Badiashile on Chelsea form ahead of conference league game with Noah
06/11/2024
Cobham training centre, Surrey, UK
06/11/2024
Cobham training centre, Surrey, UK
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00:00Okay, guys, we'll follow the same format as you've just done with the head coach. We'll
00:20try and get around as many of you as we possibly can. So if you raise your hand, we'll get
00:24round to you. Who would like to start? Yeah, Gail?
00:32Afternoon. We've just been hearing from Enzo about Premier League sides, European sides.
00:44How big an opportunity for you to almost win him over and get your chance tomorrow night?
00:51Can you repeat your question? Sorry.
00:53Just the opportunity you've got tomorrow night.
00:57Yeah, it's a great opportunity because we want to win this competition. So we know how
01:04important the game of tomorrow is. So yeah, we'll try to win.
01:10How much are you enjoying life under Enzo? How much do you feel that you have a long-term future at Chelsea?
01:21He's a great person, a great coach with a good idea. I think we are in the same vision of football.
01:30So yeah, I really enjoy the time with the gaffer and I hope it will be long.
01:37There were rumours that you might be moved on, but do you want to stay? Do you feel that you're
01:44valued and have a good future here?
01:46Yes, of course I want to stay. Chelsea is a big club. I know how difficult it is to succeed here,
01:53but I will try to do my best to do it.
01:56And how much do you know about Noah? Do you know where they're from?
02:02Yeah, Armenia. But to be honest, I don't really know this team, but we'll work on them with the gaffer.
02:13And how hard is it as a player when you are coming up against a team and players you just know nothing about?
02:21Or maybe it's something you really enjoy, that kind of instinct?
02:25You have to stay professional every game because we don't know how the match can be.
02:33So we have to be 100% focused on the game and try to win the game, like always.
02:43Perfect. Any more? Are we good?
02:48Just tell us what it's like being part of this team that's been playing the EFL Cup, Conference League,
02:58but not starting in the Premier League. Is it difficult to know you've got this challenge to push yourself
03:05into the Premier League team?
03:07Of course, when you are a footballer, you want to play every game. But in a club like Chelsea,
03:13you have a lot of good players, so you have to get the minutes that you have,
03:17try to do your best and let the gaffer make his choice.
03:22Has Enzo been explaining why to you, perhaps, why you've been playing?
03:27Or is it just the way he's playing so well?
03:32Not really. He didn't explain to me, but I know how it's hard to play in this club with this type of player.
03:41We have, like I said, a lot of good players, so the only thing I can do is to work hard
03:48and try to convince the gaffer to play me in the weekend.
03:53And now you, as in the team that's been playing this mid-week team, now you're at the EFL Cup,
04:02does that put extra pressure on you guys to perform in the Conference League,
04:07to therefore prove to Enzo that you should be playing?
04:10Of course, when you play for Chelsea, you have to win every game.
04:14So, Conference League, like Premier League, every game you have to win.
04:20We'll be the same team as last week and try to win like always.
04:26Can you just give us an insight into Ricardo Madrid?
04:30He's one of the guys that you play with regularly in the mid-week team.
04:34What's he like to defend against in training and do you see how good a player he is when he's in training,
04:41more perhaps than what we see in matches?
04:43You say if I'd like to defend against him?
04:46Yeah, well, you tell me!
04:49No, he's a really good player.
04:51Michel is a really good player.
04:54We all know how he can be, like a player.
04:58He's a good person as well.
05:00We try to help him to give his best during every game.
05:06What makes him so hard to defend against in training?
05:09He's fast. Michel is fast.
05:11Sometimes it's hard to catch him.
05:14Perfect. Two more, Rob, and then down it's finished.
05:18You've played under four different managers in less than two years since you've been here.
05:24Is it hard to settle when you're a young player playing abroad for the first time
05:28when the person that's supposed to be your mentor, your guide almost, keeps changing?
05:35To be honest with you, it's something I'm used to because at Monaco I had six or seven managers.
05:43It's something I'm used to.
05:47You try to get everything about every coach you have and you try to do your best with them.
05:56Do you feel at home here in London? You've been in and out of the team so much.
06:03Do you feel settled here?
06:04Yeah, of course.
06:07I like the club.
06:08Everybody in the club is a good person, so yeah, I'm good here.
06:15Super. Tom, it's finished.
06:17Hi, Benoit. I've just been asked about Murphy.
06:19I wonder if I could ask a similar question to our Felix.
06:22You often play with him as well.
06:23What's he like to play against in training and to play with in these midweek games as well?
06:28Yeah, Jo is a top player.
06:31He's a smart player as well.
06:33A good person like Michel.
06:36Michel will try to help him to do his best during the game.
06:43Super. Cheers, everyone. Thank you.