Ribery to choose Real Madrid? Translation: No one wants to play for Chelsea
Chelsea’s billionaire owner, Roman Abramovich, has just bought a £288m yacht, with built-in missile defence system. He could have got almost four Cristiano Ronaldos for that. Except… C-Ron would never have signed for Chelsea.
I wouldn’t be surprised if Roman bought the yacht to cheer himself up, because he must feel like every star player he wants to bring to Chelsea rejects him.
Steven Gerrard said no. Kaka said no. Ronaldinho said no. David Villa said no. Even Glen Johnson, who once played for Chelsea, chose Liverpool over his old club. And it seems more than likely that Carlito Tevez will choose Man City instead of Chelsea. Deco and Ricardo Carvalho want to leave too, not that they will be badly missed.
Manchester City is the hot new destination for those mercenary footballers who feel that £60,000 a week is just not enough cash. Which leaves Chelsea in a spot of bother.
Gerrard, Kaka and co. snubbed Chelsea for the simple reason that the club is universally disliked, and no one craves unpopularity, except for Michael Ballack, who doesn’t care what people think of him – he is German and therefore unpopular by birth.
John Terry reportedly wants Abramovich to splash out on Franck Ribery, but it seems the Frenchman favours Real Madrid. And put yourself in the Frenchman’s shoes: Barcelona, Real Madrid and Man Utd are also chasing you. Who would choose Chelsea from that group?
Now Michael Essien’s agent has issued the following statement:
“Some clubs are interested in Michael… He likes Chelsea very much but football is football and if Real Madrid, Barcelona or some other club make an offer, he needs to sit down and discuss what is best for him.”
I’m sure Essien will stay, but it’s hardly what Abramovich and Ancelotti want to hear right now.
And therein lies Chelsea’s problem. They have the cash, but not the stature to compete with Europe’s historically big clubs. If Chelsea were a second-tier club, competing for second-tier players against the likes of Aston Villa, Everton and Tottenham, they would find it much easier to make fitting signings. Perversely, because they have more money than those clubs, they find it extremely difficult to attract quality players. And what use is cash when you can’t spend it? Oh well, at least the manufacturers of obscenely expensive super yachts are happy to take Roman’s money.
[A version of this post first appeared @ BigSoccer]
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Of course no one wants to play for Russian Mafia. Send his butt back to Putin.
Haha at Chelsea fans. You think your club is so great and almighty and yet you hand out these flags to make an atmosphere for champions league quarter finals and semi finals. Cerdos you fuckin facist, real football supporters dont need these props and shit to create atmosphere. The bridge is an embarrassment with its artificial atmosphere and fans who claim Cashley cole has integrity as one of your fellow ’supporters’ pointed out earlier.
Essien chose us over Milan. Malouda chose us over liverpool. Ballack chose us over Real and United. And dont forget, we can say similar things about united: Ronaldo has left. So has tevez. Villa doesnt wnt to come. Ribery will chose Madrid. Who will sign for United? Antonio Valencia :p
Russian mafia? That’s not so bad. Liverpool will likely have arab owners soon. What will those arabs have in common with English football fans? About the only thing I can think of is Lawrence of Arabia. I don’t know much about him, but I think he lived around the time of Liverpool’s last league triumph.
fuck liverpool!!
the biggest problem is people believe the rumours in the press, chelsea have been linked with so many players that wouldnt even get on the first team at chelsea even before ancelotti has officially started work.
Chelsea probably did go after kaka but werent willing to pay the stupid amounts offered by madrid.
They will probably go after ribery but again they would not pay the extortionate prices.
In all chances chelsea could end up with maybe 2-3 signings, none of which are world class but still very good and are willing to act as rotation players
sick as u are thats what you think? Chelsea has big players already, Anelka , Drogba, Lamps, Terry, Essien, Ballack, Cech , A. Cole all big names who would want to fite for a place with such guys? Thats the only reason some fake players like Gerrad, would fear to join the patriotic champions.
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Your an idiot for posting this. We have made no official bids for anyone apart from Glen Johnson and didn’t move because he had a bad experience at the club. Ribery hasn’t choosen anyone yet, and I don’t even think we have put in a bid for him. We never had a bid accepted for Gerrard, Kaka or Ronaldinho so what your saying is utter s*it.
Get your facts right before posting blogs in future.
Haha Good Article. Everybody Chelsea wants to play for them wants to play for Madrid or stay put!
Ummmm…. you can say whatever you want about Chelsea’s transfer policy, but the fact of the matter is right now we have the strongest squad of payers in england. take out the scolari factor, JT’s penalty miss, a dodgy ref against barca, and this team would have dominated football the past 5 years. now that ronaldo has left utd, why would it even matter how many signings we make? he was their best player by a mile, liverpool arent getting any stronger, and we have brought in a decent maanager. if anceotti is a reasonable manager, theres no reason why we cant win the the league with this same squad of players.
as for players not wanting to come to chelsea… who cares? if the 1st galictico era tought us anything, its that it doent guarantee success. essien, lamps, JT, cech, drogba, robben … NONE of them were WORLD names when we got them. so keep on your hating, we will find the players to make our team that little bit better than it was last year. that should be enough to win us the league at least. the CL is nothing but a lottery, but we have a good chance their too. keep on hating us. it feels great to be hated, its just a sign of jealousy :)