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AndyDowsleftflank
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Such an easy win to have JT as Mcfarlanes assistant but we dont like easy wins, do we
Sexyfootball
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I think the same.
Rules out Fabregas of course, and also Felipe Luis, who they supposedly spoke to already, so we shall see ... perhaps Luis has a chance as he is not someone that built a strong relationship with the match-going fans.
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LOL
Talk about doubling down on the inexperience and mediocrity of the coaching staff. Obviously we still have some way to go to reach rock bottom under BlueCo. We'll probably be looking back fondly at Rosenior in a years time LOL
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The chance to participate in a competitive league. The Premier League is the best league in the world at this moment in time. The French league is pretty dull. PSG win the league pretty much every year. A manager might appreciate that kind of challenge that the Prem offers.
That said our board did interview Enrique for the job before and didn't think he was suitable. I think they based their decision on their vast knowledge of the game.
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Callum McFarlane - he had a successful spell as the assistant manager at Croydon and i think we can all agree that if you can make it in Croydon you can make it anywhere.
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Yep, but if you wanted him, then, and with a bit of tenacity and a lot of money, you could get him.
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Chelsea’s players are a bunch of cry babiesThere is always an Antonio Conte quote. And it is amusing to consider what Chelsea’s last FA Cup-winning manager would have made of the club’s current crop of cry babies.
A few months before Chelsea last lifted the Cup in 2018, Conte was asked whether Eden Hazard, the club’s brightest spark at the time, was happy with being substituted so regularly in games.
“Only here [in England] is there this situation,” Conte said. “You are very worried about whether a player is happy or not. This is not important. My first task is to do the best for the team and the club. Not to make every player happy. Otherwise we’d risk finishing 20th in the table.
Every press conference there is always this question about whether I’m worried about making my players happy. No. I’m worried to win.”
Hazard might not have fancied Conte much, but he scored the winning goal in the Cup final against Manchester United that season for a Chelsea team that included Cesc Fàbregas, N’Golo Kanté, César Azpilicueta and Gary Cahill.
If Conte thought he had some prima donnas to deal with, then he should consider himself lucky he was not dumped with the present-day Chelsea cry babies who supporters are worried could suffer another meltdown in Sunday’s FA Cup semi-final against Leeds United.
One can only imagine how Conte might have reacted to Marc Cucurella’s barber apparently leaking team news, as he did before the embarrassing defeat to Brighton, or his players smirking at one another as they huddled around a referee before losing a game at home to Newcastle United. It would not have been pretty.
Sure, there are some exceptions. Reece James, Moisés Caicedo and Trevoh Chalobah – who was a substitute in the 2018 final – have all taken responsibility in different ways. It is also fair to assume that, on past evidence, Levi Colwill would have stepped up had he been fit.
But, looking at the majority of the rest, Conte might have really worried that they could have led Chelsea to relegation. Some at the club may believe that is unfair, but if Cucurella and Co have an image problem then that is on them – and the Spaniard’s barber.
Liam Rosenior, in what proved to be his final pre-match press conference as head coach, said that he was trying to help change perceptions of his players. Their reaction was to throw him under the bus with one of the worst Chelsea performances in living memory against Brighton.
In his role as a television analyst, Cahill, who was part of the Conte school of hard knocks, accused the players of giving up at the Amex Stadium – but it was Rosenior who paid the price for their no-show.
Chelsea may well try to push some of their cry babies out behind Rosenior this summer, with Alejandro Garnacho likely to be one of many the club would welcome bids for.
But, on this season’s evidence, who in their right mind would try to sign Garnacho, Wesley Fofana or Robert Sánchez, or offer Chelsea the kind of money they would want for performative vice-captain Enzo Fernández?
Under two different permanent managers, this collection of Chelsea cry babies – at least one of whom believes he is good enough to play for Real Madrid – have twice won just once in nine games in a single season. They managed the feat before Rosenior was sacked, as well as before he officially took charge.
Fofana has more points on his driving licence (50) than Chelsea do in the league (48). Add in the fact that the team’s on-the-pitch disciplinary problems followed them from Enzo Maresca, the former head coach, to Rosenior and there is a clear pattern of underperformance and misbehaviour amongst the players.
No wonder they are so happy to hide behind Rosenior, the owners and the sporting directors when the s--- hits the fan. Those responsible for signing them need to take their share of the blame, but the players seem oblivious to the fact that supporters see many of them as being the most dislikable bunch they can remember.
A victory against Leeds would only confirm the belief of some that the Chelsea cry babies can only turn it on when they get their own way. A defeat would further prove how out of touch with reality they are when it comes to their own talent.
Either way, and just as Conte was not, nobody at Chelsea should be worried about whether the players are happy. They are yet to earn anybody’s concern.
A few months before Chelsea last lifted the Cup in 2018, Conte was asked whether Eden Hazard, the club’s brightest spark at the time, was happy with being substituted so regularly in games.
“Only here [in England] is there this situation,” Conte said. “You are very worried about whether a player is happy or not. This is not important. My first task is to do the best for the team and the club. Not to make every player happy. Otherwise we’d risk finishing 20th in the table.
Every press conference there is always this question about whether I’m worried about making my players happy. No. I’m worried to win.”
Hazard might not have fancied Conte much, but he scored the winning goal in the Cup final against Manchester United that season for a Chelsea team that included Cesc Fàbregas, N’Golo Kanté, César Azpilicueta and Gary Cahill.
If Conte thought he had some prima donnas to deal with, then he should consider himself lucky he was not dumped with the present-day Chelsea cry babies who supporters are worried could suffer another meltdown in Sunday’s FA Cup semi-final against Leeds United.
One can only imagine how Conte might have reacted to Marc Cucurella’s barber apparently leaking team news, as he did before the embarrassing defeat to Brighton, or his players smirking at one another as they huddled around a referee before losing a game at home to Newcastle United. It would not have been pretty.
Sure, there are some exceptions. Reece James, Moisés Caicedo and Trevoh Chalobah – who was a substitute in the 2018 final – have all taken responsibility in different ways. It is also fair to assume that, on past evidence, Levi Colwill would have stepped up had he been fit.
But, looking at the majority of the rest, Conte might have really worried that they could have led Chelsea to relegation. Some at the club may believe that is unfair, but if Cucurella and Co have an image problem then that is on them – and the Spaniard’s barber.
Liam Rosenior, in what proved to be his final pre-match press conference as head coach, said that he was trying to help change perceptions of his players. Their reaction was to throw him under the bus with one of the worst Chelsea performances in living memory against Brighton.
In his role as a television analyst, Cahill, who was part of the Conte school of hard knocks, accused the players of giving up at the Amex Stadium – but it was Rosenior who paid the price for their no-show.
Chelsea may well try to push some of their cry babies out behind Rosenior this summer, with Alejandro Garnacho likely to be one of many the club would welcome bids for.
But, on this season’s evidence, who in their right mind would try to sign Garnacho, Wesley Fofana or Robert Sánchez, or offer Chelsea the kind of money they would want for performative vice-captain Enzo Fernández?
Under two different permanent managers, this collection of Chelsea cry babies – at least one of whom believes he is good enough to play for Real Madrid – have twice won just once in nine games in a single season. They managed the feat before Rosenior was sacked, as well as before he officially took charge.
Fofana has more points on his driving licence (50) than Chelsea do in the league (48). Add in the fact that the team’s on-the-pitch disciplinary problems followed them from Enzo Maresca, the former head coach, to Rosenior and there is a clear pattern of underperformance and misbehaviour amongst the players.
No wonder they are so happy to hide behind Rosenior, the owners and the sporting directors when the s--- hits the fan. Those responsible for signing them need to take their share of the blame, but the players seem oblivious to the fact that supporters see many of them as being the most dislikable bunch they can remember.
A victory against Leeds would only confirm the belief of some that the Chelsea cry babies can only turn it on when they get their own way. A defeat would further prove how out of touch with reality they are when it comes to their own talent.
Either way, and just as Conte was not, nobody at Chelsea should be worried about whether the players are happy. They are yet to earn anybody’s concern.
SydneyChelsea
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Fixed that for you
Take out our Brighton purchases and they don't a profit
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What I would give for a Ferguson, Clough, jose mk1... damn, even bielsa would do! make the cry baby f**kers run and fight.