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Current crop definitely isn't, our midfield has downgraded massively. And without midfield it doesn't matter how good your defence or attack are, unless you want to bypass midfield completely and play hoofball. We simply have to get a quality midfielder in or we will be watching Gallagher play every game. Also our winger situation is sus. All in all I think the club has done well at offloading players, but quality wise a lot still needs to be done to make this squad fit for top 4.

Finally we are selling players when they still have high values while clearly being on the decline and/or disinterested. In the past we would have forced the likes of Mount and Havertz to stay until their value plummeted or waited until they went for free. Getting rid of average players for big money can only be commended, now replace them with better players please...

He gave it his absolute all and even more during his peak and that cost him his twilight years. I'm sure glad he spent that time with us, won the UCL and EPL (twice, one with bloody Leicester!) in huge part thanks to him. A club and international world champion. Love him, undisputable LEGEND! 🥰

Yep, sounds like some spoilt tiktok kid. If this is the norm with which coaches have to deal with nowadays, then I feel sorry for them.

"I remember in pre-season some of the lads came back late or something and the next day we were all running for it. I understand the message, but it just felt very negative. Like I said, I've had one manager scream at me during my career and it was Lampard." Jesus, what a pussy 🤣

Can you explain what that means? What did Frank do?

No. If not for any other reason, then having 5(!) managers in a single season would be beyond embarrassing. The guy who can't coach attack to save his life? The thing that needs coaching the most in our team. 🤦‍♂️ The last time we were in such a rut it was Mourinho's last season. Have you forgotten that? Think we were 1-2 places above relegation when palpable discord happened. He had a far superior team back then and they looked absolutely hopeless.

Those quotes are recent when he was already on the job, he might not have thought so before taking the job as he wouldn't have been in the know then. Maybe he thought that Potter was the main problem, that coming in right after him would boost morale and uplift the team, ride on the new manager bounce and possibly win/get to the final of the CL - all of which would have boosted his job credentials for the future. Unfortunately it hasn't turned out that way. So I do see where Lampard's coming from. After Everton he probably wasn't getting another EPL job any time soon, Chelsea presented an opportunity to change that and prove himself. It was a calculated risk.

Doesn't really matter, does it? Unless we somehow manage to get relegated, it makes no difference whatsoever who coaches us till the end of the season. It's probably cheaper anyway than firing him and hiring yet another coach for a few games.

Because this is real life and he was probably offered good money. You have to stop thinking like a sentimental fan and more like a normal working person to understand some decisions taken in entertainment/sports. At least that's what I think.

Lmao this is gonna be bad. 😬

100% agree. The time for Poch (or any other competent manager) to come in this season was right after Pottler got the boot. Now it's pointless.

Lol why does the thread title say "Chelsea 1 - 2 Brentford"?

When Pottler got fired I was like fuck yeah let's go! I'd been waiting for that announcement for months, nobody could possibly do any worse than him. Boy was I wrong... I hoped they had lined up some big name to succeed Potter, but of course that wasn't the case. At first I didn't believe the Lampard rumours, thought it was a joke, but fuck me they actually did it. Even after hiring him I had this hopeful thinking that he couldn't do any worse, possibly might even fire a rocket up the players' asses, but instead he's managed to make us the worst team in the EPL. Shambolic

The Silva and Badiashile pairing was the best part of our season. We suddenly started looking more solid at the back. Then all of a sudden they were almost never played together again and we fell to shit. All this unnecessary chopping and changing did not do us any favours. Towards the end Potter was finally finding a settled team that even managed 3 wins in a row, but Lampard, instead of building on that, completely changed everything... I was hoping a bit that he would just take that settled team over from Potter and motivate the players to do better, but instead he thinks he's some tactical genius with this 3-5-1-1 nonsense.

I disagree. To me, the problem is clearly the coaching. Sure, some players are not good enough, but not to the point that the whole team is suddenly relegation material and by far the worst team in EPL. The owners fucked up majorly with manager appointments. It's no coincidence that this total capitulation happens right after owner change. It's on them.

Well that might explain his stinky performances this season, he wasn't fit.

It definitely can't be the only explanation. Maybe only Azpi, Kante, Trev and Gallager love the club, nobody else.

How the fuck is Kompany even in discussion? This has to be a joke. 🤦‍♂️

No, not anymore. It's too late, the season's dead, nothing to play for. Let this season ride itself out and announce the new manager just after that. We need to get the next season right. Boehly and Eghbali should go back to wherever they came from and let the people they hired run the club. I hope to fuck this trend of them going into team dressing rooms won't continue next season, surely they must get bored of it at some point.

Sorry if this has been asked or discussed before, but I can't be bothered to read all unread replies... So can somebody explain to me why we need to pay compensation if Nagelsmann was fired and is currently unemployed?

It was stupid, but this part of his game is probably something that a proper coaching staff can help with.

Chalobah shouldn't have even played, Badiashile should have. Wasn't registered. 🤭 What a clusterfuck and totally braindead season.

We paid €65.30m for a downgrade on Alonso. 🤪

You mean 4 out of 4?