Saturday 28th August 2010
Chelsea 2-0 Stoke
Goalscorers: Florent Malouda, Didier Drogba
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The club has confirmed that Jeffery Bruma has signed a four year contract extension, keeping him at the club until 2014.
The young 18 year old has been at Chelsea since 2007 and is quickly working himself through the ranks. Jeffery has made four substitute appearances for the club and just received his first International cap for Holland.
Carlo Ancelotti had submitted his squad for the 2010/11 season. Premier League clubs must register a minimum of eight players who have trained for three years with any English or Welsh team before the age of 21 if the full 25-man squad is filled.
Didier Drogba has told new coach Francois Zahoui that he wishes to focus on his fitness and pull out of the squad. Francois traveled to London to meet Didier personally.
“I truly met Drogba in London. He told me he was so tired that he wanted to withdraw from the national team for a while. Drogba is a world class player who is indispensable for the Elephants, but I had to respect his decision. We will let him rest to recover his mental and physical strength and pray he comes back some day to the national team.”
Franco Di Santo has completed a permanent move to Wigan Athletic on a 3 year contract for an undisclosed fee.
He joined Chelsea in January 2008 from Chilean side Audux Italiano La Florida. Franco started his life at Chelsea in the reserves scoring seven goals in eight games and helped the reserves go on a run of six games undefeated.
In the summer of 2009 Carlo Ancelotti came in as Chelsea’s new manager with the task to turn Chelsea’s fortunes around following a period of relative turmoil at the club since the departure of Jose Mourinho. Things had not gone so well and three managers since Jose departed showed how things had gone downhill, even though Guus Hiddink managed to steady the ship and bring us the FA Cup. It was not an easy task and Ancelotti was not every Chelsea fans ideal choice of manager.
29th Aug 2010, In Articles, by Alex Hinsley
Goals from Didier Drogba and Florent Malouda maintained Chelsea’s flawless start to the season whilst Darren Bent’s 94th-minute penalty earned Sunderland a shock victory over Manchester City.
But the result of the weekend no doubt belongs to Wigan Athletic; shock victors in their clash with Tottenham at White Hart Lane on Saturday. The Latics – amongst the early relegation favourites – had been thrashed by Blackburn and Chelsea 4-0 and 6-0 respectively, but pulled off a monumental smash-and-grab against Harry Redknapp’s high-flyers. The goalscorer was Hugo Rodallega, but Wigan’s match-winner was goalkeeper Ali al Habsi who pulled off a string a magnificent saves to preserve the Latics’ cleansheet and ensure a massive victory that might just have saved Roberto Martinez’ job at the DW Stadium, for the time-being at least.
Transfers
Previous Club: Liverpool
Amount: £5.5m
Playing Position: Attacking Midfielder, Winger
Ramires
Previous Club: Benfica
Amount: £17m
Playing Position: Midfielder
Previous Club: Benfica
Amount: £17m
Playing Position: Midfielder
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Florent Malouda, No.15
Growing up in the city of Cayenne, French Guiana, Malouda moved to the French Ligue 2 club Chateauroux in 1996 at the age of 15, joining as a trainee. After playing in the first team for 2 years, he climbed divisions and signed for Ligue 1 club Guingamp at the turn of the millennium, where he was later joined by future Chelsea teammate Didier Drogba....
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