Supermonkey92

If we get kovacic it won't be disastrous. I still expect top 6. We must have a limit to how poor next season is even if it is a write off. We should still be in the top 6. That's basically it lol. We should aim for sorting wheat from chaff too. CHO and RLC should still get around half a season. Emerson should be finally start the season as number 1. Reece James should be given league cup and FA Cup games at least. I guess Abraham should be given the chance. Plus Castillo. Next season we should have a good idea over which youngsters are good enough and which are not. This will help when we can go into the transfer market again. We should also look to see what players in the squad are good enough. There's still questions over Barkley, Christensen, Batshuayi, Giroud (I've already written of Alonso). This season should be an audition for the hopefully rebuild next summer. Willian and Pedro are ticking away. Fuck the happy clappy good vibes. If you aren't good enough this season you go next summer. Of course 'good enough' is case by case. Castillo and Reece James will be judged to a different standard than Emerson and Azpi. Pulisic and CHO will be held to different standards to Willian and Pedro as will Abraham be judged differently to Michy. Nonetheless, we aren't a fucking charity. You make hard decisions, and if a youngster is Luke warm make no bones about selling him.

It's not like we won't support him as manager. We're realists. Good vibes and memories don't translate to a good coach. It's not like we are going to be unhappy if he wins. But if shit hits the fan because we relied on youth in a premier league with a reinvigorated City, Liverpool and Spurs, we can't his our heads in the sand.

Yes. July 8th.

Is it obvious I'm ready to pounce?

It's fucking ridiculous. Morata €70m? Jorginho 50m Bakayoko 40m Drinkwater 35m Kepa I won't begrudge. It's too early to shit on Pulisic (those two combined for €140m?)

C'mon rafa!

But it was against pub players

Let's get Eddie Howe

Zouma hopefully back too.

This guy has Moratas petulance and the athleticism of Alonso lol

Whilst it's not official I'll be brutally honest - if he had no history with the club he wouldn't even be considered. Does anyone think his showing last season is good enough for Chelsea? Let's call it what it is. Next season is a right off. Top 4 can't be expected. It's as the rumours say, he's here to boost morale and for the 'feel good factor'. Lampard will be coming to be successful, but for the more sober people not personally involved it should be obvious this is a ploy to keep the fans happy at least until the ban is over. Then we can look to our next fucking rebuild (what's that 4 in 8 years?). Good thing for frank is that there isn't much pressure. Take it from a pessimist like me, as long as we don't finish 7th or below, frank can hold his head high.

Don't think Lampard is ready for this level. He has ONE YEAR of managerial experience, in the Championship and was regularly out thought by leeds and villa. There's no world class big names out there, so going for a bit of risk is fine. I have no idea why we don't go for Eddie Howe. Plays good football, consistently done well with Bournemouth. He's flexible, not scared to play 2 strikers. Has experience against City, Liverpool and Tottenham. He deserves a shot at the top in my opinion. Wait until Lampard is ready

Sarri will have them playing much better football than the dross against ajax. They were so predictable going wide and looking to cross for Ronaldo. It's whether he sorts the centre midfield out that will determine his success

Sarri is going to kick was next season. Imagine winning Europa league one season then champions league the next

He's such a legend

If favour blanc over allegri. His record was average before he inherited Contes juventus

Yes. We improved in the second half of the season. Easily beaten by Liverpool and city but that a because of the difference in players. That's not down to the manager. Jorginho also improved. Plus without hazard i expect us to be better defensively. To press better, to move the ball quicker (he holds on to it for quite long). Pulisic can press and has good movement. I expect CHO to continue his development as with RLC when they are back. Emerson will have taken a starting position and I would hope Reece James puts Azpi under pressure. In short, I think Sarri would have been able to stamp his style on better. I'm actually disappointed he's leaving.

This is shit. At least kovacic and Higuain are loans

I hope he stays but he's no Antonio Conte. He lacks charisma. Then when the transfer ban is sorted we can look for a new coach to rebuild. Hopefully on a team that is decent with possession (and dangerous!)

What you on about. Let's see how excellent the next three years are. If we buy smart and consistently look to tweak strengths and weaknesses I'll go back to a Roman man. If we buy fuck all but stupid donkeys for stupid money then him and his yes men need to go for some actually we structured approaches instead

And this ladies and gents is proof our club is heading for the shitter

If he's got a plane ticket and hotel rooms booked then I'll take all including the printed-on-cardboard ticket he has. If not I'll pass.

Sarri isn't as stubborn as he was. He is adapting but slowing. Don't jump on me, I didn't say he was NO LONGER stubborn I said he was less stubborn. He grew more confident in CHO. He dropped kovacic for RLC towards the end. He dropped Alonso for Emerson. He doesn't even start Higuain every game because he can see it's not working. He won't be successful in my view next season but i don't think he'd be a disaster, a little stability (that's including some stable performances) wouldn't hurt in this turmoil. Without Hazard, we may well have to play more quick passes. It's a shame Ruben got injured as well as CHO

Zappscosta looked dangerously close to breaking the record of hitting the first man from EVERY FUCKING CROSS. Also, from the moment he crosses the halfway line he only ever looks at the grass

That fat lazy count just came on and walks away from the ball. Where's the fucking desire