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Chelsea's Antonio Rudiger sponsors 11 Sierra Leone children for surgeries https://newsaf.cgtn.com/news/2019-12-25/Antonio-Rudiger-sponsors-11-Sierra-Leone-children-for-surgeries-MH9he33i4E/index.html 11 children in Sierra Leone have a reason to smile after they received sponsorships for corrective surgeries aimed at correcting cleft lips, burns and deformations. The surgeries were sponsored by Chelsea and Germany defender Antonio Rudiger in partnership with charity project, BigShoe. Rudiger, whose mother is originally from Sierra Leone, paid tribute to his African roots and expressed his delight that he was able to give back to the country. “Last week I got the message from the medical team that everything went fine – thanks a lot for the amazing support to Dr. Jürgen Arndt and the interplast team again. And one more time all the best to the kids & their families.” Rudiger wrote on Twitter. snip

After Chelsea summer departure, player has taken ‘clear step backwards’ – Worry over investment http://sportwitness.co.uk/chelsea-departure-summer-player-sixth-months-prove/ If you’re a young player and you decided to stay at Chelsea this summer, it proved to be an excellent decision. The transfer ban, coupled with Frank Lampard’s willingness to blood the kids, has worked out in everyone’s favour as Chelsea’s young guns have all proven their worth. One man who decided to depart was Ola Aina as he headed to Torino in a £9m deal, but it seems the 23-year-old is struggling to impress in Italy. Tuttosport cover his situation today and say that Aina has taken ‘a clear step backwards’ at the club this season. They had considered him a ‘safe investment’, but his performances have not been good enough, and they now doubt the ‘goodness of the investment’. The £9m they paid makes the Nigerian their fifth most expensive signing ever. While Aina’s ‘impressive physical exuberance’ has been on display since day one, it has not been accompanied by improvements to both the technical and tactical sides of his game. Aina has struggled to prove himself to such an extent that Tuttsport says he has six months to ‘change gears’ and prove himself to the club.

Napoli Make Contact Over Signing Chelsea's Box-To-Box Midfielder Faustino Anjorin https://www.allnigeriasoccer.com/read_news.php?nid=34770 Serie A club Napoli are exploring ways to sign Chelsea starlet Faustino Anjorin in the January transfer window, according to various reports emanating from the Italian press including calcionapoli1926.it. Napoli are in the market for a midfielder, with new coach Gennaro Gattuso preferring to line-up in a 4-3-3 formation and the Chelsea whizkid has been identified as a possible reinforcement. Anjorin shares the same agent as Jeremie Boga, who is also attracting interest from Napoli ahead of the reopening of the transfer window and during one of the meetings, Napoli sporting director Cristiano Giuntoli was informed about the England U19 international. The 2001-born box-to-box midfielder has been at Chelsea for over ten years, first joining their development center at U7 level before officially signing a contract at U9 level. He made his first team debut for the Blues in a League Cup clash against Grimsby Town on September 25 this year, replacing Pedro in the 67th minute and became the youngest player of Nigerian descent to debut for Chelsea in a domestic competition aged 17 years, 10 months and 2 days. Earlier this year, Anjorin was on the radar of Borussia Dortmund, Paris Saint-Germain and OGC Nice He won the FA Youth Cup, U18 Premier League and U18 Premier League Cup with Chelsea in the 2017-2018 season. snip they can go fuck themselves

Chelsea prepare January move for RB Leipzig star Timo Werner as Lampard prepares to spend https://www.express.co.uk/sport/football/1220731/Chelsea-transfer-news-Timo-Werner-RB-Leipzig

sums up Sarri

Reece needs to play anyway

ffs we were asking 30m euros, then 35m euros now 40! more Marina bullshit she fucked us over doing the SAME thing to Real in 2018 when we could have gotten 45m QUID, and then she raised it to 50m, and then 55m!!!!! he is 29yo in 4 days ffs take 33m euros and buy Telles!!!!!!! hell take 30m if that is what it takes to do it we are going to fuck about lose out on Chilwell in the summer not do shit now or in summer about Telles and be stuck with the same two we have now, and basically get SHIT if/when we finally do sell Alonso or he walks on a free after being here three and a half more (SHOOT ME NOW!) years

They are arguably the 2nd or 3rd greatest team in history, after Real and maybe Barca (my issue with Barca is other than 1992 (first victory by a Spanish club since 1966 too), all their other EC/CL's are 2006 on), then Milan, then Bayern. That 1987-1996 period was just insane, other than Chels under Roman, some of my favourite sides, some the best defensive teams ever and had crazy foreign talent also loved those early to mid-noughties teams And now they are shipwrecked a true tragedy Honours Milan have won honours both domestically and in European cup competitions. They have won the Scudetto 18 times, the Coppa Italia five times and the Supercoppa Italiana seven times. They won their first title in their second season, winning the 1901 Italian Football Championship, while their most recent success came in 2011, when they won their 18th Scudetto. Domestic League Italian Football Championship / Serie A (level 1) Winners (18): 1901, 1906, 1907, 1950–51, 1954–55, 1956–57, 1958–59, 1961–62, 1967–68, 1978–79, 1987–88, 1991–92, 1992–93, 1993–94, 1995–96, 1998–99, 2003–04, 2010–11 Runners-up (17): 1902, 1910–11, 1911–12, 1947–48, 1949–50, 1951–52, 1955–56, 1960–61, 1964–65, 1968–69, 1970–71, 1971–72, 1972–73, 1989–90, 1990–91, 2004–05, 2011–12 (2nd most ever) Cups Coppa Italia Winners (5): 1966–67, 1971–72, 1972–73, 1976–77, 2002–03 Runners-up (9): 1941–42, 1967–68, 1970–71, 1974–75, 1984–85, 1989–90, 1997–98, 2015–16, 2017–18 Supercoppa Italiana Winners (7): 1988, 1992, 1993, 1994, 2004, 2011, 2016 (2nd most ever, trail Juve by 1) Runners-up (4): 1996, 1999, 2003, 2018 International European Cup/UEFA Champions League Winners (7): 1962–63, 1968–69, 1988–89, 1989–90, 1993–94, 2002–03, 2006–07 (2nd most ever) Runners-up (4): 1957–58, 1992–93, 1994–95, 2004–05 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup Winners (2): 1967–68, 1972–73 (2nd most ever, same as us, Barca has 4) Runners-up (1): 1973–74 European Super Cup/UEFA Super Cup Winners (5): 1989, 1990, 1994, 2003, 2007 (most ever) Runners-up (2): 1973, 1993 Intercontinental Cup Winners (3): 1969, 1989, 1990 (most ever) Runners-up (4): 1963, 1993, 1994, 2003 FIFA Club World Cup Winners (1): 2007 Latin Cup Winners (2): 1951, 1956 (most ever, tied with Barca and Real) Runners-up (1): 1953 Mitropa Cup Winners (1): 1982 (oldest major (was no longer major at the end) Euro Cup, founded in 1927, ended before I was born in 1992)

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CHELSEA VS SOUTHAMPTON PREVIEW | TEAM NEWS & KEY PLAYERS https://eplindex.com/84375/chelsea-vs-southampton-preview-team-news-key-players.html Chelsea showed impressive fight at the weekend, as they bounced back from a poor run to beat rivals Tottenham. The win was made all the more impressive as it was away from home. The Blues now have a great chance to consolidate their position in the top four with a home fixture against relegation-threatened Southampton. Frank Lampard will want to improve his team’s record at Stamford Bridge and Boxing Day offers a good opportunity to do that. The ambition will be to finish in the top four, which would represent a good season for Lampard in his debut season as Chelsea boss. The expectations were low at the beginning of the season, with many in the media stating that a top six finish would be a success. However, the rookie manager has managed to introduce a number of young players into the first team and the quality has remained at a high level. There will now be an opportunity to strengthen in January and it will be interesting to see if the club decide to do any business. For Southampton, they will be pleased to have moved out of the relegation zone before Christmas Day. It was looking very worrying for them following the convincing 9-0 defeat against Leicester. Since then, they have managed to improve and pick up a few key results. The players are clearly playing for Ralph Hasenhuttl and that has shown that the club have been correct to stick with their popular head coach. Danny Ings remains the key player for the Saints, with his incredible goal scoring record a big reason for not being cut adrift. This fixture is one that they can approach with freedom, as they won’t be expected to win. That said, they have the quality to cause problems for the home side. INTERESTING STATS Chelsea kept their first away clean sheet of the season against Tottenham. Lampard will be hoping that their defensive record improves over the coming months. Southampton’s last 16 Premier League goals have been scored by Englishmen. This is the longest run in the competition since QPR between March 1996 and September 2011 (17 goals). KEY MEN Mount snip

MATCH BUILD UP SHOW: Chelsea vs Southampton | The Ugly Inside

Spurs defender Vertonghen apologises to Chelsea https://www.footballfancast.com/premier-league/tottenham/spurs-vertonghen-chelsea-mourinho-fans

Mourinho cries delicious salty tears over Son sending off for kicking out at Rüdiger These violent delights https://weaintgotnohistory.sbnation.com/2019/12/23/21034855/mourinho-cries-delicious-salty-tears-over-son-sending-off-for-kicking-out-at-rudiger José Mourinho, (ex-)master media manipulator, was up to his usual post-match antics yesterday, chalking up Chelsea’s 2-0 win against his Spurs to anything but Chelsea themselves. Chelsea’s tactics weren’t good, they were just borrowed from Conte, who left them behind in a “break glass in emergency” case at Cobham. Chelsea’s execution wasn’t great, Spurs just made individual mistakes. He definitely wasn’t outcoached and outtacticed, the forces of football and refereeing and the stars above just conspired against him. And so on. It’s a familiar play full of tired rhetorics and surely everyone’s clocked on to him by now. In fact, most were already clocked on to him in during his second go-around at Chelsea, which was now, somewhat unbelievably, five years ago! That said, it was hard not to chuckle — and thus pay attention to Mourinho — as he cried delicious salty tears over the VAR-awarded red card for Son Heung-min, after he kicked out at Antonio Rüdiger.

FIFTY ASSISTS IN THREE AND A HALF YEARS AS A LB

lol is there a player on the planet worth 60, 70m plus who is NOT linked to those Real cunts??? I wish the rest of football would cut them off and just run the fuckers into ground Florentino Perez is a walking poison for football the whole club is just 100% toxic (and I hate Barca, but nothing like this) they destroy so many careers and have exploded the costs REAL MADRID REPORTEDLY PLANNING SUMMER MOVE FOR MANE https://readliverpoolfc.com/2019/12/24/real-madrid-reportedly-planning-summer-move-for-mane/ DOUBLE SHOT

I rate him I am done worrying about CB's as long as we sell AC and buy Ake all the other truly WC ones are not coming here more than likely and there is a shot that one of Ake, Tomori (most likely), or even Ampadu (also may happen at DMF, who can really know, but I really think we go for Declan Rice there in 2021) becomes world class and Rudiger gets even closer, Zouma is Zouma and is more than likely going nowhere we do desperately need a another winger, a CF, and a LB though, if we literally do nothing at all 3 positions we will end up next season in a bad bad place, there is no way Bats is capable of being our backup, the LB's are a going to still be a huge weak spot barring an odd great game here and there and there is no way we can roll with only Pulisic and a 32yo Willian as our wingers (CHO is not a true option atm due to his horrid injury after-eefects, hopefully that changes) if we miss out on all 3 of Sancho, Chilwell and Werner I am going to crushed and the odds are against us for all 3 and other than Telles there is no LB who is remotely worth what we would pay for them IF we miss out on Chilwell there are other (worse but not horrid) options if we miss out on Werner and we all know that if we miss out on Sancho, Zaha is on the way in (and will have INSANE pressure on him for £80m quid, even more than Sancho would at £100-120m or so as Zaha is 28yo next season and time is not on his side to come good, like it is on the teenagers CHO, Sancho, and the just turned 21yo Pulisic)

then Telles it is welcome aboard or we just roll with what we have (I can here the howls of rage now, and I am NOT going to be the one leading the wolfpack as at this point nothing surprises me anymore about the board and Marina) unless we are the ones buying that 18yo from Angers, which is so not like us (me yes, the board no) there is one final, basically impossible option talk Real into selling us Sergio Reguilón (out on loan at Sevilla) or maybe even better, Ferland Mendy (another ban-caused miss) they will tell us to go fuck ourselves though in all honesty, we are going ALL in on Chilwell is he worth £70-80m? IF he locks down LB for us for 8 years or so yes I really do not know where people are getting thsi 'he is only marginally better than what we have' slant watch him, every game like I do he is streets ahead what he have had since Ash in his prime he has an insane motor can run run run run, like Robertson he is not as polished though but he can be fairly close and the market is CRAZY IF you had a billion quid and wanted to buy the two best fullbacks in the world Victimpool's the pair would cost close to a quarter of yer billion or so

instantly back to the old salty cunt

if we play a back 3 again then yes and at this point, Emerson has been so poor lately I do not care if we start Alonso even as a trad fullback I guess, PERHAPS, sigh i reallllly am so sick of talking about LB's for the past 6 years or so (minus that one Conte title year when we used wingbacks and Alonso played superbly)

And then away at Watford and then Manure 4 games in 9 days, 3 against big clubs We have 4 games in 11 days, but only Arsenal away is versus a big club

I will ask you, and all the others if not Chilwell, then who? people do not like my suggestion of the very affordable (£32m RC) Alex Telles (the bloke has had FIFTY assists in the past 3 and half seasons, he is a deadly corner taker too) I have watched him four the past 4 years, and he is far better than what we have now you yourself do not like Grimaldo Gaya is 100m euros and no way is he worth that, hell no no no Alex Sandro turns 30 in a year and a month Malang Sarr is now back to CB, his LB experiment was a fail we missed out on a potential superstar in Alphonso Davies (he has been a BEAST so far for Bayern after they switched him from Winger to LB) due to the ban that said, there is probably no way they will sell Alaba for less than 90-100m euros (and he is 28 next season, turns 29 in June, 2021 at the end of next season) we missed out on Renan Lodi due to the ban so...... either we are the mystery club (and the lad is only 18 so no way can we just toss him to the wolves) here Premier League side makes €30m bid for Angers left-back Rayan Aït-Nouri OR we may just stick with Emerson and Alonso IF we fail on Chilwell and refuse to buy Telles Lucas Digne?????? Everton would rape us, demand an even swap, Zouma for him, and Digne is NOT worth what Zouma is IMHO Shitty's scraps? HELL NO, FUCK THAT SHIT maybe, MAYBE we go for Theo Hernandez, who has finally started playing a wee bit like his WC older brother and is a big LB (1.84m, 2 cms taller than Lucas), but he loves Milan, even if they are doing shit atm, Maldini talked him into turning down multiple other big clubs there simply are not that many good LB's (let alone great ones) out there at a buying age

fuck, if true grrrrrr Arsenal: Arteta already close to first signing in bid to strengthen midfield https://playingfor90.com/2019/12/22/arsenal-arteta-already-close-first-signing-bid-strengthen-midfield/ The new Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta has already identified his perfect target for the Gunners and a move could be made imminently. Mikel Arteta has only just made his return to Arsenal and taken over as the next Gunners’ boss but it seems he could be close to making his first signing already. The former Spanish midfielder faces a huge task ahead of him to forge Arsenal’s misfiring players together and get some consistent performances out of his players. It will take a lot of time and a lot of implementation to solve all of Arsenal problems and Mikel Arteta will need all the ammunition he could get. It seems Arteta’s first target could be Red Bull Salzburg’s Dominik Szoboszlai. The Hungarian has been watched extensively by the Gunners’ scouts as he impressed during Red Bull Salzburg’s Champions League campaign during the autumn period of this season. He is seen by the Gunners as someone who can go very far in the game and the ideal fit for the club’s midfield. Potentially Dominik Szoboszlai could even be a future replacement for Mesut Ozil. snip

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I keep forgetting about Ampadu in my CB and DMF calculations I really though he was going to be a baller by now based off 2 years ago and such he desperately needs playing time there were like 4 other Bundesliga clubs he should have went to before RB Leipzig