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I need new players – Pochettino reacts to Chelsea’s 2-0 defeat at Everton

December 11, 2023 No Comments

Chelsea manager, Mauricio Pochettino has said he needs to bring new players in the January transfer window.

Pochettino was reacting to Sunday’s 2-0 loss at Everton, which leaves them 12th in the table.

It was the Blues’ seventh league defeat of the campaign and they are already 14 points adrift of Manchester City in fourth place.

Chelsea have spent over £1 billion in the last three transfer windows, but many of those preceded Pochettino’s summer arrival and he wants his own players in to help kick-start his Stamford Bridge rejuvenation.

He told MOTD: “Football is about scoring goals and we were not clinical in front of goal. I’m really, really disappointed. We didn’t get the point we deserved.

“I think we were better but we didn’t get what we wanted.

“This was a game to play and to win. It’s a problem we need to check. We need to analyse reality. We need to talk and to try to improve in the next transfer market.

“We are dealing with this. After five months, or the first half of the season, we need to check and that’s the reality. If we are not aggressive enough (on the pitch) maybe we need to do something.”

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Manchester United’s flight to Newcastle cancelled

December 2, 2023 No Comments

Manchester United’s flight to Newcastle on Saturday has been cancelled because of the cold weather.

Instead, the Red Devils’ squad will take a three-hour train to their game.

United travel to Tyneside looking to bounce back from their 3-3 draw with Galatasaray in midweek.

The players had arrived to drop their cars off at Manchester Airport from 10am, but were informed they would be driving to the North East.

Temperatures in Manchester dropped below -5 degrees Celsius overnight.

On Saturday morning, the Met Office issued another yellow warning for snow and ice.

At least nine football matches in the Scottish leagues have been postponed due to the freezing temperatures.

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I wasted my best years – Chelsea midfielder opens after leaving EPL club

July 8, 2022 No Comments

Danny Drinkwater has said he is relieved his Chelsea nightmare has ended.

According to the midfielder, he wasted some of what could have been his best years at Stamford Bridge as a footballer.

The 32-year-old, who was a key figure in Leicester City’s title-winning side during the 2015/16 season, moved to Chelsea in 2017 for £35m, signing a five-year contract at Stamford Bridge.

However, it did not work out for Drinkwater, who made just 23 appearances for the club, scoring just a single goal.

When asked if he feels like he’s wasted the best five years of his career, Drinkwater told Sky Sports: “Yeah, it feels like ‘what have you thrown those five years away?’

“If you’d stayed at Leicester, if you didn’t get injured and if the club treated you differently.

“They’re all ifs. It’s frustrating, 100 per cent. Don’t think I’m still not burning about how it’s gone. I still kick myself for it. But on the other side, am I going to keep kicking myself, because I can’t change it.”