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As you may or may not have read in various news outlets whilst enjoying a relaxing Sunday, Jan Šebek is supposedly joining Chelsea this summer, signing a professional contract on July 2nd. However, it is CFCnet’s desire ...
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QPR are ruining football. Loaded with the billions of Messrs Mittal, Ecclestone and Briatore, they are set to take football by storm over the next decade, buying the very best talent available to them and sweeping up every honour ...
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We’ll finish our review of the season by taking a look forward to next season, where things will change on a pretty large scale.
The 2009 summer will see an almost unprecedented scholarship intake of at least twelve players, ...
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The summer of 2004 was one which will live in the minds of Chelsea fans everywhere. A year after Roman Abramovich’s takeover, the club had just finished second in the Premiership and reached the Semi Finals of the European ...
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In Part Two of our season review, we take a look at each of the players who have appeared (notably) for the Under-18 and Reserve teams in the 2008/2009 season, starting with the goalkeepers.
Goalkeepers:
Rhys Taylor – Was good ...
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With the season coming to an end, we here at CFCnet would like to take you on the journey of the 2008/09 season at academy and Reserve level at Chelsea. Over the coming days there will be a series of pieces, and we’ll start ...
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The last game at Cobham for Chelsea’s Under-18s may have had an end-of-season feel to it, but it was nonetheless a great opportunity to right some recent wrongs and impress against the unfortunate yet hapless MK Dons. The ...
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Put this night down as an experiment for Chelsea’s second string. With a bunch of games coming in the next month, competition for places in the first team will be rife. Match fitness and versatility
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You can control, even dominate a game for large parts of proceedings. What you can’t do, however, is win if you don’t put the ball in the back of the net. Despite Chelsea playing very well
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The 2008/09 season hasn’t been kind for Chelsea or Charlton at academy level. Stuck at the bottom of Group A, both teams have long since turned their attentions to next year and using a slew of schoolboys
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Chelsea’s good recent form in the FA Premier Academy League came grinding to a halt, perhaps aptly at Fulham’s Motspur Park training ground, within spitting distance of railway lines. Goals from Danny
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So, where were we? It’s been a fair while since I updated people on the goings-on in the Chelsea Academy, for one reason or another, but I figure it’s time to bring it back again. It’ll all be here
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In the last seven days Paul Clement has been taking the occasional first team training session as Chelsea replaced Luiz Felipe Scolari with Guus Hiddink. In returning to Reserve duty, his boys destroyed
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