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While Rafa Benitez continues to talk about how much this Chelsea club is improving despite actual results showing exactly the opposite, I have a hard time being totally down on the chances of Chelsea FC going forward. Yes, we clearly need a new manager if we're ever going to become European champions for a second time, but the long term future of the club looks to include a good number of talented young players on the pitch.
With that in mind, I decided that I'd take a look at the contractual status of Chelsea's players to see what kind of shape we look to bee in going forward. Here's a look at when each Chelsea player's contract expires, as well as several of our key players on loan (current age in in parenthesis):
- Petr Cech (30) - June 2016
- Branislav Ivanovic (28) - June 2016
- Ashley Cole (32) - June 2014
- David Luiz (25) - June 2017
- Oriol Romeu (21) - June 2015
- Ramires (25) - June 2017
- Frank Lampard (34) - June 2013
- Fernando Torres (28) - June 2016
- Juan Mata (24) - June 2016
- Oscar (21) - June 2017
- John Obi Mikel (25) - June 2017
- Victor Moses (22) - June 2017
- Florent Malouda (32) - June 2013
- Eden Hazard (22) - June 2017
- Paulo Ferreira (34) - June 2013
- Marko Marin (23) - June 2017
- Ross Turnbull (28) - June 2013
- Gary Cahill (27) - June 2017
- John Terry (32) - June 2014
- Cesar Azpilicueta (23) - June 2017
- Demba Ba (27) - June 2016
- Yossi Benayoun (32) - June 2013
- Ryan Bertrand (23) - June 2017
- Henrique Hilario (37) - June 2013
- Nathan Ake (17) - June 2015
- Michael Essien (30) - June 2015
- Kevin de Bruyne (21) - June 2017
- Romelu Lukaku (19) - June 2016
- Josh McEachran (19) - June 2016
- Lucas Piazon (19) - June 2017
- Thibaut Courtois (20) - June 2016
- Nathaniel Chalobah (18) - June 2014
- Tomas Kalas (19) - June 2014
- Gael Kakuta (21) - June 2015
- Jeffrey Bruma (20) - June 2014
- Patrick van Aanholt (22) - June 2015
- Kenneth Omeruo (19) - June 2017
- Thorgan Hazard (19) - June 2016
Regardless of what signings Chelsea may or may not make on deadline day, there is an awful lot of young talent under contract for a very decent amount of time. The results yesterday may have been disappointing for Chelsea fans everywhere, but regardless of the present, the future looks very bright.