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FAN VIEW: 'Ultimately, Clearlake is the problem. To spend well over 1 billion to regress is shocking' 'You can learn a lot from experienced teammates' https://siphillipstalkschelsea.substack.com/p/fan-view-ultimately-clearlake-is An important ‘fan view’ to draw in on today, with a bunch of quotes from fans, as well as myself, and a former Chelsea player to have a look at further below. As I’ve said earlier this week, strangely enough, I still think we will get Champions League football this season and I am perhaps not as fearful as most have been after the Burnley game. However, we have a SUPER tough run of fixtures coming up and you cannot deny that it looks like a real uphill task now to get UCL football. Which is really quite absurd right? When you consider the amount of money that has been spent on building this squad and the amount we spent in the summer yet again? Community member Matt Kirk, posted the below after the Burnley game, and this comment deserves this elevation. “Bitterly disappointing result again. It’s worrying to see the drop-off in standards, especially after a break. The lack of discipline is pathetic too. This points to the lack of leaders and experience in the squad. Which we’ve all known for a while. “It’s all well and good signing all these talented young players. But they need someone to guide them in these moments. It helps to develop them as players and know the levels you need to be at. You can learn a lot from experienced teammates. I’m sure Terry did from Desailly. Thiago Silva was crucial too. “Ultimately, Clearlake is the problem. They can brief what they want, but to spend well over 1 billion to regress is shocking. We’ve had an exodus of highly valued staff from the men’s and women’s teams, who I’m sure will point to the same problem. The FOS situation is embarrassing. The turnover in staff too. “We qualified for the CL and won the CWC and still failed to capitalise. What changes if we even manage to get CL football again? Will we take advantage of that or continue to make the same mistakes?” I fully agree with absolutely everything he has said here, especially the comments I’ve highlighted in the title and subtitle of this article. Honestly, SAY IT LOUDER Matt! I really do not know how anyone could argue with this - of course, everyone is entitled to their own opinion. Another top guy, community member Jay Shayshutt also commented. “I'm tired of the "experience" argument, yes we definitely need some more leaders, but there is actually plenty of experience in that side. Fofana is hardly an inexperienced player, same goes for Trev, Sanchez, Caicedo, Cucurella. Signing leaders is definitely more of a priority than just experience - unless it's consistent CL level experience.” Jay has made some decent points here, sure. But this was my response to him… “I think the word 'experienced' can mean many different things. What this squad needs is more leaders as you say, but elite level players who will come in and instantly improve us whilst also having big experience such as regular European and international appearances for club and country, as well as perhaps plenty of Premier League experience. We need more big game players with strong mentalities and influence on the rest of those on the pitch with them. That's what we truly lack and have done the whole time.” But he’s right, some of our players are now veering towards the more ‘experienced’ mark. But as I say, I think there are different versions of ‘experienced’ and we certainly still lack that in this squad and have lacked it for the last three years. It’s simply all about balance for me. The Chelsea players have even said it! Former Chelsea player Carlton Cole said earlier this week, after speaking with Axel Disasi: “When I spoke to Axel Disasi, he was talking about who he enjoyed it cause he was obviously at Chelsea. He’s at West Ham now on loan. Doing great by the way. “And I got talking to him. He basically said that Thiago Silva, when he was there, was the voice of reason, like the big brother, the uncle. And then when he left that, all kind of went cause there was no experience to lean on. So they’re all leaning on each other, and they’re not experienced enough to lean on each other. “So they have to look at each other as we’re all in this together.” Disasi was one of the ‘older players’ in that team, but he certainly wasn’t what I’d call an elite big game player who had been there and done it, and seen it all. That’s what we lack. But for Disasi to notice that when you lose a senior leader like Silva, it can have a real effect. Also, we would need at least three of these types of players if you ask me. I think this is also pretty accurate from another community member, Michael M: “Man United squad was always decent, they’re now performing at their level imo. Two real difference makers in Mbuemo and Fernandes, Casemiro and Maguire both very solid older heads who have the personality and authority to organise others. Their depth isn’t great but without midweek football they’re right in the mix for CL, no doubt. “We have experience but for a lot of players, it’s been accumulated in the worst period in our recent history, or at teams where winning is not a necessity. Their squad doesn’t have as much of that “negative” experience any more.” There’s various ways of looking at these things, but for me, this is our biggest issues right now.

To give full credit to Lavia, whenever he's picked to play, he doesn't seem to need much time to get back into the rhythm of things. Which speaks to his innate talent more than anything. Maybe he can be a difference maker on Sunday.

No it doesnt suit us 🤣 if we're dropping points against Leeds and Burnley..

That Acliucshe guy from Monaco is a player we must watch, how he developes

Fake news post by a non-native, low quality English speaker.

Captured Today during training, if anyone was still wondering about those tweets.

Or competition for CL positions are Man United and Liverpool and they have similar strength. No excuses.

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Teams win matches even with 10 players, while when we went with 10 it starts some panic and panic subs! We remove all atacking players and put in all defenders we have on bench! Thats not the way you have to defend when we are with 10ppl.. Remember the game with Barcelona in Spain - we were not with 8 defenders and 2 def midfielders!

Overall I'm quite happy with him but his over use of just one superlative to basically describe every single player we have,can begin to grate.. I do think he has some good qualities tho and has a different and better mindset than Maresca.

Yup, they get their accountants to look at the club, confirm its a 'viable asset', mainly from TV revenue, so that serves the profit purpose, then secondly it feeds their egos -look at them in the stands, trying to make out their shit doesnt stink, and most of which have that Trumpian sized bloated fragility. What fucking gets me is how they abuse fans, taking away senior concessions, travel concessions and in some cases even kids and the disabled ! That and taking fans for granted - who, lets be real these custodians would be nowhere without attending fans. They ought to at least remember that.

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That is true. Still cannot believe we went from Abramovich to these charlatans. There are far more Boehly & Eghbali’s than Abramovichs out there. As you said, its effectively a fashionable thing now for these rich wankers to just buy a football club, treat it like a play thing & just ensure it makes a profit. Granted the tourist industry, huge interest in the PL from global & domestic trumped up TV deals haven’t helped either. Well they have financially clearly helped clubs and the league but for owners, it kills any chance of ambition. Why would a club try break into a top 6-8 spot if they can just ensure to keep that TV money rolling in every season for instance? Or at the other end of the scale, us, huge global brand that has been built beforehand. If you could acquire the club, reduce the running costs, build a structure where you can sign players develop them at another club before taking them back, get European qualification prize money every season for one of the 3 competitions, why do anything differently? Look at Palace, FA cup win & a season in Europe yet flog their best players. Their manager is willing to walk away as opposed to stay as he clearly thinks they’re not ambitious enough. And thats with an English owner….

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Get rid of this guy.

🚨Chelsea midfielder Romeo Lavia has injured in training and will be out till the rest of the season @SkySportPL

I'm still in the lets see how he adapts. Im not sharpening the pitchfork after 2 draws. That does not understate how disappointed I was in those draws. I'm still giving him time.

This is why the only managers that make sense is the one that is at Strasbourg. Anyone who works there will come here and the board should just hire them. So they continue with their youth stuff as that is what they are doing in France.

But would they be any better ? The PL and Championship are littered with billionaire custodians, who have listened to Pink Floyds 'Money' ''think I'll buy me a football team'' who are happy for average football, as long as they make a profit. They buy clubs like they buy yachts off Monaco

Shocking decision to ban the banners but is anyone surprised? BlueCo have ripped the heart and soul out of their club. And they are doing it here also. They think what they’re doing is working, clearly. The day new owners come in will be a day welcomed by so so many here & probably even more so in France.

Fabregas would be off his head to even consider coming here. Won’t happen. All the next big managers, we have no chance of enticing them to come here without major changes off the pitch. Anyone with half a brain will not want to work within this structure and particularly with these sporting directors who have burned through £1.75 to 2 billion of transfer money without facing any accountability. This is why we have ended up with Potter, Pochettino, Maresca & now Rosenoir. And 2 of them left due to “mutual consent”….. so go figure.

another often-stated target......... veteran (27yo and up) CBs here is a list of the top remotely available (so no Marquinhos) ones, ordered by by valuation (some of these are much harder than others to pull) Cristian Romero do not ever want him here Edmond Tapsoba Bremer so often injured though Nikola Milenković EPL-proven Dávid Hancko Min-jae Kim Isak Hien Joachim Andersen Marcos Senesi best option IMHO Leonardo Balerdi Federico Gatti Benjamin Pavard Roger Ibañez Merih Demiral José María Giménez Omar Alderete EPL-proven Amir Rrahmani Antonio Rüdiger EPL-proven Milan Škriniar Aymeric Laporte EPL-proven Diego Carlos EPL-proven Mario Hermoso Alessio Romagnoli Fabian Schär EPL-proven Willi Orbán

Not only a bad look but shutting out reality, as well as free speech They are part of the same US Franchise, and if we were the smaller branch of Mc Donalds and they were moving all our quarter pounders to a bigger branch, we'd be fucked off as well.