Pizy

I’ll be genuinely excited if it’s De Zerbi. If he can get our players playing exactly as he had Brighton playing in terms of patterns, comfort on he ball, popping it around quickly, and completely dominating possession then I think we can take off to a new level. This is the sort of football a club of our size should be playing and a style players enjoy. Not counter attacking and “improv football/wait for a star player to create a moment of magic.” know a lot of our fans are down on him after a poor season but the context is key. Losing his two best midfielders in the same summer is often forgotten.

Crystal Palace are/will be a bitch to deal with in a similar way that Brighton always are if we are indeed still interested in Olise. Which again I don’t think we should be as a priority. And even if he’s got a new release clause in that new contract of his what’s to say he won’t reject us like he did last summer? For me that should’ve ended any chance that we ever go after him again. You want guys who would jump at the chance to come to Chelsea. He just has summer long transfer saga written all over him. And if multiple clubs trigger his supposed release clause I can imagine our dumbass board offering something silly like £80m to make sure Palace chooses our offer instead of anyone else’s.

Disagree. They’ve had a more successful season than us thanks to a trophy on the very last day but they absolutely haven’t had a better season than us in totality. Both clubs had horrendous injury lists that they can point to but the expectations vs where each club ended up are much different. They were coming off a 3rd place finish, had a coach well settled in, and a pretty settled squad and then proceeded to play turgid football all season, crash out of the UCL, and finish 8th with a negative goal difference. They were expected to compete with Arse & Liverpool for 2nd/3rd. We have played much better football than they have over the course of the season.

So can you ACTUALLY ask to drop out of the Conference League or is that just some rubbish people made up? Is there a verified rule stating that you can decline? If not we should be playing a full youth team in that competition.

May genuinely be a blessing in disguise if we have only the PL to focus on with a new manager. And a curse for United to be in Europa and splitting their focus.

How does this work? Do we really think our ownership will turn it down?

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.