CURRENT UPDATE ON STURRIDGE

I have been reading countless comments about Studge leaving, why are you guys being myopic ? He is the second striker at Chelsea for frigging sake ! he is not stupid. RDM mentioned his name at the pre match conference yesterday

"'I believe competition is very important for professional sportsmen. I don't think the way Fernando has started is because Drogba is not here,' Di Matteo said. 'I thought he had a very good end to the last season for us. He made a lot of assists and works extremely hard, and scored some important goals. He started this season well and has competition also, we have Daniel Sturridge as well and I believe competition is very important for us."


Can you frigging read ? we have Sturridge as well !



He also spoke with Chelsea TV

"Obviously I wasn't happy about that but you move on," he admitted. "It was a good end to the season, we won two trophies. Hopefully this season we'll have some success.

"I'm a confident person and I'm confident in my ability. I played out of position the whole season and didn't get an opportunity as a striker.

"It was good to play, but I was out of position for the 43 games I played. At the end of the day I was happy to help the team last season and hopefully I'll help them again this season.

"When you play a new position it gives you a new look on how to play football. Sometimes when strikers play on the wing they take shots on when they shouldn't and they play in a certain way because they have a mentality of scoring goals.

"If you put any striker on the wing they'd have the same mentality as I did, which was to try and create chances but also score goals. That's the main thing a striker feeds off and gets his confidence from."


STURRIDGE IS LEAVING ARTICLES SHOULD STOP RIGHT NOW. FULL STOP