the wes

Alex is playing crap today

take off Kalou and Anelka and bring on Quaresma and Di Santo

WE NEED FRESH LEGS ON

WE NEED A SECOND GOAL TO KILL OFF WIGAN

SOCCER AM STYLE

Kalou moved to Chelsea on May 30, 2006, for an undisclosed fee, believed to be in excess of £5m m8

Middlesbrough 1 - 0 Liverpool

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jose mourinho was linked with liverpool job yesterday how would you feel if he was manager of liverpool, or man utd i would disowned him

Inter Milan boss Jose Mourinho admits he hopes to again work for Chelsea. He told Sport Express: “It was still my team, my players – people I have spent a lot of my life with – so I was sorry.” He added: “Chelsea are a great team.” Mourinho has already indicated that he intends to return to the club at some point, but again stressed that he does not have any particular time in mind. “I am 46 and want to work until I am 96, so I have half a century ahead [to return to Chelsea],” he said.

Manchester City are giving serious consideration to selling Robinho at the end of the season and have hatched a remarkable plan to offer him as bait in a player-plus-cash exchange for the Chelsea captain John Terry. Robinho joined City only seven months ago but the club have begun to think of him as a problem player and intend to use the Brazilian to try to pull off one of the most remarkable pieces of transfer business in the modern game. City's information is that Terry, despite his public statements to the contrary, is not as settled at Chelsea as supporters of the London club would like to believe. City have the financial power to double his weekly £135,000 salary and their inquiries have convinced them that the England captain wants to hear about the plans of the club's owners in Abu Dhabi. The involvement of Robinho, City's so-called 'marquee signing,' will shock the club's supporters but prominent figures in Abu Dhabi are confident that disappointment will be offset by a planned £200m recruitment programme in the summer, with David Villa, Yaya Toure, Kolo Toure and Roque Santa Cruz also on the extensive list of targets. The chairman, Khaldoon Al Mubarak, is aware that Hughes is exasperated with Robinho because of his attitude off the pitch and his perceived lack of effort on it. The matter has been discussed at length both in Abu Dhabi and Manchester and it has been decided that Robinho should leave unless he shows a significant improvement between now and the end of the season. Hughes was impressed with Robinho's performance in the defeat of FC Copenhagen but his relationship with his most talented player has been deteriorating for some time and, if City cannot persuade Terry to leave Stamford Bridge, the club will explore the possibility of a swap deal involving Franck Ribery, the Bayern Munich player and France international, who could replace Robinho on the left side of attack. Thierry Henry, the Barcelona striker, is another confirmed target who could play in the same position. Robinho cost £32.5m, breaking the British transfer record, when he signed from Real Madrid on the Abu Dhabi United Group's first day in power last September, and is the club's leading scorer with 12 goals in 27 appearances. The Brazilian is hugely popular with the club's supporters but his time at City has also been punctuated by a series of disciplinary issues and arguments behind the scenes, most notably when he was fined two weeks' wages - roughly £320,000 - for sneaking out of a mid-season training camp in Tenerife to fly back to Brazil before his 25th birthday. Since then, senior figures at Eastlands have begun to view Robinho in a different light and increasingly question his commitment. Robinho, whose time at Madrid was tarnished by various disciplinary matter and clashes with authority, has repeatedly clashed with members of the coaching staff and received numerous warnings for refusing to adhere to City's dress code. There is also evidence that some of the other players have begun to take exception to his attitude. A lot of his younger team-mates are said to look up to him but in the last couple of months some of the senior players have complained to City's management about the way he tends to disappear for long spells in away games. One has accused him of "showing a complete lack of effort" and, at a recent team meeting, the players were taken aback when Robinho effectively told them they should do more running on his behalf so that he could score more goals. It was pointed out to him that he needed to start trying more himself and that, in the Premier League, teams could not carry "passengers". Hughes is said to be frustrated by his inability to get through to the player and, increasingly, there is a feeling that Robinho has to shoulder some of the blame for why City, who play at West Ham tomorrow, have taken only eight away points all season. Information has also reached City that Robinho may be questioning his future in Manchester anyway. There have been persistent reports that he was keen to join Chelsea before Luiz Felipe Scolari's sacking as manager. Senior figures at City have heard likewise. Hughes, who built his success at Blackburn Rovers on bringing together a group of hard-working players, partly attributes City's problems this season to a lack of leadership on the pitch. He has deliberately brought in more vocal players such as Craig Bellamy and Nigel de Jong and Terry has been identified as the ideal captain for a club with ambitions to challenge for the Champions League within three years. City first approached Chelsea in December and have not been put off by the insistence that Terry was not for sale.

Pizarro scored two goals to put out ac milan in the UEFA Cup late night

Didier Baptiste is better than malouda

Chelsea winger Florent Malouda has told setanta.com he has no idea what the future holds for him. The France international, who signed a four-year contract with The Blues in 2007 and cost the Premier League side a £13.5 million transfer fee, is yet to establish himself as a key player in England. And it does not appear that Chelsea’s new manager considers the 28-year-old a starter, with Guus Hiddink leaving Malouda out the starting XI against Juventus and playing a three-pronged attack composed of Nicolas Anelka on the left, Didier Drogba in the centre, and Salomon Kalou on the right side, for his first match in charge at Stamford Bridge. When asked about his future, Malouda refused to commit himself to the West London outfit. Malouda told setanta.com: “Speaking about my future would be bizarre right now. “I don’t like to answer such questions to be honest. “The only thing I can tell you is that we will see what happens in the future because right now, I don’t know what will happen.” http://www.setanta.com/uk/Articles/Footbal...ure/gnid-41955/

The question is does arsenal want him if so i would take £8m for him

Interim Chelsea boss and Russia coach Guus Hiddink says his squad is not fit enough to be winning the UEFA Champions League title, despite them achieving a “strategic victory” over Juve by 1-0 at the Bridge last night. Talking to the media after the game, the Dutchman would suggest the team needed more in order to achieve. “I’m satisfied with the result but, overall, I’m not satisfied. "We’re not “top top” in terms of fitness. The physical level is good but in these high-level games you must be more than top. “We were too anxious after the goal. If we’d continued as we started we could have gone on and scored another goal - but we didn’t do that. “At the end the team were tired. The functionality of the team was not there in the latter part of the game. “After the goal we dropped back too far, leaving too much distance between the defence, midfield and attack - which meant Juventus could play in between our lines very intelligently.” And finally: “Drogba has responded very well.” Drogba has now become Chelsea’s top scorer in Europe with last night’s goal being his 20th in 50 games.

i wouldn't lose no sleep over kalou leaving Chelsea he is not good enough to be in the Chelsea 1st team

earl court have good B&B M8

2-1 to Chelsea

Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson has revealed that Lyon chairman Jean Michel-Aulas received a massive bid for Karim Benzema from Premier League rivals Chelsea. Speaking to Le Journal du Dimanche, the legendary Old Trafford coach revealed his admiration for the exciting French international but made clear that they would not be dragged into a bidding war for the 21-year-old. Barcelona, Real Madrid and several other suitors appear to be lining up potential bids for the hitman and Chelsea are also now apparently on the list. "He is an excellent footballer," claimed Sir Alex. "He reminds me of (Zinedine) Zidane in the way that he uses his body. He has broad shoulders and a great drive when he has the ball at his feet. "You always have to keep your eye on the very best players, seeing how they evolve. But I have never said that I want to buy him. "When we played Lyon last season (in the UEFA Champions League), chairman Jean-Michel Aulas told me: 'Chelsea have made a 50million Euros (£44m) offer for Benzema.' I told him: 'For such a fee, I will let Chelsea have him."

if the money is right yip i would sell him for £60m