Blue Armour

Thank goodness for our 6-0 win with Mourinho & Hazard.

They won't. No money left.

As much as I detest Clownlake's methods, and even if our transfer budget is limited to comply with the league's spending rules, they have one chance this coming window to make a few smart experienced signings to really shake up things on the pitch. This stupid experiment of developing a squad with 90% under-25 players has to stop.

I'm not saying Jackson is going to be the solution, but not every player blooms at the same age, and of course some have more game maturity than others. I think all our under-24 newcomers deserve a bit of slack. For this season. Next season I'm hoping addition of a few experienced heads will get more out of this squad. This won't help Jackson's finishing, but the burden on him to deliver the goods should hopefully reduce. Let's see.

It starts with Eghbali. The other two are only tools. Eghbali & Wyss are behind the wage bill reduction and focus on youth talent., in order to raise the long-term value of the team. Anyway, this youth gamble could still pay off next season, IF they do a little course correction in the summer, by adding 2-3 experienced heads in midfield & defence. Getting a goal-scoring forward to support Palmer, and maybe a better GK would be a bonus.

Even if it's Pool or Arsenal as an alternative, City winning so many titles in a row is not a good advert for the Premier League. And if that wasn't enough, stinking VAR is allowing them to get away with handball decisions. As if they needed more help.

But is he wrong though? This team as a whole is insanely young. Why people are still surprised at how inconsistent our results are, is beyond me. I'm angry about the team, but not at the players or the manager, but because of Clownlake and their team. They decided to go all FM style youth recruitment only policy. A big (needless) gamble.

Caicedo, Gallagher & Enzo will all benefit by having an experienced CM playing alongside them. I hope there's a smart signing made next season to restore balance in our midfield. The 3 of them together aren't quite there to control a game for 90mins the way they should. That's the main reason why we're having so many see-saw results this season. Good during some games, or some parts of a game, but equally terrible otherwise.

And inexperience in central midfield.

Just need their fanbase to start growing and become more vocal. It's already loud, but nowhere near as pronounced as the fans of the old big 4 clubs.

Posted the highest operating loss of any club in the PL with £249m, but apparently managed to not fall foul of the PL profit & sustainability rules by selling two hotels to BlueCo (themselves?) https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-13304941/Chelsea-hotels-Premier-League-Profit-Sustainability-Rules.html

Avram Grant took us to a final., I remember. People say Potter and Frank dragged teams to the bottom, and use that to show an impact a poor manager can have. The point is, Potter and Frank took a CL winning top 4 team into the relegation zone. This current team is NOT that. To be clear, I don't care much for Poch. I just don't understand how people can ignore the aspect of this poor squad planning.

Good enough and being experienced enough are not necessarily the same thing. You can have quality players that might have great individual stats in some areas, but are collectively poor., because none of them have leadership skills. Not that difficult to comprehend.

Funny thing is. He's probably repeating what Egh-boehly told him.

Damn right it's the central midfield thats the problem. Total lack of experience there and can't believe why this is often overlooked. Buying a world class CB can help, but our piss poor game management, and lack of control over the centre of the park has led to so many embarrassing results, with easy wins turning into draws. Even if Enzo & Caicecdo eventually fulfil their potential, today they are collectively a clownshow. Next season we need to sign an experienced, decent (not necessarily WC), CM to help control matches.

Enzo has been annoying this season. No doubt a very talented player, but his attitude has been so far off it. Instead of picking fights with former traitor players or showing off his jersey after scoring, he should be focusing on his work ethic and controlling his midfield along with his partner. Another one to improve next season. The good thing is, based on his actions, he at least seems committed to remaining in Chelsea for the near future.

It's a midtable side this, it WILL blow hot and cold. People should have come to terms with this so much earlier on this season. Less disappointment for the rest of it. That's the cost of having a team with no game management skills. It still needs to learn it. And not all of it is down to the coach, mediocre he maybe. It's just the inexperience of the players as a whole. Hopefully the ownership won't keep chopping and changing., and allow this current squad to grow with a few key (experienced) additions, and this team can mature next season.

Should be an easy win. And by some margin, to add to the GD. Let's see if this team has improved its game management.

Wily Silva.

What a finish. No player in our squad that can pull off something like that atm. And this kid is only 18.

Correct. If anyone one top level brass is behind the youth revolution, it's Eghbali. Not Boehly. The former is more of an owner, in fact. With a bigger percentage of ownership stake.

Sad thing is you can't 100% blame individual players. The whole squad is what is really shit. The people who assembled a squad with so many young 20 year-old's, with very few leaders and experience to learn from, have basically made a team that is going to keep choking every now and again. I've long been droning on during the past few months about how this team is extremely unlikely to finish above 8th place this season. That seems to be the case so far. My only hope is that in the next transfer window, after all the sales they (have to) make, they make a few smart, reasonably low transfer-fee, experienced signings, like a James Ward-Prowse for example. I think a few, quality, experienced players in different positions could elevate the squad and get more out of the younger players.

Figurehead is the right word. Because that's all Boehly was. Just the face for the media to beat up in public. The real masterminds are Eghbali, and that bloodhound Wyss. They are behind the youth revolution and mass reductions of the wage bill. Boehly was responsible for experienced big-wage signings like Sterling and Koulibaly. At least most of Boehly's mistakes could be cleared through transfer sales.

In other words..Clownlake's got to sell, sell, sell, this coming window. They are likely going to bank on any homegrown talent for this, and this could include players like Gallagher & Hutchinson, because, unlike last year, there are very few proven top 4 level players left in the squad. Absolute shambles.

Even if I doubt there's going to be significant impact from this, I agree with Clownlake making any information that they have, available upfront sooner rather than later. If there's even a remote chance of punishment from this, the blow will be lessened if the club is more proactive., and cooperates with the Premier League fully. That said, I'm more worried about Clownlake's actions in recent transfer windows. Hopefully there will be no repercussions from that.