The Official Thread of Chelsea FC

[gawa316]

Chelsea submit squad.

Keepers
1. Petr Cech
40. Henrique Hilario
22. Ross Turnbull

Defenders
2. Branislav Ivanovic
3. Ashley Cole
17. Jose Bosingwa
18. Yury Zhirkov
19. Paulo Ferreira
26. John Terry
33. Alex
38. Patrick van Aanholt
43. Jeffrey Bruma

Midfielders
5. Michael Essien
7. Ramires
8. Frank Lampard
10. Yossi Benayoun
12. John Mikel Obi
15. Florent Malouda
44. Gael Kakuta
46. Josh McEachran

Strikers
11. Didier Drogba
21. Salomon Kalou
39. Nicolas Anelka
23. Daniel Sturridge
45. Fabio Borini

Surely a few of them are U21 so don't need to be in the 25?

[Norf Tyrone]

6 of those names weren't submitted, so it's a 19 man squad.

It was my tidy up that makes it look like above.

[Aaron Boone]

Any word on how long Lampard is out for?
Essien's the new potential main man directing things.

[Norf Tyrone]

The boss man rings the changes for the double winners.

Ivanovic at centre half instead of Alex, and Kalou starts instead of Malouda surprisingly. One eye on Europe already.

Ramires on for Lampard.

The big, good news is the elevation of Gael Kakuta to the squad proper as hinted by Ancellotti yesterday. The wee man on the bench.

[GalwayBayBoy]

Does f**k all for my fantasy team. Drops Malouda and Alex out of nowhere.

[Norf Tyrone]

Does f**k all for my fantasy team. Drops Malouda and Alex out of nowhere.

I know Malouda is on mine too as is Lampard!!

Ah well. Have you Essien per chance??

Gooooooooal!

[anportmorforjfc]

What a goal 

[Norf Tyrone]

Goal.Of.The.Seaon!

[ross4life]

Howard has the game of his life & in the other game Green does that 

[anportmorforjfc]

Howard has the game of his life & in the other game Green does that 

This is Robert Green we are talking about!

[Dinny Breen]

Does f**k all for my fantasy team. Drops Malouda and Alex out of nowhere.

FFS Malouda comes on with minutes to play to a 100000 groans form fanatsy football managers 

[ross4life]

Does f**k all for my fantasy team. Drops Malouda and Alex out of nowhere.

FFS Malouda comes on with minutes to play to a 100000 groans form fanatsy football managers 

You think that's bad? i had Essien in my team for the first 3 games then got rid of him because of his low point scoring 

[new devil]

I have essien in mine  .......

[Dinny Breen]

He's a fantastic player but his points in FF only come in clusters, whereas Lamps, Fabregas, Rooney etc are must haves..

Tough test for Chelsea next up against a top 4 contender for the 1st time...

[Norf Tyrone]

Another good week for the double winners, especially the young fellas.

> Daniel Sturridge gets a start and scores in the Champions league cruise v Zilina.
> A debut in senior football for Josh MacEacheran.
> Some more game time for Gael Kakuta and Patrick Van Aarnholt.
> Young Dub Conor Clifford gets a new professional contract.
> A young reserve side head to St James Park and overcome a Sol Campbell led Newcastle 3-2, Milan Lakovic with two.

Hopefully it continues tomorrow against Champions League chasing Blackpool!