Brighton vs Chelsea

[Vytis33 1,175]

 

[Vesper 29,256]

remember, last season Poch only lost ONE of his last 15 EPL games (Arsenal)

[Vesper 29,256]

5 minutes ago, Vytis33 said:

 

we are so fucked

insane the amount of hamstring and knee injuries we have had the past several years

[erinblue 20]

Brighton playing 541 & we have no clue how to beat that...no plan B when playing slow from back is plan A 🙄..Learnt absolutely nothing from last week, was just rinse & repeat with different & probably worse set up.........Tamworth pub team would bate that outfit...no fight or desire....run around & get up a sweat & look like you know what your doing.. dunno how we are so high up or even bate Irish lge outfit Shamrock Rovers..(apologies to Tamworth pub team & shamrock rovers for even disparaging them in this rant).....but a young 18yo showed more desire when he came on...........Apart from glimpses from Enzo & Caicedo.....the rest were meh... 

wait for our run in from March on🙄....lucky we have hit the 40 mark already or it'd be relegation threat....
Been safer watching Gogglebox ffs 🙄

Looking at the stats......not one shot on target....ffs...... probably had 2 decent crosses that had not one player attacking....push by Enzo (was a harsh free as this happens every week & given) but that's it.....

Colwell collapse for third goal was pitiful...lying with his arm up for free as if entitled........JT had more desire in his wee toe than that....jeez he must cringe when he sees that.....as for all the 2004 - 2015 teams..........oh boy did we not know we had a team then than the prima donas of today.....not fit to lace their boots.....

[Vytis33 1,175]

 

[Laylabelle 9,418]

42 minutes ago, Reddish-Blue said:

They are children, when you think about it.    

• Sancho had a fight with his manager at United and said he wouldn't play for them again, then somehow United offloaded him to us,
• Nkunku wanted out the whole window (was begging Bayern Munich to take him) and now he's starting again
• We had to beg Crystal Palace to cancel Chalobah's loan deal as we had no other CB's available other than Disasi
• Enzo - Caicedo is one of the worst midfield pairings out there.   No wonder why Poch put Gallagher-Caicedo together, at least they would run around like crazy.
• We're swapping goalkeepers for fun half way through the season, i don't see our rivals doing that...unless their GK is injured. 

The goalie situation...enough said about that.

It's just a huge mess and really no one until now anyway has been talking about our situation. All been about City..United..Spurs etc. We are just as bad! Just somehow in the top 4 until prob tommrow anyway. But no different to them just helped we had a better start.

[Blue Armour 4,341]

1 hour ago, Thor said:

Cop out excuse. Our players are fine. Teams like Nottingham and a bunch of others are flying. 

Attitude is the issue. Expected with a young team. We really do need some older heads in there to teach these players a thing or two. The attitude is rotten. 

Well, that's all on the owners & recruiters.

We were too quick to move out experienced heads, with title winning experience., to bring down the average age of the squad.

For experience, we brought in the likes of Disasi and Sanchez. Hardly cutting edge stuff.

[Laylabelle 9,418]

1 hour ago, Thor said:

Cop out excuse. Our players are fine. Teams like Nottingham and a bunch of others are flying. 

Attitude is the issue. Expected with a young team. We really do need some older heads in there to teach these players a thing or two. The attitude is rotten. 

To many individuals at the moment not enough team. You watch forest and see the work the players put into it. They run! They chase the ball they do this and that..us lately oh balls gone stroll around oh look it's a goal for the other lot.

Agree we let too many go. There is no leadership anymore and no one really holds their hands up when it goes wrong. We miss that.

[Norfolkblue1961 56]

That display was utter dogshit..............a complete shambles. Maresca is starting to give me Graham Potter vibes.....clueless, and as for our recruitment aaaaaarghhhh, everyone could see we needed a proper centre forward and goalie and we got neither

[Vesper 29,256]

10 minutes ago, Norfolkblue1961 said:

That display was utter dogshit..............a complete shambles. Maresca is starting to give me Graham Potter vibes.....clueless, and as for our recruitment aaaaaarghhhh, everyone could see we needed a proper centre forward and goalie and we got neither

and a proper WC veteran CB or two

£1.4 billion and counting gross spend and we are a hot mess, so weak at so many key positions

[Vesper 29,256]

10 experienced, proven managers who are all vastly better than Maresca, all of whom he could have made MAJOR efforts to get at one point or the other

Diego Simeone

Zinedine Zidane (probably would have been impossible)

Hansi Flick

Julian Nagelsmann

Gian Piero Gasperini

Xavi Hernandez

Simone Inzaghi

Unai Emery

Xabi Alonso

Thomas Tuchel (could have kept him)

[Mhsc 954]

15 minutes ago, Vesper said:

10 experienced, proven managers who are all vastly better than Maresca, all of whom he could have made MAJOR efforts to get at one point or the other

Diego Simeone

Zinedine Zidane (probably would have been impossible)

Hansi Flick

Julian Nagelsmann

Gian Piero Gasperini

Xavi Hernandez

Simone Inzaghi

Unai Emery

Xabi Alonso

Thomas Tuchel (could have kept him)

Tuchel sacked when we were 6th in the league and playing basically exactly the same as we did recently under Maresca. Totally toothless attack and looked completely out of ideas. We were really dreadful towards the end with Tuchel... REALLY dreadful.

Most of these managers would never agree to work here under the current regime / strategy (indeed I'm sure several will have rejected us already - Nagelsmann famously did).

From the whole list maybe Emery is the only one who is both realistic and could be argued would be better than Maresca - although Arsenal fans would disagree, as they thought he was absolutely terrible in his stint there and couldn't wait to get rid.

And for sure, if we sack Maresca and hire any of them - in less than 12 months they're considered terrible, and should be sacked. And another list of the obvious better names we should have got can be produced.

Just a cycle of doom. I'm bored of it. We've had almost every top manager going and they got sacked because we figured out they "were shit" - maybe its time we looked at the rest of the club and fixed that first.

[Nero 1,852]

Season is over. 

[Reddish-Blue 2,406]

2 hours ago, Mhsc said:

Just a cycle of doom. I'm bored of it. We've had almost every top manager going and they got sacked because we figured out they "were shit" - maybe its time we looked at the rest of the club and fixed that first.

We didn't have those top managers under the current ownership.   Potter was just like Moyes at United, same can probably be said of Maresca by the end of his reign.  

Poch was the only manager who actually suited the current ownership. 😆

[NikkiCFC 8,089]

6 hours ago, TheHulk said:

getting trashed twice in 6 days by Brighton.

Don't forget we gave them over 200m on top of that. 

[The Rising Sun 709]

Calm down people.

We are in the position of fighting for a top 4 spot after a few seasons sitting in 13-14th position a whole lot.

We've had a season which had amazing highs, some inconsistency and we are presently going through some major lows.

It's all part of what makes a team. This season was never the season we suddenly were going to be amazing. Maresca has shown what is possible. Now it comes down to recruitment for consistency. One or 2 WC players and some south Americans are coming next season.  A proper center forward and a thiago silva defender is all we need.

Can't say manager and board were amazing 2 months ago and suddenly now both are shit. It just comes across as extremely spoilt. 

Stay together in bad periods. It always gets better. Work is needed, yes.

[Blue Armour 4,341]

52 minutes ago, The Rising Sun said:

Calm down people.

We are in the position of fighting for a top 4 spot after a few seasons sitting in 13-14th position a whole lot.

We've had a season which had amazing highs, some inconsistency and we are presently going through some major lows.

It's all part of what makes a team. This season was never the season we suddenly were going to be amazing. Maresca has shown what is possible. Now it comes down to recruitment for consistency. One or 2 WC players and some south Americans are coming next season.  A proper center forward and a thiago silva defender is all we need.

Can't say manager and board were amazing 2 months ago and suddenly now both are shit. It just comes across as extremely spoilt. 

Stay together in bad periods. It always gets better. Work is needed, yes.

We won't be fighting for a top 4 spot for long with out current attack.

Jackson and Madueke were the only somewhat reliable performers after Palmer, and they're both out for significant periods.

Nkunku has been an eyesore upfront, in the past two games.

This would have been a good in-progress season, if the club directors tried to address a few key deficiencies, but instead decided to only focus on outgoings.

Bringing back Chalobah as a defensive reinforcement, despite putting him in the bomb squad, goes to show well directed their strategy is (not). 

I'd like to give Maresca a chance. But given the track record of these owners, they have NO loyalty to him. Pochettino was allowed to walk, despite bringing the club back to 6th. There's little chance that Maresca gets better treatment if the team finishes significantly below that spot.

[Blue Armour 4,341]

I'm not biggest Felix fan, as he still comes across as a luxury player., but moving him out without any attacking reinforcements in sight, and a threadbare list of strikers, was irresponsible, and reeks of arrogance.

Also, their delay in securing a shirt sponsor grows more comical. They obviously waited until mid-season to see how far up the CL spots the club could finish., to secure a better deal. Doesn't look like it's happening now.