I would love to retire a City player and I have my fingers crossed it is something that can still happen. When I did leave in 2005, I broke down crying on the way to sign for Chelsea, but back then, we needed the money my sale brought in.
I can’t be the same as another player. I am just my way and I will try to improve on that at Chelsea.
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.
When I was 11, I was invited to be a ballboy at Stamford Bridge when Chelsea played Liverpool. I was a Liverpool fan, so I was gutted that they lost 2-0. Afterwards, I was introduced to the players – I found it terrifying.
I want to win more games, more trophies, because I love Chelsea, I love the fans. I like the city, my family like it here.
The Hull job had been offered to me and while watching Chelsea against Bayern Munich I was thinking: ‘I’m going to give it a crack.’ I’d rather be managing than commentating.
On ‘Made In Chelsea’ there are cameras in my face and some days I think, ‘I can’t go to filming today,’ but I just have to dry my tears and pull myself together.
I’m really happy with my choice to be here at Chelsea.
When you have a son in football like Anton, it will always be deemed as if he got the prop up and given the contract, no matter how hard he works. So much so that when he was offered a deal at Chelsea, I advised him not to take a professional contract.
I’m joining Chelsea hopefully to win more titles.
To be captain of such a huge club like Chelsea is a great personal achievement.
I’ve always been following Chelsea and every time I came to London I would try to see a Chelsea game and see how the team was doing because it’s been my dream to come to play here.
I can imagine finishing my career at Chelsea.
My team-mates at Chelsea have told me about the ‘Kante-facts.’ It is just a bit of fun. I obviously do not cover 30 per cent of the surface of the earth.
City is a very family-oriented club. Chelsea is in the centre of London, there is a different crowd following them, maybe more business people go to watch them.
People want to see you on the pitch. That was why I left Chelsea. I didn’t want to hear people saying, ‘Hey, he’s doing well in training, blah blah blah… ‘ The game is what counts.
The Ranelagh Gardens in Chelsea provide plenty of opportunities to walk, think and relax.
I have been able to fulfil nearly all my ambitions at Chelsea. I have won the Champions League, the League, I have won FA Cups here, but you don’t want to stop winning trophies, and being at a big club, you are always fighting to win a trophy.
Every season with Chelsea, we have to fight for every competition and every game and we will go for it.
I admire Manchester United, Chelsea, Arsenal, Liverpool – these are the teams that are always there fighting.
I have got to a level where I feel I needed to make the jump to Chelsea and push myself and get myself to a better level and playing with world-class players here is only going to help.
I didn’t take the Porto job nor the Chelsea job because Jose made the same steps.
Marie Antoinette was funny, I’m sure she was just misinterpreted. You know the ‘Let them eat cake’ line. She seems like she was kind of funny, like a Chelsea Handler or Kathy Griffin type.
The very best hotel I’ve stayed in is the Intercontinental on Park Lane. We went there for the Chelsea Flower Show a few years ago, and it was sheer luxury. Everybody had a smile on their face. I came home and changed all my pillows because the hotel ones were so beautiful.
It’s always a pleasure to know clubs like Chelsea, with their ambitious owner, are interested in you.
I love UCB Chelsea. There is, to me, no stage like it.
I was still with Sunderland at the time of my first cap in 2010, and I remember getting the text to let me know that I was going to be called up to the squad – it was a Friday night, and I was in a hotel in London because we were playing Chelsea the next day.
When you play for a team like Chelsea you will have to fight for your place.
The Premier League is different. Sometimes the Bournemouth game can be more difficult than Liverpool or Chelsea.
Courtois was rated highly enough by Chelsea to go back and replace Petr Cech, one of the best goalkeepers of modern times. He has lived up to his reputation.
Would I love to go and get out of here and have a couple of months preparing, I don’t know, anywhere in sunshine? Yes. But I think while I’m under employment with Chelsea, I think to talk about another job, even if it was short-term, and I haven’t been asked, I think it is so disrespectful.
When I was little, my dream was to come and play in the Premier League. So when Chelsea came in, I said yes straight away.
Didier talks to all of us. Not just with me, but with all the attacking players. He has scored so many goals for Chelsea. But now he pushes the younger players. He is fantastic. A fantastic player, and a fantastic person.
I love heels, and as a size 36, I’ve accumulated a wall of amazing high heels from catwalk shows over the years where designers had to make especially small shoes. Tom Ford’s golden versions are my favourite. I do, however, also live in my flat Saint Laurent Chelsea boots or Givenchy sneakers.
When I first came to England I hated football and knew nothing about it. Watching 0-0s and 1-0s having come from Aussie Rules was just dull. The only player I had heard of was David Beckham. But when I was living in Leicester I started watching Match of the Day and really got into Chelsea.
Chelsea and Shakhtar are two great teams.
When you beat a team so often – especially like this season when Chelsea had already lost three times to us – you know people expect you to do it again. But you also know they’re going to be even more motivated to finally win.
Of course I support Chelsea.
Everybody knows Man City and Chelsea is always a fiercely competitive game.
I married a pretty famous girl, and when we drive through town there’s usually a car following us, when I walk out of my front door in Chelsea there’s six guys waiting for me.
When I made up my mind for Manchester, I felt I had betrayed Hiddink. I knew he wanted me to go to Chelsea, so I found it difficult.
When Chelsea came to me and said they wanted me to come back, I was happy because I had a special moment here – one of the best in my career. I won the Champions League, the Europa League.
I am delighted to be joining a big English club. I know very well the quality that Chelsea has.
Chelsea feels like a big family.
I am very proud to stay and be a Chelsea player. It is an honour to play at this club.
I’ve had an incredible reception at Chelsea. John Terry is an exemplary captain, who has treated me very well since I arrived.
There are some people who have left me negative messages, but they aren’t true Chelsea fans.
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.
When I go on loan, I don’t really think about Chelsea. I just concentrate on the team I’m at and try to help them, same as when I was at MK Dons, Derby, and Middlesbrough.
The day I signed up to ‘Made In Chelsea’ at 19, I gave my life over. I think about that often. I was on the show for about four years.
Chelsea is the main goal for me, I want to play in their first-team.
Chelsea are one of the great teams in Europe and Mourinho is one of the best coaches in the world.
As a child, I always wanted to come to the Premier League, so when I made the move, I was very happy. Chelsea were on the up – they were doing really good – so I was very excited, and in the end, everything went well here for me.
Appropriation is the idea that ate the art world. Go to any Chelsea gallery or international biennial and you’ll find it. It’s there in paintings of photographs, photographs of advertising, sculpture with ready-made objects, videos using already-existing film.
I knew that Chelsea was a club that changed its manager reasonably often.
You don’t want to be the boy leaving Chelsea, you want to train like every session is your last session because you know you always have to prove something to people.
Chelsea always want to win trophies.
I have always liked Chelsea a lot. I watch a lot of the Premier League, and it is a club where you can feel the warmth of the fans.
I’ve come out of myself as a person at Chelsea and expressed myself on and off the pitch.
I have become more versatile after the Chelsea experience.
My dad was an Arsenal supporter and he used to take me there, but I’ve always been Chelsea.
My real, full name is Chelsea Chanel Dudley. In my opinion, Chelsea Dudley does not sound like a rapper. So I was like, ‘You know what? Imma drop both of those names and just go by Chanel.’
Me and my dad sat down in May and we spoke and thought the next step would be for me to push into a Premier League team and we felt the better route for me was to leave Chelsea.
