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This is an absolutely piss poor United XI, too. Of course City look off when we want them to win most.

I really don’t get the Olise thing at all. For me the interest in him should’ve died when he rejected us at the last moment in the summer and decided to stay at Palace. And if it didn’t die then it should’ve again once we signed Cole Palmer since they’re extremely similar players who occupy the same area on the pitch. Attacking midfield should be the last area we should be concerned about this summer. Nobody is taking in Sterling’s monster wages (he probably also wouldn’t want to leave anyways) and I think Mudryk & Madueke are useful players to have. Then there’s the whole “we just bought twenty 17 year old future superstar” thing.

I hope United are dumb enough to appoint McKenna rather than us when they have Tuchel and Poch available to them. I think they’ll be in a state of depression similar to when Olé was in charge after half a season when he looks in way over his head.

Tbf, Xavi calling out Barca’s situation was fair enough. The idiots in charge there still expect him to challenge for the league and work miracles with zero money against a Madrid side that are still signing the world’s best players every year. I don’t see that being something that foreshadows what could happen if we appointed him. We’d actually be able to provide him with the tools to work with. Barca can’t. I will admit that I’m intrigued by the idea of us looking at him. He’s the kind of guy that the players idolize and would buy into. I’d feel more comfortable taking a punt on Xavi than McKenna or Maresca.

Thank god it appears like United will save us by taking McKenna. For the same reasons it would be an idiotic appointment for us it would be for them. I would say they’re in MUCH worse shape heading into the summer than we are and need almost a full rebuild. To bring in a guy from the Championship to oversee that would be madness. I’m desperately hoping we come to our senses and appoint someone with top level experience.

Now the latest brief is that Maresca is seeming the most likely…

United fans on their forum are mostly begging for them to replace ETH with McKenna whilst all of us Chelsea fans are begging our club to stay away. Kinda funny.

What was Xavi like before he fell out with the Barca president? I haven’t paid any attention whatsoever to La Liga but I know Barca is broke as a joke so that couldn’t have helped him compete against Madrid. Wonder if he’s the mystery candidate.

All the names on this new “shortlist” are depressing. The Ipswich manager, the Leicester manager, and the Brentford manager. For Chelsea Football Clue! Fuck me. De Zerbi is right fucking there, man. A guy who can get us playing the exact sort of dominant, brilliant to watch attacking football we’ve been desperate for for years. And it appears he out of the running despite being free.

Watched an in depth video last night about McKenna and his tactics. It was hugely discouraging knowing that he could very well be our next manager. Doesn’t seem like he has a defined and clear cut style. Ipswhich play good footy apparently but from a data and statistics POV (which our owners are apparently obsessed with) his side are basically middle of the pack in the Championship in everything. I get big time Potter vibes from him and his tactics. Maresca on the other hand has a very defined possession based style like Pep or De Zerbi but I just don’t have any faith that he’s ready to jump up to a club of our level.

Yeah, that’s what I’m saying. These are the names being put out there and none would inspire an ounce of confidence or excitement for me if we appoint them. I know some are down on De Zerbi but he is someone I would 100% be able to get behind and be super excited about. Think he’d get our young squad playing great football quickly.

These names that the reliable reporters are putting out there that were interested in are a disgrace. The sorts of managers that you’d expect the likes of West Ham or some other traditional midtable club to go for. Not a club with ambitions to compete at the top again and soon. If these jokers are dumb enough to appoint McKenna, Thomas Frank, or that Leicester manager we’re finishing 10-12th again next season.

Just got done watching a video about De Zerbi’s tactics and continue to think he’d be ideal. He has that same sort of obsessive, maniacal approach to coaching that Pep does. This is what this squad needs: extreme tactical discipline and understanding EXACTLY where to be at all times. Like City, like Liverpool, like his Brighton side last season. The movements, the triangles, the positioning is masterful and it comes as effortless second nature to the players. We need this sort of micromanaging coach badly. It just so happens that he’s now right there to be had without any trouble of dealing with his club. He’s the only name that’s we’ve been linked to now that I’d be happy with at this point.Theres a reason his style caught the eye of these clubs that are renowned for playing beautiful, controlled football as a successor to legends like Guardiola.

Fucking madness. And now we’re about to appoint Potter/Lampard 2.0 who will leap from some tiny club to the very top echelons of football.

For an ownership group who seem to constantly talk in statements about how they want to get the supporters onboard, if they were to sack a manager who ended up doing a decent job and has the full backing of the players and replace him with a virtual nobody from a tiny English club they risk huge fan backlash and negativity. There seems to be some genuine hope and momentum for the first time in a long time at the club. Fucking it all up because Poch refuses to be their perfect puppet would be ridiculous. I think the only man they could replace him with that would actually keep the fans fully onboard would be bringing Tuchel back.

Conflicted on Trev Chalobah. He’s a solid enough player for our squad and a great injury fill in player. But at the same time I get nervous almost any time he’s got to do some 1v1 defending. He always seems to have a catastrophic error in him if pressed enough. I don’t think we should sell him but if we do I won’t be devastated or anything.

Young manager sounds like McKenna. God help us if we sack Poch… We’ve now seen numerous BIG players in our team back Poch. And not only saying the cliché “yeah, he’s good” stuff but we’ve seen top players like Enzo, Palmer etc saying he has been great and that they really fought for him in this run in.

McKenna would be Potter 2.0 if we were to appoint him. Most of the players will have never heard of him and therefore won’t respect him. You’d have this guy who was the manager of some tiny little club trying to speak with authority to a group of international stars. It just would be an incredibly stupid gamble. Just keep Poch or if he HAS to go in the owners’ minds get RDZ.

This would be the ice cold and probably correct stance to take but I don’t know if you can have that sort of nonstop question hanging over him for another entire season. He’s going to want some assurance and security and not have everyone questioning his job after any slight rough patch. I think he would legitimately choose to walk away if he’s got to manage for his job every week.

I bet it’ll be announced within the next few days that we’ve given him an extension to his contract. Maybe an extra 2 years. Surely no way they tell him to go after we’ve finally shown something and when he has the players fully behind him.

Having now had a full season to see what he’s got I’d say it’s clear that Nico Jackson is the picture perfect rotation striker or super sub. He is 100% NOT ready to be the lead dog, main striker for a club like us who want to return to the top. He’d be an amazing weapon to have in a squad and will still get a LOT of playing time. Not nearly clinical enough to be the main man, though. We’re 2 players away from being a serious team. Maybe 3 if you think we need yet another starting keeper. How about we let whichever scout/sporting director who pushed for Cole Palmer to choose the striker and CB we go for!?

Some promising signs to take into next season and we should kick off match week 1 with big time optimism as long as we both recruit the right signings and move on the right players who aren’t good enough. If we begin the season with the likes of Nkunku, Enzo, and Lavia 100% fit and add a top class striker and CB there’s no reason at all that we shouldn’t be thinking top 3-4.

If City choke from being 2-0 up and cruising I’m getting the noose out 🤣

Chalobah at RB makes me nervous every time anyone attacks. And Sterling being super wasteful in the final third is really tiring.

I’ve been all for Osimhen for the past couple of years but I wonder if it’s still advisable for us to go that huge on another classic #9. Having watched a bunch of vids of your countryman Gyokeres he looks like the sort of striker we should perhaps target instead. Looks like a better all around footballer.