The Chelsea Way

It’s very simple.
If you want to salvage the season then you sack the manager right now. It’s clear as day he’s not going to change a thing, the bad results will continue.
So if the owners are actually ambitious about finishing top 4 this season, Maresca will be fired.

If Bohly cannot see Potter ain't taking us anywhere

I am convinced now that anyone who thinks he should stay is just a troll from another club who has infiltrated the forum.

And even if we do go out against Dortmund or don't finish top 4, a new manager could at least put this team on the right track to progress under somebody else next season. This team is far too talented to average 4 goals every 15 games.

The likes of Mudryk could potentially finish this season with no goals or assists, that's how sh*te we are at the moment. This is just dire football and I dare say our league position flatters us for the football we are playing. 

Potter has shown no sign of tactical insight or adaptability, he's going to keep playing the same way until the season ends if we give him the chance, and we are destined to finish in the bottom half of the table with a negative goal difference. Why is that okay exactly? People saying we've got nothing to lose so f**k it need to give their heads a wobble, the financial investment of this team can simply not afford such a thing and it can massively hinder our performances for next season. 

In the name of full transparency. I want him out more than i wanted Sarri out and I thought Sarri was a mercenary d**khead.
I don't respect hidden agendas so might as well get it out there that since yesterday I have officially fully turned on Potter. I've been highly critical for a long time as there was a whole lot to be critical about but left some room in case he turned things around. From now on I don't even care if he somehow got decent results from here until the end of the season, I want him gone.
That post-match interview yesterday was straight up disrespectful. To fans and our own players and thats when I fully had it.
 

Frank LeBoeuf is destroying our performance right now on ESPN and rightly so. 

I'm sorry but the recency bias here is too strong. TT had us top of the table in his first full season after a difficult fixture list to start the season. This off the back of a UCL win. It only really started to come apart when he lost nearly half his champions league winning spine to injuries (Kova, Kante, James and  Chilwell).
Not to mention the war, sanctions, change in ownership and divorce. Normally employees in almost any field of work don't deal with this level of instability. Most definitely the worst possible situation for him personally. Yet he still took us to a top 4 finish, 2 domestic cup finals and 2 trophies won including the final piece of silverwear for the club to complete the all time set. Add in the fact he out coached all his opponents in cup matches (Mendy and Co let him down from the ucl). 
Tuchel doesn't have a cult following, he has fans that he rightly earned through his achievements. To say he isn't elite is disrespectful of what he achieved at this club in such a short period of time. He took this club to a level which allowed them to compete with any club across 90 minutes. Including Pep's City and Klopp's Liverpool the two teams we seek to be like.
He's the first coach to go to back to back UCL finals with two different teams. There's a reason why that hadn't be done before. It's not easy....you have to be at the top of your game as a coach.
The fact remains the same he wasn't sacked for sporting performance, but for a lack of compatability with the new owners. TT is far from perfect, he's still the best coach on the market right now. 
The difference between TT and Potter is our forwards couldn't finish under TT, but at least we made chances. Under Potter we create virtually nothing. Now perhaps people see just how important Timo was to our playstyle. Even without scoring, he was stretching the play running in behind and creating space for others.
Our biggest mistake imo was signing Lukaku in hindsight had we backed the system built in that ucl win and signed a player more like Sterling over Lukaku perhaps we wouldn't have regressed as bad as we did. The midfield will always remain an issue, yet they can't be completely blamed this a group of players that have made top 4 for the past 4 seasons, contested multiple cup finals and are the current reigning world champions. 
Moving back to the point of my post, Thomas Tuchel is an elite coach and recency bias has imo clouded your judgement.

What pisses me off most is that people are dying over in Ukraine and one of the Govt's moves is denying Brits from buying tickets at a football match but the CFC employee's salaries are still paid for. 
What a world we live in today. 

This seems to just be political racism against Roman and the chance to create a big story. Stealing a football club will not make any difference to those getting attacked in Ukraine, neither is there any link. Why not do something that actually makes a difference.

This punditry is beyond biased ffs

As everyone seems to be back in Full Grumpy Mode, perhaps we need a couple of reminders
 

Just got got home from the game and was pretty pissed off to be honest but I guess you win some, lose some with VAR. Tonight was certainly a VAR loss. Had VAR been around some years back we’d have had the justice we deserved in some pretty big CL games (at least I’d like to think). 
As a team we’ve got to be going something right with the amount of possession we keep having, surely. Emphasis falls on the club now to strengthen and clear out over the next few years. Just hope we can nick a European spot, without that signing the players at the level we need will be more difficult. 
Win our next two games and tonight will be forgotten. 
 

Just got got home from the game and was pretty pissed off to be honest but I guess you win some, lose some with VAR. Tonight was certainly a VAR loss. Had VAR been around some years back we’d have had the justice we deserved in some pretty big CL games (at least I’d like to think). 
As a team we’ve got to be going something right with the amount of possession we keep having, surely. Emphasis falls on the club now to strengthen and clear out over the next few years. Just hope we can nick a European spot, without that signing the players at the level we need will be more difficult. 
Win our next two games and tonight will be forgotten. 
 

Just got got home from the game and was pretty pissed off to be honest but I guess you win some, lose some with VAR. Tonight was certainly a VAR loss. Had VAR been around some years back we’d have had the justice we deserved in some pretty big CL games (at least I’d like to think). 
As a team we’ve got to be going something right with the amount of possession we keep having, surely. Emphasis falls on the club now to strengthen and clear out over the next few years. Just hope we can nick a European spot, without that signing the players at the level we need will be more difficult. 
Win our next two games and tonight will be forgotten. 
 

Come on Chelsea. Rudiger Hat-trick.

Good call Frank. Dropping Kepa is a bold decision but fully justified. 

Annual defeat to Bournemouth - tick. 
 
Mourinho, Conte, Sarri and now Frank have fallen victim. We were the better team today but predictable in our attack. Just not our day. The goal had a freak feel to it imo. 
 

Sorry Frank but the honeymoon period might be over. Still love you but we were poor in a number of areas today including game plan. On account of the sacking we new exactly what Everton's game plan would be. Zonal defending can be effective but now has to be questioned with our current crop of centre backs. 
 
We’ve been sussed out exactly like we were last season (and at roughly the same time -Wolves away 05/12). We’ve got skill, energy, speed and youth in abundance but physicality to compete against fighting teams I don’t see. December could be a long hard month. At 2-1 down I didn’t see any answers on the bench to change the outcome today. 
On account of the West Ham performance last weekend this cant be put down to just a bad day. 

Sorry Frank but the honeymoon period might be over. Still love you but we were poor in a number of areas today including game plan. On account of the sacking we new exactly what Everton's game plan would be. Zonal defending can be effective but now has to be questioned with our current crop of centre backs. 
 
We’ve been sussed out exactly like we were last season (and at roughly the same time -Wolves away 05/12). We’ve got skill, energy, speed and youth in abundance but physicality to compete against fighting teams I don’t see. December could be a long hard month. At 2-1 down I didn’t see any answers on the bench to change the outcome today. 
On account of the West Ham performance last weekend this cant be put down to just a bad day. 

Before the West Ham game, looking at the next three PL home fixtures - West Ham, Villa & Bournemouth I felt points would be dropped in one of those. Now this game is critical. Only a win will suffice and it’s doesn’t need to be pretty just has to be three points. Have to play our strongest team. No Giroud. Kante and Willian to start. Villa will sit deep and counter. Expect the bridge to be anxious but we should show our quality and put right what we failed to do against West Ham. 
One concern for me is how long it will take before the poison drawf Mourinho opens his big mouth to take a swip at us and Frank. Be interesting to see how we react in that case. 

Chelsea. I f**king love you. 

Chelsea. I f**king love you. 

Not as confident as I was having just seen Sarri’s reaction today. My concern is not with the players not being up for the game but the difference in the management sitting in the dugouts tomorrow, especially if/when changes are required. Emery has won this trophy three times and knows exactly what’s required to win. Sarri will just stick to Plan A and if it’s not working simply stick to the same game plan regardless. There is a large contrast in Emery’s ability to influence a game in play compared to Sarri. 
I suspect the players know this and know it’s up to them to perform and them only. 
 

On the coach to Leicester we watched the highlights of the 2012/13 season (when we won the Europa League against a lesser team than Arsenal!). What hit me about that season was how quick we were in attack and the strength of our midfield that season – Hazard, Mata, Lampard, Oscar, Moses and Ramires. How quickly we could break and each of those players ability to get in scoring positions and score. Something under Sarri we just don’t see and never will.
Arsenals attacking strength is their main strength. They could hit three past us in ten minutes if we aren’t on our game. However, over the years I’ve learnt you never write off Chelsea, especially when underdogs and I think we will be underdogs on this occasion. For that reason, I think we’ll just about do enough to grind out a very hard fought victory.