Pizy

We pass it around the final third a hundred times without being able to create a clear chance whereas Spuds pass it a just a couple of times and rip us apart. It’s clown shit.

Ziyech and Kai not really in the game at all. As expected.

Yuck. Not feeling that team at all. Please don’t tell me Kova is injured AGAIN already after just coming back? I love him as a player but perhaps it’s time to get rid while we can still get money for him this summer. He’s too much of a liability to simply stay fit over a season.

Think about where United could be once they get their new oil money and their owners want to one-up their Abu Dhabi rivals across town at City. Despite us spending the GDP of a small country they could leave us in the dust for the foreseeable future if we don’t change managers.

With the real possibility that Mount could be sold, I hope we are still ready to pursue Zacharyan as his replacement. If not him then Mac Allister would be ideal.

I can picture exactly how a Mou re-re-union would go. He’d come in and we’d see immediate improvement. In his first full season back next to around we’ll also do pretty well and comfortably finish in the top 4. But after that the friction will start between certain players that he doesn’t fancy, things will start getting toxic, and it’ll deteriorate like it always does with him. That some people are intrigued by the prospect after the disaster that Potter has been is understandable, but for a club that has just spent hundreds of millions on young players and attacking “flair” players at that, turning to Mourinho to get the best out of them makes little sense.

I highly doubt Poch would say no to Chelsea. It’s BY FAR the biggest and best job he could walk into anytime soon. Unless he thinks he’s the prime candidate to succeed Carlo if he retires at Real Madrid this summer.

We lose to Spuds and the fans will make it impossible for the owners to just put their heads down and try to power through it. This squad is far too talented and far too expensive to let rot under a manager who isn’t up to it.

Thing is, this isn’t simply a “bad spell” of 3-4 poor results. We have been shocking for ages now. It’s like 15 matches or something where we’ve been horrible for the most part. With no real indication at all that things are heading in the right direction. If we lose to Spuds this weekend I don’t know how he can possibly carry on. He lost a big portion of the supporters after the Southampton match. Everyone may be against him if we lose again and the atmosphere around the club will be toxic.

I’d have taken Poch a couple of years ago without much question. But I wonder how easy he’ll find it to jump back into the PL after a long break from management. Especially into the toughest job in England pretty much. Enrique would be pretty intriguing but questions over how comfortable he’d be outside of Spanish football again are there. I can absolutely picture Mourinho lobbying hard behind the scenes to come back. We’ve now got a squad full of what you would’ve traditionally classified as “Mourinho players” in a bunch of positions that he’d probably love to work with. But we’d be absolutely insane to welcome that circus again and risk him imploding once more. Why can’t we just bring Tuchel back, damnit?! 😭😭😭

Wouldn’t want him even if he fancied it. No more taking chances on managers who have huge question marks. It’s been a disaster with 2 of our last 3 managers in Frank and now Potter. I think Zidane’s managerial style of standing like a statue and not saying a thing for entire matches would be a disaster here. We need a world class COACH with these players. Sadly there isn’t one out of work currently other than the one we sacked this season.

Watching all these clubs that we were miles better than just last season completely leave us in the dust is so embarrassing. Ten Hag in particular having a transformative effect on that group of jokers who last season were called the worst side in their clubs’ history puts us to shame. And all these media outlets on Twitter pointing out week after week that “such and such individual player has now scored more goals than Chelsea as an entire team” is humiliating. Every other big club is currently flying whilst we’re in the gutter with no signs that change is imminent. Liverpool were right there in the mud with us just a couple of weeks ago but even they have suddenly switched back on and have something to chase.

At this point we don’t want to finish in the Europa Conference places, whatever those are. I don’t even know. A “clean” season next time where we can focus solely on the PL would be beneficial. Having to travel to random countries to play a bunch of clubs nobody has ever heard of and risk injuries sounds miserable. Only way we get Europa League proper from here is if we sack Potter soon and a top coach instantly turns us around.

We aren’t comparing his situation with Arteta. The problem is that THE OWNERS are judging him like Arteta. If were up to most of us he’d be gone. But they think we should just flounder at rock bottom like this for who knows how long in hopes that Potter “pulls an Arteta.” At this point it feels like they don’t want to deal with the humiliation of sacking 2 managers in the same season. They don’t want to face the fact that the man they hand picked as the shepherd of the “New Chelsea” is out of his depth.

There have been reports in recent weeks that the ownership is looking at Arteta’s situation as the blueprint with Potter. And it’s true that Arteta struggled massively early on and had numerous super rough patches, including points where many Arse fans called for his head. They truly feel that these are simply growing pains which are normal. The big difference with Arteta was that the DNA and identity he wanted to install was clear from day 1. He wanted to replicate Pep’s Man City in North London. The ideas were clear from the jump even when the results didn’t come right away. With Potter there is zero discernible style or idea evident in our play after months in charge. We look like a big group of strangers making it up as matches go along. I truly do not understand what giving him more time is going to change.

If there were signs you could point to that ___ is getting better game after game or we were seeing recognizable patterns of play and passing moves that made it clear that Potter’s ideas were being imprinted on the squad I could understand the reluctance to sack him. But we aren’t showing improvement at all week after week. And he doesn’t seem to get angry, annoyed, demonstrative. Nothing. Just a constant blank expression on the sideline and total nonsense cliché’s like “we did well but we’re unlucky and need to get better” in every single presser. You look at Pep, Klopp, Arteta, Ten Hag etc and they are maniacal in their ideas and obsessed. They often scream at their teams from the touchline and direct them if they’re doing something wrong. They get every player on the pitch knowing precisely what their job is. This is what we need.

How can he possibly stay after that? We looked totally aimless and without any ideas against the rock bottom side who have no actual coach. A team with an interim manager looked more assured in what they were doing than the most expensively assembled squad ever. We need a proper big club manager who can drill into these players some clear ideas and get them to buy in.

Go. Immediately.

More embarrassing finishing from professional footballers on hundreds of thousands of pounds per week. Just like a few days ago.

Intent and desire much better but still not testing the CB’s or keeper at all whatsoever.

And to think I was actually looking forward to this one after promising signs against Dortmund. I figured this was a good match to score a few goals and completely dominate a side who have looked destined for the drop. We have one of the most loaded and talented squads in the world but play like a side who just formed last night and hav never seen one another before.

EVERY. SINGLE. 50/50 BALL is going to Southampton. That’s all about desire and work rate. Again, the worst side in the league who have been a defensive shambles is comfortably outplaying us. And you knew they’d score the second Azpi gave away that idiotic foul. Potter HAS TO GO!

Just think about what we’re watching here. The worst side in the league comfortably stroking it around like a training session and easily defending us when we have the ball. They look like they’re a comfortable midtable side who are nonchalantly playing as if they’re safe with nothing to play for.

Mount looks completely and totally out of it AGAIN. Like he’s slowly walking through the motions as if he can’t be bothered. Doesn’t get in the ball, is sloppy when it does come to him on rare occasions. Wtf is wrong with him? He offers nothing in this form. And he’s been like this all season.

Can’t even get or keep the ball AT HOME against the bottom side in the league…