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May be 90% on here, but can categorically tell you its the opposite with match going fans, who arent clowns

Your soviet/communism obsession isnt healthy

I predict pages and pages of moaning this season - some of it quite justified spending over a billion to end up worse as we settle into another mid table finish...Maresca clueless blabla...new manager blablabla....not qualifying for Europe....blabla...need a striker...blabla...need central defenders...blabla...shouldnt have got rid of so and so....blabla

A lot of owners dont like strong leaders on or off the pitch. But every successful club has either a strong manager or trusted leaders on the pitch. Abramovich felt managers were disposable, whereas Man Utd became Ferguson Utd for years. Clownlake seem to think both managers and players are disposable, and that it has no correlation to success or lack of

A former Chelsea player believes the way the club is currently being run is a 'disgrace'. A consortium fronted by Todd Boehly completed a takeover of the club from Roman Abramovich in 2022, and the Blues have since spent in excess of £1bn on transfers. But results on the pitch have gone backwards, with Chelsea finishing comfortably outside the top four in each of their last two campaigns. They have also been through six different managers - including interim appointments - during this period, with Enzo Maresca the latest man charged with turning the club's fortunes around. Frank Leboeuf, who played for Chelsea between 1996 and 2001, is deeply concerned with what he is seeing at the club, and does not expect Maresca to improve matters any time soon. 'Some fans think Chelsea can just start from scratch next season, but it won’t really be starting from scratch after spending a billion pounds,' 'The club can do whatever they want with their money but as a former player, I think it’s kind of a disgrace to see what we are seeing.' Chelsea have largely focused on recruiting young players with Boehly at the helm, splashing the cash on numerous teenagers as well as exciting prospects in their early 20s such as Enzo Fernandez, Moises Caicedo and Mykhailo Mudryk. But Lebouef feels this transfer strategy is a mistake, and is adamant that Chelsea will have no chance of winning the Premier League unless they start to bring in more experienced stars. He continued: 'The talent is there in the squad but you don’t have any leaders or players you can rely on, that’s the biggest problem Enzo Maresca has. Daily News Hes been reading my posts

Ha -sent mine to several people ''Fuck is that real ?'' 🤣

Weak opposition - There is one specific drill that the lads have practised repeatedly in the two training sessions. It involves playing a pass through the opposition defence on to a runner who then cuts the ball back. Its a modus operandi that Enzo clearly wants to perfect ahead of the next season, and I lost count of the number of times we saw that same move against Club America. Finishing was not the greatest, but it will get better with time and Enzo now has his first win in charge of Chelsea.

Would have definitely kept Chalobah and Lewis Hall. But its only opinions at the end of the day Yup seems very reminiscent of Villas boas and we know how that ended. Just because a clubs in new hands doesnt mean everything that went before can be disregarded - its like that definition of insanity - keep doing the same things but expect different results

Anyone else had an e mail from Eden Hazard ?

Its always been pretty mental tbh. Its not called the silly season for no reason

T*ttenham to submit superior Chelsea offer as Levy, Postecoglou refuse to let perfect signing go Yids really rate Gallagher

Osimhen isnt going to stop us conceding stupid goals. We'll just have to be like Keith Allens Vindaloo 'we will score one more than you'

Osimhen seems to be happening - still need a leader or two at the back otherwise it will be the third season of conceding stupidly and mid table mediocrity

Concede and everyone looks at each other, then shrugs. Its all a load of bollocks without a leader(s) on the pitch

The best past teams have a longstanding defender or keeper who is a leader, a shouter - JT, Adams, Ferdinand, Van Dyck, Maldini etc we should focus on such. Rudi could have been that talisman instead of which we tend to offload them and then end up with a load of headless chickens not knowing what each other is doing. Mid table mediocrity this season again, Clownlake will try to spin it all, selling more tat along the way

New Chelsea boss Enzo Maresca will "surprise people" by quickly getting the club challenging for major honours and qualifying for the Champions League, says Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall. The 25-year-old followed his former manager to Stamford Bridge in a £30m move last month after starring in his Championship-winning Leicester City team, which earned promotion to the Premier League last season. "The manager was a big catalyst in wanting me to come," Dewsbury-Hall told BBC Sport. "I knew from Leicester, a club that went down and had a lot of problems, how he managed to galvanise that, if everyone manages to buy into the system. "I genuinely think in a short space of time we can be pushing for minimum top four - but more than that. "He may be unknown for a lot of people, but he is top, top level. He will surprise a lot of people." Fucking hope so

If it continued. It is not going to now. Jeez

Not if you look at what he has been paid up till now

If true will save us a fortune. Paid more than Palmer for years..Malingerer Sarr

Getting out of hand now... French-Argentine racism controversy pushes presidents Emmanuel Macron and Javier Milei to have emergency meeting in Paris after Chelsea star Enzo Fernandez shared chant online Argentine President Javier Milei flew to meet French President Emmanuel Macron at the ongoing Paris Olympics after tensions escalated between their countries over the Argentine soccer team's derogatory post-match chants about French players. Argentina's Enzo Fernandez shared a short clip from the team's Copa America victory celebrations in Miami earlier this month. The footage shows triumphant Argentine players chanting a song considered racist toward French players of African heritage. 'They play for France but their parents are from Angola,' the refrain goes, with some transphobic slurs mixed in.

Five years hanging about and on more money than Cole Palmer. Has cost the club a fortune.

In an extraordinary half hour with reporters, Howe said he must be 'free to work in the way that he wants' under a new hierarchy that includes sporting director Paul Mitchell and performance director James Bunce. Responding for the first time to questions on being favourite to replace Gareth Southgate, Howe said he is committed to Newcastle and wants to remain, but only if he feels the support of those above and within the right framework.

Chelsea say they have “instigated an internal disciplinary procedure” against Enzo Fernández over his involvement in chants that included racist and homophobic slurs about members of the France team. This will blow over. Maresca will sort them all out in pre season

He'll be alright if the club want to keep him. Lamps, Terry, Morris baring their arses at US tourists after 9/11 seemed cardinal sins - but if youre good, get away with anything

Aint that the truth