CHAMPIONS LEAGUE SQUAD ANNOUNCED

We have today announced our Champions League squad for the 2012/13 season, ahead of our opening fixture against Juventus on September 19.

The squad is:

A List

1. Petr Cech

2. Branislav Ivanovic

3. Ashley Cole

4. David Luiz

6. Oriol Romeu

7. Ramires

8. Frank Lampard

9. Fernando Torres

10. Juan Mata

11. Oscar

12. John Mikel Obi

13. Victor Moses

17. Eden Hazard

19. Paulo Ferreira

21. Marko Marin

22. Ross Turnbull

23. Daniel Sturridge

24. Gary Cahill

26. John Terry

28. Cesar Azpilicueta

34. Ryan Bertrand

35. Lucas Piazon

B List

46. Jamal Blackman

47. Billy Clifford

49. Aziz Deen-Conteh

54. Todd Kane

56. George Saville

58. Daniel Pappoe

60. Adam Phillip

Once again this season each club competing submits a two-part squad list. List A contains no more than 25 players during the season. Eight of those 25 places are reserved exclusively for 'locally trained players' and no club may have more than four 'association-trained players' among the eight.

A 'locally trained player' is either a 'club-trained player' or an 'association-trained player' and according to the competition regulations, a 'club-trained player' is a player who, between the age of 15 and 21 and irrespective of his nationality and age, has been with the club for a period, continuous or not, of three entire seasons.

An 'association-trained player' is a player who fulfils the same requirements as a 'club-trained player' but at other clubs under the same governing body, which generally means clubs in the same country.

A maximum of three new players can be added to the list for the knockout stages should Chelsea make it that far in the competition, provided the names are added before the end of January and the above requirements are respected, so other players may need to be removed. One of the new players could have played in the Europa League for another club.

Each club is entitled to register an unlimited number of players on the B List during the season as long as the list is submitted the day before the match in question.

A player may be registered on the B list if he is born on or after 1 January 1991 and has been eligible to play for the club for any uninterrupted period of two years since his 15th birthday. Players aged 16 may be registered on the B List if they have been registered with the club for the previous two years without interruption.

http://www.chelseafc.com/news-article/article/2910233/title/champions-league-squad-announced

Florent Florent, where art thou ?

Maybe Flo is in Russia...

So no Malouda then. He will be gone in the next few hours.

Edited September 4, 201213 yr by Scott Harris

Hope it's not another loan, although someone was talking about a contract termination and tbh that's not unlikely with this list coming out now.

Hope it's not another loan, although someone was talking about a contract termination and tbh that's not unlikely with this list coming out now.

What would be the point in that ? we would have to pay him to leave.

What would be the point in that ? we would have to pay him to leave.

They made the point it would cost us like £5 million to keep him for the contract lenght and just over £1 million in compensation if we came to an agreement.

No Idea but I have seen it done many a time, James Beattie got released from Rangers with a termination packet agreed which was obviously lower than what he would have gotten if he stayed.

Only two goalkeepers on the A-list, I would have expected Hilario on it as well.

Oh my god,if Cech gets injured we wont even get out of the group.Tursh*t is Championship level at best(same as Ferreira ,why is he still hanging on for?).

Oh my god,if Cech gets injured we wont even get out of the group.Tursh*t is Championship level at best(same as Ferreira ,why is he still hanging on for?).

oh dear god, not this sh*t again . . .

Surprise, surprise! No Malouda in the squad.

They made the point it would cost us like £5 million to keep him for the contract lenght and just over £1 million in compensation if we came to an agreement.

No Idea but I have seen it done many a time, James Beattie got released from Rangers with a termination packet agreed which was obviously lower than what he would have gotten if he stayed.

Well i suppose losing 1 million is a lot better then losing 5 million.