Chelsea 1-3 Brighton

[OneMoSalah 8,919]

3 hours ago, Thor said:

You guys are acting like our whole team sucks because our CBs and GK aren't elite. 

It isn't recruitment. We have plenty of good players. Our midfield is ridiculously good. Joao, Cole, Neto and Estevao is an insane attack. Our two starting FBs are world class. 

 

Maresca just needs to go. Played boring ass football for so long with the level of talent we have. It isn't recruitment or BlueCo - this is a title winning team with healthy CBs/slightly better CBs; Maresca just isn't good enough.

 

The MF is not ridiculously good. Or teams wouldn’t run over us as often as they do. Caicedo is very good, Enzo Fernandez is a passenger most games, Lavia’s always injured & the other lads are young and need to play more in the PL to get a grasp of it (Santos/Essugo). Reece is hit and miss in there. What is ridiculously good about that?

Take Cole & Caicedo out of this team and it is pretty poor, which for £2.5bn spend is absolutely mad. Even with both of our starting fullbacks in from the start. Although Cucurella did dig us out of some holes last season in really poor games with goals. 

The new signings of Joao Pedro & Estevao are looking like they will be good additions. Joao making a big impact already but you cannot just pin everything on them from day 1, particularly not on a 17 year old kid in his first season in Europe. It’s not like they are coming into a side where there are top top players all around them either.

When have good teams ever achieved anything big without elite GK or CBs? Thats on BlueCo & the sporting directors. It is clear that the recruitment is not done on Maresca’s say so, like with Potter & Poch before him so BlueCo are absolutely accountable for as much of the issues as the manager, if not more.

This is not a major title winning team I am sorry, not even remotely close and to think that is absolutely crazy. A major title winning team has a very strong spine throughout their team… we have 2 top players in Moises & Cole who make a huge difference most games and not much else. Maybe throw Reece in there but again we are so poor defensively. 

[Mário César 1,359]

11 minutes ago, OneMoSalah said:

The MF is not ridiculously good. Or teams wouldn’t run over us as often as they do. Caicedo is very good, Enzo Fernandez is a passenger most games, Lavia’s always injured & the other lads are young and need to play more in the PL to get a grasp of it (Santos/Essugo). Reece is hit and miss in there. What is ridiculously good about that?

Take Cole & Caicedo out of this team and it is pretty poor, which for £2.5bn spend is absolutely mad. Even with both of our starting fullbacks in from the start. Although Cucurella did dig us out of some holes last season in really poor games with goals. 

The new signings of Joao Pedro & Estevao are looking like they will be good additions. Joao making a big impact already but you cannot just pin everything on them from day 1, particularly not on a 17 year old kid in his first season in Europe. It’s not like they are coming into a side where there are top top players all around them either.

When have good teams ever achieved anything big without elite GK or CBs? Thats on BlueCo & the sporting directors. It is clear that the recruitment is not done on Maresca’s say so, like with Potter & Poch before him so BlueCo are absolutely accountable for as much of the issues as the manager, if not more.

This is not a major title winning team I am sorry, not even remotely close and to think that is absolutely crazy. A major title winning team has a very strong spine throughout their team… we have 2 top players in Moises & Cole who make a huge difference most games and not much else. Maybe throw Reece in there but again we are so poor defensively. 

unbelieveble spend so much money and have a weak squad

[mkh 633]

 

 

[OneMoSalah 8,919]

17 minutes ago, mkh said:

 

 

Not surprised.

Imagine being Cole or Reece.

Reece especially, one of the best fullbacks in terms of final delivery and being asked to tuck in and play as a number 6 when we have the ball instead of bombing up and down and getting crosses into the box….

Players don’t tend to want to work as hard or as much as they should if they don’t respect/feel the managers tactics/philosophy. Would partly explain the softness in this side aside from the glaring lack of leaders and accountability in the squad because they are all being mollycoddled with the young side tag.

Edited September 27 by OneMoSalah

[Laylabelle 9,559]

So its played 6..won 2..drawn 2..lost 2...least its balanced i guess...

[TheHulk 2,524]

I'm starting to care less and less we losing or even winning for that matter, doesn't matter at all with these idiot owners. And when you think the cheek some fans had during the summer to defend the ownership and Maresca.

[MikeDance 4]

What the hell has happened to us?

Sanchez shouldn’t be in goal full stop he showed why against Man Utd, today he wasn’t at fault but  Chalobah… what was he thinking about that tackle, no-way was he going to win that.

We were lucky to not get a red for that stupidity in the last part of the game by Gusto.

Edited September 27 by MikeDance

[whats happening 1,634]

1 hour ago, OneMoSalah said:

Reece especially, one of the best fullbacks in terms of final delivery and being asked to tuck in and play as a number 6 when we have the ball instead of bombing up and down and getting crosses into the box….

i dont reece can bomb up and down anymore unfortunately. 

[Reddish-Blue 2,558]

5 minutes ago, whats happening said:

i dont reece can bomb up and down anymore unfortunately. 

If that's true, then the tactics should be changed like what Tuchel did and use Reece as like a third CB on the right side. 
 

[Reddish-Blue 2,558]

22 minutes ago, MikeDance said:

What the hell has happened to us?

Sanchez shouldn’t be in goal full stop he showed why against Man Utd, today he wasn’t at fault but  Chalobah… what was he thinking about that tackle, no-way was he going to win that.

We were lucky to not get a red for that stupidity in the last part of the game by Gusto.

The problem is, we don't have any other goalkeepers.  Its not like we have an experienced keeper in the squad like Begovic or Schwarzer back in the day who can come in and play 1-2 games. 

The choice was: stick with Jorgensen or put Sanchez back in.  

[Reddish-Blue 2,558]

2 hours ago, OneMoSalah said:

This is not a major title winning team I am sorry, not even remotely close and to think that is absolutely crazy. A major title winning team has a very strong spine throughout their team… we have 2 top players in Moises & Cole who make a huge difference most games and not much else. Maybe throw Reece in there but again we are so poor defensively. 

Good point, I like to ask this question: how many of the current starting XI would walk into the title challenging sides? 
Caicedo, Palmer, Cucurella, Estevao for potential, Joao Pedro as a squad option.   

Its been clear for a while that our squad isn't good enough to challenge Livo/Arsenal or even City. 

Spending 90+ million on two wingers and both weren't needed by their current clubs.  Garnacho was basically in United's bomb squad with Anthony and a few others and yet we still ended up paying them 40 million (at least they got part of the Mount fee back). 

[MikeDance 4]

8 minutes ago, Reddish-Blue said:

The problem is, we don't have any other goalkeepers.  Its not like we have an experienced keeper in the squad like Begovic or Schwarzer back in the day who can come in and play 1-2 games. 

The choice was: stick with Jorgensen or put Sanchez back in.  

True the stupid board said they stand behind Sanchez, I can’t understand why they don’t hire a decent goalkeeper and send him to their main club. They don’t care about Chelsea.

[Blue Armour 4,506]

11 hours ago, mkh said:

Chelsea co-controlling owner Behdad Eghbali and sporting directors Paul Winstanley and Laurence Stewart, plus Joe Shields and Sam Jewell all marched straight to the dressing room (via @Matt_Law_DT)

Miserable fuckers. People should be marching into their office instead to tell them to wake up and stop wasting funds on second rate, no purpose buys.

The team has weak foundations, with a few good players tossed in here and there. Nothing more.

[Blue Armour 4,506]

11 hours ago, NikkiCFC said:

Time for Disasi.

When disaster strikes, who you gonna call..

[The Rising Sun 715]

We need a coach who doesn't play this possession football bullshit. 

It is by far the worst kind of football to watch.

[BXL70 397]

Another coach wouldn't change anything. We would still have to play a team of largely inexperienced and unproven young players, especially in defense and attack. We are having quantity over quality. 

[prime adriano 11]

58 minutes ago, BXL70 said:

Another coach wouldn't change anything. We would still have to play a team of largely inexperienced and unproven young players, especially in defense and attack. We are having quantity over quality. 

New coach would bring a new system which might be more solid and get the best out of palmer at least. No reason to settle for maresca who's second division quality 

[Reddish-Blue 2,558]

1 hour ago, BXL70 said:

Another coach wouldn't change anything. We would still have to play a team of largely inexperienced and unproven young players, especially in defense and attack. We are having quantity over quality. 

Another coach may not panic every time we get a red card and take off all the attacking options. 

First at United, taking off two attacking players in the first 20 minutes.   Then against Brighton throwing on Gusto, Lavia, Josh.  

You don't beat a team like Brighton by throwing on "defensive" players and trying to soak up pressure.    

[BXL70 397]

Palmer is out injured and who are these "attacking players"? The 17 year old kid? Who else? Guiu or Giu or whatever his name who wouldn't even be on the bench of any other PL team? Garnacho who was desperate to find another club after being kicked out of ManU? Neto who can't have a shot on target? Seriously.

Edited September 28 by BXL70

[BXL70 397]

And look at the defense: Chalobah who the club tried to get rid of, Tosin coming on a free transfer, Ashampoo who is 19 years old, Fofana who can't play more than 25 minutes before getting injured for a year?