cosmicway

Is it fair to accuse Boehly ? How much did Abramovitch spent from 2015 to 2021, average per year ? I don't believe Boehly personally judged the players he bought. We would n't expect him to do that, even if he was a 300 year old Englishman.

From what we see now there was no point in sacking Potter - given that we did not hire a permanent manager. My principal worry about Potter was lest he scraped home in the champions league with easy draws -Dortmund then maybe Milan or Inter- and then claim the position for next year. So I wanted him out after the 4-0 to City and the defeat to Fulham. But unfortunately Lampard is non existent. He can't even motivate anybody.

It's shocking. I 'm trying to dig into the past to see how similar situations were handled by various clubs. Well, it's true everybody with a name in business gets over it sooner or later - or almost everybody. But what they did was one of these two things: a) Huge injection of cash b) Send everybody home and start from point zero with youngsters.

Can't remember something similar. In the failed seasons of Mourinho-Conte we somewhat pull our legs towards the end. It looks that entire first team + bench all have to go, if that is possible.

I did n't expect us to be totally dominated as well.

Snooker players call this a fava bean.

They 're finding many shooting positions from the edge of the box. We can't do that against anybody. Should have been 3-0 to Brighton so far.

What is Real doing better ? First my comparison standard for Chelsea is the team of the previous two years and not today's team. What are they doing better then ? First they have Vinicious who is a phenomenal winger. Then Benzema who is n't a phenomenal centre forward but he is doing the job more than adequately. But the secret is in the midintervals. There the ball and the players become invisible ! If you do that then even a substitute c.f. like Remy, Demba Ba, Bats will find spaces and score. Compare to the (better) Chelsea: Laborious buildup, player with the ball has to try hard to keep possession, selects a simple pass to somebody who can't do much with it (most of the time that is). City in that department are like Real and maybe better. Barcelona who strangely are ten points ahead of Real in La Liga Santander are supposed to have invented the fast passing game (under Pep). They too are improving. Nothing like before, but they are improving. As for Chelsea we struggle hopelessly. Upfront we don't have any international stars anymore, but it's the overall movement not good I am inclined to think now after looking carefully at yesterday's match.

Everybody does well in the easy European matches of the autumn, including Lampard and Potter. The problems start after that. For a series of years we sign players who are at best mediocre and usually worthless. It's not because of lack of money and it's a mystery. Only 10% of the problem is due to TT of his last weeks with the club, Potter and Lampard it transpires. And I 'm not moaning because we lost to Real, a derby match. I 'm moaning because of Southampton and Aston Villa.

I wonder. I gave some specifications for striker qualities from what little technical knowledge I have in general chat. But so many failed signings over the years ?

We have n't got all the answers. If I knew about Aube-Sterling-other flops beforehand I would go to the British embassy, wring the military attache by the throat and get him to bring Boehly to me at once. I 'm only observing what is happening and compare with other teams.

We had terrace managers, now forum managers. We tend to avoid doing that yet some things are obvious.

Yes ok. I don't criticize Frank for using Felix but for me today's match proves conclusively he 's not one for the hall of fame. About Sterling I do criticize him. We saw him all these months and Ziyech / Pulisic are better options.

Against RM tonight one could see plainly how awful our attack is, in terms of individual efforts, movement. In the premier this is many times obscured because we have to play against brick walls of teams who park the bus and it's not obvious. Tonight against Real you saw the snail pace, inability to do even basic things. James too who was getting involved from the right wing had one of his worst games. I think Kai should have started and I 'm afraid the great white hope Joao is proven to be inferior or just inferior to Kai. Sterling no. Mount from the beginning maybe or Mudryk who is fast, but that of course hardly fixes things as we already know.

The semis are City v. Real, Inter - AC Milan / Napoli.

Pep = Man City

They can't lose to the Italians. They will lose to Pep and everybody will lose to this year's Pep team.

Against RM over there your best chance of escaping is not the clean sheet but to score goals. We kept it at 1-0 then conceded one more when we were ten but we were spineless and impotent (which is the hallmark of Chelsea this season).

Come on. Modric shot ? And Kepa was space age. We approoached Courtois two times all in all (Felix 2', Mount 92').

Pep knows what he 's doing. Mourinho also, less so than Pep maybe. Today Chelsea's transfer management is chaotic.

Chil's sending off situation was caused by Sterling. He sold the ball in attack like an idiot.

I even miss Ziyech.

Those attackers we have are Verona-Huelva-Galata Saray players.

You can expect some great attacking play from Real, but in 4 matches, 2021-2022, they did n't manage to screw us that badly, it used to be 50-50 us and them. This time we could n't put absolutely nothing up front - Gobi desert. Chelsea 's motm was Kepa.

Twice as impotent in attack with Felix and Sterling.