Vesper

I would love to sink a bovver boot into that sweaty bindipper Steve Nicol's jacobs

it was a semi poor pass, it was behind Cole

woooot Cole

fuck you raheem

Sanchez is a goal waiting to happen fuck Poch for trotting that berk out there

agree!!!!!!

why the FUCK did Cole not take that pen!!!!!!

I cannot recall the last time I disliked a Chels player as much as I do Sterling

18m quid per year to be a cunt

I detest that fucker

FUCK OFF STERLING

wtf Sanchez

and how shit is Sterling, wtf

pull that cunt Sanchez

great CF play by Nico

weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

fuck off Sterling

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(Video): Chelsea wonderkid starts new league season with a stunning 45 minutes https://Chelsea.news/2024/03/video-Chelsea-wonderkid-starts-new-league-season-with-a-stunning-45-minutes/ Chelsea talent Kendry Paez won’t be able to join us until next summer, but that won’t stop us enjoying his highlights in the meantime. He’s just started a new season in Ecuador with Independiente del Valle, and last night he got his first goal of the fledgling season. As you can see from the highlights below, it was a sensational showing – and this was just in 45 minutes. He’s going to play for Ecuador again in this upcoming international break, and we can’t wait to see that either. You can see it all in the clip embedded here:

Insane stat of the week the career TOTAL money spent on Olivier Giroud transfers £29m that for a player who will likely end up with 500 or so total goals produced for club and country, depending on how long he keeps going (375 or so goals and 140 to 150 or so assists for club and country (this season, on a full season (granted at his age he can no longer play 3800 plus minutes) minutes projection, he is tracking to around 21 goals and around 14 assists just for AC Milan, plus he has 4 goals and 2 assists for France)

Chelsea pair Malo Gusto and Axel Disasi left out of France squad for March friendlies https://theathletic.com/5341972/2024/03/14/Chelsea-france-disasi-gusto-squad/ Chelsea pair Malo Gusto and Axel Disasi have been left out of France’s squad for their upcoming international friendlies. Centre-back Disasi was included in Didier Deschamps’ last squad in November. The 26-year-old was an unused substitute during the 14-0 victory over Gibraltar and came on in the 5th minute during the 2-2 draw with Greece. Gusto, 20, was not selected for Deschamps’ squad in November, but has impressed with his club form of late. The right-back has had an extended run in the team due to first-choice right-back and club captain Reece James’ hamstring injury. France face Germany at the Groupama Stadium on March 23 and then Chile at the Stade Velodrome on March 26. These are France’s final fixtures before the start of the European Championships in Germany this summer. Gusto has been included in Thierry Henry’s France under-21 squad for their matches against Ivory Coast on March 22 and the U.S. on March 25. When asked in February about the possibility of him making France’s Euro 2024 squad, Gusto told The Athletic: “It is a target for me. I have got this idea in my head but, for the moment, I have to just keep focusing on Chelsea, on every game, starting this weekend. “And after, we will see what happens. But it is a target for me, for sure, 100 per cent.” Gusto made his only senior international appearance during the 2-1 victory over the Netherlands in October. Disasi has earned five caps, including being part of France’s 2022 World Cup squad where he was a late substitute in the final. France squad in full Goalkeepers: Alphonse Areola (West Ham United), Mike Maignan (AC Milan), Brice Samba (Lens). Defenders: Jonathan Clauss (Marseille), Lucas Hernandez (Paris Saint-Germain), Theo Hernandez (AC Milan), Ibrahima Konate (Liverpool), Jules Kounde (Barcelona), Benjamin Pavard (Inter), William Saliba (Arsenal), Dayot Upamecano (Bayern Munich). Midfielders: Eduardo Camavinga (Real Madrid), Youssouf Fofana (Monaco), Adrien Rabiot (Juventus), Aurelien Tchouameni (Real Madrid), Warren Zaire-Emery (Paris Saint-Germain). Forwards: Ousmane Dembele (Paris Saint-Germain), Moussa Diaby (Aston Villa), Olivier Giroud (AC Milan), Randal Kolo Muani (Paris Saint-Germain), Marcus Thuram (Inter), Kylian Mbappe (Paris Saint-Germain), Antoine Griezmann (Atletico Madrid). GO DEEPER Malo Gusto: 'Pochettino knows he has to wake up our mentality. We are Chelsea. We have to win'

Nicolas Jackson and Didier Drogba: Why comparisons between strikers are unfair https://theathletic.com/5338948/2024/03/15/Chelsea-drogba-jackson-comparison/ In the wake of his clever flick to open the scoring against Newcastle United at Stamford Bridge on Monday, the tone of the ever-shifting conversation around Nicolas Jackson is starting to sound more positive again — but like so much modern discourse, it remains a dialogue that veers far too readily towards the extremes. Five months were all it took for Jackson to go from fielding questions about emulating Didier Drogba on Chelsea’s pre-season tour of the United States to having his substitution cheered by his own supporters after several badly missed chances in the 2-1 defeat against Wolverhampton Wanderers at Molineux. Now, one good game after seeing his stepover fail against Brentford eagerly seized upon as social media meme material, the growing goal return of his debut campaign in English football is being compared favourably with that of the Ivorian’s first season at Chelsea in 2004-05. The fact that the key numbers are similar — Drogba scored 16 goals in 41 appearances across all competitions, while Jackson has 12 goals with up to 14 matches to add to his 31 appearances this season — is less relevant than the reality that the comparison is plainly unfair. To reference how Drogba began at Chelsea is to invoke what he became, thereby signalling the intent to hold a raw 22-year-old to the standard set by an era-defining legend with an entire career in the history books. “From the beginning, we have been talking about Jackson needing to score goals — which is OK — but you cannot compare Jackson now with Didier Drogba,” Chelsea head coach Mauricio Pochettino said last month. “Drogba was one of the best strikers in the world and it’s difficult to build another Drogba.” Chelsea would probably be foolish to even try because Drogba, as a player, a person and a football story, is as hard to replicate as they come. A striker who first broke double figures for goals in a season as a 24-year-old at Guingamp in 2002-03. A No 9 who significantly reinvented his game in his mid-twenties (Jose Mourinho compared him to Thierry Henry upon signing him in 2004, before turning him into the greatest target man of his generation). A talisman who became the ultimate big-game decider despite only actually producing one prolific scoring season by modern standards, netting 37 goals in 44 appearances as a 31-year-old under Carlo Ancelotti in Chelsea’s double-winning 2009-10 campaign. GO DEEPER Drogba and destiny: From Stamford Bridge boos to Chelsea’s greatest To point out that, at Jackson’s age, Drogba was still toiling unremarkably with Le Mans in the second tier of French football is striking, but does not feel like a pathway to a greater truth. Every football career is distinct and this particular one is playing out more than 20 years later, in a different era of the sport in which the striker role has itself evolved considerably. Jackson is very early on in his own journey and Chelsea — as Pochettino stresses with increasing regularity — is a changed club undertaking a painful rebuild around youth. A more suitable short-term yardstick for his progress and potential might be the 15 Premier League goals that Tammy Abraham scored in 34 appearances as a 21-year-old in 2019-20. The search for a worthy Drogba successor has consumed many inside and outside Chelsea ever since he first left in 2012. Only Diego Costa truly came close to walking the walk, and only in two of his three seasons at Stamford Bridge. Yet it increasingly feels as if, in addition to resulting in a huge amount of wasted money on Alvaro Morata (£58million) and Romelu Lukaku (£97.5m; his second spell at the club) in particular, it has been a long-winded attempt to answer the wrong question. In the last five full Premier League seasons, the eventual champions have scored an average of 91.2 goals — a bar that Chelsea, with or without Drogba, have only cleared once this century. It is very rare for an individual player, even an extraordinary one, to raise the production of an entire attack; Manchester City actually scored five fewer goals with a rampant Erling Haaland last season than they managed without a single prolific goalscorer in 2021-22. One of Pochettino’s key tasks is to build an attacking ecosystem that can match this high standard and, despite his flaws, Jackson is already showing enough to imagine a scenario in which he becomes a significant part of a prolific Chelsea attack in the future. This season, only Dominic Calvert-Lewin has more significantly underperformed relative to his non-penalty expected goals (xG) than the Senegal international, but generating xG is a much better long-term indicator of an effective striker and, according to FBref, his 12.6 non-penalty xG ranks fifth in the Premier League. “The effort is there, you see that with how he presses, and he has the quality,” Pochettino said of Jackson after the Newcastle win on Monday. “With more games and more experience, he is going to be more calm and more clinical in front of the goal. He can score a lot of goals for Chelsea. “We need to keep believing.” Measured against any reasonable expectations, and certainly against his price tag, Jackson is doing fine. To maintain that progress beyond what could be a summer of significant attacking reinforcement at Stamford Bridge, he might be wise to study how Drogba redoubled his efforts and raised his game every time Chelsea bought a new striker to compete with or replace him. In almost every other respect, the spectre of the Ivorian is unhelpful, bar one: to serve as a powerful reminder to Jackson himself, and to anyone inclined to boo or mock him, that even the most legendary reputations are forged slowly through adversity, that the present is no prisoner of the past, and that nothing about the future is set in stone.

Mauricio Pochettino to support Raheem Sterling after England omission: ‘Football is like this’ https://theathletic.com/5344426/2024/03/15/raheem-sterling-mauricio-pochettino-Chelsea-england/ Chelsea head coach Mauricio Pochettino admits there is nothing he can say to Raheem Sterling to help him cope with being omitted from the England squad again. Sterling now looks set to be left out of England’s squad for the European Championships this summer having been arguably their best player when they reached the final three years ago. The 29-year-old won the last of his 82 caps in England’s World Cup quarter-final defeat to France in December 2022. He has not been selected by national team coach Gareth Southgate ever since. Southgate has until June 7 to name his 23-man squad for the tournament, but the friendlies against Brazil and Belgium this month provides a major indication who Southgate will choose. When asked by The Athletic if he is able to help Sterling cope with the disappointment, Pochettino said: “It’s difficult to talk because what am I going to tell him? All we can do is support him and try to help him to perform here. It is not our decision. “Of course he needs to perform well to convince Gareth but what I tell him is no consolation, (nothing I can say) can make him happy. Nothing. Football is like this.” GO DEEPER Chelsea are still to see the best of Raheem Sterling - he is determined to put that right Chelsea left-back Ben Chilwell has received a call-up, just one week after having to see a specialist about a knee injury he sustained at Brentford. The problem is not as bad as first feared and he is in contention to start Chelsea’s FA Cup quarter-final at home to Leicester City on Sunday. Pochettino added: “He is fit and back in training. Everything is going well and he will be in the squad for Sunday. “We didn’t talk this morning about that (England) because we were talking about us, about Chelsea. But of course when a player comes back from injury and starts to feel fit, gets a call up to England, they are excited for sure.” GO DEEPER Chilwell to see specialist about fresh knee injury