Pizy

Who in European football other than Spuds or Arse could give away a pen within 30 seconds of a final? 😂😂😂😂😂

Difference between us and say United is that they can throw hundreds of millions of £££ to fix their issues. Arse still have strikers that can fire them through a season whilst we'll be losing a player that accounted for half of our goals this season. Giving a rookie PL manager medicore tools like Higuain, Giroud, Kovacic, etc and expecting to finish anywhere near the CL places is absurd. He is set up to fail.

We'll be competing with Wolves, Leicester, and Everton next season if the ban is in place. May sound hyperbolic but it's reality. Only scenario I could see Lamps keeping us competitive near the top of the league in his first season is if he's backed considerably. If that doesn't happen he'll have us midtable.

Fucking lame.

I'm semi-serious. Mourinho will have to be humbled by his recent situation. Sacked from his "dream" job, no other massive club wants him. PSG just extended Tuchel, Juve don't want him apparently, Inter just appointed Conte, Bayern wouldn't go near him, and Real Madrid have Zidane back. He's got literally no viable options and is too young to retire. I think he'd have a different mentality now. He surely has to realize that he can't be such an abrasive asshole in the modern age. I'd rather someone here who can go toe to toe with the other top managers than appoint a greenhorn like Lamps.

There's still "you know who" out there. 🙃 I'd rather him than any of the other candidates.

Ridiculous if the club are the ones pushing him out and making way for Lampard long before he's ready. Fair enough if Sarri wants to go himself and it's he who is pushing, but that would contradict what he said just yesterday.

It's like our players took some steroids at halftime and came out angry. Kovacic was shite in the first half and unplayable in the second. Kante is a bloody machine. Played 90 minutes and effortlessly bossed Arse the whole time.

Hopefully we hear good news on the ban now to soften the blow. 😞

He's not at all what I was hoping and expecting when we signed him on loan. I thought he'd really have a point to prove and add a lot to the side. In reality he has been totally redundant. Not good enough at any one thing. Can't shoot, can't score, not a decisive passer, and his dribbling (which is his best attribute) and been wildly inconsistent. As with Higuain, I wouldn't bring him back. But the ban may force our hand.

Got better as it went on. Getting nothing from our right hand side. Both attacking and defending. Arse targeting that side.

Decent, controlled opening 10 minutes where they barely got a sniff of the ball and now we've just stopped playing and can't make two passes in a row. Absolutely zero shown from our attack thus far.

Their front 2 aside, that's a very mediocre looking Arse team. Thing is, our defense can be calamitous and seem to always get off to slow starts. I fear if we go down early we'll find it super difficult to get back in it. Hopefully the long layoff has worked to our benefit and we look refreshed rather than rusty. Not holding my breath, though.

Constant drama. Almost everyday something bad happens. At this point, Lamps may be the only manager we can get to take over this mess.

Arse players will be in desperation mode. They absolutely need to win this or their season will have been a massive disappointment. Also for summer recruiting. Our players already know they will have CL football and will be under much less pressure. Probably already thinking about their holidays. With our injuries on top of that I'll be very surprised if we win. It's nice as a fan knowing that this isn't a "must win or we'll be devastated for months" sort of match. It will be that for Arse fans. Their defense is as shite as ours is so it should be an open match. Maybe Hazard will give us one last mega performance and Giroud summons his top form in a final against his former club.

So by the end of this week we'll likely know 3 massive things: that Hazard is going, that Sarri is probably going, and whether or not we can sign any players this summer. Even by our standards this is looking like the craziest summer ever. And honestly, none of it is looking good. We're set to appoint a manager with literally zero top level managerial experience and we're going to ask him to take control of a squad that's already nowhere near good enough to challenge and not be able to add to it. And that's before those clubs that are already better than us improve further. Higuain and Giroud as our strikers for another whole season. Willian and Pedro starting every week again. Azpi as a RB all season again. White flag waved before kicking a ball.

Think about how demoralizing it'll be if Hazard announces he's leaving just after the final and we then find out that we'll take the ban and essentially give up on next season before it even starts. 😒 Would be made even worse if we lose the final to Arse and gift them a European trophy and CL football.

Sentiment has to be put aside. Chelsea needs a top manager with ample experience at the absolute top level. Someone astute enough to go toe to toe with the numerous world class managers in the PL. Would Lamps get everyone on his side and will his appointment be extremely popular? Yes. Is he ready for the flaming cauldron that is the Chelsea managers position? I don't think so. Especially if he gets no backing in the transfer window due to the ban. Imagine a first time PL manager with this squad. Washed up Higuain and Giroud as our strikers, no Hazard, RLC & CHO injured for the first several months of the season at least, Alonso and Azpi as our starting fullbacks. All the while City, Liverpool, United, Arse, and Spuds will have spent big improving their teams and have settled managers. Recipe for fucking calamitous disaster. Don't do this to Super Frank. Not fair to him.

Would be monumentally stupid to sack him before giving him a proper chance next season. And bringing in Lampard, who has manager for a grand total of 1 season in the Championship, to manage one of the world's biggest clubs is a recipe for disaster. Never managed in the PL, never had to manage against teams of this caliber, has to outsmart and compete with the likes of Pep, Poch, Klopp, etc with no experience having done so. It's just far too soon for this move. If he had been keeping a PL club midtable for a few seasons and playing nice football that's one thing. But he's been at it ONE season in a lower division. That's nowhere near enough of a resume.

Isn't he on something silly like £500k a week? Only one club in this country who would touch that or anything near that. And after they got burned badly by Sanchez I'm not sure even they would touch Bale.

Luka Jovic is a pure #9. Not sure what he would have to do with a pacy, skillful winger like Neres. Anyways, this kid is a massive talent and definitely has the same swagger and effortless ability to dribble defenders that Hazard has. Definitely the sort of player we should be looking at to replace him.

If we buy well enough and use a couple of loanees like Mount and Reece James we can easily weather a 2 window ban. Spuds didn't buy anyone last summer and are the the CL final.

It's simple. If we voluntarily start serving this ban right away as is being suggested as a possibility, we are going to have a disastrous season. We'll be lucky to finish 6th, we'll probably go out in the group stages of the CL, and Sarri will be lucky to make it to Christmas. There is absolutely no way we can enter and go through another PL season with Higuain and Giroud as our strikers, Kovacic and Barkley as our only two fit #8's, and no reinforcements elsewhere. And on top of that we'll be selling our best player. We thought the environment at games was toxic at times in the past few years, I think it'll be much worse if we roll over and essentially give up on the season before it even starts. We're already miles off where we want to be. If we can't sign players this summer we'll fall light years behind. The club has to go huge this summer in order to weather the ban afterwards. Do all we can to build a squad strong enough to not need transfers for a while.

Unreal. Why was this not done the instant our appeal was denied? This club is seriously run by amateurs. From signings, to scheduling, to respecting traveling fans, to dealing with the transfer ban. It's like they have no clue what they're doing.

Surely our board will be hard at work negotiating with clubs and players on the assumption that CAS will grant us the stay. They won't be sitting in their hands doing nothing. We just have to pray a decision is made swiftly before any players we're after go elsewhere. If we do have to wait months before knowing one way or the other, it'll be depressing as hell watching all our rivals signing big players and improving their teams. Hopefully things are in motion as we speak.