2 minutes ago, Gol15 said:

It’s true and deep down you know it! Atletico and Madrid were an absolute shambles, plus we played them in empty stadiums. Man City did their usual thing where they boil over in the biggest of games. We were nowhere near the standard required to win that UCL last year and we capitalised on an extremely weird football season, poorly motivated teams and a new manager bounce. FFS we barely scraped 4th yet our embarrassment of a fan base keep churning champions of Europe out every match like a broken f**king record! We’re a shambles. 

2 minutes ago, Gol15 said:

Our team in the FA Cup final will look very different from today so calm down.

Ok...what about last weekend? And the week before that? And the games before that?

Don't be silly. Just because we may look different next week doesn't mean we won't get smashed.

Edited May 7, 20224 yr by Mana

11 minutes ago, JPH said:

I thought one could not be more pissed off than after Manu and Everton games. I was wrong. 

I don't even have enough energy left anymore to be get mad 

Just now, thebluekid said:

It’s true and deep down you know it! Atletico and Madrid were an absolute shambles, plus we played them in empty stadiums. Man City did their usual thing where they boil over in the biggest of games. We were nowhere near the standard required to win that UCL last year and we capitalised on an extremely weird football season, poorly motivated teams and a new manager bounce. FFS we barely scraped 4th yet our embarrassment of a fan base keep churning champions of Europe out every match like a broken f**king record! We’re a shambles. 

Can't help to imagine how you're in that mini cart YELLING ALL THE TIME AND ENJOYING IT!

1 minute ago, Mana said:

Ok...what about last weekend? And the week before that? And the games before that?

Don't be silly. Just because we may look different next week doesn't mean we won't get smashed.

A proper rest and preparation means a lot for Kante and Mount. I told you Mount will outperform Henderson, prepare your phone to call home to moma 

Just now, thebluekid said:

It’s true and deep down you know it! Atletico and Madrid were an absolute shambles, plus we played them in empty stadiums. Man City did their usual thing where they boil over in the biggest of games. We were nowhere near the standard required to win that UCL last year and we capitalised on an extremely weird football season, poorly motivated teams and a new manager bounce. FFS we barely scraped 4th yet our embarrassment of a fan base keep churning champions of Europe out every match like a broken f**king record! We’re a shambles. 

Lay off the booze, it's getting ridiculous. 

Last season CL win is earned. Atletico were La Liga champions and City was PL Champions. How can you say it wasn't earned when we actually beat the best the CL had to offer? 

You can only beat what's in front of you

4 minutes ago, Gol15 said:

Our team in the FA Cup final will look very different from today so calm down.

Bless you for trying to make me feel better 

Just now, Gol15 said:

A proper rest and preparation means a lot for Kante and Mount. I told you Mount will outperform Henderson, prepare your phone to call home to moma 

Hahaha. Even if he does, Mount outperforming Hendo doesn't mean Chelsea is going to completely silence Liverpool and we batter them.

Kante and Mount resting means jack, if they are playing against Leeds mid-week anyway.

Missed the game, as it has been clear for a while these lot have totally checked out, when I saw the score at 2-0 I predicted the draw, don’t even get excited anymore about this lot. Horrible, depressing and embarrassing. 

Sorry guys I’m just in football induced foul mood.

55 minutes ago, Mana said:

You need to have a word with yourself. Having a pop at me a few days ago about me in near desperate mode to get rid of these players.

Now you're telling someone off not have a go at TT?

Who should we fecking blame then? This is fecking unacceptable on ALL levels. And Wolves should have smashed us for 6.

Yeah, we need a clear out, no doubt about it. But we need to back Tuchel as there is no-one better to get us challenging again.

49 minutes ago, Nibs said:

The trend of sacking coaches ad infinitum has to stop sometime.

It has been a long hard season. We have played more games than anyone and what with COVID, injuries and the Abramovic / ownership uncertainty, we are running on empty. But a week is a long time in football, never mind a few months. As long as he is backed, TT will have us fighting on all fronts next season with a fit and fresher squad.

 

36 minutes ago, Nick05 said:

But who we're going to sign or which quality player will choose us. Average players cost 30-40 million these days and really good ones easily 70+ million. But we're different because we pay 50+ million for sh*t players (Jorginho, Werner, Kepa, Havertz, Lukaku).

Also, City and pool are now the preferred destinations in the league because of the stable structure and the pull of klopp and pep. I dont see us competing with these 2 clubs unless we grossly overpay and offer crazy salary. 

We keep bringing in these overpriced players that don't fit the style of how we want to play and some of them won't fit any style because they are sh*t.

We have made some absolute dogsh*t signings in recent years. Bakayoko, Zappacosta, Drinkwater, Morata, Werner, Lukaku, Kepa. All of these can be on the list of our worst signings in 20 years, and they were all signed for massive record breaking numbers. Then you have players like Pulisic, Havertz, Jorginho, more players bought in for massive amounts of money but can only perform well in patches. 

What makes this worse is that I, a couch potato football fan, was saying that pretty much all of these players were not good enough and we should stay well away before we even signed them. How can a person like myself who has no experience in football see this but the professionals can't?

I remember a few people saying Bakayoko was good and I had to question if they ever watched him because he was complete w**k every time I saw him play, and what was he like when we signed him? dreadful, possibly the worst player I have ever seen in a Chelsea shirt. Morata and Lukaku, two players I didn't want us to go anywhere near years ago. We ended up with Morata who is one of the biggest chokers of all time, and astonishingly signed the other useless lump a few seasons later. It wasn't good enough that we signed one failure, we had to go and bring the other one in too. 

Kepa, none of us knew much about him, but we signed him for an insane amount of money because we got desperate after Courtois wanted to leave. We would have been better off losing Courtois on a free a season later than throwing so much money away for Kepa. 

Drinkwater, never wanted him, always said it was a waste of money. I still to this day can't find a single reason why we bought him here. Zappacosta, a deseperate move because Conte needed another wing back, nobody rated him all that highly.

Pulisic, I thought I had been proven wrong by him by the end of his first season, but the past 2 seasons have only proven that I was right to be worried about him as well. 

Jorginho. I wasn't sure what to make of him at the time, I knew he was a signing bought in to completely change how we play, but I'm not sure it's worked out in the long run. We keep possession better than ever, but I don't think it's made us a better team. If anything, I think we are a weaker side overall since we changed our identity.

Havertz, generational talent? I never bought into that. He's a player with some real high quality moments, but he's just looking like another player that doesn't fit and is struggling to adapt to the Premier League.

The only one I got wrong was Werner, I really believed that he was going to be great for us, but he's been awful. He just doesn't fit at all. Not in our squad or the Premier League.

How can our player recruitment be this bad? I don't think I have seen anything like it. The only ones we seem to get right are the ones where we don't spend obscene amounts of money. 

Edited May 7, 20224 yr by Scott Harris

9 minutes ago, Mana said:

Hahaha. Even if he does, Mount outperforming Hendo doesn't mean Chelsea is going to completely silence Liverpool and we batter them.

Kante and Mount resting means jack, if they are playing against Leeds mid-week anyway.

No need to batter them, a simple 1:0 win is enough.

4 minutes ago, Mana said:

Hahaha. Even if he does, Mount outperforming Hendo doesn't mean Chelsea is going to completely silence Liverpool and we batter them.

Kante and Mount resting means jack, if they are playing against Leeds mid-week anyway.

First time in my entire life I’ve seen someone describing themselves as a Chelsea fan refer to Henderson as “Hendo”.

Still there’s a first time for everything, right? But in your case I doubt very much whether this is anything like the first time. All that stuff about wanting Chelsea to lose the FA Cup Final?
 

Come on, do us all a favour and come out of your closet. The red one. You know you’ll feel better for it.

 

27 minutes ago, Mana said:

We still have pulling power. What we have over Liverpool is that the player on the market would walk straight to our first team, while with Liverpool you'll be on the bench.

Also sell most of these players instead of extending them. Or loan them out if we can't get rid. We need a clearout, I'm sorry.

We have to try and get out of that rot of not reaching 75+ points in a season. Because next season, it could get VERY ugly if we keep the dross.

Agree that we need a clearout and its crazy to say that because most of our players are still young. 

But the first problem is that we have players leaving us for FREE. Rudiger could've easily commanded a fee of 50+ mill, Christensen 40+ mill and Azpi 25+ mill if we were actually selling them. But all of them will leave for free and we sold Tomori for peanuts. It's itself a task to find 1 quality CB per window and we're looking for atleast 2. 2 quality CB's will cost a fortune in transfer fees and wages and I haven't even begun talking about the forwards. Goes to show the size of the task that lies ahead. 

Secondly, none of our forwards have enhanced their reputations playing for us which then translates into market value. Havertz, Werner, Pulisic and Lukaku were stars in the making when they signed for us and hence we paid a lot for them. But given their performances this season, most clubs will categorise them as players with potential and not worth the money we paid for them.

The transfer market is crazy now and I dont see new owners chucking 400 mill on 5-6 new players. If there is a clearout then we'll be back to what Lampard started out with and that was not much.

Edited May 7, 20224 yr by Nick05

7 minutes ago, Upsetter said:

First time in my entire life I’ve seen someone describing themselves as a Chelsea fan refer to Henderson as “Hendo”.

I was tired of typing that long surname of his (and misspelling it once in a while). How else should I refer him to? Jordan? 

7 minutes ago, Upsetter said:

Still there’s a first time for everything, right? But in your case I doubt very much whether this is anything like the first time. All that stuff about wanting Chelsea to lose the FA Cup Final?

First time? We have beaten Pool in a FA Cup final before with a superior squad, so this ain't no "first time" smartarse.

7 minutes ago, Upsetter said:

Come on, do us all a favour and come out of your closet. The red one. You know you’ll feel better for it.

I'm out of my closet, and it's blue. 🙂 If we met City or Arsenal in the final, I wouldn't fancy us either. It's not about fecking Liverpool.

Edited May 7, 20224 yr by Mana

Another spineless performance after some exciting minutes at the beginning of the second half. Why on earth do I keep coming when I know that this lot is going to ruin my weekend?

58 minutes ago, Phillip said:

And Pulisic was poor yet again.

He's not a great player. When Will people get it in their heads. Captain America is not real! He's average at best, he was average at Dortmund in a very tame league & we somehow thought he would be a world class pleayer when we signed him!

10 minutes ago, Mana said:

I was tired of typing that long surname of his (and misspelling it once in a while). How else should I refer him to? Jordan? 

First time? We have beaten Pool in a FA Cup final before with a superior squad, so this ain't no "first time" smartarse.

I'm out of my closet, and it's blue. 🙂 If we met City or Arsenal in the final, I wouldn't fancy us either. It's not about fecking Liverpool.

Ok, so maybe you’re just a little hard of thinking. The “first time” I referred to was you referring that Liverpool c**t as “Hendo”. How else should you refer to him? It’s up to you, but I don’t see anyone else referring to the f**ker as “Hendo”. Neither do I see anyone else wishing that we lose the FA Cup Final. Only you.

And with that, I’m out of it. You’re really not worth any more of my time.

Edited May 7, 20224 yr by Upsetter

I’ve missed the game, last time I checked it was 2-1, I knew Wolves would equalise.

The only question I have is, with Lukaku scoring 2 how did he play?

Just now, dansubrosa said:

I’ve missed the game, last time I checked it was 2-1, I knew Wolves would equalise.

The only question I have is, with Lukaku scoring 2 how did he play?

Like I said earlier in the thread, he played good for about 5 minutes.

Just now, Scott Harris said:

Like I said earlier in the thread, he played good for about 5 minutes.

Not surprised. I hoped today would be his turning point but that was a little too optimistic

16 minutes ago, Scott Harris said:

We keep bringing in these overpriced players that don't fit the style of how we want to play and some of them won't fit any style because they are sh*t.

We have made some absolute dogsh*t signings in recent years. Bakayoko, Zappacosta, Drinkwater, Morata, Werner, Lukaku, Kepa. All of these can be on the list of our worst signings in 20 years, and they were all signed for massive record breaking numbers. Then you have players like Pulisic, Havertz, Jorginho, more players bought in for massive amounts of money but can only perform well in patches. 

What makes this worse is that I, a couch potato football fan, was saying that pretty much all of these players were not good enough and we should stay well away before we even signed them. How can a person like myself who has no experience in football see this but the professionals can't?

I remember a few people saying Bakayoko was good and I had to question if they ever watched him because he was complete w**k every time I saw him play, and what was he like when we signed him? dreadful, possibly the worst player I have ever seen in a Chelsea shirt. Morata and Lukaku, two players I didn't want us to go anywhere near years ago. We ended up with Morata who is one of the biggest chokers of all time, and astonishingly signed the other useless lump a few seasons later. It wasn't good enough that we signed one failure, we had to go and bring the other one in too. 

Kepa, none of us knew much about him, but we signed him for an insane amount of money because we got desperate after Courtois wanted to leave. We would have been better off losing Courtois on a free a season later than throwing so much money away for Kepa. 

Drinkwater, never wanted him, always said it was a waste of money. I still to this day can't find a single reason why we bought him here. Zappacosta, a deseperate move because Conte needed another wing back, nobody rated him all that highly.

Pulisic, I thought I had been proven wrong by him by the end of his first season, but the past 2 seasons have only proven that I was right to be worried about him as well. 

Jorginho. I wasn't sure what to make of him at the time, I knew he was a signing bought in to completely change how we play, but I'm not sure it's worked out in the long run. We keep possession better than ever, but I don't think it's made us a better team. If anything, I think we are a weaker side overall since we changed our identity.

Havertz, generational talent? I never bought into that. He's a player with some real high quality moments, but he's just looking like another player that doesn't fit and is struggling to adapt to the Premier League.

The only one I got wrong was Werner, I really believed that he was going to be great for us, but he's been awful. He just doesn't fit at all. Not in our squad or the Premier League.

How can our player recruitment be this bad? I don't think I have seen anything like it. The only ones we seem to get right are the ones where we don't spend obscene amounts of money. 

Whilst coaches have lost their jobs, Emanelo never replaced, the head of Scouting Scott Machlacan has kept his job. We maybe should be looking at overhauling the scouting department.

4 minutes ago, Upsetter said:

Ok, so maybe you’re just a little hard of thinking. The “first time” I refereed to was you referring that Liverpool c**t as “Hendo”. How else should you refer to him? It’s up to you, but I don’t see anyone else referring to the f**ker ad “Hendo”. Neither do I see anyone else wishing that we lose the FA Cup Final. Only you.

And with that, I’m out of it. You’re really not worth any more of my time.

Over 50% of his posts on here are about how amazing the dippers are and h9low they're going to batter us. Then there are some about how he wont care if we l9se the final to them.

Hes either a daft dipper or just plain daft.

20 minutes ago, Scott Harris said:

How can our player recruitment be this bad? I don't think I have seen anything like it. The only ones we seem to get right are the ones where we don't spend obscene amounts of money. 

Every time I suggest removing the director who is responsible for all this, I get shot down in flames on here LOL.

"But she just got Director of the Year" etc etc.