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He did nothing special. 2 CS basically glorified friendlies. Fa Cup and League Cup also many wins on penalties and they always had easy run with lucky draws. Mancini and Pellegrini also won PL. Pep 2/4, ok 3rd is coming this season. But they were pretty much favorites numero uno every time. In CL embarrassing. 4 times and every time they got knocked out against inferior side. And how much he spent? Billion? NET SPENT is very important and only thing I have issues with in terms of FFP. If Chelsea spent 500m but also sell players for 400m this is fine. -100. But City is by far worst in Europe in this because they barely sell anyone. This is why you cant say everyone is spending money like that. First two years in City Pep spent around 530m and sell players for 125m. This should not be legal. This is how I rate managers: They can overachieve, underachieve and do expected. Pep in his career did expected in 35-40% and failed other times. Conte title here, Ranieri title in LC has more value because they overachieved. Counting trophies you can say he won 2 German DFB Pokals in 3 season with Bayern but the real question is how he managed not to won all 3 times since Bayern is so superior team in Germany. Also Bayern won CL before him and after him. Not with him. And we can argue if VAR existed back than he would not even won CL with Barca because we know what happened with Ovrebo in 2009 but also against Arsenal in 2011 at Camp Nou. RVP red card changed everything. Imagine him in Palace for example. There are tons on managers who would do better job there. He cannot implement his style without world class players.

I saw Jorginho in training today on pics (you also posted). He just had small knock.

I agree with most but no chance Billy starts over Kovacic who just finished his int. break. He had 2 of 3 starts for Croatia. Tomorrow day off and two days to prepare the game. Also I assume Kai, Mount and Rudiger will all start tomorrow which means they would have started all 3 games for their countries. WBA is early kick off on Saturday so too early for them. My front 3 would be Ziyech - Werner - Pulisic. They are fresh. Werner still didn't start for Germany. Pulisic just had 2 friendlies and is already in Cobham in training. Ziyech also didn't start tonight so just one game basically for Morocco. Also let Hakim and Puli continue where they stopped before int. break. Hakim scored 2 in last 2 games and Pulisic had assist against Atletico and was motm against Sheffield. Let's see who starts with Azpi and Silva but considering it's just WBA it will be great chance to try Silva and Chris together in back 3 for the first time.

Giroud playground.

Is this really true? Portugal has just around 300 Covid cases per day. And oh the irony... We could not play in Spain against Atletico but now we may 😆

Iniesta is from Principe? Hahaha

Not sure how @Jasonis feeling. Probably happy because Werner is not starting again and will be fresh for Chelsea. But also sad because he is not quality to start for Germany.

For Serbs Kosovo is not even a country 😂 jokes aside, Sweden should win comfy.

Nah, Turkey has really good team. I bet on them against Norway and Holland is also nothing special.

Chris also rested. Nice.

No VAR I think in qualifications in general.

No goal line technology lol Ronaldo scored in the last seconds.

Not only that Tuchel fixed our defense but I think he is slowly improving our underperforming attackers. Kai, Pulisic and Ziyech didn't do much this season under Frank. When Tuchel came here he didn't put them in lineup right away. And it was logical thing to do. They needed time. First start for Kai after a while was Everton and he was great. It was the same against Atletico. He also changed his position. It was the same with Ziyech. After Wolves he didn't see the pitch for long period. But last 2 games 2 goals and one was from the bench. Even Pulisic is showing signs of progress. Assist against Atletico and motm last game. Werner also can only become better. So I remain optimistic for next season with Tuchel even if we don't sign any new attacking players.

On the bench today. Nice.

https://www.carbuyer.co.uk/peugeot/308/173416/new-2021-peugeot-308-unveiled I like new Peugeot design. Not just with this model. They are back.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/23/style/vladimir-putin-siberia-photos.html CRITICS NOTEBOOK The Art of the Vladimir Putin Photo Shoot The Russian president has posed for some new publicity stills amid the snowy Siberian landscape. Photos recently released by the Kremlin show President Vladimir Putin of Russia walking through the Siberian wilderness in coordinated cold-weather gear.Credit...Kremlin pool photo by Alexei Druzhinin, via Associated Press By Vanessa Friedman March 23, 2021 There are photo shoots, there are presidential photo shoots — and then there are Vladimir Putin presidential photo shoots. Rarely has the leader of a global power embraced the staged publicity still with such creative, yet clichéd, fervor, not just feeding the global desire for a caricature of himself, but actually creating it. Cue, for example, his latest propaganda foray, released by the Kremlin, as bilateral relations with the United States turn frosty, and with the Russian opposition leader Aleksei A. Navalny’s description of Mr. Putin as “Vladimir, the Poisoner of Underpants” still reverberating through the air. Image The Russian president is also depicted driving an all-terrain vehicle.Credit...Kremlin pool photo by Alexey Druzhinin, via Agence France-Presse/Getty Images In a series of photos of Mr. Putin on a weekend jaunt to the snowy Siberian taiga, the 68-year-old president is shown in his usual favorite outdoor setting, displaying his connection to nature, manly toughness and appreciation of country. In the vastness of the largely empty landscape, he looms large. At least that was probably the idea. He is, to be specific, caught — as if by chance! — looking serious and steely behind the wheel of a camo-covered all-terrain vehicle so giant it seems nothing could stop it; posing knee-deep in a snowy drift while wearing a plush-yet-cozy sheepskin jacket, matching pants and ivory turtleneck and looking piercingly toward the future; calmly navigating a rickety bridge over a frozen river with his defense minister, Sergei Shoygu, trailing behind; and then enjoying a bracing outdoor picnic of sausages and crudités with Mr. Shoygu (who is wearing a matching outfit) at a table covered in a white cloth, fur blankets tossed over the benches and metal mugs raised in harmony. Thanks for reading The Times. Subscribe to The Times Cold? What cold? Image And another of the Siberian photos has Mr. Putin knee-deep in a snowy drift, wearing a plush-yet-cozy sheepskin jacket, matching pants and ivory turtleneck.Credit...Kremlin pool photo by Alexei Druzhinin, via Associated Press Most political leaders favor sanctioned pictures of themselves looking serious and hard at work in the office. President Obama, for example, often posed behind his desk and with sleeves rolled up. President Emmanuel Macron of France famously released a “making of” video about his official portrait, depicting himself carefully arranging various symbolic accessories on his desk. But Mr. Putin has always opted for a different approach. One that emphasizes the physical over namby-pamby paper-pushing, and speaks to old stereotypes of virility, strength and machismo. Not to mention good health. The kind that allows you to stay in office for a long time. It has become a sort of absurdist art form unto itself. He was pictured, for example, in a similar sheepskin outfit in 2010 — though without the matching fur hat and mittens — riding through the Siberian snow on horseback, and on a trip to the Russian Arctic, hugging a polar bear. He has ridden a motorbike in black leather (a photo that was so popular, a British company, Matchless London, named a jacket in his honor), played ice hockey (making many goals) and worked out with the Russian judo team. This action-man framing reached its apogee in 2017, when Mr. Putin was photographed mostly bare chested while hunting, spearfishing and otherwise pursuing manly activities in the Siberian outdoors. Afterward, he was caught basking shirtless in the sun, eyes hidden by black shades. Image In 2017, Mr. Putin’s hunting and fishing trip included sunbathing in wraparound shades.Credit...Kremlin pool photo by Alexei Nikolsky, via Reuters “How could you not vote for a torso like that?” a Moscow newspaper asked at the time. It probably only seemed like a rhetorical question. By 2019, Mr. Putin had pivoted his image-making to shots that referenced his bond with the earth rather than his dominance of the same, posing while sitting peacefully in a field clutching a bouquet of wildflowers he presumably picked himself, or reclining on a craggy tor. Nevertheless, he remained costumed in shades of olive green and silhouettes that resembled fatigues. The implicit messaging was still tough. It was just more about tough love. The new Siberia photos are firmly in line with this tradition. If they are not exactly subtle — indeed, the image-making is so obvious, it has inspired a fair share of social media ridicule and memes — it is also true that when it comes to Mr. Putin, subtlety has never really been part of the … well, picture.

So when we see a lot of changes in lineup under Tuchel it is not because he is resting players but because he thinks that lineup is the best.

He would play RWB for Tuchel. Is what we have better? CHO just said he feels comfortable as LW and AM. Basically meaning he does not want to play wing back at least not in the long run. James is straggling in this position. Corona has 47 assists since start of the 18/19 season. Not sure any player in Europe has more apart from KDB and Bruno. If Tuchel continues this formation we would probably need new RWB at least for rotation. I want guy from your country but hard to imagine Inter would let him go. So Corona is not a bad option.

It is sad how some random dudes online are more creative than Nike.

Hopefully be back for Porto in 13 days. But now easy games coming in so we dont need him for WBA for example or Palace. We need him for the last 4 PL games, City in Cup, semi final CL...

I think we want Haaland because it is one in the lifetime chance. Otherwise, if we cannot get him, I would not be surprised if we sell Tammy or Giroud leave without new guy coming in. One of them stays plus Kai and Timo can play there.

All 3 Chelsea players with a assist. Tho this game does not tell anything. It is San Marino. Worst NT in the universe.

You should watch Zlatan return.