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I am getting bored with people saying "why aren't chelsea playing in Sirie A" and thinking themselves A) Original and B) Witty.
How many Italians have appeared in the chelsea Team this year........i believe the answer is ......drumroll please............. a whole mighty .......2. Zola and Cudicini (and not to forget our Italian manager).
This is hardly a strong italian influence. The dutch Influence on the team is noticably stronger:
Hasselbaink, Melchiot, Zenden and De goey (and the delightful Bogarde making the odd appearance and collecting cheques faster than the millenium dome) all appearing for the first team this season with Gudjohnsen and Gronkjaer both learning there trade in holland. Dutch and English arethe first languages of the Chelsea team. In fact our French influence is stronger than the italian influence With Gallas, Desailly and Petit both regular starters.
Then such people claim: your team was all italian in the late 1990's. Which actually translates to: we had Di Matteo, Zola and vialli admittedly 3 of our best players.....but hardly our whole team.
Once beaten down such people go, "well anyway your all foreigners" again truish but a changing fact. Terry, Cole,lampard, Morris and the ageing le saux shows we are actually making and effort to become british, whilst liverpools signings last season were all african and Bruno Cheyro:
Dudek
Riise
Hyppia
Traore
Biscan
Henchoz
Babbel
Berger
Smicer
Hamman
Cheyrou
Diao
Diouf
Baros
Just to name the regular starters at anfield, I believe bolton have fielded an all foreign team this year, and a similar analysis can be done with the arsenal team and several to liverpool, with an actual national identity of french coming through the team. At least chelsea are trying to change. 2 summers ago everyone was saying oh Chelsea are italian and arsenal are french, at leaset chelsea have tried to change something. We arrive at the summer and we see ooooooooooooooooh Pascal Cygan arrive...courtesy of his passport, then the transfer window comes and arsenal need a keeper. Lets guess the nationality, oh, i think he is french, oh look Guillame Warmuz. And the situation is getting worse. Of Keown and Seaman go into retirement. Leaving Cole and Campbell to speak English to each other. Jeffers, parlour (and wiltord) are touted as the summers realistic big departures to fund moves for new players, and who are the players linked to the club......Predominantly: Mexes, Frey and Trezuguet (with Terry chucked in as the token englishman which won't materialise). Oh and the managers french, in case you hadn't noticed. And their Best prospect for the future, Aliadere. Maybe they'll buy another token Brazilian to mix with the french. Chelsea's nationality concerns are actually improving under Rainieri who has tried to make an English backbone with the limited funding in comparison to the old days of chelsea.
People ought to be congratulating people like Rainieri who are actually trying to remedy this situation, and even more so the likes of Alex Ferguson who have always maintained a strong British contingent.
How many Italians have appeared in the chelsea Team this year........i believe the answer is ......drumroll please............. a whole mighty .......2. Zola and Cudicini (and not to forget our Italian manager).
This is hardly a strong italian influence. The dutch Influence on the team is noticably stronger:
Hasselbaink, Melchiot, Zenden and De goey (and the delightful Bogarde making the odd appearance and collecting cheques faster than the millenium dome) all appearing for the first team this season with Gudjohnsen and Gronkjaer both learning there trade in holland. Dutch and English arethe first languages of the Chelsea team. In fact our French influence is stronger than the italian influence With Gallas, Desailly and Petit both regular starters.
Then such people claim: your team was all italian in the late 1990's. Which actually translates to: we had Di Matteo, Zola and vialli admittedly 3 of our best players.....but hardly our whole team.
Once beaten down such people go, "well anyway your all foreigners" again truish but a changing fact. Terry, Cole,lampard, Morris and the ageing le saux shows we are actually making and effort to become british, whilst liverpools signings last season were all african and Bruno Cheyro:
Dudek
Riise
Hyppia
Traore
Biscan
Henchoz
Babbel
Berger
Smicer
Hamman
Cheyrou
Diao
Diouf
Baros
Just to name the regular starters at anfield, I believe bolton have fielded an all foreign team this year, and a similar analysis can be done with the arsenal team and several to liverpool, with an actual national identity of french coming through the team. At least chelsea are trying to change. 2 summers ago everyone was saying oh Chelsea are italian and arsenal are french, at leaset chelsea have tried to change something. We arrive at the summer and we see ooooooooooooooooh Pascal Cygan arrive...courtesy of his passport, then the transfer window comes and arsenal need a keeper. Lets guess the nationality, oh, i think he is french, oh look Guillame Warmuz. And the situation is getting worse. Of Keown and Seaman go into retirement. Leaving Cole and Campbell to speak English to each other. Jeffers, parlour (and wiltord) are touted as the summers realistic big departures to fund moves for new players, and who are the players linked to the club......Predominantly: Mexes, Frey and Trezuguet (with Terry chucked in as the token englishman which won't materialise). Oh and the managers french, in case you hadn't noticed. And their Best prospect for the future, Aliadere. Maybe they'll buy another token Brazilian to mix with the french. Chelsea's nationality concerns are actually improving under Rainieri who has tried to make an English backbone with the limited funding in comparison to the old days of chelsea.
People ought to be congratulating people like Rainieri who are actually trying to remedy this situation, and even more so the likes of Alex Ferguson who have always maintained a strong British contingent.
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Chelsea are starting to cut down on foreign imports. I also remember that they were the first team in the Premiership to field a all foreign team. But since then they have some great English youngsters coming through like Carlton Cole and John Terry.
I feel that there should be a rule stating that there should be no more than 4 Foreign players in a starting line up for the game. That way less people would criticise how the Premiership is forming to be a Foreign league.
I feel that there should be a rule stating that there should be no more than 4 Foreign players in a starting line up for the game. That way less people would criticise how the Premiership is forming to be a Foreign league.
Oh and i know Liverpool do have 4 full england internationals in their team but they are on a slippery slope. Arsenal are a much worse case. But liverpool have signed 8 foreigners in a row with Kirkland being the last brit.
I am getting bored with people saying "why aren't chelsea playing in Sirie A" and thinking themselves A) Original and B) Witty.
How many Italians have appeared in the chelsea Team this year........i believe the answer is ......drumroll please............. a whole mighty .......2. Zola and Cudicini (and not to forget our Italian manager).
This is hardly a strong italian influence. The dutch Influence on the team is noticably stronger:
Hasselbaink, Melchiot, Zenden and De goey (and the delightful Bogarde making the odd appearance and collecting cheques faster than the millenium dome) all appearing for the first team this season with Gudjohnsen and Gronkjaer both learning there trade in holland. Dutch and English arethe first languages of the Chelsea team. In fact our French influence is stronger than the italian influence With Gallas, Desailly and Petit both regular starters.
Then such people claim: your team was all italian in the late 1990's. Which actually translates to: we had Di Matteo, Zola and vialli admittedly 3 of our best players.....but hardly our whole team.
Once beaten down such people go, "well anyway your all foreigners" again truish but a changing fact. Terry, Cole,lampard, Morris and the ageing le saux shows we are actually making and effort to become british, whilst liverpools signings last season were all african and Bruno Cheyro:
Dudek
Riise
Hyppia
Traore
Biscan
Henchoz
Babbel
Berger
Smicer
Hamman
Cheyrou
Diao
Diouf
Baros
Just to name the regular starters at anfield, I believe bolton have fielded an all foreign team this year, and a similar analysis can be done with the arsenal team and several to liverpool, with an actual national identity of french coming through the team. At least chelsea are trying to change. 2 summers ago everyone was saying oh Chelsea are italian and arsenal are french, at leaset chelsea have tried to change something. We arrive at the summer and we see ooooooooooooooooh Pascal Cygan arrive...courtesy of his passport, then the transfer window comes and arsenal need a keeper. Lets guess the nationality, oh, i think he is french, oh look Guillame Warmuz. And the situation is getting worse. Of Keown and Seaman go into retirement. Leaving Cole and Campbell to speak English to each other. Jeffers, parlour (and wiltord) are touted as the summers realistic big departures to fund moves for new players, and who are the players linked to the club......Predominantly: Mexes, Frey and Trezuguet (with Terry chucked in as the token englishman which won't materialise). Oh and the managers french, in case you hadn't noticed. And their Best prospect for the future, Aliadere. Maybe they'll buy another token Brazilian to mix with the french. Chelsea's nationality concerns are actually improving under Rainieri who has tried to make an English backbone with the limited funding in comparison to the old days of chelsea.
People ought to be congratulating people like Rainieri who are actually trying to remedy this situation, and even more so the likes of Alex Ferguson who have always maintained a strong British contingent.
How many Italians have appeared in the chelsea Team this year........i believe the answer is ......drumroll please............. a whole mighty .......2. Zola and Cudicini (and not to forget our Italian manager).
This is hardly a strong italian influence. The dutch Influence on the team is noticably stronger:
Hasselbaink, Melchiot, Zenden and De goey (and the delightful Bogarde making the odd appearance and collecting cheques faster than the millenium dome) all appearing for the first team this season with Gudjohnsen and Gronkjaer both learning there trade in holland. Dutch and English arethe first languages of the Chelsea team. In fact our French influence is stronger than the italian influence With Gallas, Desailly and Petit both regular starters.
Then such people claim: your team was all italian in the late 1990's. Which actually translates to: we had Di Matteo, Zola and vialli admittedly 3 of our best players.....but hardly our whole team.
Once beaten down such people go, "well anyway your all foreigners" again truish but a changing fact. Terry, Cole,lampard, Morris and the ageing le saux shows we are actually making and effort to become british, whilst liverpools signings last season were all african and Bruno Cheyro:
Dudek
Riise
Hyppia
Traore
Biscan
Henchoz
Babbel
Berger
Smicer
Hamman
Cheyrou
Diao
Diouf
Baros
Just to name the regular starters at anfield, I believe bolton have fielded an all foreign team this year, and a similar analysis can be done with the arsenal team and several to liverpool, with an actual national identity of french coming through the team. At least chelsea are trying to change. 2 summers ago everyone was saying oh Chelsea are italian and arsenal are french, at leaset chelsea have tried to change something. We arrive at the summer and we see ooooooooooooooooh Pascal Cygan arrive...courtesy of his passport, then the transfer window comes and arsenal need a keeper. Lets guess the nationality, oh, i think he is french, oh look Guillame Warmuz. And the situation is getting worse. Of Keown and Seaman go into retirement. Leaving Cole and Campbell to speak English to each other. Jeffers, parlour (and wiltord) are touted as the summers realistic big departures to fund moves for new players, and who are the players linked to the club......Predominantly: Mexes, Frey and Trezuguet (with Terry chucked in as the token englishman which won't materialise). Oh and the managers french, in case you hadn't noticed. And their Best prospect for the future, Aliadere. Maybe they'll buy another token Brazilian to mix with the french. Chelsea's nationality concerns are actually improving under Rainieri who has tried to make an English backbone with the limited funding in comparison to the old days of chelsea.
People ought to be congratulating people like Rainieri who are actually trying to remedy this situation, and even more so the likes of Alex Ferguson who have always maintained a strong British contingent.
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