Reuters - Fri, 04 Jun 17:32:00 2010
Ghana midfielder Michael Essien has signed a two-year contract extension at Chelsea.
The new deal will keep the 27-year-old at Stamford Bridge until 2015.
"I am delighted because the club has shown a very big confidence and interest in me," said Essien. "I am looking forward to coming back and enjoying my football and winning more trophies with the club.
"That is why I am here. I think it is one of the most important contracts in my career."
Essien is currently sidelined with a knee injury that has ruled him out of the World Cup, and he has not featured for the Blues since suffering a hamstring injury in December.
Nevertheless, Chelsea boss Carlo Ancelotti revealed Essien remains an integral part of his plans as he bids to build on his side's double-winning campaign of last season.
"I am very happy that Michael has agreed to extend his time with us, as it means he will continue to be a very important player for Chelsea long into the future," Ancelotti told Chelsea's website.
Essien has made 185 appearances and scored 22 goals for Chelsea since arriving at the west London club in £26 million deal from Lyon in 2005.
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gud job man!
CHELSEA HAVE MADE A VERY GOOD DECISION KEEPING ESSIEN,BUT IT'S THAT HE IS NOT GOING TO WORLD CUP
Nice one Essien.
4 me,we really need aguero, and hamsik..completely agreed with Champions..the way aguero play is what chelsea must have right now..believe me,if chelsea get aguero,you will see chelsea will be up to next level..more fast,more dangerous..mark my words..and 'saudare goku',darijo srna is a croatian right back,who can also play in midfield..chelsea already offered about 14m to get him..
Evra is a left back, the right back for France this summer is more than likely going to be Sagna from Arsenal.
david i think u r getting essien the ghanain central midfielder who plays 4 chelsea with patrice evra the french right back
David read the first line of the article again and see if you can tell where you went wrong.
France are going to miss Essien, he has to be the best right back in the premiership, his strength and determination are just unrivaled! Fantastic player, just a shame he isnt austrain!
we could talk all day about who chelsea hsould sign and sell and do this n that but you cant sign everyone. a can miake a list of, kjaer, subotic, di maria, navas, krasic, hamsik, blanco, martinez, kaka, srna, aguero, pato, van der vaart, milner and so on and so on. thing is you cany sign all these players. we are going to need to replace lampard and drogba with proven quality, not yet but within 3 years and they need to fit in and it we need to get the correct player before they go to another big club and we then cant get him.
right now though we need a right sided player. even if cole stays we have no backup. sadly it looks like cole will be leaving which i cant understand at all, especially with the new home grown rule and that he can play a number 10 and sometimes we play with 1 of them. if we decide to play with a defensive mid then we need a new makelele, mikel and essien arent that, they arent there just to tackle! thats all we need the now!
hye guys. im fan chelsea from malaysian..
i want question for u all.. who d.srna??? where is a player..?talk to me..
bekoz i want see to him...
rushad you are wrong. aguero is an incredible player, twice as good as higuain and his play is exactly what we need. link him with drogba and watch the goals come. Anelka should be leaving to make way, he can play a central striker alone but as a wide player he is our worst player. Also yaya toure is a terrible player, I would be gutted if we signed him. I agree if we wanna play with a sitting midfielder then we need to buy 1, mikel isnt that player neither is essien, javi martinez is who i would buy. if we signed srna then we could play cole with zhirkov in frot, ivanovic with srna in front and we wouldnt need a sitting mid as our wide men are also full backs so could cover well when full backs bomb on. Hamsik I would like to see though, we need to keep power in our midfield as well as flair thats why if we played a 4-4-2 we could have lampard/hamsik playing beside essien and aguero would fill the gap[ between forward and midfield and be our creative flair player.
and our right side is not fine. kalou isnt a winger, he is a striker and could play as 2nd striker in a 4-4-2. cole leaving will be awful business, really really poor. as bad as letting robben go! we have no right sided players, srna would come in handy there.
and it is a known fact we have already promoted 5 youngsters to the 1st team so you cant say it would be a good idea you have as its been done and is a known fact. these players need the chance and thats why we should only be signing 1 or 2 players as well as letting a few olders go. if they dont work out we need a player to replace both lampard and drogba within the next 2 seasons, a proven player in these positions. i.e aguero and hamsik!
there are many player we could/should buy but you cant sign everyone so why mess with what is working fine. we neeed to find players that fit in with our team and freshen it up rathar than totally change it
i wish Drogba was bout 25 aswell so we can keep him a lil longer, he's gonna be out within 3 or 4 years @#$% xDand Lampard to xD
do u peaople not see the scam behind all dis first essien injures ballack in training then he takes his place in the squad as well as the contract
That's great. He is a very important player for chelsea.
@Dartg watch how Essien plays and compare him with how well Ballack did in last 3 seasons. The only minus from Essien is his injury proneness.
Dartg@ W T F you talking about? -_-
Does anyone know what that Dartg (no.3) is goin on about??
cant believe dis guy ws picked over ballack fr the germa squad n now he gets a contract til 2015 whereas ballack is signed only till 2014
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