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September 02, 2010 by
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Chelsea have only managed to rustle up four homegrown players (over 21) in their squad, which means they have lost four senior places in the declared team.
John Terry, Frank Lampard, Ashley Cole and Ross Turnbull are the only ‘home-grown’ English players, available, but the Blues can have an unlimited number of Under 21s coming through from the youth teams.
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September 02, 2010 by
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The coach of the Ghana national team has explained the reasons why he agreed to leave Michael Essien out of the team for next weeks matches, and says that it was an amicable arrangement.
“As you know with Michael he has had two very serious injuries both with the national team in the last two years. It affected him a lot,” he said.
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September 02, 2010 by
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The youngster Jeffrey Bruma has made it into the Blues first team squad, and also been given a new contract to keep him at the club for the next four years, despite just recovering from a hernia operation.
“I am very happy to stay here,” he said. “The recovery is going well and I have no pain where I had it before.”
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September 02, 2010 by
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The Chelsea star midfielder Frank Lampard is really happy that the team has started well, and thinks that it is good that there hasn’t been many changes over the summer months.
“Continuity is nice, especially when you have won a double but you do want to add to it and make it better although at the same time you don’t want to add to it and make it worse,” Lampard said.
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August 30, 2010 by
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Florent Malouda scored in his third game in a row for Chelsea in this weekends win over Stoke City, and his boss Carlo Ancelotti thinks that the Frenchman has come back from the World Cup with a point to prove.
Ancelotti said: “He has started well and he is one of our best players right now. I think that he has a good motivation after the World Cup. He was angry. He wanted to improve on his poor performance in the World Cup and I think he is doing very well.
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August 29, 2010 by
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Chelsea started their partnership with Adidas back in 2006 and are now halfway through their present 8-year contract, but as the quality of the merchandise supplied is extremely popular, there is no reason why they could not remain in close contact for the forseeable future.
As Herbert Hainer from Adidas said at the time: “Adidas has a policy of working with the very best and we believe Chelsea Football Club represents just that,”
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August 29, 2010 by
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Chelsea are cruising at the top of the table and should have had another tennis score against a Stoke City side that were desperate not to get another 7-0 drubbing like the end of last season. They managed to hold Chelsea to just 2-0 but not because Chelsea were lacking in chances.
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August 25, 2010 by
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The Brazilian midfielder Ramires has been training with the Chelsea first team, and is expected to make his debut this weekend against Stoke City, and he is very excited at the prospect: “I cannot wait to play my first game for Chelsea. I’ve spoken to the manager and that could happen this Saturday,” Ramires said.
“My debut will be incredible for me because I’ve always dreamed of this chance. It will be a great moment for me.
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August 23, 2010 by
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Chelsea demolished Wigan again just as they did at the end of last season to win the title. Anelka got a double and Florent Malouda scored again. The surprising thing was that Didier Drogba DIDN’T get on the scoresheet!
This means that Chelsea have scored 20 goals in their last three league games, but Malouda is not interested in history lessons!
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August 22, 2010 by
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The Chelsea boss Carlo Ancelotti told today about how pig-ignorant Alex Ferguson was last season when Chelsea beat Man utd at Old Trafford on the way to winning the Premier League title.
“Our success at Old Trafford was the one that got us the League title, even though in the end Ray Wilkins and I were forced to drink to our victory alone,” said Ancelotti.
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