Di Santo takes swipe at Rovers

sour grapes or valid point?

Supporting the other blue I have been worried about the development of Franco. He did show a lot of potential but it takes some time to get used to our way of playing. For me he has had enough time to show that he can succeed. Sitting on the bench should motive you double to make the team. Perhaps he should move on as if there is no place in an other team at the same level then a move abroad could be the answer.

Didn't Drogba score the opening goal in that game?

I sure did, and will confess your lad (is his name Phil Jones?) had him in his pocket for the rest of the game! That being said, as he got on the score sheet describing him as being marked oout the game seems a little harsh!

he's just bitter for missing out on being a league champion.

The point of a loan spell is to get first team football. Chelsea should have sent him to the mainland.

Hope that clears any lingring ill feeling towards him from you lot.

I can only work with what I am given JT... sorry dude but that's the format it arrived to me, I cant adjust it just to suit Franco, what if that you have typed is nowhere near accurate just to play devils advocate?!

i'm not particulary offended my what di santo said. at the end of the day, he wasn't good enough to play regularly for us. he is a young player and i still wish him well

So - do you want him back next season?

What do you think Merlin?

Right, I had to work my ass off to get to this article and have it translated (manually) - Here's the link-

http://www.diariouno.com.ar/ovacion/blog/2010/05/19/di-santo-voy-a-volver-a-chelsea-a-pelearla/

Oh don't Google Translate it, it's horrible. That tool is so crappy, it makes me cringe. Here are the questions to his answers ^^.

1. -In these months that you were in Blackburn how would summarize them?

In the first half of the season, I played all the matches, I played well and the Coach told it in the English newspapers that I was the player that he wanted to play, in spite of being my first season in a club of the Premier League and that was very nice. After that we decided to sign a new loan for six months and I don’t know why did didn’t play regularly, nobody told me anything. The people at Chelsea were upset that I was not playing regularly.

2. Can it be because you did not score goals or battle(?) the ball well enough?

I believe that I fought well for the ball. I did not score goals and do not like to put excuses, because I did not score goals, but when crosses do not arrive , when not a regular possibility of goal, when a single striker is used, to fight and fight is complicated for any one forward. Just like this (Martin) Palermo did not do well when the ball never came to him.

3.Was it difficult to insert you in the new group because you came from Chelsea where you had your friends?

Not, like I say always, while I have the desire and want to achieve the things, it is going to be easy to adapt myself to any side. It does not take too much for me to adapt to the places because I always try to do the best, speaking badly and soon to break me the bum (? Possible colloquial phrase)and to forward.

4.How difficult was the change of leaving a big team and moving to a small club?

Yes, we cannot compare a Chelsea that has the world’s better players to a Blackburn with the one that finishes tenth in the Premier League, in half of the table.

5.You knew that you should do that for launching yourself?

, it is worth much, they say that one must descend a pair of steps to rise a pair more, hence this has served as a positive experience, to know where I am now in Chelsea and what I must be.

6.Now the idea is to go and to fight it (at Chelsea)?

Yes as usual I am going to return to Chelsea to fight for my place. I want to be able to repeat the pre-season of last year, in which I scored a pair of goals in a friendly and to show that I want to remain with the team this time.

7.What possibilities there is that keep you or they loan you?

If I get to know, I’ll tell you, because that depends on the coach, the board wants that remain me but if the coach says no, I cannot do anything. One hand is already up for me (? Possibly a colloquial expression)--------------------


Phew.. I had to work a lot for that, fellas. Hope that clears things up.

I actually thought the question no 4 of the translation of the original interview was a very diplomatic answer to a really provocative question. That's the very same line Tribalfootball decided to twist and put it as "We can not compare Blackburn, which is just a mid-table club, to a Chelsea side that has the best players in the world" without the context and provoking sentence formation. You lot still want to go on slating him, go on. But just remember you're anger is misplaced and is due to a crappy news site that makes this sort of provoking tosh, just to get more hits.

Great Work There JT_d.. *tips the hat off* *respect*!!

Juts for the record - I have never once pulled off quotes from tribal football... just are just assuming that.

Mikey, Tribal footy released the quotes first. Whatever your source was, they ripped it off from there. Didn't mean to accuse you of copying the tribal tripe, of course. And LHrover, I agree mate. He's no target man and he's proved that rather spectacularly this season..

Personally, if you look at his loan spell in overall he scored just the one goal, and it will go down as a failure - I wish him well, and I think he'll be one for the future. I guess I was hoping for a lot more.

Yeah, I agree with overbd and durks. DiSanto may indeed turn out to be a quality player. I saw a lotta him with Rovers this season. He had a decent work rate. At times, he was a handful for otherwise solid Prem defenders. However, I was very dispptd with his finishing. He snatched at a couple gilt-edged opport'ties when a cool finish was called for. His goal was practically handed to him on a silver platter. As a CFC fan, I hope he responds with an excellent season coming up. But as you lads said, rt now he's delivered more bark than bite. Good call mates...

Sorry for the late reply mate- I thought this discussion had already ended! lol