15 hours ago, JoseBlues said:

If Conte is pushed out or leaves on his own accord, I think I will finally stop being so passionate about this club. To think I finally made it to Stamford Bridge after following the team for 17 years last year.The board has their own agenda and do not back the manager. Somebody put it aptly that they expect a Ferrari for the cost of a Hyundai. It is fine being prudent with the stadium cost but at least be a little intelligent in it rather than saving pennies and nickels. There is no long term thinking at this club. I will still watch the games but my passion will definitely wane. To me, Conte is the best we can do right now. All the people looking for flavor of the month (Enrique, etc. ) will be here saying the same thing about that guy next year. These people would have wanted to fire Pep after his failure last year. 

Should of been around in the late 70's early 80's

Even though I voted for conte to go, it's not because I don't think he's a top manager. 

I just feel like his ambitions are higher than ours at the moment, and it's making it an unhappy camp, with results and performances taking a hit aswell. 

We are at a cross roads in the summer, we can't expect to keep world class managers, and world class players happy, unless we prove we are serious about competing with the best in the world. 

So we either make some quality signings in the summer, or we bring in a manager that is happier to work with younger players, on a smaller budget. 

I really can't see us doing the former, considering our recent transfer activity, so the latter would be the best solution, rather than carrying on in this negative purgatory, however we will be in serious danger of losing hazard, Courtois, and possibly kante in the near future.

2 hours ago, Nibs said:

Not saying he's been perfect. No coach is perfect and all make mistakes at times - he admitted that himself the other day. But he's done more than enough to have earned some backing so he should have been given the tools to help him do his job. The position we found ourselves in against Bournemouth is inexcusable for a supposed top club. No Striker available for the game - how is that even possible? Piss Poor.

Doesn’t make sense, Conte would rather play a false number 9 than Batman anyway so it’s still no excuse. There is simply no excuse for the way Chelsea have played the last month and Conte’s tactics, Conte has one and that’s transfers, that’s not good enough.

48 minutes ago, brakeit said:

People are fast to forget. Hahahahhaha, some of you says we didn`t play good fotball, it`s boring and blq, blq, blq ...

You are so fast to forget. Last season we scored 85 goals(only Tottenham) scored 1 goal more then us, and that is because their latest matches opponent was not playing and there they score a lot of goals.

City was 5 goals behind us. But now the rats leave their hole and come to say what bad football we play ....

How quick our fan is forgeting, for the first time in many years, the rest of the team in the world was copy out tactics and system. So many teams starting to play 3-4-3, because they see it from Conte .....

I`m done with this forum. Some folks never learn, for them it`s always manager to blame. I would say more, but i would get banned.
They are so smart, they say he can`t pick his best player, not know what player to play and so on. How exactly he forget his touch and what is the best 11 for 2 months in the break ? Cause last season he get all right. How is someone lose his touch in 2 months ?

It`s so obvious it`s the board fault, weak transfer windows we have and the tensity between them and the manager.

Conte is leaving in the summer, and the next manager will have the same faith, but he won`t win anything for us. He will probably not last the half season.

If Guardiola stay at City, no way we catch them with changing manager every year or so. No way.

 

Chelsea have scored 85 goals in the last month . Spurs, Man Utd, City, Arsenal and Liverpool all play mostly with a back 4 now, granted they have played with a back 3 but the novelty has seemed to have gone, you are talking about last season.

4 minutes ago, Ernie_blue said:

Doesn’t make sense, Conte would rather play a false number 9 than Batman anyway so it’s still no excuse. There is simply no excuse for the way Chelsea have played the last month and Conte’s tactics, Conte has one and that’s transfers, that’s not good enough.

The false No.9 is where I would be critical of Conte 'cos I hate it. It has worked sometimes but football is all about scoring goals and that's what strikers are for. But he's played that way when Willian has been available and at least had a striker on the bench. Against Bournemouth we had neither.

  

27 minutes ago, big blue said:

Even though I voted for conte to go, it's not because I don't think he's a top manager. 

I just feel like his ambitions are higher than ours at the moment, and it's making it an unhappy camp, with results and performances taking a hit aswell. 

We are at a cross roads in the summer, we can't expect to keep world class managers, and world class players happy, unless we prove we are serious about competing with the best in the world. 

So we either make some quality signings in the summer, or we bring in a manager that is happier to work with younger players, on a smaller budget. 

I really can't see us doing the former, considering our recent transfer activity, so the latter would be the best solution, rather than carrying on in this negative purgatory, however we will be in serious danger of losing hazard, Courtois, and possibly kante in the near future.

That is an option I think many of us would accept but do you honestly think our wonderful board would accept that?

"Here you go Mr New Coach, I'm afraid Hazard has just left but here's a nice small budget and if you could bring through the youth, but we do still expect silverware and CL football come the end of the season.......................!!"

7 minutes ago, Ernie_blue said:

Chelsea have scored 85 goals in the last month . Spurs, Man Utd, City, Arsenal and Liverpool all play mostly with a back 4 now, granted they have played with a back 3 but the novelty has seemed to have gone, you are talking about last season.

Agree Ernie and for me for it to work you need the best players and Conte wasn't planning on being here long term. The novelty plus our competitors being in Europe won us the league, yet Alonso looked shattered and both Tottenham and Arsenal had us sussed before last season ended. 

Just now, Nibs said:

That is an option I think many of us would accept but do you honestly think our wonderful board would accept that?

"Here you go Mr New Coach, I'm afraid Hazard has just left but here's a nice small budget and if you could bring through the youth, but we do still expect silverware and CL football come the end of the season.......................!!"

That's why we are at a cross roads!

Something has to change. If Roman isn't happy being a top 6 side, then he knows what he has to do. 

If hazard was to go then we would obviously spend the money on the squad, we are now the kings of net spend! 

£200m could get us 2 bakayoko's, 3 drinkwater's, and an Andy Carroll! 

 

 

11 minutes ago, Nibs said:

That is an option I think many of us would accept but do you honestly think our wonderful board would accept that?

"Here you go Mr New Coach, I'm afraid Hazard has just left but here's a nice small budget and if you could bring through the youth, but we do still expect silverware and CL football come the end of the season.......................!!"

Actually, @Nibs I think that many of us would SAY we'd accept it now, but then, when mid-table looked like being where we were for a while, the newbies would desert in droves and most of the other people in here would be screaming for changes and why aren't we winning silverware and it's not fair, blah-di-blah-di-blah.

You KNOW how fickle and glory-hunting a lot of posters in here are.  How are they going to brag on their twatter mates if we aren't doing so well?  What will their Facebook page be like if we're not top 4 and CL semi-finalists at least?

23 minutes ago, big blue said:

That's why we are at a cross roads!

Something has to change. If Roman isn't happy being a top 6 side, then he knows what he has to do. 

If hazard was to go then we would obviously spend the money on the squad, we are now the kings of net spend! 

£200m could get us 2 bakayoko's, 3 drinkwater's, and an Andy Carroll! 

 

 

Can't Wait - DREAMTIME!!

2 hours ago, Ernie_blue said:

Chelsea have scored 85 goals in the last month . Spurs, Man Utd, City, Arsenal and Liverpool all play mostly with a back 4 now, granted they have played with a back 3 but the novelty has seemed to have gone, you are talking about last season.

Yes i type it wrong, not month, but year. Isn`t it obvious ?

And yes everyone was trying to find the way to stop our system and tactic last season, and no one really find a way to do it. Arsenal, Tottenham, even City last season tried and played with 3 in the back.

First time i remember, when someone copy our style of play.

And yes last season we score more then City.
Should i find post of most of you, saying how Guardiola football is outdated and so on ???

And now you are totally on the other side, he is playing great football and blq, blq, blq.

I`m pretty sure if he was at Chelsea last season and Conte was at City and won the title, you would be fast to sacked him. Just like most of you are doing with Conte now.

I will laugh hard at you next season and will bring all of the trash you type at Conte. Cause i`m sure the next Chelsea manager with that board would not win the title, and pretty sure Conte will do it with his next team.

 

3 minutes ago, brakeit said:

Yes i type it wrong, not month, but year. Isn`t it obvious ?

And yes everyone was trying to find the way to stop our system and tactic last season, and no one really find a way to do it. Arsenal, Tottenham, even City last season tried and played with 3 in the back.

First time i remember, when someone copy our style of play.

And yes last season we score more then City.
Should i find post of most of you, saying how Guardiola football is outdated and so on ???

And now you are totally on the other side, he is playing great football and blq, blq, blq.

I`m pretty sure if he was at Chelsea last season and Conte was at City and won the title, you would be fast to sacked him. Just like most of you are doing with Conte now.

I will laugh hard at you next season and will bring all of the trash you type at Conte. Cause i`m sure the next Chelsea manager with that board would not win the title, and pretty sure Conte will do it with his next team.

 

You need to calm down Antonio, i talk about the board and Conte as a part of the problem. That's not to sit on the fence but because its true, everyone at the club as to accept some of the blame but you just keep bagging on about last season and forgotten the football hasn't been great this season and the last month has been absolutely dreadful, and you call me blind . 

Go on about the board as much as you want which tbh most people agree with but to think Conte is blameless is completely wrong and to think he has zero say in transfers is also laughable.

I bet if all the transfers worked out then you would be saying they was Conte's choices 

 

4 hours ago, brakeit said:

I`m done with this forum.

 

34 minutes ago, brakeit said:

Yes i type it wrong, not month, but year. Isn`t it obvious ?

And yes everyone was trying to find the way to stop our system and tactic last season, and no one really find a way to do it. Arsenal, Tottenham, even City last season tried and played with 3 in the back.

First time i remember, when someone copy our style of play.

And yes last season we score more then City.
Should i find post of most of you, saying how Guardiola football is outdated and so on ???

And now you are totally on the other side, he is playing great football and blq, blq, blq.

I`m pretty sure if he was at Chelsea last season and Conte was at City and won the title, you would be fast to sacked him. Just like most of you are doing with Conte now.

I will laugh hard at you next season and will bring all of the trash you type at Conte. Cause i`m sure the next Chelsea manager with that board would not win the title, and pretty sure Conte will do it with his next team.

 

You lasted 3 hours 26 minutes.

5 hours ago, brakeit said:

People are fast to forget. Hahahahhaha, some of you says we didn`t play good fotball, it`s boring and blq, blq, blq ...

You are so fast to forget. Last season we scored 85 goals(only Tottenham) scored 1 goal more then us, and that is because their latest matches opponent was not playing and there they score a lot of goals.

City was 5 goals behind us. But now the rats leave their hole and come to say what bad football we play ....

How quick our fan is forgeting, for the first time in many years, the rest of the team in the world was copy out tactics and system. So many teams starting to play 3-4-3, because they see it from Conte .....

I`m done with this forum. Some folks never learn, for them it`s always manager to blame. I would say more, but i would get banned.
They are so smart, they say he can`t pick his best player, not know what player to play and so on. How exactly he forget his touch and what is the best 11 for 2 months in the break ? Cause last season he get all right. How is someone lose his touch in 2 months ?

It`s so obvious it`s the board fault, weak transfer windows we have and the tensity between them and the manager.

Conte is leaving in the summer, and the next manager will have the same faith, but he won`t win anything for us. He will probably not last the half season.

If Guardiola stay at City, no way we catch them with changing manager every year or so. No way.

 

I haven't forgotten last season or want Conte to leave, but last season was last season and those tactics that were working for him then aren't working for him now. You can't stick to the same thing and not expect other teams to work you out. Yes, the board are largely to blame for how this season is planning out, but Conte isn't completely innocent. He has options, he has the players to easily change the formation and tactics but he is being stubborn. He's causing his own problems by sticking to a formation that hasn't really been clicking since the season started.

2 hours ago, coco said:

 

You lasted 3 hours 26 minutes.

Quote of the day

feel like he's negativity has really seeped into the squad over the last few weeks, playing the youngsters would obviously give the team a fresh outlook but can't see him doing it. still would be a big shame to see him go 

FYI, I picked Conte Shake it all about because I'd like him to stay and have the reigns to shake things up with the squad.

18 minutes ago, Barry Bridges said:

FYI, I picked Conte Shake it all about because I'd like him to stay and have the reigns to shake things up with the squad.

I regret not picking it to be honest. It took all my will power to be serious but if I could go back...

11 hours ago, abister1 said:

Fair point on Poc. Do you think they can do better than him at the moment? Once they think they can he gets the chop. He's taken them closest in years with a style previously unseen and as one of the upcoming managers in the game it will be foolish of them to get rid before he starts underachieving (or in another way status quo resumed as right now he has spurs overachieving on the money they are willing to spend)

RDM is a legend on these hallowed pages but I guarantee you, you'd be hard pressed to find 10% or even making it simpler for you 10 people who can hold up their hands with a straight face and say the CL and FA cup wins were his tactical genius on display.

He was given a chance which was the job full time and it was rightfully seen and correctly too, if I may add as a reward for what he "achieved". When the hammer fell there was disappointment but also a sense of acceptance of what most felt would be the natural outcome as the season went on.

If they do get someone better than Poc with the team they have, watch out. Listen, I get what you are saying, just feels sometimes we are very quick to move on to the next. Who knows with time how well with RDM could have been. Same for Carlo as well. Who knows how well he coulda worked out. Double one year, not so bad season the next, then, see you. As I said, if Carlo would've done that at Arsenal he'd have signed a life time contract, probably woulda signed one for finishing top 4. Ha.

7 hours ago, chi blue said:

Should of been around in the late 70's early 80's

Early 70's on were great days home and away.

5 minutes ago, Kev56 said:

Early 70's on were great days home and away.

We all like to win, but the oldies I feel just as much like the whole day out, where the younger ones are just obsessed with the results so they can give it on social media to other fans

25 minutes ago, chi blue said:

We all like to win, but the oldies I feel just as much like the whole day out, where the younger ones are just obsessed with the results so they can give it on social media to other fans

Back then bragging rights were reserved for derby games. And every other game a good reason to just enjoy football. Social media eh.

On February 1, 2018 at 21:19, Famous CFC said:

Grass is not always greener on the other side. Robbie for one shoulda been given more time for sure. 

Robbie? He did incredible interim work but the full time job was far too big for him and he was spectacularly out of his depth.

On February 1, 2018 at 21:18, Famous CFC said:

Exactly my point. The trophies that have been won, yet managers still getting the sack still. Imagine if Wenger won the Champions League, they'd make a statue of him outside the Emirates. Anyways. 

Players win trophy's and are deemed surplus if they aren't performing beyond then, why should it be different with manager's? Ofcourse previous success should and does buy them more time, but the credit in the bank shouldn't last indefinitely like it has with the example you have just used.

Edited February 2, 20188 yr by Argo

Most Chelsea managers get 20p credit, most other managers at other clubs get at least 50p credit. Oh a good/great manager wins trophies for the club just as much as the players. Most of the time it's a complete package that wins a championship.

33 minutes ago, Famous CFC said:

Most Chelsea managers get 20p credit, most other managers at other clubs get at least 50p credit. 

If that was true Jose would have been fired after Southampton in 2015 and Carlo would have been sacked by Christmas in the second season.