ADDYSOFT BLOG

Alvaro Morata scored a hat-trick as third-placed Chelsea kept up their pursuit of Manchester's Premier League pace-setters by routing Stoke City 4-0 today. Having taken four points from home games against Arsenal and Manchester United, Stoke could hardly have anticipated their terrible start when they conceded on 83 seconds to a neat finish from Morata, his fourth goal of the season and first with his boot. But without three defenders including Kurt Zouma, Stoke struggled to stifle Chelsea's counter-attacks and conceded again after half-an-hour when Darren Fletcher mistakenly chested the ball into the path of Pedro, whose right-foot shot gave keeper Jack Butland no chance. Chelsea wrapped up victory with 12 minutes remaining thanks to more dreadful Stoke defending and another fine Morata finish, first dinking the ball over Butland and then tapping in to take his season's tally to six. Chelsea keeper Thibaut Courtois suffered an injury after falling heavily but p

Chelsea manager Antonio Conte believes the massive cash being spent on players by Chinese clubs could be a "danger for all groups within the world". Blues midfielder Oscar, 25, is near a £60m move to Chinese Super League club Shanghai SIPG in Gregorian calendar month ANd is predicted to receive an calculable £400,000 a week. Conte aforesaid it might be "difficult" to manage a player on such a high remuneration. Chinese clubs spent £200m before the beginning of the 2016 season. The Chinese transfer record was broken 3 times in ten days, as Chelsea's Brazil midfielder Ramires was signed by Jiangsu Suning for £25m , followed by city Evergrande Taobao shopping for Colombia striker Jackson Martinez for £31m from Atletico Spanish capital. Jiangsu then paid Shakhtar Stalino £38.4m for Brazilian midfielder Alex Teixeira. However, the fee for Teixeira was eclipsed by the £46.1m paid by Shanghai SIPG for Zenit St Petersburg's Brazil forward Hulk thr