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Yeah there is slim chance we could make 6th at end of season still, but better not to think about it...

Arsenal, Villa and Brighton have beaten them 5 or 6 nil in the last couple of months at Bramall Lane. No excuses today.

Impossible to compare then vs now. He had a squad full of experienced talent many of whom could be considered to be amongst the best in the world in their position, with the experience to deliver results and manage games: Kante, Kovacic, Mendy, Azpi, Thiago, Rudiger, Jorgi, etc, and he got top 4 with 67 and then 74 pts, before Arsenal improved a lot and Newcastle, Brighton etc emerged. The league has been getting harder every year and is brutally hard now, everyone in the top 10 is pretty excellent. Tuchel has now lost the league in Germany despite gaining Harry Kane who has chipped in 32 goals in 28 appearances. Calling for him back is like calling for Mourinho back. Sure, they did special things here, with the squads and the state of football at the time, and the trophies they got were very impressive. But the situation at the club now and in the league now is just not the same and they do not have the patience to build something over time. Poch is pretty meh but he's much better suited to our situation than either of them would be, frankly continuing with Graham Potter would have been better than a move for Tuchel, Mou or Conte type managers. They are all phenomenal beasts in the right situation but this situation is not the one they excel in.

I miss his passion and the way he grabbed Conte's hand and stared him in the eyes... But not much else.

Haha Matt Law has locked down his comments so that no one can reply to most of his posts. Suicided his own career for a few quid from Mason Mount. Now publicly known as a fraud, lacking integrity and honesty. It says it all about the media coverage around us that the main journalist known for publishing Chelsea news actually hates Chelsea and supports Villa.

Cannot express how much I hope we do NOT sign Osimhen for big money. One insane season in a joke league. Napoli. Just NO.

Palmer a legend already. Joe Shields should stay for bringing him to us. Rest of recruitment staff and Poch can go. Eghbali needs to appoint a good football guy to run the club, appoint the staff (including medical) and slowly fix this mess of a playing squad over the next couple of years. Going to be a long ride.

The landslide from the moment Caicedo made the error is just pathetic. Not sure the club is fixable in the short term. Can sack Poch but wont help imo. So many people not good enough: owners, the directors of recruitment, manager, players. Would take basically the same exercise we've just done and similar money but with people who know what they're doing who do it slowly over a few years probably.

The £200m Enzo Caicedo experiment is the most disappointing thing to me personally tbh. Two players for huge money that were young and cost their clubs a few million before we bought them for insane money after a brief period of them playing at a high level.

Thiago limits us tactically and it is his final season. I don't disagree with dropping him and trying to move onto a system with a higher line tbh.

Don't get me wrong, Poch has not been impressive, but he has tried all sorts of combinations throughout the season and this is pretty much our average result/performance irrelevant of which combo he has tried where. At the end of the day the players haven't been good enough. Poch hasn't been impressive, but the many expensive signings who have simply not delivered are the bigger fundamental problem imo.

Not even sure Poch at fault for this. Embarrassing mistakes from professional players who are half trying.

It is sad but hard not to think this way now. Players don't fight hard enough or brave enough at the end of the day. Only a few of them go out there ready to go hard for their teammates. Hard to engage with it.

We tried that already...

Hah, I still think the lad will come good. Gary Cahill also looked like a total fraud at times, especially in the beginning, but he really found his feet after a while and became a key player. Disasi has shown signs but not consistency, he has given it his all and been maybe our best defender this season. Certainly our best CB.

Shouldn't be surprised of course, this is just genuinely our level now. Heads have to roll. Thinking about it, Boehly has to be first in line. Then PW and Poch.

How do we not have a set piece coach

Surely we're going full clear out before the end of season: Poch and Paul Winstanley both, at a minimum.

Disasi legend

FFP doesn't matter outside of Europe, which we're never getting into with Poch

Surely Poch is gone if we lose this.

Lets not turn on Palmer too. Maybe the only player out there that has earnt our forgiveness and patience.

Like nearly all of our players, he is inconsistent. It seems like we bought almost all players based on how good they can be at their peak and not based on how they are on average, or how fit they can stay etc. It has really turned into a good showcase of how not to do a takeover of a football club.

Maybe Poch wants to be fired.

Guardiola quote on Grealish and his mentality on letting players play their way back into form. Really highlighted to me by comparison how miles off we are from being a top side again.