Welcome Mauricio Pochettino

[Jype 6,398]

  On 04/02/2024 at 21:04, iceboy said:

Too many rumors that he is gone.

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Too many? No rumors other than a comunicado oficial is going to be enough here.

I want to see a club statement by noon tomorrow.

[Strike 7,311]

Post-game quotes sound like a man about to leave. 

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  On 04/02/2024 at 20:03, robsblubot said:

Manager grinder.

Manager makes no difference whatsoever.

At least 3-4 players from wolves today could really improve our team… and it’s wolves!

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A competent manager would have even got this team fighting for top 4. Poch has been outwitted most match days, in-game adjustments have been poor, was making some weird long-term decisions - Colwill at LB, carrying on playing T Silva, bad defensive setups in most games - like yesterday when Neto had a free run down the right. 

I have long said there’s no point changing the manager again but this appointment, like Potter, has been the wrong one. I’d wait till the cup final and then make plans for a new manager in the summer unless Poch improves drastically

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  On 04/02/2024 at 17:28, DH1988 said:

Hansi Flick was at the game tonight with Daniel Finkelstein, apparently, see a photo but unconfirmed if it's today.

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Going to be pointless making a switch to someone like Flick. Read a report about how Ruben Amorim and de Zerbi are candidates + Jose, Flick, Zidane, Lopetegui, Low are available. 
 

None of them scream immediate appointment candidates to me. I just hope the club doesn’t call Lampard about the interim job. That would be the worst of the options

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  On 05/02/2024 at 01:31, Strike said:

Going to be pointless making a switch to someone like Flick. Read a report about how Ruben Amorim and de Zerbi are candidates + Jose, Flick, Zidane, Lopetegui, Low are available. 
 

None of them scream immediate appointment candidates to me. I just hope the club doesn’t call Lampard about the interim job. That would be the worst of the options

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Variety is the spice of life.

Instead of Lampard., they call in JT this time.

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  On 05/02/2024 at 02:30, Blue Armour said:

Variety is the spice of life.

Instead of Lampard., they call in JT this time.

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Both are disastrous choices far worse than continuing with Poch

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  On 05/02/2024 at 01:26, Strike said:

A competent manager would have even got this team fighting for top 4. Poch has been outwitted most match days, in-game adjustments have been poor, was making some weird long-term decisions - Colwill at LB, carrying on playing T Silva, bad defensive setups in most games - like yesterday when Neto had a free run down the right. 

I have long said there’s no point changing the manager again but this appointment, like Potter, has been the wrong one. I’d wait till the cup final and then make plans for a new manager in the summer unless Poch improves drastically

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I think this roster is a lot worse than you do.

Poch hindsight “mistakes”? The alternatives aren’t better. Even the good players like gusto still make stupid mistakes due to inexperience.

Badiashile had a horror game the other day... individual mistake too not due to system.

I happen to think colwill is by far the best LB option we’ve got (sad I know). Chilwell works better in a 3cb as his defending is akin to Alonso’s time.

prediction: if we change managers, we will get a couple of good results and then go back to this.

Edited February 5, 2024 by robsblubot

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  On 04/02/2024 at 15:53, ulvhedin said:

TBF Kante was not sold, he got fat paycheck in Saudi that noone sane would give him in Europe.

 

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He wanted a 3 year deal - which I believe would have been on reduced terms to meet the new direction of the club - but we wouldn’t offer it so he was quite right to take another offer. The club pretty much gave up after one offer as 3 years was some sort of issue for them. Yet they have given utter shite unproven players 7 & 8 year deals. There is no consistency. Yes people will say his injuries but he has played virtually every minute in Saudi and we have had more injuries than fuck knows what since Boehly appointed whoever as medical staff.

Also, let’s not pretend people (particularly people on here one who has been banging on about selling Kante for about 5 years 🤣) wanted him to leave also.

Some of us seen this coming. Losing Jorginho, Kovacic and Kante in the space of 2 windows and replacing them with 2 guys with like 200 games at a decent level between them and a few kids who may be good was suicide. But all three of them “weren’t good enough for Chelsea” which is odd because even at their worst they were all much better than what we are seeing now from the 2 we got for quarter of a billion pounds.

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Being leaked that players are overweight and such, no manager comes in and gets someone into shape within weeks so it's another item to add to the list as to why this season, again, is a write off. How can a club really allow this, it's incredible the standards are so low.

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  On 05/02/2024 at 08:38, DH1988 said:

Being leaked that players are overweight and such, no manager comes in and gets someone into shape within weeks so it's another item to add to the list as to why this season, again, is a write off. How can a club really allow this, it's incredible the standards are so low.

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And Palmer out partying after the defeat.. 

How the fuck can the club accept players beeing overweight? I thought one of the arguments for Poch was that he had the players training like maniacs with very high level of fitness.

What a fucking circus this is. 

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  On 05/02/2024 at 09:09, Costa19 said:

And Palmer out partying after the defeat.. 

How the fuck can the club accept players beeing overweight? I thought one of the arguments for Poch was that he had the players training like maniacs with very high level of fitness.

What a fucking circus this is. 

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That wouldn't have happened with someone like Conte in charge. 

Poch was selected because he was a YES man to the ownership group, same as Potter.     I doubt either would have been selected as Chelsea managers during the Roman rein. 

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  On 05/02/2024 at 01:31, Strike said:

Going to be pointless making a switch to someone like Flick. Read a report about how Ruben Amorim and de Zerbi are candidates + Jose, Flick, Zidane, Lopetegui, Low are available. 
 

None of them scream immediate appointment candidates to me. I just hope the club doesn’t call Lampard about the interim job. That would be the worst of the options

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De Zerbi would be the obvious one as he's got relationships with Caicedo, Colwill, Mudryk. 

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Hansi Flick would be. good choice, his record with Bayern was outstanding. If Klopp gets his wish to become German Manager, then I'd also be happy be happy with Nagelsmann

[Special Juan 27,599]

Apparently going three at the back 🤣

[lucio 5,418]

The managerial Hail Mary , it won’t work, he’s finished. Maybe if we had kept maatsen , chilwell is washed , football will be worse than ever

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I want him out but I think he will survive until the summer, because I don't think the club wants to deal with another interim situation for a second season in a row.

And at the moment no one is available, except Jose, but him, you offer him a long-term deal which I don't think is the brighest idea.

[Thor 2,476]

  On 05/02/2024 at 09:09, Costa19 said:

And Palmer out partying after the defeat.. 

How the fuck can the club accept players beeing overweight? I thought one of the arguments for Poch was that he had the players training like maniacs with very high level of fitness.

What a fucking circus this is. 

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If true, I'd get rid of the players acting like that as well, regardless of how good they are. 

I feel like as a leader - you rise above that no matter how bad the ship is sailing. 

[Nero 1,852]

This clown is still in charge????

What happened to Chelsea? Where is the winning mentality? We are not Arsenal