[mst77]

Anyone know if this will be live on Big Blue? If not what are the plans?

[BridgeMonkee]

Chelsea are sweating on the fitness of Emmanuel Petit and William Gallas after the duo were injured in the Birra Moretti tournament in Italy. Sh1t! Or should that be MEDRE!
Petit injured - whatever, but Gallas and Terry!!!
As I have often said you can NEVER have enough CB's if you wanna win the league.

No wadio coverage anywhere as far as I know.

[BridgeMonkee]

Chelsea failed in their attempt to win the Birra Moretti tournament in Bari, after losing both their matches against Juventus and Inter Milan. Losing on penalties to the Colonels Juve and 3-0 to Inter.

Do we perhaps need extra cover in CM and CB for this season? Did I mention Dino Baggio....

[Clan]

Lost to the big guns eh?

Well that puts the wins against the no hopers in perspective no doesn't it.

Picked up injuries also huh?

Hardly worth it now was it, still there is 9 days to go so maybe we'll be okay.

[Clan]

Two losses but some encouragement to be gained i suppose.

http://chelsea.rivals.net/default.as...2&stid=8269888

Throughout the first half, De Lucas looked a promising acquisition and teased the Juventus defence with a couple of inviting crosses.

Good to hear this.My personal opinion is to have him as the starter and gronks on the bench.

De Lucas moved into a central position and Gronkjaer assumed his normal wide role. De Lucas, once moved inside, didn't have the same impact on the proceedings and Juventus began to get on top.

Gronks as usual was probably at his belt and run style whick for a whole season last year got him nowt.I was hoping that he would have learned at least a side step move by now.
De Lucas it seems may be a one position player, though if he gives a good account of himdelf on the wing we'll still be ahead of last season.

Most notably being the introduction of Robert Huth and Carlton Cole, Ranieri clearly sticking to his pre-season promise that youth will be given a chance.

Guess we can read a few things between the lines here.First off i'm thinking that we are done as far as transfers go...not that we ever really got started...as the young players are geting more and more playing time.
Also i think we are going to lose a handful of games in the league this coming season due entirely to mistakes by the youngsters.
Also it makes me think that this will be yet another of those "rebuilding" seasons.

However, inexperience at the back resulted in Christian Vieri breaking the offside trap and opening the scoring for Inter after 12 minutes

Now if only we had a young Poyet to get his noggin on the end of some...
The event also enabled many of us to view De Lucas for the first time against established opposition. Enrique showed that his telling crosses could well test a few nervous defences out next season. As for the blonde hair - well we all make mistakes