I always said I was very grateful for Chelsea. I spent an amazing time of my career there, we won a lot of trophies, and I think I became a better player. I have great friends in the club, and I always wish the best for them.
After Chelsea it was important to choose somewhere I was surrounded with the right people and commitment.
I think Chelsea Handler is the funniest woman.
Chelsea is where I had the best satisfaction of all, where I was treated the best. This is a special place.
I know it could be a bit more difficult in England because you are not playing all the time and you play in different positions. But I do expect to score many goals for Chelsea and I hope to keep the average of between 10 to 20 goals a season, that would be good.
Of course it is going to be difficult for any player to get in the Chelsea side no matter who they are.
With the big clubs embracing women’s football and the professionalism you see at the likes of Liverpool, Birmingham, Arsenal and my club Chelsea, it’s really impressive. We’re making great strides.
The two years out on loan were about trying to get experience and work as hard as I could to make sure when I came back I could give myself the best chance to get back to Chelsea and get in the team. That was my goal.
I’m here now playing for Chelsea. I chose to leave my home at Athletic Bilbao, and it was an important step in my career.
The move to Chelsea has made me better and stronger.
I am excited for Chelsea’s future. Our owner is a big fan of women’s football and he’s always asking me what he can do to help.
It’s not easy when you lose Flamini, Hleb, Senderos, Gilberto, and Lehmann. When you lose all these players – and Flamini, for me, was the best player last year – it’s really difficult to compete against Chelsea, Man United, or Liverpool.
I’m very happy at Chelsea but I would like to return to Spain one day.
Chelsea is my favourite team. I have always said it, and I have never hidden it.
I would have loved to play for Liverpool, Manchester United or Chelsea.
A lot of people they say a lot of things in the press, but I never said that I want to leave Chelsea, never.
OK, so I never had a transfer in my career, but I used to love deadline day: Dimitar Berbatov turning up at Manchester airport with hours to go, Robinho coming to Manchester City instead of Chelsea.
Are Chelsea a hard club to turn down? Yes, of course.
Chelsea Morning is a great Joni Mitchell song and I guess I’m partial to her lyrics because they show me a slightly different perspective on life.
I spent seven years with Jose and we were part of a very good technical staff. We went to top class clubs at Porto, Chelsea and Inter Milan and worked with top players who gave us such a tremendous volume of success.
I felt Ancelotti did a good job for Chelsea and, like many fans, we are sorry for what happened to him.
Every title is important for Chelsea.
At places like Chelsea, often the garden displays are so big and grand that you’d never be able to have them at home.
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.
Maggie Gyllenhaal, Chelsea Handler, Tilda Swinton, and Sofia Coppola are other clients. They’re all risk takers but never look like they’re in costume.
I like to believe Chelsea is where I will go through and do well. I have been there since I was six years old. My dream is to break into the first team.
Chelsea is an ambitious club and it will always be possible that a coach and the players are competitive at the highest level.
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.
Winning and scoring at places like Chelsea is what you grow up dreaming of, so doing so with Bournemouth was a moment to cherish.
I have made many memories during my time with Chelsea, which I will take with me into my next challenge.
When I played for Stuttgart, I met Manchester United and Chelsea. With United, I immediately think of the duels with Ryan Giggs and Paul Scholes and with Chelsea, it was John Terry. Those players are symbols of their clubs and the success they had at that time.
The Chelsea experience was too much too soon. I wasn’t flexible as a manager at that time. I was communicative, but I wasn’t flexible in my approach.
Many great teams have players who have come through the youth system or have been at the club for a long time as their captains. I’m thinking of Steven Gerrard at Liverpool, John Terry at Chelsea, Raul at Real Madrid, as well as Puyol at Barcelona and Gary Neville at Man United.
Can space break? I mean the space of art galleries. Over the past 100 years, art galleries have gone from looking like Beaux Arts salons to simple storefronts to industrial lofts to the gleaming giant white cubes of Chelsea with their shiny concrete floors.
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.
When I score I go wild. Sometimes I put my arms out wide like the way Didier Drogba celebrates for Chelsea or sometimes I try to slide on the grass if the grass is wet enough.
Conte can’t wait to leave Chelsea. He can’t stand that they sell or buy players without consulting him.
Chelsea have made a good investment for me, but I did not put any pressure on them.
I want to play for Chelsea. I hope I do get that chance, and I think I can compete.
Chelsea know how to win cup finals.
I didn’t want to go to Chelsea, because I wanted to play the Champions League and they were sixth in the league.
I love Chelsea still. I’m not frustrated; it was a great experience.
It’s true I wasn’t as important at Chelsea. I never demanded that. What I wanted was to be a champion, because few people get that. I succeeded. But the happiness wasn’t there.
Coming to Chelsea was a big challenge for me.
I had this dream for a long time and it was a dream to play for Chelsea and not for another club.
If people wonder, yes, Hillary Clinton is my friend. She has been a friend to me and Barack and Malia and Sasha, and Bill and Chelsea have been embracing and supportive from the very day my husband took the oath of office.
Carlo Ancelotti is a good coach and a good man. I worked with him for just three months at Parma, before I left for Chelsea, although I had worked with him before with the national team. In my first game for the national team I played with him.
Chelsea have become a big club and have massive financial resources.
The people on programmes like ‘Made in Chelsea’ just want to be celebrities. It’s so depressing. No proper actor has that as a goal. I’m striving for longevity in my career.
In my period at Chelsea, I was sometimes the one who switched sides because we were playing with two left-footed guys on the wings with myself and Damian Duff.
Lampard is a great player, not only for Chelsea, but in world football.
At Chelsea, even though I achieved a lot, they did not have great confidence in me.
When I was a player, you only left the club if they wanted to get rid of you. That was your team – if you were at West Ham, you didn’t leave until the manager wanted to replace you. You didn’t think about playing for Arsenal or Chelsea.
People recognize me. Most people are really nice. Sometimes people say, ‘Hi, Chelsea.’
When I played against Chelsea, there was always a big motivation because it was a special game; it was always one of the biggest games of the season. This is one of the reasons why I wanted to join Chelsea: because I want to be part of this kind of team.
It was tough mentally at Chelsea, obviously not getting the game time. I had to be really patient and have the mentality to still train right and do all the right things.
Out of all the clubs who were interested, I got the feeling that, deep down, Chelsea showed that they really wanted me. There were lots of reasons I came to Chelsea. They showed a real desire to get me to come here. I didn’t have to think about it too much.
I am at Chelsea and I still have aims here, what is said elsewhere is not important.
Chelsea Manning has a platform to serve herself, but many veterans don’t even get medical treatment when they need it.
