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Raheem Sterling has suggested that a change to his diet ultimately led to his drop in form in his debut season at Chelsea. The England international was Chelsea's first signing of the summer when he joined from Manchester City for £47.5m, but despite arriving with lofty expectations, Sterling contributed just six Premier League goals - his lowest return since his breakthrough season with Liverpool ten years ago. Sterling also managed just 28 appearances - another ten-year low for the winger - as hamstring problems limited his involvement. Asked for an explanation , Sterling admitted a gamble taken on his diet ultimately backfired. "In the season I changed a bit of my diet and went to do something a little bit different that I had not done before," he began. "And I had a little bit more KG on me that I have not had before. I think probably carrying a little bit of extra weight, I had a few hamstring problems and that was it. READ THE LATEST CHELSEA NEWS, TRANSFER RU...

Chelsea suffered yet another defeat on Thursday evening, losing 2-1 to Fulham as Joao Felix saw red in his Premier League debut . Goals from Willian and Carlos Vinicius either side of a Kalidou Koulibaly goal and Felix's red card were enough to propel Fulham up into the top six and Graham Potter ever closer to the Stamford Bridge door. Chelsea and Joao Felix started brightly, with the new signing bursting past Tim Ream on the right flank before drilling the ball into the path of Kai Havertz around the penalty spot. The German's subsequent effort on goal would be blocked but would fall to the onrushing Lewis Hall who could only hit his resulting side-footed effort on goal directly at Bernd Leno. That lively start came to an abrupt end around the 20th minute mark when a horrific attempted headed clearance from Trevoh Chalobah would lead to Bobby Decordova-Reid bursting into the box and cannoning the ball off of the crossbar. Moments later, Fulham would bag the opener through ex-...