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Brutal from the former Man Utd defender.

Chelsea issued a telling response after Paul Scholes’ comments about midfielder Moises Caicedo caused a stir on social media.

After a mixed first season at Stamford Bridge, Caicedo has grown into his role at Chelsea, featuring in all 38 Premier League games and thriving in Enzo Maresca’s side.

The Ecuadorian international was deservedly crowned Chelsea’s Player of the Year, having helped guide the club back to the Champions League as well as scoring in the final of their Conference League win over Real Betis.

But not everyone was convinced with Caicedo’s impact for the Blues this season, most notably former Manchester United midfielder Scholes.

Speaking on the latest episode of The Overlap with SkyBet, Scholes said: ‘I think a lot of people talk about Caicedo. “He’s played 38 games”. Brilliant, what an achievement. 

‘But was there much quality? Did he create a lot? Did he control a lot of games for Chelsea? I don’t remember that. 

‘I think there’s an era now, with midfielders especially, where you can go through seasons and games without really contributing.’

Many fans on social media were surprised by Scholes’ comments, and it appears even Chelsea were keen to issue a rebuttal.

Posting on the club’s X account, the Blues posted a thread of statistics highlighting that Caicedo had made the most appearances (38) and won the most tackles (114) of any Chelsea player in the Premier League last season.

Only four players made more tackles than Caicedo in the league last campaign, with Marc Cucurella the next best in a Chelsea shirt with 67.

‘One of the worst bits of punditry I’ve ever seen’

Some fans on social media were less cryptic with their rebutals towards Scholes for his comments.

‘This is genuinely one of the worst bits of punditry I’ve ever seen. And if Paul Scholes has said this he quite simply doesn’t watch much football,’ one user wrote on X.

Another added: ‘You can’t watch Chelsea’s games, and do even a 30-second stat check, and think Moises Caicedo that was a star for Brighton, and now Chelsea doesn’t “contribute a lot”. The eye test doesn’t lie. The stats don’t lie. He’s wrong’.

Even Caicedo’s fellow teammates have been vocal with their praise about his consistent levels of performance this season.

‘He’s a machine. From the start of the season, he has been our best player,’ Cole Palmer told Sky Sports last month.

‘Wins the ball back all the time. Always 100 per cent everyday. Humble, nice to everyone and everyone loves him.’

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A man ‘snuffed out the life’ of a 14-year-old boy after attacking him with a Samurai sword as he walked to school, a court has heard.

Daniel Anjorin, 14, was ‘essentially near-decapitated’ in Hainault, north London, in April last year as Marcus Aduini Monzo carried out a ’20 minute brutal string of attacks’.

The schoolboy was wearing headphones and sports clothes when he left home at 7am before he was ‘slain’ by Monzo, prosecutor Tom Little KC told the Old Bailey.

He sustained a ‘devastating and unsurvivable chopping injury to the left hand side of his face and neck’.

Monzo, 37, has also been accused of the attempted murders of PC Yasim Mechem-Whitfield, IT engineer Henry De Los Rios Polina, Sindy Arias and Donato Iwule, who was hit by his van.

He denies one count of murder and four counts of attempted murder.

The prosecution argued he knew none of his victims, and carried out the attacks ‘indiscriminately’.

Before he even left his home, Monzo has been accused of killing, skinning and ‘deboning’ his cat.

After arriving in the area, tt is alleged Monzo drove his grey Ford Transit van at speed into Donato Iwule.

The pedestrian was knocked into a nearby garden on Laing Close and the vehicle smashed a concrete pillar and fence, the court heard.

The defendant then exited his vehicle and struck Mr Iwule in the neck with the sword, jurors were told.

Mr Little told jurors: ‘If he had not managed to escape it seems inevitable that he too would have been killed.’

Footage played to the court appeared to feature Mr Iwule wailing and later running away after the alleged murder attempt that started at 6.51am.

He told jurors that they may conclude ‘there can be little doubt that the defendant was intending to kill as many people as he could that day’.

The defendant then re-entered the badly damaged van and drove a short distance down Laing Close, the court heard.

Emergency services were called and police and paramedics arrived ‘at the point and just after’ the alleged attack.

Pc Yasmin Mechem-Whitfield pursued the armed defendant through a series of alleyways through residential properties, the court heard.

Monzo struck her three times with the sword that had a 60cm blade, the prosecutor said.

She sustained ‘significant injuries’ that could have ‘easily’ killed her, he added.

Monzo is accused of then entering a nearby house through a backdoor and walking upstairs into a sleeping couple’s bedroom and attacking them.

Their daughter was sleeping in a bed next to theirs and Mr Little said: ‘They were spared only because in fact the four-year-old child woke up and started to cry.’

The defendant shouted to the couple on a number occasions, ‘do you believe in god?’ before leaving the property through the front door, the court heard.

Police had been following the defendant and he was backed into a nearby garage area near to the other alleged attacks, the court heard.

He is accused of then striking Inspector Moloy Campbell once with the sword before attempting to escape police.

The defendant is said to have climbed on top a garage but he was eventually disarmed and arrested.

Monzo denies Daniel’s murder, and has pleaded not guilty to the attempted murders of Donato Iwule, Sindy Arias, Henry De Los Rios Polania and Pc Yasmin Margaret Mechem-Whitfield as well as wounding Inspector Moloy Campbell with intent.

He also denies aggravated burglary and possession of a bladed article relating to a kitchen knife.

Mr Little argued there is ‘no issue in this trial as to who carried out this brutal string of attacks and what the defendant did on that fateful early morning’.

He said Monzo had been under the influence of cannabis, and that: ‘We say that the defendant’s conduct was brought about by self-induced intoxication in the form of drugs.

‘We say this led to a psychotic disorder but not one meeting the requirements to make out the partial defence to murder of manslaughter by reason of diminished responsibility.’

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