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I would like us to look more closely at our "world class" academy for potential players as replacements And I hope this is the last season with a multitude of players coming and going, it doesn't do anything for the stability of the team. . Still,so far, so good, a welcome change from every other window since the takeover.

Liverpool and their stupid ynwa song ,entitled fans and total delusional pundit love ins followed by spuds and their new stadium and delusional we are a big club fans

Women's Champions League league phase draw: How to watch,...The draw for the league phase of this season's UEFA Women's Champions League takes place on Friday, with the Blues set to learn our next opponents in European competition. Sonia Bompastor's side completed the job in the third qualifying round of the Women's Champions League with a 1-0 win away at Real Sociedad on Wednesday evening, thanks to Keira Walsh's second-half goal. That gave us a 6-2 victory over the Spaniards on aggregate and put our name in the hat for the next stage of the competition. Here is everything you need to know ahead of the draw for the league phase of the UEFA Women's Champions League. play video Video UWCL Highlights: Real Sociedad 0-1 ChelseaHighlights of Chelsea's 1-0 UEFA Women's Champions League qualifying second leg win against Real Sociedad... When is the league phase draw?The draw takes place at 11am UK time (12pm CET) on Friday 4 September. How can I watch the draw?The draw will be streamed live on UEFA.com and the official UEFA Women's Champions League app and will last around 45 minutes. Where does the Women's Champions League draw take place?The draw takes place at the House of European Football in Nyon, Switzerland. How does the Women's Champions League draw work?Nine teams qualified automatically for the league phase and are joined by nine clubs, including Chelsea, who entered via the third qualifying round play-off ties. Under the format introduced last season, teams face fixtures against six different sides in the league phase, playing half of those matches at home and half of them away. play video Video 'I want to make Stamford Bridge a fortress'Sonia Bompastor reacts after Chelsea qualified for this season's Champions League... The 18 participating teams will be split into three pots based on their individual club coefficient ranking, with Chelsea among the top seeds in Pot 1. Each team will then be drawn to play two opponents from each of the three pots, playing one match against a team from each pot at home and one away. In principle, teams from the same association cannot be drawn against each other, and each team may play against a maximum of two opponents from any other one association, although UEFA reserves the right to adapt this rule in case of deadlock situations or any other relevant constraints. Which teams are in the league phase?There are 18 teams competing at this stage of the competition. The Blues will face two sides from each of the three pots below, but clubs from the same association are kept apart at this stage. It means we cannot be paired with another English club in the league phase. Pot 1Barcelona (Spain) Chelsea (England) Arsenal (England) Lyonnes (France) Bayern Munich (Germany) Paris Saint-Germain (France) Pot 2Real Madrid (Spain) Hacken (Sweden) Benfica (Portugal) Juventus (Italy) Roma (Italy) Paris (France) Pot 3Manchester City (England) Koge (Denmark) Inter Milan (Italy) Leuven (Belgium) Austria Vienna (Austria) Servette (Switzerland) play video Video 'I'm not known for scoring!'Goalscorer Keira Walsh reflects on qualifying for this season's Champions League after beating Real Sociedad 6-2 on aggregate... Who can Chelsea play from Pot 1?We will draw two of the following teams, playing one at home and one away... Barcelona, OL Lyonnes, Bayern, Paris Saint-Germain Who can Chelsea play from Pot 2?We will draw two of the following teams, playing one at home and one away... Real Madrid, BK Hacken, Benfica, Juventus, Roma, Paris FC Who can Chelsea play from Pot 3?We will draw two of the following teams, playing one at home and one away... HB Koge, Inter Milan, OH Leuven, Austria Wien, Servette AFC Wimbledon's Plough Lane will host our league phase matches Where will Chelsea play our Women's Champions League home matches?All of our home league phase matches will be held at Plough Lane. When will the fixtures be announced for the league phase matches?The full fixture list with match dates and kick-off times will be communicated on Saturday 5 September. When will the league phase games be played?The precise fixture list will be announced on Saturday 5 September, but the provisional dates for the six league-phase matchdays are as follows: Matchday one: 22-23 September Matchday two: 30 September-1 October Matchday three: 28-29 October Matchday four: 10-11 November Matchday five: 18-19 November Matchday six: 16 December This Saturday, Chelsea will play at Stamford Bridge for the first time since it became our permanent home. Welcome the Blues by securing your ticket for our first WSL clash of the season against Aston Villa now!

We can outscore anyone and Arsenal are bang average in attack. 3 points up the Chels

Just remembered the amount of sh*t he used to give Mount after he left and pretend he was die hard Chels. What a fraud of a human.

They’re still spending the Coutinho money

Estevao’s talent has never been based on pace. He was never particularly quick off the mark.

You can see how it stood out amongst the other buildings.The Crystal Palace itself can be seen in this picture. It was destroyed in the fire of 1936

The (water) tower you can see in the 3rd picture was pulled down during WW2 to avoid it being used as a navigational aid by the Luftwaffe..

Before uncontested drop balls !

Come a bit early for us. Not fussed about the result. As long as we look to go at them quickly when we get the ball, like we have been doing, Ill be happy.

I think the deadline is noon on Friday to be able to play on Sunday. Not going to happen. Aye as Scott says will be back soon, but best case is bench for Arsenal.

The transfer deficit since 22/23 is around £750 million. That's purely the difference in what we've spent buying players and minus how much we've received in transfers from selling players. Our overall losses taking into account all income ( broadcasting, commercial etc) and spending for 24/25 season was a record for an English club at -£342 million I'm not clued up about whether or not all that matters, but what I DO know is that that amount of spending should have consolidated as a top elite club and enabled us to win titles and other trophies

Yeah, has lots of very good qualities at a young age and especially as he's playing in an unfamiliar league and a new club Rooney, although familiar with the PL and was playing for Everton, was just 16 when he scored THAT goal v Arsenal, but he had the build and look of someone much.older. Our lad is looking good though, hope this loan doesn't hold him back, he needs to develop into a PL player. Not sure Burnley was the best place for that to happen, hopefully the club won't let him stay there if it's not good for him

From the BBC football site last night... Player of the match Number: 12 D. Satpaev Average rating 7.18

From Sky Italia posted this morning: Speaking to Sky Italia at the Gran Gala del Calcio ceremony, Palestra delivered a positive update on his recovery. “I'm fine, it's still a few days away, but I feel much better,” he said. From the ceremony.

I guess Palestra is out for a while?

I guess if there were any average defensive midfield free agents we could sign as a temporary measure we wouldn’t be able to register them?

I personally think Strasbourg have a lot to thank BlueCo for. They could have sent them Garnacho and Badiashile.

Gonna be like a new signing…oh wait! Seriously though really looking forward to watching him this season.

We weren't totally sold on this bloke or we would have closed the deal several days earlier. If he goes to the bin dippers at least we will have increased their cost. Monaco and their CEO are not important to us in the grand scheme of things, and I think we have missed out on a player who would not have held down at starting place in our midfield. Hardly a disaster, what was his name again?

The vast majority of these rules are badly thought through and implemented, they didnt think about the ways clubs would use this, and how they would need to look to "game" them. Look at the start of it all, how the claim was it would lead to more youth players getting into the 1st team, whereas they are now basically the most saleable assets clubs have and will continue to be sold much more than ever before.

Scuro said in his statement that Camara wanted to stay (which was a lie) and was quoted as saying, "I'm very confident that soon he will have even better options and offers than the one he had yesterday." Either he was talking out of his ass, or there is truth to Ben Jacobs' report.

Absolute nonsense. Lahm, Alaba, and Kimmich are generational outliers, not templates. Bayern didn’t “convert defenders into midfielders every three years” because the roles are interchangeable; they did it because those players had elite midfield traits long before the positional switch. Lahm was basically a midfielder in disguise and is the smartest player he's ever coached, per Guardiola. Alaba played everywhere growing up. Kimmich was a 6 before he was a full‑back. A CB in a high line still plays with the entire game in front of him. That’s not midfield, and it’s nowhere close to operating as a midfielder. Pretending those roles overlap is just ignoring the fundamentals. Midfield success depends on things you can’t shortcut. Anticipation, tempo control, technical ability, constant scanning, and the intelligence to solve pressure in tight spaces. These aren’t traits any defender can “pick up”. They’re core midfield behaviours that defenders simply don’t develop by default, and your example of 3 generational players proves as much. Acting like a CB can step into midfield and replicate that because of modern positioning is, frankly, farcical. You’re treating one of the most cognitively demanding roles on the pitch as if it’s a plug and play skill set. It isn’t, and no amount of tactical buzzwords makes it so. If you were even remotely right, Van Dijk would already be a world-class #6, Pep would have kept Stones at DM permanently, and the TAA in midfield experiment wouldn't have been abandoned the very moment it started.