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Despite the result, I think he was really quite good today. Calm on the ball and did what was asked of him in defence. Promising start to his premier league career... Hope to see a lot more from him. If we are back to Disassi or Tosin next match I might lose my mind.

If we fail to sign an elite finisher this month our board is going to cost Maresca his job. Failing to bring one in last summer and trusting the ultimate inconsistent striker Jackson and backing him up with a completely raw 18 year old was stupid enough. Seeing the evidence match after match after match and failing to go and get one this window would be pure insanity. We’ve seen reporters repeatedly say that we as a club NEED Champions League football revenue ASAP in order for all this spending to continue to work. If that’s the case they need to move rapidly in these next couple of weeks or we ain’t getting it.

Both need to go, just get the cash for them and run

Title talk put to bed. Get CL place and win Conference.

I easily prefer Garnacho over Adeyemi all day, all night

Best thing the club could do -get Drogba turn up unexpected at training to tell Jackson a few truths and mentor him for a bit.

I will keep quoting this

This board have no idea who and why they are buying players, they want to sell this guy after 5 months at the club.

Whether people believe in Jackson or not, you cant deny we need a quality 2nd option in the striker department. It's not as glaring an issue as getting a quality CB, but the drop off in quality if Jackson is unavailable, is abysmal. And that's even considering we have Nkunku, who unfortunately, does not seem to be in it.

I don't know why comparisons have to be made between both, as they couldn't be more different putting aside where they come from. DD was playing in the CL before joining us while NJ was a relative nobody prior to his move. I'll stand by what I've say for months - Jackson's movement would make him a useful winger to stretch defences, but he misses far too many chances (I personally don't see that changing) to lead the line for a club wanting to win trophies at this level.

I can't believe that people are questioning Maresca as Chelsea's manager, the difference between the two teams is night and day. Under Maresca we have patterns of play where we are much more effective at pressing, and beating the press. The players seem to know what they are doing instead of trying to make things up as they go along. Personally I put the recent blip down to inexperience of the players, and being a little light in defence and midfield. We had more than enough opportunities to win each of the recent games where we dropped points, with an improved squad and greater experience next year I'm confident that we'll manage periods of adversity much better, I don't even think that we need that many new signings, a new centre back and goalkeeper, and bringing Santos back when he's completed his loan should address weaknesses in the squad.

Josh looked great today. It would be fantastic if at 18 he continues to be calm and composed out there.

Nicolas Jackson straight up cost us the 3 points today. Through 1 on 1 with the keeper about 5 times and fluffed his lines every single time. I just do not understand how we go from comfortable and dominant for most of the first half to looking completely out of ideas and dead on our feet the second half. With the form of everyone around us compared to ours I don’t feel confident at all anymore that we’ll finish in the top 4. Which a month ago seemed impossible.

Reece and Fofana need to go and get a quality top shelf CB and RB. Its getting ridiculous at this point. Thanks for everything, but this isn't a hospital - and we need active players.

On the bright side, we have endured winter slumps almost every season. Usually beginning in November then recovering early December and again underperforming through the festive days. It usually gets better with the FA Cup 3 rd round where we normally win convincingly vs some minnows. This year we skipped the November part but hopefully still take charge again vs Morecambe in 2 weeks. Saturday at Selhurst park will probably be another eyesore affair but in the past few years we usually won there even with mediocre performances bc they just allow so many chances. Just take a few of them ffs.

Feel aggrieved for our fans going all that way for sub par performances

I hate to say it, but Maresca deserves to be slated for the RB choice. We had THREE available options, yet, he went with a CB. Edit - He has thrown away a sub as well. 😑

Sanchez have some good games but generally can't win you trophies like Cech or Cudicini .

You didn’t trust potter, you didn’t trust poch and now you don’t trust maresca, you have also said the buys pretty much over the last 4 years are bad…. Meresca has been here half a season and now he’s bad at spotting talent? He’s dropped axel, he dropped trev and tbh it was the right to do so, he’s not good enough either, had 1 decent game against wolves and some how has become prime maldini

buy him I am all in for it he is a machine 52 total goals poduced in 37 games this season for club and country

Take the three points but for fucks sake that was torture to watch again, the same old pattern, batter them for 40 minutes, foot came off the gas and as soon as they strung 3 passes together they were killing us and heads went. You can actually see when the goal/s are coming, it's like you have had a dream and you can see it. If anyone on this forum comes out and says Sanchez is the man and that he deserves to be here then I'm sorry you are ready for the fucking nut house. This bloke is quite possibly one of the worst keepers I have seen in my life. The bloke is an absolute bag of nerves, he is shit with the ball at his feet, so much so when it goes back to him you can hear it in the crowd, they actually groan. The goals last night, fucks sake what an absolute shit show

he has been brilliant. not done nothing wrong !

Mehhh they've had wins in their last 5 and we haven't plus it's been a month without a league win..gotta take what we can 😂

Please sub Palmer. He's being hacked and not playing at 100%. No need to have him injured before City.

I hope we terminate his contract

I’d rather have Mudryk than spunking money on Garnacho. That’s how little I rate him. Shit, I’d take 34 year old retired Hazard over him.

atm this is a good comparison to Nico they both cannot shoot to save their lives far too often

He would probably tell him he wasn't playing top level football until he was 25/26 and to keep his head down and keep learning.

likely a VERY unpopular opion here: I rate Tosin (as a squad player) I think he is leader type and is not shite at all IMHO many teams want him, and he is HG, and is in his prime age, so IF we get a good price (he is worth £30m or IMHO when all if factored in) then I will not lose my mind if we sell him

the hall situation hurts a bit, but some context is needed. (such as the livramento situation) Hall is starting to play well now, but if he was at Chelsea he would be covered by Cucurella, who is playing well this season. the hall grew due to the time of the game. I would never have had that playing time here at Chelsea. When he was loaned with a mandatory purchase option, Maresca was not yet the coach and it made sense to keep Chilwell and Cucurella. Hall would never have time to reach that level at Chelsea. the situation of livramento is similar. when it was sold we had the gusto and the reece. we were well served. The problem is that at the time no one expected that Reece would be hurt all the time

straight loan I hope, unless the option price is high I rate Veiga

Seemed like Maresca bringing one of his Leicester boys along for the ride...then he realised a few months in that KDH is actually a mid-table player at best 😄

How we even got in the position of having Dewsbury Hall at this club farts my brain

Even if Mainoo was available, why the fuck would we even consider him? We’ve got Enzo, Caicedo, Lavia, and Santos. Even accounting for Lavia’s injuries were well stocked in CM. What a silly rumor.

Breaking: Chelsea are open to bids for Kiernan Dewsbury Hall, Disasi and Nkunku. (@Matt_Law_DT)

This club needs better than Nicolas Jackson, and we have done for years and years now. We keep pinning the tail on the donkey blindfolded season after season and hoping someone can smash in 25-30 goals instead of going for that killer striker. Gyokeres is the man right now, a proper bully of a CF, direct and scores all types of goals and we should be speaking with him and his camp now not the start of summer. If we want to be back up with the elite then we have to stop buying shit players who cannot do it on a regular basis

Not any more he aint, he’s not been that for the last two seasons. We’ve got to get rid of and Fofana as well

Don’t think Trev is any better than Tosin. In fact, I think Tosin provides more qualities like aerial dominance that are more useful. They’re about the same skill level and comfort on the ball. I’d rather just let Acheampong continue to get minutes and seeing what he can grow into if Maresca doesn’t fully trust Tosin. As for Guehi, idk. He’s a solid CB but I’ve never really bought into the hype he has built up over the last couple of years. I don’t think he elevates our level defensively. If we’re going to go out and spend silly money on a new CB (which Palace would absolutely demand) then we should be doing so on a truly top level one or someone we feel could become a world class defender. Guehi isn’t worth mega money for me.

We need a striker, a proper striker and have done for many years, but we just keep hoping.

To me he is the only serious manager we've had since Tuchel. We burnt our bridges with pretty much all of the elite managers so we have to take a punt on someone and he's as good as a punt gets. I am overall very happy with him and unlike with Poch I have the feeling that year after year we're just going to get better and better. Yes it is a long term project (it always was) but at least now the development story has actually started.

You can't just have talent after talent - especially when some will have to sit on the bench. Conor is good enough to start somewhere but not good enough for the football we play here. Lavia, Enzo and Caicedo are levels above Conor - so your replacement needs to be someone of the KDH level that knows how to play the system and can fill the void when an injury does occur. The issue has been that KDH has had trouble adapting into our squad, and hasn't been as effective as thought. A more dynamic midfielder may be needed but keeping what we had was not the answer as Gallagher would have just left regardless not getting minutes. Better to cash in. We need to cut the crap of shitting on the board as well. They've done a tremendous job in turning things around fairly quickly with a new model. In fact, to be where we are given a complete turnaround in how we are run and the methodology internally, its been great. They've clearly struggled to identify defensive talent more so than offensive, because bar Mudryk, we've been excellent in who we've offloaded and then kept/brought on. Estevao, Palmer, Neto, Noni, Jackson, Nkunku are all good to great and can make a profit on all of them. We're literally a CB and RB away from competing. Bring back Santos and let him be that dynamic midfielder who can do a bit of everything.

Least our results aren't predictable 🤣 keep us on our toes theirs are more or less the same. And Salah has scored..predictable.. Mehhh we aren't beating them to the title so not our issue. Teams around us however..keep top 4 going and all. And they can't beat our 15 goals conceded record

Why I don’t come on much at all anymore, pathetic

Think the title was always a unrealistic dream. But it was a nice dream to have haha. Very solid foundation laid this season imo, most hopeful i've been of Chelsea in many many years.

😂😂😂 look at our Sir Alex Ferguson, sipping his UEFA Pro license knowledge over here and teaching some things to the manager who is sitting 2nd in the toughest league in the world… you should apply for the job man

CB , GK and ST , Jackson can't be trusted to scores in every game as backup is fine . Colwill needs an experienced partner by his side, like Cahill who had Terry by his side in the time and he became a solid defender .

Would be so dumb to let him go when he hasn't even been given a chance. Maresca is playing Palmer every match and minute even when he has a bad game.

I would like to see ANYTHING reported by the scum at Fichajes banned here. Whether it is directly or indirectly put up on the web, it is 99% lies and made up bullshit rumours if it comes from those lying cunts. I have never disliked a football site more. I wished they could be sued and put out of business, and I sure as fuck wish these other sites would stop posting their shite. It is insane the amount of Fichajes-based bullshit stories that are now being pushed around the internet.