

Reece James signed a new five-and-a-half-year contract with Chelsea on Thursday afternoon and sat down soon after with the official Chelsea website. Here is what our home-grown right-sided defender had to say…



It’s all going pretty well for you at the moment...



‘Being injured at the start of the season was tough and then I slowly got back into it and I was given my chance against Grimsby, scoring on my debut was great, and ever since then I haven’t really looked back.



‘We started talking about a new contract about two months ago. When I started getting in the team and playing week in week out, everything has picked up.’



That’s a very long-term contract you’ve just signed, showing that not only has the club great belief in your potential but also, it seems, that there is nowhere else you would rather be in the next few years…



‘I have been here nearly my whole life and I would be happy to spend the rest of my career here. It is the club I have supported throughout and I have committed long-term.’





It must have been difficult for you at the start of the season, knowing that the chances were there in the team for the young players but that you were injured…



‘Obviously it is going to be tough when everyone else is getting their chance and you are out injured on the sidelines, but you just have to get back right and take time and then make sure when you get your chance you take it. It took a bit longer to get back than I was expecting but you just have to take it how it comes.’

