Essential The Official Football (Soccer) Thread - We are SO back, the Premier League returns!

[nyknick]

Mike Dean

 

[Jean toomer]

The only reason for keeping Dave is for leadership and having a player with proper experience of the club. You need those type of players at your club, even if he is washed.

Otherwise the most experienced players of the club are RLC and CHO and their Chelsea playing careers equals a cup of coffee.

fair point

 

[Roid Jones]

This is something I posted about a month ago elsewhere about Chelsea's problems.

Long and short, this comes down to the years of mismanagement by the board. While they have gotten the swapping coaches in and out right, more often than not, the communication between board and coach has failed, on plenty of occasions. And this goes all the way back to when Roman first bought the club. The board have given out so many mix messages over the years of what they want, that they have become a parody of themselves. Must be self sufficient, want to develop players from our academy, wants winning football, but needs to be with style. Still find ways to win and finally gets the style, but abandoned it within 18months. Wants fresh approach with youngsters being developed,doesn't click with the old guards, discarded. And then the rinse of repeat, of buying players the coaches do not want or need. Signing players either for or to tempt Sven. Signing Sheva and Ballack when Mourinho wanted other players in and then the next summer, no money to spend like they had done, but on Bosmans or cheap transfers.

Then the Ancelotti era, won the title in spectacular style with an already aging squad that had been together for a while. He wanted to bring in his own players and freshen things up, given limited funds in the summer window, as the squad was already good enough. Gets Torres last min in Winter window when Ancelotti wanted someone entirely different in a different position and the team fails season in both league and Europe.

Brings in AVB, told he has a blank canvas to do whatever and between his arrogance and the board not supporting him, failed. Di Matteo comes in, pulls off the Miracle of Munich, get transfer funds, the squad get overhauled and experience players leave, but the players fail to gel, they get knocked out of the CL before the group stages end and Di Matteo sacked. Back to Mourinho again, comes back, gets backing to win the title, but the slide in the teams form second half of the season is a concern, Mourinho wants more players in, doesnt get those players and the team falls apart.

Brings in Conte, he wins the title, thinks that gives him credit to bring in his players, to change things, but only a 1 or 2 of his players are bought in and he then goes into a running verbal battle with the board in the media. Then not only do they keep Conte in charge of the team when everything seems to be broken down on all levels, he is waiting to be sacked, the club don't sack him, he is still taking pre season 3-4 week before the season starts, along with the new transfer window shutting early rules coming in. Sarri gets half a pre season to implement his philosophy. And now Pulisic gets bought without the current coaches knowledge.

All in all, it is pretty amazing how Chelsea have continued to win, given the circumstances of the bipolar nature of the board. Yes, their way has been successful, even more so then it should of done, but the long term effects are slowly creeping showing themselves now.

Facts

Chelsea needs to decide what the fukk they want and who they want to be. All I've ever heard is Roman wants a specific type of football with specific type of players. It's very simple you hire a manager that shares your vision, then give him time and the resources to bring that vision to fruition. The way the club has been run despite all the success is not sustainable.

 

[TobiOT]

Mike Dean

This whole Twitter thread...guys an ego maniac

 

[MikelArteta]

how is david luiz still gettig minutes

 

[MikelArteta]

pay $$ to bring back Michael Emenalo

 

[bigdaddy88]

so whats next for chelsea?

fire the manager, then make a deep run into fa cup/europa and win it and pretend its all the managers fault

or hire a new manager in the summer win the league with basically the same players and repeat the cycle since the mourinho days



its literally the same ish every other year

they need to hire someone for a long term project, sell the players that are one foot in one foot out(Hazard) and stop buying every young player in europe and actually play them, because this team is pretty much just a bunch of mercenaries no self respect.

 

[Ukbrotha]

Does Sophie need a hug right now?

 

[Roid Jones]

pay $$ to bring back Michael Emenalo

If I were him no amount of money would bring me back, for what? He spent so many years developing a youth structure only for the club to constantly shyt on it.

 

[Kunty McPhuck]

Damn @SCORCH. Sorry breh.

Brother @SCORCH threw them in the bushes a while back. He gave Hazard is blessing to leave.

 

[TobiOT]

It’s shocking how little scrutiny this Jorginho guy has had all season. I mean this dude is hot garbage

And the press were all over Pogba for every damn thing...a few of our fans wanted him gone as well

Now they're are silent

 

[Kunty McPhuck]

If I were him no amount of money would bring me back, for what? He spent so many years developing a youth structure only for the club to constantly shyt on it.

And he took a lot of flak in the media, for only doing the job he was told to do.

 

[BlackBall]

Mike Dean

Pretty telling

 

[BlackBall]

And the press were all over Pogba for every damn thing...a few of our fans wanted him gone as well

Now they're are silent

turning his back on the team on some victim premodonna shyt for 1/2 the season is cool? That’s not what a leader or captain does, Instagram football

 

[African_brehda]

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