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And also that Ghana was unable to qualify to the 24-team AFCON.. Either way, let's get over this.. 2025 has been a mixed year for us, good and bad spells came and go, let's have a good time all this eve!

I thought Mamadou Sarr was the 20 years old CB "all the top clubs want"

🗯I think Joel Ordóñez's departure means that Chelsea will do everything they can to get Jérémy Jacquet. Simon Phillips reports that Chelsea are working hard to sign him and want to secure him on a pre-contract for summer 2026, as all the top clubs want him too.

Mean we are top of that table..just not the one you want to be top of!

We have Tosin don't worry about it.

He’s too old.

🚫Chelsea drop out of the race for Joel Ordoñez (21) and now Liverpool is LEADING for his signature. Inter is also a close contender and will battle @LFC in a bid to get his services. A January exit is VERY likely. (@Bola)

⚫️🟡Borussia Dortmund and Man City are in talks over Oscar Bobb deal, as exclusively revealed last week. Bobb can leave Manchester City if/when Semenyo joins with more clubs also keen, not only BVB. (@Fabrizio Romano) 🔵⚪️Racing Strasbourg are showing interest in James McAtee as potential option for midfield in January. Initial talks took place to present the project. (@FabrizioRomano)

Some comment from Nizaar Kinsella on The BBC Chelsea have dropped more points from winning positions at home than any other team in the Premier League this season. It is a trend manager Enzo Maresca concedes is “not random” and he wants “to understand why”. It is especially frustrating for Chelsea as fast starters at Stamford Bridge, having scored first in eight of their past nine home matches. However, they have also dropped 11 points from winning positions at home - more than any other Premier League club. In total, Chelsea have surrendered 13 points from winning positions home and away, which equals the gap to league leaders Arsenal. Maresca’s substitutions have faced scrutiny before, notably in defeats with 10 men against Manchester United and Brighton earlier this season. Atalanta forward Charles De Ketelaere even suggested they “drop” in the second half after his side came from behind to beat Chelsea in their Champions League game in Italy earlier this month. While Maresca’s changes have occasionally worked, it has usually been when resting key players. Against Nottingham Forest and Brentford in the Premier League and Cardiff City in the Carabao Cup, he rotated heavily but ultimately relied on star players to secure wins. This has sparked a chicken-and-egg debate: some blame the lack of quality on the fringes of the squad, while others question Maresca’s handling of certain players. Chelsea rely on youth, and have had minimal impact from their changes in the Premier League this season. The average age of their starting XI is 24 years and 219 days, while substitutes average 21 years and 349 days - both are the youngest in the league. Alongside Arsenal, Chelsea make the earliest changes, averaging their first substitution at 48 minutes, often at half-time. Despite this, their substitutes have contributed only three goals and one assist in the league this season. - Nizaar Kinsella

Well done Behdad, you've made a 40 year fan apathetic Those running Chelsea are sabotaging our success. They don't care about the club or fans. https://siphillipstalkschelsea.substack.com/p/well-done-behdad-youve-made-a-40 I never thought I’d become apathetic about Chelsea. I’ve supported the club nearly 40 years, I love the club passionately, and I’ve sat through much worse times than this in terms of results and quality of the team. But right now I’m as close to apathy as it gets for me. I clearly was deluding myself that Behdad Eghbali or the Sporting Directors remotely care about fan opinion. They don’t. They insult our intelligence on a consistent basis with the constant briefings and have shown a total inability to build a competitive squad, when fans have made our concerns clear they have ignored us. They may even mock us behind the scenes. To me, that’s all disrespectful to the institution of Chelsea Football Club, and the fans, many of whom have been around for a long time. But they genuinely don’t care. And not only that, if things go wrong they won’t look at themselves or their actions/decisions or the strategy and take responsibility, they will sack the manager and continue the same way, as if they’d done nothing wrong. They’re kidding themselves if they think they are elite football operators. They’re the David Brents of Sporting Directors. Big egos, full of themselves, looking to take credit and never take responsibility, and have an inflated view of their own ability. We’re a joke of a football club. No one takes us seriously as a major contender for the biggest honours, we don’t operate like an elite high performance operation. Now, even established elite players don’t even see us as a club who can win the big trophies anytime soon, as we’ve seen with the Semenyo saga. We were about 4th on his list, at best. Embarrassing. I’ve almost resigned myself to being a top 4/top 5 team and a good cup team for the foreseeable future, because the people running the club don’t have the ability or courage to take us any further. I used to have hope we’d challenge for the title soon, now that hope is gone. £1.6 billion to make us a side who scraps for top 4, has some good cup runs, and still needs about 3-4 elite players to make the next step up. Sorry, but that’s a shoddy, awful performance. There’s no way around it. Its abysmal squad building, and every manager is ignored and sabotaged by those above him. I can’t criticise the manager too much when he’s working with an arm tied behind his back. Let me be clear. There’s not too much wrong with the plan or strategy itself, this is not my issue, bar some tweaks. I’m still fully behind the long term strategy. The issue is the people executing the plan. And even though they’ll read this they won’t care, they’ll probably laugh at this and me, as if someone who’s followed the club for 40 years knows nothing about this club or football. From all I can see don’t care about or respect fans opinions, they act like the worst of the fanbase represent the whole fanbase. It really does come across to us that they think they’re the most knowledgeable people on football to have ever lived and have some secret way to succeed, when the evidence is to the contrary. A complete lack of self awareness and humility. Man City, Arsenal and Liverpool wouldn’t touch them with a barge pole. They and Behdad Eghbali are a genuine embarrassment to Chelsea. If they had an ounce of courage or shame they’d admit their mistakes and rectify them. Making mistakes can happen to anyone, not learning from them is unforgivable. Co-owner Todd Boehly, who has proven to be a real winner, someone who knows what it takes to succeed in sports and how elite sports operations are run, must be fit to bind, whatever he says in public. It’s been well reported he’d have a lone sporting director, an elite one, a few more established players and step back from day to day running to allow football people to be in charge. How an elite club SHOULD operate. So well done to Behdad and the SDs, they’ve made one of the longest serving most passionate Chelsea fans completely apathetic. That’s probably what they want though, they don’t want real fans, they want customers who’ll pay big money to come to games, and kill the atmosphere. They don’t know what football or Chelsea really means. They’re making us a soulless shell. They’re so arrogant and up themselves regarding football, they probably have no shame. No character, no courage, no winning mentality. I’m sorry if that hurts, but if they don’t like being criticised, then maybe they need to stop giving the impression they don’t care and know it all, do their jobs properly, and respect the fans. Because frankly they insult our intelligence on a consistent basis. I’d honestly love them to prove me wrong. I just want Chelsea to win, unlike them I don’t care about being proven wrong, because my ego isn’t dependent on it. So if they prove me wrong I’ll say it publicly. But the odds are they won’t. It involves them admitting they have made mistakes and actually rectifying them all. And I have no faith that will happen anymore. We’ll keep signing talented youngsters, great. But we need some 23-26 year olds who still fit the model but are more established and able to contribute immediately. Semenyo instead of Gittens, Guehi instead of Sarr. Those two signings last summer and we’re likely near the top of the league right now instead of level with Man United and Sunderland. To spend £1.6 billion and be there is down right embarrassing. Just give me a bit of hope. Because I and many other fans are almost done with this shit show.

Just our luck btw that we play Bournemouth the very last game before the January window opens when by all reports Semenyo will be going to City within the first week. So he’ll of course want to put in one last top performance in what is likely his send off match.

Analysis of Chelsea’s signings since Winstanley is worryingly damning I'm not sure many will disagree too much with this, unfortunately https://siphillipstalkschelsea.substack.com/p/analysis-of-chelseas-signings-since This is not an analysis written by me, but it’s an analysis that I actually find it hard to disagree with, mostly at least. I think every single person in this community has had a gripe around Chelsea’s recruitment under this owners. Of course, we’ve had gripes about recruitment under the previous ownership as well. But right now, that’s irrelevant. We are here and now. The amount of money spent on this squad that still has gaping holes that 99% of us can all see, is quite literally absurd. How are we about to go into yet another couple of transfer windows and still need to make more big signings? It’s beyond belief really and we can all see it. I’ve tried to be consistent with my opinion on current Chelsea, even after we won the Club World Cup. I’ve never been satisfied with what I’m seeing from the squad build, and with analysis like this below, it’s easy to see why. Chelsea fan and former Chelsea TV staff, Jake Heasman, posted this on his X account: ‘Analysis of Chelsea’s signings since Winstanley. ‘42 signings, 3 genuine hits. ‘93% of signings have been misses or had minimal impact. Some in the balance. ‘£1.2bn spent. 89% on players under 25. ‘6 of these signings sold for profit, 4 made a loss. ‘It’s time for change.’ We can debate the hits and misses but I don’t think this is far wrong, in my view. Enzo Fernandez might be the only genuine debate here. I do rate him, I just think that really the Premier League is just too much for him, he doesn’t quite have the athleticism and physicality to compete with the big, fast, and energetic midfielders that we have in this league, and he is often ghosted out by them. It’s that simple for me. But even still, this analysis is truly damning and honestly, I’m running out of words to say on it all. I’m just genuinely in disbelief. Jake is right, it needs to change, and change NOW!

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Mean we havent won 2 games in a row at home so seeing as we lost the other day...maybe we'll win this one!

Last time I attended a game, we lost (villa). Hope not to loose this too… 😒

You know what I really don't give a fuck, I expect them to lose anyway. This whole club is a clueless shambles, I expect them to finish no higher than sixth and that would be an achievement considering. I don't know if I can even be bothered to watch this game fuck 'em

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If we lose this I think things will start to get really toxic amongst the fans. Going from looking like Arse’s closest competitor to midtable and a million miles away from the top 3 within the span of a month. Maresca will be on a serious hot seat.

Embarrassing for BlueCo tbh. They are everything they claimed Roman to be.

Our chances of top 4 will continue to slide, expecting both United and Livo to win. We lose to Bournemouth and we are basically mid table.

Don't think having a low wage bill and low average age is going to help if we miss out on UCL football next season. Wonder if some players will have to leave in the next transfer window to 'balance the books' 🤔

The big question is: which of the other "ex city" players have been decent at Chelsea? Tosin is horrific at CB, Gittens looks a very raw player, Lavia can't stay fit for 3 games in a row, Delap looks like he forgot how to be a striker since leaving Ipswich. The last thing we need is more ex city youngsters. It works when your at clubs like Southampton and you can potentially find the next U-21 gem, give them game time and hope that they kick on without too much pressure.

If Cucurella is not fit to start, I'm fearing that Maresca will once again go with Gusto at LB, and maybe play Acheampong or Chalobah out of position at RB (because James might need resting).

Could have traded the both of them for 1 single WC center back Badiashile is barely fit to play more than 5 games a year, and Disasi is just a waste of space at this point. Genius recruitment from the club.