Carlo Ancelotti didn’t think that his Chelsea team did anything else other than a normal days work despite winning 6-0 in their opening Premier League game against West Brom, and he even praised the strikers for being active in the defence!
“Didier did a fantastic job,” said Ancelotti. “Not just because he scored but he worked [...]
The Real Madrid manager Jose Mourinho admitted that he was keen on buying Ashley Cole from Chelsea, but he says that he has accepted the response from Carlo Ancelotti that Cole is not for sale.
“We thought about him because he’s a good player who I enjoyed working with. But when a coach says ‘no’ it’s [...]
The Community Shield is looming just a week away, and Carlo Ancelotti is not happy at all with the fitness of his team so close to the start of the season. Luckily Chelsea’s opening League games are not against the best teams so hopefully it will give the squad time to regain their fitness, but [...]
The Chelsea boss Carlo Ancelotti is hardly going to be happy that his side have now lost all three pre-season games, but is sure that the players fitness and concentration levels are still not up to speed ahead of the new season.
“We are making a lot of mistakes in this moment.” said Ancelotti. “We know [...]
The worst has happened. It is being reported this morning that Ashley Cole has spoken to Carlo Ancelotti, and told him that he wants to leave England to get away from the flak over his acrimonious, and very public, divorce from Cheryl Cole.
A “source” told Sport of the World this morning: “It was a [...]
The Chelsea manager Carlo Ancelotti knows that the team can’t rest on their laurels after winning the Double last year. The World Cup players have to pick themselves up and return immediately to winning ways again.
He said: “All my Musketeers, including Drogba, Malouda, Lampard and Terry, have played in a World Cup which has lowered [...]
It has been widely reported that Chelsea were keen to make a £50m bid for the former World-Player-of-the-Year Kaka as it seemed he had fallen out of favour at Real Madrid. The incoming manager Jose Mourinho was believed to want to sell Kaka to raise the funds for him to bring in his own targets, [...]
There is some serious Chelsea transfer news about today, and the Double winners (I love saying that!) are being linked with some of the most famous players in the world.
You can’t get much bigger than Kaka, who is an ex-World Player of the Year, and the second most expensive signing ever (behind his team-mate Ronaldo [...]
The main bit of Chelsea transfer news today is that Ancelotti is planning a summer clearout of all the oldies in the team, to make room for the youngsters being promoted from the reserves, and perhaps a “marquee signing?”
We already know that Deco is on his way back to Brazil, and Juliano Beletti has also [...]
The Chelsea striker Joe Cole is out of contract at Stamford Bridge in a couple of weeks, and there have been numerous rumours that he is being wanted by Tottenham, Man Utd and Man City, but the Chelsea manager Carlo Ancelotti is certain that the 28 year-old won’t be going anywhere!
“I think that Joe Cole [...]