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Christian Eriksen was brilliant before and after Pochettino. There are more players worth to have a look at: Argentinian super talent Erik Lamela, Brazilian AMC Lucas Moura, Dele Alli... All with a "unpolished diamond" label. Did they fulfill their potential, managed by Pochettino for several years? Diego Simeone giving up on Joao Felix is a huge warning sign. Yeah Joao Felix could turn into one of the best players in the world, but he's now operated in several different teams under several different managers and not much is happening. If it wasn't for the intial massive transfer fee Atletico paid, no one would even be considering to pay £100m for this player. You paid £63m for a player with three good seasons (one in the PL and two in La Liga), probably regret that, and now you may end up paying £100m (again..) for a player who has failed for 3.5 years in La Liga and half a season in England. The risk is obvious that you will pay massive money to get stuck with some sort of wealthy-mans-Marko-Marin for five years.

I thought they got a point?

Because their chance will come anyway so they don't have to move the first time a good opportunity comes around. Graham Potter came in at a time when it was difficult to know if Todd Boehly & co actually knew what they are doing or not. After four managers in a season, building a squad with more than 30 players, a lot of stupid twittering and dressing room visits, ambitious managers will just look the other way when Chelsea comes calling. There is no point in coming to a club where the owner is hell-bent on making the job impossible. Both Amorim and De Zerbi (and Nagelsmann) can afford to wait for a club owned and run by grown-up people.

As Graham Potter, Kasper Hjulmand, Peter Bosz and Mauricio Pochettino all experienced, cleaning up after Tuchel is not a simple task because you get a physically poorly trained team where half of the players has been ran over by a bus and the other half think they are untouchable gods. Still, Pochettino made some very poor and cowardly decisions during that first spring, trying to protect leads rather than playing to their undeniable superiority in terms of quality. But yeah, ok. In the end they won the league in the second season, which would probably have been achieved by any manager given that they got Messi that summer, but still. More concerning for Chelsea fans would be how Spurs eventually turned into sh*t, and how impossible it was for Pochettino to stop the poor form once it began. Of course, some of it wasn't his fault - the Tottenham board didn't really provide him with enough quality players - but 11 months of relegation form is quite spectacular.

Think you could rule out any promising manager like De Zerbi or Amorim. They won't want to destroy their reputations by managing this unmanagable lot. Final payday for Mourinho? Pochettino would be a funny choice. Spurs had relegation form in their final 12 months with him in charge, then he moved to PSG where he finished second in a one-horse-race where he had the only horse. No chance that he will get the job in a bigger or better club than Chelsea or Spurs.

Big question for you won't be who "should" leave... but who you are actually able to sell. Most of these players earn more than they would anywhere else and haven't performed. There won't be along queue of clubs willing to take most of your undesired players.

Well, not entirely...

Umm yeah.. that is not your boat. I let AI have a go at it:

So you spend £500m primarly on young players and then would like to appoint a coach who would rather play himself than give young players game time?

Chelsea could take 0 points and still not go down.

Did he provide any insights on where bears defecate?

The Brighton side that demolished you last week haven't got a striker with more than 4 goals in the PL this season. Of course having a striker who scores 20+ goals is helpful but it really isn't necessary in modern football.

I have some bad news...

Connor wants your club/franchise to win things. He cares. None of the strikers that are allegedly "all better than Gallagher" gives a sh*t about you, your club or anyone connected to it. Of course Connor should play.

Need to rest him for... eh..

Because they're all great.

Too bad. Always want Real Madrid to lose. Anyway, take the positives: no need for anyone to watch a single more minute of this game.

Well, according to the rumours, it was a player who was signed in the last 12 months, so that rules out a couple of players on that list. You'd also imagine it was someone who actually played against Brighton and that rules out another couple.

I believe the bloke who wanted Sterling to come to you is now the manager of Bayern Munich, so he's still involved in football.

Johan was not always right, just more often than everyone else. It could have been a bit of a mess, like the rarely convincing Messi/Neymar/Mbappe trio in PSG, but ultimately Luis Suarez lack of primadonna traits made it work for Barca.

Luis Enriques achievements are somewhat dubious. Your mums could win the league if they had peak Messi, peak Neymar and peak Suarez at their disposal.

While I don't think Frank Lampard is a great manager, maybe your players should care a little less about what they "want" or who they "respect" and more about doing what they're very, very, very well paid to do with or without a manager.

Out of pure curiosity: is Todd Boehly safe? I mean not all of the money spent is actually his. Could Clearlake or whatever they're called somehow decide to tell him to f**k off from your club? Boehly is behaving like someone who is not only desperate to save his reputation, but also his job.

Indeed we are. We watch a lot of American culture, so we often swear a lot when speaking English. If you haven't noticed is, encountering American culture makes you slowly rot inside. There's no Victorian heritage that holds us back. I don't know the number of times your broadcasters has told Pontus Jansson to watch his language when he has said "sh*t" or "f**king" in a post-game interview. Whatever you think Swedes are, you seem to be wrong. We're not like Björn and Benny and whatever the ABBA ladies names are; nah, we're a bunch of overpaid, savage, foul-mouthed, rabid c**ts. These misunderstandings happens easily... A few years ago I thought English people were either like Mr Bean or James Bond, but after a few years of daily interactions with the British, I know its a country of Harry Redknapps and Neil Warnocks.

If you're questioning my admiration for Graham Potter, you can read my previous posts here at The Shed End. If you're question me being Swedish, feel free to notice how I'm capable of getting things like "they're/their" and "would have, should have" right, which pretty much eliminates any chance of me originating from your island.