Vegetable

He gets all the criticism rn (partly rightfully so) and people want him out, but given it's Chelsea, I can already see him being played in his natural position in Pool, City or whatever and suddenly turning out the second coming of Salah and De Bruyne in one body.

Yeah, but what "building" means at this level in particular? The "building" have sense in a club that is in third division and going to the top. When club is already top, the "build" is pretty much about mentality and identity to continue winning, not to start winning. We are not quite the Newcastle or early City case. Maybe somewhat close to Pool, but still starting from bit different point. The Arsenal comparisons, don't even get me started, that's insulting. The closest we were to "building" at this level as I see it we were with Mourinho and Tuchel. Elite winners, that identify with the club, coming to conquer even more. What was Potter with his impressive 31% win rate in mid-table club supposed to do in a club that had just won everything I still don't know. You don't send a fella to Real or PSG to tech those guys how to pass. Such clubs need leader inspire to thrive, not to learn the basics. You have coaching staff for this, preferably of top specialists. Meanwhile that whole spiel sounds like Boehly took the CL winning club and now is trying to repeat the Leicester's from zero to hero story with it. But we are far from zero, I'd dare to say. Would be ridiculous to get some travelling salesmen or long-time Tottenham manager to build the Chelsea identity - that smells of what PSG is doing. A lot of people said it already, but seriously, given who is available, sacking Tuchel was not shooting the club in the foot, it was cutting the legs away on waist-level.

At least he seems to be in one piece. Looked horrible tbh.

I was rather leaning towards crossing Poch out of the lists 🤪

Rumors are Tottenham are looking to bring Poch back and not extend Conte's contract, that runs out this year.

I still have a gut feeling that Mudryk may have more problems with his mind, than his skill. He looks super dense, stressed and chaotic in everything he does on the pitch and the more it doesn't work, the more he is pushing, leading to more chaos. Funny, given we have just hired the super deluxe mentality coach.

For the love of lord just hope the club can make everything for this fella to avoid the injuries

Not sure, if playing 4231 with a team that lacks "1" is logical move tbh. But just wanted to have a little laugh at "what fans wanted" part, because just look into the transfer part of this forum and try to imagine wtf would happen to this club if Roman would be buying players fans wanted 😅 Turns out the "logical" moves people call for are maybe logical, but not productive and there could be some point to previous manager's stubbornness… Maybe they just knew what they are doing after all? I hope the answer is not "to prove the point", as it would be a terrible news for all of us for next 10 years.

I know it's not smart to seek sense or essence in press talk, but if we had actually "did enough to score" we'd… you know, score. Apparently, we didn't after all…

Wasn't Tuchel actually pushing to make it wider? Edit: He did: https://thetransferroom.com/Chelsea/thomas-tuchel-hints-at-stamford-bridge-pitch-extension-under-new-Chelsea-owners Also I think I can recall Sarri talking about it, but can't find source.

Yeah, the average number doesn't really tell much usually, but thought it's interesting context anyway

Interestingly, it would be bang on league's average, that is highest of all top leagues:

This is something that bugs me. This "project", especially after previous two windows and potential third being big pretty much hangs on CL money. I thought missing on Europe this year is pretty much a disaster and reduces the transfer ambitions already due to FFP, but twice? We'd be pretty much forced to start from scratch and it will have an impact on us for years. I'm sure they simulated this variant as one of many, but how probable they thought it was?

British journos to the rescue already 😂 I wanted to say that I'd expect some official stance from club after this, because if it will be another "It is understood Boehly keeps faith in Potter" via some local psychofan I will fucking snap, but he was faster 😅

Waiting for statement on Azpi's condition still, seems more bothering than another somewhat non-surprising loss…

I think there would be zero tension in this thread if only people would understand the small detail that most of (reasonable) people calling for managerial change are not seeing the idea of sticking to a single manager for while as a problem, but the person of Potter himself and his lack of capacity to handle such project at this level. Like seriously, if we've gotten, say, Conte in and decided to support him no matter what, hardly anyone except some reactionists would complain. And why you are trying to take some personal stabs on people with different view on the matter of Graham freaking Potter I cannot understand. Not quite worth it man.

Except chants for Tuchel? 😂 Btw, don't even get me started on "local fans argument". Suggesting Boehly has blind trust in Potter seeing those scenes is actually insulting him, yet again I wonder whether people taking bliss in sticking to Potter are actually supporting the club or just trolling and wanting it to fail, like seriously. Loosing to last team in table with interim manager on own ground is sackable offence itself at this level, not even to mention previous 15 games.

What are you trying to defend here, mate? 😂

Should have ended few games ago tbh…

Absolutely expecting this shit coming in 10 minutes

What's the point of dragging this suffering any longer?

Havertz going full Zouma there.

Doesn't look good… Hope for the best for Azpi

Shit, that's shambles. That's what I've said in Potter's thread a while ago - players will get themselves together for CL, because they care and don't need a manager, not the same story in the league. The "improvement" we've seen was an odd game, not the new normal.