Leaderboard

Nothing to do with ‘blocking pathways’ They have spent all the money and are in arrears

Buzzing to see that both our fans & Strasbourg on the same page. Fuck these stupid owners

🗯💥Werder Bremen centre-back Karim Coulibaly has attracted concrete interest from Newcastle United, Chelsea, Napoli and Marseille, according to Bild. Talks are already said to be taking place, but no offers have yet been submitted for the 18-year-old. ✅️💪🔥Moises Caicedo when asked about Real Madrid: "I have a contract with my club and I want to become a legend there". (@plazacasals via @elchiringuitotv)

Protests against BlueCo going ahead on April 18th. Anyone close the ground, I urge you to go and show your support. Win, Lose or Draw, BlueCo OUT! https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cd7j3p99r44o

“Your city, your stadium, our cup”.😊💙🏆🏅

They made the same statement just before sacking Potter.

Win lose or draw, BlueCo out

Big protests going ahead before the Man United match with the Strasbourg fan groups. Ultra Boys 90 and other Strasbourg fan groups are flying in from France. Let’s go our brother in arms. BLUECO OUT!

current owners. Fixed it for you

Translated he has been dropped because he was shite

No established, top class manager is going to agree to work under the conditions these idiots running the club set out. They literally tell every manager they appoint from minute 1 that they have no actual power or authority. So the only managers who jump at the chance to come here are your Potter’s, Maresca’s, or Rosenior’s who are stepping up massively from where they were. They almost cannot believe their luck that Chelsea came calling. No world class coach who is at an already big club and is basically the Big Boss where they are is going to agree to have their authority stripped and micromanaged by clowns who know nothing about football. So that’s why I can’t even bring myself to start thinking about a new manager in any sort of positive way. We’ll just replace Rosenior with some other puppet who’s out of their depth.

A bottle job which has its routes firmly in the Sporting Directors and owners who have repeatedly failed us, and themselves. Out of cash and even if we had it, who would trust this lot to spend it on the areas we need it spending? I suspect that we are not far from some kind of monumental reckoning, the losses (both financial and on field) cannot continue, this is not an oligarch pet project, in the end a cold VC financial decision will get made and we the fans will pay.

Crucial fixture out of the way. Well taken hattrick by Joao Pedro Without him we would be far behind Liverpool and United this season. Honestly why do you even bother comparing them? The CWC trophy was won thanks to a certain Cole Palmer if I recall correctly, who had a far more impactful game especially in the final against PSG. If JP is so impactful in games where he's not scoring, why are you not here talking about his contributions in the Arsenal games, including the most recent one? I can sing praises and thanks to Joao Pedro all day, but not to the point where you make him out to be something he is not.

If we sell him to United I’d probably be done watching Chelsea completely until these owners are gone.

You guys remember when Chelsea fans save the day in the Super League? Yeah if they turn up again they can make a difference. What a massive moment:

Behdad Eghbali HAS to admit Chelsea's football structure has failed - Ruthless action is required Its non negotiable at this point, Behdad Eghbali needs to admit its failing and take action https://siphillipstalkschelsea.substack.com/p/behdad-eghbali-has-to-admit-chelseas We’re at a point now where it’s beyond making all the arguments about the ownership and direction of the club. It’s very clear the way we’re run, the football structure, roles of different people in the set up and quality of the talent in those roles isn’t good enough, and isn’t working. We’re 6th in the PL and won 8 of our last 19 PL games. We’ve lost 4 games in a row, 3 of them by a big scoreline. Players look unhappy and low on confidence and motivation. Half our squad are showing they aren’t good enough, despite £1.6 billion being spent on it. We’re on course for a lower league position and less points than last season. Regardless of issues like fatigue and injuries, I think any rational person looking at that situation can tell something is drastically wrong. This isn’t success, after nearly 4 years, it looks like failure. I’m still a strong believer in the overall strategy of signing elite young talents and building a title winning team with them. PSG have shown this can be achieved successfully. The difference, as we all know, is PSG have a better structure, and better qualified and more capable people executing that strategy. They have an elite Sporting Director in Luis Campos, and an elite head coach in Luis Enrique, and they work together to build the squad and the culture at the club without interference. Which brings me to the issues at Chelsea - and some possible solutions. Now I know these solutions are unlikely to happen, I’m not delusional. But I really want to demonstrate how its not as difficult to solve the problems as some seem to think. What it requires is co-owner Behdad Eghbali - who I believe does want to win with Chelsea - to stop being so stubborn, admit its not working, and be ruthless and decisive in making change. And being real, that’s unlikely. But nevertheless, here it goes. At Chelsea, I believe we have fundamental issues with our footballing structure and the roles and powers of the head coach and Sporting Directors. The role of the head coach is merely a facilitator of the Sporting Directors strategy, with a ton of micromanaging, interference, and managers not having much say in recruitment or squad building. There’s also a perceived culture of arrogance, lack of accountability and no responsibility. The Sporting Directors appear to claim credit for any positive achievement, and concurrently refuse to be accountable or responsible for anything negative or any failure. This seems to have seeped down to the players too, with no one standing up to be counted when things get difficult and an arrogance against sides they deem to be beneath them, just showing up and expecting to win. We’ve seen it against Leeds, Burnley, Wrexham and even against Everton, as well as Quarabag earlier this season. It’s simply unacceptable for Chelsea Football Club. This toxic culture and poor performance from people employed by the club, has to end for us to be competitive again. Chelsea for me and many others, has always been about courage, character, everyone coming together, fighting for each other and the badge, against all odds, never giving up. It’s about community and family being together and fighting till the end, and even if we lose, to do it with pride, heart and courage. And I don’t see that at all at the club right now. Change is absolutely necessary. Wholesale change, from the top. Behdad and Clearlake aren’t going anywhere. Any attempt to force them out is pointless. So we have to try and persuade them to make the changes needed. I still believe they want to win, but I am and have been convinced for some time, they don’t know how to win - but think they do. They’re convinced their way is best, and will ultimately deliver success. They seem to think the people running the football side are doing a great job, when the evidence is clear to me and many of us that this is simply not the case. In my view, well over £600m has been wasted on players who aren’t good enough - and if even half of that waste had been spent well, chances are we’re comfortably in the top 3 right now. Not to mention the unhealthy club culture set from the top, and poor treatment of certain individuals employed by the club. Paul Winstanley and Laurence Stewart had never worked at a big club and never held a Sporting Director position before Chelsea. That’s the reality. They weren’t and aren’t proven best in class in those roles, and have proven not to be so multiple times since being appointed. They’ve been at the club nearly 3 and a half years, spent £1.6 billion, hired 3 managers and we’re no further forward in terms of results and status as a club. In fact, given now mathematically we can only match last season’s points total - and we won’t win every game - we’ve literally regressed as a team in terms of our league position and points. There’s simply no legitimate metric where you can see progress. (No, winning XG every game doesn’t count). They’ve signed multiple players who we now need to move on, way too many to account for any average of failures in the market which all clubs have. They’re poor negotiators, losing out on way too many players we should have secured. They’ve had a long time to prove themselves, to improve and been paid very well to do it. Their history before Chelsea means they will undoubtedly find other jobs. Winstanley for example has had interest from elsewhere. It’s time to accept that their time is up and move them on. Winstanley I think needs to leave completely. Stewart could be moved to oversee the multi club model, which is his area of expertise and experience. Then we need to be bold. This will require some humility in admitting the way we’ve done things hasn’t worked and we’re willing to change the structure and how we operate and a commitment to change. Although I’ll preface this by saying that in reality it’s unlikely, almost impossible for it to happen, and I know this. But humour me for a moment. Identify a proven elite Sporting Director. Just for arguments sake, the former Man City Sporting Director Txiki Begiristain. If Behdad is ambitious and serious, I’d advise aggressively recruiting him, or someone of his level to become CEO of Football for BlueCo and Head of Recruitment at Chelsea. Make him an offer he can’t refuse. Give him full power and authority over football decisions at Chelsea, to implement the ownership strategy of building to win trophies with young talent. But doing it well, like PSG, rather than how we’ve done it so far. Let him appoint his own manager and Sporting Director, who he can work with to collectively build an elite squad, with manager input, no micromanaging, full collaboration between him, Sporting Director and head coach, and build a winning culture. Behdad Eghbali could theroetically still have an influence in terms of strategy and budget, even discussions on football, but he needs to leave the big football decisions to the experts. Best in class experts, not our current staff. If the club make an appointment like Txiki Begiristain, respected globally in football, a serious operator with a track record, and are ruthless with the people who are failing at Chelsea, it’s a statement of intent. It shows the ownership are willing to admit they’ve made mistakes and are willing to learn from them, that standards being shown at Chelsea right now are simply not good enough, and to me sends a clear message they’re committed to winning. That kind of appointment and statement could even convince players to stay, it could convince an elite manager to join us (or at the very least a highly talented, proven young manager), and even convince some top players to join us even with the Europa League or Conference League. It will also send a message to our players that the current culture is over, and that we’re now serious about being an elite club and winning, and there are now higher standards. Finally of course, it calms the fans and might buy the owners a little more time. Letting a truly elite, top sporting director and a new coach work together to handle the squad building would change everything. I think it would create momentum and focus at the club, and clear direction of travel. It will still be a long way back and there’s a lot of work to do, regardless. It will take time, ups and downs and hard work to get where we want to be. Which brings me to the managerial situation. I’ve always been an advocate for patience and stability, with an elite manager. I do hope now, after what’s happening with Liam Rosenior, that our fanbase see that maybe it’s better not to get rid of a successful talented manager like Enzo Maresca just because he loses a few games. We have to back them and build with them, involve them in the long term strategy and team building, not micro manage them. If we have an elite manager, we have to be patient with them and back them. There is also, likewise, a time not to be patient with a manager. That is when said manager has shown they clearly are out of their depth and aren’t capable of managing at this level. I’ve never seen such a clear demonstration of this so quickly in my life as Liam Rosenior. I’m always patient with managers but I’ve never seen our entire fanbase, even the most patient ones, turn on a coach so quickly. And I’ve never wanted a manager to leave as quickly as I have Liam Rosenior. In my view, he has to go for the good of the club. Its a shame, as I like him as a person and he is a promising coach. I have a ton of respect for him taking full responsibility publicly for recent results, and going to the fans after the defeat to Everton to take the heat. But in reality, right now he is out of his depth as a coach at Chelsea, and clearly not the right man to take Chelsea forward. The sooner the club recognise that, the better. Liam’s appointment and its failure, is the product of a flawed and failing structure at Chelsea, and a culture of perceived arrogance which appears to excuse failure and avoid taking responsibility. Ironically enough, Liam himself is an exception to this, always taking responsibility for bad performances and defeats. But sadly, he’s got to go as much as those above him do, regardless of what happens in terms of results for the rest of the 25/26 season. If we make the tough choices, hire an elite sporting director, and change the culture and structure of the club and the roles of manager and sporting director, I believe we will find it easier hire a manager more worthy of the club and our ambitions. Personally, I’ve had enough unproven managers who’ve never won a thing and never worked or played for big clubs and won trophies. But realistically, that’s what they’ll go for again. There are two young-ish managers who are an exception to my tiring of young coaches, and I think could do a good job at Chelsea right now, in the right structure. These are Cesc Fabregas of Como, and Filipe Luis, currently unemployed after being bizarrely sacked by Flamengo. Both are ex-Chelsea, both have shown they’re well capable of managing at a competitive level. Cesc Fabregas in particular loves Chelsea and is a winner, who has won at big clubs as a player. He’s loved by the Chelsea fans, knows the demands of big clubs and how to deal with them. He’s done exceptionally well at Como, currently having them in the Champions League places, playing a style of football our current owners love. If the ownership want their own Arteta, an ex-player who can be an elite coach for the long term, Cesc is the prime candidate of this profile of manager. Filipe Luis meanwhile, has been hugely successful as a manager so far. At Flamengo he won several major trophies, even beating Enzo Maresca’s Chelsea in the Club World Cup. His last game in charge before his sacking, he won 8-0. He had talks with BlueCo over Chelsea and Strasbourg in January, so is definitely on our radar. He also has considerable experience as a player, winning trophies at Atletico Madrid, playing for Chelsea in the Premier League and being capped 44 times for the Brazil national team. Yes, he still needs to get one more badge to work in the PL, but you can easily find ways around this, for him to complete the badges If you’re going to go again with a younger long term appointment, make one of those two (Cesc would be my preference) an offer they can’t refuse. Give them influence (though not the final say), change the structure around them (no more micromanaging or undermining of coaches) and hire that elite SD for him to work with. Then back him in the market and listen to him on squad building. Other than that, if you make the changes I’ve suggested, you could try and find a more proven elite manager and put them in charge. It does require Behdad Eghbali to stop being so stubborn. Which, I know, appears almost impossible right now. Other than that, well if you do what I’d do with my top Sporting Director appointment, and change the structure, that makes top coaches more open to working with you. But I’m not going to speculate too much on that until we see what happens in the club in the next few months. Now I know, the chances are none of what I’ve advocated for will happen. I know this, I’m not naive. I know all the arguments as to why this won’t ever happen, and they’re probably right. But the only way I can process whats happening at the club right now is to think about possible solutions. Everything I’m advocating for I think is possible if we were ruthless, competent and decisive. However, I don’t have much faith they are or will be. I’m not living in a fantasy land, I know the reality. But I need to at least have in my own mind a way out of this mess, and I don’t think as its as difficult as it seems, if they are just willing to admit failures and make changes. The problem, as always, is the stubbornness of Behdad Eghbali and his unwillingness to change things thus far. What is beyond doubt, is big change and ruthless action is needed at the club. Changing the manager alone won’t change a thing, The problems are far bigger and deeper. Until those problems are acknowledged and tackled ruthlessly, then the fact is Chelsea will stagnate and not make progress in the next few years. Your move Behdad. The Score

Obvious because Maresca was like Pep in the way they instructed how players to be position and some players thrive in this. Otheres don't like it. But once that went and you get a downgrade like Liam, who the board loved and gave 6 years then I'm sure the players now realize that the board have no clue what they are doing and want out. I don't blame them...however it's never cool to down tools as people often say.

With the way the players have given up, there's no chance of UCL next season (which may actually be a good thing as Blueco won't be able to sign any big name flops). That gutless performance against Newcastle's second rate midfield said it all. They let Woltemade, Murphy and co run around the pitch without doing anything. No sense of urgency, playing at home, you should be trying to force a goal rather than pass the ball around for stats. Not sure what happened to Enzo, Caicedo, Palmer, even Pedro....all of them appear to be in 2nd gear and going through the motions. After the United game, the club should just play some youngsters like Walsh, Shim and others and give them experience for next season as we'll be out of the UCL race by a mile.

They said the squad was built for any manager to come in a use. They can’t even remember their own lies. Disgraceful ownership.

Maresca got outed because he was not listening to them, he wasn't a yes man and spoke against them. They look to money saving, they got that in the fucking glove puppet that is in charge now They are that thick that they cannot see what we can. Rosenior is telling us Sanchez is class, he then drops him for Jorgensen, then we see Sanchez today and he is garbage again but then you see people on here saying Sanchez is good. I said after people saying this that if our standards have dropped that far that we are thinking Rob Sanchez is decent you need to be locked up. These decisions are not just wrong they are bordering on suicidal

You mean the same Emery who isn't happy at Villa because he prefers to have control over transfers? Imagine him trying to work with Eghali and the Brighton boys.

If they were really using Arsenal as a model, they should have used Arteta as an example for reinforcing the backline. In all likelihood Arteta himself might have been influenced by title-winning Chelsea and Man Utd teams from the early 2000s.

If they'd built from the back, solid keeoer, shouty brick wall central defender, and impervious back four...but no, lets mix and match with no leaders. fucking joke.

And here we go with the 'internal noises' wasn't going to be long nor is it any surprise, he's a PE teacher way out of his depth an average squad, average team and mid club. Just awful

Finished club, I am done

I think he is worst than maresca, tbh

I fucking hate BLUECO.. I hate everything about them

🔵💙💥Reece James: “I’ve supported Chelsea for as long as I can remember. My love has never changed. I have the same feeling wearing a Chelsea shirt as I did when I was six years old. It matters to me. Every time. So when I’m out on the pitch, battling for the ball or trying to get us forward, know I’m one of you. That I feel what you feel. I’m representing our club, just in a different way.”

💥💪Steven Gerrard: “I'd take John Terry over Van Dijk any day, any time. John Terry was a warrior.” “No disrespect to VVD."

⏳️🔵✅️💪

Those comments are an Absolute disgrace and confirm everything we have been worried about. Still optimistic about our future under these blood sucking leeches? BLUECO OUT!

I want the name of the 'director' or I am going to go with 'fake news'. It sounds like fan fiction to me. Here is the whole post: https://notaprojectcfc.com/blog/

A mix of frustration and anger. Was never a 5-2 game. We had many occasions where we could scored a few and then a crazy last 10 minutes completely changed the game. I struggle to see how we overturn it. Not because we need to just make up 3 goals. We have seen it happen in the past, however more to do that we now play a tough game on Saturday whilst PSG have a whole week off, due to Ligue 1 postponing their upcoming fixture. To the game, thought Neto was very good. Caused a lot of problems. Enzo played well too. Team did in general. What annoyed me was the subs. Another game where Rosenior made subs to kind of preserve what we had and it ended up backfiring. I thought Garnacho should have come on earlier, with how stretched the game was. We were causing them issues out wide and on that big pitch, this is the type of game Garnacho could have made a real impact. Really frustrating because the scoreline suggests we got Spurs'd but we never. Just lapses in concentration. Keeper hugely at fault but is it their fault when the manager constantly keeps implying on playing out from the back. Stick with your philosophy, however sometimes respect the opposition.

I have said this for months, we can forget signing top class players for huge fees, it will not happen anymore. The way they operate now is either buying cheap and sending to Strasbourg or more of the same Garnacho type fees where you just simply get middle of the road players. No more 80/90/100M players, it's a loan to Strasbourg after a purchase of around 15M and/or already there and fetch him over.

I hope this settles the Sanchez vs Jorgensen debate. Sanchez has had a solid season and should have a lot more cleansheets to his name if we had any semblance of a normal defense.

My biggest worry in all of this is not the fact we have been beaten 5-2 or the keeper cannot pass water, but what the fuck has happened to Palmer? This bloke has disaapreared off the face of the earth and we are looking at players like Garnacho who have pulled us through games and played well for weeks.

Palmer has vanished, Sanchez is shite but he saves most of them goals tonight, manager is to blame for this performance just sat in his hands and did fuck all, PSG was proactive with subs and they won them the game

I haven’t logged in for a couple of months as I became a dad. Glad the lad is only a couple months old and won’t see anything from that season. Probably the worst season I have ever seen bar 15-16 if you take our potential into account. Absolute dross. Hope for a good summer, but probably won’t be with this owners. The manager talks like he has won 3 cl, but is as clueless as the board.

😀 Through to the quarters. Over land and Sea....and Wrexham ⚽

we have such an extraordinarily interesting group of ex Chels players to draw upon so diverse in all aspects cheers

Caicedo definitely struggled in that initial few months of joining but he then showed genuine quality later in the season and was a beast. Gittens showed maybe a couple of flashes so far and will not get the chance to do so again this season with this injury. The only reason we won’t be able to give up on him is because 1, he was so expensive so nobody would give us our money back and 2, he will be coming off of a serious injury. We’re stuck with him next season unless he goes out on loan. Garnacho from the start we knew what we were getting. He’ll frustrate the hell out all of us, he’ll look shocking some games and super effective other games, and he’ll put up decent numbers just like he did at Man United. So no chance he is sold. He’ll always be a decent option to have in the squad. The most expendable wide attacker therefore is obviously Pedro Neto. Thing is, I’m not sure I’d sell him either nor do I think the club/manager will want to either. For a large part of this season he has been our best winger and is a manager’s dream in that he works his ass off. If a huge offer came in we’d probably sell if he wanted to go but I don’t think we’d push him out. My guess therefore is that our only wide attacker “signing” taking into account everything I’ve just said will be Quenda. The idea that this club will go huge on a world class, £80m+ LW and then have 2 £50m ones on the bench seems super far fetched to me.

Amazing what happens when we show up...and keep 11 on the pitch!

That’s given as a pen 10 times out of 10 if it’s a Chelsea player doing it.

It wasn't that long ago... a few weeks, that I was excited about gameday. Will be watching from behind the sofa with Special Juan.

Liverpool’s choke job last night has given us a lifeline that was totally unexpected. More or less turns this into a UCL Final level pressure match for us. Legitimately a win or our PL season is over game. Both Villa and United will be completely beyond catching if they win tonight. Liverpool are as inconsistent as we are but at least they have easier fixtures than us. Let’s see what these players are made of when we desperately need a win. All 3 points for us could cause another monster late season collapse for Villa.

He wasn't a bad player here, just played different roles for Maresca and put in a good shift for us in the Conference League games. If the rumors are true and Everton goes for someone like Delap, watch him become a serviceable player again.

We really need Estevao back for this one.

Right well, another match watched from behind the sofa At best a point