One for the Liverpool fans ;D



Do you guys think RDM will get the job?

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Carling Cup > FA Cup + Champions League

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Just a quick one from this morning,

Didn't agree with Bertrand at LW, if anything shouldn't he have been RW to protect Bosingwa?

Congratulations Chelsea.

And all it took was 9 years of trying and billions of dollars stolen from the Russian people...

Didn't think he did badly tbh, coped with the pressure well and also the fact that he was against Lahm and Robben

Yeah, he didn't play badly. I just think an outlet (like how Kalou played) on the other side would have helped, especially in the first half.

Pub team with no history you have killed football.

Chelsea interim manager Roberto Di Matteo is under 'serious consideration' to be appointed on a permanent basis following the Blues' Champions League triumph, senior club officials said on Sunday.

As the dust began to settle on Chelsea's victory over Bayern Munich, attention turned to the issue of Di Matteo's long-term future at Stamford Bridge following three remarkable months in charge.

The 41-year-old Italian took over after the dismissal of Andre Villas-Boas in March and has steered the London club to FA Cup and Champions League victories.

Chelsea officials have so far refused to elaborate on Di Matteo's long-term future amid mounting calls for him to be appointed permanently.

However chairman Bruce Buck told Sky Sports Television on Sunday that Matteo would discover his fate "sooner rather than later" as Chelsea begin what is expected to be an extensive summer rebuilding process.

"He's done an amazing job, Robbie, he's enabled the players to get back the confidence they used to have and he's really got the players performing," Buck said.

"We've put (managerial speculation) aside for the last six or eight weeks, concentrating on Barcelona, the FA Cup and Bayern Munich, but I think now we have to sit down and figure that out.

"Roberto is certainly in the mix, he's done a great job and has to have serious consideration," Buck said.

The Chelsea chairman added that the club wanted a new manager in place before entering the summer transfer market.

"We really need to get the new manager on board before we can start talking about (signing) players," he said.

Chelsea chief executive Ron Gourlay praised Di Matteo for masterminding a "phenomenal turnaround" in the club's season.

"It's been an incredible few months and a great ending last night with winning the trophy," Gourlay told Sky Sports.

"It's been an up-and-down season. We started reasonably well but we had a bad period around November, December, January.

"The performances and results weren't there so we had to make the change, we brought Robbie in as interim manager until the end of the season and we've seen a phenomenal change and a run of results which finished last night with winning the Champions League.

"There's a number of things we've got to look at and we'll review where we are and take it from there, but it's a phenomenal turnaround really."

Meanwhile Buck said Chelsea would hold talks with Didier Drogba's agent this week about possibly extending the Ivorian's stay at Stamford Bridge.

Drogba, who scored Chelsea's equaliser to set up extra-time before slotting the winning penalty, is out of contract with the club.

"Didier is a big-match player and he did it once again," Buck told Sky.
"I think (Chelsea chief executive) Ron Gourlay is going to sit down with his agent this week and we'll see where it goes.

"We have to do what's best for Chelsea Football Club and Didier has to do what's best for him, we'll just see how the discussions go."

Torres is unhappy with Blues

From: AP May 21, 2012 5:44AM

CHELSEA striker Fernando Torres has said he is not happy with his limited role on the team.
..One day after lifting the Champions League trophy, Torres told Spanish sports daily AS
that "at the end of the season we will talk and see what my future will be because my role on the team this year isn't for me, it isn't what I expected to have when I came here. I am not pleased."

Starting on the bench, Torres came on in the 84th-minute of the weekend's Champions League final against Bayern Munich that the English club went on to edge in penalties.

The 28-year-old Spain international said not starting the final was "maybe the biggest (disappointment) of my life".

Torres has scored 12 goals in one and a half seasons for Chelsea since his 50-million pound ($80 million) move from Liverpool.

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/soccer/torres-is-unhappy-with-blues/story-e6frfg8x-1226361746819

Roman probably thinks his goal in the semi sent Chelsea through, hell half the world thinks so, he will keep him purely for 'getting them to the final'.

[size=9]Lukaku: I'll never forgive AVB[/size]

[size=7]ROMELU LUKAKU has blasted former Chelsea boss Andre Villas-Boas for leaving him out in the cold at Stamford Bridge.[/size]

Lukaku, 19, joined the Blues from Anderlecht for £18million last summer as Villas-Boas set about implementing his three-year vision for the club.

But the young striker was barely given a look-in by the Portuguese coach and was left feeling unwanted until Roberto Di Matteo took over as interim manager in March.

Lukaku fumed: "There is one person that I will never forgive for what he did to me — the previous coach.

“It’s not just that. It was also the way he spoke to me and treated me.

“Right from the beginning, it was weird. I could not stand how he was treating me and I received no explanation.

“In training, he put me on the right or left wing. In training matches, I was a substitute with a shirt to keep swapping teams. I really learned nothing!

“I have told the club that too. I understand that he was under pressure, but I was also thinking of myself. I have improved in recent months.”

Lukaku was not part of Di Matteo's squad for the Champions League final success over Bayern Munich.

But he flew with his team-mates to Germany and was delighted to be involved during the biggest night in the club's history.

The Belgium international added: “I could not believe it. I had to think, ’Is this really happening’?

"My life has changed and I’m only 19.”

Drogba ‘says he's leaving Chelsea'

From: AFP May 22, 2012 5:52AM

DIDIER Drogba has reportedly told his Chelsea teammates he is leaving the newly-crowned European champions.

..Drogba is set to leave the side because he doesn't fancy spending time on the substitutes bench, France Football said overnight.

The 34-year-old Ivorian - who scored the late equaliser and then the decisive penalty in the shootout win over German side Bayern Munich on Saturday - is quoted by the magazine as saying he burst into tears when he told the rest of the squad during their open top bus parade with the trophy on Sunday.

"We (he and his team-mates) will not be together next season," the magazine cited Drogba as saying.

"As I have decided to leave, I wanted to tell them to their faces.

"Only that I couldn't do it. They made me break down. Even if it has been three years that I have said I wanted to leave, I found it hard to admit that it was finished with me and the club.

"Especially that I had no great desire for this end. But I don't envisage sitting on the bench watching others play at a time when the club is looking at putting together a new team.

"So there we go, I am readying myself for a great leap into the unknown.

"It will be another adventure," added Drogba, who is out of contract having been at the club since 2004 after joining from Marseille.

English media have linked the Ivorian target man - scorer of 55 goals in his 84 international appearances - with Chinese side Shanghai Shenhuan, where his former Chelsea teammate Nicolas Anelka is player-coach.


http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/soccer/drogba-says-hes-leaving-chelsea/story-e6frfg8x-1226362969961

Drogba ‘says he's leaving Chelsea'

From: AFP May 22, 2012 5:52AM

DIDIER Drogba has reportedly told his Chelsea teammates he is leaving the newly-crowned European champions.

..Drogba is set to leave the side because he doesn't fancy spending time on the substitutes bench, France Football said overnight.

Drogba's future uncertain as Chelsea exit talk denied

Didier Drogba's representatives have denied reports which suggest the striker had announced he will leave Chelsea.

The striker was quoted by France Football magazine as saying he had already informed his team-mates of his decision to quit Stamford Bridge this summer.

However, Drogba's representatives have since claimed that the quotes 'are not genuine', while Chelsea's chief executive, Ron Gourlay, has insisted that talks over the Ivory Coast international's future at the club are still ongoing.

http://www.goal.com/en/news/9/england/2012/05/21/3118239/drogbas-future-uncertain-as-chelsea-exit-talk-denied

Frank Lampard will finish his career at Chelsea with the club offering him a new deal this summer.

Chief executive Ron Gourlay wants Lampard, Michael Essien and Florent Malouda signed on long-term deals by mid-September.

Gourlay will also announce on Thursday that he has released Champions League heroes Jose Bosingwa and Salomon Kalou.
With Didier Drogba quitting Stamford Bridge, it means three of the starting team for last Saturday’s European Cup win are looking for new clubs.

In Kalou’s case, Chelsea may still be willing to negotiate a new deal if their next manager wants him.

Lampard, 33, has a year left on his current £150,000-a-week deal, but can expect to move up £25,000 a week into Fernando Torres’s pay scale.

Torres was given the complete backing of Chelsea’s board as Gourlay confirmed the striker will be the main focal point of their attack next season. Gourlay said: ‘I think you will see Torres scoring many goals for Chelsea next season.

‘We’ve just won the Champions League and Fernando played his part in that - he’s an important player.

‘Next season we may have two big-name centre forwards scoring 25 to 30 goals.’

Chelsea still hope Eden Hazard will sign from Lille and, according to a report in South America on Wednesday, they have had a £32million bid for Sao Paulo midfielder Lucas Moura, 19, rejected.

Chief executive Ron Gourlay wants Lampard, Michael Essien and Florent Malouda signed on long-term deals by mid-September.