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

[Gordyola]

A decent singer

To get a tune out of that squad?

 

[Vialli98]

Oh well another one bites the dust.

 

[KS55]

The front man Bohely is a disaster. A complete fuckwit who thought he could come here and show those ignorant Brits how to do it. Well and truly fucked.

 

[domalino]

Maybe he holds out some hope that Chelsea can make the Europa Conference!

They're 5 points off the Europa league, it would be 2 if they'd won yesterday.

Fulham are going to lose their manager and top scorer for the rest of the season. Brentford are going to lose Toney, Liverpool are a mess, Spurs ditto.

Decent new manager bounce and it's not impossible, especially given they've got old fashioned 6 pointers vs Brighton, Brentford, Newcastle and United.

 

[TinFoilHat]

Can't. Benfica are cursed.

Typical City would break that curse for them.
:)

 

[paska]

Not sure they had much choice, Saturday they were dreadful and that after he looked like he had turned thing around in previous games.

The way Chelsea have gone about thing since Roman was moved on is plain wrong, the money , no plan, just the splatter gun thrown cash at it plan.

I can see this all ending in tears and a serious investigation in to where and who this money is coming from.

If they don’t win a single pot for ten years under Boehly, would he cut his losses and sell at a significant loss, or would he just keep digging and digging?

Highly hypothetical of course, just imagining the best case scenario…

 

[Dribble]

An absolutely crazy kneejerk reaction. The Chavs have changed owners, changed manager, changed coaching staff & changed the squad.

How the hell was Potter supposed to mould the most expensive collection of individuals into a functioning team within 6 months?

Leicester will be a good fit for Potter to rebuild his career & confidence, as the club needs a similar level of rebuilding.

 

[kippaxwarrior]

Would any British person with zero knowledge of The NFL or MLB buy an American Football or Baseball team?

Why do Americans buy football clubs when they clearly have no knowledge of how to run one?

 

[paska]

His doing well at Swansea (another club where expectations are easy to exceed) as an arguement he could maybe manage a top club, is a perfectly debatable hypothetical Before he goes to a top club.

Having gone to one, and failed spectacularly, it is pretty clear he wasn't good enough.

If that club wasn’t Chelsea in the state it was in, you’d be right. But it wasn’t a normal situation of walking into a top club with a balanced 24 man squad and a sane-ish person at the top

He walked into the most chaotic version of Chelsea Football Club that has ever existed. Run by a lunatic Yank who makes the Glazers look like, well, our very own Sheikh.

Nobody could manage a squad that size and with that many new faces all squabbling with each other. Tuchel was already struggling to handle Boehly FC before that influx happened.

If-and-when Potter gets to manage a sane top club, we’ll test your hypothesis. But that hypothesis simply hasn’t been tested yet, because of numerous extra variables working against him.

 

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

Artetta was so close to getting the chop, and look how he's turned Arsenal into title favourites.

Potter just hasn't been given time to make his mark.