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Then whom should you believe? Its not as if Daily mail or Mirror published it.. Steve Bruce in a interview, with quotes, Telegraph.. Woah.. I will believe that..
If you dont believe that, then you can't believe anything in football..
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That's because Football Managers don't generally spout out rubbish. Who do you believe?
like when AVB said he wont leave Porto even when there was specualtion linking him to Chelsea?
Sigh.. Alcaraz there is nothing wrong in trying to sell a player. I dont see any reason why you are defending that.. Hiding your future plans is completely different from telling what happened in the past..
Hense "Generally". Why lie about something that happened ages ago?
I dont like going against a fellow blue but he is correct. Even JT has said it himself once in an interview but he refused to go and demanded to play reserve games to prove himself in which the club agreed and the rest is history.
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And on the acadamy thing players who join other clubs acadamy and make it the club that bought them still deserve the right to say he came through our acadamy because he did. Yes JT was bought when he was 14 but he went into Chelsea acadamy and they moulded him into a CB as he was a CM when he joined.
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Finally DiMatteo speaks to ChelseaTV following his return to his "home"
Roberto Di Matteo returned to Chelsea this week after almost a decade away, and immediately announced it was nice to be 'home'. The Italian was announced as Andre Villas-Boas's assistant on Wednesday and begins work on Monday at the club where he spent the best years of his playing career before injury forced him to retire in early 2002.
Fondly remembered as a creative yet combative midfielder with an eye for goal, Di Matteo struck goals in one League Cup and two FA Cup finals to earn his place in Stamford Bridge folklore, before going on to a management career with MK Dons and West Bromwich Albion. Having left his post at The Hawthorns in February, he was linked with a number of managerial appointments before taking a call from Villas-Boas asking to join his backroom staff at a club they both knew well.
'I feel very excited to be back at my home club, it's fantastic,' Di Matteo told the official Chelsea website. 'I spent a large part of my professional career and many years of my life at Chelsea. I had a great time here and made many friends, so it feels to me like my second home, or my home. 'I always hoped that one day I'd be able to come back, but you never know, nobody knows what the future holds, but I always thought it was in my destiny to come back to the club one day.'
Villas-Boas told on Wednesday of how he had wanted Di Matteo to come on board, and the 41-year-old was able to expand on his discussion with the new manager. 'He had a very strong feeling that he wanted me here. From the first conversation we had there was a good link and a good understanding, it was a very natural evolvement,' he said. 'When you meet someone, from the first impression you can immediately figure out if you will get on or not and it was very positive. We both felt strongly and I have to thank him that he decided and thought I would be suitable and I was very happy to join him. I am also very thankful to Roman Abramovich that he has shown faith in appointing me to the club.'
Will it be strange stepping down to the role of assistant after three years as a manager himself? 'It's obviously a challenge for me, but I don't anticipate any problems,' Di Matteo explained. 'I've got experience of being a manager, I know what it is like, and I know what it is to be a coach, so I have a bit of both and I am there to support Andre and any of the staff, to give what it takes for us to be successful. That's the ultimate challenge.
'I followed Porto last season and the amazing success he had there. But his call came a bit out of the blue to be honest, so it's mostly based on the fact that he likes my football philosophy and that's why he wants me to be part of his team. 'I think he likes to play football and be positive and attacking, and over the years if you've seen a game or two of the teams I coached I think we played the same way, I liked my teams to try and win games rather than not lose, to build, to pass. He's going to be in charge of it and we're going to be working the way he thinks is the right way to be successful.'
The club has developed significantly since Di Matteo was a player here, lifting three Premier League titles under the ownership of Abramovich, as well as moving to our Cobham training ground, a far cry from the Harlington base the former player remembers. 'There is no comparison!' he laughed. 'It's a state-of-the-art training ground with top facilities now. Everything is in place to be successful and get the best out of the team.
There is no excuse for any players or staff because we have everything we need to deliver.' Not that the sides Di Matteo played in underachieved, and he is still in contact with a number of his team-mates from that era that have gone on to form effective coaching careers. 'I am still in touch a lot with Gus Poyet and Gianfranco Zola, we're big friends from back then and have been over the years,' he said. 'I've spoken with them since getting the job and they're very pleased for me, and looking forward to seeing me working.' There will be many thousands of Chelsea fans feeling the same way.
Just as i said, the pair like to play the same way and it could be a match made in heaven. Great to see such a legend back at the club.
Just translated some news from Portugal that's been 'interpretated' differently by Spanish/English papers, Spanish papers say Coentrao left the Benfica training camp in anger after hearing that the club is not looking to sell to Real Madrid due to some sort of hierarchical falling out with the Benfica president and Real Madrid. Not entirely sure that's the case, Madrid had a deal in place to sign Coentrao for 21 million euro's BUT for whatever reason apparently Benfica pulled the plug over the weekend and told them to meet his clause of 25 million euro's but Madrid refused. English media reported it as he left the training ground to consider a Chelsea offer and that AVB had swooped in to steal him from under Madrid's noses. Relation's are pretty good between Chelsea and Benfica so this story can't be entire fantasy and I do believe Chelsea to be negotiating for him.
But the main factor that barely any of the media are mentioning is the deeper facts, Coentrao comes out ALL the time with written statements saying how Madrid are his dream etc etc. What he fails to mention is his agent is Jorge Mendes...Who represents half the Madrid team and Mourinho himself so I would not read too much into the statements professing his undying love for Real Madrid. With Mendes as his agent a move to Chelsea does look unlikely since Mendes has Mourinho's ear and unfortunately I can see the choice been taken for Coentrao if it comes to Chelsea or Madrid.:'(
But the main factor that barely any of the media are mentioning is the deeper facts, Coentrao comes out ALL the time with written statements saying how Madrid are his dream etc etc. What he fails to mention is his agent is Jorge Mendes...Who represents half the Madrid team and Mourinho himself so I would not read too much into the statements professing his undying love for Real Madrid. With Mendes as his agent a move to Chelsea does look unlikely since Mendes has Mourinho's ear and unfortunately I can see the choice been taken for Coentrao if it comes to Chelsea or Madrid.:'(
thought we were a team Jacko.. bravely defending the club againnst hordes upon hordes of jealous fans lol
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could be true... lemme get some popcorn cos we might be about to see
AVB vs Mourinho Round 1
More like AVB vs Mendes, part of the reason Mourinho fell out with him at Inter was AVB refused to take on Jorge as his agent and also the fact Mourinho wanted to place him back to Head Scout rather than coach at Inter didn't help the situation.
This whole scenario about Coentrao loving Madrid stinks of being entirely manufactured, in my mind, by Jorge Mendes men like him are a disgrace to football. How FIFA rules can allow a manager to have the same agent as half his team/players hes linked with signing I dont know how that can be deemed right and proper.
This whole scenario about Coentrao loving Madrid stinks of being entirely manufactured, in my mind, by Jorge Mendes men like him are a disgrace to football. How FIFA rules can allow a manager to have the same agent as half his team/players hes linked with signing I dont know how that can be deemed right and proper.
And also because AVB never approved of Mourinho's football philosophy although AVB has always maintained that he learned alot under Mourinho you can see a clear difference in their philosophies and AVB always likes to give fans a spectacle to enjoy
And since he has left Inter, AVB has not spoken to Mourinho at all neither has Mourinho spoken to him but AVB did credit Mourinho for all that he taught when he won the Treble with Porto
Its hard to believe that Real Madrid act stingy. and all that for 4 million, werent they who paid €94 million for Ronaldo ffs? cant believe it sorry. must be something else in the picture we cant see. Perez is well known for his spending, cant believe that he called the deal off because of having to pay 4 million more.
The problem wont be the 4 million, the problem will be Mendes, footballing cancer
Just saw this lovely gem pop up as a quote, Amen.
The face of all that's wrong with football:
Florent Malouda hopes to see out contract at Chelsea | Football News | ESPN.co.uk
Just an article on Malouda saying he hopes to atleast see out his contract at Chelsea and I am more or less happy with him to do that although I really do now want him hogging a place in the First 11 after this season because he is getting on and he tends to be very inconsistent
Just an article on Malouda saying he hopes to atleast see out his contract at Chelsea and I am more or less happy with him to do that although I really do now want him hogging a place in the First 11 after this season because he is getting on and he tends to be very inconsistent
good and Cole also was kind enough to give his thoughts on AVB
"Honestly, it was amazing how thorough he was," Cole told The Sun. "He would brief Jose on all the players we were facing to the point where we knew which foot they favoured, whether they liked to go inside or outside, preferred to cross deep or short, their stamina levels, the lot.
"If we'd wanted to know what they had for breakfast I'm sure he could have found out for us.
"We wouldn't see Andre on the training pitch but he would be there at all our games working away in the background. He was quite quiet but very polite and always said 'hello'.
"People say they are surprised he's Chelsea manager because he's so young but since he left us he's won everything he could at Porto.
We already know how enthusiastic he is so hopefully it will all come together and we can start winning trophies again."
BBC SPORT | Football | My Club | Arsenal | Cole committed to Arsenal cause
Means ******-all.
Also - just realised that Cashley won more in 5 seasons at Arsenal than in 5 seasons at Chelsea..
I wonder, CJACKO - If Mourinho taps up Cashley Hole (again), will you be OK with that?