Pizy

We will never be able to lure away or attract a world class manager who is already at a big club to come here with these owners but we MIGHT be able to convince a top manager who is at a decent sized club and ready for the next step up in their career. For example, if Villa choke and finish outside of the UCL places I wonder if Emery would be open to coming here?

What I mean is less about transfers and more about having an authoritative manager who is the undisputed boss of the footballing side of things. No meddling from the owners, no meddling with the medical department, no being told that they must play certain players to “maintain their value,” etc. Basically, we need a serious manager but most importantly we need that manager to be able to do his job without interference. Maresca seemed to earn the respect and buy-in from the squad and was well on his way to building something. Then the owners once again undermined him with stupid summer signings and interfering with his job.

Sacking Rosenior is 100% pointless as long as the people above him are still in place picking the next puppet. The only way anything changes at this club is if they leave or they completely change their stupid model. If they finally give up this fucking atrocious model they have where they only appoint novice managers who have no big club experience and only sign young kids then we may have a chance to save this football club. If we got a super experienced manager who has TOP LEVEL experience, let HIM make footballing decisions, and sign ready made, experienced players we can rescue ourselves. We continue this way and we’ll become perennially fighting for 5th, 6th, or 7th and playing UCL football once every few years.

No idea why a single Chelsea fan decided to tune into this. Humiliation was the only thing on the cards. We’re going to be the laughing stock of Europe once again after this.

They sure did work nice and quickly to punish us. Meanwhile over at Man City with their 115 charges from like 3 years ago…

Of all of our star players, Enzo is definitely the one I could see pushing to leave this summer despite being someone who appears to genuinely care about the club. Problem for him will be that we surely can’t take a loss on the 106m we paid for him and other than PSG I can’t see anyone else affording that. Could they decide to go for him to replace the aging Fabian? I could maybe see it. I don’t think there’s any chance Palmer or Cucu go. Cucu seems genuinely settled and loyal. Palmer would have to aggressively push for an exit AND United or City would have to put £150m on the table for us to consider I would hope. Which for clubs that will need lots of other signings could be far too much. Tbh, the only one of our BIG players I’d be genuinely devastated about losing is Caicedo. As great as Enzo has been much of this season I think the team as a whole could actually benefit long term by having a more athletic midfielder in his place. Palmer going to a direct rival and immediately reverting to his top level would be incredibly fucked up. For that reason I just cannot imagine the club sanctioning his exit. It would be a KDB or Salah level fuck up that would haunt us right in front of our eyes for a decade.

No established, top class manager is going to agree to work under the conditions these idiots running the club set out. They literally tell every manager they appoint from minute 1 that they have no actual power or authority. So the only managers who jump at the chance to come here are your Potter’s, Maresca’s, or Rosenior’s who are stepping up massively from where they were. They almost cannot believe their luck that Chelsea came calling. No world class coach who is at an already big club and is basically the Big Boss where they are is going to agree to have their authority stripped and micromanaged by clowns who know nothing about football. So that’s why I can’t even bring myself to start thinking about a new manager in any sort of positive way. We’ll just replace Rosenior with some other puppet who’s out of their depth.

Personality wise and as a person I’ve come to like Rosenior. But in this post match presser he’s already starting to flail and sound desperate and he’s only been here for a few weeks. The rest of the season from the moment he got here should’ve been all about working to the skill sets and strengths of the players he has. Don’t over complicate things and wait til the summer when you can shape the squad more to your liking (getting new CB’s and keeper for a start) and THEN put your imprint on the team. Instead, he has come in and played some of these players in totally alien positions and asked them to do things they cannot do. Clumsy CB’s playing a suicidal high line AND both playing super wide so the middle of the pitch is wide open. All in front of TWO keepers who are often idiots with their decision making. But no matter what he does and no matter how shite we look the rest of the way I don’t think there’s even a 1% chance the clowns above sack their long groomed “Chosen One” manager. He’s getting at least half of next season.

Disgusting, season ending performance. Say goodbye to UCL football for a very, very long time. The kind of back to back results that would’ve got a manager sacked under Roman.

We are just complete dogshit. No other words. From top to bottom, dogshit.

I’m probably tuning out for the rest of the season if we don’t win this. Tired of this shit.

We still just don’t look like we’ll score no matter how long we play tonight.

James in midfield in emergency situations is fine. He can do a job there in one off matches against another massive club who aren’t expecting it. But he should not be playing there regularly over a natural midfielder like Santos who is positionally great. And this suicidal way Rosenior has the CB’s set up has to stop. We have our CB’s playing super wide with James (who again, ISN’T A MIDFIELDER!) filling that gap in between him. So when you have naive, often stupid CB’s nowhere near the center of the defense + a RB playing in the center, these awful, schoolboy goals are going to keep happening. Play Reece at RB and Santos in midfield, FFS!

One of our worst half’s of the season considering the opposition. Dead team on the pitch which leads to dead atmosphere in the stadium.

We’ve got a striker in red hot form and I don’t think he’s had a touch in the Newcastle half in 45 minutes.