January 2012
January Transfers In
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Romario - 18 year old Brazilian signed from Vitoria for 3 million on a three year deal to act as back up on the right.
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Hervin Ongenda - 16 year old French striker joins our Youth team for a fee of 1.9 million from french giants Paris St German.
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Kenneth Omeruo - 18 year old Nigerian defender signed on a free from Hard Foundation.
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Gary Cahill - 26 year old England defender signed a two and a half year contract on 33kpw from Bolton Wanderers for 8.25 million.
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Lucas Piazon - Brazilian 18 year old Striker signs a four and a half year deal at 23kpw after his 8 million transfer from Sao Paulo.
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Patrick Bamford - 18 year old Nottingham Forest Striker signs an eighteen month deal after his transfer from the Championship side.
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Kevin De Bruyne - 20 year old Belgian Midfielder signs a two and a half year deal after his transfer from Genk at 10kpw.
Other Transfers
It has also been a busy midseason transfer window elsewhere in the league where
Manchester City have signed left midfielder
Juan Manuel Vargas from Fiorentina for 18 million,
Tottenham have signed dutch rightback
Gregory Van Der Wiel from Ajax for 17 million &
Arsenal have signed midfielder
Andre Ayew from Olympique Marseille for 13 million. Leftback
Martin Olsson has switched from Blackburn to
Sunderland in a 14 million deal.
Liverpool have been extremely busy this January spending a combined fee of 40 million on striker
Oscar Cardozo from Benfica, and midfielders
Chris Brunt from West Brom &
Pavel Mamaev from CSKA Moscow. Also attacking midfielder
Ricardo Quaresma signs for
Aston Villa after his 10 million move from Turkish outfit Besiktas. In Italy two major transfers where
Napoli sign midfielder
Walter Montillo from Cruzeiro for 13 million &
Inter strenghten their defence by signing
Matias Silvestre from Palermo for 11 million. Meanwhile in Spain, rightback
Alberto Lora completes a 10 million transfer from Sporting to
Sevilla.
News
Yet another busy transfer window with no less than seven signings, five of which were u18s showing our intent to build for the future. Also despite experienced defender Gary Cahill's arrival,
Alex signed a new four year deal with the club worth over 18 million after his performances this season. Right wingback
Romario will be immediately loaned to
Vitesse for the season whilst youngster
Aziz Deen-Conteh will be joining
Northampton on loan aswell. Fellow youngster
Jacob Mellis has also won the
nPower Championship Player of the Month for January whilst with Derby County on loan. We now look forward to an away replay with
Wolves in the
FA Cup 4th Round whilst the winner will be facing
Sunderland away in the
5th Round. After our 6-0
League Cup semi-final success we have now made it to the
Final at
Wembley where we will face
West Ham. Meanwhile
Sunderland have sacked manager
Steve Bruce and given the job to
Mick McCarthy who has left
Wolves with immediate effect. Steve Bruce has taken over his job with the Wolverhampton club in what turns out to be a straight swap for the clubs.
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Ashley Cole fell and broke his arm in the League Cup tie and is out for 5-6 weeks.
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Arturo Vidal fractured his arm and will be out for 3-4 weeks.
Premier League
Chelsea vs Manchester United 3-2 ![]()
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Fernando Torres
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Ramires
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Daniel Sturridge
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Wolves vs Chelsea 1-2 ![]()
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Fernando Torres
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Alex
Blackburn vs Chelsea 0-2 ![]()
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Arturo Vidal
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Alex
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Chelsea vs Fulham 0-3 ![]()
Norwich vs Chelsea 1-5 ![]()
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Frank Lampard
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Own Goal
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Raul Meireles
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Romelu Lukaku
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Alex
FA Cup 3rd-4th Round
Middlesborough vs Chelsea 1-2 ![]()
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Daniel Sturridge
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Alex
Chelsea vs Wolves 1-1 ![]()
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Oriol Romeu
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League Cup Semi Final
Chelsea vs Leicester City 2-0 ![]()
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Fernando Torres
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Own Goal
(Alex
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Leicester City vs Chelsea 0-4 ![]()
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Fernando Torres
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Romelu Lukaku
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John Terry 2
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Juan Mata fell and broke his arm and is out for 5-6 weeks.
John Obi Mikel
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Romario - 18 year old Brazilian signed from Vitoria for 3 million on a three year deal to act as back up on the right.
