Community Shield - Written by BlueChampion on Thursday, August 2, 2007 11:38 | 1,746 Views | 41 Comments | Add Comment
Kenyon wants Jose stay | Pato, Alves To Decide Soon
The official Chelsea FC website has this interview with Peter Kenyon, which I thought would never end. I don’t want to give you the whole text, you can read it here. There were a few questions/answers that interested me - of course, on Jose, Roman, Chelsea’s ambition and Champions League, which I’ve talked about. Also on other news, we have some players to decide on their future soon, some players joining us back in training and Inter not co-operating with Man Utd in their pre-season honeymoon.
Here are some of the questions from the long interview, which I thought are very important ones, given the current circumstances.
After some years of change since Roman Abramovich arrived, we’ve had a summer of real stability. How important has it been that José Mourinho’s still our manager?
I think it’s critically important and I think it comes off a season of lots of speculation which didn’t help and I think we got to a stage where nobody thought that José would be here apart from the people inside the club so it’s important from that point of view. But you know, I think what he’s been doing over the past three full years, building a foundation to take the club onward and upwards and I think that was the job day one, and its continued so I think this season is the combination of not just this closed season but what’s been put in place over the last three years.
Obviously the biggest signing financially was Malouda, there was a lot of talk about how much Chelsea would or wouldn’t spend. If a big player had become available would we suddenly have decided to go for him?
Again, we’ve been big news because we’ve spent a lot, we’ve been big news now because we haven’t spent any, the money has been available and both José and I have said it on several occasions, for the right player, the money was there and it is there so it’s not about being broke or restrained it’s actually looking at what we needed as a team to progress from where we were last season and last season was not a bad season.
We’ve won all the domestic trophies since José’s come, he won the Champions League the year before he came. Is it the Holy Grail?
I think it is one of the hardest trophies to pick up, to fulfil our ambitions as a world club, you have to win the Champions League. It doesn’t all rest on that this season, that’s not what it’s about, but two things what we’ve said is you have to win trophies on a regular basis, you have to win Premier League and Champions League more than once to reach those heights of being truly recognised as a world club and I think we’re well equipped and as always we’re confident going into all these campaigns because we’ve got a great squad and a great manager who knows what needs to be done.
Having read through the marathon interview, what I realise are:
(i) Chelsea management has a very long term view, though the titles contribute to the collective vision, they’re not in a hurry to win everything at sight. (ii) They have complete confidence in Jose Mourinho. He is considered as the key for Chelsea’s stability and a part of the core group of Chelsea. (iii) Instead of worrying about what Jose wins, they value his contribution to the team in terms of the winning mentality he has brought in and the foundations that he has laid to this winning group. (iv) Chelsea looks to grow big time. Lot of investments in Asia which would help the club support increase exponentially (v) Heavy investment in youth academy. Don’t be surprised if Chelsea playing eleven has about 5-6 homegrown players from our academy.
In other news, Dani Alves has said openly he wants to play for another team, Alexandre Pato to decide on his future in the next two weeks, TribalFootball, I repeat TribalFootball reports that Chelsea have upped the Drenthe bid to 7m pounds. And surprise, surprise - Robben would be back in training today alongwith Sheva and Diarra too. Yesterday, Steve Clarke made it apoint to clarify that Mikel was subbed in the Brondby match, not because of injury but only because of a tactical reason (read scrappy display). Call that the Jose Mourinho influence.
You might already know that Man Utd lost to Inter 2-3 at Old Trafford (trailing 1-3 at half time, not bad!) in a pre-season friendly. Nice to know that Vidic and Evra played a major part in letting in 3 goals at home, having played all 90 minutes. It’s only a friendly but it just goes to prove that there is a difference between playing Shenzen and Inter. At least the Reds scored two goals (at home against Inter’s defence) which from their point of view, is good. Chelsea would only be training until the big match on Sunday while Man Utd plays another friendly on Friday.
I’m sure you’d like to re-live the season that belonged to Didier Drogba. Here’s what you should bookmark: the video of Didier Drogba’s 33 goals last season. Don’t miss the scene of Drogba having champagne from the FA Cup. Enjoy!
Not time yet for the Community Shield build-up. Still need to see who might play, who might not be ready, what happens in the next couple of days before I jump in with the pre-match stuff. Before that, how much do you value this community shield match? Do you badly want us to win or this never counts in your books?
[tags]Chelsea, Peter Kenyon, Jose Mourinho, Roman Abramovich, Alexandre Pato, Daniel Alves, Arjen Robben, Manchester United, Community Shield, Diarra, Drenthe[/tags]
41 Comments
1. yoyo
2. yoyo
dont care what happens in cs match. i never cared before too. btw, i believe we will win
3. crewman
my first comment here. kenyon and roman always had the trust on jose. that was never in question despite all the problems last year. there is a long term vision for chelsea and lot of things that we fans fight about are actually immaterial. jose is here to stay and he is a legend already.
4. Blues_Godson
i am really glad that those people in the office have finally come out and say how much they believe in Jose…i am also glad that alves has considered quitting and i think we should get him by any means possible cos i still dont have confidence in our right back….and i think we must win the CS, cos i hate to loose to those manures,even if its a friendly….happy that inter spoilt their honeymoon…hahahahahaha
5. bigbadblue
There is a difference btw playing Shenzen and Inter (LOL). Just a reality check!!!!
6. Blue dogg1
Yea but manutd in a game have probably played better opposition than our whole preseason.and it was really entertaining unlike our jose!we dont need alves he cant defend.what bout micah?i know hel cost much but come on we have abramovichs pockets to dip into.as for pato the lad is right now really lightweight but could be a good player in future but he is not joses type of player as he can entertain.
7. bluthru
well its really good to see the club putting all their faith in JM because i think he is a huge asset to the blues and we need him to win trophies!! He has been building a team over the last 3 years and it would have been so stupid to let him go now!So at least his future with us is secured!!
About Daniel Alves, I really dont know him that well as a player but what I do know is that we need a Right back because currently our Right backs just dont have the quality that the other players show in their respective positions.
as for the CS, I really wanna win it because I will have a terrible Monday should we lose to the Mancs!! all my damn clients support them, i need some support over here in south africa!!
Great blog by the way!!
8. saji
ahh well dider deadly drogba ,,, hes fantaSTIC,,,,go on drogba,, another 30 plus this season,,,,,,,,,,,,terrorise the defenceee ,,,,,,,,,,,go onnnnnnn chelseaaaa,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
9. bluefan
Hi Guys.. Is the comshield match gonna be broadcasted in Australia? (local Tv) Melbourne particularly Thx in advance ^_^
10. AgentBlue
Hmm lets seee…….Community Shield!!
I will admit I’ve never been a fan of it over the years since Ive been watching football!
11. AgentBlue
I’ll be watching this one tho!!!!!
I was really stressing winning all our matches in the pre season but Im not gonna be stressing that right now!!!!
Dnt get me wrong…..I’d lick to kick Manure’s ass anyday….but really wanna see our midfield dominate and play exciting football!!!!
lamps we’ve been giving you a hard time…..prove us wrong if you have the guts!!!
12. AgentBlue
I dnt wanna see a stalemate this time around!!!!!
I wanna see slick passing and goals and more goals!!!!
Jose its pre-season!!!!!!!
13. AgentBlue
There’s no better time to test a new attacking system better than now!!!!
Hopefully that rat Robben will be back! Joe,Malouda and Pizarro to start along with Drogba up top!!! Introduction of a ‘fit’ robben for the second half!!
14. AgentBlue
Full starting 11 reads………..(dependent upon fitness)
Cech
Ben Haim,Terry, Carvalho, Ashley??????
Essien,Lamps,Malouda,Joe
Pizzaro,Drogs!!!
Second Half:
Sheva, Robben, Sidwell/Mikel
15. Giridhar
Nice collection of Dorgba… Come on another 3 days to go. As Jose says we want to win everything even if it is a Community Shield.. Never give ManU a false Hope.
16. AgentBlue
Oh crap I forgot about SWP…….
not my favourite player but I guess he deserves a run in!!!!!
He’s been good in the preseason!!!!
17. AgentBlue
Hopefully it will be a game for every1 to talk about!!!!
As I said….this is our first real test of our new system for the season!!!!
So the major priority should be to create chances and to score em!!!!!!
We coming out all guns blazing!!
All the haters from last season will be sick of us!!!!
They’re gonna wish we were still playing long ball football!!!!
hehe(lol) :-) :-O
18. joeblue
Hey guys this is an article i wrote for my college magazine , u can hate it or love it but u cant ignore it …………………………….
A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF JOSE IN THE TRANSFER MARKET
Since Jose has arrived at Chelsea , he has created a revolution , forging a world-beating team , winning back-to-back league titles , and all league trophies possible , but still the Holy Grail eludes him , fans wait with patience to announce Chelsea’s arrival at the European stage!!!
But a new headache surrounds Jose…………Roman’s sudden tight leash for transfers and his reluctance to spend money as freely as he used to, why so??? Abramovich who had only the need to be told which players to buy , and he would throw as much money as asked for , why has he changed??? Is this because of Jose’s numerous transfer blunders……………………………………..
It is foolish not to admit that Jose is a smart man in almost every field he has tried his hand in , from team management to player-to-player management , he has mastered many things , as a tactician he has been a very conservative manager , plugging holes rather than trying to create them , this policy has evoked heavy criticism , but another of his weaknesses has been the Transfer Market, though he has been the excavator of gems like Drogba , Carvalho and Essien , his inabilty to find the needful players for the right prices and signing duds and selling them off for losses has been a very prominent feature of his management!!!!!
From the shocking selling of ex-Chelsea goalscoring hero Jimmy Floyd Hasslebaink to the flop signing of the unneded duo Shevchenko and Ballack , he has done it all , i dont think anybody has still forgotten Scott Parker , yes the once prodigious Charlton talent brought to Chelsea for a mind-blowing price , now quitting Newcastle for West Ham who spent more time in the hospital than on the pitch and even when he was fit , he was seldom used which brought an end to his disastrous Chelsea career!!!!!
Or the mind whirrs to Tiago Mendes , now playing his trade at Juventus after making a move from Lyon this summer , he was a wonderful talent at Jose’s disposal , young , quick , creative and with an eye for goal , but his Chelsea career also came to a sudden halt after he had gotten tired of sitting on the bench and waiting for chances even after amazing performances!!!!
Though Mourinho could not sign anybody worthwhile he still made it worse by losing many of Ranieri’s other useful players , such as Gudjohnsen , who even after being such a coveted striker with his powerful physique and versatality was sold to arch-rivals Barca where he has deteriorated and is now on the verge of a transfer out after only one season at the Camp Nou , another player who comes to mind is the Republic of Ireland winger Damian Duff , who was such a favourite at the Bridge with his creativity and wonderful ability to score crucial goals and ofcourse , his pitch ripping speed , who was deemed surplus to requirements and is now at cursed Newcastle with a broken leg and in the hospital where their players spend most of their seasons!!! Infact his decision to send the legendary goalscoring animal Hernan Crepo on loans for the unproven Drogba was a shock to all of us footballing maniacs as we saw such a great and talented player being shipped off ,and as we all remember he would be recalled the coming season only to be pleaded back to Italy again!!!!
Most Chelsea fans still cannot forget the horrific injuries last season especially to the Centre-backs who were almost always unavailable , which begs the question on what basis had Jose sold young , strong German Robert Huth and versatile and experienced Frenchman William Gallas (unbelievably with whom Jose considered (and still does) his relationship as excellent) , with no cover even brought in to help out the poor duo , maybe he thought Terry and Carvalho to be supermen , if so then he was proved wrong convincingly , and everybody knows what happened next , as Jose brought in the cannibal Boulahrouz for a whooping 8 million pounds who ended up gnawing only dirt and grass not any bones!!!! Even among the current crop Paolo Ferreira once claimed by Jose as the best RB in the world has still to show why Mr.Mourinho spent approximately 18 mn pounds on him (yes, its not a misprint) , or why Jose went and swapped Gallas(+8mn pounds) with city rivals Arsenal for Ashley Cole when Chelsea already had the quite skillful fullback Wayne Bridge , who many people including me , rate as a better crosser and smarter than Cole!!!! Or German captain Ballack(now leaning towards Madrid) who was so tremendously lazy and slow that one could simply not help wishing to be on the pitch and push him to towards the ball , right in front of him , Ukraine captain and the once celbrated forward Shevchenko has had a similar fate brought in for a supossed British fee record of 31 mn pounds and ending up with 3 paltry goals in the EPL!!!
It seems hard not to laugh at Jose’s current biography , on the dialogues between him and Roman , where he outrightly rejects the chance to sign players worth dying for or when one currently sees him uninterested in REAL and going to be all-time-legendary superstars like Kaka , De Rossi , Berbatov , Iniesta , Messi etc , but as a Chelsea fan i hope with all my heart that we wont have to see any more Maniches , Ballacks , Parkers , Shevchenkos etc!!!
I do not plan to rebuke this man for after all he has been, and will always be a legend for Chelsea , somebody who has got us the titles we have desired for and drooled over all these years , then you ask me why i keep up this banter of ’sack Jose’??? The reason is beacuse of this sudden change in Chelsea’s fortunes brought by none other than the multi-billionaire Roman Abramovich , which begs us to go forward and as they say -Make hay while the sun shines , this is the time to dominate not only the EPL but also Europe and we might miss this opportunity only because of our naiive love for the manager , maybe he can win us the CL , maybe he cant , but its not a time for maybe’s , i know it takes a lot of luck and smarts to win the CL , and it is not a garunteed prize for any manager , yet Jose has had the full opportunity to exercise everything a mnager can hope for and has failed again and again and again!!!!
19. Peter jones
Hope ur right Agent !ditch the long balls jose! and give them red devils a good battering!
20. joeblue
oh and John Terry wil in all probability miss the community shield!!!
21. Sidwell_9
I would like a win at the Community Shield too tell the other teams too watch out for Chelsea. So i say that this should be our starting 11.
Cech
Ben Haim-Terry-Carvalho-Essien
SWP-Sidwell-Lamps-Malouda
Pizarro
Didier
22. joeblue
Agree with u mate AB , for a change , finally ppl r getting tired of Jose’s rubbish football , i too dont really like this competition a lot , but no way wil i be ready for a loss , and please hurry up wid da Alves and Pato deals , why do they drag them for so long???
23. Sidwell_9
I agree with you about Alves and pato deals
24. joeblue
My 11………………….
Cech
Johno–Haim/Terry–Carvy–Cole/Diarra
Essien–Lamps
Joey–Malouda
Pizzaro–Drogba
25. joeblue
tho i expect us to loose 2-1!!! 
26. chelseaoncrack
joe blue, i do not call that a critical analysis and some of your points are valid but not well thought out. To my knowledge Jose Mourinho was against the signing of both schevas and ballack - especially schevas. However, we all now how great a player schevchenko is, its just that mourinho could not fit him into his system. To his credit he did try, but it cost him the championship. Heck, when he tried to enforce his rule of law and leave scheva on the bench, he nearly lost his job! Cmaan, jose is a winner and you know it! He gets results and he has delivered. Before he came i didnt even know what it felt like to go around parading my chelsea shirt, taunting man u and arsenal fans alike! I didnt know what it felt like to get a dvd showing our “winning season”… where you a winner as a chelsea fan before mourinho??? Oh before i forget, i am just going to go through the transfer blunders you mentioned:
parker - well he was already there before mourinho came in, he wasnt signed by him! Besides i dont think he was better than the guys we played in midfield at the time.
duff - fine duff is a sad one. But mourinho always said that players would have to compete for places, duff suffered an injury prone season before he left and when he came back mourinho had turned JOE COLE into a chelsea legend.
eidur - we all love eidur and we know that he can turn a game around but he just feared that he wouldnt get game time with scheva around. To be honest if scheva lived up to his reputation and we got half the player he was at milan, eidur would have no chance of getting into the team.
hernan crespo - great striker, a fox in the box for sure but he just didnt like living in england, to be honest i dont blame him. He is after all latino, the language barrier and wheather make it very hard to live in the UK.
maniche - well again, he failed to reproduce! BUT the impact of mourinho was in the players he improved at chelsea that almost doubled their market values!
so joe blue start being a fan and appreciate winning titles! You have to appreciate the high value mourinho has placed on not buying premaddonas. Chelsea are a team full of fighters, its a shame gerrard didnt come through! Who would you rather have when it is crunch time drogba or ibrahmovic? essien or de rossi ( who happen to be the same age by the way), joe cole or iniesta???huh? get blue! This sunday chelsea win 2-1! you heard it here.
27. bigbadblue
zzzzzzzz
28. bigbadblue
Hey on the Blue side, Alex just got a work permit.
29. the late guy
alex is ours babyeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
30. QJA
I would hardly say Gudjohnsen has deteriorated at Barca. Regular playing time, great fan support… Are we thinking of the same player here?
New poll: What are the chances that Alves comes to the Bridge?
31. Peter jones
Where is this alex guy gonna play? i mean we already have terry and carvalho as starters and ben haim as cover.plus this alex is dam slow watched him play a few times although he is good in the air
32. Snotz82
Win is nice, won’t be worried if we lose - 27????
i’m very dissapointed with the lads who vote this.. where is ur passion for the club…
Alex is a strength player. I don’t know if he can adapt before the season is starting but his present at the club will upbeat for defenders place challenge.
33. bigbadblue
is Alex slow or does he just look slow? I’d be much more worried about his sense of positioning ( which think is quite good). Terry is not so fast either but if this guy played at the copa america and survived Messi, he should playa great part this season.
34. Peter jones
Shit manure bout to buy tevez!dammit y couldnt our loud mouth boss buy him.instead of kalou or pizarro(who cant play).ronaldo ,shrek and tevez?we have gat a hell of a fight this year!
35. bigbadblue
what the heck…lets buy everyone!
36. cfc if forever
Having been a lifelong chelsea blue, supporting the club for over 30 years, now that I have seen in my lifetime league title wins amongst other major trophies, other than winning the champions league, I honestly wouldn’t be bothered if we didn’t win another trophy again. I am content enough, unlike some of these manacunians or scousers who are nothing but glory hunters and want to everything every year. Sad bastards.
My only other dream would be to see the blues win a league title and or other major trophy with a squad of 60-70% of homegrown players. This would invoke glory days of the osgood/hudson era.
Don’t get me wrong…if we are in with a chance of winning a major trophy(ies) towards the end of the season of course I would always hope that we do but it wouldn’t be the end of the world if we don’t. I think we’ve proved our point in those back to back title wins, and also I am immensely proud of some of the english records we have broken, i.e. most points in a season, least goals conceded etc. To have broken some of the all time records, yeah that gives me goosebumps.
So long as chelsea gives its all, I pretty much don’t give a toss. We blues should be proud of what our club has achieved, mega bucks or no mega bucks
37. legushka
pato will not go to chelsea and hopefully kenyon will change his mind about mourinho staying as soon as possible.
38. Manish
This is a perfect example how a club’s pedigree, or ‘history’ as they call it, plays an important role in attracting talent, new or experienced. Chelsea must work on this aspect as well and new training facilities are a step forward in this direction. It also helps in making sensible bids rather than paying silly money. And also players don’t come for money only and then holding club to ransom, Terry’s, Lamp’s and Robben’s being the latest cases.
39. Anas
First of all i’m really happy to here that Kenyon and Roman trust this more than great coach Jose Mourinho, really he deserve it and more.
ad i wanna to say for benitiz,, Mourinho AND Roman built the True Blues and not just Roman’s money…!
now Liverpool you got the money also,, and Mourinho will learn you that the money is not everything,, and he will win at the Anfield Road.
Cheeeeeeeeeeeeers ;))))
40. d'proton fc
what ever people say…………… i’m still the truly chelsea fan
we will win the anfield bettel…..chelsea go for 3 point man….
41. mourinho
plz i want u to do a favour 4 me, plz why can,t u give him dis oppotunity.plz tell him that he should take the ball do anything
yo! first comment is mine. first fucking blue!!!!!!!!
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