“Pricey Chelsea,
I would like you to know that these haven’t been simple days for me. Writing this isn’t simple both. The reality is, I haven’t been in a very good place.
Three years in the past, Cobham and Stamford Bridge turned residence for me and my household. I grew connected to the folks, to the shirt, and to the badge of this unbelievable membership.
Imagine me once I say that, from the second I arrived, I turned obsessive about successful and with bringing this membership each trophy that its historical past deserves. We suffered, we cried, I acquired offended many instances, however we additionally celebrated titles and unforgettable victories. Collectively, by means of the nice instances and the troublesome ones.
I stay soccer the identical manner I stay my life: with ardour and with all my coronary heart. That’s the reason I would like you to know that I perceive you. I actually perceive you, from the underside of my coronary heart.
However life is about making selections, and proper now I discover myself having to make a type of troublesome selections. I’ve stated it earlier than, however I wish to say it once more: I’ve grown extremely keen on this membership. Chelsea will at all times have a spot in my ideas and, above all, in my coronary heart.
However I additionally perceive how soccer works. I understand how passionate you might be, as a result of I’m the identical. And if I have been in your place, I’d most likely be pondering the identical manner.
I wish to thank each single considered one of you: the employees, the teaching group, the medical group, the physios, and everybody who works at Cobham and all through this nice establishment.
To all my teammates over these years, thanks from the underside of my coronary heart for sharing so many moments with me. I used to be actually pleased right here, and I want you nothing however the easiest for the longer term.
Thanks for all of the love and help you’ve got given me and my household all through these years. I’ll always remember it.
This group offers you many extra causes to be pleased, and I might be pleased for you too. By no means doubt that.
You’ll at all times be in my coronary heart, Blues. I’ll at all times want you, at all times, nothing however the easiest.
All the time Blue.
Thanks, Chelsea.“
