查洛巴：首次入選國家隊，昂首向前 - 切爾西足球俱樂部 Chelsea Football Club

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來源：獨立報 2017-08-29 21:25:00


查洛巴在離開了切爾西之後也首次獲得了英格蘭國家隊的徵召，儘管在切爾西機
會不多，但他對自己的老東家沒有絲毫的怨恨。


查洛巴說：“每個人都知道想要在切爾西獲得機會是非常困難的，切爾西是一家
世界級的俱樂部，有著世界上最頂尖的球員，所以我想要進入團隊也很困難。正如以
往一樣，我始終嘗試著保持注意力和精力，而切爾西現在已經是過去式了。


“切爾西在贏球方面有很大的壓力，所以對年輕人來說，即便你盡自己的全力，
想要得到教練的信任也不容易。而當我在切爾西的時候，我覺得自己已經付出了最大
的努力。而現在我已經來到了沃特福德，我有機會證明自己的能力。”


當被問到年輕人是否應該在英超賽場得到更多機會時，查洛巴說：“我覺得英格
蘭有許多優秀的球員。我覺得從個人層面上來說，這意味著更多的壓力。俱樂部需要
勇敢使用年輕的球員，這是積攢比賽經驗唯一的方式。


“每個人在某種程度上都感受到了壓力。但對我來說，我只需要保持頭腦冷靜和
集中注意力，事實就會說明一切，你會得到讚揚，媒體有時候也會討伐你，這就是足
球的一部分。”


查洛巴來到了沃特福德之後也第一次得到了英格蘭國家隊的徵召，他說：“此刻
我在沃特福德的一切都進展順利，我只會昂首前行，保持專注，希望之後能獲得更多
的英格蘭國家隊徵召的機會。”


(編輯：小流星)


http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/transfers/-a7917836.html

Chelsea is in the past now says England new boy Nathaniel Chalobah

Sports Staff - Tuesday 29 August 2017 11:34 BST

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Nathaniel Chalobah's England call-up shows benefit of leaving Chelsea

Dominic Fifield - Tuesday 29 August 2017 22.30 BST


Nathaniel Chalobah has admitted his decision to leave Chelsea this summer
was “brave” but has already been justified by a first call-up to the
England squad, with the Watford midfielder hoping to make his senior debut
in the forthcoming World Cup qualifiers against Malta and Slovakia.


Chalobah, who had entered the final 12 months of his deal at Stamford
Bridge, opted to turn down Chelsea's offer of a new contract after talks
with Antonio Conte and the academy graduate moved instead to Vicarage Road
for a cut-price ￡5.5m. The 22-year-old believed he would have been loaned
out for a seventh time in five years had he agreed new terms and remained
with the champions, so took the bolder decision to seek out regular
first-team football with a team who finished 17th last season. He has
started all three of Watford's Premier League matches to date.


“It takes a lot [to leave],” he said. “You have to really look deep
into yourself and see what makes you happy. For me I was at a top club and
people were saying to me: 'You are at Chelsea; you should stay at Chelsea,
a big club.' But that was not the problem. The problem was I wanted to
play after getting a taste of it last year.


“I needed to go out and try to do better things for myself. You really
have to be brave and sometimes decisions can be hard to make, especially
when it is your future at stake. I had my family and friends and my agent,
who is an ex-footballer himself and played a big part in it.”


Conte had reiterated his disappointment to lose Chalobah only last week in
the wake of his first senior call-up to Gareth Southgate's squad, having
been unable to persuade him to remain at the club earlier this summer. “I
have a lot of respect for the manager,” said the player. “I had a few
discussions with him and he was always honest with me, which is what I
needed at the time.


“He gave me the opportunity that a lot of other managers hadn't given me
at Chelsea and for that I will forever be grateful. I have no bad things
to say about the manager really.”


Chalobah had joined the Chelsea academy at the age of 10 but, despite
impressing Conte, started only one Premier League game for the club. His
tastes of senior football had come in a previous loan spell at Watford in
the Championship, then with Nottingham Forest, Middlesbrough, Burnley,
Reading and even Napoli in Serie A.


“I'd been on a few loans, back and forth,” he said. “But I was never
really settled, so it was more a case of trying to find somewhere to call
home. I was finding that difficult at Chelsea even though I was there for
the whole season last year and played a few games.


“But it was still a hard decision. Chelsea was all I knew, the club I
loved and supported. But I had to put myself in the best position and that
was to go out there and get opportunities to play games. It's a tough
place, Chelsea, and sometimes you can get a bit carried away with being
there and being on the brink, almost there [in the team]. But it's very
hard with established players ahead of you. For the youngsters it is a lot
harder to get into the team. Now I can say that it was a good decision.”


The midfielder, along with Kieran Trippier, Phil Jones and Jake Livermore,
was absent at England training at St George's Park on Tuesday with a minor
niggle but will hope over the next week to add a first senior cap to the
97 gained in England's junior ranks. Jordan Pickford has returned to
Everton with a minor leg injury.

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