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With Mancienne unavailable, I think its pretty cert that Sam will start at RB, Alex and Bruma in the middle, and a half each for PvA and Bertrand. Danny Mills Pappoe and/or Rohan Ince along with Billy Clifford shall be on the bench too, I guess, as we have no other defenders.

Spurs and Villa's home kits are nice. The away's/third are woeful though. Spurs' sponsor looks horrific too.

As someone said above, £5/£3 is hardly expensive. Can't blame the club at all.

Only thing I don't like, is adidas keep changing the colour of the badge. Our badge is what it is, and for a reason. F**king leave it alone. In the four years now we've had adidas, I've 'liked' two kits and been okay with a few. Not enough. Liked - Home 06-08, Home 10-11. Okay - Home 09-10, Away 10-11, Third (Black) 08-09. Shit - All the others.

USUALLY, the third shirt is revealed on the day of the Champions League draw - so, end of August.

Away goalkeeper kit is the black/green home one from the 09/10 season. Appears that black/blue number doing the rounds was a complete fake then. Thank god.

They're not champions anymore,

Another plus is that we won't be having that horrible black/blue zig-zag pattern for a kit.

That's beaut. I love it.

Wayne Bridge right at the bottom. JT is the one above it to the left, I think. Joe Cole, diagonally left above JTs. Lamps' is the one starting with an F, and looks like a load of e's. Goes onto two lines. One above Joe Cole, could be Carvalho.

www.chelseamegastore.com Search: benayoun. It's his. The topic is opened, in the same reason all the players have a topic in this forum.

1. Petr CECH (GK) 2. Branislav IVANOVIC (RB/CB) 3. Ashley COLE (LB) 4. David LUIZ (CB) 5. Michael ESSIEN (CM) 6. 7. RAMIRES (CM) 8. Frank LAMPARD (CM) 9. Fernando TORRES (CF) 10. Yossi BENAYOUN (AM) 11. Didier Drogba (CF) 12. John MIKEL Obi (DM) 13. 14. 15. Florent MALOUDA (AM/LW) 16. 17. Jose BOSINGWA (RB) 18. Yury ZHIRKOV (LB/LM/CM/LW) 19. Paulo FERREIRA (RB) 20. 21. Salomon KALOU (AM/W/CF) 22. Ross TURNBULL (GK) 23. Daniel STURRIDGE (CF) 24. 25. 26. John TERRY © (CB) 27. 28. 29. 30. 33. ALEX (CB) 34. Ryan BERTRAND (LB) 38. Patrick VAN AANHOLT (LB) 39. Nicolas ANELKA (CF/RW) 40. Henrique HILARIO (GK) 43. Jeffrey BRUMA (CB) 44. Gael KAKUTA (AM) 45. Fabio BORINI (CF) 46. Josh McEACHRAN (CM) 47. Billy CLIFFORD (RB) 52. Jacob MELLIS (CM) 54. Sam WALKER (GK) 55. Jacopo SALA (W) 61. Jan SEBEK (GK) 62. Nethaniel CHALOBAH (CB/DM)

Discuss.

Start at Crystal Palace, hopefully. Not a huge selection of midfielders available for it, so he's got a great chance.

The guy hasn't even pulled on the shirt yet and you're already criticising him! Give him a chance, he might surprise you. Criticise if the decision turns out to be wrong.

Actually, its called supporting my team. Try it, you might enjoy it. Plus, I would trust my football judgement far more than most on this site.

Don't see your fascination with the youth team at all. Yes, I'm all for the youth development and I'd love to see the likes of Bruma and Kakuta become regular starters for the first team. But your so incredibly naive to believe that these guys are ready just yet. Because, they aren't. We are fighting for 4 trophies, year in year out. We need a big squad, of quality in depth. That's the reason Benayoun is brought in. He's not going to start week in, week out. But he's more than good enough to play in several league games a season to allow Anelka a break on the right hand side, AS WELL AS having the needed experience that the youth don't have to cover in case of injuries when we play the bigger games. When Kakuta and co are ready to play, (remember, Kakuta was average for the reserve team last season), they will do. As for Ballack, his release would have been decided by a group of senior officials, including Carlo. If he'd have been so desperate for Ballack to stay, he'd have made more of a case for him. The same goes for Stoch. Simple as. Trust your team, trust your manager, trust your club. They know what they are doing.

Why's he unwelcome? Surely if Carlo Ancelotti, our DOUBLE winning manager, two time Champions League winning manager, one of the best midfielders of his generation can give the guy a chance, we can too? Or are you that pig ignorant to know that we cant go out and sign Messi, Ronaldo, Fabiano, Villa and Xavi? Zola was f**king ugly too. Knew what to do with a football though.

What a ridiculous forum this is at times. Posts like that are EXACTLY why this place will never take off. Idiots. Alex, I feel sorry for you, pal. I support Chelsea, so I support Yossi. Whether I think it's right or not. Carlo and co know better than me, or any of you.

http://www.transparentsport.com/cfcuk/story.php?id=101833 According to our sources, Chelsea will complete the signing of Liverpool’s Fernando Torres after the end of the World Cup. The Spain striker has been linked with a move to Stamford Bridge for several months now but with the departure of Rafa Benitez from Anfield – the man who first brought Torres to England - the player now has no ties to the Reds.

Schweinsteiger would cost too much money, especially after the World Cup. Not worth it.

Believe so.

Mods - do your job? I guess those who are so anti-Benayoun/anti-Jewish also want Abramovic to leave? Its pathetic. Benayoun has done really well for Liverpool over the last two years and has something that we don't have in our squad. I don't expect him to be a regular starter unless he proves himself, and therefore, as a squad player, he's a good addition. Good luck Yossi.

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