Before I got married, I never really watched TV. Now, my husband and I watch ‘The Bachelor’ together. I love ‘The Soup’ – that’s where I get a lot of my pop culture – and ‘Chelsea Lately.’
I came from Charlton, and no disrespect to them, but I was there from the age of nine and going to Chelsea when I was 21 or 22, I had never experienced or seen world-class players or people in that sense.
If I go to Chelsea it will be a dream come true.
I’ve so much respect for Chelsea, and I love them.
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.
Chelsea gave me all the trophies I have as a football player. I saw my kids growing up in London.
I’m very happy here at Chelsea.
I’d rather sell groundnuts in my village than to play for a pathetic team like Chelsea.
I remember when I was at Chelsea, and Ancellotti used to say, ‘Watch a DVD of Inzaghi’ – movement in terms of runs in behind and what makes strikers score goals.
I had a good time at Chelsea and was accepted in the team, so it’s difficult to explain why I left. My performances were good as well, but there was a time in my second season when I felt I didn’t have the manager’s trust any more and I didn’t play many matches from the start.
Jean Shrimpton was the most beautiful of all the models I have known. To walk down the King’s Road, Chelsea, with Shrimpton was like walking through the rye. Strong men just keeled over right and left as she strode up the street.
I am very good friends with Oscar and David Luiz, and Ramires at Chelsea is another one I see.
At Chelsea, there’s more focus on team shape, a lot of work on tactics.
I had to take a risk in quitting two jobs I was working at the same time while playing semi-pro up at Doncaster. I had to stop those two jobs and move down to London, away from my family, when the opportunity with Chelsea came my way.
I like people like Robert De Niro and Anthony Hopkins. And Gianfranco Zola, who played for Chelsea and Italy. He’s an artist with his feet.
The likes of Frank Lampard and John Terry at Chelsea, English players with proper status at a club, they’re going to be like the dodo bird. Extinct.
Chelsea belongs in the Champions League, and we must stay there.
My dream was to play for Chelsea – maybe I was bit naive.
I have friends who play for Chelsea, Liverpool, and Manchester United.
When I first started out wrestling in front of 100 people, I thought, ‘Chelsea, you’re better than this. You should be working in front of thousands!’ But I was crazy.
Being a young kid from the hood in Paris, growing up in poverty and then scoring the goal that took Chelsea to the Champions League semi-finals, that felt like a great achievement.
I went to Chelsea twice when I was 14 and 15. I was at Danish club Odense at the time and came across with a friend to Cobham. We played against West Ham youth away, and the year after, we played Millwall away.
Chelsea is always hard to break into, but I believe in myself, and if I work hard, then hopefully things will go well.
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.
I left for Chelsea to learn new things, at a new club with new players.
When I was at Chelsea I was playing for a team where Ashley Cole was the best in the world and I still got games.
I love ‘Made In Chelsea,’ and I think it’s a great show.
Chelsea is in my heart and I was so proud to achieve so much for the club.
When I arrived at Chelsea, I had got used to playing 50 games, and suddenly, I was sharing my position with another player.
Show me a team of the stature of Chelsea, Manchester United, Real Madrid, or Barcelona who is not obsessed with winning the Champions League. If they are not, I’d be surprised why they play in it.
I kept an eye on Chelsea’s fortunes after they first tried to sign me.
We all want to make a step higher up. I think I’ve got it in me to play at that level. I played a few games at Chelsea and showed it. That’s just having confidence in yourself.
When I was at Doncaster Rovers Belles, I used to play up front or as a number 10, but when I joined Chelsea in 2015, I was more a midfielder, and over the last few years, I’ve moved into the back four.
With Chelsea… I play in blue every weekend and that’s more than enough for me.
I want to get to a level where I am regarded as one of the best and coming to a club like Chelsea gives me the right platform to improve.
I admire Manchester United, Chelsea, Arsenal, Liverpool – these are the teams that are always there fighting.
I’d first come to Chelsea from Kosice and, for me, that was a dream. It’s not easy making that move. I was maybe the first player to come from Slovakia to a club like Chelsea, who normally buy players from Holland, Spain, Italy, Portugal.
I am thrilled to be joining United. I have enjoyed some very happy years at Chelsea, but the time has come for a new challenge.
Against Chelsea, you will have periods in the game when you are right up against it, when they keep the ball. They are pretty solid the way they set their team up.
I have good memories and bad memories of games against Chelsea. All the goals are good memories because all of them are special.
I really appreciate having renewed for another year with Chelsea at 38.
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.
When you play against a team such as Arsenal, Manchester United or Chelsea, you never know what will happen. But the key to the season is to win the games that you expect to win.
The main reason to come to England and Chelsea was to play with a great team. Money and the chance to live in a city like London are additional factors.
Obviously I have to respect Chelsea, who made a huge effort to sign me, and I’m very happy here. But Madrid will always be Madrid for me.
I have never said I wanted to leave Chelsea.
From my early years at Bolton I knew that Chelsea were a great club and the truth is that I was right to come here.
I love Chelsea and I want to stay here for a long time.
I have always known that I’ve got the ability to play in a big club like Chelsea.
It was amazing to have Mourinho call me, even though I’d been warned before how he would appeal to me. I listened to his arguments about why I should move to United. But at that time I was hesitant between staying at Leicester or leaving for Chelsea.
For me, that was a defining moment in my career, being at Chelsea, going through what has made me become a man in terms of my career. Even playing on the right wing helped my right foot, making me use it more, making me improve.
Why did I choose Arsenal rather than Chelsea? Because it is a club I love, and I thought it would be easier for my adaptation.
It’s not so easy to go to a club like Chelsea as a young guy.
We’ve actually got a Chelsea loan WhatsApp group. The loan department set it up. Sometimes it drains your battery when everyone is messaging each other.
I want to say thanks to the Chelsea fans because I have seen them very, very happy with me for joining Chelsea.
It’s all I’ve dreamt winning a trophy with Chelsea. To go all the way in the Champions League.
We were under pressure at West Brom to get promoted and to stay up, even if, at a big club like Chelsea, the pressures are more highlighted by the public scrutiny you’re under. It’s part of our job, that pressure, and I cope with it well.
Chelsea is a massive club, you aim to win the Premier League or are challenging for trophies with the aim to win everything.
It was so nice to see that the Chelsea supporters appreciated my talent and my work at Atletico.
My favourite game has to be winning the Champions League against Chelsea in 2008, because nothing can top that. My favourite goal was at Wigan in 2009, which came late in the game and pretty much clinched the title for us that year.
When my agent told me that Chelsea were interested it was not something I even needed to think about.
At a club like Chelsea, they have the money to buy world class strikers like Diego Costa, and there’s also that pressure to win trophies. I just have to stick with it, be patient, and hopefully my rewards will come.
I’ve never been unfaithful outside ‘Made In Chelsea.’ I don’t care what the reputation looks like. I was unfaithful on that television show because it’s a show about that. I’m not saying it was acceptable behavior, but the show wouldn’t work without relationships failing. In real life it’s completely different.
I like Chelsea, Milan and Inter. I have always followed the two Italian teams because my role models when I was young were Ronaldinho and Ronaldo, and they played for those teams.
Chelsea is my favourite team. I have always said it, and I have never hidden it.
When you are a player, a footballer, or a manager of a great club like Chelsea, you must play to win. To win. To win the title. Or to fight and, at the end, to compete with the other teams to win the title and reach your targets.
