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Last year was worse. If yous think this season is the worst in the Roman era then wow................. speechless. A CL and FA cup doesn't cover up last years embarrassing league performance where we were absolute ballsack.

This is a transition year as next year is too in my opinion. If this is the worst season in the Roman era then you need your fucking head checked....

Look, success is measured by what you win. This year we were in 8 competitions, now we only have the chance to win the fucking Europa League. Are you seriously saying that it would be better than the FA Cup and Champions League? If we fail to win even that, it will be the first trophyless season. Yes we might have played more dire football last year, we did, but it doesn't show that it was the worst season. It will be remembered as one of the greatest seasons in our history. This one will be forgotten and written off quickly.

One point about transition. Yes, we are in transition, but imo it's been horribly managed. It should have started ages ago, then we wouldn't be talking about "biting the bullet during radical transition", we would be talking about gradual evolution. Now we suffer because because we went from old to new too quickly.

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Its his club though.

It doesnt matter, it is his hobbie and not his business.

He only appears from time to time and some decisions are made by our Board without even consulting him.

Not taking away his massive blame, but it isnt all his fault just because he owns it. Are all our titles in the last decade because of his money? No. The same applies for when things are going bad...

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Ultimately it's Roman's fault. He's the one who wanted Guardiola. so he was always going to bin Robbie at the first chance (probably shouldn't have given him the job full-time in the first place because he was never the right choice) and he wanted a short-term man in charge and the only one realistically available was Benitez.

People can blame the board but they need to be specific. Some are blaming them for Jose going, but some of the people involved in that are long gone.

Emenalo is a popular choice but if you look at the signings made under his tenure they've been much better in my opinion.

This season was years in the making. We didn't plan long-term from about 2006 until 2011, and now we're racing to catch-up. Fortunately the future looks bright but it's going to be a bit painful getting there.

That's all on Roman though.

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Whoever is in charge of the squad. You're only as good as the players you have at your disposal. For the amount of money we spend on transfers and wages to be 22 points behind the league leaders is an embarrassment, shameful even. Makes you wonder just how much more needs to be spent before we can compete. I'm not sure on the figures but since January 2011 we must have spent about 300m or very close to it. How much more before we close gap? What a monumental waste of resources.

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Whoever is in charge of the squad. You're only as good as the players you have at your disposal. For the amount of money we spend on transfers and wages to be 22 points behind the league leaders is an embarrassment, shameful even. Makes you wonder just how much more needs to be spent before we can compete. I'm not sure on the figures but since January 2011 we must have spent about 300m or very close to it. How much more before we close gap? What a monumental waste of resources.

Lets face it, Torres costs us, on the pitch, off the pitch, obliged to play him all the time because of his money made us almost losing the CL under Carlo Ancelotti.

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Anyone who says Roman, for my money, is an idiot. He doesn't personally swing the axe. Its those "advisers" of his. Roman has invested a lot of money in this club and continues to do so. How anyone can therefore label him as the main problem is beyond me. Yes, he does make the ultimate decisions and some small degree of the trouble has been caused by his own ruthlessness, but the real issue here lies with those aforesaid "advisers" and the board in general. We entered a season fighting for seven trophies with the smallest squad we've had since 2006/07. Imagine how bad this season would have been with a long-term injury to Luiz, Cech or Mata, for instance. We've been underprepared for this season from the word go thanks to the inability of the board to keep a consistent, competitive core to the team. Look at all the loans we've had - you're telling me Essien, Lukaku, de Bruyne, Courtois et al. couldn't have been of any help this season? And by the same token, whose idea was it to sell Meireles, loan out KDB, Benayoun and Essien and then, with Romeu out for the season, decide not to bring in a replacement in January?

Nevermind #RafaOut - #BOARDOUTNOW.

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Anyone who says Roman, for my money, is an idiot. He doesn't personally swing the axe. Its those "advisers" of his. Roman has invested a lot of money in this club and continues to do so. How anyone can therefore label him as the main problem is beyond me. Yes, he does make the ultimate decisions and some small degree of the trouble has been caused by his own ruthlessness, but the real issue here lies with those aforesaid "advisers" and the board in general. We entered a season fighting for seven trophies with the smallest squad we've had since 2006/07. Imagine how bad this season would have been with a long-term injury to Luiz, Cech or Mata, for instance. We've been underprepared for this season from the word go thanks to the inability of the board to keep a consistent, competitive core to the team. Look at all the loans we've had - you're telling me Essien, Lukaku, de Bruyne, Courtois et al. couldn't have been of any help this season? And by the same token, whose idea was it to sell Meireles, loan out KDB, Benayoun and Essien and then, with Romeu out for the season, decide not to bring in a replacement in January?

Nevermind #RafaOut - #BOARDOUTNOW.

Those two bolded statements aren't contradictory?

It's so easy to blame his advisors, but the other accusation laid at their feet is that they're nothing but 'yes men'. People criticising them can't have it both ways.

Roman wanted Guardiola. Roman wagered this club's immediate future on getting Guardiola. Funnily enough, that has consequences.

Now if you want to look at the players we let go then fine, but be honest about it. You say Lukaku could have helped, but do you mean the Lukaku before his loan or the Lukaku we have now? People were writing him off in the summer, now people are saying we shouldn't have let him go.

The same goes for Essien. Are you saying we should have kept a player on the wage bill who has had TWO major knee injuries and played less than 21 games in THREE of the last FOUR seasons? Or do you want the Essien that we have now, apparently fit and available?

Calling for the board to be sacked is easy. No board is popular because they spend most of their time saying 'no' to things, and most fans haven't got a clue what they do. You'll never run short of likes calling for the board to be sacked, especially if it gives people someone to blame who isn't a billionaire that happens to bankroll your club.

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Easy to blame Roman, and no doubt rightly so. The board just sat on their hands it would seem.

TFSW has been a disaster. No goals and one point against QPR. One point against Southampton, losing to, of all teams, fucking West Ham. Literally stumbling through game after game. The marginalising of Terry and Lampard has achieved what? To show them that they aint top dogs anymore?, blinding idea......if we have better players to step into their shoes, but we don't. Limp wristed performances like Swansea away in the League Cup has been typical.

We have some very, very iffy games left. If Roman brought that cunt in to get top 4 then he is going to end up with egg on his face. Unless the Yids and the Arse collapse, not to forget Everton, we have no chance.

Anyone optimistic about Fulham away?

Snivelpool next weekend is going to be a mare. They will treat him as some returning hero, he will milk it, big time, we will be left to look like cunts and when, not if, they beat us, we will have bin dipper after bin dipper broadcasting that TFSW "fixed" it, so to speak.

Bastard of a season. Last season, League wise was of course pony. But sterling performances against Napoli, Bara, Yids, kept it ticking over and to beat the Bin Dippers in the final and, of course Munich was sweet.

Should have given Steve Holland a go, when RDM went. In my opinion, in hindsight.

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For me the first mistake was start the season with RDM as the "permanent" manager.

Exactly.

Di Matteo didn't have the experience to rebuild a team such as Chelsea. I was surprised he was given the job because of one, Roman's so called admiration for Pep and two, his managerial inexperience but I suppose if your the owner of a club and the interim coach has won the CL and FA cup with an aging squad of average players and a few players putting in exceptional performances in vital games (Cech, Mata, Cole, Ramires, Drogba) you'd consider that you should maybe give the bloke a chance at least.

He brought in a few players but we needed much more. We needed another center forward and central midfielder.

The likes of Hazard, Oscar, Moses, Azpilicueta and Marin were along the right idea. Young, technically better than the players we had before, potential resale value etc.

We still needed another midfielder as Lampard isn't good enough and disciplined to play in the double pivot, Ramires neither. Mikel and Romeu can play the holding role out of the two but aren't helped with poor and inconsistent performances and a partner who suits the role. Meireles and Mikel in the game against Newcastle impressed me, why did we sell Meireles?

Torres has huffed and puffed all year long, hes not that same player he was before. Signing Ba has helped slightly with rotation but we could have done with Lukaku playing for us this year, another mistake by the board/Di Matteo/whoever.

Di Matteo managed the egos last year and got them on his side and playing for him but this year with the younger players he didn't exactly figure out how to incorporate them into the squad and that ultimately cost us due to the small squad we have. De Bruyne and Lukaku could have made a hell of a difference for us. Look at where WBA are thanks to Lukaku's goals, the mans proved all his doubters wrong after a frustrating season last year where he was branded a flop by many on here. De Bruyne didn't play well in pre-season for us but he could of still been useful for us when Moses was at the ACON or when Moses and Hazard were fatigued/injured.

Even looking at pre-season this year. We only won ONE pre-season game against Seattle Sounders. That is shocking, I don't care if the games were to gain fitness or not but the likes of Lampard in MF was found out and Ivanovic at RB too. The fact we got crushed by a championship side too made me question was Di Matteo out of his depth, he played a £200 million side and we got beat and were poor. The start of the season we played well but after that United game it all fell apart.

This isn't the worst season in the Roman era for sure as last year is despite the CL triumph, but its certainly not the best.

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Calling for the board to be sacked is easy. No board is popular because they spend most of their time saying 'no' to things, and most fans haven't got a clue what they do. You'll never run short of likes calling for the board to be sacked, especially if it gives people someone to blame who isn't a billionaire that happens to bankroll your club.

To a certain extent, yes that might be true. But at the end of the day, Roman isn't receiving monetary compensation to do a job. I can see why *some* of the blame needs to be attributed to him for decisions regarding managerial appointments/firings and the whole Torres situation.

But to argue that he is fully to blame for this mess of a season and not the board, is absurd and removes accountability from people who are getting paid a shit load of money to ensure that x, y, z is being done. We know that Roman is involved with club affairs, but it's not like he's micro-managing everything relating to transfer dealings. Is it his fault that we don't have good enough players for the pivot? Or that 25 million was squandered on another attacking player when there are holes in other areas? Isn't that why he has a technical director getting a nice salary to ensure that the squad is in good shape to mount title challenges?

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