you need one for all the great managers Mourinho ✅ Guardiola Ferguson Wenger Klopp

Getting Flav to review every Spurs signing under Daniel Levy would be fucking hilarious. There are some absolute gems.

Cheers for having me on mate

I love Rory Jennings man, he said at 13:58 that John Terry was baffled and looked out of his depth up against Falcao in the 2012 Super Cup. Only problem is that Chelsea played David Luiz and Gary Cahill that day, Terry wasn't even in the squad.

Ripple. My sister and I cost my dad a Premier League title. The year is 2003 and Leeds United are selling Nigel Martyn due to their financial issues with Martyn’s wages being higher than Paul Robinson’s at the time. There are two clubs going in for him, Everton (who he subsequently goes to) and Chelsea. Both clubs were offering a second choice keeper role behind Wright and Cudicini. Myself being 10 at the time, I remember vividly my dad, being the great father he is, asking me how I’d feel if I had to move away down to London. I wasn’t that enthusiastic of the idea as I had my friends up in Leeds and was settled at a school I really enjoyed. My sister was also in the same situation. This meant that my dad chose to sign for Everton and drive across to Liverpool from Leeds every morning for training. Unfortunately for Richard Wright, he got injured a few games into the season and Nige was called up, performed incredibly and then kept the number 1 spot for the subsequent 3 years. Also making some extremely important saves and clean sheets that actually kept Everton from being relegated that season and Leeds went down after Nige left. (So one could say, if one were so inclined, that I helped keep Everton up that year? 😉) Nige was also instrumental in helping Everton finish 4th (Everton’s highest Premier League finish) in his second season. David Moyes then goes on to say that Nigel Martyn is his best ever signing. However if Nige had gone to Chelsea, they wouldn’t have needed to buy Petr Cech (so where does Cech end up then?) and he would’ve been in the Mourinho team that won the league with 15 goals conceded and I feel he could have pushed for the first choice spot from Cudicini like he did against Wright at Everton. So in conclusion, I’m tangentially (kinda) responsible for keeping Everton in the Premier League, costing my father a Premier League title and Petr Cech going to Chelsea. 😂 Only Forwards 🐌

Rory when he’s not speaking with pure agenda is genuinely one of the best people to listen to on UKposts when it comes to football

Petr Cech 5th is criminal

Fantastic podcast, I don’t know what it is but something about you gets the best out of Rory.

Robben, Kalou, Bhoulahrouz, Schwarzer, Matic, Cuardrado some of the bigger namea missed out, Van Ginkel, Amelia, Atsu, some of the lesser. Ivanovic was signed by Grant. Miazga was signed whilst Hiddink was manager also. Otherwise great episode!

You and Rory are quality together. Need more content of both of you

No mention of the fact that it was down to José's unwillingness to coach and train Salah and De Bruyne that Chelsea missed out on arguably two of the greatest players the Prem has ever seen.

Terry wasn't in the squad against Atletico that day. Rory literally reminiscing over things that didn't happen.

Love these style videos they are great! Think you two are great content together with different styles of content but come together well! Was very surprised to see Costa/Fab ahead of Cech!

I love these tier lists - I’d love to see them for the teams that finish lower down in the Prem!

loving the return of the tier lists!

please do a Wenger or a Sir Alex one

Forgot Kalou , Robben and Matic!

This was such a brilliant listen!!!

I may not like rory’s a bit more over the top or dramatic videos he and the rest of the club lads do but I could listen to him talk for hours about random chelsea memories he has from 20 years ago

Please do a Wenger one

Watched every minute. Loved this vid!

Ashley Cole on par with Paolo Maldini?! You'll only hear something like this from the English haha. Mental.

that ending sentence 🤣🥲

I think Schurrle just couldn't get regular game time, was great in that German Win at the world cup assisting the winner

The real story about “if big Pete’s happy, I’m happy” is from a documentary about the 2012 CL final. Cech was saying that in Moscow 2008 everything was red, the tickets, banners matchday programme etc and he didn’t like it. But in Munich, everything was blue. So Cech was happy. And that’s when JT said it gave everyone an air of confidence as in “if big Pete’s happy, I’m happy”

Rory knowledge is crazy at times pulling out Tiago scoring at Palace away where Drogba got his first Chelsea goal

I think where Rory has Willian and Pedro is super valid. As a fan now in my mid 20s, those two were excellent while they were here. Especially Willian in that 15/16 season. Was the only player to turn up each and every match

I remember all of these players except I have no memory of Tiago. Can’t remember who he is or him even playing for Chelsea. Looking at what he achieved in his career he seems to be another young player that Mourinho was crazy to let go along with the obvious Salah, De Bruyne, Lukaku (nor do I remember Papy but that isn’t surprising)

Ivanovic was signed by Avram Grant and didn't make his debut until Scolari came in. Cech was signed by Ranieri.

“The answer is a resounding Ja’ 🤣🤣

This was an amazing show ❤

"The answer is a resounding Ja" 😂😂😂

Let’s go great guest!

I think it's easy to compare Cesc and Van Persie and their legacy at Arsenal but they feel very different in my mind. Cesc went home to Barca first of all, he gave everything to Arsenal (I'll always remember him scoring a penatly for us in the champions league with a fully broken foot), captained us through a miserable period, and I feel more sad than anything that we didn't do more to keep him. He also never has a bad thing to say about Arsenal to this day. Wenger rescued Van Persie's career and stood by him while he was injured perpetually, he then had two hot seasons at Arsenal, then immediately left to United, then started showed up on TV badmouthing his old club. Very different legacies in my mind.

I used to meassure how good a player was by whether he would score against Cech from a longe range. I still remember Iniesta UCL goal against him from outside the box and saying damn! not even Cech could save that.

Rory is so right about Drogba changing the way football was played. Only needed the one striker. Allowed you to play an extra central midfielder to over run the 442 while still maintaining the 2 wingers feeding off the bigman

37:05 the portuguese gary neville 😂

7.52 samism!!! Is that the horse to die on

James plus Rory works well.

Love this vid

Branislav Ivanovic wasn't signed under Mourinho. Mourinho left in Sep 2007, Chelsea signed Ivanovic in Jan 2008.

Cech was Raneri signing (though didn’t get to play for him) you’d think a Chelsea man would know/acknowledge it 😅

Drogba admitting to diving in a post-match interview, also changed the Premier League

Follow up podcast with Rory ranking Chelsea football songs.

Was hoping this would be like a mini series, would like to see Arsenal signings under Arteta next.

You should do every Wenger signing ranked with Alex (amonfootball)

I loved Pedro… him & Deco are cult heroes for me X

I remember Zouma in the cup final against spurs. Kept Eriksen quiet

Love the pod, however Cech wasn’t the most expensive GK of the time. Infact was about £40 million less then Buffon. However if you meant EPL fair enough

Ivanovic was not part of the early Mourinho teams and wasn't even signed by him. Certainly didn't play with Gallas either. It's easy to get foggy memory but Rory praised Paulo Ferreira (the actual RB) minutes before. A lot of people make the same mistake with Ashley Cole who didn't arrive until the season Jose was sacked.

Good video, although why has rory tried to list Joses signing from memory. It shouldnt be hard with a bit of googling to get the list completely correct

Surprised that James thinks Ronaldinho played in the Eredivisie

Where is Khalid Boulardouz or something...The guy who wore the number 9 as a defender...haha

Tel ben haim what a throwback 😭

Rory is basically the Drogba of confident double talk with a pinch of edgy nonsense banter for the short clips

40:36, Obi Mikel would be in contention for Chelsea all time best 11?! Makelele and Kante are obviously ahead of him in that position, he has no chance of breaking that team.

Need Howson to do Fergies signings next

51:07 Ivanoivc and Gallas never played together? Or am I missing what Rory is saying? 100% about Ivana, deffo a legend! So clutch and a pure tank

The Ramsdale point is good for Petr Cech, but also totally ignores the fact that keepers start with a much higher position now so they can sweep easier. It's not a matter of bad positioning from Ramsdale as such - though I don't argue Cech is much better at that in general - it's stylistic changes in football.

18:16 what the hell is that Monsters inc ass music

Hazard one side, Salah on the other, with KDB behind the two.. oh lord what a miss

Crazy to put Diego Costa that high

“Just finished a podcast with the BEAUTIFUL Rory Jennings” WTF

Robben, Alex & Boulahrouz

Willian and Pedro were unbelievable footballers. Definitely not too high on the list. Make Havertz, Pulisic, Ziyech, Werner look like Sunday league footballers.

Matic, Robben?

Mikel signing for Chelsea did not have a damaging impact on United. We signed Michael Carrick, and won the lot.

Salamon Kalou - 254 appearances and 60 goals as a “second” striker or left winger over 6 seasons with great minutes-per-goal stats. Surely he should’ve been well inside Rory’s Top 20?

Cole is one of the best left backs of all time, but he is below Maldini, Carlos, and Marcelo.

Liked this video for the Kai comment about André Schürrle 😂. Maybe he should chip in every now & then?

A bunch of these werent signed by Mourinho. Ivanovic was signed under Avram Grant for example.

Some (many?) Of Rorys takes are questionable. But ehat can't be questioned is his Chelsea knowledge and he has seen it all

Comparing Belleti to Zabaleta 🤣 Zaba one of the best right backs the premier league has seen

Matic?

Top quali content

18:54 old man celebration was against Arsenal in the 6-0 no??

Where's. Fabregas?

Don’t get the hate Rory gets. He has serious football recollection and speaks like a true fan.

Kennedy was pretty good for Newcastle at times

carvalho over essien is crazy imo

Forgot Cuadrado

How the hell are fabregas and costa being rated ahead of petr cech and michael essien. Im sorry but that's just mental.

Wenger with Clive!

You’ve put cech in when Ranieri had already signed him

rory is a great storyteller

Don’t know any Chelsea fan that doesn’t like Willian. You forgot he has a great song to Rory.

58:28 £7m in 2004 was the highest price for GK!? We're not counting £52m for Buffon in 2001 then? 😅

Rory ranting about football twitter accounts to the absolute face of football twitter dweebs 🤣

I'm here to listen to Rory wax poetic

Malouda sounds like Mirallas

Let's be real if you could make an XI of only 1 player it would be Yaya Toure.

Man Chelsea were sooo good back in the day! Not WAY back...just like "back in the day" a few years ago.

Ivanovic is a Chelsea legend but wasn’t a Mourinho signing. Signed in January 2008 under Avram Grant.

Aurelio vs cech...

Willian is too low - WHAT A PLAYER

Every Man City signing, 2006 onwards

I'm an arsenal fan fibreglass will always be my favourite player in the Premier league

Jose is still the BEST!!! He hasn't lost it yet, nor will he ever like Ferguson!!!

No maniche?

Mikel was good but not legendary, however Mikel had the game of his life at that CL final. The rest of his time at Chelsea was hit and miss.