Vesper

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weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

great save by Sanchez

yes yes he did Cole is lucky

almost a 2nd yellow on Caicedo

woooot

that will be a pen for us

Josh often plays at RB it is not 'out of posotion' and Hato is out so Gusto is it in terms of LB (and yes, he is a right-footer so he is out of position)

goal stands

maybe handball

here we go again ffs

the board can fuck off

Some comment from Nizaar Kinsella on The BBC Chelsea have dropped more points from winning positions at home than any other team in the Premier League this season. It is a trend manager Enzo Maresca concedes is “not random” and he wants “to understand why”. It is especially frustrating for Chelsea as fast starters at Stamford Bridge, having scored first in eight of their past nine home matches. However, they have also dropped 11 points from winning positions at home - more than any other Premier League club. In total, Chelsea have surrendered 13 points from winning positions home and away, which equals the gap to league leaders Arsenal. Maresca’s substitutions have faced scrutiny before, notably in defeats with 10 men against Manchester United and Brighton earlier this season. Atalanta forward Charles De Ketelaere even suggested they “drop” in the second half after his side came from behind to beat Chelsea in their Champions League game in Italy earlier this month. While Maresca’s changes have occasionally worked, it has usually been when resting key players. Against Nottingham Forest and Brentford in the Premier League and Cardiff City in the Carabao Cup, he rotated heavily but ultimately relied on star players to secure wins. This has sparked a chicken-and-egg debate: some blame the lack of quality on the fringes of the squad, while others question Maresca’s handling of certain players. Chelsea rely on youth, and have had minimal impact from their changes in the Premier League this season. The average age of their starting XI is 24 years and 219 days, while substitutes average 21 years and 349 days - both are the youngest in the league. Alongside Arsenal, Chelsea make the earliest changes, averaging their first substitution at 48 minutes, often at half-time. Despite this, their substitutes have contributed only three goals and one assist in the league this season. - Nizaar Kinsella

Well done Behdad, you've made a 40 year fan apathetic Those running Chelsea are sabotaging our success. They don't care about the club or fans. https://siphillipstalkschelsea.substack.com/p/well-done-behdad-youve-made-a-40 I never thought I’d become apathetic about Chelsea. I’ve supported the club nearly 40 years, I love the club passionately, and I’ve sat through much worse times than this in terms of results and quality of the team. But right now I’m as close to apathy as it gets for me. I clearly was deluding myself that Behdad Eghbali or the Sporting Directors remotely care about fan opinion. They don’t. They insult our intelligence on a consistent basis with the constant briefings and have shown a total inability to build a competitive squad, when fans have made our concerns clear they have ignored us. They may even mock us behind the scenes. To me, that’s all disrespectful to the institution of Chelsea Football Club, and the fans, many of whom have been around for a long time. But they genuinely don’t care. And not only that, if things go wrong they won’t look at themselves or their actions/decisions or the strategy and take responsibility, they will sack the manager and continue the same way, as if they’d done nothing wrong. They’re kidding themselves if they think they are elite football operators. They’re the David Brents of Sporting Directors. Big egos, full of themselves, looking to take credit and never take responsibility, and have an inflated view of their own ability. We’re a joke of a football club. No one takes us seriously as a major contender for the biggest honours, we don’t operate like an elite high performance operation. Now, even established elite players don’t even see us as a club who can win the big trophies anytime soon, as we’ve seen with the Semenyo saga. We were about 4th on his list, at best. Embarrassing. I’ve almost resigned myself to being a top 4/top 5 team and a good cup team for the foreseeable future, because the people running the club don’t have the ability or courage to take us any further. I used to have hope we’d challenge for the title soon, now that hope is gone. £1.6 billion to make us a side who scraps for top 4, has some good cup runs, and still needs about 3-4 elite players to make the next step up. Sorry, but that’s a shoddy, awful performance. There’s no way around it. Its abysmal squad building, and every manager is ignored and sabotaged by those above him. I can’t criticise the manager too much when he’s working with an arm tied behind his back. Let me be clear. There’s not too much wrong with the plan or strategy itself, this is not my issue, bar some tweaks. I’m still fully behind the long term strategy. The issue is the people executing the plan. And even though they’ll read this they won’t care, they’ll probably laugh at this and me, as if someone who’s followed the club for 40 years knows nothing about this club or football. From all I can see don’t care about or respect fans opinions, they act like the worst of the fanbase represent the whole fanbase. It really does come across to us that they think they’re the most knowledgeable people on football to have ever lived and have some secret way to succeed, when the evidence is to the contrary. A complete lack of self awareness and humility. Man City, Arsenal and Liverpool wouldn’t touch them with a barge pole. They and Behdad Eghbali are a genuine embarrassment to Chelsea. If they had an ounce of courage or shame they’d admit their mistakes and rectify them. Making mistakes can happen to anyone, not learning from them is unforgivable. Co-owner Todd Boehly, who has proven to be a real winner, someone who knows what it takes to succeed in sports and how elite sports operations are run, must be fit to bind, whatever he says in public. It’s been well reported he’d have a lone sporting director, an elite one, a few more established players and step back from day to day running to allow football people to be in charge. How an elite club SHOULD operate. So well done to Behdad and the SDs, they’ve made one of the longest serving most passionate Chelsea fans completely apathetic. That’s probably what they want though, they don’t want real fans, they want customers who’ll pay big money to come to games, and kill the atmosphere. They don’t know what football or Chelsea really means. They’re making us a soulless shell. They’re so arrogant and up themselves regarding football, they probably have no shame. No character, no courage, no winning mentality. I’m sorry if that hurts, but if they don’t like being criticised, then maybe they need to stop giving the impression they don’t care and know it all, do their jobs properly, and respect the fans. Because frankly they insult our intelligence on a consistent basis. I’d honestly love them to prove me wrong. I just want Chelsea to win, unlike them I don’t care about being proven wrong, because my ego isn’t dependent on it. So if they prove me wrong I’ll say it publicly. But the odds are they won’t. It involves them admitting they have made mistakes and actually rectifying them all. And I have no faith that will happen anymore. We’ll keep signing talented youngsters, great. But we need some 23-26 year olds who still fit the model but are more established and able to contribute immediately. Semenyo instead of Gittens, Guehi instead of Sarr. Those two signings last summer and we’re likely near the top of the league right now instead of level with Man United and Sunderland. To spend £1.6 billion and be there is down right embarrassing. Just give me a bit of hope. Because I and many other fans are almost done with this shit show.

Analysis of Chelsea’s signings since Winstanley is worryingly damning I'm not sure many will disagree too much with this, unfortunately https://siphillipstalkschelsea.substack.com/p/analysis-of-chelseas-signings-since This is not an analysis written by me, but it’s an analysis that I actually find it hard to disagree with, mostly at least. I think every single person in this community has had a gripe around Chelsea’s recruitment under this owners. Of course, we’ve had gripes about recruitment under the previous ownership as well. But right now, that’s irrelevant. We are here and now. The amount of money spent on this squad that still has gaping holes that 99% of us can all see, is quite literally absurd. How are we about to go into yet another couple of transfer windows and still need to make more big signings? It’s beyond belief really and we can all see it. I’ve tried to be consistent with my opinion on current Chelsea, even after we won the Club World Cup. I’ve never been satisfied with what I’m seeing from the squad build, and with analysis like this below, it’s easy to see why. Chelsea fan and former Chelsea TV staff, Jake Heasman, posted this on his X account: ‘Analysis of Chelsea’s signings since Winstanley. ‘42 signings, 3 genuine hits. ‘93% of signings have been misses or had minimal impact. Some in the balance. ‘£1.2bn spent. 89% on players under 25. ‘6 of these signings sold for profit, 4 made a loss. ‘It’s time for change.’ We can debate the hits and misses but I don’t think this is far wrong, in my view. Enzo Fernandez might be the only genuine debate here. I do rate him, I just think that really the Premier League is just too much for him, he doesn’t quite have the athleticism and physicality to compete with the big, fast, and energetic midfielders that we have in this league, and he is often ghosted out by them. It’s that simple for me. But even still, this analysis is truly damning and honestly, I’m running out of words to say on it all. I’m just genuinely in disbelief. Jake is right, it needs to change, and change NOW!

The Clown Show casting call

£72m or so combined

Maresca injury update on regular starter could be terrible news for Chelsea – one game out at least https://Chelsea.news/2025/12/maresca-injury-update-regular-starter-terrible-news/ Enzo Maresca has just taken his press conference after Chelsea’s defeat to Aston Villa in the Premier League this evening. The manager had to address a few topics, including how his team had been unable to complete their win despite a dominant first half performance and a lead. “In this moment it’s difficult to analyse because we need to understand again why when we concede a goal we struggle to manage the game in a better way,” the manager said. “Again, it can be experience or it can be that we need to analyse and we need to understand that.” Maresca has bad news update on Cucurella after sub Also on the agenda was Marc Cucurella, who was taken off in the second half as part of a series of changes which really took the wind out of his team’s sails and altered the course of the game. “Because he was complaining about hamstring, so we don’t know if it’s an injury now or not. So he asked for the change,” Maresca said. Cucurella has been played to the limit this season, and it’s quite amazing that he hasn’t already picked up an injury. Even if this is just a minor bit of soreness, they surely have to now rest the Spaniard on Tuesday night. Otherwise they risk losing him for more time just as things start to get busy. So even in the best case, we will be looking at a game out for Cucu. In other news… Maresca also spoke about the decision to take off Cole Palmer, who reacted with some frustration to the decision. Despite Chelsea dominating (and despite scoring their goal), Joao Pedro was just not good enough for Chelsea in the game, failing to create enough threat for his team.

‘Leave Him in 2025’ - Chelsea Have Moved on From 5/10 Dud After Aston Villa Nightmare https://www.givemesport.com/Chelsea-aston-villa-benoit-badiashile-should-be-left-in-2025/ Benoit Badiashile Endures Torrid Evening vs Villa Although Chelsea were very impressive in the first half and good value for their lead, everything slowly started to shift in the second 45 minutes. Gradually, Maresca's side began to lose control of the game as Villa poured forward, with the Blues losing momentum and ultimately three points. A huge reason for that was because of the frantic nature to their defending following the introduction of Ollie Watkins. The English striker gave Emery's side someone to play off and he started to cause problems for Benoit Badiashile, who went from composed and calm in the first half to lost at sea for much of the second. It was the French international's mistake which ultimately led to Villa's equaliser, as he gave the ball away in a dangerous area, which then allowed Rogers to play Watkins in for the equaliser. But there was plenty more to dislike about his performance, with him giving away possession six times. There's been a widespread consensus that Chelsea's depth at centre-back simply isn't good enough to take them to the next level, and Badiashile's performance on Saturday evening helped confirm that the Blues need better options to challenge for the league. Handed a 5/10 in GIVEMESPORT's player ratings from the game, Maresca will want to see much improved performances if he's to retain faith in the 24-year-old. Chelsea Supporters Want Badiashile Gone While the club hierarchy and coaching staff might be willing to give Badiashile time to prove himself for the remainder of the season, Chelsea fans have had enough of him. Some have called for him to be sold when the January transfer window opens, with one writing on social media: "We need to leave Badiashile in 2025. Genuinely one of the worst defenders we’ve ever employed." Those thoughts were shared by many other furious supporters. Another added: "Badiashile starting is at least at a -1 handicap in every single game. Prove me wrong." One more said: "Sanchez did all he could, Badiashile with another bozo moment. Totally unacceptable and unnecessary." And a fellow Blues supporter, writing after Villa's first goal, stated: "All of that came from Badiashile. Get rid of this guy, why does he actually have fans in this fanbase?" Journalist Hugh Woozencroft also joined the debate, writing: "Badiashile. How on earth can he start games of this magnitude. He's been playing tennis for the last 15 minutes and inevitably plays a loose ball which leads to the Villa equaliser." And a final supporter summed up the general mood towards the centre-back, stating: "I don’t want Badiashile to start for us ever again."

oldest average age side in the EPL (Villa) versus youngest (Chels) and they are not 'ancient old' they have a lot of players in prime years or near it and they (and Emery as well) do not often panic 18 games in to the league, they have taken 18 points now from losing positions

what a load of bollocks I never claimed to be right all the time you are the one who went snowflake because you cannot apprently handle Villa getting some credit I blame us (board, players, and Maresca) but I also give Emery and Villa credit both things can be true, it is not an 'all or nothing' thing not my problem that you cannot deal with that

stop now or there will be consequences

fair enough

Sunderland (they play Leeds at home) can go above us AND Palace (play Sprus at home) can draw even on points