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I mean look at this gif Giving me John Terry vibes 😂

Yep, Lavia looked really clued in from the moment he came on. Didn't show signs of rustiness despite being months out. And that's saying something, considering he's only a teenager.

Also did anyone else also enjoy our youth player Gilchrist's enthusiasm today? This is what I want to see from Chelsea academy players. Would like to see more of him on the pitch.

Also fought with Drogba when they played in France, lol.

Well deserved. Palace fans were booing Gallagher throughout the game too. Result blew up in their face

Another game with so many up & down moments. While you can look at the goal we conceded and blame Caicedo or Colwill, IMO the problem started way before that. The real cause is our poor game management, as result of having a really young side (in case you dont know by now, the commentators kept bringing this up throughout the game). In the 1st half we had Palace on the ropes, but towards the end of the half we started moving the ball back into our own half, allowing Palace to advance. Gallagher was fantastic today, but in the end of that first half, our midfield slowly conceded the initiative to Palace. This is just how it's going to be this season until the side matures. More up and down moments, and topsy-turvy results. Just enjoy the wins when it happens. Still on course for 8th in the league table.

Yep, the longer this club goes on a winless, trophy-less streak, the less leverage it will have against the players and their agents. Unless Chelsea keeps breaking the wage limits to convince them. But that goes against everything this new administration is trying to do. Which is, keeping the wage expenditures low.

This is basically the direction the club has chosen to go in. Basically swallow the pill, rebuild the squad from near scratch, in order to evantually get to a talented team on inexpensive wages. Take a few steps back before moving forwards Personally I didn't agree with, and still don't like the fact that we had to tear down the squad so much to get to where we want to go, i.e. a consistent, talented team all singing from the same hymn sheet. Only time will tell if this decision pays off, but for now, it means enduring more crappy games like the one against Wolves.

Midtable madness!! The sheer excitement. 😆

United with the win. While I agree that Emery is a good coach with a better trophy count than Poch, I doubt he would have made a big difference to our current squad. We would have wound up in the same position league wise, and we would have complained about Count Dracula on the touchline instead. Arsenal were 8th when he got removed.

Yup. United 3 Villa 2 Hojlund with 1st goal. Villa have caved in.

Emery's high line being exposed by United today

Say what you will about United. But they have lethal attackers. 2-2 United.

Hallmarks of a young side, albeit with talent. Great when it clicks. But very poor at game management, and easily out-witted by experienced PL teams. Clearly the owners felt that the club had to go backwards before going forward again. Whether this will pay off, time will tell. Just hoping that the club doesn't lose any of the developed talent in the next summer window.

Nice to see a team in perfect harmony. Players that are off the ball moving into all the right positions, players on the ball being decisive.

That's who the club are at the moment. Clownlake FC. Not Chelsea FC.

Instead we signed Lesley Ugochukwu for a higher fee. Why? Younger, and commands less wages. Pointless signing. Given that we have both Lavia and Caicedo, none of whom are yet the finished product.

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About spending money - don't let the transfer fees fool you. The overall objective is bring down the wage bill. It's also why all the incoming signings are made to sign long term contracts to keep them locked down on those wages for as long as possible.

Poch's over conservative approach in the past few weeks has become an annoyance. I'm still annoyed at the fact that he didn't give Nkunku his first few minutes this season by bringing him on against Sheffield United. It would have been an easy, done and dusted game for him to really advance his match fitness. But at least he is off the mark, so that's a start. Instead he's trying to be 'fair' with Broja, and is shoe-horning him into playing upfront with Jackson. That., and the 4 CB formation is really grating to watch. I don't understand his hesitancy in playing Maatsen. Is it because the kid is on his way out? Not sure. The lack of depth in central midfield is not down to him though. We have absolute novices (talented as some of them maybe) controlling the most important part of the pitch. Even if he were to bring on Lavia, that would be another match-fitness lacking teenager. The CM situation is down to our recruitment policy. We were too quick to get rid of experienced CMs and turn to next gen talent. I bet if if we even had one of Kovacic or Kante playing in midfield today, under Poch, we would be a lot further up the table. The novice midfield is why our game management is poor. And why easy wins turn into draws/defeats.

I don't want Poch out. Not because I'm a Poch fan. It's that I don't trust the people above him to make the right appointment. For all you know, they would bring in someone like Bob Bradley to come in and take over Chelsea.

Make no mistake about it. The Gallagher sale if it happens, is a Wyss- driven, pure profit move. Profit from the investment made by Roman in the Cobham academy. Sell Cobham youth for profit, and buy dregs to fill up the squad.

Potter was the guy who definitely was shit. Because he had a top 3 squad that he ended up dragging towards relegation. Then Boehly and co., came and did all the rest. Completed the demolition.

"This player is really good, you can SELL him" Typo, or joke? I know Wyss is on a mission to bring down Chelsea’s wage bill and make it a cheap side. But is he actually aiming to move out any quality player the club has, to make a profit? Turning it into a feeder club like Brighton? Looks like Clearlake's master plan is just to take advantage of the club's huge fanbase, who think that the club will return to winning ways in the future, and therefore spend money on it. All the while, Clearlake is constructing a cheap side that never has a hope in hell for truly challenging the elite sides.

Nkunku, nice.