I like Daniel Sturridge a lot after playing with him at Chelsea.
I consider my time with Chelsea a personal triumph.
All I can do is assess the value from Manchester United perspective. Whatever Chelsea do, they may have a different criteria, and different financial assets.
I play football. Chelsea is my favourite side.
My pleasure comes from doing my job in the best possible way. Whether it is at Chelsea or Juventus or Watford, it does not really matter.
It is a privilege to be part of this Chelsea squad and the Chelsea family, at one of the most historic clubs in the Premier League.
I give my best for my team-mates. At Leicester it was like that and everyone was focused for the title and we did it. Here at Chelsea it’s the same.
Drogba. I used to grow up watching football and when I saw him that was it. I’ve got his jersey in my closet. That dude is a legend for what he achieved at Chelsea.
I’ve been to the White House and had Hilary Clinton push through the crowd to come and meet me. Chelsea Clinton, too.
I was released by Chelsea at 14 years old. I remember it, a Tuesday night. On the Wednesday, I was training with Fulham, five minutes from my house, and then on the Thursday, I was training with West Ham. After one session at both clubs, they both wanted me.
There is no reason not to be happy at Chelsea.
I wanted to finish at the top of the game and on my own terms. I thought it was the perfect time at the World Cup and to go out at Chelsea. Chelsea and England were immense in how they have supported me in that transition.
I’m a Juventus fan, although I did support Chelsea for some time – mainly because of Gianfranco Zola. Zola is from the same town as my father Enzo, in Sardinia.
Chelsea is a great team with some amazing players.
I turned down a lot of money by not going to Chelsea, but that’s not what I’m interested in.
Everyone could always see Frank Lampard would become a head coach. The way he was as a player, always trying to help people and on everyone’s case. I’m very happy for Chelsea.
I go back to when we were at Chelsea. Every game I went into, nobody ever thought we were going to lose a game. Everybody thought we were all going to win.
I had always worked to get to a club like Chelsea and start winning some trophies and doing what I have got to do.
My dad was an Arsenal supporter and he used to take me there, but I’ve always been Chelsea.
Manchester United and Liverpool have been bought with huge leverage, and we’ve got Roman Abramovich at Chelsea who can turn his loans into shares. It is really important for the Premier League to ask itself: if a club is being bought on such a mountain of debt, isn’t that a possible recipe for disaster for the future?
Finishing in the top four for Liverpool, Arsenal, Chelsea and Man United was easier before, but now it’s getting much more difficult with the emergence of teams like Manchester City.
I don’t know how long I will be coaching for but I don’t expect I will go on from Chelsea, Chelsea is my absolute home.
Most of our players come from the Championship; Chelsea can get more or less anyone from around the world. Some clubs in this division have owners who say it doesn’t matter what they spend. I don’t know what happened to Financial Fair Play but it didn’t exactly level the playing field.
London is a wonderful city, but I am here for Chelsea. It’s 100 per cent hard work, 90 per cent fun.
At Chelsea I knew I’d improve a lot quicker around better players, world-class players.
As soon as I knew I was leaving Chelsea, our first thought was to return to Germany.
My respect for Chelsea will be forever.
The FA Cup is something we want to win, but when you play for Chelsea, it is not something you think about a lot because you want to win every game.
I think Chelsea is Chelsea. No matter the players we have, we have to fight until the end in every competition.
Thinking back to how it fell apart for Mourinho at Chelsea, I do have some sympathy for him. At most clubs it is the manager who determines the long-term stability of the players but at Chelsea it seems very much the other way round.
I am genuinely flattered by Chelsea’s interest. It’s a club I really respect, and hold in great esteem.
I joined ‘Made in Chelsea’ when I’d just left school.
When my agent told me that Chelsea were interested it was not something I even needed to think about.
In 2006 I ended up at Chelsea on a free transfer, so Bayern did not see a euro for me.
I have said in the past that I would be happy to see out my career at Chelsea. I moved here to play in the best league in the world with one of the strongest teams.
Thank you to all of the fans and everybody connected with Norwich City, West Ham United, Queens Park Rangers, Leeds United, Huddersfield Town, and Chelsea.
Nick Kroll, A.D. Miles, Chelsea Peretti – those were the people I was always doing open mics with.
I always like to remember the year 2008, when we had an amazing offer from Chelsea for Franck Ribery. From that day on, the whole world of football knew nobody can buy a Bayern Munich player against the will of Bayern Munich.
If money weren’t cool, pseudo-socialists like Bill Maher and Chelsea Handler would tell jokes for free in soup kitchens.
When Chelsea let me go, it was really deflating. For me, as a youngster, it’s all I ever knew – living 10 minutes from the training ground, going to loads of the games.
I don’t know where horse riding could have taken me, and it’s something I can always go back to when I’ve retired from football, but the crossroads came in my life when Chelsea wanted to sign me and make me a professional footballer in 2013 when I was 20.
Honestly, the All In women’s locker room was such an inspirational group of women. What I love about all the women involved – Chelsea, Britt, Madison, Jordynne Grace, Brandi Rhodes, Tenille Dashwood, Penelope Ford, Mandy Leon – is we all bring something so different to the table for a common vision.
It is my club, I am a Chelsea player.
I moved to New York on October 21, 2004, and it was the day that the Chelsea Grill, a restaurant in Hell’s Kitchen on 9th Avenue between 46th and 47th Street, opened. I had never waited a table in my life, but I walked in and lied to the manager in a very J. Pierrepont Finch way.
I have been a Chelsea fan ever since I was a kid and I felt well there right until the last day.
It’s not so easy for us when we play teams who have a different mindset, like Chelsea or Inter Milan, because they have the intention of trying to stop us rather than playing a game that is more attractive for the spectators to enjoy.
I hope I can help Chelsea win many trophies during my time at Stamford Bridge.
The whole London football scene is now financially more powerful and ambitious than ever before. That reflects the city’s economic might and its multiculturalism. Now West Ham have a new , and Spurs and Chelsea will follow. And the London clubs have widened their areas of support.
The transfer was good for me, good for Chelsea, good for Shanghai, and I’m so happy to come to the Chinese Super League.
I spoke with Abramovich. He is very simple and loves football. We were on the same wavelength: he wants to confirm Chelsea’s position at the top.
My goal is to stay here at Chelsea. Unless Chelsea does not want me anymore – then I’d have to find another club!
During my time playing for England we had Wayne Rooney, David Beckham, Michael Owen, Steven Gerrard, Frank Lampard, Paul Scholes. They were world-class players playing for Chelsea, Man United, Liverpool, Arsenal, all legends of the game.
In England I feel very well known, not only by Chelsea’s fans, but also by other teams.
I went from Chelsea to Fulham – two Premier League teams at the time – and was sitting on the bench for the Europa League and Premier League and you don’t think it is going to finish.
My first season in English football was very special. I hope to go on to achieve even more as a Chelsea player.
I’ve always been clear – I feel good at Chelsea. Every week, I repeat the same on PSG. It’s a big team but an inferior league. I don’t want to return to France, because I’ve won everything over there – the league title, cup, best player, best young player.
I look back at Drogba’s start at Chelsea and he didn’t hit the ground running and he got there in the end, so I think Werner will get there.
Frank was an example throughout my career at Chelsea, and throughout my career as a midfielder. When it comes to scoring goals as a midfielder, you look at Frank Lampard as a role model.
Chelsea and Arsenal tried to sign me when I was 13, 14.
I think it is always difficult for every manager, when you arrive with good motivation and ambition. It’s not just in the Chelsea dressing-room. For all coaches, it’s difficult.
I wanted to live in the suburbs and have a white picket fence and my own bedroom. And a staircase – I thought having a staircase meant that you were a normal family. I thought somehow if you could transplant us to the suburbs, we would become a normal family. But in retrospect, I’m so grateful I grew up in the Chelsea.
Chelsea Handler is a good friend of mine, and I always was inspired by the fact that she was taking her life and turning it into these ridiculous, raunchy memoirs. She really has a talent, and she’s a great writer. I was inspired by her trajectory.
