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Thankyou Maka. Legend. There is, and will always be, only one Makelele.

Drogba has not travelled with the squad for the preseason trip to China, due to 'injury'. This is likely to fuel speculation that he is leaving. http://www.chelseafc.com/page/LatestNews/0...1347416,00.html Discuss.

You know he's leaving, right?

PSG president said today during the unveiling of Ludovic Giuly that PSG would be unveiling a 35 year old French midfielder who represented France at Euro 2008 on Monday.

Bosingwa and Mancienne are the only two that are not 100% definate.

If Jimmy Smith makes it, I will buy you a season ticket, 'love cfc.' Not going to happen.

Woops missed out Belletti and Alex.

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1. Petr CECH 2. Branislav IVANOVIC 3. Ashley COLE 5. Michael ESSIEN 6. Ricardo CARVALHO 8. Frank LAMPARD 9. Franco DI SANTO 10. Joe COLE 11. Didier DROGBA 12. John Obi MIKEL 13. Michael BALLACK 15. Florent MALOUDA 16. Scott SINCLAIR 17. Jose BOSINGWA 18. Ricardo QUARESMA 19. Paulo FERRIERA 20. DECO 21. Salomon KALOU 26. John TERRY 27. MINEIRO 30. Rhys TAYLOR 33. ALEX 35. Juliano BELLETTI 39. Nicolas ANELKA 40. Henrique HILARIO 41. Sam HUTCHINSON 42. Michael MANCIENNE 43. Miroslav STOCH 44. Michael WOODS 45. Niclas HEINMANN 48. Gael KAKUTA

Yes please. Would be a huge risk, especially at that price, but he could be awesome, and exactly what we need. The Madrid-based reporter on SSN said that it was 80% likely to happy, and that he fully expected it to happen. We shall see. Squad flys to China on Sunday. Could be a busy 4 days.

Franco has always trained with the first team. He's a 'first team player' who plays in the reserves to get used to the English game.

First Pre Season game on the 23rd July. Discuss here.

JT will remain as Captain. Frank as vice-captain.

Scolari says Drogba is '200% part of his future plans'.

http://cache4.asset-cache.net/xc/81854393....30A760B0D811297 Schneider (Fitness Coach) ^ http://cache2.asset-cache.net/xc/81854396....30A760B0D811297 Clarke, Teixeira (Assistant), Pracadelli (GK Coach), Scolari ^

Most important detail: He spoke with Frank for 15 minutes yesterday, and FL told him he wants to stay.

Speaking on Chelsea TV now. His English seems average. Struggles at times and stops to think... but not too bad. As I said, Jose and Claudio wern't great when they first came.

Well done Chelsea. http://www.chelseafc.com/page/LatestNews/0...1340393,00.html What's everyone's take on 'the Lampard situation'? Obviously, I want him to stay, although if he did go, I wouldn't hold any grudges. I'm very 50/50 on the whole situation. I think the club owe Frank for being such a great player for us over the years and perhaps should respect his wishes, but at the same time I think Frank owes Chelsea a lot too. We'll see.

SSN are saying that they expect BPS to speak entirely in English, but will have an interpreter alongside him just incase.

Goal.com should be banned from the internet. Shocking website.

David Davies of the FA was saying a few weeks back that he speaks alot better English than people think. It obviously won't be great, but Davies spoke to him about the England job, so he should know. Ranieri couldn't speak a word and Mourinho was relatively average too when he first came, so i'm sure he'll be OK.

SSN are saying that Chelsea have denied this, so i'll change the topic title.

Hmm, in my opinion, Arshavin and Deco will both play. I don't necessarily see us having wingers next year... just 3 attacking midfielders playing behind a loan striker... Or a winger one side, who will switch side's every so often, and two AM's. (Deco, Arshavin, or even Ballack). ----- Another article from the Russian paper Tvoi Den: http://www.tden.ru/articles/sport/032457/ Translation from Babelfish.

And then where would Deco play Esk?

Is apparently scheduled for Tuesday 8th July, at 1pm at the Hilton in Cobham. Will be live on SkySports News. Discuss it here.