Badiashile on Chelsea form ahead of conference league game with Noah

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Badiashile on Chelsea form ahead of conference league game with Noah  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.

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