Kev56

All the teams in the Championship already have a Chelsea loanee goalkeeper.

Watching the Everton v Brighton game, Wow that is some new stadium, really making the bridge look old and a bit hotch potch. How far down the attendance table are we now?

Watching the Everton v Brighton game, Wow that is some new stadium, really making the bridge look old and a bit hotch potch. How far down the attendance table are we now?

Two w**kers in a row commentating on our game.

A lot more A than I.

They did it because they spent £400m+ on defenders since taking over and as you said in the line above our strongest backline currently consists of 3 FREE academy products. Colwill too if he weren’t injured. Blame FFP/PSR all you want but we put ourselves in the situation with completely wasteful spending.
So no, we didn’t HAVE to sell our academy products. We chose to due to our gluttonous spending.

Yawn.
You just deliberately ignore the reality. There was no need to put the club in debt buying the junk we have and selling the gold to pay for the debt. Lets lok at Newcastle, sold Eliot Anderson last season. Villa traded with us to meet regulations and vice versa so we're cooking the books or finding loopholes.
We did just field a backline of nearly cobham grads... really obsevant of you but, where was Chalobah last season at this point? How many players have we signed that was supposed to replace them? how many have been sold to pay for them, go check the bomb squad.
If we didnt sing so many players with a scattergun approach, the finance wizzkids wouldnt have to trade assets internally to make us compliant.
The Forrest example is relevant because for a fraction of the price, they are competing with us in the league. see end of last season, our bigger squad helped us to finish above them. Their business model is also acutely similar to ours, their owner owns how many clubs? I also note, this is the preferred approach of our owners who took on the Brighton model... to use your language, a less important club. So yeah...
I admire the unwaving support to our douche owners, almost think your part of their pr team.

"Football is played on the pitch and everything else on excel-sheets." yeah, you're right, nice glib little less important point, except when the excel spreadsheet dictates who goes onto the pitch which definitely influences the results on it.
I'm chatting to a bot.

Let it die.

Of coarse it would be an option, pay the tax or don’t pay it, that is an option. If you don’t want to watch any bbc programme that is an option. The only option is, you have to pay the tv tax even if you don’t watch it. How the f..ck is that right?

I wouldn’t call it a rant, I agree with it all. The worst part of watching that pathetic performance today was knowing that we can play attractive attacking football. So disappointed with the way maresca set us up.

After watching yesterdays sorry effort I have no expectations for the season ,I feel its just the same as before but with new names .
Boring pointless passing back and across and back again. I'm in my 70's and if this is Chelsea at three best then all I can say is Fek!

I'm resigned to us having another inconsistent season with moments of hope and of disappointment. Probably manage to cling on to fourth, but it'll be tight.
It's just about waiting it out in the hope the next manager will still have Palmer and Estavao and most of this squad to work with and have the ability to get the best out of it.

If we are scared of Palace at home. What is the actual point of our whole billion pound so called project?

It wouldn’t have any impact on my life in the slightest. Genuinely can’t think of a single bbc programme I watch outside of Attenborough documentaries and I don’t know anyone under the age of 45 that listens to the radio.

It’s funny, I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately. I’ve spent a lot more time watching my local team (Hibs) and have been back having a season ticket.
I still watch every Chelsea game I can when there’s not a clash obviously and the standard is far inferior in Scotland (as you’d expect given the monetary differences) but I do feel (possibly biased) that’s something the Scottish game still has. In large part likely down to not having the players to play the Pep style football 😂. In the PL & across Europe it feels like everyone plays the exact same style of football which is move it around the back four and constantly recycle the ball but without any penetration.

I long for the days of us playing under Ancelloti, Conte, Mourinho. I find our football quite boring to watch nowadays. I thought we looked much more direct in the Club World Cup - we got the ball forward fast and looked to get at teams. I was hoping that would carry into the league campaign, it’s only one game so I’m not going to write it off completely but I really hope this isn’t a sign of things to come as most teams will come to Stamford Bridge and sit deep.
We clearly didn’t have an answer for it yesterday and despite the changes, we didn’t look any more dangerous which is a worry for Maresca.
Football has definitely changed though and I blame Pep!

If we are scared of Palace at home. What is the actual point of our whole billion pound so called project?

If we are scared of Palace at home. What is the actual point of our whole billion pound so called project?

I wouldn’t call it a rant, I agree with it all. The worst part of watching that pathetic performance today was knowing that we can play attractive attacking football. So disappointed with the way maresca set us up.

If we are scared of Palace at home. What is the actual point of our whole billion pound so called project?

I wouldn’t call it a rant, I agree with it all. The worst part of watching that pathetic performance today was knowing that we can play attractive attacking football. So disappointed with the way maresca set us up.

I wouldn’t call it a rant, I agree with it all. The worst part of watching that pathetic performance today was knowing that we can play attractive attacking football. So disappointed with the way maresca set us up.

I wouldn’t call it a rant, I agree with it all. The worst part of watching that pathetic performance today was knowing that we can play attractive attacking football. So disappointed with the way maresca set us up.

I wouldn’t call it a rant, I agree with it all. The worst part of watching that pathetic performance today was knowing that we can play attractive attacking football. So disappointed with the way maresca set us up.

1st game of the season and Maresca shows that he hasn't learned a single thing. Not getting anywhere near Liverpool or City this season, because there will be many games like this. No point pretending otherwise.

Back to the usual tedious cowardly sh*te of last season.