Something blue this way comes

Wahsey!This is my first entry on the blue army since they clinched their first ever premiership title after 50 years.But in the last two months,the footballing world has been pretty quiet.This is the period where most of the footie fans are suffering from football withdrawal symptoms.Actions on the pitch are few and far in between.

Though there are other football competitions being held around the globe i.e the forgetable confederations cup(mickey mouse cup) and cup libertadores(south american's equivalent of european cl),nothings beats watching epl.So our daily or weekly(whatever fancies you) fix of football is by keeping updated with all those off the pitch actions.Transfers and players' rumours are the topics that sell papers at this time of the year.Like any other clubs,chelsea have been busy in the transfer market.

For this upcoming 05/06 season,it has been quite special for us.With more players going out than in.As mour puts it,'Having too much money at your disposal can be a real headache'.Though his particular statement might have hints of arrogance in it,i certainly don't think so.With abramovich's thick cheque book backing us now,i feel that many of those clubs who wanted to sell their players to us are trying to take advantage of this fact.

When they know chelsea is interested,they will purposely inflate the price of the player to an insanely high level.More often than not,the player doesn't worth that much at all.A case in point is the recent michael essien affair.The bloodsucking lyon boss is asking for a ridiculous 30 million pound selling price.What more,he wanted a chelsea player coming to the club.Look,essien is young.He has the talent and a great future ahead of him.

But for someone who has just played a handful of champions league football and is yet to represent his country,he obviously doesn't justify the price at all.Lyon boss also went as far as to say essien is of the 'same quality' as gerrard.Please!Don't ever compare with someone who is from a totally different level.I'm not saying essien will be a bad buy but like what the gaffer said,'It's okay if the deal goes through,otherwise it's still good'.

The midfield department has seen the most changes.With parker going to tyneside,smertin on loan to charlton and the latest acquisition - shaun wright-phillips.We are lucky to secured shaun's services.His blazing speed and agility will certainly add some oil into the midfield engine.And we had a hard time in buying a decent striker.The likes of adriano,schevchenko and trezequet have refused to budge from their respective clubs.

So our crespo is recalled back from milan plus carlton cole from villa.After a dismal first season performance from drogba and kezman(now an athletico madrid player),the arrival of crespo and cole will hopefully give the attacking department renewed vigour.Together with the new defender,asier del horno,the four of them make up the new and returning faces of chelsea for season 05/06 at the moment.There's also a chap called lassana diarra.Not quite sure,but he's very young(20 years old) and most likely we won't be seeing much of him.

Neway,he has been earmarked as the replacement for our dear makelele.Right,the pre-season tour in america is already underway and chelsea has played their penultimate match against dc united which they won 2-1.On the 30th of july,there will be a rematch of chelsea and ac milan.In the first match,chelsea won the game by a slim margin of 1-0.And not forgetting,on this coming august 7th,it's none other than the community shield match between the epl champs and fa cup winners - blues v gooners!If chelsea win,it would be a perfect start for their title defence!Go go chelsea!