Ducky's Note: Susa takes a look at the potential January transfer dealings of Chelsea

With the recent announcement of Manchester United's 'interest' in Frank Lampard, the transfer rumour mills have surely begun their bi-annual grinding again. While the season so far has exposed clear deficiencies in almost all the teams (except City's 500-man squad), Chelsea have been found surprisingly short in key areas, especially in central defence.

Terry and Cole recreate a scene from 'Blades of Glory'

For many years - too many to mention - Tottenham simply could not beat Chelsea. Yes, there was the 5-1 victory at White Hart Lane in the 2002 League Cup semi-final, when everything clicked an even Sergei Rebrov scored, but in the Premier League up until 2006, it just would not happen for Spurs.

So while everyone is fretting over the merits of the John Terry 'race-row', we still have the small matter of a match tomorrow. Against Arsenal. At the Bridge. You know, that stadium the fans fought so valiantly to keep in their control. More, after the jump:

The Business At Hand.

Preliminaries: Untold Arsenal and Woolwich Arsenal sites have been under attack since Friday. We finally got this temporary site up and running on 25th, and we are still working on a resolution to the whole problem. Hence the odd layout and dodgy old picture. Tony

Untold Injury Index – Gameweek 9: Injuries rise again.

OK, we crack on this week with our trip to Goodison Park to take on Everton barely 10 days after beating them at Stamford Bridge in the Premier League. We know that Didier Drogba, Jose Bosingwa and Ashley Cole are all suspended for this one, Essien and Hilario are out injured but we have Fernando Torres back available if need be.

Tomorrow is the second of two massive games as we look to cut the gap to the Manchester sides above us and for some of you, it gets no bigger than QPR v Chelsea. Back in the big time, QPR will want to do everything they can to get one over us but saying that, surely with the form we are showing and the goals we are scoring, Chelsea have to be favourites for this one?

Petr Cech has returned to full training at Chelsea yesterday and that is fantastic news ahead of this weekends trip to Sunderland. Don't get me wrong, Hilario is a good backup keeper but is prone to the odd mistake here and there (Norwich goal for example) but the fact that Cech is back is massive.

At the close it looked easy enough. There were goals. Celebrations, too. The kind of win we should be recording against newly promoted sides at home if we are indeed harboring aspirations of another Premier League title. In truth, however, this was far from a convincing display. Much work is left to be done.

At the close it looked easy enough. There were goals. Celebrations, too. The kind of win we should be recording against newly promoted sides at home if we are indeed harboring aspirations of another Premier League title. In truth, however, this was far from a convincing display. Much work is left to be done.

Chelsea keeper Hilario makes a cock-up of things, colliding with his own defender Ivanovic when coming for a cross before Graeme Holt lob's the ball into the back of the net for Norwich's equaliser.

Chelsea keeper Hilario makes a cock-up of things, colliding with his own defender Ivanovic when coming for a cross before Graeme Holt lob's the ball into the back of the net for Norwich's equaliser.

Ricky's excited about Norwich City returning to Stamford Bridge. Frankly, so are we.

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Chelsea welcome the Canaries to Stamford Bridge for their first Premier League fixture on Fulham Road since 2004. Overconfidence should not be problem following a difficult yet somewhat fruitful start to the 2011-12 season but a win is clearly expected ahead of pivotal trips to the Stadium of Light and Old Trafford.

Yes, £120m this calendar year on six players and it seems that Chelsea still have every intention on spending more as Roman Abramovich started it, but AVB will take on the blue revolution at the Bridge.
Luiz, Torres, Courtious, Lukaku, Romeu and Mata are the names we have brought to the club and with rumours rife that we are in for Pereira of Porto and a central midfielder, that figure will rise to well over £150m.

The competitive home debut of Andre Villas-Boas' Chelsea is here.

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Trouble arrives for Chelsea ahead of their second league game this weekend against West Brom after reports from the Blues' camp confirmed that goalkeeper, Peter Cech, picked up an injury during training and is likely to be absent for three-four weeks.

The bad news was revealed by the London club's manager, Andre Villas-Boas to the press stating that the Czech international player suffered a ligament injury because he fell awkwardly in the end of Wednesday's training.

Barcelona stars Gerard Pique and Xavi aren't hiding their feelings when it comes to Real Madrid and its coach Jose Mourinho.

In the aftermath of Wednesday's SuperCopa second leg, Mourinho took a lot of heat from Barcelona players for his tactics and actions during a melee following a harsh challenge by Madrid fullback Marcelo.

It is difficult to draw conclusions from a preseason friendly, sure. That's not to suggest certain impressions cannot be made, however. So, with that being said, let's take a brief look inside today's exhibition in Bangkok.

Hardware

Following our first two preseason friendlies of 2011-12, in which we were overtly lackluster but still managed to win, Chelsea awaken somewhat in a 4-0 defeat of a pretty strong group of all-stars from the Thailand Premier League.

Chelsea played their first "official" match in front of spectators with Andre Villas-Boas at the helm, beating Pompey 1-0 thanks to a Tal Ben-Haim own-goal (still thinks he plays for the Blues, maybe).

There were plenty of youngsters on the bench and on the pitch, which probably helped deprive the reserves in their 6-1 loss to Crawley today, and with so much experimenting it wasn't quite the promising Chelsea performance we were perhaps hoping for.

Quote from The Official Wycombe Wanderers website:

World-Cup winning striker Fernando Torres was on the scoresheet as Chelsea recorded a 3-0 victory over the Wanderers in a practice match at Cobham on Tuesday afternoon.
Yossi Benayoun danced through the visiting defence to open the scoring in the early stages and Nikki Bull produced a fine stop to deny Didier Drogba, while Scott Rendell missed Wycombe's best chance of the half from a tight angle.

So it seems we may well at last be in the market for someone this summer. Presenting our first potential capture, 19 year old Genk keeper, Thibaut Courtois, or as I shall henceforth refer to him Mr. Thibs. More after the jump.

Mr. Thibs

Reports have surfaced this afternoon (stateside, that is) that Chelsea are on the verge of securing the Genk keeper's signature, potentially signaling our first major signing of the summer session.

Chelsea have made a signing today but it's only a one year extension to Hilario's contract!!
The official statement released by Chelsea said:

Hilario has signed a one-year extension to his current Chelsea contract.
The 35-year-old goalkeeper's contract would have run out this summer but he will now spend a sixth season at Stamford Bridge, having so far made 33 starts and four substitute appearances in his role as one of the keepers supporting Petr Cech.

I need to re-iterate for the most part, alot of what we are reading at the moment is pure speculation but it seems that if one report is to be believed that Chelsea have made their first transfer move of the summer by making a move for 19-year old Genk keeper Thibault Courtois. The 6ft 4in player has been in great form this season as Genk won their League title.

By JONATHAN VERA

CARSON, Calif. – Depending on who you asked, the only thing worse than the weather during the Los Angeles Galaxy's 1-1 tie vs. New England was the officiating.

Referee in charge Hilario Grajeda negated a goal scored by Juninho early in the first after LA's Mike Magee "fouled" keeper Matt Reis.