It seems like the writing is on the wall - Chelsea to dominate world football over the next few years - either that or we set ourselves up to do a Real Madrid - either way you will either love or hate Chelsea next year.


Transfers
With Kalou, Shevchenko and Ballack all confirmed and Obi Mikel very likely, Chelsea have strengthened their squad of players massively and with Ashley Cole or Roberto Carlos likely to follow then it would seem that if Mourinho can mold them into a cohesive unit as he has done so well in the past with the players at his diposal:

Then - watch out world!


Contrary to my last post, Shevchenko has been given the number 7 shirt by Chelsea and his website is Sheva7. Michael Ballack will probably adorn the number 13 shirt (see website Michael-Ballack.com).


The truly notorious and unreliable 'Daily Star' have Ashley Cole moving to Chelsea in a ₤20m move this summer as Roberto Carlos seems to be trying to get more out of Real Madrid before choosing Chelsea. In fact Chelsea have already given the down payment to the FA after tapping up Ashley Cole last summer.


Hypocritical Arsenal


Its funny how hypocritical the Arsenal management can be after making such a fuss over Ashley Cole last year, it now 'allegedly' transpires that the Arsenal Mafia secretly and deviously laundered money into Belgian side Beveren to gain control mischeviously contrary to FIFA and UEFA rules.
Well after all the fuss they made last year I hope they pay a comparable price to Chelsea with a large fine and mud on their two faces and stop being such whinging hypocrites in future. We all know shit goes on in the cloak and dagger world of player agents and with such large sums involved these days it it hardly suprising. It would seem that David Dein has been following the Juventus management style abusing his power within the FA to Arsenal's advantage (or Chelsea's disadvantage).


The World Cup

With Del Horno's injury there is no need for Chelsea fans to follow Spain any more who are now comprised of Liverpool, Arsenal & Barcelona players - so we can hate them instead. But we do have Ukraine to replace them. Let me predict here and now that The Ukraine will be the suprise team of the tournament and will do a Croatia/South Korea/Japan and make the Quarter or Semi finals.


With the World Cup just a week away, the excitement mounts - looking forward to tomorrow's drubbing of the Reggae Boyz by the England Lions - and then on to The World Cup where Chelsea players will dominate the proceedings.


Euro Under 21

Sorry to see Chelsea's last interest in the Euro under 21's die with the 3-2 loss of France to Holland with our exciting young midfeilder Lassana Diarra. He has been billed as the successor to Claude Makelele for both Chelsea and France.