official website state that Eto'o will take 29..in the SQUAD LISTS ANNOUNCED.

they are not buying prospect..they are buying first team..experience..30 mil is a fair price..but above all..i dont think we will sell..huhu

depth..all competition except UCL..if he perform well..he will be in the squad for knock out stage..

I think Juan Mata will start the Everton game..because..we will not risk Hazard..and Willian debut !! Schurrle will start if Oscar injured..

yap..he with PSV now..but chelsea insert the buy back clause..we still looking at him..let him grow 1st at PSV..

Technical Director Michael Emenalo on Mourinho, Lukaku, and youth development at Chelsea

International Man of Mystery Michael Emenalo - usually seen in his disguise as Chelsea's Technical Director - doesn't speak very often in public. When he does, we pay attention.

In part 1 of his interview with Chelsea's official website, he addresses three main topics:

Jose Mourinho

Emenalo first showed up at Chelsea just as Mourinho was leaving, answering interim undertaker Avram Grant's call to come keep him company while Chelsea's collection of egos steered the club to second place finishes in the Premier League, the Champions League, and the League Cup. Chelsea's official story is that Grant called on a "trusted face" from his time at Maccabi Tel Aviv but seeing as how Grant got the boot and Emenalo is still around six years later, perhaps there's a bit more to the story than that. Even if the "bit more" is simply that Emenalo has a very particular set of skills that we can use.

No doubt familiar with the narrative of Mourinho vs. Technical Directors, Emenalo was rumored to have offered his resignation to grease the wheels of The Special One's resurrection. Which document Abramovich then presumably fed to the petite giraffes and told the Director to get back to work.

"[Mourinho] is a very good decision maker and a trusted component in the decision-making process due to what he has achieved here. He came in with clear ideas of what he wanted to do, which were not dissimilar from what we were already in the process of doing, and that helped."
Synergy!

"The pre-season was outstanding. The manager was incredible, with great ideas which he started to implement with the players from day one. The players responded amazingly and it was one of the best pre-seasons I have seen here."
I think we all felt this last bit, the squad brimming with confidence and working on recreating that wonderful winning mentality that has been sorely lacking for some time.

Romelu Lukaku

Included no doubt in that "clear ideas" line above is the club's emphasis on youth. Buying super-young, super-promising talent is the club's long-term plan, but how does that fit in again with Lukaku's second consecutive loan?

"But we are not desperate [to get Rooney] and we know for the future we have Romelu Lukaku and incredible hope that he will come through and lead the line. People keep forgetting that he is only 20 and looking at the short-term plan, we don't want to put too much pressure on a young player like him."

"So if we weren't able to get Rooney and we had Lukaku, Ba and Torres, we felt comfortable with them but we also felt comfortable to bring Eto'o to give us a little bit of competition, because we wanted to freshen up that position. We have every confidence in Torres, Ba and Lukaku but with Eto'o we have bought experience."
Ok, fine. I'm going to be incredibly patient and, incredibly, will hang onto incredible hope that we will, incredibly, give Lukaku the incredible chance at the not so incredibly distant future to let him fulfill at his incredible potential.

Also, this Eto'o fellow better bring his A game because if there was one thing we were not lacking with Torres and Ba, it was experience.

Youth Development

The club's loan policy is supposed to get addressed in part 2 of the interview, so for now Emenalo has drawn attention to the benefits of having the "in-house" development teams play several times more matches than they used to back in his day:

"We are very happy we now have a system for both academy and Under-21 teams that allows the young players to play a lot of games, because the only way you develop young players is for them to play."

"When I first came to Chelsea, the reserves had an 18-game schedule and that was not going to prepare a young player for the first team and to compete with someone like Frank Lampard who was playing 60 games, or Michael Essien who was playing 55. [...] I feel convinced that if those players over a two-year period had played 35 games a season like Lewis Baker has just done, they would be much closer to the first team than they are now."

"When the next batch of players come from the Academy or come back from loan, they are much more ready than they used to be, and we have very good young English players and young foreign players we have developed here who we feel in the near future will come to the first team and will stay."
Right words; right thoughts. Now let's see that right action, too.

Source

This post has been edited by Ichighost: Sep 9 2013, 02:14 AM

our depth will be tested against everton

ramires..and probably oscar also consider as a sure starter..

Schurrle,KDB,Mata

i expect this trio will play against everton if hazard and oscar still unfit..

EMENALO: PLANS IN PLACE - PART TWO

Posted on: Mon 09 Sep 2013
Yesterday, Chelsea's technical director Michael Emenalo spoke about players coming into the squad, youth development and the pre-season. In part two of the interview today, he looks at loans…

Anyone who observed Chelsea in the transfer market and our use of the loan system in the last couple of years is likely to have noticed a trend.

Players with youth on their side but good first team experience in other leagues, and often with international caps to their names too, have been signed and then loaned out to play top-flight football elsewhere.

Potentially those players had an immediate part to play in the Chelsea squad but in the case of Kevin De Bruyne, an extra season impressing in the Bundesliga following a half-season loan at his former club in Belgium made sure he was ready for this season at the Bridge.

Regular action at Vitesse Arnhem helped Tomas Kalas win his first Czech Republic cap and convince Jose Mourinho he could play a part this year.

This summer Wallace went on loan to Inter Milan and current Ghana international Christian Atsu is at Vitesse having been recruited from Porto. Romelu Lukaku and Thibaut Courtios continue as loan players in top-level leagues, and there are a range of other loans through the younger ages at the club.

'It is a pattern,' confirms Chelsea's technical director Michael Emenalo, 'and this season is a good test for what we've implemented with young players given the stipulations of Financial Fair Play, but even regardless of the Financial Fair Play regulations, we think this is the best way to go.'

The loan policy is one the club believes has merit in ensuring the conveyor belt of developing players heading towards the first team has an even spread of potential along its length, and not just clusters at particular ages. Young players coming into the first team at Chelsea are asked to begin at a very high standard indeed, and they need to be ready for that.

'When I came here six years ago we had great players but what we had below those great players were players too young and too far apart to be able to integrate them. Now we have great players and they are not so far apart. Now we have a player like Frank Lampard at 35 but then we have quality players in Ramires, John Mikel Obi, Michael Essien and Marco van Ginkel, and then we have from the Academy young players who can come in and do the job like Nathaniel Chalobah and Josh McEachran.

'We are trying to bridge the gap and at left-back now behind Ashley Cole we have Ryan Bertand but we also have Patrick van Aanholt.

'We have Romelu Lukaku who soon will be able to come back in and Juan Mata is 25, Oscar and Hazard are 22 but behind them from the Academy, in terms of age, Lewis Baker, Ruben Loftus-Cheek and Jeremie Boga are not too far away.

'By the time those older guys are 27, the younger ones will be around 22 and ready. The gap is not too big and that makes it easier to bring through young players.'

As current Academy players progress towards a regular place in the first team squad, time out on loan at some stage is highly likely despite optimism that the reconfigured Under-21 League is raising the standard of the competition at that level. Emenalo spoke yesterday about the importance of more games for developing players.

Comparisons have recently been made in the media between the number of players Chelsea have out on loan and the number for other top clubs in Europe, but that can be misleading given for instance the 'B' sides of the Spanish giants playing in the lower divisions there.

'We are trying to find a way because given Financial Fair Play stipulations we need to recruit young and we also need to have a reservoir of talent that we develop,' says Emenalo.

'We identified that for young players, the ages of 18 to 21 is the most difficult time as they wonder if they are good enough for the Chelsea first team and what is next for them. When they only play in the Reserves/Under-21s from 18 to 20 you don't get them to ascend to the level where they are ready to come into the first team and do a job properly.

'We felt it is better for them at that age to go on loan to somewhere where they get visibility and good competition. For psychological and physical reasons that is the best thing to do at that age. They test themselves and they feel good about competing at a higher level, and it also gives us a chance to evaluate them and know if they are ready to come back.

'While we are doing that, the players who are very talented from 16 to 18-years-old get the opportunity to play 45 games in a very good Under-21 league, the UEFA Youth League and the FA Youth Cup. So the development from 16 to 18 is perfect because they have the right games to play, and from 18 to 21 they can go on loan and have the right games to play and it gives us the opportunity to develop them properly and to evaluate them.

'What is happening with the Under-21 league is a good thing but it still doesn't help with a talented Chelsea player at 20. He is aspiring to a higher level if you look at Kenneth Omeruo who is not even 20 yet, or Tomas Kalas.'



Omeruo, who is a full Nigeria international, and Kalas (pictured above left) were on loan last season and were near-ever-presents in the Dutch top flight. Similar applies to slightly older players like Van Aanholt and Gael Kakuta.

With the reasons why players are sent on loan clear, the other question is where to send them. There are offers every year from many clubs who want an informal relationship for us to help each other out regarding loans, and plenty of clubs have been involved in loans with Chelsea.

'If it is working with Vitesse it is because the Dutch league plays in a desirable way and they have done what they promised,' explains Emenalo.

'When they say they want a player and we say are you sure you need him and they say yes, the player actually does play.

'If tomorrow a Championship team in England wants the same kind of relationship with us it is no problem, Vitesse has no exclusivity. We sent Josh McEachran to Middlesbrough and he played a lot and we were very happy with that, and if Middlesbrough want a player in the future we will be happy to send him because we think we have a good relationship and we have confidence the player will be very well looked after.

'The loan process at Chelsea has become very professional and a good deal of thought has gone into it,' Emenalo sums up.

'We don't send players out because we are trying to recover some money, we send them because we want them to play and develop and we want to monitor them. We have a system in place, headed by me and with Eddie Newton supported by [head of player welfare] Kevin Campello, that means we keep a close eye on them and the manager knows exactly what is happening at all times.'

Source

yap..reserves will only compete against other reserves club..

while B Team..will compete against other senior player..

I dont think we will see this ever in the PL..

thats why we create this networking and sister clubs so that we can gave the necessary experience to the young players..

I will say that our system work well within the PL boundary..of cuz La Liga's B Team is better approach..but as for now..I settle for this system..

Bamford Nets #6

Down in League One yesterday, in one of only a handful of fixtures played, courtesy of the World Cup qualifiers were currently embroiled in, one man added another goal to his tally this season.

Patrick Bamford it goal number 6 for the season as the MK Dons drew 1-1 with Swindon.

Bamford, as we reported yesterday, is establishing himself as a potential Premier League striker with his performances and after the game the 20 year-old had this to say about life,

"I`m on a good roll and I like to set myself targets.""

"I`ve only met my boss Jose Mourinho once when I went back to Chelsea on a day off. He was having lunch in the cafeteria, so I introduced myself and we had a couple of minutes` conversation."

"He`s ultimately the man I need to impress."

"For me, the more goals I get the more my name will be thrown about. Somebody from Chelsea watches every game."

Power to the lads shooting boots I say!

Read more: http://www.chelsea.vitalfootball.co.uk/art...3#ixzz2eSFNgvr2

ross barkley and james mccarthy + deulofeu and mirallas


cant wait for Willian and hopefully Eto'o debut..

will watch the game from the stand.

or this one..

This post has been edited by Ichighost: Sep 10 2013, 04:41 PM

cahill started all game now..i bench him to give chance for luiz to come in and terry dont have international game but play against celtic..both fit..

lampard started all the game so far plus 2 international games..so..i bench him to give him rest..

yap ramires in..ginkel subs maybe..damn..we got tonnes of midfielder..hahaha

come on !! we got Torres !! #OptimismLvl99 #Mission33

This post has been edited by Ichighost: Sep 10 2013, 05:30 PM

60mil pound..40mil upfront..

well..keep Cech and keep Courtois..still too early to do anything..

If we sign Valdes..that will be for 2nd GK spot..Schwarzer only one year contract..

at least he still in blue..hahaha

to others..

yes..we lost..so?

to chelsea fan

this is chelsea fc..remember that..