Where now? What do we do?

[Special Juan 28,791]

This thread needed to be opened as I think we now have a very serious serious situation at this club.

We haven't fell so low for many many years. Now bare in mind I have seen the early 80's, late 80's, 90's and to this day now. This right  now is nothing short of tragic, not just performances, not just results but how the fucking club is run from top to bottom.

Let's debate this, lets about what we are now, what we have sen and what we have become. Let your feelings go, let your mind type and let yourself say what you really feel.

CFC is rotten, what needs to change? for me it starts with the owners but the sporting directors are selling them down the river, the signings are garbage, the ideas are pathetic and the appointments are diabolical. 

Discuss

[YorkshireBlue 3,346]

20 minutes ago, Special Juan said:

This thread needed to be opened as I think we now have a very serious serious situation at this club.

We haven't fell so low for many many years. Now bare in mind I have seen the early 80's, late 80's, 90's and to this day now. This right  now is nothing short of tragic, not just performances, not just results but how the fucking club is run from top to bottom.

Let's debate this, lets about what we are now, what we have sen and what we have become. Let your feelings go, let your mind type and let yourself say what you really feel.

CFC is rotten, what needs to change? for me it starts with the owners but the sporting directors are selling them down the river, the signings are garbage, the ideas are pathetic and the appointments are diabolical. 

Discuss

If nothing changes next season and we still have FIVE fucking FIVE sporting directors, we will be in a relegation battle, we don’t need fucking 5 we need 1 competent SD, we need to stop this youth and only youth and need a mixture of both senior players and youth, this summer window is the only thing that will show if we have changed in terms of signings and managers, if it’s more of the same then we are truly fucked, this isn’t irreversible yet but it can be 

[Special Juan 28,791]

The biggest decision for me right now is not the manager, not the signings but who is in sporting charge first and foremost

[YorkshireBlue 3,346]

Just now, Special Juan said:

The biggest decision for me right now is not the manager, not the signings but who is in sporting charge first and foremost

As it stands do the club even know? When you have 5 chefs making one fucking soup who has a bastard clue what’s going on 

[Blue Armour 4,735]

It starts with the owners, but IMO a fallout like this is what it takes for these clowns to wake up and change direction.

I don't see the owners up and leaving next summer, but what I hope is that this season becomes a stain against Eghbali & his cronies.

This will hopefully force Eghbali & co to reconsider their youth-prioritized recruitment strategy.

I don't know if this means that Joe Shields & his Kinetic buddies will get displaced soon though. This season is a damning indictment, but I fear those parasites are going to stick  around for a while to influence recruitment.

Hopefully they (meaning Eghbali, Todd & the upper echolons) at least take the power of influencing team selection away from the directors and restore it to the coach. Whoever comes next. 

And speaking of who comes next, Rosenior and Callum are giving a first class demonstration of how a manager can make or break the team. Hopefully they will learn.

A lot of 'hope' & 'hopefully' in my post, but that's the situation we're in.

To make matters worse, the club is in massive debt and might not have the finances to make all the corrections needed this summer.

 

[Fulham Broadway 17,768]

But there has to be a will to do it.

ie are the venture capitalists really that interested in team success ? If not the rot from the top will remain, no matter what Directors of football they appoint, puppets that are constrained by AI and cashflows.

PL and Championship are littered with billionaire owners quite content to drive at 50 in the middle lane as long as they add to their fortunes.

If they have the will for success, like the custodians of Liverpool, Utd, Citeh, where the penny finally dropped that you need to get a good manager in, trust him, and give him the autonomy to get on with it - that would be a start

[Fulham Broadway 17,768]

Utd players have been praising Carrick, saying he has learned from Ferguson, and is bringing that Ferguson magic to training and tactics

Cant imagine any of our lot said that about Liam  🤪- last time we heard anything like that was when they praised Tuchel

[Vesper 31,112]

On 04/05/2026 at 13:49, Special Juan said:

Now bare in mind I have seen the early 80's,

bear in mind

[Special Juan 28,791]

2 hours ago, Vesper said:

bear in mind

Oh fuck here come the spelling Police.

[OneMoSalah 9,109]

What needs to change? The whole lot from top to bottom. There is too much mediocrity and lack of everything essential that a football club needs, from the owners all the way down to the players.

It all started the day they sacked Thomas Tuchel. In fact, maybe even before that actually when Marina & Petr decided to leave. 

Need a complete reset in every aspect, every department - literally everything - but who has

1) £5bn sitting around to buy the club

2) knowledge of owning/running a successful football club

3) network of highly competent footballing people

4) the remaining money needed to run a football club each year for a prolonged period

Mental we are talking about needing new ownership and a full reset after 4 years (some of us were onto it a lot, lot sooner). BlueCo’s ownership has basically ripped through this club like a cancer. They really are like a horrible, horrible disease. Not just here but also in France, notoriously not liked. Never will be.

But they’ll milk it dry then sell it but by then I’d be surprised if we are even in the PL. Nobody seems to care from the top to bottom, embarrassing really.

I mean even the players sitting on 6/7/8 years deals - always going to outlive any manager good or bad and its a disgrace. Don’t fancy playing for the shirt, oh its ok I’ll be fine I’ve got a 6 year deal still…..

[Vesper 31,112]

On 08/05/2026 at 13:55, Special Juan said:

Oh fuck here come the spelling Police.

normally I do not give a toss, but bare incorrectly used in place of bear for 'bear in mind' is a personal pet peeve of mine

sorry

it is the same for 'right to bear arms' (carry guns, etc)

'bare arms' are what you have when you wear short-sleeved or sleeveless clothing

[Vesper 31,112]

Fans just want that overall connection back and to see players fighting for the badge

It's not even that much to ask

https://siphillipstalkschelsea.substack.com/p/fans-just-want-that-overall-connection

Anyone involved with Chelsea right now who may want to know what the biggest problems are at our club, might just need to read this Joe Cole quote.

It’s literally as simple as this. Fans have lost connection with the club, and it’s down to the culture being gutted, and watching players just not fighting for the badge. Not all the time, granted, but a lot of the time. As fans, all we want to see is players give their all for the club and for the fans. That’s it.

Joe Cole:

“I was talking to a Chelsea fan the other day who loves the club. It felt more like a therapy session.

“He said to me, ‘It was different in your day, we felt connected.’

“I asked him why he felt like that, and what we did differently apart from winning matches?

“He said there was a response to the losing games, and more engagement with the fans.

“He used Shevchenko as an example; he came in and had a terrible time, but the fans could see he was trying.

“He was humble, and every time they sang Shevchenko’s name, he acknowledged them. For a Ballon d’Or winner who’s having a difficult time, they still remembered that more than 15 years later.

“It’s the little things that I think the group need to take charge of, but no senior players are leading that at the club.

“They don’t realise how important it is, and what he said was that, he says, at Chelsea, success is not judged on how many trophies you won, but on how much money you’re in the red at the end of the season or how much profit you’ve made.

“That summed it up.

“That seems to be where our Chelsea Football Club is now, not judged on performance on the pitch, but on the finances.

“And you can’t tell me anything other than that. It’s the truth.”

Perfectly said by Joe and this fan. This is nail on the head stuff.

Gut a club of the culture, anyone who was part of the old regime, and then put together a bunch of young players without leadership and an experienced manager, and you lose all of what Chelsea Football Club stands for.

This is it, in a nutshell.

These words should be put on the walls of the offices in Cobham. If you want the fans FULLY back onside, then you need to bring the Chelsea culture back. You need to get the players playing for the badge again and putting it all in for the fans.

I keep saying it, but football can be such a simple game when you look at it like this and stop trying to over complicate it.

[Fulham Broadway 17,768]

That 'culture' is leaving 10 minutes before the end nowadays.

Never seen that. Even in the 70s and 80s when we were proper shit.

Or, if we did leave early it was to ambush their lot outside.

[Special Juan 28,791]

58 minutes ago, Vesper said:

normally I do not give a toss, but bare incorrectly used in place of bear for 'bear in mind' is a personal pet peeve of mine

sorry

it is the same for 'right to bear arms' (carry guns, etc)

'bare arms' are what you have when you wear short-sleeved or sleeveless clothing

Please don't start spell checking people on a forum, it's really really sad.

[Special Juan 28,791]

34 minutes ago, Fulham Broadway said:

That 'culture' is leaving 10 minutes before the end nowadays.

Never seen that. Even in the 70s and 80s when we were proper shit.

Or, if we did leave early it was to ambush their lot outside.

It's a common thing now, hate it