Chelsea chief Peter Kenyon says they're delighted with the progress of their current academy squad.

Rather than signing new players, Chelsea's aim is to produce the next generation of footballers through our own Academy, with developments on that front as Miroslav Stoch made his first team debut against Arsenal on Sunday.

"The Academy is and continues to be at the heart of our future development of Chelsea players," Kenyon told chelseafc.com.

"We saw Stoch last night, and [Michael] Mancienne is out at Wolves as part of his development and our youth team played against Manchester United last week, and there were nine British boys in that group.

"This is about taking young boys and progressing them into the first team, in any club, that is a major achievement, at Chelsea you have to be that much bigger and that much better, so it is a long-term project."