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John Terry delivers verdict on FA Cup final loss as Chelsea prepare Jan Oblak swap deal offer

All the latest Chelsea headlines as the fallout continues from their defeat to Arsenal in Saturday's FA Cup final.

Oblak latest

The Blues have identified Oblak as their top transfer target ahead of the summer window officially opening for business later this month, the Mirror reports.

After signing a new deal at the Wanda Metropolitano last year, a £120million buy-out clause was inserted in the goalkeeper's contract.

However, Chelsea are prepared to go in with an offer of less than £100million and offer Arrizabalaga to sweeten the deal.

Frank Lampard on the cup injuries suffered by Chelsea

Atletico do not want to sell the Slovenian No.1, but they may be forced to because of the financial impact the coronavirus pandemic has brought.

Full story here.

Terry's blunt verdict on FA Cup final decision

John Terry was less than pleased with referee Anthony Taylor's performance during Chelsea 's FA Cup final defeat against Arsenal.

The Blues's hopes of adding a trophy to a top-four finish in the Premier League were ended by their north London rivals on Saturday afternoon.

And this was after taking the lead at Wembley thanks to Christian Pulisic's early goal, but the Gunners completed the comeback with a Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang double, the first of which was from the penalty spot.

(Darren Walsh/Chelsea FC via Getty Images)

Then after losing Pulisic to injury at the beginning of the second half, the Arsenal captain put his side ahead with a dinked finish over Willy Caballero.

To make matters worse, Mateo Kovacic was given his marching orders as he was adjudged to have fouled Granit Xhaka whilst already on a yellow card.

It's those two decisions which Blues legend Terry was not happy about.

See what Terry said here.

Taylor blasted over Kovacic call

Former referee Keith Hackett says VAR should be 'empowered' to do more after Chelsea's FA Cup final defeat to Arsenal.

In the second half of the Gunners' 2-1 win, Blues midfielder Mateo Kovacic was sent for an early bath after a trip on Granit Xhaka.

Anthony Taylor gave the Croatian international a second yellow card and most have disagreed with that decision.

But VAR could not step in. The technology is only empowered to overturn straight red cards, but that must change, according to Hackett.

See Hackett's full verdict here

"In the second half, with Arsenal leading 2-1, Chelsea had Mateo Kovacic sent off for a challenge that the referee Taylor mistakenly decided deserved to be punished with a yellow card, the Croat’s second of the game," he wrote in his Telegraph column.

"In my view, you could not describe it even as a foul on Granit Xhaka and, at worst, the challenge was careless as opposed to reckless. Which meant that it certainly should not have been a booking.

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