News & notes: Mikel fit for Everton, Christensen to join in summer

By: Jack | February 7th, 2012

A few notes from around the club today, including the signing of another young talent (as seen below).

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Mikel to be fit for Saturday, Lampard likely
• After some seven weeks on the shelf, John Obi Mikel is finally ready to resurface. Mikel has returned to training this week, following what apparently was quite a nasty hamstring injury suffered against Tottenham before the turn of the year. It’ll be nice to have Mikel available once again, as, despite the furor whirled his way by many a supporter, he’s still a quality defensive midfielder.

Meanwhile, Frank Lampard is also expected to be in the team for the trip to Goodison. The vice captain has missed the past three games with a calf problem. You know as I do that, despite his overall dip in form, Lamps is still a key member of this season – with key goals in his locker.

The duo’s return leaves only John Terry and Ramires among the injured first-teamers at the club. And with Didier Drogba and Salomon Kalou to return next week following the conclusion of the Africa Cup of Nations, we’ll be approaching full strength. Great news.

Danish U-17 defender to join the Chels in the summer
• So our youth movement continues. The latest talented prospect to link up with Chelsea is Andreas Christensen. The club has apparently snatched up the 15-year-old defender on a free transfer from Brøndby IF on a free transfer. He’s expected to move to the club in the summer.

Free? Kinky.

As you may recall, Devin brought you news of a possible move for Christensen in November. At the time, we were apprehensive following the premature reports of a deal for Seyi Ojo. Now, though, it appears our concerns were unfounded. Here’s what the young defender had to say about joining Chelsea, according to Ekstra Bladet (via Sky Sports):

I have chosen Chelsea because they play the kind of football I like. At the same time, they have the best plan for my future in football.

Clearly this is a signing with a view to the future. We won’t be seeing much of Christensen near the first team in the next couple of seasons – unless he explodes – but that’s fine. We add another young gun to our growing list of them; in fact, we now have an excellent crop of young central defenders at our disposal. One of these kids is bound to break on through. Right? All in all, another good day for Michael Emenalo.

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CharlieFineman

CFC accounts were published, the Guardian came up with the breakdown of losses, and (drum roll) we've spent a total of cool 28 mil on getting rid of Carlo and hiring AVB. Considering the overall loss of 67.7, I would suggest that it doesn't look that bad. 39 Million if you exclude managerial changes, it certainly seems as if we're finally making progress. Jack, Devin, would love to hear your thoughts on this matter.
Mateo

this just in Capello step down after the terry incident
CharlieFineman

Interesting development. Say if the media get their man (Redknapp) to take the job, it could cause another episode of managerial merry-go-round. And who knows, if those Jose reports turn out to be true, huh?
Maysam

If Harry leaves Spurs for England, it is a "F U" to all those players who wanted to leave SPurs but Levi and Harry did not let them LOL
Varun Das

would have loved if chelsea pursued shaquiri... damn shame bayern got him... the guy has pace, build, and talent for the pl...
Desailly

Anyone see Borini's 2 goals against Inter on the weekend? The boy is a natural finisher, he was born to score. Shame.
Jack

Devin & I were talking Borini earlier today. Shame we iced him out.
DAve

Damn. So hyped up when i saw the name. Thought it was the boy from Ajax.
LachlanS

That's exactly what I thought! I was about to break a window in rage that you guys got Eriksen whilst we got some failure from Dortmund!
Jack

Ha. That's Eriksen man.