I’ve read a few pieces slating Salomon Kalou lately and I have to admit, even after trying really hard to give him the benefit of the doubt and going as far as hoping I might end up eating a large wedge of humble pie by the end of this campaign, he just ain’t good enough. [...]

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I’ve watched John Obi Mikel with a lot more interest this season – largely because Makelele had to be one of my favourite Chelsea players and having raised the question of whether anyone would fill that role, seeing  even the early signs of Mikel starting to do that has been pretty good stuff to watch.
Makelele [...]

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Portsmouth confirmed recently that come January, they’d be sending out of favour forward Ben Sahar back to Stamford Bridge. The 19 year old hasn’t managed to feature for them this season during his six-month loan deal and he probably won’t be any more successful on his return to Chelsea, although he’s got his admirers in [...]

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Following on from the earlier article which questioned Scolari’s comments about Drogba, I have to say I think the Chelsea boss is being pretty shrewd here.
What Scolari said was “Drogba is important but don’t forget we are second in the Champions League group and second in the Barclays Premier League because our top scorer is [...]

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Bloody Hell.
There’s not many headlines I read about Chelsea that surprise me but the headline I read last night suggesting Alex wants to leave was one of them.
Yeah ok, there’s been suggestions that Henk Ten Cate wanted to take him to Panathinaikos but did anyone really take that seriously?
Well, the suggestion is that [...]

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