Chelsea Football Update: March 2015

Tuesday, March 31, 2015

Wednesday's gossip column

Chelsea could make Walcott move, Hummels denies Man Utd promise, Townsend responds to Merson, plus more.

via BBC Sport - Football http://ift.tt/1bOAJ6b

Who is Kuki?

Premier League giants Chelsea, Liverpool and Manchester City are monitoring Malaga starlet Kuki, according to the Daily Mail.

via SkySports | News http://ift.tt/1DlxLAE

Who is Kuki?

Premier League giants Chelsea, Liverpool and Manchester City are monitoring Malaga starlet Kuki, according to the Daily Mail.

via SkySports | News http://ift.tt/19ETZBk

Chelsea transfer news and rumours: Jose Mourinho ready to make £44m bid for Atletico Madrid midfielder Koke

Chelsea transfer gossip: Jose Mourinho is ready to make £44m move for Atlético Madrid midfielder

via Football - Fixtures, results, news, match reports, comment http://ift.tt/1OTHxhV

Chelsea transfer news and rumours: Jose Mourinho ready to make £44m bid for Atletico Madrid midfielder Koke

Chelsea transfer gossip: Jose Mourinho is ready to make £44m move for Atlético Madrid midfielder

via Chelsea FC News & Rumours http://ift.tt/1DjKxzH

Football transfer rumours: Wolfsburg's Kevin De Bruyne to Manchester City?

Today’s fluff says: STOP IT! (How many players can do that?)

We need to talk about Kevin De Bruyne. He is sick of currywurst. The fried sausage and curry-pasted ketchup are just too heavy on his stomach. He is also sick of the AutoMuseum Volkswagen. He has been there so many times with family and friends that he knows every nook and cranny of the 5,000-square-metre exhibition space – every small scratch on the 130 vehicles on show and every bad joke that the tour guide makes (“... unhook my suspenders from your side mirror, please!” ). He is even sick of the Phaeno Science Center, something he swore he would never let happen upon swapping London for Wolfsburg. But happen it has and De Bruyne wants a change. Lucky for him, the form of his feet this season means every club and its mother is lining up around the corner to talk to his Mr 15%. The latest to do so is Manchester City.

Apparently some suit from City has met a man, who knows a man, who once met a woman from the diving club in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, who knew a second cousin of a different woman who once was in the same stadium as De Bruyne and his Mr 15% and she says that City have a chance of beating Paris Saint-Germain and Bayern Munich to his signature. That signature that will cost them a cool £40m. Or more if Mr 15% is to believed. “Clubs who are ready to bid €30m for Kevin have no sense of reality,” he honked. “A player like Kevin has a market value of some €50m, €55m or even €60m by now,” he added, surely just thinking about what is best for his client and not in any way worrying about how much moolah he is going to make from the deal.

via Football | The Guardian http://ift.tt/1DjDPtF

Monday, March 30, 2015

Stoke Want To Hang On To Begovic

Stoke City chairman Peter Coates says the club are determined to keep hold of goalkeeper Asmir Begovic this summer. The Bosnian, who has 12 months left on his existing deal, has been linked with a switch to Manchester United and Real Madrid. But Coates told Sky Sports News HQ that offering the keeper a new deal is top of their list of priorities, along with keeping hold of Steven N’Zonzi and Victor Moses, currently on loan from Chelsea. We would like to extend Asmir Begovic’s contract, Jack Butland recently signed a new deal which we’re very pleased about.

via Sports News Headlines - Yahoo News UK http://ift.tt/1CG3U5x

Chelsea players on international duty - how they fared, in pictures

Find out how Jose Mourinho's men performed after heading off for international duty over the weekend

via Football - Fixtures, results, news, match reports, comment http://ift.tt/1MnP61P

Soccer-English premier league fixtures

March 30 (Infostrada Sports) - Fixtures from the English premier league matches on Monday Saturday, April 4 (GMT)Arsenal v Liverpool (1145) Everton v Southampton (1400) Leicester City v West Ham United (1400) Manchester United v Aston Villa (1400) Swansea City v Hull City (1400) West Bromwich Albion v Queens Park Rangers (1400) Chelsea v Stoke City (1630) Sunday, April 5 (GMT)Burnley v Tottenham Hotspur (1230) Sunderland v Newcastle United (1500) Monday, April 6 (GMT)Crystal Palace v Manchester City (1900)

via Sports News Headlines - Yahoo News UK http://ift.tt/19p8mtH

Chelsea players on international duty - how they fared, in pictures

Find out how Jose Mourinho's men performed after heading off for international duty over the weekend

via Chelsea FC News & Rumours http://ift.tt/19AeGOJ

Manchester City’s Aleksandar Kolarov admits a return to Italy appeals

• Kolarov: ‘I’d like to return to Italy, but it’s difficult’

• Serbian could be on the way out in City clear-out

• The Rumour Mill: Emmanuel Adebayor to Chelsea

The Manchester City defender Aleksandar Kolarov admits a return to Italy appeals to him. The 29-year-old has featured 24 times this season, seven of which have been as substitute, as Manuel Pellegrini has regularly rotated his full-backs.

However, he has started only 11 league matches and is viewed as one of the players whose position may be under threat in a summer clear-out at City if, as looks increasingly likely, they cannot catch Chelsea to retain their title.

via Football | The Guardian http://ift.tt/19A8F4J

Chelsea fans to appear in court

Two men have been summoned to appear at Westminster Magistrates Court in May following claims fans were singing racist chants at St Pancras Station on February 18th.

via SkySports | News http://ift.tt/1EUr314

Former West Ham player Jack Collison still chasing his footballing dream

Injuries have badly disrupted the Wales midfielder’s career but he is determined to find another club despite being released by Ipswich Town in December

Jack Collison is reminiscing about the start of his obsession with football. He remembers that he always had a ball at his feet, whether he was going to the shops or to the park, and that he would dribble around the cushions at home, pretending he was Paul Scholes.

Chelsea were his team and he idolised Gianfranco Zola. “I was that kid playing football 24/7, whether it was volleying a ball against my mum’s walls or knocking her vases over,” Collison says. “I put a golf ball through the front window once.”

via Football | The Guardian http://ift.tt/1IeT5r5