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发表于 2-1-2012 02:12 AM
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Chelsea Football Club would like to express our thanks and best wishes to Nicolas Anelka who today leaves us to join Chinese side Shanghai Shenhua.
As well as finishing as the club's top scorer in two of his three full seasons at the club, the Frenchman departs Stamford Bridge having won the Barclays Premier League as well as two FA Cups.
Anelka became then manager Avram Grant's first signing for the club in January 2008, joining from Bolton, but his first months were divided between starts and substitute appearances and he scored only two goals that half-a-campaign.
He was introduced as a substitute during the Champions League final against Manchester United in Moscow but unfortunately missed the decisive penalty during the shootout.
The following season however was to be a different story, with Anelka producing the kind of form which earned such rave reviews during his spells with Arsenal, Real Madrid and on the international stage for France.
Guus Hiddink replaced Luiz Felipe Scolari at the helm in February 2009 and Anelka scored the only goal of the game in the Dutchman's first match in charge, a 1-0 win at Aston Villa.
Hiddink opted to pair Anelka with Didier Drogba as opposed to using one or the other from that point onwards and the results were devastating.
Both players flourished and Anelka, who had enjoyed an impressive first half of the campaign, continued that run into the new year, finishing the season as winner of the Premier League Golden Boot with 25 goals.
His final goal of that campaign came on the last day of the league season up at Sunderland where Anelka picked the ball up just inside the opposition half before beating three men and hitting an absolute thunderbolt from outside the box into the top corner.
The Blues went on to lift the FA Cup the following weekend, beating Everton 2-1 at Wembley.
Carlo Ancelotti took over from Hiddink prior to the start of the next campaign and with the Italian preferring to play 4-3-3, Anelka was predominantly used out wide on the right, but while he was unable to recapture his goalscoring exploits of the previous campaign, he remained an integral part of a side which lifted both the Premier League title and FA Cup in the same season for the first time in our history.
The 2010/11 campaign began well, both for the team and Anelka personally. Six goals in the opening seven games helped the Blues off to a flying start but a dip in his own form coincided with the club embarking on a miserable run during the middle of the season.
The arrival of Fernando Torres in January increased competition for places significantly, leaving Anelka to feature largely from the substitutes' bench, though he still managed to finish the season as the club's top scorer with 16 goals in all competitions.
New manager Andre Villas-Boas began the current campaign favouring a front three of Torres, Daniel Sturridge and Juan Mata, once again limiting Anelka's influence.His only goal of the campaign came in the 2-1 win at home to West Bromwich Albion back in August.
In total he made 184 appearances for Chelsea, 145 of them starts. He scored 59 goals.
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