2 hours ago, RickUK said:

jack sh*t happening.  This is not getting sorted until June 30th/July 1st

 

Im sure of it

If we're lucky, I reckon more like after world cup

@yorkleyblue Mid July prediction might be true at this rate.

The first bit of news has to be Conte's departure. No pics of Sarri holding a Chelsea shirt before then. It will happen eventually now that its pretty much confirmed just am a matter of time. 

It'll be a 'Thumping Thursday, 'Fabulous Friday', Sumptuous saturday', eat sleep repeat ad nauseam!!

Championship fixtures are out today so the club won’t want to play second fiddle in the news. Tomorrow I reckon...

It could all be done and dusted and they club are putting the background stuff together. 

 

Or...it’s probably not. 

Right I missed all these posts on statistics as a measure of a player's quality.

Stats are bollocks when used on their own. Reducing a player/match to simple quantitative data and numbers is like reviewing a movie rating it 7/10 without telling me what the plot of the movie and its characters are like. You need CONTEXT for everything or it will never be informative enough to base all your decisions off of stats only.

I remember Ozil passing the ball to Sanchez only for him to dribble past 3 players and curl it into the top corner. That counted as an assist for Ozil apparently even though he made a 5 yard pass and Sanchez did all the work. 

Stats can be used to supplement and aid you in making a judgement on a player but never as the sole deciding factor. 

Edited June 21, 20188 yr by zes

3 minutes ago, zes said:

Right I missed all these posts on statistics as a measure of a player's quality.

Stats are bollocks. Reducing a player/match to simple quantitative data and numbers is like reviewing a movie rating it 7/10 without telling me what the plot of the movie and its characters are like. You need CONTEXT for everything or it will never be informative enough to base all your decisions off of stats only.

I remember Ozil passing the ball to Sanchez only for him to dribble past 3 players and curl into the top corner. That counted as an assist for Ozil apparently even though he made a 5 yard pass and Sanchez did all the work. 

Stats can be used to supplement and aid you in making a judgement of a player but never as the sole deciding factor. 

What stats never tell you is who were the opposition, did they have an injury crisis, did we have an injury crisis, how many games had they/us played in the run up, who was he playing alongside (due to rotation, injuries etc), was it warm, was i cold, was it wet, was it dry, had he been travelling on international duty, had he been dropped from his international side, had his wife just had a baby, had his mistress just had a baby....was it the age of aquarius.......millions and millions of modifiers that are never taken into account. Stats are something you can look at and use alongside actually watching a player, but should never ever be read in isolation.

few murmurs the announcement will be this weekend, probably saturday. 

Like all those murmurs that it was going to be 2 weeks ago? then 1 week ago? then monday? then tuesday? then thursday?

 

Hottest news update, it's definitely happening Friday. Not this Friday mind you possibly next week.

13 minutes ago, enigma said:

few murmurs the announcement will be this weekend, probably saturday. 

 

From Saturday: Hot days

Pre season starts in 10 days. So it should be over one way or another by then. I really cant see conte coming back for preseason before getting sacked before the season starts. I suppose you never know with chelsea. 

I was really excited for sarri coming in, but this whole saga has really dragged on. 

I understand football is a complicated business, but 6 weeks to change a manager especially, one with a buy out clause seems excessive. 

In the end, we might have saved about £3m, but surely it would've been more productive to have paid the release clause, so sarri could've got himself settled before preseason, and the club could've put it's time and energy into purchasing and selling players, and sorting out contracts. 

With the window closing at the start of the season, we seem to have a mountain of work to be done in a short space of time. I'm expecting more dead line day deals, and players taking time to adapt having not had a preseason with us. 

Hopefully with fixtures appearing quite kind, it might not be too detrimental to our season.

 

 

We’re just going to roll in to the next season with the same management team, same players and same problems. You lot need to bring your expectations down to a realistic level. 

shouldn't have any expectations.

Good point about pre season starting. It will surely be done this week And from the rumours, it seems to be finally few details being sorted out. 

I look forward to one day hearing the saga of what the feck actually happened during this period.

32 minutes ago, Kentonio said:

I look forward to one day hearing the saga of what the feck actually ?happened during this period. ?

 

3 hours ago, JM7 said:

It could all be done and dusted and they club are putting the background stuff together. 

 

Or...it’s probably not. 

 

 

It's happening in the next 48 hours after the next 48 hours after the next 48 hours.. and so on.

What's the odds from the bookies of Conte being the manager at the start of the season am feeling lucky and wan to take a punt on it

1 hour ago, Brutos said:

What's the odds from the bookies of Conte being the manager at the start of the season am feeling lucky and wan to take a punt on it

Frigging zero I hope...every day I hope i get the sky sports news flash that Secret Sabotage Agent Conte has finally fecked off...

I understand the delay with Sarri's deal as it's complicated by a bunch of different factors and hope it'll be done soon but why haven't we fired Conte yet? Are we hoping that by some miracle some club comes in for him between now and when we sign Sarri? 

I want to move one from last season's shambles ASAP and seeing Conte fired will go a long way in curing my 5th place finish PTSD lol

19 minutes ago, CFC_montreal said:

I understand the delay with Sarri's deal as it's complicated by a bunch of different factors and hope it'll be done soon but why haven't we fired Conte yet? Are we hoping that by some miracle some club comes in for him between now and when we sign Sarri? 

I want to move one from last season's shambles ASAP and seeing Conte fired will go a long way in curing my 5th place finish PTSD lol

Apparently the club cannot sack him as they have not got his number and cant SMS him.

10 minutes ago, coco said:

Apparently the club cannot sack him as they have not got his number and cant SMS him.

Diego Costa has got his number