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Of course it is not implausible, but Keith Wyness states it as a fact that we have breached the rules and that we are getting banned. The rules are extraordinarily complicated and to know if you are in breach and to what extent you need to work at the football club and understand how they are doing the accounting. Our situation is unbelievably complicated for loads of reasons including the forced takeover due to Government sanctions, and many other factors - it is completely impossible to know what is going to happen and anyone that says otherwise obviously has an agenda and has a lack of interest in honesty. What do know is so far the owners have been fantastic at finding a way to stay within the rules and have clearly thought deeply with the best advisors on how to run the club from a financial and accounting perspective.

Lol, another known Chelsea hater says everything is doom and gloom and we are 100% getting banned, club due to be dissolved, there's someone saying it every week for years and years Not only he says we are definitely in breach of the rules (which he cannot know) but also what our punishment would be if we are (which he also cannot know). Of course he assumes absolute worst in both cases Typical sensationalist nonsense.

So glad I don't pay for Sky these days. Cannot stand the state of it with the pundits they're using. All that money and they can't string together an intelligent group to talk about football for 15 mins at half time. So many possible people they could go for, from the various ex-footballers who clearly had high IQ, to various managers either currently out of a job or retired. Even some of the content creators on Youtube and Twitter are 100x more intelligent and insightful than the lot Sky put together. What a fucking waste of money.

Some referees just want to make the game about them, thin skin, no understanding of the game or ability to keep their cool and think about the game on a deeper level. Still, rather he be a ref than a policeman, he'd probably be arresting and/or shooting at random Chelsea fans just for existing.

Was Sancho our signing of 2024? Early days but might be a ridiculously big upgrade on LW after putting up with Sterling, Mudryk and CHILWELL.

Jammy win, the type we used to get all the time when we were good. We're back baby! Hope the ref takes early retirement.

The XI + bench certainly feels a lot better than last season, even with some key players out. Excited to have real football back. Also we usually look way better away from home with our excellent away support. Kinda hopeful & curious to see Sancho come off the bench today.

Injury management I guess. Bad pitches, low quality opposition, tournament that is just to give some minutes to squad players. Logical. Is Nkunku in the squad? Probably a little damning about where he's viewed in the pecking order if so...those 3 are obviously being protected as they are viewed as important for EPL. Poch would have had them starting every game and doing the Gacon test daily in prep.

Reece is probably next in the bomb squad unfortunately...

To be fair, that is very encouraging - there is the chance that Osimhen has been awfully misrepresented here. Guess we'll see what decisions he makes in January to find out. Should never have come to this, worst case scenario should have been a dry loan to Chelsea - if he wanted to be taken seriously as a top player.

He was playing as a right sided 8/10 vs a deep block, as far as I recall. The strategy to break it down was for Caicedo to drop very deep (literally into the back line) and progress the ball down the sides of the field, before playing it inside, OR after players get dragged around and sucked towards Caicedo, play it into the gap left in midfield which someone (Palmer or Enzo) then had to drop into to receive and turn. It was pretty effective at times but definitely very ineffective at times too - we looked more threatening in some of the moments where he chose not to drop deep for it. Very much WIP like everything the team is doing, frustrating but inevitable. I am sure this is not "the way we're using him now" or something but just the way he may have to play some times vs deep blocks as an inevitable consequence if teams will play a 5-3 structure at the back against us.

Is there really still a conversation to be had about this? Maresca has shown he is willing & happy to drop anyone and that he is picking players based on how they perform and how hard they work in training, not on price tags or how big their name is. It will be interesting to see what he does when Lavia is finally back and he has that headache and a choice to make. We were a better side with him in it and wont be surprised if Enzo is dropped to the bench if he cannot improve his level quickly.

2 goals and an assist for NJ in 3 PL games, what a player Enzo should be first in line to be dropped after today, but few played well. Referee should be stood down after a performance like that, never any consequences for incompetence for referees, but there needs to be. Certainly shouldn't be getting paid.

Of course we are the team to give Palace their first point of the season. We are ALWAYS the team that teams turn their bad run around against, been like this for years. Also we're still rubbish at home and amazing away from home.

Guehi should be in trouble for that, just elbowed Enzo in the face and looked very deliberate

Osimhen misses all the time bro, he's not Haaland

Was that a beautiful Mudryk pass btw?

The commentator for real has dementia

Yes agreed, ref clearly has a bet on 0 reds today

Really one of those days... Enzo, Cole Palmer, Madueke (and others) all taking terrible touches, missing simple passes

I love NJ but he is lacking in intelligence I swear

Nkunku seems to have lost Maresca's trust entirely for now

Also, if teams are just flagrantly allowed to cheat against us and players will never get sent off, obviously it is going to be a hard grind to win games

Ref is a disgrace Nice finish by Eze though.

Interesting how when you see our line up you can't really tell what the strategy is gonna be until we hit the field. I assume it will maybe be Cucu inverting next to Caicedo, Enzo left 8, Palmer right 8. But lets see, who knows... Might be any number of things. Crazy how much more tactically flexible we are under Maresca.