Myheartisblue

But this is a player who has said 'Sometimes I want to kill' (when he is on the pitch, outclassed, naturally). Why is he allowed to get away with that, when he is clearly a vicious animal - no ability to speak of, but loads of aggression?

Fair point. I don't think they have any motivation to work for Potter though - the assumption has to be that he was/is only temporary, so what would be the point? I was trying to say that there's a real difference in quality between TT and GP, as managers - tacticians, motivators etc. Tuchel's got it, Potter, to my mind, just hasn't. Tinkers and talks a good consoling melancholy talk when it goes wrong. Something went wrong for Tuchel - look at what was happening around him, and in his personal life too apparently - but that's not the same as not having it in the first place. I hope I'm proved wrong, and it looks liked Boehly's going to give him plenty of time to do that, I agree. More's the pity.

In a way I hope what you're saying is true. The problem, as some on here have already said, is that Boehly can't be trusted not to bring in Jesse Marsh or someone even more hopeless than GP. That, and the money it'll cost the club to get rid of him. We've already going to lose a shed-load (sorry!) not playing CL next season. Does Boehly even know what that would mean? For Chelsea FC, for f---'s s---? 'Soccer-ball? Sure, I know all about soccer-ball....'. He will get it when he sees the drop in revenue - all that matters to him. Surely no one really believes we haven't got some first-rate players in the squad right now (some dead wood and lousy performers notwithstanding)? But we stand to lose them at that moment. And for us supporters it's already hurting in very different ways. And what if we end up looking relegation in the face? Quite an achievement for the new owners, new manager, new everything - new 'culture', new 'long-term approach', fantasies about all-star leagues and feeder-clubs and all the rest. Sure we needed some of that long-term thinking, smarter loans thinking, academy-thinking (but look at the 1st-team players now who came through it, so it wasn't as bad as all that). And sure TT was looking (because he was told to, by a different owner remember) to success now and in the season to come. But where were we when he was sacked? 6th? Just a few games in? I know where I'd rather be today..... This was always going to happen the minute Boehly got his hands on the club and sacked TT, for an under-achieving mid-table 'man-manager', great at the consoling chat after losses apparently (wonder why he's so good at that?) A shoo-in for Southgate's job, maybe, but Chelsea? Pul-leese, as Boehly would say. Our players know what they're doing, just put them in the positions on the pitch where they do it best (something Potter has consistently refused to do, tnkering around with them instead) and let them go. I dread to think of how bad it's got to get before anything changes.

This is right. The players are lost and depressed. You can see in their faces that they know they cant win and won't. Their manager isn't letting them. Potter is way, way out of his depth. He is managing expectations not a football team qnd we'll find ourselves way out of contention for anything this season, possibly relegated next. I saw this coming when Boehly came in. The best he can do now is grovel to Tuchel, beg him to come back, and we can all pretend this bad dream never happened - like Liz Truss.

Though everything being said here has a lot of truth in it - both for and against Boehly, I think the real point is that Boehly has only done one thing in his life and there is only one thing he wants to do and that is make money. It so happens that he is involved in making it from sport. This is really, really bad news for CFC. Abramovich - like him or not- had made his money, loved football, loved the club, and loved seeing it succeed. He spent a lot of his own money and mad a net loss. Success will only matter to Boehly if he can make more out of it.

Sixth is very optimistic I think. We have a mid-table manager at best and mid-table is the best we can hope. The whole Tuchel situation was horribly mishandled - he obviously wasn't having a great time but people get over that and he is easily one of the best in the world. Anyone who believes Boehly has the long-term interests of the club at heart is kidding themselves too. He is in it for the money and the awful thing is that he could end up wrecking a great football club in the process. As the season goes on all this will become horribly clear to supporters and we will have a role to play. It's called voting with your feet. It may be difficult to stay away but it's the only thing people like Boehly understand! And why haven't we heard from Daniel Finkelstein? I thought he was on the board as a lifelong supporter and a voice for the rest of us. I only hope I'm proved wrong! It will be a pleasure to eat my words.