Pizy

It just feels like once again our top PL goal scorer is going to have 8-9 goals or something pathetic like that. Mount, Kai, and Sterling will probably each hit that. We have nobody who is going to be truly prolific and clinical. I’m fairly confident that the defense and midfield will sort itself out as the season starts, but where the fuck is the reliable goal scoring going to come from?

Tuchel is as frustrated as we are with our sluggish transfer window and the extreme stress of having to coach and also be so involved everywhere else looks to have finally boiled over last night with these quotes. We looked exactly the same as our shit performances last season. Zero growth or improvement because as Tuchel said, it’s the same players. Werner, Havertz, Ziyech, and Pulisic look like the exact same 1 in every 5 games players. Batshuayi is still Championship quality. Chalobah still liable for at least 1 shocker of an error each match. Mendy likewise. There are no discernible attacking patterns or clear idea going forward which was clear as day to see with Arse. The exact same struggles we had as a team last season we have still. Struggle when pressed, struggle to string together passes, struggle to get attackers connected with the midfield. And the worst thing about all these deadwood players is that we’ve given them such huge wages that it’s seemingly impossible to shift them. Who’s going to want all these guys? Plus, even if we can by some miracle shift a bunch of them we’ve been so slow this window that we won’t get replacements in any time soon. There was a clear and pretty desperate appeal from Tuchel to Boehly for more quality additions. But who is there out there that can solve our goal scoring issues? Jesus would’ve been perfect for us… 😒

Werner, Havertz, Pulisic, CHO. All of them are passive, soft players who don’t have the mentality necessary to drive a title challenge and for this season I fear not for top 4 either. We don’t have a single killer. City will be City, Liverpool will be Liverpool. Arse and United have taken clear and easily noticeable strides forward during their preseasons and Spuds have basically an entirely new team filled with hand picked Conte signings. We look literally identical to the team last season that was completely toothless and had no discernible rhythm or pattern to our play.

I’m done. Humiliation after totally controlling the second half.

Squad so barren of forwards that Batshuayi could very well play a major part for us this season. You have to laugh.

Kova instantly solidified midfield. But I still don’t see where we’re going to get reliable goal scoring from…

Wasn’t talking about fitness. I mean with the sharpness of our passing and attacking patterns of play. They look like they’ve been working on those things for months whereas our players look like strangers who have never played before. Have we not worked on these things at all? Wtf is going on…

Not even overreacting or exaggerating, we made them look like the well oiled City side there. Passing rings around us with total comfort, pressing us so we didn’t have any flow to our passing, and easily winning the ball off us like a school bully taking some little nerds lunch money. We made them look like i\they were in midseason form and this was our first game in 5 months. What have we been doing in training everyday?!

Btw, I think I count 5 blind long balls to nowhere from Emerson so far. Literally just kicking it long and giving Arse easy possession back. My word…

As I’ve said here before, Chalobah is not a first choice player for Chelsea. He needs an upgrade via the window. Likewise Werner.

Mendy looks around and looks around and then passes it directly to and Arse player and they score. We are dire. Not getting top 4 without several more quality buys.

Over 30 minutes in and it feels like Sterling and Kai haven’t even gotten to touch the ball yet. That’s how terrible our midfield and attack have been. And Timo is as bad as ever. I’ve now officially lost hope for him.

This is an effortless training session for Arse. They’re passing around us like training cones. We can’t even get the ball and make two passes to blue shirts.

Chalobah……. Fucking hell.

The quality of our passing is straight up embarrassing. Just blindly booting it up then pitch to nobody. Do we train at all?

They’re easily outplaying us. We can’t string 3 passes together or deal with their pressing.

Can’t find a damn stream

He’ll score about 25 of that exact same tap in for them this season. 😩😩😩

Looks like we’re going 4-3-3 to start with! Should get a good early test of how Old Man Thiago does in a back 4.

As a side note, Bayern and City are also currently playing here in America and just about to kick off. The stadium looks about 85% Bayern fans on TV. 🤣🤣🤣

It being Florida, storms can pop up at any time. Should definitely expect a delay or even a stoppage after kickoff.

Things are coming at you in a totally different way than you’re used to, maybe? It may not be that different when you’re on the ball but the game is coming at you from an angle you’re not used to.

He would have been literally the perfect RCB in our team. Like, the best one we could possibly have gotten this summer. People can downplay it and say they aren’t bothered. That’s fine. But I think this is a huge bummer. His age profile, his skill set, his versatility would’ve been brilliant. Getting a RCB like Koundé would’ve been perfect also because it meant Koulibaly being able to much more quickly get up to speed in the PL by playing on the left side where he is used to. All the other targets we’re linked with (Gvardiol, Kimpembe, Aké) are left footers. Meaning KK will have to go to the right side and take who knows how long to settle.

Not sure I’m buying this “Tuchel has no pull” stuff. He’s not current Mourinho or some coach who is infamous for playing turgid, defensive football. And every player raves about how pleasant he is on a personal basis. We can see how classy he is in every media appearance. He’s a CL winning manager who is hugely respected. We have just been super unlucky that just about every target we have gone after this summer is also being sought after by the only 3-4 clubs that are more attractive than Chelsea. If we were losing out on our top targets to Arse, Spuds, other other clubs beneath us stature wise I’d be worried. But this is Barca and Bayern we’re being gazumped by. Two iconic clubs. What is surprising is that Tuchel doesn’t seem to target any German talents being a German who is well familiar with that league. You would think he’d be pretty useful in convincing them to come.

Only thing that would make up for this L now is Gvardiol who I’ve wanted since before the window opened and we were linked. But even if offered Leipzig 70m at this point they’d probably turn it down since they know we’re desperate.