While it wasn’t exactly the Chelsea ‘B’ team that took to the field at the Riverside last Saturday, there were a number of key players missing in action. Some thought that Middlesbrough stood half a chance of getting something out of the game. 120 minutes later, the home team had been utterly humiliated by a […]

We reported yesterday that Real Madrid president Roman Calderon (a man clearly used to getting his own way) was not having any of it when the subject of Robinho moving to Chelsea cropped up. He claimed that the Spanish champions were super-keen to keep hold of their Brazilian forward, especially after the club failed to […]

Peter Kenyon isn’t one to let stats get in the way of the truth. While most of us might consider a return of 22 goals for the princely sum of £30 million a little extravagant, there are others amongst us that are far too sensible to simply associate strikers with scoring goals. After all, there’s […]

The time is rapidly running out for clubs to land new players before the transfer window slams shut, potentially leaving teams short in key areas for months on end before January arrives. Chelsea can’t exactly say that they’re short of quality in any department (apart from grace, respect and manners), although it’s clear that they’re […]

They’re certainly one of Europe’s biggest clubs these days, although managing to shoehorn all of Chelsea’s attacking talents into one side is going to take some doing if this signing does indeed go through. It’s certainly moved from ‘possible’ to ‘probable’ in the past 48 hours, with Peter Kenyon travelling to Spain and negotiating a […]

When the Blues are sniffing around a player, the selling club in question clearly see pound (or euro) signs in their eyes and raise their valuation, simply because it’s Chelsea. They know that, unlike Arsenal or Liverpool, the west London club are happy to operate at a loss in order to be a) successful on […]

You might be forgiven for thinking that the Blues have enough attacking options, especially when Didier Drogba recovers from injury. Along with Anelka, Shevchenko and Kalou, Chelsea have a formidable set of forwards, while the likes of Deco, Lampard, Ballack and Cole all ‘know where the goal is’. However, the club seem determined to land […]

It’s highly doubtful that, upon becoming manager of the Blues, Avram Grant was told he had a job for as long as he wanted. Whatever the reasons were behind Jose Mourinho’s departure, it was an abrupt exit which left Chelsea needing a quick fix before the summer of 2008. So they turned to the Israeli, […]

Just when you thought that Peter Kenyon couldn’t get any more unpopular, here is something which will surely do anything but endear him to the vast majority of football supporters. As we all know, Chelsea’s recent successes have been due in no small part to the club being bankrolled by a rich Russian oligarch, who […]

**Completely imaginary phone conversation…**
“I love you”
“I love you more Frank”
“Look, I’ve got to go now, we’ve got a training session. Tootles darlin”
“Ok, you hang up”
“No, you hang up”
“No youuu!….”
And so on and so on. It’s pretty blazingly obvious that the Special One has a special place in his […]