Monday 5 July It is coming and going day at the Bridge. Youngsters getting their first contracts are Aziz Deen-Conteh, Billy Clifford, Rohan Ince, George Saville, James Ashton, Milan Lalkovic, Philipp Prosenik and Josh McEachran. Those looking for new clubs will be the ’keepers Niclas Heimann and Aldi Haxhia and outfielders Nana Ofori-Twumasi, Nikki Ahamed, [...]
Continue reading …The Community Shield takes place on Sunday, August 8 and today, ticket news has been officially released by Chelsea. We will be getting 26,145 Tickets for the match at Wembley. Purchase dates for the tickets depend upon how many loyalty points were accrued last season. Tickets are priced at £15, £20, £30 and £40. For [...]
Continue reading …The club have been relatively quiet in the transfer market so far with only one new addition to the squad next year in creative midfielder Yossi Benayoun. Given the overinflated price tags that midfielders Di Maria and David Silva have chalked up recently getting such a proven, quality premiership player for a fraction of the [...]
Continue reading …The players were back in for pre-season training again today, with yet more double sessions. I’m sure that their holidays now seem a thing of the distant past as the running and ball work gets more involved. While the players did their work, Carlo Ancelotti explained that the team need in the region of five [...]
Continue reading …Monday, July 5. Today was the day that most of our first-team came back from their respective holidays to start their pre-season training for the 2010/11 season. I wonder if the players were really looking forward to their double training sessions to get them back into shape? Included in the first day’s training was our [...]
Continue reading …Sunday 27 June Germany 4:1 England After the recriminations the clearest message is that Capello failed. He took the wrong squad and deployed them in an absurd fashion. He should be sacked. England lined up in the same pigheaded manner they did against Slovenia. Gerrard still wasted on the left. A midfield two open to [...]
Continue reading …With just two weeks until the first pre-season friendly against Crystal Palace, we have made our first signing of the 2010/11 season. Yossi Benayoun has joined Chelsea from Liverpool and will be ready to start pre-season training on Monday. Benayoun is the first signing of the Summer and we hope, he will not be the [...]
Continue reading …The flag of St. George had hardly come down from the roof of 10 Downing Street before the inquest into England’s dismal showing got under way. The papers were not sure which way they wanted the FA to go. Some were calling for Capello’s head while others were blaming the players. The FA bigwigs got [...]
Continue reading …With much of the talk on the group games being too defence-minded and drab up stepped an inspired Portugal to thump North Korea seven nil and banish such thoughts to the distant past. There was only one Chelsea player who took part in that familiar looking score line, Ricardo Carvalho. Riccy very nearly got the [...]
Continue reading …Saturday 5 June Didier had an operation on his fractured ulna this afternoon which was deemed a complete success, they are even talking about Les Elephants’ first group game in ten days time: “we don’t know if he will be able to play the first game – that depends on the verdict of the medical [...]
Continue reading …Some friends of CFCnet are writing a book, and they need your help. Andy Pringle and Neil Fissler are documenting the whereabouts of a plethora of ex-Blues, but some are proving to be tricky to track down. As part of their Where Are They Now? book, they’re looking to provide an extensive piece of work [...]
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