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To be honest, since 2012 the club went on an erratic direction. I firmly believe that hiring Mourinho again in 2013 and Conte in 2016 was a costly decision. I mean, the club was slowly moving from physical squad + "marquee players" approach and started to invest in promising + skilled players. Back in the day it seemed the club was building a squad for Guardiola, then, when he decided that Bayern was a better destination, the club hired the anti-Guardiola. I mean, at some point mourinho had Juan Mata, KDB, Lukaku and Salah on his squad. One season later, all of them were gone. Then, we bought Costa and Fabregas, and even though we won the PL for the first time in 5 years, those decisions showed a club that was lacking any kind of long term strategy or a clear path. When Mourinho was sacked, we were interest in different managers with different football philosophies. For example, the Sampaoli was interviewed and at some point he was considered the number 1 option, but due to his poor english, the club appointed Conte. I mean, again the club was lacking any kind of clear path. Conte won the PL in his first year, but after the whole Costa saga it was clear he tenure would be short, and it was also clear there was something wrong inside the club. Conte decided by himself to "fire" Costa from the team, without consulting the club hierarchy, and this happened because there was no synergy between the manager and the board. Instead of firing Conte asap, the club decided to give him a full season despited of a relationship that was broken beyond repair. Conte spent the whole season moaning and complaining in his conferences. Just like Mourinho, Conte barely used any player from academy and most of young and "promising" player that were bought during those years spent years on loan somewhere else and never had any chance of proving their value inside the club. After Conte, there was Sarri. The only problem was: a manager like Sarri came in 5 years too late. When Sarri decided to move back to Italy, the club came up with the baffling decision to appoint Frank Lampard as the head coach. To be honest, I do believe that hiring Lampard in 2018 was even worse than hiring Graham Potter. Lampard is one of the worst managers in PL history. Then, we appointed Tuchel, another "short term results" kind of appointment. Boehly doesn't have a clue about football, so there is no doubt that most of his decisions are based on the advice of people inside the club. I would say that most of his decisions this season are decisions that you could easily see the club making under the previous ownership in recent years. This season is actually pretty similar to what happened in 2015/2016 season, and I would say that season was even worse because in the beginning of it everyone was picking us to easily win the PL again. Yeah, Boehly took it to another new level, but lets not pretend the club was in a great shape before. After 2012, something went wrong along the way and City left us behind. Boehly mistakes are basically hiring a terrible manager + paying big money for average players, not really different from that the club have been doing in past 10 years. After Potter fiasco, its clear the club will name a head coach with previous experience in a big club, exactly the same pattern we saw in past 12 or 15 years: club hires a "promising" manager without previous experience in a big club - "promising" manager is a fiasco and is fired - club appoint an interim - club hires a manager with previous experience in a big club. I would say the biggest difference right now is that before we used to get 2 or 3 expensive average players per season, while Boehly got something like 20 of them in a single season.

The answer wasn't hiring a shitty manager for big money, and pretending he was a world class one.

The club is fighting against relegation. LMAO Great job Boehly! Great job!

For me there is only one man for the job right now: Jose Mourinho. He has Chelsea connections, he was there in the beginning of Roman Abramovich era, and he knows what it took to turn this club into a powerhouse. He wont take shit from Todd Boehly and still has massive support from fan base. While I like Pochettino, I think he will survive a single season if he is appointed.

Nobody outside "Twitter Chelsea" and "Reddit Chelsea" can understand why we bought him in the first place, and nobody outside that Chelsea social media bubble thinks he was worth the price.

Its incredible how day by day Boehly looks even and even more clownish. Weeks ago he was sending PR pieces to press comparing Potter and Arteta to build the narrative that "giving the manager time" pays off, and right now Arteta just blew the PL trophy in a spectacular way. LMAO

Marina would probbaly get all those players combined for 120m, instead of 500m.

"Everyone on here was gagging for the player we got". So, it makes everyone here look like a fool, because the players we got exactly what I said: mediocre. The squad right now is no better than teams like Newcastle or Aston Villa. The fact we paid 500m on those guys doesnt mean they are great. This is by far the weakest squad of past 20 years, and not good enough to even finish inside top 4.

We are 10 points away from relegation zone, and we wont win another game this season. At this point there is no way Todd Boehly will invest 2.5 billion in a new stadium, he probably is asking himself why in the hell he decided to buy a "soccer" club in the first place. We are no Manchester United or Barcelona, and the club relied heavily on trophies, European football and top 4 PL finish. The club right now faces a very dark future: huge debts coming from 500m used to buy mediocre players, poor results will affect the finances (less prize money, less money from sponsors, less money from tv, less money from ticket sales), I'm afraid the club is going down the Leeds route...

Gusto and Nkunku are not going to turn us into a much better side, specially when Gusto is not more than a Reece James backup. About getting players that other teams wanted, if other clubs want to pay 30m for a donkey, it doesnt mean we should pay 50m for them.

You are not wrong, that's why spending 500m on those players is simply ludicrous. Some fans thought it was a signal that the new owners are committed...I see this as another signal that they just dont know what they are doing.

Real got Rodry, Vini, Benzema, Valverde, Camavinga, Modric, Kroos. LOL We got Enzo, Gallagher, Harvetz, João Felix, Mudryk and Sterling. 😭😭 After spending 500m on players, we look like a Conference League side. 🤡🤡

Seriously: I can't believe some fools on Twitter and Reddit can't accept Todd is THE reason for the current mess, just because he spent 500m on players. I mean, come on guys. We bought this kind of players with that amount of cash: Cucurella, Mudryk, 2 Fofanas, Badiashile, Gusto, Madueke, Colwill, Sterling, Nkunku, overpriced Enzo and João Felix on an ultra expensive loan. Let me be clear here: none of those players are or ever will be world class players. Its just amusing and shocking that we spent 500m players on a bunch of average players, and I'm quite comfortable in saying that right now we are weaker than we were last season in pretty much every position of the field, but right now we won't be able to spend big for a good amount of years, without risking suffering penalties from both UEFA and Premier League. We are doomed and we must accept that we are going to suffer what Manchester and Arsenal fans suffered in past 10 years: supporting a club that became a laughing stock and that nobody respects. It will take years, if not decades, before we are a top club again, in terms of results and it won't happen under the current owners, unless they simply walk away from football activity and let people who understand the game run the club.

LMAO Thats for people who used to call the club a "circus" under previous management. Thats what a circus look like. The new owner is a clown and is clueless.

YES!!!

I dont hate Potter. He isnt the one to blame. However I do hate the American owner. The clown destroyed the club in the space of few months.

Cucurella is the heir to David Luiz. 😍

He was great yesterday, but I'm not sure yet if he is worth the price tag.

Years from now, this will be on every "top 10 worst PL transfers of all time" list. This transfer was pretty weird and never made sense. Nobody was talking about this guy as one of the next big things in Europe just months ago, the out of nowhere Arsenal and Chelsea were in a race to sign him...them we got him for a ridiculous amount of money, the social media started to beg everyone to follow him on Instagram, he was presented as some sort of football megastar. That was a new low for the club. I wholeheartedly believe he was signed for political reasons, the new owners probably wanted him o become the next face of club to distance us from the roots of the previous owner. The thing is: he isn't good enough, and Potter needed results fast and new owners had to save theirs faces. Potter isn't punishing Mudryk, Potter at the moment is only concerned about saving his job, he gave Pulisic minutes yesterday for one simple reason: Pulisic is a better player.

Boehly is destroying Chelsea faster than Musk is destroying Twitter.

He is inly 49 years old. 😢 So, let's hope he gets bored or embarrassed pretty quickly and decides to sell the club asap.

The squad isn't better than it was last season. The club is basically overpaying for players like Mudryk.

Potter won't get sacked because the owner doesn't want to look like a clown, even though that's exactly what he is. Weeks ago Arteta "success" with Arsenal was supposed to the model the club was following, and now is pretty clear Arteta won't win anything with Arsenal this season (again). The club is a mess right now.

The result was better than expected.

Words cant describe how average and boring to watch Mason Mount is.