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Pochettino admits Spurs still hold a special place in his heart. ‘Ah, Mr Bean,’ nodded Pochettino before realising from the reaction of the room that he might be on the wrong track. ‘Ron Atkinson is the actor, yes?’ 🤦‍♂️

Had a glimmer of hope at the start of the season, but it seems Clearlake are just happy with an investment return. Keeping their eye on the prize....relegation parachute money

Hayes close to being named US women's manager - offered her megabucks apparently

Havent played each other in a league game since 1992. Come on Luton !!

VAR too scared to send off Guimares 🤣 in front of Geordie crowd. Stone cold red card

Yes hes matured - always remember when he was 18 and cops pulled him over and he fell out of his new Range Rover as he was swigging from a magnum of champagne 😁

Marcel Desailly; 'So it’s very hard to criticise,' he began. 'The only thing that I’d say though is that it is an error of communication. They are carried away by the potential that each player that they’ve bought has, because they’ve forgotten about one element, knowing that to play football at the highest level. 'To attain what we call in French la culture de la gagne, the winning mentality, you need experience – nascent talent is never enough to presume immediate performance. And that’s the only thing where I’d say they’ve made a mistake, where they keep thinking, with the coach Pochettino, "no, this year we’ll be title challengers with the team that we have”. 'Right from the start of the season, you could see that they can’t be title challengers, it was obvious. But they have put together players of great potential and have positioned themselves in terms of business, because if they didn’t buy the players now for a little above value, they wouldn’t have been able to buy them later. The only thing is they need to know how to educate the supporters by telling them hang on – we’re going to have a year or two of transition but after that – wow – we’ve built up enormous potential. 'But the fans and the media don’t want to hear that. They’ve seen the investment, they want immediate results. But that’s what I think of Chelsea’s idea. Pochettino isn’t a coach who has built up his philosophy like a Mourinho, a Tuchel – he’s a coach who needs to coach top players, top teams. 'Now he needs to rethink all his coaching to adapt to players who are in theory at a very high level but for whom you need to recreate the basic foundations of play.'

Helps if you're a member - and then best to go through these as well https://www.chelseafc.com/en/official-sellers

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Seems to score for fun, when hes not betting

Brentford are willing to sell 27-year-old England striker Ivan Toney for £80m in January. (Evening Standard)

QF Draw 10 15 EST ....should we manage to topple the mighty Riversiders

Poch... 'If you watch the game against Liverpool, Dortmund or Luton, in different circumstances he’s a different player. It is dangerous to make this analysis on one game. 'Nico was not at his best, but if you watch him in other games he’s one player, if you see [the] Brentford [game] he’s another player. We have to be fair with our analysis, we need to give time to him. I believe in him.'

Chelsea are laying on free coaches for supporters for the club's Christmas Eve trip to Wolves to help ease their travel concerns. In a goodwill gesture following last week's controversial rearrangement of the game, any Blues fan who buys a ticket will also be able to book a seat on one of the buses travelling to and from Molineux at no additional cost.

Lukaku given a standing ovation, thats where we went wrong

''10,335 Most Online'' Must have been when we signed Bakayoko

SLP should have buried that. Would have made the game better for the neutral. Lukaku looking lively...

My first game v Wolves, (back in Victorian Britain)...

A Premier League match will be played on Christmas Eve for the first time in 28 years when Wolves host Chelsea. Originally scheduled for 23 December, the fixture will now take place on Sunday, 24 December at 13:00 GMT.

The sending off ?

Cucu gives off that 74 vibe with that barnet

Much more handsome than that

The club will be micro scrutinising his distribution now, hes good at most other aspects, braver than Kepa at coming out. Onana went from clown to hero last night. I'm up for giving Sanchez more leeway, every player fucks up, its just a question of if its habitual

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