cosmicway

I had a brief look at the premiership table. We have conceded 29 goals. At the top Arsenal 27, City 26, Newcastle 19, Spurs 41, United 37. The top two are just a little bit better defensively, Newcastle is a sort of odd man out with their 41-19, the others worse. So with this defense we could be even first in the table. It's true. The problem is upfront. Only 29 as opposed to Arsenal's 70, City's 71. So Chelsea is a team without attack really. From the new players Joao creates some good impressions but only some, Mudryk is so far a 100% failure. Maybe he has a future and we will be praising him later on but so far 100% fail. But the disease is we are a side without attack.

The comparison with 2020-21 is unrealistic. We were much much better then, not good enough to win the premier but beat Man. City 3 times out of 4. I agree there is really nothing to look forward to in the current season -our chances against bothr Real and City/Bayern are infinitessimal- but at least we can have a decent manager. Looking back to last August the season started terribly. Fresh from the Abramovitch adventure, Rudiger goes, basically we brought three new defenders Koulibaly-Cucurella-Fofana who did n't shine all that much really and the attack was not stregthened at all (Aube is a Joke, like Pato). So Tuchel finds himself in a corner does n't know what to do and we had some ridiculous results, Zagreb, Leeds and some others. Up to January I don't fancy Tuchel doing any better than Potter did - but he might have won that easy CL group just like Potter did. After January and the new players we brought Potter showed his utter incompetence (Southampton-Fulham-Spurs-Everton-Villa ...). There were the injuries too but one cannot find any justification for him, no sign of any improvement whatsoever. Now all we can do from now till May is to experiment.

This team is sick, Potter or no Potter, even after the January transfers. Forget the European opponents we had so far. Dortmund was somehing of an exception and the rest were League 1 teams. I think Potter was useless but all those bad performances they just can't be real. Even we were bribed to give the matches to Villa and Southampton we would say "listen guys, it's too obvious, we can't do it". Something is missing. Speed of movement comes to mind but what else ?

Why you don't like Unai ? We can break his contract.

Every manager we know has been sacked from somewhere. Pep from Barecelona for example. The special one from everywhere but he is still hopping around. However my man of the hour is Unai,

Galtier likely to be free as of tomorrow.

At fcucking last.

This is not the time nor the place to debate the relative merits of libs and labs. In Greece the all time democratic government of the people is considered to be the government of George Papandreou, 1963-65. But those of us who are old hands also remember it was the time of Panathinaikos A.O. biggest steals. Goals scored with the hand, referees, the notorious "suitcases" ... The confused people believe that Panathinaikos were the pet team of the military junta of 1967-74 and while this may be so to a certain extent, their biggest scandals were in the early sixties, not the junta period.

Even Mogg.

George Orwell's dystopian world of the future: - big brother - permanent Tory government - ration books - Graham Potter Chelsea manager

We 're back in the midseventies, days when the club was penniless.

If he was a politician his government would n't last one hour.

Mudryk is a flop with probability 90% now. Potter has to go. But the team on the pitch was Villa today. What do you think of Unai Emery ?

Potter magic.

No Willian, no Luiz, it was going to hit the pigeons anyways.

James looks cute with blonde hair.

Tuchel v. Potter. HMS Rodney v. Typee wooden raft.

Lukaku is not a bottler when given a chance. That's true and even if he misses some times remember that Diego was also missing some very easy goal opportunities some times. He can also go through opponents using his huge body, even though he is not a particularly good dribbler. But he is slow and of course getting slower as the years pass. I believe that the age of slow motion players is over.

It was Dr Jeckyl and mr Haydn with Tuchel in 20-21. Remember 5-2 defeat to WBA and then lost to Villa (when at the same time Spurs were bottling against Leicester). But we managed 4th and won the CL. I 'm the guy who never freaks out about managers. I have been following Chelsea but other teams as well. What invariably happens is players get old, weigh 175 kilos and the manager pays the ticket. Or some other horrible vendetta out of nowhere forces the divorce. I can recall a handful of cases where the above patterns did not apply and it was the manager's fault. But Potter is unfortunately one of those exceptions.

Arsenal are playing well - it's we who forgot football.

Tuchel - Conte - Mourinho. All with their pros and cons. But where you place Potter the useless ? He cannot even remotely compare with any of those three.

He was given some material do build something with. But the man does n't know the sport. Anything positive you see is the result of individual effort.

The 1st half was sh*t, no plan - no notrhing, The subs were sh*t. He dislodged the team. Everton are not a team for the division. Anyone else would have beaten us.

Sack the f*cking idiot Potter.

There is no plan of attack. Balls hit at random - against one of the weakest of the premier's team. Potter really must go.