The official "Chelsea will come flying out of the blocks and stumble at Christmas time" thread

[CFCNick]

Right then.........

We have 12 days until the season is upon us and have a nice little fixture against Real Madrid tonight and then the pre season finale against Roma on Saturday. It's been a very promising pre season thus far. Lukaku is scoring, Schurrle has fit in as best as can be wanted and all important players are fit and raring to go.

The first few games are a nice mix of Hull and Villa at home followed by a trip to Old Trafford at a time when Moyes and United are historically sluggish and have to find a way to gel still.

In
Andre Schurrle - £18m - Bayer Leverkusen
Marco van Ginkel - £8m - Vitesse
Mark Schwarzer - free - Fulham
Isaiah Brown - £200k - West Brom
Cristian Cuevas - £1.7m - O'Higgins
Stipe Perica - undisclosed - Zadar

(I don't have a clue who, what or where the last two are!)

Out
Florent Malouda - free - Trabzonspor
Ross Turnbull - free - Doncaster
Jeffrey Bruma - £2.5m - PSV
Paolo Ferreira - retired
Yossi Benayoun - released

Loaned Out
Thibaut Courtois - Atletico Madrid
Todd Kane - Blackburn
Marko Marin - Sevilla
Oriol Romeu - Valencia
Patrick Bamford - MK Dons
Patrick van Aanholt - Vitesse
Gael Kakuta - Vitesse
George Saville - Brentford

[JamesLincs]

champions i think this season.

[Good Golly I'm Olly]

You'll do well to beat the Nodge

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