Vesper

well deserved! I feel so bad for the poor bastards shelling out a tonne of quid to take their fams to watch this SHIT

is Carney injured? he is not even on the bench again

bring on Datro Fofana at HT!!!

yes Carlos Pedroza, the taco lorry driver

shit, so close

how the fuck is that not a yellow on thug Mangala????

Gallagher has the nous of a piece of chalk

Lewis Hall is playing at League One level

Sterling is just beyond shit

we are just shambolic in very area arffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff

ffs here we go again fuck off mendy!!!!!

jfc I am going to perhaps end up actually hoping we lose to both Citeh and NUFC just to cock block Arse from winning the EPL and then from either Pool or Manure from both getting CL

fuckers are going to cock it up and BOTH Pool and Manure will get CL grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

lol, Big Sam cracks me up would have rather had him as interim just for the laughs

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Chelsea set to appoint Chris Jurasek as chief executive https://theathletic.com/4512913/2023/05/12/Chelsea-chris-jurasek/ Chelsea are set to appoint Chris Jurasek as the club’s new chief executive. Jurasek has been working as an operating executive for Clearlake Capital — the US private equity firm that now co-owns Chelsea alongside a consortium of investors including Todd Boehly. Jurasek was also chief executive of a business funded by the California-based private equity firm and has already attended some business meetings in view of taking the position at the west London club, where he will aid Boehly in overseeing proceedings. Tom Glick, who was appointed as the president of business at Chelsea in July 2022, is expected to report to Jurasek once he officially begins the role. Glick previously worked at New York City FC and the City Football Group and was chief executive at Derby County in the 2000s. Chelsea have endured a testing season on the pitch in what is Clearlake and Boehley’s first season at the helm. Over two transfer windows, Chelsea spent more than £500million ($626m) but with results sorely lacking, both Thomas Tuchel and Graham Potter were sacked as head coach. Frank Lampard is now in interim charge with a permanent successor to Potter not yet announced. Former Tottenham Hotspur boss Mauricio Pochettino is top of the list to succeed the Englishman. GO DEEPER How were Chelsea allowed to spend so much in the January transfer window?

@bigbluewillie You want Thiago to leave?? You made a sad face over that tweet that said he is likely staying.

the thing that REALLY worries me about Lavia he is their key defensive non back 4 player and they are the worst team in the league by far (IMHO and also in the table) and are being relegated

IMHO, I am a bit wary of dropping over £50m on Ugarte much rather have Manu (used the first name Kouadio until this season or so) Koné, who is more, athletic, versatile, and a somewhat better on the ball player now that said I do think that our scouting is MUCH better atm, so surely they will not take him if the truly think the following is an issue: some of my hesitation is that Ugarte in the games I watched him, is too rash and a might be a yellow card magnet in the reputation-driven shit PGMOL structure of picking on players who get a rep for rashness (the EPL is the worst for this, where refs carry into games far too much reliance past perceived experiences and go looking for players they think are predisposed to being goons, unless of course it is Manure or Pool, then they let most things slide, including that cunt thug Fabinho spitting on Hazard and getting fuckall for punishment, grrrr, and McTominay and Fred getting away with murder so often) I admit that maybe I just happened to see a bad sample of games with Ugarte. you can see some of the rashness here I do think he has the potential to be a great partner for Enzo as a more crunching style DMF, and I do love top Uruguayan players on balance, they usually have huge motors I am not going to lose my mind if we buy him (unlike many we have purchased, like KK (at the age he is), Drinkwater (probably my biggest tantrum) CuCu (massive tantrum by me too, especially as we on on the hook from £118m in toto, ffs), Auba, Sterling, Pulisic, Ziyech, Kepa, Bobblehead Luiz (the 2nd time, not the first) Baba, Higs, Zappacosta, and Lukaku) I was not happy with Sarr (and went bonkers when he actually started to play, he is one of the worst footballers we have brought in in the last 10 years), but he was a free, and finally, Barkley was cheap and worth the shot. I cannot add Bakadonkey to that list, as I did not lose my mind when we bought him, he was my biggest bust in terms of players I thought would work out here who were utter SHIT.

he has played well but with the rise of Rodrygo as their prime RWer, Valverde (who often played winger) drops back to MF with the old heads Kroos and Modric in the big games, like most of the CL knockout stage so far Camavinga, another superb MF player, has had to shift to fullback to get regular playing time (and has down amazingly well at LB, which has really staniled Real's left side) I think Real always were the only team in the CL who could possibly knock off Citeh in a 2 leg tie as log as Benz is healthy, just due to their incredible Eiro cip record, drive, talent, and experience I still expect Citeh to beat them in Manchester, but zero shock if Real somehow get to the final, where either Citeh or Real will destroy either Milan side, IMHO there is some chatter that IF Bellingham does indeed fo to Real (they are the clear frontrunners atm) that maybe, mayve Tchou will be sold, bit I so so doubt that as Kroos and Modric simply cannot go on forever Real are the one great team who do not really use an AMF system (Valverde is the closest they have but he far more often plays as a CMF or a winger) IF Bellingham does go there, and they keep Tchou, they easily have the best MF on the planet, especially for 2023/04, as I expect that Kroos and Modric stay for at least one more season Real will have 2 of the up 3 over 30yo MFers still in Kroos and Modric (the 3rd is of course De Bruyne, but he is an AMF, not a CMF nor a trad DMF nor a deep holding DMF) then as for 30yo and younger non AMF MFers they would have all the top ones except for 4 (Barca's Pedri and Gavi, plus Kimmich and then, a wee bit down, Barella): Bellingham Valverde Tchou Camavinga the only other top top (at the level of all those players listed above on any team) MFers left, who I have not yet listed so far are all AMFs: Musiala Wirtz Bernardo Silva and (although he is more of an SS so I hesitate to include him), a HEALTHY Nkunku bottom line I do not think Real sell Tchou, and I do think they get Bellingham, so Real will be fucking loaded at MF I think the only MF players of any type (assuming Real does pull Bellingham) that the insanely spoilt Real fans look out and say, damn, I would so wish he also had them are these 4: (De Bruyne, but he would necessitate a change in their playing structure, although if he was younger (he turns 33 right after next season ends) they might do) plus 3 who would not really entail a change like that: Kimmich, Gavi, and Pedri (and the last two are hated as they are Barca, lolol, BUT zero chance Real would turn them down IF they had a way to get the, which they do not) They would take Barella I am sure IF they truly craved him, but I do not see that 'he is a top 1 or 2 2 target for a window' level in the past nor the present. Kimmich would be a perfect Modric deep holding replacement, but he is Bayern for life, I think, or at least until he is too old to be truly still at Real level as a full time starter (he has around 4 more seasons at that level IMHO, as I do not see him as Modric freak level older MF player, in terms of MFs Modric is atm one of kind).

it really could be nil 6

horrid call

wow, overturned

VAR may reverse