BlueLyon

Yeah pretty much. The board would never pay lets say 50m for Bissaka who is actualy great prospect. But they would happily throw 40m on some average lad. As for Reece, next season with ban and current options not good enough (Azpi in decline/not fitting for this system while Zappa is simply not good enough), it would be best chance to get in the team. Same applies for other youngsters too. Rotating for Azpi with around 20 games or something would be great to prepare him slowly for top level. There would always be Azpi who despite not being at best, is reliable option, so no pressure on Reece. BUT knowing this club, I have zero faith this will happen. They will keep on playing Azpi and Zappa. And thats it.

Maybe they want manager to play Alonso and other crap hoping to turn good. And if they dont play good, they sack manager since he couldnt make them play well. Because otherwise it would be board fault for signing such shite. Same applies for extending contracts, in case of Alonso. Can you imagine how would board look if they extended Alonso and then he doesnt even get to play because he is so shite, yet the board didnt figure it out sooner? This board has done beyond awful football releated business yet they are never accounted responsible. 1.) Losing De Bruyne 2.) Losing Salah 3.) Signing Drinkwater for 40m 4.) Extending Alonso deal til he is 33 5.) Overall beyond shite transfer deals since 2010 with couple exceptions. Any of these 5 fuckups alone would make anyone fired on spot. Yet the board lives punishment-free and will continue with similar crap. I am believing Pulisic for 60m will be another in the line of "great" board deals. Signed because he is american, but cant get even close to starting 11 of BVB, being injured all the time in the past year and worse of all, he is apparently the player board thinks will be good enough to replace Hazard. Pulisic for Hazard. A kid who did fuck all for best player in the league. Chelsea board, ladies and gentlemen.

You are absolutely spot on but I dont remember a manager so clueless as Sarri is. Why didnt we pull that shit with Conte then? Because he actualy had balls to stand up for his demands? Sarri is throwing same shit players on the pitch over and over and over. At this point I dont even care about results anymore. When I see his lineup with Alonso Im already pissed. As is the 90% of Chelsea fans. Some will always say manager is always right. If manager plays Iva, so be it they know what they are doing and we are just stupid fans to say otherwise. But it was obvious Iva was done long before, the managers were wrong. Same is going on with Alonso and I dont believe Sarri knows better than me or any other fan to play him over Emerson. He is just stubborn and plays someone absolutely shite. ANY decent manager would play CHO by now. I cant imagine a club with such ineffective options and still not play young hotshot like CHO. But Sarri keeps on benching him and even downplays him every time he gets the chance. OR chats about one thing and then does something else, like saying CHO is equal to other wingers we have but everyone knows Sarri was full of bs about that and lack of starts prove it. Lastly his comments ala '' I dont care what fans think''. Ok, sure the boos must not get into your head, thats for sure. But to say something like that in interviews? Chelsea manager who doesnt give a shit what Chelsea fans think? He can fuck off for those comments alone. If the board is seriously thinking of giving him some sort of long term chance, then the first step is to get along with Chelsea club, fans and players. And this old fucker says he doesnt even give a shite. If we were in 2005, we would throw this old fart out of the club 5minutes after he says shit like that about the club or the fans. But like I said, this isnt even about the results. He is simply wrong in so many areas on and off the pitch. I dont know if we had a manager so disconnected to the club like this one. How can you plan long term then?

Lol Barkley. Our season in a nutshell.

If the fucker actualy played RLC, Odoi and Emerson, we wouldnt be behind in first place.

Christensen is another one who seems to be unhappy.

Wise business? I dont think paying 90m for Sancho would be any less wiser compared to paying 60m for Pulisic who is warming bench at bvb. In 6 months, Sancho shown more than Pulisic did in his entire career. Neither is great player and both would be giant risk, but I can understand splashing big money on Sancho who is english and had superb 6 months. On the other hand what did Pulisic do to make our board chunk 60m, apart from being american with big potential to bring huge fanbase. Obviously Pulisic isnt bad player and is actualy decent talent, but he is extremely raw talent, we suck at developing those, so it already makes little sense. And he is never worth 60m either. Its same old story. Pulisic is decent talent but we still forked out huge money. But we will never add 20m more and go for the best talent which makes no sense. Similar story was with Sterling/Stones for who we didnt want to pay 50m, but we did pay 40m on Drinks. Laughable board and I have no doubt Pulisic was bought with idea of getting onto american market, not for being superb player. Because for 60m, even today you either get great player or massive talent and Pulisic is neither. I will support him once he becomes Chelsea player, but honestly I dont have big hopes on him. I dont remember when we had a talented player away on loan that I was this unexcited about coming here.

That video is perfect example of what will never win you games. He stalls on the ball, beats a man and then loses it.

But thats the case in almost every big team in europe. And I dont see them implement such policy. Neither are we any more successful because of it. Smart clubs simply dont buy aging Alexis and get rid of Maloudas at the right time, they dont implement stupid over 30 policy. AND if they get a Malouda or Alexis, thats once every couple years, not worthy enough to implement 30+ policy on every single player. Back then when we didnt have this rule, we signed Ballack and Makelele. And we couldnt get rid of Malouda indeed. But Id rather have another Malouda here if that was the price to have Ballack and Makelele. The real problem with this club is that we are buying average players. If we had quality, I dont think anyone would mind 32 year old Terry, Ballack, Makelele, Cole, Lamps here etc. Dont forget that more and more players still plays at high level in their mid 30s because of much better training and nutrition compared to 2000 or 2005. And that will only go up with these kids being professionaly nurtured since they are 16. You cant have a world class squad anyway if you demand every 30+ player to sign a single year extension or they can fuck off. Where is the club loyalty to players there? You just dont extend to shit players, ala Malouda, thats it. Not implement 30+ rule. And if we were so strict to this rule, why the hell did board extend with Alonso till he is 33? 33 mate. Alonso. He is shite at 28 already. This club is simply clueless. What we needed is to get rid of this excuse of a board, not implement 30+ rule. Any competent board doesnt need such rules because they have knowledge and experience to decide themselves.

We will win this one and brighton at home IMO. But after that I dont have much faith in our team. West Ham, Burnley and Watford even at SB can easily surprise us, while we also have United, Pool and Leicester away.

Only one year for over 30 y.o. players is just another stupid daisy our board invented. Football is changing and many footballers nowdays can easily play at their best even at 30, 31, 32, 33. The line is moving up. Real had Ronaldo, Marcelo, Ramos, Modric all beyond 30. As long they are quality, you extend. Sure we had Malouda situation here, but its on board to give player contract they deserve. And to not give to one that doesnt. The problem isnt giving 30 year olds longer contract, but which 30 year olds. Seems board doesnt have a clue how long the players will remain good, so they invented this policy to prevent signing 30 year olds on more than 1 year, to prevent themselves from fucking up again. Yet for all this talk of 30 year old + policy, they casualy extended Alonso until he is 32 when he already sucks at 28. Alonso of all people. Just another big fuck up by the board. And then when we wont be able to get rid of Alonso, the board will be talking about how important it is to not give 30 year olds long contracts. Fucking idiots.

Indeed. Or Pepe. Both are more expensive but also way more talented compared to Pulisic. The board still didnt learn. Willing to spend on only decent, but still very expensive players, but they dont want to add 20-30m more to get great quality. Then we splash cash like idiots but end up with bunch of overrated shite. Pulisic is a benchwarmer who cant even make impact in germany. Even if he becomes great player one day, the board took massive risk that in current situation should be avoidable. We needed reliable transfers, not super risky ones. And even then, they most certainly bought him for being american, so they can milk the cash cow some more, not for having big potential.

True. The board deemed Sterling and Stones too expensive, but soon after that they splashed 40m on Drinks. Sure prices get up every year, but even in 2025, spending 40m on someone like Drinkwater will be considered bad deal. If we just needed english player, there were others cheaper and better or younger. Nevermind we had Chlobah who wanted to leave but I believe the right paycheck would keep him here. Surely he would be overpaid, but we would have spent much less money on him compared to Drinks fee and wages. And he had more potential compared to Drinkwater too. Salah, Kdb, Drinkwater,... If our board was competent, we could have this Kepa Azpi-Rudiger-Luiz(Zouma)-Filipe Luis Kante-Matic-KDB Salah-Costa-Hazard (playing good old counter football) Name me one club that fucked up transfers this bad.

Its clear he likes Chelsea. But I wonder if thats enough for him to stay. The club is a mess and we still dont trust youth anymore than we did before. We are factory and money seems to be priority for a while now. Not a good place for developing any kind of talent. In that season when United was quite bad under Van Gaal, he at least played Rashford to ignite his start of career. We still cant do the obvious. Cup games in situation like this arent enough. Its not like we are winning every game with our "experienced" 11 anyway, are we?

If we lose Hazard and CHO in same window without chance to buy anyone, someone should seriously fire our incompetent board. One thought Kdb, Salah sales were missed opportunity or bad luck because no one could predict their rise, but its getting clear as day the board was making mistake after mistake that could be avoidable if they had some knowledge. We are on verge of missing CL for second time in row, incoming ban for the second time, poor transfers and yet same board continues to operate without any consequences. Wake the fuck up Roman. Changing a coach wont solve shit. These problems are going on since 2012, Sarri was here for less than a year. Im not saying Sarri shouldnt be sacked, but if the club should be aware that our shit is deeper than just sacking the manager and replacing him.

This is such bs. Liverpool had Salah, Mane and Firmino already at the club. Key here being they were already playing for the club for a while in established first 11. What do we have? Willian, Pedro, Higs stepping up? Haha If we had Lamps and Drogba still here, sure selling Hazard wouldnt worsen us much because of quality elsewhere. But right now we dont have such quality elsewhere. Pool also spent big chunk of Cout money on Van Dijk who turned out to be one in a thousand worthy buy. We cant buy anyone. My hope is CHO develops well. That would fix some of great loss if we sell Hazard. Pulisic has potential, but honestly I dont have much faith in him, he is hyped up American, but cant even get a place in bvb team. But thing is, we sell Hazard, we are midtable team, we wont get better as "team" or whatever. We just dont have players like Pool had after Coutinho departure. Betting on youth might at least set up our future nicely, but even then club is doing everything to push CHO out by not playing him.

I like Sarri idea of Sarriball, but he is completely unfit in player management. Terrible subs, terrible rotation, terrible preferences (picking out of form players, benching inform or talented players), motivating team, etc... Perhaps he is simply not a good fit for a club with big stars and expectations. Doesnt show enough authority and psychological understsnding. Take Zidane for example, maybe not the best tactic ever, but almost unrivaled in player management. He sees players work hard, they play (Vazquez) and benches underperformers regardless of their status. Isco when in form played, when not, he got benched soon. Simple.

Its not premature IMO. Obviously CHO isnt great player yet, but he has massive massive potential. And Southgate is giving proper faith in him. Sancho and CHO are two young english players who have shown most this season along with TAA who established himself last season already. Dont know what you lot are on about, all other fans see these young players deserve it with no ifs and buts. Here every second post casts doubts and complaints. CHO is huge talent and in order to develop he needs playtime and trust from coaches. This bs that he isnt ready yet and everything coming too soon is nonsense. If you have the talent, you have to be thrown in the fire from the start to prove if you can handle it. I agree he should never be paid whatever he is/will be at 18, money turns focus away, but the nt call is deserved. Its a reward for good work from Southgate. And its also not that big of a deal, since Southgate throws couple kids in almost every team selection, it would be almost surprising if he didnt include CHO soon.

The way we play I doubt Piatek would be the solution. We needed striker who is very good on the ball for hold up and linkup. Piatek is poacher and quite average on the ball. If we played counter football, that would be another story though.

I guess no one ever told Tibo to be careful what you wish for and that karma is a bitch. Every week talking about Madrid, Im sure he is realy happy now haha. I hope Eden understands it better.

What exactly is Barkley or Kovacic role when they play? Barkley maybe pops a shot every 180min, aside of that what do they do? Circulate the ball back and forth. No offensive incentive. Kovacic is one of best dribblers yet I have seen him maybe 5 times in whole season to dribble past opponent lines. Those two cant create, cant shoot, cant dribble, they aint athletes either to provide dynamic. Then you have Sarri who keeps starting them. In the present we are losing games, so it makes no sense. Future wise, I would understand him playing those two, but Barkley isnt good enough to be our starter ever and Kovacic wont even be here next season. No idea what Sarri is thinking. This doesnt help us right now and players like Barkley, Pedro, Willian, Alonso, Azpi surely wont get any better. Yet Sarri think everyone is second coming of Messi and they just go through rough patch. And even has nerve to call them out. Some players are just not good enough. You cant play them and expect wonders from average players, then blame them for defeat. Thats entirely on Sarri.

People say well at least youth will develop with ban incoming, but the way things look, Sarri will keep playing Azpi, Alonso, Barkley,...hell even Drinkwater before he gives any time to James, Ampadu, CHO, RLC,.... Sarri might have this idea of Sarriball that will take time, but he can fuck off if he doesnt play youth. He literaly has the best chance any manager ever had to give them time. We got ban, we have talented youth and bunch of shite senior players. Yet since october when things turned bad, what the fuck did he do? This guy actualy dares to shit on players after defeat, but same dude put Alonso (who fucked up everything in everton game) in starting 11 after one good match vs shite kiev. Prior to that game he had shit game after game. Sarri just igonored that. I mean sure players get the blame for playing bad, but if you put Alonso in starting 11, you fucked up things already. You dont get to complain and blame others. If someone put suv wheels on a formula, driver wont win the race but I dont think anyone will blame the driver.

People saying we have reactionary fans, but the way I see it; I know what Sarri wants to do takes time. And I am not pissed with losses tbh. If we end up great couple seasons from now, fine. Ill take the shit season or two. BUT I dont accept being sixth and still playing same shit players week in week out who obviously have no present, nevermind future at top level. I can understand Sarri needs time, but honestly he can fuck off if he inteds to play shit players and we still lose game after game. Either play CHO, RLC, Christensen, Emerson etc to build for future or win games. Alonso is pure garbage, but he still plays him. CHO and RLC are super talented and even take chance when they play, yet they sit. Seriously fuck off because there are no excuses for that. Sorry for bad language but I want to see some fucking sense when watching the games. When CHO and RLC came on, you can at least say we might be losing but those two are getting crucial play time. They have future and if they continue to play, they develop and improve. When you see we are losing 2:0 with players like Alonso, Azpi, Barkley,...there is no bright part. No silver lining. Just shit result, shit players and nothing changes week after week.

When we are down our entire team goes into "safe" mode. Endless passing around the box. Other teams comfortably just keep their line and because we never shoot, dribble inside or make splitting pass. Everton 2:0 up, we had 80% possesion after their second goal and what the fuck did we do with it? Where was plan and desire to score goal? We literaly just passed the ball back and forth. Fuck off with that shit. I dont care if its Sarri fault or players fault, but this cant keep going on. But Azpi of all people Im most dissapointed. Once you could actualy throw 11 Azpis and they would fight as hell. Mou said it well. But nowdays he is just bitching all the time instead of leading the team and focus on winning, doesnt do shit in attack (I dont blame him for this though) and looks worthless in defence.

Every game we dont score its the same. We start well, make our opponents shit their pants for 20-30 min and the either 1.) We score and control the game (rarely) 2.) We dont score despite xyz chances, then opponents get their shit together (at half time or even sooner) and after that we are complete mess. Cant do shit in attack despite 80 percent possession and any opponent can make our defence and midfield their bitch the moment they show some attacking pressure. I think some of the worst players have comfortably just glided past our entire midfield and defence right through the centre. Our players just bounce away or get destroyed with a little flair trick. That is if they arent already completely out of position. I hate Alonso in starting lineup, but our problems are way way bigger than Alonso. We cant keep any sort of pressure on opponent except for those 20min every game.