Welcome Mauricio Pochettino

[Reddish-Blue 2,489]

3 hours ago, robsblubot said:

Sad point taken.
I'd say that evidence still suggests it's not (yet?) the same. Well Garnacho is better than Mudryk--not really that close. Antony with all his weaknesses is twice the player Mudryk is, and was actually better than Sterling against us. Antony, despite his shortcomings, is a powerful athlete... maybe we are missing a bit of that up front?

I think even knowing whether Poch is good enough of a manager for us is going to be hard... and perhaps even not that important. When you fuck up the roster the way we did, gotta fix that first.

I feel like we have plenty of athletes in the squad that can probably run like crazy in a straight line but they don't have the ability or know-how in terms of breaking down an opposition who will sit a bit deeper against us and soak up the pressure. 

People on here were happy to see Werner sold as he didn't fit the tactics or whatever else but I feel we replaced him with the same player in Mudryk/Madueke.  What we've sorely lacked for a number of seasons is that Hazard type attacker who can take the game on and create something out of nothing and lift the attacking momentum....and it's not easy to find that type of player in the market. 

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6 minutes ago, Reddish-Blue said:

I feel like we have plenty of athletes in the squad that can probably run like crazy in a straight line but they don't have the ability or know-how in terms of breaking down an opposition who will sit a bit deeper against us and soak up the pressure. 

People on here were happy to see Werner sold as he didn't fit the tactics or whatever else but I feel we replaced him with the same player in Mudryk/Madueke.  What we've sorely lacked for a number of seasons is that Hazard type attacker who can take the game on and create something out of nothing and lift the attacking momentum....and it's not easy to find that type of player in the market. 

Don't disagree with your points. I was thinking more of power though (outmuscle the opposition), not so much running (stamina).

But yeah it's likely both: experience and build (with some correlation between the two).

[Costa19 858]

1 hour ago, Reddish-Blue said:

It's not only that, the top teams know they have a solid attack (that will produce multiple goals if needed) which means their managers can take a calculated risk and allow us to have a go in the final third. 

I agree that we need to give more of the ball to the opposition but I don't think we have enough technical thinkers in our attack to play that style of football effectively.  Based on the players signed in the most recent windows, it seems to be all about counter attacking football.   That's what I saw of Mudryk at Shaktar, Madueke at PSV, Sterling at Liverpool/City more known for his dribbling and ball carrying at pace, Jackson at his Spanish club...Palmer is the only one that came from the City system and even he was still making that breakthrough into the first team XI.

 

Yeah i agree in large parts and its both amazing and crazy how we sign a manager who wants to play old-school and out dated possession football when our recruitment team have bought players with a different skill set. 
 
The fuck is going on with the guys in charge? 
Its like signing Peter Crouch and ask him to be a gegenpressing machine.. 

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1 hour ago, Costa19 said:

Yeah i agree in large parts and its both amazing and crazy how we sign a manager who wants to play old-school and out dated possession football when our recruitment team have bought players with a different skill set. 
 
The fuck is going on with the guys in charge? 
Its like signing Peter Crouch and ask him to be a gegenpressing machine.. 

Possession style? Pochetino has always used a very direct style with high pressing esp at Spurs. 🤷‍♂️

[Mário César 1,232]

our main problem is our attack

we need to score goals. our midfielder and defense control the game differently if we managed to score goals and be more times ahead in the result... 

jackson, sterling, madueke and mudryk are all average at least 

we need better players. simple as that and a better goalkeeper, btw

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It's worse than that. The strategy used by the club to sign players is the craziest shit I've ever seen. Thank you Pat, for stating the obvious: 

Former Chelsea winger Pat Nevin said on BBC Radio 5 Live: "When they started buying a lot of the young players, and the ones who have no experience in the Premier League, I remember thinking 'that's a good plan, that could work in a couple of years'. "I've not changed my mind. It will take at least two years for that to bear any fruit and it's still an 'if' because you don't know which of those young players are going to develop into top Premier League players. Tough times for Chelsea at the moment."

https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/67681960

 

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8 hours ago, robsblubot said:

Possession style? Pochetino has always used a very direct style with high pressing esp at Spurs. 🤷‍♂️

I know, but do you think we play the way Poch used to play at Tottenham?

That is precisely what is my criticism, that we signed players for counter-attack and direct football but instead we hug the ball within the team without doing anything constructive while the opponents just lie low and wait for us..

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9 hours ago, robsblubot said:

Possession style? Pochetino has always used a very direct style with high pressing esp at Spurs. 🤷‍♂️

I haven't seen this high pressing style on a consistent basis at Chelsea.    Seems like the players are more content with keeping the ball than trying to create that moment of magic which could lead to a goal. 

Not sure if that is down to players not really understanding his instructions or whether they are just too young and need that senior midfielder (let's say for examples sake Fabregas/Jorginho/Lampard) to calm them down and coach them on the field. 

Like if you see Arsenal getting Declan Rice, he's got multiple seasons of PL football under his belt and he can read the situation very well.   That was my one concern with going all out for both Caicedo & Lavia, you bring in two players who are green and they're somehow supposed to be starting XI midfielders. 

The people in charge definitely missed a trick by not going for that 25-28 year old midfielder to help out Enzo and the other young mids at the club.  Losing the experience of Jorginho/Kante/Kovacic in consecutive windows was always going to hurt....but I didn't realise that we would go from hovering around top 6 to being uncompetitive in games and dragging ourselves to 10th place. 

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6 hours ago, Reddish-Blue said:

I haven't seen this high pressing style on a consistent basis at Chelsea.    Seems like the players are more content with keeping the ball than trying to create that moment of magic which could lead to a goal. 

Not sure if that is down to players not really understanding his instructions or whether they are just too young and need that senior midfielder (let's say for examples sake Fabregas/Jorginho/Lampard) to calm them down and coach them on the field. 

3rd option: players simply aren't good enough; perhaps some don't (yet?) possess the quality or characteristics to execute the footballing tasks asks of them.

High press with Jackson, Mudryk, and Palmer? 😆 They don't have the aggression and intensity needed for that. IMO that's why he tried Chilwell as left wing and we all know how this forum reacted to that.

Edited December 13, 2023 by robsblubot

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6 hours ago, robsblubot said:

3rd option: players simply aren't good enough; perhaps some don't (yet?) possess the quality or characteristics to execute the footballing tasks asks of them.

High press with Jackson, Mudryk, and Palmer? 😆 They don't have the aggression and intensity needed for that. IMO that's why he tried Chilwell as left wing and we all know how this forum reacted to that.

Regardless if the players are or aren’t good enough now, having spunked £1bn on them, the ownership is going to give the players much more time as opposed to Poch if it comes down to it.

13 hours ago, Reddish-Blue said:

I haven't seen this high pressing style on a consistent basis at Chelsea.    Seems like the players are more content with keeping the ball than trying to create that moment of magic which could lead to a goal. 

Not sure if that is down to players not really understanding his instructions or whether they are just too young and need that senior midfielder (let's say for examples sake Fabregas/Jorginho/Lampard) to calm them down and coach them on the field. 

I will be honest, this lack of high pressing was also something that Pochettino and his reputation seemed to get around at PSG. I mean how could anyone say they were a high pressing team when Messi, Neymar and Mbappe stood around doing fuck all/half arsing it out of possession?

I get the same feeling again that he isn’t actually trying to make us a hugely high pressing team like Southampton & Spurs were with him but more a possession based team. I mean thats what it looks like but even then, its not even that distinctive what our playing style is. Its that bad to the point that even Man United look much more of a high pressing team than we do with EtH and its next to impossible to guess what your watching when you watch them.

 

Edited December 13, 2023 by OneMoSalah

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12 hours ago, OneMoSalah said:

 

I will be honest, this lack of high pressing was also something that Pochettino and his reputation seemed to get around at PSG. I mean how could anyone say they were a high pressing team when Messi, Neymar and Mbappe stood around doing fuck all/half arsing it out of possession?

I get the same feeling again that he isn’t actually trying to make us a hugely high pressing team like Southampton & Spurs were with him but more a possession based team. I mean thats what it looks like but even then, its not even that distinctive what our playing style is. Its that bad to the point that even Man United look much more of a high pressing team than we do with EtH and its next to impossible to guess what your watching when you watch them.

 

I don't know what style of football United are playing under EtH but the fact that Bournemouth can rock up at Old Trafford, put on decent pressure and actually attack them....and beat them quite convincingly says alot about our players under Poch right now. 

I don't mind the odd losses if the players are putting the effort in and scoring goals and have the right attitude on the pitch but we've looked 2nd best to a large number of PL teams this season (other than against Liverpool, City, Arsenal) and that's a massive concern moving forward.   I'd be very surprised if Poch survives at the end of the season as right now he looks no better than Potter or Lampard considering the amount of money invested into the club. 

[Fernando 6,585]

The only problem I have with Poch right now is why play 4 CB at the same time?

This using 2 CB as LB and RB is just nonsense. Why have Gusto and Maatsen here for that? If those guys are not good then sell them and get two good LB and RB. 

Does anyone ask about this in presser? I mean the journalist these days don't ask any good tactical questions any more....

Edited December 19, 2023 by Fernando

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just realised that 10 and half months ago we were still the reigning FIFA World Club Champions (Real Madrid took over from us on February 11th, 2023)

bonkers

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Perhaps Chelsea don't need to pursue new signings in the January window after all. But what does the manager think?

I'm the coach and I always want to take the best decisions for the club. Conor Gallagher is an important player, he's one of the captains, and I'm so happy with him. If Conor is playing for me it means he's performing. It means he's a player that we count on. He's in our plan. Mauricio Pochettino

"The Sporting Director and us, we are always talking and assessing - if we need to do something, we'll be ready. The pressure is always to bring young talent, and we have different types of targets - with experience, without experience, some younger than others and that's what it takes to provide the team with what it needs.

"We need to be open to describing the situation. Always communication is really good with the owners, we're sharing everything. It's about sharing ideas; we need each other to express our vision in a way that's a positive statement for the club.

"If we need to add, we do it together, in a way that takes the best decision for the club."

more here:

https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11095/13033516/mauricio-pochettino-talks-chelseas-january-transfer-strategy-and-plans-to-restore-success-to-club

You have the quote from Poch about Connor but then you have these statements. It sounds like they are working together? But then why say that about Connor? Makes it sounds like they are not working together....something does not add up. 

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