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

[Coatigan]

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.

It obviously Has been tested. That's like arguing Mark Hughes is every bit as good as Pep Guardiola, just hasn't been tested enough to show he is not.

 

[Vialli98]

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.

The only counterpoint to that would be Arteta at his worst never fell as low as Potter at Chelsea. He was never, at any point, as bad Potter has been this season. He also won the FA Cup in his first 6 months beating City and Chelsea on the way, which I imagine gave him some leeway with the Arsenal board. I found it increasingly more and more difficult to defend Potter.

 

[paska]

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?

Arrogance and “manifest destiny”

 

[paska]

It obviously Has been tested. That's like arguing Mark Hughes is every bit as good as Pep Guardiola, just hasn't been tested enough to show he is not.

Mark had the same owners as Pep in the end, and we had not done what Chelsea has done under Boehly. It’s not the same argument at all.

There’s no comparable situation.

 

[TinFoilHat]

Simeone?

 

[Keeper!]

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…

He spends money like he doesn't give a sh1t, always a warning sign but at the end of the day, Chelsea FC and their fans are the ones that will suffer.

 

[Maldeika]

Apparently Bayern still hold Naglesmann's contract and it is going to take some compensation so that is not going to happen straight away.

If Nagelsmann is smart he does not go directly from one to the other club but overthinks the mistakes he has made at Bayern.

 

[Keeper!]

I disagree.
He did very well at swansea as well as abroad before joining Brighton.
The 600m players were not his players and was very unbalanced - not his fault.
Brighton have continued to do well since he left but would the current Brighton manager have been able to do well if he wasn't picking up potter's team?

Some managers simply can't manage big players and their ego's, that was always going to be Potters make or break.

He had a crazy owner that did him no favours , 25m contract apart but in saying that, he looked a manager totally out of his depth.

 

[The perfect fumble]

 

[Gorton_Tubster]

If Chelsea dont get the next manager right they're fucked, Barca style. Not as bad but they will have to sell to buy.