Chelsea boss Ancelotti rules out Liverpool’s title chances

October 5th, 2009 LONDON - After beating Liverpool on Saturday, Chelsea boss Carlo Ancelotti has said the Premier League title is now Chelsea's to lose. "This season depends only on us now, we're top of the table and we prepare for the next games with determination," The Sun quoted Ancelotti, as saying.

October 3rd, 2009 LONDON - Ahead of the Liverpool-Chelsea Premier League game on Sunday, Liverpool manager Rafa Benitez has said that he has a lot of respect for fellow coach and managers. "I have a lot of respect for him.

September 12th, 2009 LONDON - Chelsea boss Carlo Ancelotti has revealed that he is a huge Beatles fan, and wants his squad to come together. The Blues are still trying to come to terms from the FIFA transfer ban after they were found guilty of poaching French kid Gael Kakuta.

September 3rd, 2009 LONDON - Chelsea manager Carlo Ancelotti has expressed delight over Ashley Cole decision to stay back at Stamford Bridge and believes that his best is yet to come. Cole has signed a new four-year contract, which will tie him with the Blues until 2013.

August 12th, 2009 LONDON - Chelsea FC coach Carlo Ancelotti has failed to make Italian World Cup-winner Daniele De Rossi his first big-name signing. The new Blues boss bid 22 million pounds for the tough-tackling Roma midfielder, reports The Sun.

July 25th, 2009 LONDON - Chelsea's new boss Carlo Ancelotti has won his first major battle as head of the club by keeping skipper John Terry. Terry is poised to sign a new 150,000 pounds-a-week Chelsea deal, which moves him alongside Frank Lampard as top earner.

July 18th, 2009 LONDON - Carlo Ancelotti on the eve of his first game as manager of Chelsea, warned the Blues stars that none of them are untouchable under his new regime at the Stamford Bridge. Ancelotti, who will lead Chelsea into action in Saturday's friendly with the Seattle Sounders, revealed that he has been surprised by the quality of the squad he has inherited and insisted that there would be no guarantees for anyone.

July 10th, 2009 LONDON - Coach Carlo Ancelotti has insisted that skipper John Terry is happy to stay on at Chelsea. The pair met for the first time yesterday when the skipper reported back for pre-season training.

July 7th, 2009 LONDON - Chelsea coach Carlo Ancelotti has described club and England captain John Terry as the team's most valuable player and talisman, but astonished everyone by jokingly saying that he may not be skipper in 2010. Terry has been captain Chelsea since May 2005 and England captain since August 2006, "I think that John Terry is a symbol of this team but I don't know if he will be the captain next season." "Naturally, I joke," he laughed.

June 16th, 2009 LONDON - Manchester United's Carlos Tevez was on holiday in Buenos Aires, and was in a state of shock after receiving a telephone call from coach Carlo Ancelotti begging him to join Chelsea FC. Tevez said he was impressed that the Blues boss had called him personally on Sunday night, and therefore, rumors are in circulation that Chelsea, not Manchester City, are favourites to steal his signature.

June 5th, 2009 LONDON - New Chelsea coach Carlo Ancelotti has revealed that he cannot stand England football coach Fabio Capello, whom he describes as "surly" Ancelotti, who played under Capello at AC Milan in 1991, revealed in his autobiography: "He was surly, he didn't have a dialogue with the players. The problem is that to divide the professional rapport from the human one is extremely difficult.

June 2nd, 2009 LONDON - Italian defender Gennaro Gattuso insists Chelsea have hit the jackpot by appointing Carlo Ancelotti as their next coach. Gattuso has played under Ancelotti for eight trophy-packed seasons at A C Milan and he is convinced Ancelotti will have no trouble adapting to the Premier League.

June 2nd, 2009 LONDON - New Chelsea coach Carlo Ancelotti wants Brazilian Alexandre Pato and ex-Chelsea defender Glen Johnson to kickstart his three-year-long stint at the club. Ancelotti believes the pair could help him win the 2010 Champions League.un Sport can reveal Ancelotti has already offered his old club A C Milan 30 million pounds for 19-year-old striker Pato.

June 1st, 2009 LONDON - England football star David Beckham has said that Chelsea are lucky to have former A C Milan coach Carlo Ancelotti as their next boss. "With Carlo Ancelotti leaving AC Milan, it is the end of an era, the end of some extraordinary years.

June 1st, 2009 LONDON - Former AC Milan coach Carlo Ancelotti has been appointed as the Chelsea manager. Ancelotti, who has been given a three-year deal, becomes the fifth Chelsea manager in 21 months following Jose Mourinho, Avram Grant, Luiz Felipe Scolari and Guus Hiddink.