Pizy

Can already tell the Enzo transfer stuff is going to be a distraction from now until the summer. I’m already over it. If somehow after all this talk he stays and is happy then I’m fine with it. But if he forces himself away I won’t mourn in the way I would with Caicedo or Palmer for example. In a vacuum, if we can recoup what we bought him for from Madrid then I’d do it without much thought. But with these guys doing the recruitment who knows where they’d turn to replace him. That’s the only scary part about letting Enzo go. If Madrid do indeed sign Enzo I’m going to assume that means they decline to bring Nico Paz back as has been heavily rumored. He’d be a great Enzo replacement for us. Him + Barco would be awesome.

I’m just glad we aren’t hearing noises about Caicedo pushing or exploring a move away. As long as we keep the core of Caicedo, Palmer, Cucu, Estevão, João Pedro and Reece I feel like even in such a dark period there’s an extremely high level base to build around. Everyone else is 100% expendable outside of those. You could add Colwill too but it’s a complete mystery as to what he’ll look like when he return after a year out. With all the noise going around it’s abundantly clear that Enzo is gone. As much as I’ve turned around on him positively this season, he is definitely the most replaceable of our “big” players. As woeful as Palmer has been this season I remain hopeful that he’ll want to stay and he can return to his actual level under a proper manager next season. Because we couldn’t possibly find a replacement for him when he’s in form and the thought of him doing so after we’ve sold him to one of the Manchester clubs is disgusting.

PSG play in a piss easy league compared to us, though. And their league season has been very poor by their standards so it may have had side effects for them. They weren’t impressive in the UCL either until they played us. They just have so many outrageously good attacking talents that they can still kill anyone even if not at their best.

I think the only reason they’ll be clinging to as a justification not to sack him is one of the excuses he used in the presser just now. That the CWC has massively affected the squad as the season has gone on. Unless things get so incredibly toxic from here they’ll stick with him. Problem with this thinking of course is that this is a World Cup summer. So any idea that this squad will be refreshed and rested after a nice long summer break and can then show their true level next season is idiotic if that’s what they’re thinking.

If these guys have the audacity to appoint O’Neil or any other total amateur again after Rosenior then fans need to show up to the Bridge with pitchforks and physically remove them.

Sack him. And Sanchez should never play for this club again. I’d rather have a academy kid in goal the rest of the way.

A bunch of them are probably already working behind the scenes to engineer moves away. Lots of them probably couldn’t give a toss about us getting into the UCL again.

Players can’t be bothered to show an ounce of fight despite being given lifeline after lifeline with those teams around us being so inconsistent. Only way you can really explain that is they’ve given up on the manager. They aren’t buying what he’s selling because they don’t respect him. They probably weren’t enjoying themselves at the end of Maresca’s time so gave this new guy a chance initially and it looked semi-decent at first. But now that things have gotten tougher everyone realizes he’s out of his depth li,e we all knew he would be.

Guys, surely passing the ball slowly side to side 600 times in front of a parked bus is going to work eventually! Right?!

And the ONLY way to rescue this club will be to get in an established, proven manager who commands instant respect AND to sign a few players who are immediate upgrades on some of these clowns. Both things that go completely against what this shit show of an ownership group are about.

A single straight pass right through the middle AGAIN. And again out of fucking NOTHING. Fofana is a disaster of a defender. Sell his ass ASAP in the summer.

I’m convinced looking at this horrendous performance so far that these jokers don’t want to get UCL football. We’re giving the ball away at the back at will. This is fucking shocking.

And just as I mention Fofana, Sanchez one ups him.

Fofana may genuinely be one of the dumbest footballers around. Does so many mindless things under no real pressure often times.

Could never in a million years see him going to Saudi at his age. Even less so with the current events in the Middle East. For me if he goes it’s either PSG or Madrid. I don’t know if this ownership will want to incur even more vitriol from the fan base by selling a very popular player to a direct rival like City. Selling players we no longer rated or needed like Noni is one thing. Selling someone who has been one of our best players this season (whether people rate him or not) is another.

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.