Welcome Mauricio Pochettino

[Clockwork 1,794]

Not buying the injury excuses, you can argue a lot of those injuries was a net positive. Tbh, my biggest concern is if everyone healthy would Poch know his best starting XI. Don't think so.

[bluesman2610 1,417]

It would be a poor decision to get rid of a manager the players actually like. That disrupts team cohesion and to bring in another manager at this stage can throw that out of whack. Certain players are performing or over performing due to Poch man management it may not be the same with another.

[TheHulk 2,479]

1 hour ago, Gundalf said:

TheHulk in April 2025: "sack Amorim and get Glasner. He is the real deal" 😝

If he ends up losing a Cup against 18 years old kids as well, of course I will. The only way I'd take another season of this guy is if we get a pre agreement with Alonso for next season.

[YorkshireBlue 3,279]

9 minutes ago, TheHulk said:

The only way I'd take another season of this guy is if we get a pre agreement with Alonso for next season.

You make it sound like you have a choice 🤣

[NikkiCFC 8,334]

7 hours ago, robsblubot said:

What's impressive about being 6th spending as much as the club did? That's the part I have a little bit of trouble grasping.
Presumably we bought all good players, overpriced ones, perhaps most never WC ones, but still good players given the amount spent.
So, what is so fucking impressive being done by Chelsea FC?

 

Do you watch NBA? We are in rebuilding process. San Antonio Spurs are among worst teams in the league but they got Wemby and you just know they gonna dominate in a couple of seasons. Oklahoma City Thunder another solid example. 

[NikkiCFC 8,334]

 

[Pizy 18,945]

McKenna would be Potter 2.0 if we were to appoint him. Most of the players will have never heard of him and therefore won’t respect him. You’d have this guy who was the manager of some tiny little club trying to speak with authority to a group of international stars. It just would be an incredibly stupid gamble.

Just keep Poch or if he HAS to go in the owners’ minds get RDZ.

[MoroccanBlue 5,383]

If we only want a few additions this summer I don't see anything wrong with the sporting directors working with Poch on who to bring in. 

[Mhsc 1,098]

19 minutes ago, Pizy said:

Just keep Poch or if he HAS to go in the owners’ minds get RDZ.

I agree. Especially as he is available for free. My only question about RDZ is whether he can handle breaking down parked buses, how often did Brighton have to deal with that compared to us? I mean not that Poch did a good job here either, but still a thought...

[robsblubot 3,595]

3 hours ago, NikkiCFC said:

Do you watch NBA? We are in rebuilding process. San Antonio Spurs are among worst teams in the league but they got Wemby and you just know they gonna dominate in a couple of seasons. Oklahoma City Thunder another solid example. 

nah watch a game here and there, but don't follow the news. My cousin is a massive LA fan tho.

That's a massive assumption, and American sports are fairer in that regard. It's also much easier to rebuild a Basketball team for obvious (Maths) reasons. City does not "rebuild." What does rebuilding even mean exactly here? You lost too many of your important players and had to go to the market? We had to rebuild because we fucked up as a club.
Do you mean that we are rebuilding a young squad with potential to "dominate" in the future? Why do you think that? Players don't progress linearly; some of these players have already reached, or are close to, their peaks... we just don't know it yet.
This idea that if a player is good at 22 he will be a monster at 26 does not reflect reality. 🤷‍♂️

Reminder that we did NOT have Europe last season, so fresh legs and time to prep for each game. Things will be more interesting now. To emphasize, that not being 100% does not really mean tired--players just don't fully recover from match to match.

I think Poch did a good job considering the new squad situation, but not the money spent. To get from where we are to where we want to be is much much harder than to get to where we are now, especially considering the amount spent.

Edited May 20, 2024 by robsblubot
NOT have Europe

[ZAPHOD2319 4,819]

Closed leagues with players that can be traded without their consent is an impossible comparison to world club football. Too many variables that are completely different.

[robsblubot 3,595]

36 minutes ago, ZAPHOD2319 said:

Closed leagues with players that can be traded without their consent is an impossible comparison to world club football. Too many variables that are completely different.

That's the part I'm most curious about: how the long contracts will pan out in the world of football.
 

[ZAPHOD2319 4,819]

6 minutes ago, robsblubot said:

That's the part I'm most curious about: how the long contracts will pan out in the world of football.
 

I think it is just a financial accounting measure. We could never force all these kids to stay past them wanting to be here. The real risk is moving on a dud.

[Strike 7,492]

 

The Bayern manager search is making it clear there aren't many options to replace Poch

 

[whats happening 1,621]

would be extremelly dumb to sack him now.

[bluesman2610 1,417]

1 hour ago, whats happening said:

would be extremelly dumb to sack him now.

Yet all over social media this is what we are hearing. People want him gone 

[ZAPHOD2319 4,819]

 

[NikkiCFC 8,334]

What terms needs to be agreed? Just continue this way. 

[Mário César 1,281]

young manager? I only see amorim 

[ZAPHOD2319 4,819]

22 minutes ago, NikkiCFC said:

What terms needs to be agreed? Just continue this way. 

Poch said he wanted more say in transfers. In the next press conference after that statement he said this wasn’t his team, it is Chelsea’s team. He was really over playing his hand. Egbhali was as not really convinced that Poch would be the long term coach at Chelsea and evidently all this thin skin behavior from Poch about rumors in the press has not set well with both Egbhali and Feliciano, both cofounders of Clearlake. 
 

All this is of course through the English press.