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Nah nah nah. The club needs massive overhaul in all the structures, that's true, but it's not the reason people are upset. People are upset, because throwing away who we are and suddenly starting to think of ourselves as lower-mid-table team and proving it with handing the wheel to amateur manager + transfer policy in form of buying the same type of random, uninspiring players but thrice the price is not the way to go. No problem with missing out on CL with Lampard and transfer ban, but missing out on CL because we are being managed by whoever he is, enforced with Everton-level transfer intake is, indeed, a disgrace. Serious question: What, in particular, is the aim of process aka "new direction" Boehly is trying to pull off? Hire shitty, sub par personnel, spend 3-4 years mid table to mold this pack into top 4 contenders? Same thing could be achived (or rather, stamped, as top4 was less uncertain under TT anyway) in a whim, just by getting Tuchel players he wanted and/or hiring sporting director (not someone Boehly found behind dumpster and liked his "vision"). Rebuild is supposed to let us step up, not go down to come back to exact same spot, just with extra steps, suffering and money.

I don't recall him being mentioned here before. I hope club considers him proven enough, as jumping on 100 mil + transfers because someone performed in 10 WC games is the most idiotic thing club can do, so that's exactly the thing I'd expect Chelsea to do.

Boehly and Potter seem to share the same, corporate mode of operation when they reassure each other with buzzowords like vision, plan, long term process etc and this reassurance is far more important, than the material reality. Plus Potter seem to be very confident of his position in the club, so as long as we favor facts over pr statements, we are doomed.

Just get the rest of Brighton here, what's a difference anyway…

I guess it's not like he could bail out of transfer prepared for months because he didn't like the game. If it's done, it's done. And btw, it was just one of many horrendous Chelsea games, so either players are aware of what goes on in the club or are a dumbasses and deserve being shafted.

Funny how top managers will not hesitate to say "I am a knobhead, don't know what I was thinking and the players were shit tonight, move on" and others will say this meaningless stuff and start dancing in circles. Not the right character for this position. Hell, just pick up the phone and apologize to TT, it's that easy 😆 The worst part is that inability to sack Potter is not only about Boehly's ego, but admitting obvious mistake here would be indirectly admitting all the transfers and changes in club done by him could be just as bad and this is obviously out of the realm of possibility.

To add injury to insult, the funniest yet 1000% Chelsea thing is that we are now stuck with unsackable guy, who never should have been appointed in the first place and every sane person knew it well from the beginning.

Yeah, the subtle difference is at the time, I didn't doubt TT has a skill and character to turn it around given time and support because well, rough patches are part of this sport, and I guess I wasn't only one. However now, oh weeellll… I'm not so sure. Funny thing I could find excuses when AVB, Frank or Evil Mou's version were dragging us down, yet now I can't. And it's all on TB btw, can't blame Potter for being the level he is, he didn't hire himself here.

Funny how by solely reading this board one could see from far away our manager's strongest cards seem to be a) being English (lol) b) somehow not dropping mid-table team to Championship (lol), yet some people still seem to be surprised by what they seeing. He could be appointed as board consultant, technical director or whoever, but never a manager of huge, ambitious clubs. Pond wayyy too deep for him, and now Boehly will never have a guts to admit the mistake and fix it.

We are in such a bad position game-wise, sport-wise, managerial-wise and board-wise it's more of a comedy than the tragedy at this point

Okay, I could excuse Frank dropping us to bottom half, but the Potter comedian, just piss off. And let's not even start on how we badly need another 120 transfers to come good - TT did exceptional from the start with much worse pack.

Okay, this folk is mid-table level at best. I sincerely congratulate those seeing tactical mastermind in him. Maybe he will develop into top-level manager, but I would wholeheartedly prefer him developing outside Chelsea until he's done.

"I prefer not to speak. If I speak, I'm in big trouble" But hey, at least club trusts him endlessly.

Yeah, 7D chess from City, but it's not like Benfica can let themselves not sell the guy, because they don't have a replacement they wanted. Not with this kind of money.

Let aside numbers, that are not quite there, like with most of those wonderkids, report were he had very tough relation with manager, who expected him to defend. He was upset when not played, upset when not played right, upset when something was demanded from him and generally didn't present himself very level-headed reportedly. To different extent, but it smells Dembele vibes for me and I doubt we need this kind of character in the club ever, especially now. Plus, as someone mentioned, it all comes down to typical issue of what you can do in Spain, you can't really repeat in EPL.

They aren't Chelsea, that's it 😶

Those prices are mad, mind-boggling what happened to football economy. Don't want to be pessimistic, but looks like it goes much easier to Pool or City to make an impactful move for peanuts, whereas we will be after 4-5 100 million + players and there's no guarantee it will overhaul us, let alone we've overpaid for pretty much everyone in the previous window.

Well, at least this time except losing key player to injury, we've also got 3 points with much worse side to go with it, so that's a good thing.

WTF, we do everything possible to put Kepa in hot water with those lousy backpassess, don't we?

Wow, doing what we are supposed to do is a rare sight in recent years, now just don't freaking switch off

Dunno, last time I've seen football shirt-pulls were a no-no

Haha, so typical way of officiating Chelsea games

I don't get why some people seem to enjoy he isn't doing well, but Lamps failure and Mou demise only prove that motivator-type, tactics and sport-science comes later managers are not enough for top flight football nowadays

This is a non-questionable must win game for Chelsea, if there's a "huge game" pressure, it's only because the team, including Potter, had caused this situation

Funny how we seem to be into buying wonderkids everyone was after 3 years ago, just as unproven and undeveloped, yet thrice the price lol. But likes of (new) Fofana may be a sign of good change here.