It would be madness - they are some of the very best players in the world, are still very young and are still adapting to the league.

They are the future of CFC for the next 10 years.

Hazard will be the best of the bunch - the guy will be immense if he stays fit, genuine top 5 in the world material.

"Double champions of Europe, we know what we are".

One more day.

I guess that its time to reflect on just how good this feels. Its never happened before, and i doubt it will ever happen again.

Whos "Jamal Blackman"?

Youth team keeper in 2011/12..

http://www.chelseafc.com/under21s-ar...rticle/1172284

When I checked the timings for our friendlies yesterday I read that our first game had been put back until tonight Not really important, but I still would have liked to watch it.

It was on ESPN, also if Chelsea TV is anything like MUTV then it will probably be repeated a lot on there.

You can watch extended highlights at the City website: http://mcfc.co.uk/citytv/Match-highl...ights-St-Louis

I think you have to register (for free?) at the Chelsea website.

Was a good game - maybe not for a Chelsea fan (!) - and was a good advert for English football and both Manchester City and Chelsea football clubs.

Dave

Attendence of 48,000 for the game in St Louis, sounds good ? I suppose it was more of an exhibition game, 3-0 up, then we lose 3-4. Man city also started with more first choice players than us, that's my excuse anyway.

Just been watching the game. Man City had a stronger team out than us, so the result was no real surprise. Good, entertaining game though. Loftus-Cheek looked decent.

The first game was shown for free on Chelsea TV so assuming the 2nd one will be as well.

Not watched it yet, As getting up at 1:30 to watch a team managed by Rafa is not something on my list of things to do, But recorded it so will watch it this afternoon but from what i heard it was a typical friendly, Nothing to write home about but a chance to sell some shirts and get a few more fans to watch the game of Soccer.

Sold out in 20 minutes apparently

Blimey, we're more popular than Beyonce.

meaningless game so who cares what the result is, struggling to see the point in these games, already played 69 games this season and we are basically playing another 2 ? Must just be purely for money / increase our fan base. Been a long season.

Stupid, isn't it? Especially when we're using Mata, Oscar, Luiz etc in them who have already played a huge amount of games over the season and still have the Confederations Cup to come this summer! At this rate they'll be burnt out before next season starts.

I don't think it's ever acceptable to lose after going 3-0 up. Dunno what it is with us against Man City right now...our record against other top 6 teams is impressive, its just those bastards we can't beat.

lBusch Stadium only has 43,975 seats. They can squeeze in 46,861 with standing room tickets being sold. For the soccer game they added seats, but still 48,000 must have been bursting at the seams.

Tickets sold out in 20 minutes.

St. Louis has a pretty good community of soccer fans, and a lot of kids play it. Like any city there are immigrants who came from countries that are crazy about soccer. St. Louis has 50,000 Bosnians and I saw in the paper recently where two of the Bosnians were really wanting to go the game. One got tickets and one didn't. They sold out really fast.

I'm not a big fan of soccer myself, and most Americans aren't rabid about it. However, America has 310 million people, so if soccer can get even a fraction of that they can carve out a great niche for themselves.

Yes, The game attendance was 48,263, which is the largest crowd for a sporting event ever in the stadium, as they put some seats in areas where they can't for a baseball game. A U2 concert from last summer still holds the mark for the largest attendance count in Busch Stadium.
I think baseball would be my game if I ever moved to the States, prefer it to cricket to be honest. American football doesn't do anything for me, I did try to get interested when my kids went through a phase of following it, but couldn't raise much enthusiasm.

Football (not soccer)...watch a Chelsea game, you'll soon get hooked.

Moutinho's signed for Monaco, so that's one rumoured target gone.

A good player, but not quite what we needed anyway..in my opinion. Now there are rumours that we are after Luka Modric for around £30m..where would he fit in our line-up ?
I don't think there are many Real Madrid players left that we haven't been linked with, Coentrão was mentioned the other day..quite like him actually, but he wouldn't replace Ashley Cole immediately so why would he be interested ?

Sooo, anyone here confident of doing any better in next season's Super Cup?

Couldn't do any worse.

Robben with a point to prove?

No longer holders of both cups but it was good as it lasted, Kings of europe for a few weeks .

At least its nice to be in the Super Cup