DISQUS

dkw · 1 year ago

in that case, can we also say that liverpool ruined pennant? or are you only able to spout rubbish about chelsea.

ted · 1 year ago

SWP had more than enough chances at Chelsea and simply was not good enough. Maybe if you watched football instead of spending time with your head up your arse you'd realise this.

Norman · 1 year ago

I hope things work out for SWP, good player but not quite good enough when compared to the competition. Do you really believe that any club would buy a player just to prevent him joining another club? Honestly!

Stan Streason · 1 year ago

What piffle.

SWP had lots of chances and one game against West Ham aside he did not turn the game in any of them, which is not something you would expect for someone supposedly so talented.

At Man City the opposition think they are in with a chance, defend relatively high up the pitch leaving the big spaces behind that SWP made the most of with his pace.

Against Chelsea, teams defend deep cutting out that space. SWP cannot swerve and dribble, he knocks the ball and runs past, a bit of a problem when you start at the 18 yard line rather than the halfway line.

At Man City coming from halfway he was able to cut in and shoot, at Chelsea being out wide we all discovered that he cannot cross a ball.

Sorry, good player in a mid table team but not an exceptional talent for a top 4 team.

cfc · 1 year ago

These retards will blame Chelsea for Russia invading Georgia, the credit crunch and the fact that Munure and the dippers are not allowed to enter the boat race each year.

ctid80 · 1 year ago

wright-phillips needs to be in a team that use width to attack. Chelsea attack through the middle and swp is a winger not a wide midfielder. Watch him this year at city and you will see that he is as good as ever !! Chelsea under mourinho were one dimentional - long ball to drogba knock down for lampard and he shoots and drogba gets the rebound wrighty just needs to be told to attack and run at them. Him and petrov will be lethal. I seem to remember him scoring against chelsea, united, liverpool @ city, simply because he was allowed to express his undoubted ability.

pete · 1 year ago

SWP made over 100 appearances scoring 10 goals, he won a prem, league cup and FA cup winners medals ( the only ones in his career) and earned £55k per week. So of course you are right he was ruined by Chelsea, just like all the other players they buy just to ruin.

SWP will play very well for City and will probably be their player of the year, that's why they won't win anything and it's why England won't either.

Lovely lad ( shame about his idiot step father) but never a winger in a million years as he can't cross a ball. Good raiding midfielder in a mid table team

Simon Burke · 1 year ago

I have no sympathy for him - he chose to go there to a team packed in the middleand had good wingers at the time (Cole, Robben and I think Duff was still there).
He should have gone to Arsenal who were in for him rather than Liverpool (who i cant remember being close to signing him).
So he went to Chelsea, he took the cash, he complained he didnt get games, his mad Uncle complained he didnt get games and he pis*ed away 3 years of his career though as Pete says didnt come away empty handed but it sort of looks that way. I think he will have a good season at City and Hughes has a good signing on his hands.

Simon Burke · 1 year ago

PS) Mad uncle - should have been mad stepdad..!

SAm · 1 year ago

The gaffer should go be the waterboy of liverpool....and pay for the job

kkfla737 · 1 year ago

Maybe it is because Mourinho's style of football didn't suit SWP. He would have fared better had Scolari been there from the get go.

ls7 · 1 year ago

SWP has great pace and dribbling but his crossing is inconsistent.

I think what has happened is that Chelsea overpaid for him which artificially increased many opinions of his ability. He's a decent player but perhaps not an international class player (i.e. not a starter for England).

He also had chances before now to go elsewhere and get games but he seemed content to sit on the bench at Chelsea. Can't blame the club for that.

ossie's dream · 1 year ago

"How Chelsea Ruined SWP" may be a harsh headline (but this is a blog after all, so we should be forgive the occasional sensationalist headline, as long as it isn't misleading), but I agree with the sentiment. SWP must take his share of the blame, however, as it was a poor career decision.

To the sadly misguided and completely biased "Chelsea are beyond reproach" posters above, I have two words for you: Steve Sidwell. Why on earth did Chelsea feel it necessary to take a decent midfielder who Reading desperately needed and never had a hope of breaking into the first team? We can all argue that Sidwell, like SWP, made the wrong decision but that does not excuse Chelsea of culpability.

More to the point, perhaps the Chelsea fans can tell us how they feel about selling a 27-year old with a lot to offer the Premier League for approx 13M less than they paid for him? The same goes for Shevchenko - a loss of about 10M pounds.

All this "masterminded" by Peter Kenyon, a man who claims he will have Chelsea in the black in a few years.

John Wright Phillips · 10 months ago

Shaun wright phillips has got great pace and acceleration but he needs to get his confidence back because he use to terroise defenders with his explosive burst of pace but when he was in chelsea, they didnt allow him to show his ability as a winger. My opinion on jose mourinho is that he plays more defensive and that lacked flair and movement. Shaun is a very good player but needs to work on his deliveries and work on his speed, it seems he's lost it a bit.