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I'm hoping they are as serious with the player upgrades All the early signs are the experiment is over.

Top class, finally someone most of us can get behind.

It took many years but this is the best appointment that Blue Co has made. Owners don't know nothing about footbal, but can this be a sign that they are willing to change and learn? Well let's wait and see how we are doing after one season, because Liam got 6 years and got sack in less then 6 months.

I said it last year where it would have made a change and I still feel the same. Number one priority for me is Defense. Our attackers I feel like they down tool ala Mourinho second season where they played bad and then as soon as he sack they come back and win the title next season. Not saying we will win but these guy ain't bad, no way this same lot that beat PSG and then Barcelona go to crap all of a sudden. It was a clear revolt after the Maresca sacking. That being said I still believe that if we get some good defense we are back just like United this season, abysmal and now return with a force. Same will happen to us if we fix this issue asap this summer. In the end I still don't like these owners, I'm blue co out, but I have to give it to them in picking Alonso. It shows that they are willing to change and we need see this sustain this summer with defense being number one priority for me. Anything else is a a plus.

Yeah I agree, that's kind of what I mean. I'm afraid Chelseas board are dumb enough to do the same though. But I pray not.

I’m not sure we can call Madrid a failure and if we do it was more a failure from the club to back him, he wanted to drop players, the players rebelled and the club backed the players. The fact he wanted to drop them in the first place means he is more than capable of making big decisions

Always was one of the very few Liverpool players I liked. Real Madrid is a very different beast to everything else, but hope he can get out dressing room full of malignant cunts under control, which he failed to in Spain. There's no way he doesn't have a big name out there still, despite of the failed madrid adventures. What he did at Leverkusen was quite something. So I guess a lot of promises were made to him. That he will finally be allowed to fix the blatant issues in the squad, that Maresca wasn't allowed to. Hoping for the best, but with the clowns in charge of the club I'm expecting it to turn sour a year into his time at the club

This is a “we’ve finally seen the error in our ways and stopped fucking around” appointment which is what the club have been briefing for a few weeks. You have to hand them that even if we hate them. But the managerial appointment alone is not the cure that turns us around like the snap of your fingers. They now have to follow-up on their other press briefing thag they will let the manager dictate what and who he needs rather than the club forcing mediocre bums on him. We need a surgical, 2014 like summer where we quickly and clearly identified a few top level players who plugged right in and hit the ground running instantly.

At this point, I just hope this group of players actually turn up to play against Spurs at home. Basically last game of the season, give the fans something to cheer with Alonso coming in. Normally that's an automatic and the players give it their all but right now, you never know as some of them honestly look like they couldn't care and Palmer has forgotten how to do anything in the final third.

Jesus Christ....such negativity....give it a f**king rest mate

Well...I can think of two ex-Chelsea bosses, the Italian mafia and the current England head coach 😆

A few weeks ago Liam Rosenior was in charge and now we have Xabi Alonso. Pretty seismic upgrade. Now let’s see the ins/outs on the player side

Nah he can go for me, I'm not interested just like he hasn't been for weeks

We deserve what we have got, this season has been fucking pathetic and quite frankly embarrassing. The fans have been shit on from a great height, took the piss out of and the club and players should be fucking ashamed of themselves I hope Alonso axes any fucker that thinks they are too big to be here, that includes Palmer, Cucurealla, Enzo or anyone for that matter, get rid of them and back him from the off.

No European football next season. If current form holds

He's won the league in one of Europe's top 5 leagues. Is there someone with PL manager experience who has the body of work of Alonso?

and Pep....Arteta and Alonso used to live in neighbouring streets

''The Sporting Directors ? No, no Xabi, they don't interfere at all''

Makes sense from his perspective. He's been looking for a way into the Premier League and we are the biggest club where there's a job opening this summer. Premier League is now the league of a handful of managers from Basque country - Arteta, Emery, Iraola,

3rd manager we have had this year...hopefully he can bring some joy back to us!!

Let's hope he's given the autonomy to his project, and there's a semblance of back to consistent winning Many managers first foray into the PL is chaotic. Glad you're excited about it. I can't, sorry, but well done.

there was a point i thought Palmer could reach legendary status here, but lately he has been disappointing to say the least, not showing up when we most needed a spark, maybe he is not fully committed to Chelsea like we all thought, but then again i can't fault him because the club has been a big mess so far and not challenging for top honors can affect a player's mentality. Not going to make excuses for him or any player that's not fully committed to the club, because regardless of how shit we are, the proper players can give a damn and perform. Players like Kovacic, Havertz, Jorginho, Rudiger, Christensen, Mount, etc who all left when the club was struggling will never get my respect regardless of the trophies they won with us.

Massive!!