m deal.

Chelsea person already signed Liam Delap, Dario Essugo and Mamadou Sarr this summertime portion Estevao Willian volition articulation from Palmeiras erstwhile the Club World Cup concludes.

And asked whether a caller civilization was gathering aft a promising archetypal play nether Enzo Maresca successful which Chelsea secured Champions League shot and won the Conference League, Colwill said: "I'd decidedly accidental truthful but astatine the aforesaid clip we each cognize however large this nine is and however the civilization of the nine has ever been to win.

"We're conscionable trying to reenforce that to the young boys, to the boys coming in, that this nine is for winners only. That's what we each request to bash and strive towards. That's what we privation to bash together.

"Anyone that comes to Chelsea knows the past of the club. They cognize they are coming present to lone win. We've got a large squad and everyone's connected the aforesaid wavelength to effort and win.

"The fans are the main thing. We consciousness their vigor erstwhile we are playing. We cognize what they privation to bash and they privation to win. They volition ne'er fto america hide that, They are going to propulsion america to effort and triumph things for them, for the nine and they are the biggest happening that tin punctual america of wherever this nine erstwhile was."

Colwill started 35 of Chelsea 38 Premier League games past play and made his archetypal quality for caller England brag Thomas Tuchel successful past month's affable decision to Senegal.

The 22-year-old has established himself astatine centre-back nether Maresca but gave a frank appraisal of his ain game.

"I cognize I americium obscurity adjacent wherever I would similar to beryllium successful the future," helium said.

"There are truthful galore areas of my crippled that aren't bully enough. I deliberation I've seen that this season. Of course, defending 1 v 1 has been pugnacious this play but I deliberation I've proved that I'm getting a spot amended towards the end, And conscionable being connected the ball. I'm bully astatine times erstwhile I'm trying to marque passes and determination are different times wherever I've been a spot lazy and you tin tell.

"You mightiness deliberation a walk is an casual pass, you tin instrumentality your caput disconnected it. That's what I mean erstwhile I accidental 'laziness'. It tin easy hap successful games. You instrumentality your caput disconnected thing for fractional a 2nd and that tin marque a big, large quality successful the Premier League and tournaments similar this wherever you are playing against the champion players each the time.

"Of people it is going to beryllium a immense play for maine astatine Chelsea [next year]. We're backmost successful the Champions League excessively which we program to bash arsenic good arsenic possible. Then we've got the Premier League wherever we privation to propulsion connected and bash amended than we did this season.

"For me, looking astatine the extremity of the play wherever we've got the World Cup, it volition beryllium a large purpose to beryllium there."