Im going on a rant here

The new owners fronted by Todd 'Bigmouth' Bully (Boehly) are responsible 100% for the pickle the club is in

They weren't the owner prospective buyer and in hindsight one has to seriously wonder how they came 1st , Maybe RA was of the opinion if I cant own Chelsea then I'll 'burn it down' indirectly, I doubt that bc RA loved the club unlike these Berkshire Hunts

In less than a season they have binned our club's winning culture  and rendered us a laughing stock 

- Sack an elite coach because he wouldn't drink their ridiculously silly 'koolaid' or join a Whatsup app group or for whatever stupid reason 

- Replace nearly all of the club's staff

- Hire a celebrity trainer to run medical dept

- Hire Graham Potter for 22mill quid

- Spend 600 mill over 2 windows which has turned out to be a disaster, out of all those players how many of them are suited to the squad longterm - at the moment only a few

- Out of that 600 mill not one experienced striker or goalkeeper purchased , which is what is still needed today - patently obvious from that 90

- A squad of over 30 players  unmanageable at any level in football

- Up until a fortnight ago told us all trust in their process a longterm plan

- Fire Potter and bin their longterm plan

- Hire SFL as an interim before UCL Qtr Final instead of appointing an available elite coach

- Gobbing off on Sky before the match and making a complete C of himself

- All of the stuff I've missed above

Dont expect this shyte show to end at the end of the season, the damage done wil impact the club for seasons to come.

Boehly & Co OUT !!!!!

 

9 minutes ago, General said:

Im going on a rant here

The new owners fronted by Todd 'Bigmouth' Bully (Boehly) are responsible 100% for the pickle the club is in

They weren't the owner prospective buyer and in hindsight one has to seriously wonder how they came 1st , Maybe RA was of the opinion if I cant own Chelsea then I'll 'burn it down' indirectly, I doubt that bc RA loved the club unlike these Berkshire Hunts

In less than a season they have binned our club's winning culture  and rendered us a laughing stock 

- Sack an elite coach because he wouldn't drink their ridiculously silly 'koolaid' or join a Whatsup app group or for whatever stupid reason 

- Replace nearly all of the club's staff

- Hire a celebrity trainer to run medical dept

- Hire Graham Potter for 22mill quid

- Spend 600 mill over 2 windows which has turned out to be a disaster, out of all those players how many of them are suited to the squad longterm - at the moment only a few

- Out of that 600 mill not one experienced striker or goalkeeper purchased , which is what is still needed today - patently obvious from that 90

- A squad of over 30 players  unmanageable at any level in football

- Up until a fortnight ago told us all trust in their process a longterm plan

- Fire Potter and bin their longterm plan

- Hire SFL as an interim before UCL Qtr Final instead of appointing an available elite coach

- Gobbing off on Sky before the match and making a complete C of himself

- All of the stuff I've missed above

Dont expect this shyte show to end at the end of the season, the damage done wil impact the club for seasons to come.

Boehly & Co OUT !!!!!

 

Good rant! 

37 minutes ago, General said:

Im going on a rant here

The new owners fronted by Todd 'Bigmouth' Bully (Boehly) are responsible 100% for the pickle the club is in

They weren't the owner prospective buyer and in hindsight one has to seriously wonder how they came 1st , Maybe RA was of the opinion if I cant own Chelsea then I'll 'burn it down' indirectly, I doubt that bc RA loved the club unlike these Berkshire Hunts

In less than a season they have binned our club's winning culture  and rendered us a laughing stock 

- Sack an elite coach because he wouldn't drink their ridiculously silly 'koolaid' or join a Whatsup app group or for whatever stupid reason 

- Replace nearly all of the club's staff

- Hire a celebrity trainer to run medical dept

- Hire Graham Potter for 22mill quid

- Spend 600 mill over 2 windows which has turned out to be a disaster, out of all those players how many of them are suited to the squad longterm - at the moment only a few

- Out of that 600 mill not one experienced striker or goalkeeper purchased , which is what is still needed today - patently obvious from that 90

- A squad of over 30 players  unmanageable at any level in football

- Up until a fortnight ago told us all trust in their process a longterm plan

- Fire Potter and bin their longterm plan

- Hire SFL as an interim before UCL Qtr Final instead of appointing an available elite coach

- Gobbing off on Sky before the match and making a complete C of himself

- All of the stuff I've missed above

Dont expect this shyte show to end at the end of the season, the damage done wil impact the club for seasons to come.

Boehly & Co OUT !!!!!

 

Cheer up General, am sure they will fix it all by sacking the Tea Lady next.

 

On 11/04/2023 at 04:54, enigma said:

The thing is, in hindsight our fans were raving about Boehly and Co spending money and bringing in the likes of Koulibaly, Sterling, Fofana, Felix, Enzo etc. Now it hasn't worked perfectly, people are saying we bought too many players, not good enough, overhyped etc.

I remember people praising Boehly to the hilt after signing Enzo and Felix, talking about how we are going to cook with those players and saying amazing things. Fan's opinions change like the wind, now Boehly is a fool etc. Make ya minds up. 

Also, I remember the criticism about going after Ronaldo, which is rumoured to be one of the reasons he clashed with Tuchel, but in hindsight maybe he wouldn't have been the worse signing considering he couldn't do worse than what we have this season.

Not that I'd have been that keen on a signing of Ronaldo, but looking at us this season even if he scored 10+ goals it would be better than anything we have up top. Tuchel got his man in Lukaku and yet fumbled that for whatever reason, which is bloody annoying as we had a striker that we had paid a lot of money for. 

I won't lie I was one of the people against the Ronaldo signing but considering how poor we are at finishing in hindsight it might have made our season. A 10 extra goals from Ronaldo to this team means we are around 6th and in grasp for the top 4.

Edited April 13, 20233 yr by Frankie8Lampard

In his last 7 or so years of owning the club Ken Bates drove us forward in bringing in top players like Zola, Ruudy, Hughes, Lebouf etc, big players, big personalities with a determination to win that came from Ken downwards. Domestic cups, Cup winners cup and super cup followed. We were often in European competition.

We were winners before Roman bought us, but he took it to a whole new level. Roman wanted the best, in came Jose, Kenyon and top players soon followed in Drogba, Essien, Makalele, Robben etc etc. 

Not just domestic cups and secondary European trophies, but league titles, Champions League, the double, we were one of the elite.

We WERE one of the elite. Todd and co have really dragged us down,  now we are a laughing stock. I don't believe in them to turn it around.

2 hours ago, Frankie8Lampard said:

I won't lie I was one of the people against the Ronaldo signing but considering how poor we are at finishing in hindsight it might have made our season. A 10 extra goals from Ronaldo to this team means we are around 6th and in grasp for the top 4.

You can't be serious. Ronaldo brought united down from 2nd to 6th and signing Ronaldo means you are not a serious club

 

7 hours ago, General said:

Im going on a rant here

The new owners fronted by Todd 'Bigmouth' Bully (Boehly) are responsible 100% for the pickle the club is in

They weren't the owner prospective buyer and in hindsight one has to seriously wonder how they came 1st , Maybe RA was of the opinion if I cant own Chelsea then I'll 'burn it down' indirectly, I doubt that bc RA loved the club unlike these Berkshire Hunts

In less than a season they have binned our club's winning culture  and rendered us a laughing stock 

- Sack an elite coach because he wouldn't drink their ridiculously silly 'koolaid' or join a Whatsup app group or for whatever stupid reason 

- Replace nearly all of the club's staff

- Hire a celebrity trainer to run medical dept

- Hire Graham Potter for 22mill quid

- Spend 600 mill over 2 windows which has turned out to be a disaster, out of all those players how many of them are suited to the squad longterm - at the moment only a few

- Out of that 600 mill not one experienced striker or goalkeeper purchased , which is what is still needed today - patently obvious from that 90

- A squad of over 30 players  unmanageable at any level in football

- Up until a fortnight ago told us all trust in their process a longterm plan

- Fire Potter and bin their longterm plan

- Hire SFL as an interim before UCL Qtr Final instead of appointing an available elite coach

- Gobbing off on Sky before the match and making a complete C of himself

- All of the stuff I've missed above

Dont expect this shyte show to end at the end of the season, the damage done wil impact the club for seasons to come.

Boehly & Co OUT !!!!!

 

You forgot the hiring of the New Zealand "mentality" guy, who presumably has now done irreparable damage to his career LOL

It's all hypothetical, but Ronaldo of 2022 was not the same guy even a season before. He may score a few tap in, but doubt he will have the sort of impact people anticipating. The extra baggage he carries, like Tuchel or Potter didn't have enough to deal with in the dressing room already. Boehly saw himself as a disruptor to the game without truly understood the game. He may just get a license now and manage the team himself, just to prove us wrong.

This is what happens when politics takes priority over common sense. And they have the audacity to blame the previous regime for not running the club properly.

Arrogant deluded incompetent w**kers.

I might be naive, but I still think Boehly/Clearlake have time to turn things around by nailing the next coaching appointment. This season is now a write off.

If they mess it up again, then we're in serious trouble.

I'm still holding onto the idea that appointing a competent coach will go a long way to helping the situation improve for the better.

Listen to this from back in September.
He's on tape admitting their vision for the club was to find a manager that would collaborate with them, that's what was important to them. It was not about winning, it was not about competing- they were looking for someone who would pander to their ego's, respond on Whattsapp and be a yes man. They put their own ego's above the club.

Is it any wonder it's gone to sh*t? Absolutely not.
Potter is already out, from now until the end of the season I would have loved to see major backlash against the owners at every home game and ideally get them to piss off somehow.

59 minutes ago, Bob stark said:

You can't be serious. Ronaldo brought united down from 2nd to 6th and signing Ronaldo means you are not a serious club

 

Conveniently forgetting he was their only player scoring goals in the previous season.

I think people are overreacting really. We're in a god awful period playing wise but there's nothing that's irreparable. Not too long ago we finished 10th and that was WITH players like Hazard, Fabregas, Willian, prime Azpi, Costa etc.

We've also looked this bad against an elite European team recently, I remember a few years back when Lampard was here the first time and Bayern made us look like a league 1 team and knocked us out in the last 16.l losing 7-1 on aggregate.

I know in rough periods it can be easy to clamour for the past but let's not forget we had some very dicey seasons under Roman's ownership.

My main criticism of Boehly and co was the appointment of Potter but even then I thought it would work out well. But the upside is they realised that they were out of their depth making football decisions and have since hired a whole backroom staff of experienced people. We also wasted money on a few players last summer but those were players that Tuchel had picked. 

It also doesn't help that the media is attempting to make Boehly out to be some clueless yank that's turning to celebrities for advice when the story is obviously not true.

I just think people need to be a bit more patient, it's a grim to watch us play right now but after a clear out of players in the summer, a couple of more additions in key areas and an appointment of an actual elite coach I think our 'project' will begin to bare fruit.

5 minutes ago, Jezz said:

I might be naive, but I still think Boehly/Clearlake have time to turn things around by nailing the next coaching appointment. This season is now a write off.

If they mess it up again, then we're in serious trouble.

I'm still holding onto the idea that appointing a competent coach will go a long way to helping the situation improve for the better.

He appointed a coach who had taken the team with the second least wages in the team to 9th place while on a positive transfer net, and who has a fantastic record of developing young players at several clubs. That is competence.

Before that, he had Tuchel who is also highly competent.

The thing is that every manager is going to appear incompetent as long as they're not given at least a year to work with this team.

Todd Boehly talks about a "long term project" but it doesn't exist. Tuchel was allowed to have a sh*t month, GP around six sh*t months, Lampard will have two sh*t months. Next coach? Well, either he makes this overcroweded team, filled with people mainly playing forthemselves and where a third of the players barely speak English, successful immediately, or he'll be gone. And since no one can have success in that situation, what will happen is obvious.

No one is given time. The fancy new recruitment team that was assembled over a few months apparently didn't have a say in the Lampard appointment. Instead some useless journalist game with the suggestion. Any manager taking over will need a year or more to really shape this team. Any person working with recruitment will need a couple of years to build a solid team. But they're not getting that. They're told to work for the future while expected to get results immediately. Its not going to work... which is hilarious but maybe not for you Chelsea fans.

21 minutes ago, WhiteWall said:

Conveniently forgetting he was their only player scoring goals in the previous season.

Nope, I think he is still one of the best finisher and aerially he is amazing but Ronaldo best role in serious club is coming off the bench if you need goal similar to michy. 

Forget defensively, offensively it is extremely difficult to utilize him. He doesn't want to stay in the box, he doesn't want to do any of st dirty work, he is not good enough as a 10, he doesn’t have the speed anymore to play as a wing, he also doesn't have the agility to get any type of shot that he want, so you have to setup the chances for him

Essentially you need your whole team to play in very specific system to serve ronaldo. That is fine if he scores 50 goals a season but he can't do that anymore. 

 

 

 

Edited April 13, 20233 yr by Bob stark

1 hour ago, Bob stark said:

You can't be serious. Ronaldo brought united down from 2nd to 6th and signing Ronaldo means you are not a serious club

 

Huh? He scored 18 league goals last season . Our front three combined don't have those numbers. 

Keeping keep blaming Boehly and co for a striker, but we have one already on loan ffs. One that was made the highest priced signings for us before Enzo. That was great business to buy a striker for almost £100m and send him on loan. 

Edited April 13, 20233 yr by enigma

16 minutes ago, enigma said:

Huh? He scored 18 league goals last season . Our front three combined don't have those numbers. 

Gary Neville recently was being asked would you rather have weghorst or Ronaldo and he can't answer 

We are talking about  freaking weghorst. 

 

44 minutes ago, WhiteWall said:

Conveniently forgetting he was their only player scoring goals in the previous season.

23 minutes ago, enigma said:

Huh? He scored 18 league goals last season . Our front three combined don't have those numbers. 

That he was the top scorer doesn't help much when the moment he came in, everyone else stopped scoring goals because the egomaniac w**ker that is Ronaldo either needs to score the goal himself or he just won't be interested in helping his team. So yeah you get a bunch of goals from him and a larger bunch of goals disappear from other players.

15 minutes ago, SwedishEntity said:

That he was the top scorer doesn't help much when the moment he came in, everyone else stopped scoring goals because the egomaniac w**ker that is Ronaldo either needs to score the goal himself or he just won't be interested in helping his team. So yeah you get a bunch of goals from him and a larger bunch of goals disappear from other players.

You can ignore my explanation. This is just much better. 

 

Edited April 13, 20233 yr by Bob stark

I guess you don’t know what you have until it’s gone. I use to see so much moaning about our old board on here but as bad as they were they are miles better than these arrogant fools.

Coming in and thinking you know about football and completely f**king up the club for at least 2 years. 
They have set us back so far.

What I would do for some Marina procrastination until the last few days of the transfer window, it was frustrating as hell but compare to the current clowns 🤡 in charge it’s night and day.

The narrative is pointing fingers at the lack of striker this season, and the poor return from the forwards, but the reality is that we are down on goals EVERYWHERE.

We lost 3-1 to Madrid at Stamford Bridge in the CL QF 1st Leg last season. That consolation goal was our 99th of the season ... this year we are at 41.

We were scoring an average of 1.94 goals per game in 21/22 - this year it is 1.00.

The forwards are down 52% on their collective goals, the midfielders 55%, and the defenders 69%.

When the whole team/squad is failing, that usually points to the system, the tactics and the manager. 

 

1 minute ago, Sexyfootball said:

The narrative is pointing fingers at the lack of striker this season, and the poor return from the forwards, but the reality is that we are down on goals EVERYWHERE.

We lost 3-1 to Madrid at Stamford Bridge in the CL QF 1st Leg last season. That consolation goal was our 99th of the season ... this year we are at 41.

We were scoring an average of 1.94 goals per game in 21/22 - this year it is 1.00.

The forwards are down 52% on their collective goals, the midfielders 55%, and the defenders 69%.

When the whole team/squad is failing, that usually points to the system, the tactics and the manager. 

 

......and the players. 

Last summer looks like a massive disaster. Sterling, Cucurella, Aubameyang, Koulibaly all need to be on their way way in the summer. I was wrong on Koulibaly, I thought he would be able to have a similar impact as Silva but with more years left in the tank.

In hindsight we shouldve just kept Colwill and maatsen. 

I was pretty confident in the future last week, lots of good young players on our books, but I am worried about the size of the task we now have to move on players. 

Kepa

Mendy

Koulibaly

Cucurella

Azpi

Kovacic

Gallagher

Mount 

Loftus Cheek

Ziyech

CHO

Pulisic 

Aubameyang 

Lukaku

Havertz

They could/should all be sold. That's 15 players, even if we keep 5, selling 10 players is going to near impossible.

The whole 'project' seems like too much, too soon. We shouldve made these squad and backroom changes over 3 seasons. 

2.5 Billion acquisition cost. 600 million on unproven players locked into long contracts. Potentially another 1 Billion plus on new stadium which looks increasingly unviable financially

The purchase/ high spend rationale being TV rights were undervalued and there were other untapped markets, however I can’t for the life of me see how they will make a return on their investment other than by selling on an oil rich gulf state, who are not in football to earn money but as a PR exercise