Chelsea are no closer to agreeing contracts with Tammy Abraham or Reece James, having negotiated new deals with the rest of their first-team Academy graduates.

Fikayo Tomori last week followed Callum Hudson-Odoi, Mason Mount, Ruben Loftus-Cheek and Bill Gilmour in signing new Chelsea contracts as a reward for their development under head coach Frank Lampard.

Chelsea are now keen to agree new deals with Abraham and James, whose current contracts will have two years remaining at the end of this season.

But progress on both players has not been as fast as had been hoped and Chelsea are not thought to be imminently preparing to announce a new contract for either man.

Abraham is Chelsea’s top scorer this season with 13 goals, making himself Lampard’s first-choice striker, and has also become a regular member of Gareth Southgate’s England squad.

The fact 19-year-old Hudson-Odoi signed a five-year contract worth £120,000-a-week in September is likely to mean that Abraham wants at least parity, if not a better deal.

Hudson-Odoi has recovered from the ruptured Achilles that meant he missed the opening to the new season, but he has still only started six Premier League games for Chelsea and is yet to score his first League goal.