Yes I think every club around does it. Even Real as they are still paying Milan for Kaka for example.
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Yes I think every club around does it. Even Real as they are still paying Milan for Kaka for example.
Just a fancy word for accounting for an amount over a period of time. I.e. Chelsea would amortise Hazard's £32m fee over his 5 year contract, giving them an expenditure on the books of £6.4m for each year.
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POST-SEASON BRIEFING 2011/12 | Latest Chelsea News | Team & Transfer News | Chelsea FC | Chelsea
Our Pre-season briefing, a very good read, here are some of my fav bits but if you want to read it all do it yourself.
Our Pre-season briefing, a very good read, here are some of my fav bits but if you want to read it all do it yourself.
Chelsea have now enjoyed five multiple-major trophy-winning seasons:1997/98 -
Uefa Cup-Winners' Cup and League Cup
2004/05 - Premier League and League Cup
2006/07 - FA Cup and League Cup
2009/10 - Premier League and FA Cup
2011/12 - Uefa Champions League and FA Cup
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[TR="class: header"]
[TD="colspan: 6"]2011/12 record[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD][/TD]
[TD]P[/TD]
[TD]W[/TD]
[TD]D[/TD]
[TD]L[/TD]
[TD]W%[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Andre Villas-Boas[/TD]
[TD]40[/TD]
[TD]19[/TD]
[TD]11[/TD]
[TD]10[/TD]
[TD]48%[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Roberto Di Matteo[/TD]
[TD]21[/TD]
[TD]13[/TD]
[TD]5[/TD]
[TD]3[/TD]
[TD]61%[/TD]
[/TR]
[/TABLE]
(the two penalty shoot-out wins count as draws, one for each manager)
Major trophies won in the first nine years of the Abramovich era
1 Uefa Champions League
3 Premier Leagues
4 FA Cups
2 League Cups
2 FA Community Shields
Milestones of season
Chelsea became the first London club to win the European Cup/Champions League.
The Blues won the FA Cup for the fourth time in six seasons - a feat not achieved since the 1890s.
Frank Lampard became the first Premier League player ever to notch double figures in nine successive Premier League seasons.
Didier Drogba scored nine cup final goals in nine games in his career with Chelsea.
Didier Drogba maintained his record of scoring in all of his semi-final and final appearances at Wembley (eight games in total).
Petr Cech set a new high for the number of saves in a Champions League campaign: 58. In the Premier League he has averaged a goal conceded every 128 minutes, the best since it began in 1992/93.
Six players scored ten goals or more in a season for the first time in our history: Frank Lampard, Juan Mata, Didier Drogba, Fernando Torres, Ramires and Daniel Sturridge.
At Wembley against Liverpool, John Terry became the first captain to lift the FA Cup four times, Ashley Cole became the first player to be awarded a seventh winner's medal, and Didier Drogba scored in a final for the fourth time, another record.
John Terry has now skippered the Blues more than 400 times
Didier Drogba'***** his 100th Premier League goal - the first African to achieve that. He also passed the 150-goals mark for the Blues.
Assists -
Mata 26 (first season in England and that is phenomenal) and Torres 18!!!!!
The Pre-Match Briefing Special Mentions Section
Legend - Didier Drogba, for eight years of monstrous majesty in the biggest matches.
Performance - 4-1 win over Napoli at Stamford Bridge.
Stability - The Blues have scooped eight major trophies since Arsène Wenger's Arsenal last won something.
Sensitivity - Sky Sports' Geoff Shreeves brutally breaking the news to Branislav Ivanovic that he was going to miss the greatest game of his life.
Unexpected ecstasy - Sky Sports' former Man United man Gary Neville and his 'scoregasm' during Fernando's Camp Nou equaliser.
Loyalty - Chelsea fans' unstinting vocal support for Fernando Torres.
Taking time to adapt to English football - Juan Mata: 26 assists and 12 goals in his debut season.
Acronym - Sadly, AVB turned out to stand for All Very Brief.
FA Cup domination - Congratulations again to the first team, youth U18s and girls' U17s who all won their respective FA Cups this season.
Collateral damage - Tottenham's 2012/13 Champions League campaign cut short in Munich.
Clearance of the century - Ashley Cole in Naples. Overturning a 1-4 at the Bridge might have been asking too much.
Trend - A global Twitter record, traffic around the Barcelona-Chelsea epic peaking at 14,000 messages sent each second.
Deluded of North London - 'Third is a trophy.'
Commentary - Alan Green after Barça's second: 'Stand by for the floodgates to open.'
Denied - Arsenal defenders' request for an open-top bus ride to celebrate Didier Drogba's departure.
Chant - To QPR Fans at the Bridge: 'We're going to Germany; you're going to Barnsley' or 'Running round Tottenham with our European Cup.'
Save of the Millennium - Petr Cech from Bastian Schweinsteiger's shootout penalty. The Czech goalie guessed which way the kicker was aiming in the last seven spot-kicks he faced (Barcelona and Bayern), saving three of them. Breathtaking.
Uefa Cup-Winners' Cup and League Cup
2004/05 - Premier League and League Cup
2006/07 - FA Cup and League Cup
2009/10 - Premier League and FA Cup
2011/12 - Uefa Champions League and FA Cup
[TABLE="class: userTable, width: 100%"]
[TR="class: header"]
[TD="colspan: 6"]2011/12 record[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD][/TD]
[TD]P[/TD]
[TD]W[/TD]
[TD]D[/TD]
[TD]L[/TD]
[TD]W%[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Andre Villas-Boas[/TD]
[TD]40[/TD]
[TD]19[/TD]
[TD]11[/TD]
[TD]10[/TD]
[TD]48%[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Roberto Di Matteo[/TD]
[TD]21[/TD]
[TD]13[/TD]
[TD]5[/TD]
[TD]3[/TD]
[TD]61%[/TD]
[/TR]
[/TABLE]
(the two penalty shoot-out wins count as draws, one for each manager)
Major trophies won in the first nine years of the Abramovich era
1 Uefa Champions League
3 Premier Leagues
4 FA Cups
2 League Cups
2 FA Community Shields
Milestones of season
Chelsea became the first London club to win the European Cup/Champions League.
The Blues won the FA Cup for the fourth time in six seasons - a feat not achieved since the 1890s.
Frank Lampard became the first Premier League player ever to notch double figures in nine successive Premier League seasons.
Didier Drogba scored nine cup final goals in nine games in his career with Chelsea.
Didier Drogba maintained his record of scoring in all of his semi-final and final appearances at Wembley (eight games in total).
Petr Cech set a new high for the number of saves in a Champions League campaign: 58. In the Premier League he has averaged a goal conceded every 128 minutes, the best since it began in 1992/93.
Six players scored ten goals or more in a season for the first time in our history: Frank Lampard, Juan Mata, Didier Drogba, Fernando Torres, Ramires and Daniel Sturridge.
At Wembley against Liverpool, John Terry became the first captain to lift the FA Cup four times, Ashley Cole became the first player to be awarded a seventh winner's medal, and Didier Drogba scored in a final for the fourth time, another record.
John Terry has now skippered the Blues more than 400 times
Didier Drogba'***** his 100th Premier League goal - the first African to achieve that. He also passed the 150-goals mark for the Blues.
Assists -
Mata 26 (first season in England and that is phenomenal) and Torres 18!!!!!
The Pre-Match Briefing Special Mentions Section
Legend - Didier Drogba, for eight years of monstrous majesty in the biggest matches.
Performance - 4-1 win over Napoli at Stamford Bridge.
Stability - The Blues have scooped eight major trophies since Arsène Wenger's Arsenal last won something.
Sensitivity - Sky Sports' Geoff Shreeves brutally breaking the news to Branislav Ivanovic that he was going to miss the greatest game of his life.
Unexpected ecstasy - Sky Sports' former Man United man Gary Neville and his 'scoregasm' during Fernando's Camp Nou equaliser.
Loyalty - Chelsea fans' unstinting vocal support for Fernando Torres.
Taking time to adapt to English football - Juan Mata: 26 assists and 12 goals in his debut season.
Acronym - Sadly, AVB turned out to stand for All Very Brief.
FA Cup domination - Congratulations again to the first team, youth U18s and girls' U17s who all won their respective FA Cups this season.
Collateral damage - Tottenham's 2012/13 Champions League campaign cut short in Munich.
Clearance of the century - Ashley Cole in Naples. Overturning a 1-4 at the Bridge might have been asking too much.
Trend - A global Twitter record, traffic around the Barcelona-Chelsea epic peaking at 14,000 messages sent each second.
Deluded of North London - 'Third is a trophy.'
Commentary - Alan Green after Barça's second: 'Stand by for the floodgates to open.'
Denied - Arsenal defenders' request for an open-top bus ride to celebrate Didier Drogba's departure.
Chant - To QPR Fans at the Bridge: 'We're going to Germany; you're going to Barnsley' or 'Running round Tottenham with our European Cup.'
Save of the Millennium - Petr Cech from Bastian Schweinsteiger's shootout penalty. The Czech goalie guessed which way the kicker was aiming in the last seven spot-kicks he faced (Barcelona and Bayern), saving three of them. Breathtaking.
Pretty sure Porto wanted more than that for him.
Moutinho is not as good as Modric either, does not have the passing range Modric has as well.
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Dude I'm crying. and btw, that guy that made the video is god.
I have him on FB and Twitter, he has made quite a few and is just sensational. Took him a whole week to put that together.
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Career of Chelsea target Hulk is more incredible than how he was named
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There are several versions of how Givanildo Vieira de Souza came to be known as Hulk and some of them prompt amusing images. It has been suggested that Chelsea's prospective signing owes it all to his likeness to Lou Ferrigno, the bodybuilder/actor who played the Incredible Hulk in the American TV series.
Or that the nickname was linked to his time in Japan, when his rippling physique carried the green shirt of Tokyo Verdy.
The reality is a little disappointing. The 25-year-old's father, Djovan, was simply a massive fan of the Ferrigno series and he affectionately bestowed the moniker on his son. And it has stuck.
It is pure gold, of course, for the headline writers. When the Porto forward became embroiled in a tunnel brawl against Benfica in December 2009 and was banned for four months by the Portuguese Primeira Liga, he became the "Ineligible Hulk". The phrase "Don't make him angry" was virtually demanded in copy.
Yet behind the muscles and the superhero schtick is a quiet and humble professional, who has put in the hard yards and the air-miles to stand on the brink of his dream move to Chelsea.
The basic fee of £38m has been agreed and his personal terms will not represent an obstacle. Why should they when his relatively modest Porto wage is set to rocket to £110,000 a week?
The final stages of a transfer can be the most excruciating. Hulk just wants to hold the Chelsea shirt and smile for the cameras.
His journey from Campina Grande in Brazil has taken in rejection by the biggest clubs in his country, a move to Europe at a youthful age, the machinations of agents who have controlled his economic rights and a trawl around unheralded Japanese clubs.
But his career found its touchstone when Porto took him from Tokyo Verdy in 2008 – they paid €5.5m to his third-party owners for 50% of his rights – and he has become arguably the most loved player at the Estádio do Dragão since Jardel, another Brazilian who knew his way to goal.
In his four seasons at the club, he has won three league titles and three Portuguese Cups, together with the Europa League in 2011, which represented the final leg of the treble under André Villas-Boas. The goals have poured in.
Over the past two seasons, he scored 57 in 91 appearances. But he has also won hearts with the strength of his personality.
After the Europa League triumph, when Villas-Boas was lured away by Chelsea and Atlético Madrid paid €40m to sign the striker Radamel Falcao, the team threatened to break up. But Hulk, the captain, kept his head down and he helped to keep things together.
Porto finished as the champions. His captaincy is not of the tub-thumping, grand oration variety. He leads by example.
Hulk had offers to leave last summer but he felt a debt to the Porto president Pinto da Costa, who had dealt sensitively with the great personal tragedy to affect the player. Hulk was shattered when his little niece was left unattended for a fatal moment at a family get-together in August 2010 at the house that he had bought for them in Campina Grande. She fell into the swimming pool and drowned.
Hulk was not there but Da Costa told him to return home and take all the time that he needed. Hulk has subsequently celebrated goals with a look up at the heavens.
He is all about family, and is extremely close to his sister and brother, the latter of whom could be expected to accompany him to London.
Life was tough for Hulk as he grew up and he recalls how his father, who sold meat at the local market, would wake him in the small hours to take him along, even when he was a mere toddler. Upon their return, Hulk would play futsal for the rest of the day.
Hulk was spotted by an agent playing for a team in Campina Grande and he was taken for a trial at Corinthians only to be passed over. The agent had a connection at Vilanovense in Portugal and he took Hulk there to begin his youth apprenticeship. At the age of 16, Hulk visited the Estádio do Dragão and he declared that, one day, he would play for Porto. Everybody laughed.
Vilanovense could not afford to buy out his rights and, back in Brazil, São Paulo refused to pay a sum that amounted to €18,000 for his signature. He was taken to Vitoria, where he made his debut before, after one further appearance, he was whisked to Japan in 2005.
He played for Kawasaki Frontale, Consadole Sapporo and Tokyo Verdy, which had to go down as an unusual grounding for a career at the top level in Europe.
Hulk took the No12 shirt at Porto, in honour of the fans, the team's 12th man, and H12 has become a brand name, a little like Cristiano Ronaldo's CR7. Hulk has a football school in Campina Grande that he called H12 while he has dressed up his sports car with H12 logos.
It would be a mistake, though, to construe him as flash or egotistical and he would also be largely exonerated by the Portuguese Football Federation for his red mist in the tunnel against Benfica, when CCTV footage showed him rucking with stewards.
They effectively overruled the League's verdict when they said he had been provoked and should only have been suspended for four matches. The trouble was that when they reached the decision, he had already sat out three months of domestic football.
Hulk felt persecuted after the incident and he has had his problems with referees, feeling that they do not offer him protection. Manchester City fans, though, took a dim view of what they saw as play acting from him during the Europa League meeting in February. "You're not incredible," they sang to him.
Hulk trades on his explosiveness when cutting in from the right, his power and his ability to make the difference in one-on-ones. His arrival at Chelsea would make a difference to Porto's accounts and it would provide yet another link between the clubs.
Porto paid a further €13.5m last summer to buy another chunk of Hulk's economic rights – they now own 85% and the remaining 15% will need to be squared before the Premier League signs off the transfer. Porto will simply purchase it and then sell. For Hulk, the excitement is tangible.
Amazing. Just amazing.
Quite impressed by Hazard in the Friendly today. Moved the ball around well. Combined well with Fellaini and Lukaku. Could not do much because England defended so deep but it certainly gives food for thought on what he can do with better players around him as will be the case at Chelsea
Barring a last-minute hijack by the Manchester Clubs (Robinho), he is more or less a Chelsea player. Expect to hear the confirmation by the club on Sunday or Monday as he has not had his medical yet
Contrary to other opinions I thought Hazard was great. Creative and hardly lost the ball. Couldn't do much more due to our deep line and no striker but he's exactly what we need.
If he interchanges with Mata and Hulk like he did tonight we will be a force.
If he interchanges with Mata and Hulk like he did tonight we will be a force.