Pulisic, Havertz, Mount, Sterling, Gallagher, Ziyech and have I missed anyone?

Takeways for far - 

Pulisic makes good deliveries from corners.

Ziyech good freekick to the keeper with pace and good work rate and assist for Morrocco. A while since we have seen good free kicks at CFC.

Kova at his best for Croatia, for me similar to CFC except here his final ball is finding an attacker...........

Mount not great not bad either.

Havertz, not impressing so far although should have been on the score sheet against Japan yet Musiala decided to ignore the team and go for goal of the tournament.

Gallagher untested to date.

 

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Koulibaly, Mendy and Azpi. I think there is one or two others.

That Morata guy looks alright though!

We have 12 players in Qatar :

• Mount, Sterling, Gallagher (England)
• Mendy, Koulibaly (Senegal)
• Thiago Silva (Brazil)
• Havertz (Germany)
• Kovacic (Croatia)
• Pulisic (USA)
• Ziyech (Morocco)
• Azpilicueta (Spain)
• Zakaria (Switzerland)

 

Pulisic and Ziyech have probably helped their cause in getting a January move. We should be happy about that I guess. 

Not much to shout about on the CFC front in general though. 

Havertz, in his "generational talent" hat, doing his bit to showcase his generation as probably the worst generation ever to play football 🙂 

Forgot Ampadu (Wales), Lukaku (Belgium) and Rahman (Ghana), who of course are all still technically ours, but out on loan.

In terms of our World Cup "Old Boys" I came up with this list :

• Ake (Netherlands)
• Rice (England)
• Christensen (Denmark)
• Giroud (France)
• Rudiger, Musiala (Germany)
• Morata (Spain)
• Courtois, De Bruyne, E.Hazard, T.Hazard, Batshuayi (Belgium)
• Pasalic (Croatia)
• Lamptey (Ghana)

23 hours ago, Sexyfootball said:

Forgot Ampadu (Wales), Lukaku (Belgium) and Rahman (Ghana), who of course are all still technically ours, but out on loan.

In terms of our World Cup "Old Boys" I came up with this list :

• Ake (Netherlands)
• Rice (England)
• Christensen (Denmark)
• Giroud (France)
• Rudiger, Musiala (Germany)
• Morata (Spain)
• Courtois, De Bruyne, E.Hazard, T.Hazard, Batshuayi (Belgium)
• Pasalic (Croatia)
• Lamptey (Ghana)

Do people keep forgetting Baba Rahman the man? I think I saw him playing for Ghana and is still a Chelsea player

Captain America delivers again........

So that's 10 of our 12 players through to the knock out stage ... and Zakaria can still join them if Switzerland get through tomorrow.

Only Havertz is definitely out so far 🙂 

At least Havertz will get a good 2 weeks break and be ready for the return of the regular football.  I expect Croatia to go deep into the competition, so Kovacic probably be injured again. None of the English players are definite starters, Silva will have a long rest and at his age, shouldnt demand  2 games a week out of him

Havertz scored two last night and should if Musiala passes to the spare man in front of goal have got the equaliser against Japan.

Very slim margins in some of the games between success and failure.

On Baba Raham he signed a 5 year deal with us in 2015 and has been on loan ever since though not sure if he is still on our books.

So far for me, Ziyech, Pulisic and Mendy standing out among our contingent. 

 

 

2026 edition.

• Moises Caicedo (Ecuador)

• Enzo Fernandez (Argentina)

• Malo Gusto (France)

• Jorrel Hato (Netherlands)

• Nicolas Jackson (Senegal)

• Reece James (England)

• Pedro Neto (Portugal)

• Kendry Paez (Ecuador)

• Mike Penders (Belgium)

• Mamadou Sarr (Senegal)

Trev Chalobah

1 hour ago, Jezz said:

2026 edition.

• Moises Caicedo (Ecuador)

• Enzo Fernandez (Argentina)

• Malo Gusto (France)

• Jorrel Hato (Netherlands)

• Nicolas Jackson (Senegal)

• Reece James (England)

• Pedro Neto (Portugal)

• Kendry Paez (Ecuador)

• Mike Penders (Belgium)

• Mamadou Sarr (Senegal)

• Trevoh Chalobah (England)

Updated

Edited Thursday at 13:564 days by Backbiter

Former Chelsea managers at the World Cup?

Poch
Potter
Carlo
Stevey Clarke
Tuchel

On 03/07/2026 at 13:10, TheCeleryKing said:

Former Chelsea managers at the World Cup?

Poch
Potter
Carlo
Stevey Clarke
Tuchel

Not that I particularly enjoy being pedantic, but Steve Clarke was never a Chelsea manager.

If we are including former Chelsea players who are International Managers at the World Cup then Didier Deschamps can be added to the list !

2 hours ago, Sexyfootball said:

Not that I particularly enjoy being pedantic, but Steve Clarke was never a Chelsea manager.

If we are including former Chelsea players who are International Managers at the World Cup then Didier Deschamps can be added to the list !

assistant manager

54 minutes ago, TheCeleryKing said:

assistant manager

That was the peak of our existence really.

Former Chelsea players at the World Cup?
Carney Chibueze Chukwuemeka playing for Austria - i had forgotten about that.

1 hour ago, TheCeleryKing said:

Former Chelsea players at the World Cup?
Carney Chibueze Chukwuemeka playing for Austria - i had forgotten about that.

I had no idea Chukky had Swiss citizenship. Good for him he made the World Cup

1 hour ago, TheCeleryKing said:

Former Chelsea players at the World Cup?
Carney Chibueze Chukwuemeka playing for Austria - i had forgotten about that.

The list I came up with :

• Moreira (who is now Belgian apparently !)

• Madueke

• Felix

• Veiga

• Chukwuemeka

• Lukaku

• Havertz

• Pulisic

9 minutes ago, Valerie said:

I had no idea Chukky had Swiss citizenship. Good for him he made the World Cup

Does Swiss citizenship get a lad into the Austrian team? 🧐

2 hours ago, Sexyfootball said:

The list I came up with :

• Moreira (who is now Belgian apparently !)

• Madueke

• Felix

• Veiga

• Chukwuemeka

• Lukaku

• Havertz

• Pulisic

Kante
Rudiger
Courtois
Kevin De Bruyne
Ake

Cucurella

Edited 2 hours ago2 hr by TheCeleryKing

2 hours ago, TheCeleryKing said:

Does Swiss citizenship get a lad into the Austrian team? 🧐

Oh, my bad. Something mountainous anyway 😉

2 minutes ago, Valerie said:

Oh, my bad. Something mountainous anyway 😉

yep
Sound of Music vibes

On 02/07/2026 at 08:51, Jezz said:

2026 edition.

• Moises Caicedo (Ecuador)

• Enzo Fernandez (Argentina)

• Malo Gusto (France)

• Jorrel Hato (Netherlands)

• Nicolas Jackson (Senegal)

• Reece James (England)

• Pedro Neto (Portugal)

• Kendry Paez (Ecuador)

• Mike Penders (Belgium)

• Mamadou Sarr (Senegal)

Barco (Argentina)