Justice has been delivered. John Terry is made the England captain. He thoroughly deserves it, and he deserves it more than anyone else. Either Capello thought that Terry is the best choice or he did not want Terry to be on the losing side against Rio once more. Last season Rio won the double while Terry had all the agony to go through. Capello might have thought that this is one way of finding the balance among his first choice centre backs. I don’t want to take anything away from Terry though. It’s hard to see anyone else captain a team, when John Terry is in it. And I’m all more pleased that Stevie Me was not even in contention. Well done Capello! So, should we understand that Stevie-Me does not have that ‘big personality’ you were looking for? Can you say that loud please!
JT is apparently ecstatic over his appointment. Me too. The Chelsea team has so many players with captainship material such as Lampard, Essien, Deco, Drogba, Ashley Cole, Ballack etc who are being led by JT. If Terry is able to lead this leader-heavy team so successfully, there is no reason why can’t lead any other team. This should be the right kind of start for Terry’s season. With so much positive energy and good news coming from every quarter, I can’t help but say this cliche: ‘this season belongs to us’!
It means the world to me to retain the armband, especially with the players in the squad who are playing so well and have achieved so much over the last couple of years. To get the armband back is a huge achievement for me. I’d never given up on the chance to wear the armband once again and never will do. It is a very proud moment for me today. I heard little whispers that Rio [Ferdinand] had got it, but I am absolutely delighted and have got to make the most of it.
That was JT after the appointment. More good news, Joe Cole is not going anywhere. He said so himself. Now, this is one way of disappointing the press, with so much clarity and conviction in his communication.
I just wanted to put the contract to bed. We wanted to get it sorted this year, but with new players coming and going there wasn’t time. I love it here, the club want to sign me and there won’t be any problems. I suggested that I concentrate on my performances this season because it’s not nice for the fans to have an ongoing thing, but I will be a Chelsea player for the rest of my career.
That’s lovely, Joey. There’s no way we’re letting you go when you talk like this. I don’t see Chelsea selling any player against his wish. Especially when players like Joe Cole want to stay with us for the rest of their career, the club will go all the way to retain them, like we’ve seen in Lampard’s case.
Do you guys know how frightened our rivals are? The last couple of seasons, we had terrible injuries and an Avram Grant which put our rivals at ease. Now they know that it is them who are injury-ravaged and we’ve got ourselves a top manager. They’re all worried.
We’ve played just one match and you should see the fear and terror that we’ve created with our rivals. The fans of these red rivals are all shivering with fear. Some admit it openly, some don’t. I have been browsing through the blogs the last couple of days. They’re all worried and scared. They know the Chelsea is made of sterner stuff and with a couple of key signings and a good manager, we are a dangerous team. Some of them are so disturbed that we’ve started using our full backs as wing backs. Some think that with Deco and Bosingwa in our side, we are almost unbeatable. Some are so worried that all the key players are signing extensions. In short, the fear factor is back.
It’s not just the fact that we have brushed aside Portsmouth but also the manner in which we have done that, has worried the rivals. Moreover, we seem to be generating a lot of positive reviews in the press, which means the complexion of the propaganda could be changing. Scolari could well do the same thing that Chelsea has been doing all the while but if the propaganda is in his favour, people would start writing match reviews without even watching the match. That’s what happened to Chelsea before. The moment they realise that Chelsea has won 1-0, they make up the rest of the cliched story on how we shut up shop, how we maintained defensive solidity etc. At least now, Scolari seems to find himself in the good books of the press, which is nice.
There is so much written in the press about how Chelsea’s style in the first match was close to the Brazilian style. As I had written earlier, I noticed only two differences – attacking wingbacks and the Deco effect. Otherwise, it was good old Chelsea. But I saw in the press that the Chelsea are playing Samba style football. Good, let’s maintain that line. It’s time for some good propaganda. Meanwhile, Scolari’s take on style of football has not changed.
We will try to learn about dribbling, controlling the ball, passing the ball, touching the ball and one-twos. But I need to respect the identity of the players and the quality of the players. We have some players who play similar to those in Brazil. But others don’t. Abramovich wants Chelsea to play very well and win. The fans are the same, it’s not just Mr Abramovich. But they need to understand that sometimes it is difficult to play beautifully and win. Sometimes it is impossible because the other team plays a different style. It is my style and I have been a coach now for 24, 25 years. I try to play very well and win but if you don’t win, people forget that you played very well. People kill you. You can play very well for one or two months, then you don’t win, then it’s over.
I’m quite impressed with his thought process. He certainly has the experience. No doubts about it, and he knows the ground reality too. He knows that he doesn’t have a job if he doesn’t win. It’s okay that we play Samba football, I’d say let’s do some ‘Tamba’ football, which is Samba football with an eye on the ‘Table’.
TribalFootball and Daily Mirror (now that’s a deadly double!) ‘report’ that Milan are ready to sell Kaka for £70 million. Milan needs this cash badly. Despite buying Ronaldinho they are in bad shape. With JM now in charge of their city rivals, AC Milan know that they need a tremendous performance to win anything this season. With the current set of truly ‘aging’ players, there is only so much Ancelotti can do. Kaka is also reported to be wanting to play champions league football, instead of the UEFA cup that Milan offers him this season. If £16 Ronaldinho is back in form, selling Kaka for £70 million is a not bad business.
But what about us? Where do we fit Kaka in? Deco’s just come in and he’s been great. Essien and Lampard have signed extensions. Ballack and Joe Cole are in fine touch. At present, the fact is that we do not need Kaka as he will only create imbalance in the team. Also if Scolari is particular about making Chelsea loved, he should stay away from these bumper signings. If Chelsea wins the premier league or champions league this season, we’ll have excellent medium-cost players willing to join us and play for us. Scolari and Deco have given a massive face lift to Chelsea. If we want to maintain that, let’s stop spending too much. Going forward, a £30 million budget should be just enough.
Loading ...England plays Czech Republic in a friendly tonight. Lots of Chelsea players will be involved in tonight’s international friendlies. I don’t think Scolari can complain too much as he has been on the other side too, negotiating with the European powerhouses for releasing his Brazilian/Portuguese players for friendlies.
There is nothing much going around at this moment. Let us know what you think about Terry’s appointment, my hope for ‘Tamba’ football from Chelsea and the £70 million Kaka. Catch you later.
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we are ecrtaily looking and playing like scolaris brazil in 2002, cafu and roberto carlos where the fullbacks driving forward and we have bosingwa and ashley cole, deco is our playmaker, kleberson was theirs, they had ronnie and rivaldo on the wings in a 4-3-3 we have j.cole but im sure kalou will become our rivaldo, they had edmilson cleaning up poor first touches by strikers nad we have mikel, anelka or drogba our ronaldo, roque junior and lucio our riccy and terry. I think we are th new brazil and we played ’samba” football against pompey and we play the same system 4-3-3 anyone agree we are seeing similarities???
Chelsea ‘ll make 38 winning runs in EPL this season & will surely lift d champions league trophy next May.By d way my thumbs up 4 captain of captains (JT) & all hail d motivator (Joey) dats a way 2 show he is a blue blooded chelsea . Who ‘ll stay come rain or shine.If Kaka is willing 2 come let him come 4 half of d announced price. Pls wats up wit Robinho? He ‘ll make chelsea an extra-completed team.Let them get him.PEACE ! UP BLUES !!!
Chelsea’s already got a team that can win trophies. Why would we need kaka?
I just wish chelsea a great season..I dont want to get my hopes up too high as i am still heart broken from last season..Yes we have started on a very good note but mind u we have the most difficult fixtures this season and all my seem well nonetheless scolari’s new though he has the experience and injury may hit out at any time.. I’d say we sell players like wright philips,malouda,shevchenko,ferriera and plesae keep ivanovic to maintain the balance of four at the back..then bring in robinho and kaka at the right price and possibly simao..simao can dribbles and give good crosses as well…Eto’s scoring as well.so we might need him if we cant get robinho and kaka..we should get simao and Eto..but if no players is coming in then none of the above mentioned players should leave…I pray we break the 49 match unbeaten as we are on course..God bless chelsea and we’ll keep trying until we win the champions league….one more thing..please no pressure from Mr roman to big phil if things get a little shaky..I believe we have the character to pull thru this season…Many love
we are already a good team now I think our players were not used well last season , thus the losses champions league and premiere, i dont think we need kaka what we may need is just robinho and keep ivanovic. inuries may happen .
chelsea all the way
It is confirmed by Robinho’s Agent this morning that the deal bringing Robinho to chelsea has broken down due to the fact that Madrid refused to enter into negociation and it could only be possible by next season. We should all wait and see but I think Robinho and agent used chelsea to get a new contract or things just dont work out the way he wish to come to chelsea.
We are not completed yet, we still need players atleast two. One good winger replacing SWP (but that can wait till January if no club comes for SWP) and a Midfielder (Kaka at the right price) . Ballack is 31 and he can be replaced permanently in the next or two season to come and Kaka can fit into his role at chelsea starting from this season if he comes when ever Ballack or Lampard is injured. Kaka can even play upfront behind Striker if Shevy leaves as the speculation still continues. Kaka and Robinho are players that will improve more our team at any given time and send a fear down the spine of the opposing teams in england and europes.
I am not sure Robinho is coming again and Kaka is still like a dream until it happens. Scolari is not ready to offload either Belleti or Ferreira to give space for Ivanovic so it will be wise for chelsea to let him go at least on loan to AC.
I cant wait till sunday and watch demolish Wigan just exactly the way did against Portsmouth. It will go along way. The performance has to be repeated week in week out.
some reports said that sheva will leave chelsea on one year loan for milan.
Fábio Paim a youngester that will come to chelsea in this days.
I just don´t exactly know what Chelsea wants this season. If its only to win back the league title then i guess our squad right now is more than sufficient. We can afford to let the likes of SWP and sheva leave.
If we want League + Carling cup + FA cup, we should retain all our players so that we can rotate our squad.
Now if we want to guarentee League + Carling Cup + FA cup + CL, we need to sign atleast two faces, who have CL expierience. I don´t know if Robinho is a good name, but surely likes of KAKA and and Eto´ may be necessary to maintain the flair till the end. We all know what happened in 2006/2007, our players simply fatigued at the end of the season. EPL is the busiest league and we should be able to rotate our squad regularly if we want to achieve the highest possible.
@6/Unique #46216 – Lampard injured?Right…when was the last time he got a serious injury?
The fact is no one likes bullys let alone ones with huge amount of money.Kaka would never be sold by the “right price”,the only reason he would be sold in first place would be to generate enough money for ACMilan buy 2 or 3 good players for the “right price”.
Eto altought being a damn good player has repeatedly proven to unbalance teams, either by refusing to go on the pitch on last minute substitution or causing problems in the “dressing room”.Not the kind of prima-dona Scolari likes.
Robinho could be a good buy but insanely expensive for a club that would aspire to “break even” in the next few years and 3 first choice strikers might bee too much for any manager to handle plus not any right minded manager would cut a striker showing such good form as Anelka is doing right now.
I disagree that we need to keep up this performance week in and week out. The players are not robots and the opposition will have a good day sometimes too. I just hope for the best and that the worst doesn’t affect us too much and we are relatively injury free this season and hang on to my seat and will heartlily enjoy the ride now that Chelsea is in good, able hands.
KTBFFH
BTW: forget Simao, altought a decent player at Chelsea would be a backup player at most.Not really Chelsea material.
no way i want kaka. 100 mil euro is alot of money. and where should he play. i love lamps deco balack an joe cole. kaka may be bether but hell no. this is chelsea. dont make it like real madrid by buying every good player and still loose everything. we need only one striker our midfield is fully packed. a striker like benzema or david villa.
Heyy BC, nice post once agn, ive been reading this blog fr quite some time now, never really commented much but hey, i just saw this on Goal.com, dont know to what degree its true but take a look:
Sheva To Join Milan Tomorrow
Chelsea striker Andrei Shevchenko will complete his return to Milan tomorrow in a one-year loan deal, according to the Gazzetta dello Sport.
I dont know, i always liked shevchenko, even though he underperformed compared to his milan day, i think he still has the quality to do a great job at the Bridge, i mean, we saw the game against Villa last season, he did terrific ! What do you think about this news, will we pull off a Crespo and sell him to AC milan permanently after this period ?
guys who is this Fabio Paim…Scolari has asked Chelsea to get this guy from Sporting on 1 yr loan…he has off-the field problems but said to be even more talented then Ronaldo…
I think the matter of Kaka is an utter rubbish made by his agent Wagner Ribeiro
) it is nobody else except him who talks about the possibility of Kaka joining Chelsea. And it is only Daily Mail, TribalFootball and other tabloids who print his claims again and again…
One more think: as the English club is going to meet Czech Republic today, I hope they are going to humiliate them… for two reasons:
1) As a Czech citizen and a fan of Czech national team, I am absolutely disappointed with the team selection. Our “new” coach Rada is the former assistant of Bruckner, ok. But he is not willing to do any significant change to the squad, except of taking two players from Mlada Boleslav to the squad – guess why? – because one of his assistants is a manager of Mlada Boleslav
)) Otherwise, all the old and now useless players appear again – with Baros as the first-choice striker. I haven’t seen him scoring for several years now, but he is still number one choice – would you believe it?
2) This one is quite predictable – JT is the captain, so he is going to lead the whole team to the victory!
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Ronaldo,Quaresma,Nani,Figo,Simao they all came from Sporting football schools.Scolari must know what hes doing altought unlike the others hes being “transfered” without being proven himself.
I suggest you take a closer look at the match mate, because there were a couple differences in the way we played. Attacking fullbacks and the Deco affect aside, one of the key differences you did not list was attacking CBs. Carvalho and Terry actually dribbled up the pitch, and continued their runs through the midfield our of the back rather than cutting them off at the holding midfielder’s position. This made a huge difference, because Portsmouth could not predict which defenders would hold and which would attack.
Another key difference? Samba style football. Chelsea has never played that much quick, 1-2 touch passing before, at least not since 2005. We completed over 600 passes; well over 100 more than the next closest side over the weekend, Arsenal!
If you can, watch the first 45 again and look for these things – you will be pleasantly suprised!
@18…u r quite right abt passing…we never passed that much,that accurately and with that pace….Ballack was the real surprise package of all as I have never seen him passing that accurately…one more observation u can make is that Cech was not kicking ball to other half,he was rather distributing ball to wide players…that never happened in past….though its just first match but changes we could see were all pointing towards a better footballing approach…
no way we need him, maybe in a next season if our unsigned ballack wants to leave
as a whole our midfield is better than kaka, so why disrupt it for one better individual?
SHEVCHENKO will leave chelsea tomorrow.
I’m really sad that Sheva is leaving but I guess he’s just looking out for himself. I’d love to see him return to the Serie A goal-scoring machine he once was.
P.S. That leaves us with only 4 strikers left – Drogba, Anelka, Kalou and Di Santo….another striker before the transfer window closes?
@18 Brian – I’ve gotta completely agree with you, and you almost remind me of a mate of mine.
Anyone have any solid information on this Fabio Paim fellow though? I’m dying to know what’s going on because a flair winger is right up our agenda.
Scolari Chant….
Hello, does anyone on this site go to chelsea games often if so, this is for you…
Have you heard of the “volare” song (if not type it in on youtube and listen) it sounds very similar to Scolari and it would be absolutely awesome if everyone sang it at stamford bridge with these words………
Scolari, oooOOOHHH, Scolari, ooOOOEEEOOHH, He’s big, He’s Phil from Brazil (need to think of the next line and then chant is complete)
i can imagine it now being sang and it would be amazing. I dont get to go to games much so cant make this chant a chelsea phenomonum.
brian@18
i dont think so. it was the same chelsea with few fine tuning here and there. the one touch football that you claim chelsea’s been always playing. 1-2 touch passing is not at all new to chelsea. this was not the first time we completed 600 passes. go check the records. we’ve made more passes many times before.
very right kevin. just becuase we played a good match under a new manager does not mean we played badly all along. that’s being very cheap of you guys. we’ve always played good football. you conveniently ignore the number of long balls we played on sunday. if not for scolari, these long passes would have come to the fore.
hey brian . . what’s this nonsense about the centre backs attacking? that’s nonsense. when we have attack-minded full backs playing, if our centre backs participate in attacks, it is a stupid strategy. in that match, these two CBs happened to be in a couple of attacks. there was no pattern. even before this match CBs have always involved themselves in attacks. this was not the first time.
what you said is a perfect case of assigning great logic to a pure coincidence. and please, stop being silly guys, will ya?
Know this is a football blog and all
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my take on this article
1) Captain John Terry. Many people argue Rio Ferdinand should be the captain because he is a better player
For what I can see, Ferdinand is an attack minded player, who defends like sol campbell, getting back with speed to clear the ball where as terry actually positions himself to neutralise the attacker
how many time has ferdinand captained man utd and how many man utd players have ever been given the captain opportunity, internationally or at league level? ask the same question of terry. Our Mr. Chelsea has been selected over the (i think) 5 international captains we have and the 2 (i also think) that the england team contains. Also, when the team is down, be it chelsea or england, Terry is always making plays to drive the team on, be it a tackle or getting foward to make an attempt at goal. In my opinion, the only other person who does this for the England squad is Gerrard.
2) Joe Cole staying for life, I would be gobsmacked if he ever left, he’s one of those players along with Essien, Ballack, Lampard, Cech and Terry I feel will see out their careers at chelsea.
3) The premiership title is ours. I thought man utd would win last season for the same reason we’ll win it this year, we have a squad known by the manager, a manager with plenty of talent and squad depth. we were plagued by injury last season, man utd is facing that problem now, they won’t win domestically this season.
4) Kaka. This guy is creative, not quite as flashy as ronaldinho but gets the job done. He has plenty of experience and was nurtured by scolari. Kaka can be utilised as a striker, centre foward, winger or attacking through the middle. With the squad we have, we don’t need him and if malouda improves, there won’t be any space for him. If we are going to go fro kaka after losing out on robinho, we should not make a ridiculous bid for him, milan need the money, sending sheva their way plus around £35 million for kaka, milan will be more than enough. If there is a player we should be chasing, its lionel messi.
in reply to a few comments on here already 18) Brian W, our centrebacks have always attacked, one at a time just without the added onslaught of the wingbacks, I have watched carvahlo and terry make runs across the middle of the pitch several times. I don’t feel they made much more of a difference against portsmouth, their defending was very dire anyway.
and i echo many people when i say WHO IS FABIO PAIM AND WHY CAN’T I FIND ANY INFORMATION NOR VIDEOS OF HIM
OOOOO I see, its like that ….. anyone can come in and take our players but we cant even get a meeting to discuss a player!! o and why are we getting another attacking mid fielder!!?? unless he can play like rodhino as a second striker
@28. AgentBlue yo BLUE to the world mi don!!!!!!
As you said big all JAMAICANS anywhere in the world!!!!!!
the youth is going to sort out the thing for may years to come!!!
o and chelsea for life!
by the way Agentblue…… who do you think chelsea should look to get is they dont get Robhino??
O by the way i heard Half way tree was in chaos when bolt and the melaynie won!!!
@29 trueplatinum
he is a 20 yr old midfielder from sporting
chek ths
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fábio_Paím
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chek ths out too
http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/sport/football/article-1047447/Chelsea-seal-Robinho-deal-Kenyon-makes-Madrid-trip.html
Daily Mail reports that, Chelsea seal Robinho deal after Kenyon makes Madrid trip…
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1047447/Chelsea-seal-Robinho-deal-Kenyon-makes-Madrid-trip.html
@Denver 31
I dnt see the need for the addition of another player if Robinho doesnt arrive
I mean it would be good if we had Robinho but I think we have enough depth in the team this yr to cope without him jus the same…….
And I am a bit selfish cuz I wanna see Scott and Franco get a decent run this season..
(The whole place crazy out here yute…Jus celebration galore)
@18 and 25 – Where do you guys find the 600 passes figure. Is there a site that has total completed passes for every game? Please link it and thanks.