Kounde could return for start of preseason despite surgery

Chelsea’s preseason starts in two and a half weeks, with a tour of the USA planned. But players who have played in international games over the last fortnight (which is most of them) will get another week’s break.

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14 June 2022, 17:35 published

Kounde could return for start of preseason despite surgery

That means there’s a total of three and a half weeks of break lined up for them now, good news for Jules Kounde, who is not yet even a Chelsea player.

He’s still at Sevilla, but expected to complete a transfer to Stamford Bridge soon. He is going to have minor surgery, which has a lot of fans in a flap, but it’s severity has really been played down.

If the procedure happens in the next couple of days, Kounde will have three weeks to recover from it – long enough that he has a good chance of going on the preseason tour with everyone else.

Even if things are delayed a little, he should be ready and firing for the first game of the season.

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