DavidEU

Welcome home Didier. Moving this back to Current Squad...

Don't think we'll see him play all that much next season, his time on the field will be limited. But you can guarantee that when he is on the pitch, all you'll here in the stands is this. For most of us on here, he was, is and always be the greatest centre forward we'll ever see wear the shirt. A champion of England and Europe is returning home guys.

http://nycfc.com/News/Latest-News/2014/July/Live-Stream Being presented as a New York City player here.

Boga on for Baker at HT.

First 8 on that 11 is almost as strong as we have, other than Cahill/Fabregas.

And Romeu is on the bench wearing 20.

Squad numbers tonight, missed the last few. 1. Cech 2. Ivanovic 3. Luis 26. Terry 5. Zouma 21. Matic 16. van Ginkel 17. Salah 30. Baker 32. Brown 35. Bamford 40. Delac 48. Beeney 6. Ake 20. Romeu 29. Chalobah Christensen Swift Boga Solanke

Wearing number 30 tonight, down from 47 last year. Wonder if that'll be a permanent squad number.

Salah is wearing the number 17 shirt tonight. Will wait for an official announcement before changing the topic title.

They've trained for 2 days! I'm sure we can wait 'til Sunday and Ljubljana! Hopefully we see the likes of JT, Ivanovic, MvG and Zouma get 60/75 tonight and really start to kick on.

They'll wear it at some point cos theyll be contractually obligied to for something like 2/3 a season. We'll barely see it though.

Why? We'd wear yellow at their place and blue at home.

Oh no. So we could be sat there celebrating winning a trophy and youll be moaning about that? Who cares? As has already been said, itll never be worn cos no one has a blue and yellow kit. Its one thatll sell cos all the kids will want it.

https://mobile.twitter.com/chelseafc/status/491500470146719744 Looks to be pretty involved in training here.

Locking this for a couple of hours for obvious reasons. Guys, if you want to spend time abusing one another, use the DM facility. We don't all want to read it. Thankyou.

Where do you find these pics?!

Original article. 10 years ago yesterday. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/c/chelsea/3852989.stm

Thorgan has scored for Mochengladbach this afternoon in a friendly against Stoke City. Its currently 1-1.

Its ridiculous business.

33 in 72 games for Kiev apparently, an okay record before that. Wonder why he wasn't selected for Nigeria for the WC?

https://twitter.com/Fo0tballista/status/490228901478924289

WBA have signed Brown Ideye from Dynamo Kiev for £9m, a club record fee. I've never heard of the guy.

That doesn't look likely either to be quite honest. Though as I've said on here a few times, we should keep him here regardless of whether or not he wants to stay - because it suits us. Its a position we do need, and he fits the home grown criteria. I don't think six defenders (last seasons back four + Zouma and Luis) are enough, because its very plausible that two could get injured.

And Petr. And Jose.

Really good English. Surprising.