DavidEU

Has anyone seen or heard anything about our new supposed dugouts? With the bucket Audi seats? Guessing they'll be on view on Wednesday night for the first time.

Hasn't Mata missed his last four for us now? Would take abit of bottle for him to take one anytime soon. Wouldn't be surprised to see Luiz stepping up if Frank or Hazard are not on the pitch.

Find it odd how he gets so much stick from fans online, yet like yesterday, the fans at the games will always chant his name and support the guy.

I think if Ramis hadn't have cleared that one of the line, Nando would be getting a lot of credit for his performance. Seems like theres a very thin line unfortunately. On another day, he could have been given a penalty, scored his goal, and assisted Oscar. He did fine.

Its perfect how it is. Should never change.

Sorry but LOL. Post of the day.

Michael Emenalo, Ron Gourlay, Roman Abramovich, Roberto di Matteo, whoever is responsible for this summer, congratulations. Very exciting times ahead. Azpi or Debuchy next and ship a couple of others out. Anything on top of that is a bonus.

As harsh as it would be, Paulo would probably not be registered to play if we sign a new right back. Similarly to Wayne Bridge at City last year, he'd have to make do with League Cup and FA Cup matches. Malouda, Hilario and Essien would be next in line for that situation I'd imagine.

AS : "It should be officially tomorrow. This is one of the players on which there were. He sees the game, is intelligent and is a very good footballer. There was no question of letting him go. I met him very quickly after my arrival, to show him my confidence. He still had one year contract and he proposed to extend but he told me four eyes it did not interest him and he wanted to leave Lens. And I realized, after 48 hours, why, when I learned that Chelsea wanted. But I understand. Now I think that staying in Lens was a very good solution for him to continue to flourish. " JL : "A boy of 19 years his elder brother who signs in Chelsea, and is urged also by the same club, who won the Champions League! Congratulations to Thorgan. After, unfortunately we can not go against such an opportunity for the boy. Good luck to him, and he continues to work and grow. " Lens manager and director on the transfer.

CTV think they'll be 62,000 there tonight. Not bad for a pre-season game!

L'equipe seem to think Debuchy may stay for another season now. http://www.lequipe.fr/Allos-v2/Allo_TRANSFERT.html At 10:22, translates roughly too:

Chicken butterly from Nandos!

Said this yesterday: Chelsea are set to make a bid of £10 million for Debuchy. #CFC 17 Jul And this after the Debuchy tweet: Chelsea are also looking at Lukasz Piszczek. #CFC

Oscar + £10m for a RB and we'll be done IMHO. And I'll be extremely happy. Malouda through the exit door too, of course.

Is it just me or does he look about 13? Can't wait til Christmas time to see all these guys properly gelled into our team. We might not have the success we had last season in terms of trophies, that can wait, I bet the football will be incredible though.

I haven't seen anything of this guy... Anyone want to tell/show me?

No. Never.

I like your kit. Just a shame it's a template and been used a few times already. Could be worse, Nike could have given you Uniteds design.

I like reading stories like this, makes me realise how lucky I am to be down the Bridge every other Saturday. Enjoy it mate.

I really like the Spurs away kit, but wtf is their home kit about. Truely awful. The worst this summer by a mile.

http://www.chelseafc.com/page/LatestNews/0,,10268~2841591,00.html Hes gone back to Vitesse on loan with Kalas. Can't help but feel that we'll never see him here again.

Youngsters Tomas Kalas and Patrick van Aanholt have today completed their loan deals returning them to Dutch club Vitesse Arnhem for the duration of the 2012/13 campaign. Both players were temporarily with the Eredivisie side last term. Czech Under 21 international Kalas 19, made 29 league appearances over the course of the season, while Dutchman Van Aanholt, 21, scored once in nine games having also spent time with Wigan Athletic during late 2011. Before departing for Holland, Kalas also signed a contract extension with Chelsea committing him to the club until the summer of 2017. http://www.chelseafc.com/page/LatestNews/0,,10268~2841591,00.html

Welcome along

Breaking news on SSN, he's officially the new Watford manager. Good luck Franco.