TheAwesomeGem

Looking at the time stamp on the post, he posted 'Hey guys, I am back' just after going 2-1 down on Saturday.
No comment after the full time whistle went at 4-2.
....not that I'm a cynic.

It's not the system, it's the players. Half of them aren't good enough and are being exposed this season with a full calender of games to play. When your wingbacks are players of the calibre of Marcos Alonso and Zappacosta (neither one of which are really CFC calibre players), it's not really surprising to watch us suffer. The weakness in those positions is further amplified with a 3-5-2 where there is even more pressure on the wingbacks to help generate attacks. We were effectively attacking with only 2 players until Conte switched back to the 3-4-3. 
Blame the board for undermining the managers position yet again. We still don't have a complete midfielder who can help with our transition from the back to the midfield. Gonalons is better than all the midfielders we started today. How is that acceptable for a club of our size? The man wanted both Tolisso and Bakayoko and we only gave him one of those. We missed out on Alex Sandro, Bonucci, Danilo, Tolisso and the list is endless even from 2 seasons ago. Shop at Aldi and get what you deserve. We need to be shopping at waitrose. And I know some genius will highlight how much we spent last summer. But who did we buy? What was the net spend? Did we really improve the squad significantly? So why are we shocked? Conte deserves so much better than he got!
 

As we saw today against Roma, this weekend against Palace, and even last against City; teams are pushing up and pressing effectively. Almost like a full pitch press, our passing lanes are being blocked off, and the full backs have been ineffective due to being isolated. So not only is the width blocked off but the midfield is clogged.
It doesn't help that Fabregas doesn't have the legs to work in a 2-man midfield but we don't have the personnel at the moment to replace him.
Should we return to a 4-3-3, or a 4-2-3-1? We just have to change something up, it seems teams have figured us out. 

Don't know, don't care. Overrated anyway. 

Interesting, Liverpool's starting 11 now that they have completed the OX transfer 

"Hello, can I have 2 Fish Fillets and some chips please?"
"How about 1 fish fillet?"
"What?"
"Fine, 1 1/2 fish fillets"
"No, I want 2 fish fillets and chips"
"How about 1 fish fillet and Michy Batshuayi"
"What are you even talking about?"
"Can we loan you the chips?"
"Screw this, I'm leaving"
 

It's because Barkley rejected again.

The Matic sale was the worst piece od business done this summer. I don't think it can look stupider because any CM we get at this point would cost roughly the same price

I fear for Conte the most.
Such a talented manager being let down by an incompetent board, wouldn't be surprised if he left. 

We've got 2 hours to bring back Peter Kanyon so he can deliver us 2 or 3 transfers. Granovskaia and Emenalo sacked immediately. 

Conte to be sacked at February and the bitchass Marina f**kface will still have her job.

$100 bet that Chelsea will sign no one apart from Zappcosta.

$100 bet that Chelsea will sign no one apart from Zappcosta.

Sure thing bud.

If Chelsea sign Alex Sandro, I will buy everyone here a drink.

Couldn't be a wing back IMO. He's far too lazy and a bit of flake in a tackle.
Also he's another prima donna that wants to down tools when he doesn't get what he wants

Danilo wanted to join us until late July when Pep and City came into the picture and offered more money. What stopped us from wrapping up that deal in early June? A flimsy £2m difference with Madrid. Despite the huge chest of cash we had at our disposal, Marina was faffing about over £2m. It's become an ego thing for her now and it as officially bitten us in the arse way more times than it has benefited us. Same with Lukaku. We could have wrapped it up as soon as the window opened if we weren't being lazy. Going after Ox in the first place shows our desperation. At the beginning of the window, there were at least 5 RWB options MUCH better than Ox. Even up until the past week there were a lot of other options. It's f**king pathetic.

Whether some of you would like to agree or not, that is the fact.
Go ahead and call me and everyone who shares this opinion "spoilt" or whatever word you may feel like using, it won't change the fact.
I'm not going to blame Emenalo here. It's not his job to negotiate deals. It's his job to spot talent and point them out to Marina to negotiate the deals and he generally does a fantastic job at that (Azpi, Lukaku 2012, Courtois, Moses, De Bruyne, Salah, etc).
The problem here is Marina Granovskaia. For all the great sales she has gotten for us and the great buys every now and then, she has taken one too many L's for us at this point.
Since 2010, we haven't succeeded in having a great summer after a title winning season. There's no reason we should be going for Djilobodji and Hector after just winning a title in 2015. And those two were panic buys, mind.
We win another title and have a big summer planned. Between January and now, we've lost about 10 first team players (Ivanovic, Terry, Mikel, Oscar, Chalobah, Loftus-Cheek, Costa, Matic, Ake, Begovic) and only replaced them with 4 (Bakayoko, Rudiger, Morata, Caballero). 5 if you add Christensen. Holes in the squad needed to be filled and we've known this since January but we've waited till the last 24 hours of the window to try to get deals over the line. This isn't even mentioning the fact that we should have tried to strengthen our starting XI to keep up with the rest of the league but we didn't. 
We're looking for a RB yet we let Conti go to AC Milan, Cancelo go to Inter Milan, Toljan go to Dortmund and Aurier to Spurs. ALL of these deals were there for the taking and guess what? They were ALL cheap! Now we're going after a Bosingwa incarnate in Rafinha. We spent months and months chasing Sandro with no assurance that he actually wanted to come and we seemingly do not have a plan B for him. Even if we did have a plan B, the price of that player will be 50% higher at this point in the window. This is the same way we spent most of the window chasing our tail with Koulibaly last summer. And Pogba the summer before. And Rooney the summer before. None of these deals ever materialized yet we spent over 2 months doing f**k all in each case. And although I prefer the option we ended up with, it says a lot about them that we bottled seemingly the easiest deal to get over the line with Lukaku by being complacent. Or should I say...incompetent.
Last summer Luiz and Alonso were panic buys as well. If it weren't for Conte working hard to get them punching above their weight, we'd have had a terrible season. I give Marina and co ZERO credit for Alonso and Luiz doing well for us last year.
If it happens once, you can just put it down to bad luck. But if it happens more than once, it's time to accept that they're incompetent and they need to go. Peter Kenyon never had problems closing deals like this. For the life of me, even Ron Gourlay got things done when we needed to.
I think it's time to hire someone who'll do a better job. It's probably not going to happen considering how close Marina is to Roman but I sure f**king hope it does. How much more of this can we take? We've fallen behind Europe's elite in the past 4 years and we keep bottling every opportunity to get back up there. I can't be the only one of this mindset.

Baffling mate. Is Roman getting bored, thinks winning is too easy and wants to see how the managers get on with loads of drama for a laugh

Cahill is getting beyond a joke now.

I don't care if we field 11 non-British players.

Close this thread, we have Alonso 

Breaking news: Juventus submit 70m bid for Marcos Alonso as they seek an upgrade at left back.

It's like Groundhog Day. In the summer of 2015 it was Stones, in 2016 it was Koulibali and Nainggollan, this time it was Sandro. I wonder who we'll decide to chase all summer next year.
 

For a technical director, Emenalo has done nothing of late to improve much of anything.
We keep on signing youths from all over the country and then sell them to various clubs each with inconsistent fees. The playing style of the club from the youth team to the senior team isn't the same so the youth players then couldn't properly integrate into the first team thus leading to sale of youth with potential. 
Allowing rivals to bid on first team players and considering it in the first place. I cannot see the long term vision that he has set for this football club seeing as we go through managers per 3 season max. At least come out and address the fans, I wouldn't mind him going out and say we'll buy players or promote the youth to achieve our ambitions.
I don't mind stockpiling youth as a secondary source of income but at least show the fans that we do have a long term goal in mind.