⚠️ BREAKING: EXCLUSIVE: Nike Chelsea 17-18 Home Kit Leaked: — Footy Headlines (@FootyHeadlines) If you look closely, the sleeves are still a (i.e. The sleeves extend all the way to the collar rather than just to the elbow), but because it’s the same color as the body of the shirt, it doesn’t look cheap or silly. It’s probably a slightly different weave than the body of the shirt (as in ), but that should only be noticeable up close. The Chelsea Blue is a beautiful Blue, and this shirt has loads of it — though it may be a slightly darker shade of Royal Blue; it’s tough to tell in these sorts of pictures.
Here is the Chelsea home kit for the 2017/2018 season. via — Lav (@LavCFC), the shorts will be a matching blue, while the socks, as usual, will be white.
Sounds good to me! The shirt won’t be released officially until next month, after the adidas contract expires on June 30. Chelsea have never had a two-tone. We’ve had subtle patterns and stripes, but nothing of the sort that was rumored for. The closest we’ve ever come to a two-tone sleeve on a home shirt was this Umbro effort from 1997-99. Look, it even made Zola cry out in pain.