Welcome Mauricio Pochettino

[DH1988 1,346]

Hoping that Cesc comes in as assistant coach.

[Fulham Broadway 17,299]

14 minutes ago, DH1988 said:

Hoping that Cesc comes in as assistant coach.

Loitering round Cobham last week

[cosmicway 1,333]

See this:
 

 

[OneMoSalah 8,883]

11 hours ago, TheHulk said:

Least get top youngsters..

Clueless. Both deserved to be sacked long ago never mind now. Running the club into mediocrity. This isn’t Monaco or Southampton, this is Chelsea FC.

Said it last season and this summer last, a few more senior players in and around the squad in key positions would have made a huge difference.

I actually reckon with at least 4 more proven players who are good examples as senior pros in the squad we could have maybe snuck CL football. Definitely would’ve handled the ET in the cup final better too. Experience is huge. The first time round with the transfer ban the likes of James, Mount, Abraham and Tomori were all involved a lot - what did we have then? Good senior pros. Likes of Jorginho, Azpilicueta, Willian, Kante, Pedro. Squads like ours - with a huge percentage of younger players who would be lucky to have between 100-150 games each - 100% need that, unless we want to yoyo and become an expensive RB Leipzig/Monaco/Southampton. Or whomever.

Edited May 22, 2024 by OneMoSalah

[cosmicway 1,333]

The Tuchel team of September 2022 was sick.
Some European successes in 2022-23 with Tuchel and Potter don't count because they were lower level teams (except Real Madrid who smacked us).
Recovery takes some time, especially when we are no longer into big power transfers (the likes of Mbappe for example).
This fellow George Benson in the video above seems to share my suspicion that Poch was sacked because he demanded reinforcements.
He also suggests the clownlakies are out to sell Gallagher and Challobar.

[Seymop 90]

As I said in an earlier post — even more important than what we think is what the squad think. And those that have come out with an opinion are all sorry to see Poch go !!!

I feel even worse about it this morning than I did last night. I may be wrong but I’m sure this wasn’t mutual and if all the Board had come out publicly backing Poch I’m sure he would still be here.

6th place, one cup final, one semi and European football next season. How can that be classed as failure in your first season ? Plus many players have shown big improvement during the season - Cole,Conor,Jackson,Madueke,Chalobah and some of that must be a reflection on the coach and his team.

Plus he wasn’t responsible for signing the under-achievers in the squad — the Board and Sporting Directors did

We have made some crazy decisions in the last few years but this is definitely the craziest

A very sad day in the proud history of Chelsea FC

[Reddish-Blue 2,488]

4 minutes ago, Seymop said:

How can that be classed as failure in your first season ?

That was a pathetic showing in the cup final though against a Liverpool side that weren't exactly full strength themselves. 

[Reddish-Blue 2,488]

1 hour ago, nyikolajevics said:

McKenna's value is high right now after back-to-back promotion. Ipswich's squad have many loan players and many ex-League one players, it's likely they will struggle in the PL like Sheffield, Burnley or Luton this year. Kompany was also praised after last season, but his squad was just not good enough to play the same football in the Premier League. McKenna might consider that and take an offer from a bigger club(not necesseraly us).

McKenna would be better off trying to get the vacant Brighton role, that's the perfect opportunity to work with young & experienced players and a squad that is good enough to be mid-table most of the season. 

 

40 minutes ago, OneMoSalah said:

The first time round with the transfer ban the likes of James, Mount, Abraham and Tomori were all involved a lot - what did we have then?

Tomori played like 15 proper games that season, that's why he left for AC Milan....from memory, he was supposed to go to a french club or somewhere on loan on deadline day in the previous window as well but the paperwork didn't go through on time (IIRC). 

[Seymop 90]

4 minutes ago, Reddish-Blue said:

That was a pathetic showing in the cup final though against a Liverpool side that weren't exactly full strength themselves. 

A young team , in their first major final and we didn’t play well.Not sure that one game makes it a poor season. We also had even more injuries in the squad than Liverpool did.

Be interesting to see who is queuing up to work under the clowns we have leading the club !!

[YorkshireBlue 3,264]

Just now, Seymop said:

A young team , in their first major final and we didn’t play well.Not sure that one game makes it a poor season. We also had even more injuries in the squad than Liverpool did.

Be interesting to see who is queuing up to work under the clowns we have leading the club !!

Our team also had had a younger average age than that Liverpool team aswell, which ppl either forget or just conveniently leave out. 

[Clockwork 1,794]

If Poch was not garbage for most of the year, this team should finished in the top 4. Villa and Spuds have absolutely no business finishing above us.

Overall Poch results and improvement was not good enough. You guys are getting carried away by the last 5 games results, like the other 33 games didn't matter only the that matter, and if we are being honest the performance was nothing to write about. 

Remember Crystal Palace finished the last 6 games like us, in fact they looked even better.

 

[NikkiCFC 8,286]

3 minutes ago, YorkshireBlue said:

Our team also had had a younger average age than that Liverpool team aswell, which ppl either forget or just conveniently leave out. 

But you cannot compare 50m or 100m youngsters with 4 Liverpool academy players that no one heard before.