Marina Granovskaia: “Gonzalo was our number one target in this transfer window and arrives with a proven record at the highest level. He has previously worked with Maurizio to great effect and is familiar with how the coach likes to play.” #CFC (chelseafc)

Sarri gets his man.....No more excuses, sarri.

PlainJAY:


Sarri gets his man.....No more excuses, sarri.

Remember Benitez came and coached Torres

anyway we create the second highest number of chances in the league and have missed the most number of clear cut chances in the league.

Let's hope for an improvement sha el pipita

Him belle Dey show even for tracksuit. Can this guy run in epl??

Welcome though.

Upon completing his loan move to Chelsea, Higuain, who will wear the number nine shirt, said: ‘When the opportunity to join Chelsea presented itself I had to take it. It’s a team I’ve always liked that has a lot of history, a wonderful stadium and they play in the Premier League, a league I’ve always wanted to play in.

‘I now hope I can give back that trust Chelsea have shown me out on the pitch. I can’t wait to start and I hope to adapt as soon as possible.’

Director Marina Granovskaia added: ‘Gonzalo was our number one target in this transfer window and arrives with a proven record at the highest level. He has previously worked with Maurizio to great effect and is familiar with how the coach likes to play.

‘This was not an easy deal for us to do because of the numerous parties involved, but we are delighted we were able to make it happen and we look forward to seeing the impact Gonzalo will make for us in the second half of the season.’
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The 31-year-old striker moves to Stamford Bridge from Italian side Juventus. He spent the first half of the campaign on loan at AC Milan where he scored eight goals.

A proven goalscorer throughout his career, and an Argentina international, Higuain arrives with a wealth of experience at the highest level having consistently shown his attacking quality during spells in Argentina, Spain and Italy.



if this guy doesn't score on his debut ehn..

Clinical in and around the penalty area, as well as providing a strong aerial threat, Higuain previously played under Maurizio Sarri at Napoli in 2015/16, when he finished as top scorer in Serie A with 36 goals, breaking a long-standing Italian record.




ok ..

airmark:


Oponu, who was the best CB in the world that was playing in epl, when Morgan made the epl team of the year?. You don't just have sense at all.

You see why you're a fool. Casemiro was anchoring his team to winning the CL, no one has called him the best DM in the world

It's one hungry krychowack that ended up getting disgraced everywhere he went after Sevilla

hensben:
Him belle Dey show even for tracksuit. Can this guy run in epl??

Welcome though.

I still dont know who we are waiting for in summer, to take this guy as our striker, on loan.

Well, half of a loaf is better than puff puff. Bye bye to that fido dido striker.

airmark:


I still dont know who we are waiting for in summer, to take this guy as our striker, on loan.

Well, half of a loaf is better than puff puff. Bye bye to that fido dido striker.

My own is sell Bat and Giroud sign Icardi and Higuain during summer if we qualify for ucl next season. No time for hakim Pakim this time around.

Me too. I’m happy that babe(Morata) has been sold.

Mr Sarri trying to win something with the same key players he won nothing with for several years.

This will be interesting to watch.

Beat Spurs and we have a chance to win the first trophy of the season.

FBS:
Mr Sarri trying to win something with the same key players he won nothing with for several years.

This will be interesting to watch.

Beat Spurs and we have a chance to win the first trophy of the season.

Sir Willian, are you leaving or signing the contract?

We bought Giroud and Arsenal Auba, now Milan got Piatek

nihilistjnr:


This guy declare your true allegiance bro

I don’t think buying Higuain will solve our problem bro.

Take note of the bolded.

popizaino:

I don’t think buying Higuain will solve our problem bro.
Take note of the bolded.

as long as we finish top four and win a trophy who gives a fvck.

Unlimited22:

Sir Willian, are you leaving or signing the contract?

The club hierarchy (including the money movers and decision makers) feel we are too important to be sold. We don't wh.or.e ourselves about. Teams come for us 'cos they know our worth.

BlueAngel444:


as long as we finish top four and win a trophy who gives a fvck.

I like ya hope.

airmark:


When you are better than the so-called best, what do you become?

The year Krychowiak bitch-slapped Busquets in the league and in euros, is fresh in my memory.

I watched laliga more than apari raumdeuter and his aparisports crew that time. After the 2015/2016, Krychowiak won apari's popularity contest in laliga's team of the year, ahead of Busquets. He was head and shoulder above Busquets that season. Let's even concede that Krychowiak got there, because as a Polish, he was more popular than the spanish boy in Spain.

Krychowiak was massive for Poland too and everyone with eyes could see his influence in the Polish team.

If a tout beats Anthony Joshua in a PPV bout, he automaically becomes the champion at that particular moment.

keeping typing jargons.. krychowiak has never made the fifpro or uefa team of the year when you made that terrible claim..

Who made him best in the world, when he is has not been recognized

FBS:

The club hierarchy (including the money movers and decision makers) feel we are too important to be sold. We don't wh.or.e ourselves about. Teams come for us 'cos they know our worth.

I swear, sometimes I type this thing just to see your rejoinder. It's alway epic. Good morning boss. How's Rus?

Gonzalo Higuain: Why Maurizio Sarri has faith in maligned striker
By James Horncastle
European football writer
23 Jan
Higuain has had a disappointing time in Milan, where he has failed to match his previous goalscoring record in Italy
"To be abandoned like that was awful," Maurizio Sarri recalled. The news that his star striker was leaving for Juventus hurt like hell.
Gonzalo Higuain had just made history, breaking a Serie A goalscoring record many considered to be unbreakable with 36 league goals in a single season (putting him one ahead of Gunnar Nordahl's 1949-50 tally at AC Milan). He did so over the course of a campaign in which Napoli mounted their most serious title challenge since they last won the league in 1990.
The team had excelled in the 2015-16 season but they ultimately fell short, beaten to the title by Massimiliano Allegri's Juve.
"I could have accepted it if he had gone to the Premier League," then Napoli boss Sarri said. "But not Juventus. Going there made his goodbye all the harder."
Within a few months, though, Sarri had mellowed. He forgave and forgot a transgression many Napoli fans still view as a betrayal.
"It's a bit like when one of your sons makes you angry," he explained. "You can rip into them for a few days, but at the end of the day he's still your son."
Gone but not forgotten
In October 2016, Higuain and Sarri hugged moments before they faced each other for the first time. When the game kicked off, though, there was no room for sentiment. The Argentine scored Juventus' winner and struck 32 times over the course of a year that very nearly ended in a treble.
Last year, the goals did not flow as easily - Higuain racked up 23 in all competitions - but he still came up big and shattered Napoli's title dreams. His was the only goal at the San Paolo when the two sides met at the beginning of December in 2017.
Had Napoli won that game they would have gone seven points clear of Juventus. Instead the gap was cut to one.
Then in April, a week after Juventus lost to Napoli at the Allianz Stadium and looked on the brink of relinquishing their six-year hold on the Scudetto, he completed a last-gasp comeback with an 89th-minute winner against Inter at the San Siro.
Sarri maintains that had Napoli gone to bed earlier that night instead of staying up to watch the Juventus game, maybe his team would have ended a 28-year wait for the league.
Higuain's goal killed his players' belief and settled the closest title race since 2010, maybe even 2002. The following day Napoli collapsed in Florence. The Partenopei were beaten before they walked out of the tunnel.
"We lost the title in the hotel," Sarri said. And still some people outside of Italy wonder what Chelsea's manager sees in Higuain? They question his persistence in signing a 31-year-old who is remembered by many as the player who misses chances and penalties in major international finals and doesn't score enough goals in the knock-out stages of the Champions League.
The striker by whom all others are judged
The reception of Higuain in England is reminiscent of the scepticism Zlatan Ibrahimovic had to put up with before he put four past the Three Lions in 2012, including an overhead kick from 30 yards.
In Italy, by contrast, El Pipita is the striker to whom all other's look up to and by whose standards everyone else is judged. No one has scored more goals in his five and a half years in Serie A.
Higuain made history working under Sarri, breaking the single season scoring record with a hat-trick on the final day of the season, which he completed with a stunning bicycle kick from the edge of the penalty area.
That record had stood since 1950 when the goals per game ratio was much higher than it is today. It is a remarkable feat for a variety of reasons - from the games Higuain missed through suspension to the fact hardly anyone scores more than 30 goals in a single Serie A campaign, let alone 36.
Gonzalo Higuain's goalscoring tally
Club Years Games Goals Games per goal
River Plate 2005-2007 31 13 2.38
Real Madrid 2007-2013 264 122 2.16
Napoli 2013-2016 147 92 1.60
Juventus 2016-2018 105 55 1.91
AC Milan 2018-2019 22 8 2.75
If we class the modern era as the beginning of the Champions League at the time of Higuain's record, La Liga has had 10 players hit more than 30 goals. The Premier League has had eight. Serie A has had one - Luca Toni. And when he did it in 2006 he was the first player to do so in 47 years.
Higuain's margin of victory at the top of the scoring charts (Paulo Dybala was Serie A's next highest scorer with 19 goals) was the biggest ever, comfortably beating the 10 goals that separated the legendary Giuseppe Meazza and Rodolfo Volk in 1930.
Within that context you can perhaps understand why Sarri considers Higuain "the best in the world" in his role, and empathise with those pundits in Italy who always have him in the conversation when it comes to naming the top five centre-forwards on the planet.
Higuain merits greater acclaim
The straight-talking Sarri famously once said: "If he doesn't win the Ballon d'Or, he's a d**k head." Winning respect outside of Italy and Spain, where he won things with Real Madrid, has proved harder.
One of the factors behind that is the profile of Serie A not being what it was in the `90s despite Juventus' regular appearances in Champions League finals and the number of managers recruited from Italy who have no problem winning the Premier League.
Another is wider audiences judging him solely on moments in World Cups and the Champions League [incidentally he scored twice in the 2017 semi-final].
Then there's the notion Napoli didn't actually suffer all that much after Higuain left. The football only got better and Sarri reinvented Dries Mertens into one of the best goalscorers around.
The last six months haven't exactly helped either. Higuain was, by his own admission, "kicked out" of Juventus but as the club's sporting director Fabio Paratici explained: "To find a better striker than Higuain we only had two options: either Cristiano Ronaldo or Lionel Messi."
Every big club in Europe, apart from Barcelona and PSG, would have moved their existing number nine on if they had the means to sign CR7. Higuain should not take it personally.
The issue (and perception) though is that he did, falling into the exact same trap as Leonardo Bonucci who moved from Juventus to AC Milan 18 months ago, determined to prove his old team wrong.
Emotions got the better of him to the detriment of his form and it was a similar story with Higuain. He scored six goals and set up another - Patrick Cutrone's winner against Roma - in seven games going into October's Milan derby.
Higuain was delivering the goods and matching expectation. The turning point came in his reunion with Juventus when he missed a penalty, Ronaldo scored and, to add insult to injury, he received a red card, sparking the mother of all temper tantrums. It's hard to resist the temptation to argue Higuain never recovered.
The truth, however, is more nuanced.
Chelsea forwards in 2018-19
Player PL games PL goals Games per goal
Eden Hazard 22 10 2.20
Pedro 19 7 2.71
Alvaro Morata 16 5 3.20
Willian 22 3 7.33
Olivier Giroud 18 1 18.00
Callum Hudson-Odoi 3 0 -
Chelsea move could reignite player and club
Milan suffered a devastating injury crisis, which afflicted the creators in midfield. One of the team's most inventive players Hakan Calhanoglu has had a below par season, and while Suso leads the league in assists both Milan's wingers are inverted and tend to come inside onto their stronger foot rather than mix things up and get to the byline for the kind of cut-backs all strikers love to be on the end of.
The arrival of Ivan Gazidis as chief executive and Uefa's FFP decision in December also influenced strategy.
The warmth Higuain felt from the club as a whole when he signed cooled as they balked at the expense of paying his wages - the second highest in Serie A behind Ronaldo's - not to mention the remaining 45m euros it would have taken to conclude a deal on a permanent basis for a guy in his 30s.
Debate rages in Italy about whether Milan are making the right decision in severing ties with Higuain. His replacement Krzysztof Piatek has been the revelation of the Serie A season but may just be a flash in the pan with a ceiling nowhere near as high as his predecessor.
The concern for Chelsea is they are signing a striker who is no less sensitive than Alvaro Morata, and someone closer to the end rather than the beginning of their career. But the terms of the deal mitigate the risk as does the father-son relationship between Higuain and Sarri.
El Pipita could be the spark that brings Sarrismo and Chelsea to life at Stamford Bridge.




I still don't trust this guy

raumdeuter:
Only a complete iidiot will look at one season team of a league and claim someone is the best im the world

Wes Morgan also made the EPL team of the year

Im sure a foool like airmark will also call him the best CB in the world

Wait...I dey come.

FBS:
Mr Sarri trying to win something with the same key players he won nothing with for several years.

This will be interesting to watch.

Beat Spurs and we have a chance to win the first trophy of the season.

Omo this the undisputed bar of the year

I hear his also in the market for Hysaj.

Next season he might just ask Roman to see send Chelsea FC to serie A and import Napoli to EPL

by the way, yall niggas ain't seen this?

Sarri had mentioned Cesar Azpilicueta, who wears the armband with Gary Cahill out of favour, and David Luiz as having “the characteristics to be leaders” who could “help all the other players to get the right mentality”.

Asked whether Hazard, who has captained Belgium 28 times and led them to third place at the World Cup, also has such qualities, he said: “I don’t know ... he’s more an individual player than a leader. He is very important for us, because he is a great player. He always can win the match in two minutes – sometimes in one minute but at the moment he’s not a leader. He’s a great player – one of the best in the world.

“I think he has to do more, because the potential is higher than the performances. He has to respect first of all himself. You know very well that Eden is a wonderful player but he’s an individual player. He’s an instinctive player. For him, it’s very difficult to play only in one position. He likes very much to go in the direction of the ball, wanting the ball at his feet.”

There is serious fire on the mountain

raumdeuter:
Only a complete iidiot will look at one season team of a league and claim someone is the best im the world

Wes Morgan also made the EPL team of the year

Im sure a foool like airmark will also call him the best CB in the world

Martial never even complete one season in EPL, let alone made EPL TOTY when this blasphemy occurred

raumdeuter:
I know I am biased but I think based on potentials I can name Martial the best player in the EPL currently

Thats how much I like him

My views have never been popular anyway and if he continues at this pace by December I would crown him the player of the year

Been a while I saw a young player that complete

So, Dayo's words destroyed Martial's form
Player of the year

PSG to beat Chelsea to €40m deal for Zenit midfielder Paredes (Telegraph)

13 hours ago   /  Will_Lee_15

Paris Saint-Germain are set to beat Chelsea to the signing of midfielder Leandro Paredes for around 40million euros (£34.9million).

The 24-year-old Argentinean – who has nine caps for his country - was in Paris on Wednesday ahead of securing the move with sources confident that it will go through.

It is understood that Chelsea had agreed a deal in principle earlier this month to sign Paredes from Zenit St Petersburg as Cesc Fabregas's replacement after he secured his move to Monaco.

However Chelsea – who have also considered Nicolo Barella from Cagliari - did not proceed quickly enough and PSG have now made their move. Both players are well-known to Chelsea head coach Maurizio Sarri with Paredes having played for Roma and also gone on loan to Empoli the season after Sarri left the club for Napoli

Paredes will, however, be a vital addition to PSG's midfield which is the one area of the team coach Thomas Tuchel was desperate to strengthen ahead of the Champions League last-16 tie against Manchester United




looks like we would be missing out on paredes ;(

drisham:

PSG to beat Chelsea to €40m deal for Zenit midfielder Paredes (Telegraph)

13 hours ago   /  Will_Lee_15

Paris Saint-Germain are set to beat Chelsea to the signing of midfielder Leandro Paredes for around 40million euros (£34.9million).

The 24-year-old Argentinean – who has nine caps for his country - was in Paris on Wednesday ahead of securing the move with sources confident that it will go through.

It is understood that Chelsea had agreed a deal in principle earlier this month to sign Paredes from Zenit St Petersburg as Cesc Fabregas's replacement after he secured his move to Monaco.

However Chelsea – who have also considered Nicolo Barella from Cagliari - did not proceed quickly enough and PSG have now made their move. Both players are well-known to Chelsea head coach Maurizio Sarri with Paredes having played for Roma and also gone on loan to Empoli the season after Sarri left the club for Napoli

Paredes will, however, be a vital addition to PSG's midfield which is the one area of the team coach Thomas Tuchel was desperate to strengthen ahead of the Champions League last-16 tie against Manchester United




looks like we would be missing out on paredes ;(

If PSG signs Paredes, Barca has signed De jong, Juventus (masters of free transfer) are most likely signing Ramsey.


that means....


Chelsea may sign Rabiot Bayern (anoda free transfer team ain't interested)

drisham:
The 31-year-old striker moves to Stamford Bridge from Italian side Juventus. He spent the first half of the campaign on loan at AC Milan where he scored eight goals.

A proven goalscorer throughout his career, and an Argentina international, Higuain arrives with a wealth of experience at the highest level having consistently shown his attacking quality during spells in Argentina, Spain and Italy.



if this guy doesn't score on his debut ehn..

did ronaldo score on his debut in juve?

Sarri explained that decision was in part forced by Alvaro Morata’s desire to leave Chelsea.

"I think that Morata is a very good player. I think that Morata has the characteristics for playing in my team," added Sarri.


"But Morata, one month ago, said he wanted to play in another team. So it was really very difficult for him to give us the 100 per cent for his mental situation, I think.

"From the physical and technical point of view, he is a very good player and suitable for my football. But the situation changed in the last month. So we needed to change."

We Chelsea fans are looking forward to Triple H: Hudson, Higuain, Hazard but that won't happen, Sarri will still play Willian or Pedro at RW before Odoi.

So, he called himself a 'complete idiot'

Hazard Higuain and Pedro

Willian is the least productive player in our front line, he should be relegated to the substitute bench Biko


We need a right back asap, then a replacement for Fab and we are ok till the summer



Now let it be known that I said Higuain will come good

CC raumdeute

Eden is at the moment a wonderful player, but he's an individual player. He's a very instinctive player.

"He's very important for us, of course, because he's a great player. He always can win the match in two minutes, sometimes in one minute, but at the moment he's not a leader.

"For him it's very difficult to play only in one position. He wants the ball on the feet.

"For him, I think, it's very difficult to play as a striker, but it's very difficult to play also as a winger.

"We have to organise the other 10 players in the defensive phase because he needs to play everywhere on the pitch."