🗣️ Liam Rosenior on Chelsea’s 3-2 win over West Ham United [H] in the Premier League:
🤝 “My biggest learning is there’s a spirit, a fight and a resilience in this group that I really, really like.
“I’ve demanded from the first day of stepping in. We don’t have many training sessions, but we spoke about reacting positively to setbacks. We’ve spoken about reactions to losing the ball, pressing, energy, intensity. All of that was there in the second half, which wasn’t there in the first half.
“I don’t put that just down to the changes I made. It’s very difficult. We’ve had so many games in a short space of time. I was fearful of a lack of energy and not energy or lack of application, but I felt our decision-making was really poor in the first half. When to keep the ball, when we pressed, we were just too far off it.
“West Ham were by far the better team. We had a reaction at half-time. The reaction of the team in the second half tells me that we’ve got something really, really special here if I can utilise the squad in the correct way.
“I thought individually, collectively, our first-half performance was nowhere near the level that it needed to be and should be. The individuals came off and then people will look at them. That wasn’t on them. It was a collective. There was a collective poor performance in the first half.
“Those players know with me, I make early changes. It doesn’t mean that all of a sudden they’re out of my thoughts at all. It was just a really lethargic performance in the first half, but the second half was everything I wanted to see.”
(Via Chelsea FC)
#CFC
🤝 “My biggest learning is there’s a spirit, a fight and a resilience in this group that I really, really like.
“I’ve demanded from the first day of stepping in. We don’t have many training sessions, but we spoke about reacting positively to setbacks. We’ve spoken about reactions to losing the ball, pressing, energy, intensity. All of that was there in the second half, which wasn’t there in the first half.
“I don’t put that just down to the changes I made. It’s very difficult. We’ve had so many games in a short space of time. I was fearful of a lack of energy and not energy or lack of application, but I felt our decision-making was really poor in the first half. When to keep the ball, when we pressed, we were just too far off it.
“West Ham were by far the better team. We had a reaction at half-time. The reaction of the team in the second half tells me that we’ve got something really, really special here if I can utilise the squad in the correct way.
“I thought individually, collectively, our first-half performance was nowhere near the level that it needed to be and should be. The individuals came off and then people will look at them. That wasn’t on them. It was a collective. There was a collective poor performance in the first half.
“Those players know with me, I make early changes. It doesn’t mean that all of a sudden they’re out of my thoughts at all. It was just a really lethargic performance in the first half, but the second half was everything I wanted to see.”
(Via Chelsea FC)
#CFC
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🚨🔵 EXCLUSIVE: RC Strasbourg now clear favorites to sign Aaron Anselmino on loan from Chelsea!
Zero chances for return to @Borussia_Dortmund after comments about club keen to buy him. ❌
#CFC didn’t like that + seen as future Chelsea player.
Bid rejected from PL club as well.
🔗 Fabrizio Romano
Zero chances for return to @Borussia_Dortmund after comments about club keen to buy him. ❌
#CFC didn’t like that + seen as future Chelsea player.
Bid rejected from PL club as well.
🔗 Fabrizio Romano
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𝐁𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐊𝐈𝐍𝐆: Everton have reached an agreement in principle with Chelsea over a loan deal for Tyrique George.
George has been given permission to travel for a medical and the deal includes an option to buy at the end of the season. The agreement is pending ratification on the Everton side.
[David Ornstein - The Athletic]
#CFC
George has been given permission to travel for a medical and the deal includes an option to buy at the end of the season. The agreement is pending ratification on the Everton side.
[David Ornstein - The Athletic]
#CFC
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𝐎𝐅𝐅𝐈𝐂𝐈𝐀𝐋: Chelsea Academy attacker Frankie Runham has joined Ipswich Town Academy on loan until the end of the season. 🤝
The deal is understood to include a potential obligation to buy based on certain conditions being met.
Joining the Blues through the development centre programme at the age of eight, Runham has progressed through the youth ranks at the Academy.
He featured regularly for the Under-18s as a schoolboy during the 2022/23 campaign and, aged 15, became the then-youngest-ever UEFA Youth League goalscorer with a strike against Dinamo Zagreb.
Good luck, @frankier10! 💪
[chelseafcacademy & ipswichtown]
#CFC
The deal is understood to include a potential obligation to buy based on certain conditions being met.
Joining the Blues through the development centre programme at the age of eight, Runham has progressed through the youth ranks at the Academy.
He featured regularly for the Under-18s as a schoolboy during the 2022/23 campaign and, aged 15, became the then-youngest-ever UEFA Youth League goalscorer with a strike against Dinamo Zagreb.
Good luck, @frankier10! 💪
[chelseafcacademy & ipswichtown]
#CFC
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