Neil Ashton of The Daily Mirror is reporting that Roman Abramovich demanded answers from players and coaching staff at Chelsea’s training ground on Thursday as to why the European Champions could not hold onto a two-goal lead at home to Juventus on Wednesday night. Abramovich arrived unannounced at Cobham on Thursday morning with director Eugene […]
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In a move reminiscent of how Nicolas Anelka and Alex were treated last season, Florent Malouda has been told that he will train with with the youth. Malouda tweeted this earlier today (@realflorentm) Chelsea basically told Malouda that he could leave this summer, but 32-year-old midfielder could not find anyone willing to meet his current […]
While all the media attention has been focused on Arsenal and the contract disputes they have been having with Robin van Persie and Theo Walcott, there are some nasty contract battles going on across London at Chelsea. Chelsea have THREE England internationals; Ashley Cole, Frank Lampard and Daniel Sturridge, who are all in the final […]
Robin van Persie and Shinji Kagawa scored on their home debuts as Manchester United rallied from a goal behind to beat Fulham 3-2, while Chelsea, Everton and Swansea City maintained their 100% starts to the new Premier League season. Big money summer signing Eden Hazard was brilliant once again as Chelsea beat Newcastle 2-0. Hazard […]
Chelsea have taken their summer spending past the £80million mark as Roman Abramovich has obviously been reinvigorated after winning the Champions League last season. On Friday, Chelsea sealed the £7m capture of Spanish right back Cesar Azpilicueta, 22, from Marseille on Friday and finalised the £9m transfer of Wigan forward Victor Moses after he passed […]
It was deja-vu all over again for Manchester City as the Premier League champions opened their title defence with a thrilling win over newly-promoted Southampton. Not only was the score exactly the same as that never-to-be-forgotten final home game against Queens Park Rangers last season, so was the scoring sequence, and even the ends they […]
It looks like Chelsea have some more shopping left to do this summer. Despite spending over £66m on Eden and Thorgan Hazard, Oscar and Marko Marin, the European Champions are not finished yet according to Chelsea chief executive Ron Gourlay said: “We are still looking to strengthen in one or two areas. Speaking after Chelsea’s […]
It’s the story that will not go away. Despite being cleared in court of racially abusing Anton Ferdinand in a match against QPR last season, Chelsea captain John Terry has been charged by the Football Association of having used “abusive and/or insulting words and/or behaviour” in the 23 October match. The statement on the FA […]
It took almost two weeks since we announced that Chelsea had signed Oscar and today Chelsea made the deal official with this simple statement on their web site: Chelsea Football Club is delighted to announce the signing of Oscar. Oscar is believed to have signed a five-year contract after Chelsea paid £25m for his services. […]