What's new

Chelsea v The Ravenous Wolves (PL) Sun 4th February 2024 14:00 GMT

JJ8 said:
Maybe she is refering SIlva to retire :)

What could a 40 years old player could provide any more???????????????????
Click to expand...
Pretty clear she’s referring to the Tottenham bottle job we appointed.


This is literally maddening. And no matter which way you look at this, i.e tactically stupid or the players are not listening, both lead back to Poch. De Zerbi had Caicedo purring like a V8 engine, a school boy who won a competition to be Argentina coach got Enzo playing like Fabregas on acid. Tired of the excuses, he’s killing us.

 
  • Like
Reactions: dR3
Term_X said:
Pretty clear she’s referring to the Tottenham bottle job we appointed.


This is literally maddening. And no matter which way you look at this, i.e tactically stupid or the players are not listening, both lead back to Poch. De Zerbi had Caicedo purring like a V8 engine, a school boy who won a competition to be Argentina coach got Enzo playing like Fabregas on acid. Tired of the excuses, he’s killing us.
Click to expand...
Can say same thing for Havertz, Werner, RLC....... 

 
Even before the wheels fully came off today, you could see if coming. Time and time again we looked totally exposed defensively. Easy to see how we so regularly get taken apart in away games playing such kamikaze tactics. Once we were chasing the game today it was pretty clear the game was only going to go one way.

 
Not sure what the answer is. We've blown a pile cash on a group of players who we are broadly tied to for several seasons and who at least under this manager do not seem equipped for the Premier league. Shambles 

 
Stamford Bridge was moody today. The owners know fans are not happy. Now it's over to them. Something has to change.

 
Snedger said:
That seems a tad harsh to say the he’s biggest problem. But ok, there are issues with his use, but let’s not imagine that without Silva wed surging up the table.

It’s without doubt a real collective disaster.
Click to expand...
The whole Wolves gameplan is to attack silva. 

Most team try to put their winger high and wide to pin opp fb. Wolves didn't do that, they dragged Chilwell deep and just launch long ball behind again and again. 

Normally this strategy never work because usually CB has head start but what happen if your CB is super slow and refuse to defend wide. 

😁😁😁

 
The club has been gutted from the inside out like a kipper by the new owners, baby has been well and truly chucked out with the proverbial bath water or in this case the entire squad bar a few have been replaced with far less than equal. Palmer, Petrovic & maybe Nkuku aside.

Hire a busted flush after firing a world class manager and hiring and firing another with no experience at elite level. looking at the mid table and lower teams around cfc in table there are talented managers available - at Bournemouth, Wolves, Brighton I could go on. But the owners went with the medias choices just like when they bought the medias choice players. No takeover / succession planning put in place in advance, the  complete lack of footballing expertise by the board and in every facet of the club in season one has likely set the club back a good few years. As we can see by lack of progression in the current Clearfake season 2. 

 
General said:
in this case the entire squad bar a few have been replaced with far less than equal. Palmer, Petrovic & maybe Nkuku aside.

Hire a busted flush after firing a world class manager and hiring and firing another with no experience at elite level. looking at the mid table and lower teams around cfc in table there are talented managers available - at Bournemouth, Wolves, Brighton I could go on. But the owners went with the medias choices just like when they bought the medias choice players. No takeover / succession planning put in place in advance, the  complete lack of footballing expertise by the board and in every facet of the club in season one has likely set the club back a good few years. As we can see by lack of progression in the current Clearfake season 2. 
Click to expand...
The only links to our CL squad now are two sick notes and a 40 year old. Manchester City can still field 7 of their starting XI that we beat that day ... 

 
Term_X said:
Well, we’re playing with no tactics, just totally fluid positioning too, so just about any manager would improve this lot.

Maybe that guy at Brighton who had Mudryk, Colwill & Caicedo looking like a world beaters. 
Click to expand...
I respectfully disagree that any manager would improve them.

We are now on four managers in 2 seasons, some different players but not enough for me to believe a change is the only solution.

I’m sure there would be a bounce if someone new comes in, but the team is not good enough.

 
If this does not improve we may need to go to a back 3 again.

Somewhat unlucky today with two own goals with big deflections and Sterling and Gallagher both had good chances to score.

Gusto continues to be unlucky for us.

I don't rate Enzo, don't think he is quick enough in a midfield two in the EPL.

 
strider6004 said:
If this does not improve we may need to go to a back 3 again.

Somewhat unlucky today with two own goals with big deflections and Sterling and Gallagher both had good chances to score.

Gusto continues to be unlucky for us.

I don't rate Enzo, don't think he is quick enough in a midfield two in the EPL.
Click to expand...
Enzo is a good player but I just don't think he suits the style of the Premier League. I definitely don't think our midfield is working with both him and Caicedo in there. Thing is we made a huge investment on the pair and would be lucky to get 50% of that now if we chose to offload either. Not sure what the solution is honestly.

 
forbzy said:
Enzo is a good player but I just don't think he suits the style of the Premier League. I definitely don't think our midfield is working with both him and Caicedo in there. Thing is we made a huge investment on the pair and would be lucky to get 50% of that now if we chose to offload either. Not sure what the solution is honestly.
Click to expand...
I agree we would have egg on our face again and don't think Arsenal will bail us out this time,

 
strider6004 said:
If this does not improve we may need to go to a back 3 again.

Somewhat unlucky today with two own goals with big deflections and Sterling and Gallagher both had good chances to score.

Gusto continues to be unlucky for us.

I don't rate Enzo, don't think he is quick enough in a midfield two in the EPL.
Click to expand...
I would go with a back 3 think it suits our players better and protects the dodgy defence

 
I just saw Caicedo's reaction when substituted.  Finally some passion, although probably broke his hand and will be out for 3 months.

 
OriginalS said:
O'Neil's side is winning by two goals and he's out there instructing and shouting at his players like a mad man.

Pochettino is behind by two and is sitting there like a fat fraud who's perfectly happy to collect his paycheck and don't give a damn.
OUT!!!!
Click to expand...
Spurs agent Pochettino!

 
Don’t know where we go from here. The job is clearly too much for Poch. This whole strategy of buying in young players and still expecting us to compete for Champions League places has predictably blown up in our faces. Not entirely Poch’s fault but I don’t know why we thought he was the right man in the first place. He’s been asking for experience, physicality, a striker, and got none of it really. We’ve thrown our lot in with these kids and put them on long contracts and they look totally out of their depth. We’ve blown our transfer budget in the process and we look like we need to ship half of them out and start over. It’s scary stuff. 

 
Jose still has his house near the ground and is available.  
 

We’re going to be absolutely trounced in the final with these fickle lot. 

 
Only thing I could come up is WTF🙄 We played decent football for about 20 minutes, then completely throw it away and never looked back. Tactically I thought they were killing us with 343, so many times they got overload on us on both wings, and running at our 2 central defenders with no defenders helping out. You'd think a decent manager would have come up with something to stop the rot, not the guy managing Chelsea. It's really men against boys in terms of winning duels and physical battles, that midfield got destroyed out there after about 20 minutes. Sterling and Jackson came up with the usual big misses like we expected. It came at the point where we just know these guys would miss the big chances and making it like it's more difficult than what really was. Where do we go from now? I don't have a clue, expect to be knocked out of the FA replay shortly, gift wrap the cup to Klopp, and quietly finish around mid table and call it another year of transition🫢

 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top