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Chelsea set to say goodbye to Stamford Bridge?
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Last night, while strolling to a 5-0 win over relegation favourites West Bromwich Albion, European Cup holders Manchester United set a new English Record for the 1,032 minutes without conceding a goal. The previous Record was held by Premiership rivals Chelsea, when goalkeeper Petr Cech did not concede a top-flight goal for 1,025 minutes in the 2004-2005 season.
However, some have said that United are getting more praise for their achievement than Chelsea ever did, which prompts the debate: Is one achievement more of a feat than the other? [Read the rest of this entry »]
Real Madrid’s Brazilian ace has joined the ranks of players claiming they have a “dream” in moving to a certain, oddly wealthy, club. However, after weeks and weeks of speculation, it looks as though another transfer saga is coming to an end.
Chelsea will not succeed with a £25m bid for Real’s attacking forward and his dreams are “broken” as the Spaniards refuse to sell. [Read the rest of this entry »]
Chelsea promised a big revelation yesterday at 5pm and they didn’t let down. Instead of a Brazillian holiding a Blues shirt with “Kaka” or “Robinho” on the back it was a big-signing of a different nature. [Read the rest of this entry »]
La Liga side Valenica are looking to tie-down one of Spain’s Euro 2008 stars to a long-term contract to fend off interest from the Premier League. [Read the rest of this entry »]
Manchester Ciy boss Mark Hughes has confirmed that he has made a move to bring Chelsea’s Israeli centre-back to Eastlands for a reported £5 million. [Read the rest of this entry »]
Chelsea are ready to cut their ties and lose over £4 million on their Dutch international defender after agreeing a fee with Bundesliga side Stuttgart.
Khalid Boulahrouz arrived in London from Hamburg for a reported €12 million (£8.5 million) in 2006, but failed to live up to his hefty transfer fee. He was shipped off to Sevilla last season, where he struggled for form and fitness. However, Die Roten are willing to gamble on him and have agreed a free of around €5 million (£4 million) to bring the Dutch defender, nicknamed “Khalid the Cannibal” for his aggressive style, back to the Bundesliga. Stuttgart manager Armin Veh told German newspaper Bild
He is just the man we were lacking.
He is one who is not scared of getting involved when needed.
Stuttgart will hope he can recreate his form between 2004 and 2006 at Hamburg that prompted Chelsea to shell out so much and not his form of picking up red and yellow cards.
Will Chelsea fans be happy to see the back of this flop? Or was he just never given enough time at Stamford Bridge?
Tottenham Hotspur, Chelsea and Inter Milan have all made moves for the remaining member of Barcelona’s “wantaway trio”. Ronaldinho has gone to Milan, Deco to Chelsea, leaving only one player…
Cameroon international Samuel Eto’o has expressed his desire to leave Camp Nou this summer and his wishes moved closer to coming true as new Barca manager Pep Guardiola said he could go, along with Ronaldinho and Deco.
Now the striker has revealed to Corriere Dello Sport that three clubs have made a move for his services, naming two Premiership clubs and the Italian champions:
“I have a few important offers. Which ones? Chelsea, Tottenham and Inter.”
Whether the clubs will actually make a move or not is still in debate. Tottenham assistant manager Gus Poyet recently said they would not bring Eto’o to White Hart Lane, while new Inter manager Jose Mourinho has stated he is targetting a midfielder over a striker.
This only leaves Chelsea as a realistic destination. With questions over Drogba’s future, would Stamford Bridge be a reasonble destination for Eto’o?
Fallen French giants Paris St Germain have sealed a homecoming deal for Chelsea’s 71-cap veteran midfielder. [Read the rest of this entry »]
After learning his lesson that buying solely African talent will leave you sparse come the African Cup of Nations, Harry Redknapp has continued his trend of buying top English talent.
After sealing recent deals for Jermaine Defoe, Peter Crouch and Glen Little, Harry Redknapp is turning his eye to England and Chelsea winger Shaun Wright-Phillips:
At the moment we like him, he is a good player but he belongs to Chelsea.
We have spent some money on Peter Crouch, so the situation is that we have two other options but Shaun Wright-Phillips is a terrific player.
Any transfer of Wright-Phillips would represent a considerable loss for Chelsea. They paid £22 million to Manchester City for his services in 2005, and it is unlikely that Portsmouth would go higher than £15 million.
If Chelsea were to allow Wright-Phillips to move, it would increase speculation that Robinho is on the way to Stamford Bridge from Real Madrid. The Brazilian is mainly used as a second striker but can play on the wing, or big Phil Scolari could move to a Manchester United-style attacking formation with less dependancy on wingers and more second strikers.
A move to Portsmouth could be very good for Wright-Phillips, who has seen England team-mates David James, Sol Campbell, Glen Johnson and Jermaine Defoe reignite their domestic and international careers at Fratton Park.
I think it would be great for Wright-Phillips, Portsmouth and English football if he were to move to the South Coast. He would get more game time, improving his sharpness for international football and it would also see a possible Portsmouth line-up with 8 or more Englishmen.
Would any Pompey fans want this move? Would Chelsea fans happily see the back of Wright-Phillips?
Sky Sports News has unmasked the “mystery club” that is ready to queue-jump and bag Chelsea’s Steve Sidwell from under the nose of Aston Villa, who have faithfully been waiting in line for weeks now. [Read the rest of this entry »]
Not content with having a team capable of winning the Champions League, bar any slipups, Big Phil Scolario seems obsessed with filling his Chelsea squad with members of the national teams that gave him his reputation.
Having inherited Alex, Belletti, Ricardo Carvalho, Henrique Hilário and Paulo Ferreira, Scolari has set about signing Deco and allegedly had a hand in bringing Porto right-back Jose Bosingwa to Stamford Bridge. Now it has been revealed that another one of Scolari’s international ‘students’ is in talks to head to Fulham Road.
Real Madrid striker Robinho is reported to be in contact with Scolari’s Chelsea over a £25million move. How credible this claim is depends on your stance on agents, with Robinho’s agent Wagner Riberio leading the claim in Spanish paper AS:
It’s true that Chelsea are interested in signing Robinho. They have been after him for a while and there has been much more contact since Scolari became the new coach.
I met with [Chelsea director, Frank] Arnesen in London and he confirmed to me that Chelsea wanted my player for next season.
The move apparently depends on Real’s outcome in the Cristiano Ronaldo saga. If Ronaldo arrives at the Santiago Bernabéu, Los Blancos will let Robinho move to Chelsea.
It can also be seen as a way of making Real sweat on Robinho’s contract talks. The agent was again in the press this week saying that Real do not value his player high enough and the club stalling in contract negotiations demonstrates this:
Robinho’s priority is to continue at Real Madrid. But he cannot stay in a place in which they don’t recognise his talent and at the moment Real Madrid are not doing that and I’m not talking about money
We don’t like this attitude and we want Madrid to start valuing Robinho because at the moment they’re not.
Whether or not Robinho will arrive at Stamford Bridge remains to be seen, but regardless of the outcome, the agent will have his nice slice of the pie.





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