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Please don't tell me Enzo Maresca is being told NOT to play Marc Guiu... What is going on? https://siphillipstalkschelsea.substack.com/p/please-dont-tell-me-enzo-maresca I sincerely hope that we aren’t seeing a situation here whereas a manager has been told to try and avoid playing a player. I really hope that’s not the case. Every time I’ve seen Tyrique George play as a 9, the same thing has happened; he’s completely ghosted and it’s been like playing with 10 men. So why would they keep playing him there? Does Enzo Maresca truly think he’s a better option than Marc Guiu, an actual 9? If that is the case then I have two MAJOR issues with that. If you believe that then you should be nowhere near football let alone a head coach of a Premier League team. And who scouted and signed Guiu if he’s not a better 9 than WINGER, Tyrique George? This is not me having a go at George. He has a good finish on him and has come up with a couple of important goals for us lately. But he’s a winger, NOT a 9 and to be honest although I think he’s an OK player, I don’t overly rate him. He doesn’t hold the ball up, his pressing isn’t even that intense, he barely even gets on the ball when he’s playing as a 9, and he doesn’t make runs in behind. So what is the point? One thing that is clear is that he’s MUCH better as a winger. And on top of that, he’s a player they tried to sell in the summer and would have sold. He wanted to go, he was waiting to go, and he was left hugely disappointed that he didn’t go. Yet here we are, starting him as a 9 in massive games in the Champions League rather than use an actual 9 who we recalled from what I believe could have ended up actually being a good loan at Sunderland. Now he is just bench warming, not playing, not developing, and being a wasted talent. Young players need to play to continue developing. It’s absolute chaos and madness. Perhaps the more realistic reason is that if Guiu plays a single minute for Chelsea then he cannot go out on loan in January when we are expected to have a fully fit Liam Delap back in the squad regularly again. Players cannot play for three teams in one season due to the rules. Maybe Maresca has been told to only use Guiu in the case of an emergency. If that is the case, bloody hell…. I prefer not to speak. I am speculating here of course, it’s important to say that. This is an opinion article and not being written based on anything I’ve heard. But to me, it doesn’t look good. And what must Guiu be thinking right now? This is a teenager being treated like a tool. Once again, major question marks over how we treat players and also, perhaps most importantly, Guiu might actually be able to help us when we are short, fatigued, and injured!

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one of the best goals scored at the Bridge, this game was simply electric, and we should have won it at the end. Was anyone here at this game? Cheers

90th mintue Joao Pedro side I don't mind. 4th minute GK-red I am much more intolerant.

just hope we can finish this game with 11 players on the field for a change

Why are US ‘pro-Israel’ groups boosting a far-right, anti-Muslim UK extremist? Stephen Christopher Yaxley-Lennon, who uses the name “Tommy Robinson,” is one of the most prominent anti-Muslim activists in the world. A political adviser to a right-wing British party, he is the founder and former chair of a far-right Islamophobic group. Recently sentenced to 13 months in prison for illegally filming a court proceeding involving Muslims accused of sexual assault and publishing it on Facebook Live, Robinson is more than just an agent provocateur. He’s one of the main forces bringing extremist forms of hate and bigotry from the fringes to the mainstream. Why, then, are some of his biggest supporters — financial and otherwise — a loose coalition of reactionary, self-proclaimed pro-Israel backers? According to a recent investigation by The Guardian, Robinson is being bankrolled by a nexus of international organizations. Many of those groups, it turns out, are part of the American right-wing infrastructure and Israel Times of Israel His secretary blew the lid on this a while back when she revealed he is paid 8k a month by Israel

War in its self doesn’t take two army’s, by that standard your saying they can attack them but if they defend them selfs they are equally to blame, utter horse shit, and you can’t just I have Jewish friends as an excuse to not hate Jews, Tommy Robinson has Muslim friends and is still accused of hating all Muslim, that’s a typical response to some one calling some one a racist, “I ain’t a racist I have a black friend” also on the topic, calling one person blind from one side to some one who supports another side in its self makes you blind, your both blinded by your own emotions and thinking, which is fine but people are different and have different opinions, and that’s a good thing, to get upset and hostile with people over an opinion makes your no better than the people your arguing against. And the worst part is won’t even give that a second thought because your opinion on the matter is so strong it blinds your from a different way of thinking, Charlie Kirk although I didn’t agree with everything he said but I do on this, “your truth doesn’t matter” that goes for everyone and he was bang on the money.

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0% in 30+ age group I wonder what the squad breakdown percentage was when Mourinho won those titles or when Conte helped us win the league.

It was Nottingham, FC Sevilla, and a few Italian clubs.

We may get thrashed here. I am not optimistic atm. I feel like the idiotic board have ratfucked us by utter failure at GK and CB. Plus not a huge Maresca fangirl either, but he has also been dealt a partially shiy hand, especially with injuries.

We are already at peak bullshit: League Tottenham Hotspur eyeing Cole Palmer and Vinicius Junior in gutsy 2026 plans https://football-talk.co.uk/222562/tottenham-hotspur-eyeing-cole-palmer-and-vinicius-junior-in-gutsy-2026-plans/

He had 12 starts in 23 PL games last season, pretty similar. Probably to help manage his fitness. Bayern, United, Brighton were all starts, so makes sense to give a rest against Benfica.

And come Saturday the scousers will probably have the GK we should have been in for, Marmadashvili I'm sure he would have prefered to come here as 1st choice keeper instead of a bench warmer at scouseland.

Gusto has really regressed under Maresca, he looked good when he played under Poch. Good offensively and solid defensively - thought we got a good deal on our hands - but looks out of his depth in this new set up. It is strange.

What clubs are interested in him? Just asking out of curiosity?

He’s being expected to score now when playing with 10 men?

Remember when Morata scored on his debut, then soon after scored a hattrick (with right foot, left foot and header) against Stoke...? Yeah, it sucks to remember all of that. At least Joao Pedro seems to have a better mindset compared to Lukaku and Morata.

the team is playing like shit, atm we need to wait a little bit to judge him

That's 5 games for him without contribution. Nothing new for us to have a striker who is on fire at the beginning and disappears later. Morata, Lukaku...

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JP is more of a 10/supporting striker, honestly feel like he'd do way better alongside another experienced striker up top.

Looks like Ceacescus palace. We know how the people dealt with him...

I think losing to Palace last min be a wake.up call they won't sit back and need a last minute goal...and losing yesterday also.. Mind you weve lost 2 league games in a row soooooo...should be looking to not lose this one!! Maybe we wont make it 4 red cards in a row!

the horrid Trumpian gold tackiness all over the White House is now spreading to outdoors