Just a bad season. We will bounce back strong again next year.

we've got Norwich, Bournemouth and Sunderland before Christmas - 6 pointers every one.

 

With the way we are playing, i wouldn't be surprised if we picked up no points at all from those games.

With the way we are playing, i wouldn't be surprised if we picked up no points at all from those games.

Exactly, although those on paper are easy games our form is atrocious.

We're in a relegation scrap and we have no chance of making the top four

Edited November 7, 201510 yr by Bobbywoodhogan

Exactly, although those on paper are easy games our form is atrocious.

We're in a relegation scrap and we have no chance of making the top four

Insert football firm joke here

The unbelievable has happened once before, Manchester City won the title in 1937 and were relegated in 1938. (thanks to Wikipedia)

 

I refuse to believe that could happen to this Chelsea side but that Manchester City side lost 20 out of 42 games (48%) while we've so far lost 7 out of 12 (58%).

 

Time to get worried?

 

The season is almost over now imho. we will not be relegated but I think this is the perfect opportunity for Jose to blood the kids now. The senior players are simply not doing it for him so play the younger lads who will be hungry and run themselves into the ground for him.Before you all say it, I mean keep the majority of experience and blood four or five. Come on Chelsea!!!

Relegation is a real possibility because the situation we find ourselves in is strange to all of us.

Jose: He has never manage a team struggling to avoid relegation, so he doesn't have the experience or clue on how to get us out of this mess.

The players: They find themselves in a strange situation because non of them have played in a team battling with relegation.

The fans: We are confused aswell. We think the team needs to create chances and dominate for 90 minutes to win games but it's not possible when the players don't have the confidence. Most teams that survived a relegation battle succeed by winning ugly just like Stoke, Sunderland.

Solution: I think Jose needs to step down for a while. And we need to get a manager that knows this league well and have experienced a relegation battle (A Pardew, R Martinez, S Allardyce). At the end of the season Jose will take over.

Just my opinion!

Relegation is a real possibility because the situation we find ourselves in is strange to all of us.

Jose: He has never manage a team struggling to avoid relegation, so he doesn't have the experience or clue on how to get us out of this mess.

The players: They find themselves in a strange situation because non of them have played in a team battling with relegation.

The fans: We are confused aswell. We think the team needs to create chances and dominate for 90 minutes to win games but it's not possible when the players don't have the confidence. Most teams that survived a relegation battle succeed by winning ugly just like Stoke, Sunderland.

Solution: I think Jose needs to step down for a while. And we need to get a manager that knows this league well and have experienced a relegation battle (A Pardew, R Martinez, S Allardyce). At the end of the season Jose will take over.

Just my opinion!

Wallosh with due respect your solution to the problem makes absolute no sense but as you suggested its your opinion and you're 100% entitled to it

Edited November 8, 201510 yr by lesblues

Relegation is a real possibility because the situation we find ourselves in is strange to all of us.

Jose: He has never manage a team struggling to avoid relegation, so he doesn't have the experience or clue on how to get us out of this mess.

The players: They find themselves in a strange situation because non of them have played in a team battling with relegation.

The fans: We are confused aswell. We think the team needs to create chances and dominate for 90 minutes to win games but it's not possible when the players don't have the confidence. Most teams that survived a relegation battle succeed by winning ugly just like Stoke, Sunderland.

Solution: I think Jose needs to step down for a while. And we need to get a manager that knows this league well and have experienced a relegation battle (A Pardew, R Martinez, S Allardyce). At the end of the season Jose will take over.

Just my opinion!

 

I respectfully disagree. 

 

Once Jose is gone, he's gone. He won't come back for the next season. We're going back to those days of the revolving door of managers by doing this.

 

You mentioned the need to hire an experienced manager who has often fought relegation battles, but they have never done it with players of our quality. Why say Jose should go because he has no experience in such situations when you know the players don't have it too. 

 

Anyway, I don't think these "experienced" managers can change much at all, in fact there's a greater risk that our players'll be disheartened by this drop in standard that they'd play even worse than before.

 

Chelsea isn't a circus, it's a well-established football institution. You don't ask your manager to step down, let someone inferior to him to take over and then come back to do the job again in a new season.

for a solid 5 minutes after we scored on Saturday, the whole stadium was on it's feet singing "we are staying up". Was quite funny and everyone took it really well.

Bumping this as I honestly feel were in a relegation fight

What are the chances any player has a relegation clause?

Remote I'd think. It's hard to imagine the prospect has crossed the mind of any player, agent or club exec in the last ten years. Still can't quite believe we're in this position. It's mind boggling.

We've been terrible but we have too much quality to be relegated! It may sound arrogant but sooner than later surely we'll start to have a good run of results.

 

This season is a write off but I don't think we're that bad that relegation is a possibility.

what? we're categorizing manager now? 1 is built for tiitle fight and another is built for relegation fight??  really? you want to distinguish it to such level? it's laughable..  Last time I check, the formula is still the same, beat the opposition regardless of the situation to get the points..  Be that players of managers, they need to be professional.. I just don't buy this idea that one is suited to the other..  

 

If a manager can only 'excel' in relegation fight then that means simply he's not good enough, same with those managers who often be in ttitle fight, if they can't handle relegation fight, then they're not that special.. 

what? we're categorizing manager now? 1 is built for tiitle fight and another is built for relegation fight??  really? you want to distinguish it to such level? it's laughable..  Last time I check, the formula is still the same, beat the opposition regardless of the situation to get the points..  Be that players of managers, they need to be professional.. I just don't buy this idea that one is suited to the other..  

 

If a manager can only 'excel' in relegation fight then that means simply he's not good enough, same with those managers who often be in ttitle fight, if they can't handle relegation fight, then they're not that special..

Indeed, Bola. Or, to put it more simply, whether you're facing relegation or trying to win a title, the answer is the same: you have to win more f**king goals than the other chappies!

Bumping this as I honestly feel were in a relegation fight

To right Bobby, especially after the Bounemouth game.

 

We've been terrible but we have too much quality to be relegated! It may sound arrogant but sooner than later surely we'll start to have a good run of results.

 

This season is a write off but I don't think we're that bad that relegation is a possibility.

Too much quality & arrogance to think we will not be relegated, that what gets most "we are too good to go down" clubs relagated, if on Sunday May 15th we need 3 points to stay up, & playing against the Champions elect you may come to rue those words.

 

There is no such thing as, too good to go down, once players stop battling, playing with little effort

& has the look of a defeated team, with lack of confidence there is only one way. 

 

The sooner some one gets these players to start playing the way the Manager wants with effort, a lot

of belief & sprite the happy I & many others will be, because the hardest job now is climbing that table,

with two wins in our next games will only move us up one place, we really need every player & manager to be one, which they are far from at the moment.

This forum is a bit unfriendly to new members. But to see the comments I see from some of the oldest entitled members about football and chelsea in general really sums up their footballing knowledge .

So we need a manager who is a specialist in relegation dogfight?

Spot in MBH if the players think "we're too good to go down" then we're in massive trouble.

This forum is a bit unfriendly to new members. But to see the comments I see from some of the oldest entitled members about football and chelsea in general really sums up their footballing knowledge .

So we need a manager who is a specialist in relegation dogfight?

 

Go to talkchelsea, when you think in this community it's unfriendly towards new members.

 

Don't discredit anyone's football knowledge, just because they see things differently,

because that doesn't implies that they haven't go a clue, imo.

Personally speaking, i think Jose Mourinho can and will adapt to a relegation dogfight, every day life presents a new challenge to everyone, he is a smart man, he'll figure it out.

But i think it won't come so far, we haven't even played half of the matches in the League, it's essential to start winning now and i think we can do it.

 

This forum is a bit unfriendly to new members. But to see the comments I see from some of the oldest entitled members about football and chelsea in general really sums up their footballing knowledge .

So we need a manager who is a specialist in relegation dogfight?

 

 

To be fair, ballhead (weird name - do you mean Ba'heid! i.e. are you Scottish?) I think on the whole we are very friendly to most newcomers.  It's the ones who come on aggressively chucking abuse at members who are less likely to get a warm welcome!

Edited December 9, 201510 yr by moi

I think we'll finish mid table. We need to string 2-3 victories together in the league and we probably will not look back (at least at the bottom 3).

We need someone who is always at the right place at the right time to finish moves. Like a Ronaldo or anyone at Bayern or anyone else really. I think even I am more likely to anticipate a pass across goal than this crop. No instinct at all.

On the plus side, this is quite intriguing (if we come out unscathed). We really get all sorts of seasons.

To be fair, ballhead (weird name - do you mean Ba'heid! i.e. are you Scottish?) I think on the whole we are very friendly to most newcomers.  It's the ones who come on aggressively chucking abuse at members who are less likely to get a warm welcome!

 

Or the ones that seem to just join up to have a go at the players and manager and then disappear for a while until we lose again.

Wow, from champions to cannon fodder in a matter of months. I'm starting to believe it, we're real relegation candidates.

Getting pretty worried.

Wow, from champions to cannon fodder in a matter of months. I'm starting to believe it, we're real relegation candidates.

Getting pretty worried.

Yep. We don't play until we are in desperate situations in a match. If we are 0-0, we play like sh*t until the end of the game, if we are down 2-0, suddenly we switch on and go for it. It's not good enough, we should be going for it right from the off.

 

It's like i said in the match thread, Mourinho is setting us up wrong from the start and the players aren't showing enough desire to win. It's not one person that is screwing us up, it's the whole team, everybody at the club is getting it wrong this season.