Ruben Loftus-Cheek

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3 minutes ago, Jason said:

 

Damn Chelsea are a PR machine now, after the negativity of the last few weeks to appease fans they throw in a pic of Ruben in training lol 

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Appeased!!

[killer1257 3,282]

Damn Chelsea are a PR machine now, after the negativity of the last few weeks to appease fans they throw in a pic of Ruben in training lol 

I think RLC had his Birthday yesterday

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15 minutes ago, Vybz Kartel said:

Damn Chelsea are a PR machine now, after the negativity of the last few weeks to appease fans they throw in a pic of Ruben in training lol 

Look we got a "new" player in training, Marina *wink*

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Lampard on Loftus-Cheek...

https://www.goal.com/en-gb/news/loftus-cheek-needs-time-but-chelsea-miss-his-goals-lampard/11b50gt85jwh01swc6mu7yrzvq

"I think you will miss Ruben; I don’t care who you are. You’ll miss his abilities. His natural physique, his ability to move the ball well and score the goals like he did last season, that has to be a big part of his game as well," Lampard told reporters.

"Of course we’ve missed a player of that level and it is nice and put a smile on everyone’s face on Friday because he is popular with his team-mates too. A smile on everyone’s face to see him back.

"It was the first day with us fully on Friday and it was a light session so that suited him. He has a fair way to go still, and I'm not pessimistic there. He just needs a full week training with us first, a tough week.

"Then he will need some under-23 games, and again I think the break comes at a nice time for him to work and we’ll gauge it the other side of that break and see where he is. It might be too early [to face Leicester in the under-23's on Friday.

"The week’s training is the important thing because he hasn’t had that at first-team level. Then we will consider the games after that."

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Already playing games. Next two weeks he should work as hard as he can. I know many wrote him off for this season but in the beginning he can be super sub. He and Pulisic are actually my biggest hope for the remaining of the season. 

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We’ve missed Pulisic badly 

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2 hours ago, MoroccanBlue said:

We’ve missed Pulisic badly 

and RLC 

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Exclusive: Loftus-Cheek plays first game in almost nine months

https://theathletic.com/1582518/2020/02/04/exclusive-loftus-cheek-returns/

Ruben Loftus-Cheek has moved one step closer to returning to competitive football after playing 60 minutes in a behind-closed-doors friendly at Cobham on Tuesday, his first game in almost nine months.

Chelsea’s development squad used a match against Brentford B to measure the progress of Loftus-Cheek, who has been sidelined since rupturing the achilles tendon in his left leg during a post-season friendly against New England Revolution last May. He started the game and was substituted after an hour, displaying no ill effects from his first match back.

It has been a particularly arduous rehabilitation process for Loftus-Cheek, marked by several setbacks — in contrast to fellow Chelsea academy graduate Callum Hudson-Odoi, who returned to first-team action a little more than five months after also suffering an achilles rupture during a Premier League match against Burnley in April 2019.

Loftus-Cheek’s rupture was more serious than that of Hudson-Odoi, requiring a more complicated surgical procedure to fix and more time for the damaged fibres in the tendon to heal than even he initially realised. He told The Athletic after the 1-0 home defeat to Valencia in the Champions League in September that he expected to be playing again in six weeks.

That timeframe proved too optimistic, but sources have told The Athletic that Loftus-Cheek has recently reported feeling as though he has made a breakthrough in his recovery, and that his left leg is now pain-free. He rejoined first-team training towards the end of last month after a brief spell building up his fitness with the club’s under-16s.

Loftus-Cheek’s successful outing against Brentford B paves the way for him to continue training at Cobham during the February break, with a view to more appearances for the Chelsea development squad. His progress will continue to be monitored closely, and there is no timeframe as yet for his return to contention for first-team matches.

“Where we are having a bit of time off for the players, he won’t, he’ll be working,” Lampard said of Loftus-Cheek last week. “He’ll be with the 23s to try and get some minutes – he’ll have to get some minutes. He’s had a full week of training with us for the first time and he has come through it.

“It’s great to see him but he looks short, he knows he’s short. You couldn’t not be after he has been out for so long. So yes, under-23s progression and hopefully after the break we can talk about him more when he is going to come back into the squad.”

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Him and Pulisic back will give us a bit low pace, directness and goal threat all things we bitterly need.