Welcome Mauricio Pochettino

[Blue Armour 4,436]

55 minutes ago, Fulham Broadway said:

Earning a million a month - Not one player has improved under Poch + he keeps playing people out of position. Who would you reckon he is replaced by ? And would that mean Clownlakes policies stay the same ?

That's the problem isn't it? What would Clownlake's next move be.

Considering how long they took to appoint a full time manager., there won't be anything to look forward to in terms of an interim appointment.

[OneMoSalah 8,883]

1 hour ago, Fulham Broadway said:

Earning a million a month - Not one player has improved under Poch + he keeps playing people out of position. Who would you reckon he is replaced by ? And would that mean Clownlakes policies stay the same ?

Not many top managers who would be daft enough to take this project on in the current circumstances.

The new owners were shouting about stability, feasibility and moving away from the previous regime yet we are on our 4th manager/head coach technically in their ownership period which is barely even 2 years and basically have to sell before we can buy because they blew their load too quickly. They’ve completely turned over long serving members of staff from various departments and not to mention upstairs the likes of Vivell being put on gardening leave after barely being in the door and now Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dumb - the footballing directors - really should be given their matching orders come the summer as 80% of what they’ve signed haven’t done anything. Or they would at any top club who had an ounce of sense.

The whole thing is a mess and it doesn’t look like we have any clear plan at all - I am genuinely worried that it is only going to get worse too.

At least before with Roman, potential managers knew that when a manager was sacked we would always be looking to bounce back immediately and usually would due to his ambitious and demanding nature as an owner. Chelsea sacking a manager always meant one thing: they will be back and competitive the following season.

That isn’t the case now, look at the lengths of contracts they’ve given out to absolute shite with the thinking that they’ll maybe become top players in 3 or 4 years.  Why would any top top manager want to come here and have to wait 3 or 4 years for some of these near untouchable misfiring assets to maybe become good? Its clear the clubs invested in these players and will not be binning certain ones anytime soon.

Hopefully these clowns sell up after 10 years and stick to baseball.

[Vesper 30,081]

Clown

[TheHulk 2,402]

The owner's ability to get the worst coaches and bang average youngsters is out of this world.

[Blue Armour 4,436]

24 minutes ago, Vesper said:

Clown

It's not just one clown.

We have a whole circus.

[TheHulk 2,402]

We have a bang average squad but Poch making all of them look worse than they are. Get rid of him asap.

[Reddish-Blue 2,488]

2 hours ago, OneMoSalah said:

Not many top managers who would be daft enough to take this project on in the current circumstances.

 

I think there would have been managers out there good enough to get something out of this squad of players

You don't think Conte/Mourinho would have been a good fit for the amount of money that was being thrown around by the Clearlake/Boehly group?     At the very least, they could have taught these youngsters a thing or two about working hard and keeping them in shape. 

Feels like they chose Poch because he caved into their demands

Also Poch needs to stop playing defenders out of position, if a player is a CB, play them in that role, stop asking them to play LB or RB, it never works out well. 

 

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5 hours ago, Fulham Broadway said:

Earning a million a month - Not one player has improved under Poch + he keeps playing people out of position. Who would you reckon he is replaced by ? And would that mean Clownlakes policies stay the same ?

It’s all on the clown lakes , they wouldn’t have hired the right person to begin with. 

[DDA 9,924]

POTCH OUT!

[OneMoSalah 8,883]

1 hour ago, Reddish-Blue said:

I think there would have been managers out there good enough to get something out of this squad of players

You don't think Conte/Mourinho would have been a good fit for the amount of money that was being thrown around by the Clearlake/Boehly group?     At the very least, they could have taught these youngsters a thing or two about working hard and keeping them in shape. 

Feels like they chose Poch because he caved into their demands

Also Poch needs to stop playing defenders out of position, if a player is a CB, play them in that role, stop asking them to play LB or RB, it never works out well. 

 

Conte and Mourinho wouldn’t work with these clown owners and sporting directors. They would have disagreed on the signing of the huge number of u21 players to start with, even more so after losing so many experienced players in the past 2 seasons probably precisely because of what we are seeing.

And yes I get the feeling Poch is a yes man. Even at Spurs with Levy you got that feeling. He is a good coach but I feel he needs to get some proven quality in there to stabilise the team which seems to lack the knowhow of what to do when things aren’t going well. Also the midfield is a huge issue, Enzo and Caicedo as a pairing aren’t solid enough and things get by them too easily. I do think Poch won’t last much longer if performances continue as they are but ultimately he doesn’t shoulder all the blame, although the owners and sporting directors will throw him to the wolves when they are really accountable for the poor squad planning and new direction with recruitment.

On defenders out of position, particularly Levi, when Ben and Marc are back fit, Levi needs to come out the team all together for a few weeks. I don’t care how good he will/can be, he has been particularly poor this last while and needs taken out the firing line. Unfortunately due to the injuries and the fact Maatsen isn’t up to much (shock horror), he has had to be used there.

Disasi for me has started to show some half decent qualities playing as a centre back but I do feel he needs to be used there and not at RB to keep going to see where he maxes out. It seems like he is maybe starting to find his feet a wee bit. I don’t think he will ever be a top top quality CB but certainly looking like if he can just keep plodding on as he has done the last few weeks and keep steadily improving, he could be a good 3rd choice. Bailed Silva out I don’t know how times yesterday - who is certainly starting to look a bit aged although he still has moments of class due to his experience and knowhow. If the midfield could also solidify up a bit too this would give us a better platform. 

Edited January 10, 2024 by OneMoSalah

[milka 3,390]

Pochettino was setup to fail at the beginning .

Our squad is bunch of youngsters , looking the quality of the players he got  they are not good enough to be at Chelsea .  If these owners  wanted success, they would give Pochettino what he wanted and talked about in the summer - experienced elite players  not 20years old  everywhere .

their project is to sell players every two,three years  build them up  whether  they're  on a transfer fee but they are on long wages the tax of 20% loss and decreasing their value of that player of the offset of  the tax and the books  for finicial fp every year
And every three year  these percent decrease  they sell  the for the whatever prize and they make their profit.

They hoping when buying young  players  for 40,50 millions they will elevate  and develop and become 80,100mill but when come clubs with ambition and double their wages  are getting to Chelsea because their  getting  wages  on def contract.
That's why they wanted Gallagher to sign one year contract like Mount   only to get more value  out of him to sell anyway .

[Fulham Broadway 17,299]

Put all the players in a room in full kit on hard chairs, and Pochettino, and make them watch our 22 Silverware wins over the last 20 odd years. then ask them if they want to be part of the next chapter or fuck off.