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Still don't really get what's up with hate on him here, but fans are just fans. Meanwhile freezing him out of the team for half a season is just laughable and reminds the previous Lampard's stint. Not really surprised he didn't agree the contract if currently he may be seen everywhere between 1st GK and 6th GK, with possibility of being left out of the team for two years because why not.

Reports are Auba will be let go like Barkley did if he agrees to it. And it's just a start. It will be a catastrophe of garage sale this window, may as well just put those players in megastore and will probably gain bigger profit from it.

Problem is, he is sorta good at tap ins when he has a lot of space and this situation rarely occurs in PL since a good decade. Don't want to say "waste of space", but having such a limited player, that needs to be additionally serviced by other players is unaffordable luxury nowadays in this league. We've seen what happened when Tuchel tried to incorporate him in the tactic. Such striker type is just obsolete, Lewandowski for example realized it like 6 or so years ago and started to press and do buildup. He may do well in Italy, Germany or wherever. Meanwhile I don't have much doubts Havertz, Noni or whoever really will tap into open goal when unmarked, actually they are more mobile than Rom, problem is, they hardly have an opportunity to do it outside Cobham.

Don't see much point in thinking Potter would do better. The squad was totally destroyed mentally under Potter and when he was finally sacked, another subpar manager was appointed, so they went full fuck it mode as any hope was snubbed. Lampard may sound good for fans, but I doubt likes of Mudryk or Madueke actually know who Frank and the whole "Legendary Chelsea" is. And likes of Sterling don't give a fuck.

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Dunno, I'd rather be more concerned with our specatular form and noble 12th place, than brag about "ending Arsenal's title chances" cause, well, they at least have the title chances. Time to get to work instead of be looking for poor man's prizes.

Yeah, sounds heart warming, but no club would ever done this, for a reason. "Chelsea" and manager are two different things. Managers tend to last only so long. Imagine where would we be now, if club had let go everyone, who didn't fancy Potter's management 😂 Would we be spending another 600 million now to form some squad back now? There will always be someone unhappy, that's just how things are.

So given our happy mandem is reaching,like, 50, I think we will either be ripped financially, as the clubs will be aware we are desperate to sell, or, I hope, have the satellite club thing, or better, two clubs, lined up so we can divide our team into practically three not bad teams.

Like usual, watch them spring into beast mode the moment they leave Chelsea…

Well, I guess what draws people to support Chelsea is not only glory, but also the ever-present circus factor as well. Roman's ownership was ruthless and hardly emotional, perhaps just as most of his business empire. Meanwhile Clearlake guys came with a Musk-like "visionary" approach and thought they will patch up their understandable lack of knowledge and competence with cash and sprinkled it with some terrible staffing decisions. I'd say it could work in something like Ligue 1, but unfortunately EPL level is so high such deficiencies and trying to fake things here and there mean we are being obliterated. It's hard to say it's not on TB and BE - they tried to pull the "youth" project and didn't push actually playing the youth. They ruined morale even further with appointing busloads of players and humiliating us numerous times. They were pushing the laughable "oUr dAtA sHoWs…" spiel for way too long. They made mistakes. But if they wouldn't learn from them, they'd be long bankrupt I guess. Something that makes me not hate them is fact, that I have yet to find a reason to doubt they have good intentions and genuine enthusiasm and it's something not easy to come by in this days of clubs ownership structures. Just need to let go off micromanagement and make some on-point recruitment and there's a chance that things will start to flow.

Anyone with a quick 101? What will be our derby games in Championship? Any major rules differences? What do we need to know?

Wait, wasn't Poch available when Tuchel was sacked? All this shithousery, Potter, not sacking Potter due to no suitable replacement and now 47 rounds of talks with everyone including my drunk uncle to do what was perfectly possible to do in the begining?

Whoever they will come up with, I hope they won't toss a ten year contract on him because "they like the energy and share a common vision for the project".

Nothing personal against him, but fact that he was laughed off here for years and now pretty much everyone is between fine and enthusiastic with idea of appointing him just shows how low we have fallen.

And Saudis or Chinese investment firm will take over? Not optimal imho 🙄

You really need to put some effort not to win Bundesliga with Bayern, but still it was more about the personal dynamics and tabloid scandal.

We can have all the opinions possible, as we'll never found out. In his sacking season he didn't lose two games in a row (actually always winning next game), in CL winning season lost to Brentford also. But where do you think a single lose to Southampton was going? You anticipated a record worst performance in last 25 years from this? "Turnaround" after single game lost? And it's not like Potter didn't lose to Southampton as well. Anyway, it's not about Tuchel as I said. No "elite" manager is drawing to Forest (with all respect), getting battered by Brighton, Fulham or Leeds with this squad. Or at least isn't making easy things super hard. No elite manager is sticking to players who fail every game and hopes that we will win by their individual effort as we have no serious tactics in place. And I'm quite sure any elite manager is doing to at least some of our summer signings the same thing that Tuchel did to Rudiger. Meanwhile the most expensive pack in history is just wasted and Championship-level for now. Particularly sad thing is it stared to be full blown during the managerial change and that's one of the things that irritates me the most - we had all lost with the "vision" bs.

Well, I guess we could be suffering as well, but we'd easily have 15 or so more points from effortlessly winnable games, where we were basically trashed tactically and selection-wise. With Tuchel, but also Sarri, Mou, Conte or any manager, experienced in the trade. Also morale is a thing. It's different to have 10 games to go and have Europa League secured, and different with 10 games to go and relegation not being an abstract concept.

Generally not, but the Lukkaku signing bears a feeling of a lot of desperation, ambition, pettiness, miscommunication and drama, not exactly happening on manager level but rather way higher up. Besides, manager's targets list is one thing, but the Tottenham documentary portrayed just Levy and his people, digging up people on their computer after failing one target after another, no manager involved. May not be the case for City and such, but with enough level of crisis in club, I guess this kind of stuff may be happening quite often. It's just as much sport as it is business after all (yeah, we have Pulisic in the team btw).

Let's not fool ourselves, managers are not the one making transfers, even in such a mess of structure as we were in Tuchel's final days here. They can make suggestions or wishlists, but that's all. Boehly actually wanted more input from manager, so I guess he didn't get it from TT too much. All those players are not first choice. Esp. hard to think Tuchel dreamt of Lukkaku, who doesn't fit his system at all and hindered our tactics and effectiveness like nothing else, but was kind of desperate Marina move. Also all those quotes are quite standard press conference bs. No manager ever went with "oh, the idiots upstairs failed at getting the right players, so I'll have to put up with this useless dumbass they've got somehow as I can't really bench him eternally".

Don't give me hope. Owners not shafting themselves into buying him (for a hefty price ofc) would actually surprise me. Don't know how much input Tuchel actually had there (and if he had one, what he wanted to do with them), but Cucu was probably 7th best option and first that club could secure, Koulibaly was an elite defender and Sterling seemed a typical Marina-style reasonable business. Too bad players usually don't quite flourish after coming to Chelsea. I'd be just us worried with Defender Fofana's fee and wages and Mudryk's (and most of others) fees. Actually, Badiashile looks like the only sensible deal tbh.

Yeah, just as above, I guess he isn't unemployed and wasn't actually fired, but relieved from his duty with the team, yet still on Bayern's payroll. Not that it makes their negotiation position super strong, but still.

Not like he wasn't PSG player before, so it shouldn't be very new situation to him… 👀

Poch before Enrique? Well, I can already feel that no matter who will be rejected, they will come to trash us with inferior team on the very first occasion.

Yeah, everybody knows it, but say it aloud is very brave and rather extreme move, unseen in times of corporate correctness. Risky, but in only show how on the edge the players who actually care are…