Yahoo News Eight Chelsea players in coronavirus quarantine
Chelsea have eight players in coronavirus quarantine with Frank Lampard’s pre-season plans severely disrupted before the new season starts for the club in three weeks’ time.
There are six players who are understood to have the virus and a further two who are quarantining because of close contact with those affected. Telegraph Sport is not naming which six have the virus.
Mason Mount, Fikayo Tomori, Tammy Abraham and Christian Pulisic had already been confirmed as being quarantined. Those four had been together while on holiday this month on the Greek island of Mykonos - pictures posted by the players on social media reveal that they met up with one another while there.
The other four currently in quarantine and missing pre-season are Jorginho, Ross Barkley, Emerson and Michy Batshuayi.
None of the eight are back at training at Cobham and will have to begin their preparations working alone as in the early days of lockdown. Abraham and Mount have been selected by Gareth Southgate for the England squad for the Nations League games against Iceland and Denmark but their involvement in those matches is now in doubt.
Chelsea begin their season at Brighton on September 14 and play Liverpool at home five days later. When the club was facing the restart of the previous season, one of its key players, N’Golo Kante, was sceptical about playing and had to be convinced of the safety of the measures the Premier League was taking.
Players were given clear advice on where to go on holiday for the brief break afforded to them this summer and Mykonos was considered a good option as it was not subject to the 14-day UK government quarantine measures.
Chelsea declined to comment.
