I never stopped supporting him. I just can't wish him anything bad. I love him too much. I even watched every Chelsea game he played that was available to me.

It's particular hard when they show here Milan matches from recent years.

I'm with you mate. I've began to watch Chelsea matches just because of him, and I'm very happy when he scores. He may have betrayed us in some way, but he's still a living Milan legend.

Same here

I don't think Shevchenko mi$$e$ Milan as much as Milan misses him. (Was this perfect English? You know, his wife may read the forum...)

If you were to move let's say to Berlin, would you miss your home? Of course you would. It's the same thing with Sheva. The money are not a big deal cause he earned a lot here aswell, not to mention he would have got more than he actually gets at Chelsea if he decided to stay.

I just said Milan misses the ukrainian international but Shevchenko doesn't miss Milan that much.

Anyway, I don't think Abramovich will let his fav player leave the club.

Exactly .. He is now part of his collection. Sad isn't it.

BTW Sheva has a new son. His name is Christian and he was born two days ago, 10th of november.
I know there is 13 years between them but maybe some day Christian Maldini and Christian Shevchenko will play together

According to the highlights Sheva had a great game

he scored the first goal in minute 26.
I'll watch the resume ^^

Great goal btw.

The goal - here (Credit to BuffCuff)

or here at youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiB37gWOQc0
with the goal from that shaun philips wright

lol Shaun Wright-Phillips

SHEVA

!!!!!!!!!!

i kno im bad for saying this, but i actually hoped that Sheva wud continue not doing so well at Chelsea. don't get me wrong, i luv sheva , but i thot that Mourinho wud consider sending him bak again to milan if he didn't play well.
when i found out about the goal, i was kind of upset that he mite become great at chelsea and also jealous of chelsea, too, but i told myself that he still wants to be there and that's all that shud matter... ... even if it hurts to admit it.

Jose wants Sheva record

Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho has backed former Milan star Andriy Shevchenko to break Gerd Muller’s European goal record. The Ukrainian scored his first European goal for the Blues and his 57th overall in the Champions League win over Levski Sofia. “Sheva scored a goal and it is one that puts him ahead of Eusebio in the top scorers in the history of European football,” said Mourinho. “He is just behind Muller, but he is only 30 years of age and with a few years of Champions League football ahead of him, he can jump to the best ever.”

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He'll do that when he's free of your system

well I'm not a chelsea fan... so

Me neither

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,28...93514_1,00.html
this is a very good interview with Mourinho, read it ^^

"Sheva is not untouchable." That's cuz he's not in Milan anymore.

That's cuz he is not in top form yet

^true, plus the big change from italian football to english football.


Mourinho brings about a good point. despite the fact that I want him back, I hope Sheva will adjust, because he wants to do well in Chelsea, so I'm hoping he will do that.
I wish him luck.

Me too

Wenger support for Sheva

Arsene Wenger insists that Andrei Shevchenko has made Chelsea a better team this season despite reports from Jose Mourinho that the striker is not 'untouchable'.

Wenger also believes the Ukrainian has made Didier Drogba a better player insisting that Chelsea's more attacking approach is due to the former Milan star's influence.

Shevchenko has recently come under scrutiny from both himself and Mourinho who has admitted the star has yet to justify his £30.8 million price tag.

Wenger told the club's website: "If Drogba does well it is certainly down to Shevchenko as well.

"Drogba was always a great player but even more since he played with Shevchenko. He has more support, more deflections. He gets more deflected balls and someone makes the runs for him and he takes advantage of that.

"A second presence sometimes diverts (defenders' attention) - mentally and physically. That gives [Drogba] more confidence and more chance and as well maybe Chelsea play in a more offensive style than they used before."

Wenger has come to the defence of the former Dynamo Kiev player by highlighting the amount of time it takes to adapt to the Premier League.

He said: "Old or young it takes six months to completely adapt to the pace of the league.

"Sometimes it is that your game is not completely as good, sometimes you struggle with injuries. We had all kinds of problems here and I feel that five or six months is needed.

"I personally rate Shevchenko highly from the time he played with Dynamo Kiev against us. I feel as well he is a really keen player and sometimes that kind of work is not rated enough," he added.

sky

I think so to Sheva isn't playing very well and I hope he will return to milan...and when he does let's hope we got our sheva back

Milan isn

Sheva will never come back again. And that's certain

Sheva in fresh Milan denial

Chelsea striker Andriy Shevchenko has again ruled out a return to Milan. “I made my choice and I’m not coming back,” he noted.

The £30m Ukrainian is struggling to settle in London and has been linked with a sensational January return to the San Siro, just six months after his switch to Stamford Bridge.

Furthermore, Coach José Mourinho recently omitted his name from the list of players he considers ‘untouchable’ and is set to drop him ahead of Wednesday’s clash with Newcastle.

“I have already said this once and I must repeat myself, once and for all. I will stay at Chelsea,” said the player in an interview to the Corriere della Sera.

“I have great respect for Milan and their fans and I want to send a special hug to all of them, because they will always be in my heart.

“But I made my choice some months ago and it would make no sense for me to change my mind now,” added the 2004 Golden Ball winner.

Milan President Silvio Berlusconi had stated on Saturday that he would welcome the player back with open arms, although he was aware that it looked like a problematic option.

“I have an excellent relationship with the President and I will always be thankful for what he did for me,” continued Sheva. “However, this cannot change what I feel now.

“If you leave an important club like Milan to move to another outfit, you cannot throw in the towel after such a short period, even if this is a hard moment for me.”

The former Dynamo Kiev man has scored just six times in all competitions so far this term.

“It’s not that I’m not scoring, I’m scoring less compared to the past,” he argued.

“The truth is that football players are not machines, we go through periods when things do not go the way we want.

“When you make a choice you need to follow that road until the end, only then will I be able to say if things went well or not.”


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YOU CAN'T EXPECT SHEVA TO SCORE V MACCLESFIELD!
CARLING CUP Semi-final: Wycombe v Chelsea, tomorrow, 7.30pm LAMPARD DEFENDS £30M FLOP

THEY tried nice with Andriy Shevchenko and it didn't work, as Jose Mourinho's pledges of support were not reciprocated.

Then they tried nasty, and it still didn't work, as Chelsea's manager humiliated the Ukrainian and still could not spark a response.

But last night they adopted a strategy that seemed to sum up the striker's enduring nightmare at Stamford Bridge - pity.

Shevchenko's misery plumbed new depths against Macclesfield on Saturday, with the £30million superstar branded a dive cheat and 'past it' by Silkmen skipper and centre-half David Morley, who took over in goal and easily prevented Shevchenko's best efforts to score past him.

That was as low as it could get for a player supposed to fire the goals to lead the Blues to the Premiership crown and Champions League glory. Yet instead, Shevchenko will run out at Wycombe in the Carling Cup tomorrow knowing that his stock under Mourinho has plummeted to astonishing depths.

And even as Frank Lampard attempted to back the striker with supportive comments, the undercurrent seemed more one of human empathy than any belief that the former AC Milan man can possibly come good.

Asked directly about the Ukrainian, Lampard - who has 12 goals to his credit including his weekend hat-trick - put a metaphorical arm round the striker's shoulder.

"I do feel sympathy for him but it is no problem," insisted Lampard.

"Against Macclesfield it was not a day where, because he cost £30 million and is a world-class striker, he had to score.

"He didn't. He has to work hard and try to lead the line, which he did. It doesn't always happen for you.

"It is the same for me - I scored three against Macclesfield, but at Aston Villa I tried to score the whole game and it didn't go in for me. So it is not a problem for Sheva. I hope people don't want to make a big deal that he didn't score against Macclesfield because football is not that simple."

Yet as Lampard's bitter World Cup memories tell him, it is that simple.

Shevchenko was bought, at Roman Abramovich's behest, to score goals and take the Blues over the final European hurdle. The fact that Didier Drogba has gone from fall-guy to hero has merely illustrated the contrast between him and Shevchenko.

And while there is no questioning of his commitment, Lampard appears to be coming to the conclusion that it is simply not meant to be.

"We can all try too hard - that is not really a big fault," said the England man. "That is just showing what you want to do. Sheva doesn't seem to be letting it affect him. He is working hard in training and is a great professional.

"On Saturday you could see the frustration, but as long as Sheva keeps trying, the goals will come. Eventually it will turn for him."

Whether Lampard, who will be rested tomorrow, truly believes that is hard to know yet, certainly, Mourinho will select Shevchenko against Wycombe before returning him to bench-warming duties against Wigan on Saturday.

No hiding place for Shevchenko

All is not well at Chelsea, but no player reflects the champions' mid-season malaise quite as vividly as Andrei Shevchenko. While blame for the team's recent inconsistency is shouldered almost entirely by the defence, it is conveniently forgotten that their £30.8 million striker has failed to score in his last nine games. For manager Jose Mourinho, believed to be at odds with the board at Stamford Bridge over such extravagant signings, it is a chastening statistic.

The popular logic is that Chelsea's season will be revived as soon as John Terry is restored to the side, but attention is turning increasingly to the 'dead weight' that they are carrying in the captain's absence. Michael Ballack has reportedly been the subject of mutinous murmurs in the camp over his supposed indolence, and similar questions can now legitimately be asked of Shevchenko, who sloped off against Macclesfield in the FA Cup to opposition fans' chants of "What a waste of money".

Until now a clear line has been drawn between the struggles of Ballack and Shevchenko to adjust to Premiership pace. Where the German, by many accounts English football's highest earner on £130,000 a week, has courted criticism for lack of effort, his Ukrainian team-mate has merely looked lost. But having botched the chances Mourinho has given him — including a start against the cannon fodder of Macclesfield from which he again drew a blank —Shevchenko, too, is running out of sympathisers.

Apart from Frank Lampard, that is. "I do feel sympathy for him," said the England midfielder, who scored a hat-trick in Chelsea's 6-1 Cup win and sought to justify the striker's wretched display. ''It was not a day where, because he cost £30 million and is a world-class striker, he had to score — he didn't. He has to work hard and try to lead the line, which he did. It doesn't always happen for you — he is working hard in training and is a great professional. Of course he wants to score more, that is what he has done his whole career. But as long as he keeps trying, the goals will come.

"It is the same for me," Lampard continued. "I scored three against Macclesfield and at Aston Villa I tried to score the whole game and it didn't go in for me. It is not a problem for Sheva. I hope people don't want to make a big deal of the fact that he didn't score against Macclesfield, because football is not that simple."

But Shevchenko's failure to trouble such a limited side simply served as an instructive study in contrasts. It was by no means the only example of his deficiencies, given that he has not scored at all since the Champions League tie against Levski Sofia on Dec 5, while his last Premiership goal came in a routine home win over Watford on Nov 11. For a player in whom so much has been invested, this is a pitiful return.

It is not so much the money that rankles about Shevchenko as his status as the figurehead for Roman Abramovich's revolution at Stamford Bridge. He is the player whom the Russian owner, soon after the takeover, personally approached at Milan's Four Seasons Hotel to resolve the club's search for a centre-forward. Initially he refused the offer, such was his success at AC Milan, but as he committed to a move last summer he said of Chelsea: "Now we are ready for each other." The declaration proved horribly premature.

Oh how the mighty have fallen

Now I'm actually starting to feel a TAD (just a tad) bit sorry for him

so am i, its sad to see him being benched the rest of the season Do you think if chelsea wanted to sell him back to milan, that milan would buy him, and how much do you think they'll wanto sell him for

There is absolutely no way he comes back to Milan!
Well, may be for the other side of the city

I’m sorry but I don’t think so.

It’s a matter of pride from all 3 parties involved, Chelsea won’t want to sell him because there transfer policy will blow up in their face and the fact that Sheva’s purchase was more Abramovic’s doing rather then Mourinho’s will be more obvious.

Sheva won’t want to admit he made a mistake and can’t make it in the EPL. And Milan won’t want to take him simply because Milan ain’t no hotel that you could come and go as you please. The fans will never accept him back neither.

And about him going to Inter well that just was a frank question asked by the media to Mancini if he would take him, and we all know Mancini never says no to anything. Sheva would never go to Inter either and if he where to go, the Milan fans would probably set his house on fire.

moratti would surely buy him just to rub it in our faces

Totally agree

Silvio said too contriversial things; 'Sheva would be welcomed with open arms...' and then 'Sheva is not a man, in my (Silvio's) house I make the decisions...' .

This leaves Sheva, considering his recent form, regreting the minute he switched teams. Which would imply that Shevchenko would rather join Al-Ittihad than come back to Milan. I am guessing, since he was considered a Rossoneri legend but threw it all away for Abramovic .. Basically he wont come back w/ his tail between his legs, he already knew his mistake when he kissed that Chelsea shirt

Now you're making a move for Sheva?

Shhhhhh .. I don't want to be a hate figure in here .. But between us, nah, I wouldnt even dream of it. They actually have strikers that score

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Stay at Chelsea ... We have Ronaldo now

no btw i wouldnt say cuz i would have sheva any time i dont care who we have sheva can never ever be replaced he will alwayz be in my heart

The past month Sheva has possibly been the best player in the Premiership, he's started to score more goals and his all round play has improved alot.

What more can you say about his goals against Sheff United and Spurs, they were both simply spectacular. All the greats take time to settle, Rooney has only scored about the same as Sheva this season, yet he has no critics, you make stats what you want them to be. Sheva is world class and always will be.

ur rht

Nice one Kurt. But you should know by now, that the English media never blame Rooney. In fact given half a chance they'd make him the best player in the world. They've already done it to Cristiano Ronaldo coz of one good season. But then you're English yourself, maybe you won't take kindly to me saying this.

English like to take pride in there own players and hype them up to the max. Ronaldo can score against all minor english teams etc, but i would like tosee him do it against roma. Diving wont get him far in CL.

Nah, it's cool. I don't like the way they hype up our players either. Personally I think Rooney is pretty average, he does OK at best for Man U, and nothing short of awful for England.

The English media like to think the Premier Leagu is the best in the world. I am English and my first team is a Premier League team, Aston Villa. But I don't think it is, I'd say third behind Serie A and La Liga. Ronaldo gets all the praise from media because they want the Premiership to have the best player in the world, just like they do with Henry.

If Henry was so great why did he flop at Juve? I pretty much hate all English teams except for Villa and the national team of course, so I never like English teams winning European competitions. So the more they hype up English teams/players, the more they're going to have to criticise them when they fail.

Henry was played out of place at Juve ... Arsene Wenger was the one who discovered Henry and Trezeguet =, back I think when they all were at Monaco or Marseille .. In anycase, Henry place in a certain position in the team and is given certain freedoms .. On the national side and at Juve. The whole team played a certain way and that is why Henry never showed his class in Juve or the National as he does everyday at Arsenal.

Well, what he used to at Arsenal. He had a shocking season which both he and Arsene put down to "injuries" neither can face the fact that he's passed it