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Hopefully that's Maresca sent home and not in the stands, blokes a clown and we need shot quickly

Delayed post, but James deserves a lot of credit for his gesture by taking the interim coach to the fans after the City game. Very good character. I've said this before, but one of the things Chelsea fans can take to heart this season, is the growing leadership that both James and Enzo Fernandez have shown on occasion this season. Still a lot more to go, to get near Azpilicueta, let alone Drogba, Terry or Lampard levels. But a good sign nonetheless.

Anyone who can’t see this is in denial.

good win sucks we could not keep a clean sheet

Andrey Santos has been spectacular today. Always seems to be in the right place and keeps things super simple.

How come Josh doesn’t get a run of starts ?

Ngolo Kante all day all night anytime instead of these boring tattoed bearded clowns. I don't know how is he doing these days(on 2024 Euros he was pretty good) but I would be super happy to watch Kante even just walk around the field.

Yildiz was the player I hoped we'd sign in the summer for the left side

I do like this more direct attacking instead of 50 sideways passes.

i'm fed up with all this fucking negativity, let's give the guy a chance, judge him on results and how he handles the players. Lets judge him on performances and not on what you think he might be.

Guehi is levels above Trev and Fofana and he would go a long way to solving our issues

Feel sorry for Strasbourg in a way, we are just taking the piss out of them and stripping them of there manager and coaching staff

Delighted with the result/performance yesterday. I had little hope before the game and the bookies thought we had little chance too. First half, we rode our luck. They were all over us and Haaland hit the post. Second half we improved. Neto missed a sitter and thought we wasn't going to get another chance until Enzo scored. I thought Enzo scoffed it. Only realised it went in until he started celebrating. Palmer, is still frustrating me a bit. He got on the ball more second half but isn't influencing the game enough. He seemed to be outmuscled or lost the ball everytime he took on one of their players. I want to see him back to the player we know. He just wasn't that effective, albeit he was better in the second half than first half. I was surprised we did not add on another attacker as we went for the goal second half. I still thought we were playing it too safe and if the same situation arises again, we really needed to get another winger on the pitch to stretch the opposition. Also said in first page of this thread that City having less rest is only glimmer of hope I had and you can see towards latter stages, City looked knackered and I think the extra rest may have helped us, but balances out considering we had Sanchez, Cucu and Caicedo unavailable. Let me not forget Fofana, Colwill and Lavia all unavailable too. Santos was brilliant when he came on. Won the ball back a few times and mad excellent progressive runs with the ball which broke their press. Delap was really good too imo. He really held the ball up well and brought a different dynamic to the game. Liverpool drawing made that even a more important result. I don't see Liverpool getting anything at Arsenal, so if we beat Fulham, we should be above Liverpool by end of the week, my prediction tells me. Fulham also missing 2/3 key players at AFCON.

I hate that we helped Arsenal

You know it doesn’t matter if it’s McFarlane or whoever in charge…sticking one in at stoppage time is still awesome. Get the F in!!!

I have been asked to speak on BBC Radio 5 Live tomorrow morning at 7:20am UK time about this game

🚨 Breaking News According to a source in Strasbourg, Liam Rosenior's departure to Chelsea "is not on the cards at this stage." ❌️ (@lequipe)

There are marginal gains to be made with a different manager. We need the owners to change their policy and put together a serious squad. Some of our starting players are too young and inexperienced and they want to compete in the toughest league in the world with that squad.

I haven’t watched the last 4 games and will not watch any more until the manager is gone and any one who knows me on this forum knows I like to give managers a chance, I’ve checked out

maybe he will go to strasbourg and we recall sarr?

Then bring one back? We need a CB now! This shit is getting boring.

Ahhh yes.. the inevitable ‘we must be careful to not block the pathways of certain players’ who don’t even play here. It’s literally like clockwork. You could easily be reading the same briefs from the last 4 transfer windows and not even tell the difference of which window it was. It’s insulting the common man’s intelligence now.

Delap on his Yellow Cards “I think I’ll always be the same. I was a nightmare when I was a kid. I still have my moments where I probably go over the edge, but if I took that away from me, I wouldn’t be the same player,” Delap said. “Obviously, there are times where I can control it and be sensible and smart about it, but I would never ever lose that because I’ll lose my edge, lose my fire a little bit.” Nobody wants him to lose his fire, but it’s a little concerning to hear him be so defiant about potentially changing his ways to become more sensible. Let’s focus on scoring goals first, then we can worry about the rest.

Simple, because of a idiot like Maresca who can't asses a player to save his life. Were talking about the same moron who picked Disasi over Chalobah initially, bought his player from Leicester and didn't know what to do with him after a month, playing players out of position, etc. I hate the board as much as anyone but with morons like Maresca here I wouldn't listen to what he wants either when he can't even asses his own squad. As for Chiesa, he didn't really failed Slot doesn't want to play him, Liverpool fans all crying he should play more because they can see the spark when he comes on. Yildiz is top class, I'd love us to get him but doubt it will happen, we might not even make CL next season in which case we can say goodbye to any chance, another is we probably have to sell Enzo to afford him given our spending issues.

The more the better, almost all CBs need sold and replaced outside Colwill.

Awful game good result

Nice, much needed win. Not great overall but finally 3 points and clean sheet, I take it. Kudos to Sanchez. Big win for West Ham and little personal revenge for Nuno 😄 I hope West Ham will stay up, as shit as they are now I have always felt they belong to the Premier League. I support them to stay up 100x times more than Forest or Leeds. (not to mention they are the only London PL-team where you can just buy ticket and walk into the stadium even on matchday)

Probably the number 1 reason I hate VAR, even if it got decisions right more often I'd still be against it Spirit and fun of football has been totally killed but everyone is acting like we have to continue with it. Football is unquestionably regressing year after year in terms of enjoyment live as a spectator.

Briefing going out again about a CB. But the descriptions of what we apparently want are pretty contradictory. ”Chelsea want a starting level, top class CB.” In other words a plug and play option. But then they link us to a 20 year old who plays for a small French club where he has made less than 1 whole season’s worth of appearances in his whole career thus far. I don’t care how highly rated Jérémy Jacquet may be, we don’t need another kid, ffs. We need a seasoned veteran who comes in and instantly elevates us.

If we are after a CB then it just shows how incompetent and fanbase led these clowns are. Every Tom, Dick and Harry, including Maresca told the dickheads at the helm that we needed a CB in the summer and they said to look internally. Now they see a need for it because the fanbase and starting to seriously turn? It’s too late BlueCo.. soo many people are finally waking up to your nonsense… it’s a matter of time before even the most loyal BlueCo bandits wake up too.

TBH, Im glad they didn't spend the money on Xavi. 1 goal and 3 assists and he disappears on the pitch in a lot of games. He also seems to be a defensive liability.

For 107 Million sell him, he's decent that's about it In other news, Facundo is off to Leeds on loan until the end of the season

Hopefully a team comes in for Joao Pedro, now he is fucking woeful

Certainly wont be a truly top side again until we replace Sanchez, been saying it for years, he genuinely has a high ceiling but the problem is his floor is so low and you can't win things consistently with a goalkeeper who on any given day will drop a series of huge howlers and no one is even surprised and no one would be surprised if it happened again the next game. Its just not a position you can get away with cutting corners or being creative.

Why would we even give a second of consideration to selling Cucu who is one of our best players? Also one of our few older, more experienced squad members which we badly need. I remember months and months ago Fabrizio was tweeting numerous times saying that Cucu either was on the verge of or already had signed a fresh new contract behind the scenes. What ever happened with that? Selling one of our best players to City and thus improving them when we’re desperate to get back to their level would be ridiculous.

Haven't beaten them at home in 8 years in any comp...so hopefully. I just want us to win a trophy! But who knows..Long as dont play crap! End with 11! We have a chance why not

This would amplify the very problem we are talking about… if they start selling the players that are finally hitting the mature age required for a team to have that experience and leadership…. To replace them with another young player and then repeat… the fanbase will not stop the protests and constant negativity. Surely they can’t be this arrogant.

If we aren’t honest, Sanchez is the least of our problems right now. He has been pretty good this season.

‘’ If there is an opportunity in the market” What the hell is Marc Guehi if not an opportunity in the market??

I'm not sure the red card would have changed much, Fulham were way too full of fuck before that and once again a team wanted it more which if the project puppet is going to change things it has to be this and the desire to control games from the off

Absolute shite again We need to talk about Palmer, he is fucking way off it right now and that performance again we are left talking about another red card. Lets be honest, right now this club is an utter shambles, from top to bottom. We came to another hostile place, failed to quieten the ground because we can't play simple football, got dragged down to a level worse than we actually are and have been easily beaten Don't anyone ever tell me I have no reason to be negative, there is every reason, this club right now is a complete cancer

Well we did sign (some academy also) and then sell Madueke, Chukwuemeka, Veiga, Amougou, Petrovic, Moreira, Angelo, Maatsen, Hutchinson, Hall, Gallagher, Mount, Ampadu, CHO etc. all at profits. Some huge profits. Some in particular Madueke, Chukwuemeka, Veiga, Amougou, Petrovic, Moreira, Angelo were all signed by BlueCo…. all sold by BlueCo. Within 1-2 seasons of buying them. Would imagine the likes of Jackson, Paez, Kellyman, Anselmino, Sarr & Essugo all likely going to be added to that list also because we already have players joining & likely buy more again? At least 3 of them probably? Whether their profits or not on all but again, long contracts, young ages, good position to generate revenue no? The narrative isn’t that it’s all we do but the recruitment is clearly geared up to look like its going that way. They can say whatever they want about the right player over 23 not being available etc in certain windows to gullible journalists but cmon…. People were critical of us & Vitesse under the previous ownership for the loan army and what not. And BlueCo believed football side of the club wasn’t run well.. they have turned us into Brighton/Leipzig/Monaco, player trading between us & Strasbourg at will, like the NFL draft 😂

Sat together discussing how to make Strasbourg feel better after ripping the heart out of the club and massage them into feeling better. Instead of being sat around a table discussing what is needed at this club which is far more important than Strasbourg. Whilst we are around the table discussing other clubs problems, Man City are in talks with Palace to sign a player we should be approaching in Marc Guehi How sad.

James and Enzo afterwards saying we just continue regardless of who is 'in charge' Bit like when we had Avram 'he just puts the cones out' Grant - the players ratcheted up their performance

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.

Top of the table club wants to get reinforcements to become even better, while the club barely in top 5 with a weakened squad and no shirt sponsor thinks everything is fine. Every time I see Eghbali on the screen I keep thinking of his ridiculous statement of how the old Chelsea were not competitive in either a sporting sense or financial sense. Yet he and his cronies have assembled a team that is struggling to keep the club within UEFA FFP rules, has failed to secure a permanent shirt sponsor, and is struggling to make progress on the results from last season. The major achievement is the low wage bill and low average of the squad. Great resale value., which is no doubt their number 1 priority.

Hard to judge his time when he’s had two separate injuries in his time here and obviously needed time before taking on a starting role at a big club

I keep saying go for Emery but imagine leaving that job to come here to this shambles of a project Bloke would be deluded

and... Oh look the two teams that are supposed to be in turmoil are now level on points with us, we are a fucking joke (again) Villa are going to muller us. BlueCo absolutely refuse to bring in any CB and a striker. We are so inconsistent it beggars belief. Mind you it takes me back to the only thing we're consistent at is inconsistency. Merry Christmas Y'all🫣