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Don't understand this myself, we clearly do not need a left back, we have that covered. Villas-Boas i believe used him as full back at Porto last season, why would he now change his thinking for a player and play him as a winger? It never really worked with Zhirkov, why would this be any different. If we want to sign another winger, then lets sign a proper winger, especially if we are talking about these large figures...

Great to get this deal finally concluded and i am sure he will start against Norwich. Came across very well in his CTV interview and i am sure he will be a big impact on our team and the way we play this season. Exactly the sort of player we have been crying out for for a long time.

Interesting that they will have him at Cobham until January, i guess at least it gives him time to get used to a change of country and used to the way of training and the team. I would imagine that he will be training mostly with the first team, as he will not be able to play till january it will be the best thing for him.,

I think these days people fall into 2 categories, fans and supporters. Both support Chelsea but the fan is more likely to slag off players and boo when things are going not quite how they would like it to be. Whereas a supporter (and for many reasons there are less of them at Stamford Bridge these days) when things are tough on the pitch will usually start singing and trying to build up the atmosphere and the team. They say people have a right to boo, well of course they do, doesn't mean they should and it certainly doesn't mean it is helpful, far from it. Everybody gets tense during games particulary when a game isn't going to plan, but to take that frustration out on players or the team as a whole to me is a little stupid. I am sure they would feel much better transfering that frustration into a big chant of carefree and maybe actually help lift the players rather than hurling abuse at your own players.... A lot of people seem to have forgotten what it means to be a supporter of a football team, and especially of Chelsea.

Very strange the way we have delayed the official announcement of the players we have signed this summer, such a long gap between fees being confirmed as agreed and the official announcement. Would like to see Mata in action on Saturday but if he is not training with the team then it is not very likely.

Not totally suprised to see him move on. I would have said that this summer would have been the time he moved on for sure, never really made the impact we would have hoped for whilst on his loans. The only reason it has got a bit more attention is due to the fact that he went on the pre season tour.....

So difficult to know if there is any truth in these deals as Chelsea hardly ever comment on them, only in certain cases like Delac, Raijkovic & Courtois have we confirmed we owned a player before he comes to the club...

I am very confident about our future. Under Villas-Boas were are finally doing what we should have started doing a long time ago and that is looking to build for the future, not just for the now. Piazon, Coutois, Romeu, Lukaku are are group of very young players who can shine for us in the future and make a big contribution this season. Ramires, Luiz, Sturridge and Mata are top class players still very much on the young side who are improving our squad and will be key players in the future as well as now. Add to that our own youth ranks, mainly McEachran, Bertrand and Van Aanholt who can offer a lot to the first team now. We are building for a solid future and we need to integrate them into our team now. Despite what the media say i do not believe the belief that if we are trophyless at the end of the season Villas-Boas will get sacked. Roman wants to see this squad develop, he wants to see us use our academy but most importantly is he wants to see the improvement in the squad. If we are competitive and there is obvious improvement and Villas-Boas is able to integrate these players into the squad and develop them further then he will be given more and more time to build the team we need. Because i do feel we are in a rebuilding era, we waited too long, you cannot wait until your players are into their 30's and on a decline to bring in the young future blood, there needs to be an overlap, there needs to be the time given to the youngsters to develop in the squad to take over from the established players. We are definately in the market for a creative midfiedler before the window closes and i think that will be the final piece of our squad, as long as that player is in the 20 - 26 age bracket to carry on the future. Yes we have to be realisitc and realise we are surely in a transition period but we can also be optomistic because we are making the right moves and i firmly believe Villas-Boas is the man to take us in the right direction.

He will, his situation is a lot different to Raijkovic. A season in Holland will do him the world of good. He is a very promising player. I liked a lot what i saw of him last season.

Reserve team defender Tomas Kalas has signed for Dutch side Vitesse Arnhem on loan until the end of the season. The Czech defender, who recently reached the final of the Uefa European Under 19 Championships, featured several teams for the first team during pre-season, having represented the reserves 10 times during the second half of last season. The 18-year-old originally signed from Sigma Olomouc in his homeland in the summer of 2010, but spent the first half of last season back on loan there as a first-team squad member. Source: Chelsea FC

Brilliant signings. We really are making some clever signings now, in relation to this season and with a view very much to looking forward also. Mata will be a top class addition to the team....

We have got excellent options now, which is only good for us. I think it is likely that 1 of Malouda, Kalou and Anelka will leave before the end of the month though. Our squad is starting to take a nice shape finally.

I doubt he will do, i would think it will be a 4-3-3 again. The only real question is how does AVB intend to rotate Torres and Drogba?

Lets hope the news of an improved offer is real and we can get the deal done and dusted, this is a signing we desperately need in my opinion. Would be great to play a 3 of Mata, Torres and Sturridge....

Lukaku will not be playing on the wing. I would imagine our front 3 would be Malouda, Torres and Anelka. Unless AVB springs a suprise and plays with 2 up top Torres and Drogba. Would expect us to make a statement in this game, first home game of the season and a real chance to show what we are going to be about this season. Losing Cech is a blow but we should be able to soldier through until Man Utd without him.

If we end up signing Juan Mata and Luka Modric i think it will have been a fantastic summer for us and it would put in a great position to really fight on all fronts.

Jeffrey Bruma has today (Thursday June 30) signed on loan with Hamburg on a one-year loan deal. The Dutch defender, who recently made the step up from the Under 21 to the full international squad, will spend next season at the Imtech Arena, with the option of another year afterwards. The 19-year-old spent three months on loan at Leicester City last season, scoring two long-range goals against Watford in his 11 appearances. Prior to that Bruma had made his first team debut for Chelsea in late 2009 and has gone on to make nine appearances so far. He remains contracted to Chelsea until 2014, and will link up with former Chelsea team-mates Michael Mancienne, Jacopo Sala and Gokhan Tore, who all recently signed permanent deals with the German club. Source: Chelsea FC

Reserve team goalkeeper Sam Walker will spend the coming season on loan at Northampton Town. It is a second loan spell for the 19-year-old, 6ft 6in goalkeeper who was between the posts throughout Chelsea's victorious 2010 FA Youth Cup-winning campaign. In March he went to League Two Barnet and helped The Bees preserve their Football League status with a last-day 1-0 win against Port Vale and was on the losing side just once in seven appearances, although he was sent off once for two yellow cards midway through his stay. Walker joined Chelsea three seasons ago from Millwall when still a schoolboy, and after featuring increasingly in the youth team despite plenty of competition, made his debut for the reserves in the 2009/10 season and last season made six appearances at that level. Northampton, managed by former Bristol City and Yeovil boss Gary Johnson, will compete in League Two this campaign. Source: Chelsea FC

Below is the Youth Teams fixtures, results and highlights for the season 2011/2012. Also below is the goalscorers for the season: July 2011: August 2011: Saturday 20th August 2011: v Newcastle United (A) Lost 3 - 4 Highlights: http://bit.ly/qG9HCL Saturday 27th August 2011: v Crewe Alexandra (A) Lost 0 - 2 Highlights: http://bit.ly/nKvA8X September 2011: Saturday 3rd September 2011: v Birmingham City (A) Won 6 - 2 Highlights: http://bit.ly/qWRJSs Saturday 10th September 2011: v Coventry City (H) Lost 2 - 3 Highlights: http://bit.ly/qwOMhW Saturday 17th September 2011: v Watford (A) Draw 2 - 2 Highlights: http://bit.ly/qNyGEm Saturday 24th September 2011: v Ipswich Town (H) Draw 3 - 3 Highlights: http://bit.ly/orrblE October 2011: Saturday 1st October 2011: v Southampton (A) Lost 3 - 2 Highlights: http://bit.ly/pLCXVP Saturday 8th October 2011: v Arsenal (H) Lost 3 - 0 Highlights: http://bit.ly/qonkLh Saturday 15th October 2011: v Portsmouth (H) Won 2 - 1 Highlights: http://bit.ly/q5SQrR Saturday 29th October 2011: v Crystal Palace (A) Lost 0 - 4 Highlights: http://bit.ly/v2kUX3 November 2011: Saturday 5th November 2011: v West Ham United (A) Won 1 - 0 Highlights: http://bit.ly/uaRpNi Saturday 12th November 2011: v Fulham (H) Won 4 - 2 Highlights: http://bit.ly/vgJlLu Saturday 19th November 2011: v Charlton (A) Won 1- 0 Highlights: http://bit.ly/usnE0D December 2011: Saturday 3rd December 2011: v Norwich City (H) Won 2 - 0 Highlights: http://bit.ly/sYNkIW Saturday 10th December 2011: v Portsmouth (A) Won 5 - 2 Wednesday 14th December 2011: Doncaster Rovers (H)(FA) Won 2 - 1 Highlights: http://bit.ly/tYfTU7 Saturday 17th December 2011: v Crystal Palace (H) Won 2 - 1 Highlights: http://bit.ly/AdvqXP January 2012: Saturday 7th January 2012: v West Ham United (A) Lost 2 - 3 Wednesday 11th January 2012: v Norwich (A)(FA) Draw 0 - 0 (Won 4 - 2 pens) Highlights: http://bit.ly/ze1iMS Saturday 14th January 2012: v Fulham (H) Lost 1 - 2 Highlihts: http://bit.ly/wFLxX0 Saturday 21st January 2012: v Charlton Athletic (A) 11:00am Saturday 28th January 2012: v Norwich City (H) 12:00pm February 2012: Saturday 11th February 2012: v Ipswich Town (H) 11:00am Saturday 18th February 2012: v Southampton (A) 11:00am Saturday 25th February 2012: v Arsenal (H) 11:00am March 2012: Saturday 3rd March 2012: v Tottenham Hotspur (A) 11:00am Saturday 10th March 2012: v Reading (H) 11:00am Saturday 17th March 2012: v Bristol City (A) 12:00pm Saturday 31st March 2012: v Aston Villa (A) 11:00am April 2012: Saturday 21st April 2012: v Cardiff City (H) 11:00am May 2012: Top Scorers: Islam Feruz = 6 Alex Kiwomya = 6 Reuben Loftus-Cheek = 4 John Swift = 4 Lewis Baker = 3 Ismail Seremba = 3 Amin Affane = 2 Anjur Osmanovic = 2 Own Goal = 2 Nathan Ake = 1 Tom Howard = 1 Todd Kane = 1 Reece Mitchell = 1 Adam Nditi = 1 Lucas Piazon = 1 Phillip Prosenik = 1 Key: A = Game Played away from Home H = Game Played at Home F = Friendly Game FA = FA Youth Cup Game

The clubs policy at the moment is a good one i feel, Torres aside we are really building for a longer term future. Ramires, Luiz, Piazon, Courtois, Romeu, Lukaku all top top young players, add McEachran, Bertrand, Van Aanholt and a few others to that and we are looking good for the future.

Very pleased to finally get Lukaku sorted, beeing talked about for well over a year now. I am sure he will be a big success for us.

Actually i blame the Barca bench for that game kicking off there. All of them got up and got involved as soon as that tackle went in, if they had stayed put Marcelo would have got sent off and the game would have carried on. The games have taken on a real new edge ot them now that is always boiling over. Jose seems to have become an exaggerated caricature of himself recently at Real. Doesn't do himself too much justice in those videos above, really don't think he is particulary happy there to be honest. With the players both team have these games can be real classics with some great football, but they always decend into madness now.

Not concerned about this deal as he has been training with the squad for a whole week now. Just very confused as to why a deal would have taken so long to get sorted considering a fee was agreed with his club over a week ago now.... very strange, will be nice to have him confirmed and Romeu at training to finally inject some new blood into the squad. Not concerned about this deal as he has been training with the squad for a whole week now. Just very confused as to why a deal would have taken so long to get sorted considering a fee was agreed with his club over a week ago now.... very strange, will be nice to have him confirmed and Romeu at training to finally inject some new blood into the squad.

If we do not bring any wingers in this summer then a loan is a bad move and i would bring him straight in, but if we do sign a top winger then sending him on loan would be good for him.

Would be a nice signing to make for sure. If we have made an initial offer then the figures being mentioned are not terrible and i would think a deal could be concluded. Again this is exactly the type of player we are crying out for.