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Do they really want to make Chelsea a cross between West Ham and Queens Park Rangers ? The clubs who sell their good players are doomed. Maybe somebody makes money, maybe these players like to move, but the clubs are doomed.

Potter did something like that to ill effect. Poch replicated Potter early on then changed his mind. Still we need a better defense like when we had Kante and Rudiger in the team and also note that now Thiago is gone.

The new Cucurella was a pleasant surprise, he played his part. But as I said the drawback of all this is no clean sheets and Bournemouth the day before created a horrendous amount of chances. The statistics also show it: More goals scored but also more conceded.

This fellow verifies me about the Poch system:

You are not counting properly because some other times we 've been lucky. For example the Solanke chance in the last match - that was -2 points, indefferent but -2 points.

Poch was playing something like Potterball - Mouball but without the talent of an Eden Hazard up front or the killer instinct of an Olivier Giroud. He changed his ways and it worked somehow (also Palmer's contribution cannot be understated).

I explained his innovation and why we won the last six games. If we could find a way not to be compromised unduly in the back then it is perfect.

The Tuchel team of September 2022 was sick. Some European successes in 2022-23 with Tuchel and Potter don't count because they were lower level teams (except Real Madrid who smacked us). Recovery takes some time, especially when we are no longer into big power transfers (the likes of Mbappe for example). This fellow George Benson in the video above seems to share my suspicion that Poch was sacked because he demanded reinforcements. He also suggests the clownlakies are out to sell Gallagher and Challobar.

See this:

One reason many managers get sacked at this time of the year is they ask for reinforcements. None is forthcoming, they don't like it and they get sacked or sack themselves. Could it be one of those ?

Has Klop retired from football ?

Brtn did not impress me this year. I liked Bournemouth better.

Poch's secret of latter day success is he dispensed with man to man marking. The running off the ball was to find spaces and create attacking situations rather than "safety first" - hence we were able to score more goals. The drawback was no clean sheets. Another thing going for him was many of the opposition were tired. Spurs and Villa for example did not last the marathon. I don't know, do you approve of this ? Or are you looking forward to a Mou type of system ? But the last Mou team had of course teeth up front. Eden - Diego - Cesc. Anyway with the exception of the Arsenal match we were happy the last few weeks. The big titles "Poch out" all but disappeared. Overall he was better than Tuchel in his last two months - Potter - Lamps but now whether we like it or not some new adventure begins.

Iraola is good. Also Unai.

Current odds for next Chelsea manager via Sky Bet Roberto De Zerbi- 15/8 Ruben Amorim- 5/1 Kieran McKenna- 6/1 Sebastian Hoeness- 6/1 Thomas Tuchel- 7/1 Jose Mourinho- 10/1 Antonio Conte- 16/1 Julian Nagelsmann- 16/1

Ok. Let's have Eghbali then as long as he knows what he is doing (and I 'm not assuming either that he does or he does n't). Let's wait for his choice.

I 've been watching football for centuries. My first visit to a football stadium was in March 1959, when I kicked the radio man as I have told you. His sister in law, the judge's wife, told me he was supporting a rival team so I kicked him. Well, the occasions when I saw a manager making a team or breaking a team are rare and few between. Typically if the squad is poor they can't buy a 100 million x 11 new squad, so the manager gets the blame. Typically also if they actually do have the 100 million x 11, then any old chap they take as manager becomes a hero. There are exceptions - managers who made history. The exception verifies the rule. Ferenc Pushkas imo never became a great manager. But with the crop of players he had plus his name he became a hero for Panathinaikos in the seventies. Stefan Bobek the other Panathinaikos great hero, unfairly sacked by the junta, upon his return in 1975 did n't last for more than a couple of months - but the team was old and going no place. Now with this Pochettino story I can buy it if the clownlakies already have something better in the oven. Otherwise ?

We have seen some improvement the last two months, bar the Arsenal result. Poch worked out a system -at last- and our scoring was significantly improved. That was the biggest problem. Against Nottingham Forest for example back in September if we had scored three would anyone bother with Forest getting back one ? Overall he did n't make it and we saw the likes of Spurs and Aston Villa finishing above us. Plus the horrendous injury list, yet is he to blame for that or some other department ? I hope the blueprints of the improvement we saw lately will not be lost as a result of the change of guard. But who will be the next one ?

A cup final is always a cup final. Remember Sunderland. But Pep wants it. He wanted the five-tuple now he can only do a double.

The new Poch system is to abandon man to man. This makes scoring easier but the drawback is the opposition have a field day up front. Eventually the defense and Solanke had to perform many heroics.

Chanko:

Eurovision is rigged that way or commandeered rather. I don't know if they will destroy European family or want to destroy it but it's commandeered. I personally believe the LGBTs are driven by the desire to become prime ministers, chancelors of the exchequer, rather than because they want to destroy any European family. You then gave your precious 1 euros to vote Nemo thinking that he (she - it) represents the said type of trend and you would n't have given it otherwise. Indications are he does n't represent.

So it's the perfect recipe to cheat it sounds.

Are the Scottish highlanders non-binary ?

I did not say I have not understood the definition. What I said is Nemo was cheating according to the reports.