Chelsea Thread - 2022/23 | Pochettino confirmed as new manager

[manclad]

"Some beans and a nice Chianti" !!

 

[Vialli98]

Looking at the injury list… it’s 4 first team players that are out really.

Chilwell
James
Kante
Sterling (hardly ripping up trees)

They’ve lost a few squad players as well. But for a team that’s cost what it has to assemble, there is no way they should have been hammered by us in the way they were today. No fight and no idea. They made 6 changes, we made 7 and finished the game with 3 academy products on the pitch.

I’m a fan of Potter but he does look out of his depth. A huge criticism of him during his Brighton days was that his side didn’t score enough, or even at all. For all the pretty patterns there was no end product.

I have a few mates that are Brighton season ticket holders and they weren’t as gutted as I thought they might be when he left. They trust in the system they have there, the scouting network is brilliant and the new manager has simply picked up the squad and run with it, and now there is an end product.

Well 6 starters (7 if you consider Mendy a starter but he had already lost his place before his injury) and then some of the back up players like Pulisic, RLC, Broja etc also being injured. That would cripple any squad, no matter how expensively assembled. It doesn't help that Koulibaly, Cucurella has so far looked like terrible signings.

 

[paska]

No Champion's League next season, 800m loan interest charges at ever increasing commercial rates, a 500m squad amortisation and a possible pay off for Potter will add up to staggering numbers. They won’t be able to spend anywhere near the money they need to, could be in huge trouble.

Where on earth is FFP? Why does it only apply to us and PSG?

It shouldn’t exist at all, but it’s crazy how some clubs seem to be completely exempt

 

[waspish]

Looks like chelsea are not bothering With there accounts under these bank owners

 

[BertTrautmann'sParachute]

These aren't Potter's players. Once the season got started it stopped again for 6 weeks so he can't get his ideas across and see them beginning to work. He also has more than half his squad missing. If these are the criteria for getting sacked then we're all in trouble.

 

[mexico1970]

These aren't Potter's players. Once the season got started it stopped again for 6 weeks so he can't get his ideas across and see them beginning to work. He also has more than half his squad missing. If these are the criteria for getting sacked then we're all in trouble.

3 points behind the scousers and pundits are pulling the lever for the trapdoor.

 

[Blue Smarties]

Oh boy! That was embarrassing.

Not as embarrassing as the inflatable European cups that the fans hadn’t bothered to inflate! Cringe.

 

[Vialli98]

Not as embarrassing as the inflatable European cups that the fans hadn’t bothered to inflate! Cringe.

It's cringe but always funny when the people they're supposed to annoy are in fact annoyed :)

 

[fathellensbellend]

Very strange fanbase, completely devoid of humour, sing relentlessly about beating us in the European Cup, but couldn't sell 5000 tickets for it

 

[Vialli98]

Very strange fanbase, completely devoid of humour, sing relentlessly about beating us in the European Cup, but couldn't sell 5000 tickets for it

Obviously it would be humourless to you because you're the target of the songs. I bet you didn't find it so humourless when we constantly sang about Gerrard slipping on his arse :)