The Chelsea Daily Drivel.

""Roy knows he faces a tough job in persuading Joe to move north, But he sees him as the ideal playmaker to shape a new era at Anfield and hopes the player will be excited by this new challenge.""

""If any club wants to make an official approach for any of our players it would be useless. Our reaction would always be the same - no way absolutely no way. We won`t sell any of these players. We are in a very comfortable situation, we don`t have financial pressure at all.""

"“I was at the Final and it was very important for the Academy which is working well at the moment. We need them to have important moments like this because it was another fantastic success and this is another reason to say it was a fantastic season for Chelsea.

We have some talented young players here that work every day with the first team in training and they are very close to stepping up to the squad on matchdays. This is our aim - to put more players from the Academy up into the first team in the future, so this success was very important for us.”"

"'We started on Monday, last year we started at the same time and we need maybe five weeks to prepare the team, to do the best physical preparation, We will have the other players on July 22 and 26, but for the first games of pre-season they will not be involved.'

It could be a little different this year, a little difficult because we don't have all the players to start the season but we can still do a good job,' Benayoun I think is a good player, we need to have a player with quality who can play in the midfield. He can play in every position in midfield and for this I think he will be a very good player for us for next season.'"