🇩🇰 12. Filip Jorgensen

[King Kante 1,643]

He actually looked OK yesterday. He appeared in the small sample to be at least a couple of levels up on distribution and passing anyway. Let's see how things go. As I always say I need 10 full games to judge a player - with GK this can be a bit longer. 

[Vesper 30,890]

13 hours ago, King Kante said:

He actually looked OK yesterday. He appeared in the small sample to be at least a couple of levels up on distribution and passing anyway. Let's see how things go. As I always say I need 10 full games to judge a player - with GK this can be a bit longer. 

the big probelm is that Maresca say he is going to rotate keepers and Sanchez is, until it changes, the EPL keeper

[King Kante 1,643]

4 hours ago, Vesper said:

the big probelm is that Maresca say he is going to rotate keepers and Sanchez is, until it changes, the EPL keeper

Yeah. I have seen that. Ridiculous. 

[Johnnyeye 7,572]

what a load of 🤢🤮

[Vesper 30,890]

dogshit

typical BlueCo buy

fuck it all

[Special Juan 28,640]

We laughed at Kinsky the night before, no difference with this bloke, threw into a huge CL game and collapsed. I do not feel sorry for him, he is told to play from the back, and like loads of the keepers they are shite with their feet but are brain washed into doing something they cannot do.

I have zero sympathy for any keeper trying to play out from the back now a days

[Duppy Conqueror 1,584]

Keepers having the ability to use their feet (only when truly need to) is a good thing.and against "park the bus" teams it's a worthwhile tactic to use when we struggling to get through after 30 plus minutes ,draw some players out of shape. But this trying one shoe to fit all shit is doing my head in,it should be rarely used tactic not every fookin' game.coaches present and past have good football IQ but their obsession with this tactic is insanity.

73 minutes in we looked like at minimum going back to the bridge to finish them off..now we need a miracle..we can score 3 against them and we have the penalty takers to beat them but even if our defenders and keeper play out of their skins this dumb tactic will cause a goal or two conceded.

[Vesper 30,890]

So many things to address, but let's start at the back

A few articles on various things coming up soon

https://siphillipstalkschelsea.substack.com/p/so-many-things-to-address-but-lets

We have a lot to address after last night, right? The general situation, Liam Rosenior, the players, the squad build, so much debate going on right now. I’ll get to some other bits in more articles at the weekend and into next week. But for now, let’s start at the back.

I’ve never been Robert Sanchez’ biggest fan and despite his turn of form lately, I still don’t have full confidence when he is playing. I would sell him in an instant if we replaced him with a better option. Whilst I will acknowledge how much better he has been and his good form of late, I still don’t think he’s a top goalkeeper and fully complete. His shot stopping is superb, coming for crosses he can be good but not always. But playing out from the back is not his thing. I’d sell him and believe we can do much better.

I’ve never rated or been comfortable with Filip Jorgensen, even with the ball at his feet. So with all of the above mentioned, I’ve been absolutely baffled to see Liam Rosenior make the decision to select Jorgensen as his number one over Sanchez. It’s absolutely wild, really.

Rosenior clearly sees Jorgensen as a better ball playing goalkeeper, which is what he wants to play his brand of football. And it’s been confirmed by decent sources that he’s told Jorgensen that he is his number one now, despite not admitting that in public interviews. Massive changes to make midseason, really ambitious ideas and huge risks.

Mauricio Pochettino did this with Djordje Petrovic over Sanchez, and even Enzo Maresca also tried it with Jorgensen over Sanchez. But neither of these moves worked and they always went back to Sanchez. And now, here we are, with yet another manager, going through yet the same damn thing again. Why? Haven’t they worked this out yet? Playing out from the back is NOT just about the goalkeeper and also, it does NOT need to become gospel! Why can’t we do what Maresca realised we simply HAD to do with Sanchez and allow him more flexibility to go long or short and only play out short when it was deemed safe to? Why must we literally put ourselves under immense pressure every time we have the ball at the back? It’s such a massive risk every single time. It literally stunts our confidence and throws fear into our minds. That is NOT a good way to play football. High risk, low reward. You are literally handing the opponent a goal if you get it wrong. And when you have Jorgensen out there doing rabonas and drag backs as our last man, it is more often than not going to result in a goal against us. So why do we do it? We must we always insist on playing out short and having our goalkeeper as a centre back? It’s the epitome of everything I hate about modern football.

Jorgensen had 64 touches in the match against PSG, the only Chelsea player with more was Marc Cucurella (66). Why is our goalkeeper having the second most amount of touches of any of our players? Surely we want our creative and controlling players to have that many touches? Maybe I’m just old fashioned… 🙄😅 Piss off with that!!

John Terry in 2025:

“I think everyone is obsessed with possession and playing out from the back, it drives me crazy!”

Maybe it’s finally time to start listening to advice from legends of our club who know the game, have played the game, and knows what they’re talking about? Oh no, they’re just too arrogant and know it all, apparently…. Sigh.

I know it’s just part of modern day football, I get that. But it doesn’t mean it is right. Play to your strengths. If you have a better goalkeeper, a better centre back, and better players who are comfortable playing out, then maybe you can do it more often. But not when you don’t have the players to do it. If you aren’t good enough under pressure at the back then just don’t do it. That’s on the head coach.

How can this lot who built the squad look at this every week and continue to insist on using managers who play this way? Really makes you wonder, right? You want to play a certain way, get the players who can play a certain way.

And finally, Jorgensen walking off and ignoring his captains calls to go and clap the traveling fans in Paris would be enough for me to be cancelling his contract immediately. Again, call me old fashioned, but if you do that, if you are that entitled and ignorant, then just get the hell out of my club. I understand you’re upset and frustrated, but it’s not the fans fault that you fucked up. We aren’t doing this. Own your mistakes, apologise for them, make up for them next game. Don’t go off sulking about it all.