5 minutes ago, Baba said:

Of course It's his fault If we have players like Chalobah, Kepa.. And finished players like Azpi in our squad. 

 

Given these players have just brought him the best run of results in his entire top level managerial career I'm not sure how you can blame them?

He's won 8 of 19 games here, pretty poor but far better than his usual 5 wins every 19 games with Brighton that got him this job.

Not sure you can blame Chalobah who looked good under Tuchel for his lacks of wins there.

The man just isn't a very good manager, he's a Roy Hodgson at Liverpool regen.  Noithing about his career suggests he should have ever been on our shortlist let alone get hired by a top club. 

The squad isn't good enough to win trophies, it isn't bad enough to go down despite last seasons media darling making it look like it.

Edited January 12, 20233 yr by TimesUpPotter

He needs to go

He looks incredibly stressed on the sideline, hopefully decides to walk 

You have to laugh at this season, or you'll cry.

It's actually ridiculous just how much has gone wrong. Literally 12 first team players now I think out injured. Long term injury every 1-2 games. Finally look promising creating a bit better, then boom red card.

I'm pretty sure a QPR fan somewhere has taken up witchcraft and has cursed us.

Has to go , he’s miles out of his depth. Of course we will hear the usual excuses regarding injuries and individual mistakes from players but ultimately it’s down to him.

Think I'm just going to step away from watching football for a bit. I'll set my alarm for the Dortmund game. 

I'm not making excuses for him, I don't want him as manager, but the amount of injuries is just insane. We cannot get a settled team. Every week someone else is out for months.

hopefully he will have some pride and decided to resign instead of waiting for the sack

Great decision to automatically put Felix in the starting lineup.

Sad that it ultimately backfired super hard.

Can't say that he didn't try, he did, he got the player on loan to help his attack and that player got red-carded. This is sport, sometimes you're just not meant for great things.

 

3 minutes ago, Zeta said:

I'm not making excuses for him, I don't want him as manager, but the amount of injuries is just insane. We cannot get a settled team. Every week someone else is out for months.

Yeah whether you are Potter in or Potter out, the amount of injuries we have is beyond ordinary for any club.

Genuine question - Do you think Potter could challenge for 4th with City or Arsenals squad? I don't.

We have a poor squad but the manager is so awful he actively makes it worse, he doesn't win many games, he's never won many games he's always been at clubs were winning 1 game a month, having more shots on target in 1 or 2 other games got him massive praise but his teams simply don't score many goals or win many games regardless of the players at his disposal.

There's no signs either with us or in his previous career to suggest he can consistently win games or have us competitive at the top and I don't want to waste a penny backing him in the window.   

He has to go for the sake of our status as a big club.  We'll always be more worried about the teams behind us than challenging for anything under Potter because that's the kind of manager he is as was Moyes at United and Hodgson at Fulham.   Remember how we felt when they had those Turkeys in charge? Rival fans feel exactly like that about us now.  He's just nowhere near good enough to be near an elite club.

His results with us are still much better than his time as Brighton so why would people expect radical improvement from Potter?

Edited January 12, 20233 yr by TimesUpPotter

Just now, TimesUpPotter said:

Genuine question - Do you think Potter could challenge for 4th with City or Arsenals squad? I don't.

We have a poor squad but the manager is so awful he actively makes it worse, he doesn't win many games, he's never won many games he's always been at clubs were winning 1 game a month, having more shots on target in 1 or 2 other games got him massive praise but his teams simply don't score many goals or win many games regardless of the players at his disposal.

There's no signs either with us or in his previous career to suggest he can consistently win games or have us competitive at the top and I don't want to waste a penny backing him in the window.   

He has to go for the sake of our status as a big club.  We'll always be more worried about the teams behind us than challenging for anything under Potter because that's the kind of manager he is as was Moyes at United and Hodgson at Fulham.

IMO at this point it goes beyond Potter's ability, he just isn't made for great things. In sports some people make it happen and some don't, Potter simply fails no matter what he does or how he does it.

If there is a standard for greatness there is a standard for mediocrity and Potter is a standard for that, he's the opposite of Zidane.

1 minute ago, Frankie8Lampard said:

 

Yeah whether you are Potter in or Potter out, the amount of injuries we have is beyond ordinary for any club.

Does the training/physio methods contribute to that? Zakaria was a no contact injury I'm pretty sure, one of many at this point

Actually struggling to watch. Doesnt feel great for my mental health. 

The amount of injuries is unsustainable for any side.

Not sure where the next win is coming from, maybe when James gets back. 

The defence is absolutely horrific. I think James, Fofana, and Chilwell, at least puts us back to being a top 6 side. 

I'm not even Potter out anymore, not while there is so much going against us that's out of his control. 

This is the toughest period I think I've been through as a fan, I know I am privileged to say that. 7 defeats out 9 games. Wild.

Felix sent off overshadowed how poor we were as a team, if he hasn't played and we put a Ziyech or Gallagher in his place for 96 minutes, would have lost anyway. I just don't get how could everyone be so poor. Chaloabah was a reliable player everytime he was called upon, remember we had a long unbeaten streak in the league when he was playing. He played, looked like some kid stepped up to the big league and completely lost, should have been subbed at HT. Kovacic, must have left his boots with the Croatia team. I get you have unhappy or players in bad forms, but surely not happen to everyone.

I wonder what Potter said after this game, from ' I need more time' to ' this is the hardest job in the world', everything he said in past few weeks have bite him and the team hard

Can't see a win coming with him in charge.

 

I really wish Bohley has the balls to admit his mistake and sack him before he attend the post-match press conference

this guy doesnt deserve to stay 1 more second as a Chelsea manager, 8 defeats out of last 10 games? Even Wolves are playing better I suppose

1 minute ago, dennisbutnotwisey said:

Can't see a win coming with him in charge.

 

He had 3 double digit winless runs with Brighton including an 11 game run last season were their fans booed him off and called for him to go so this is the Potter standard.

It's what we hired.

I’m trying to stay patient and not judge him too much given the amount of injuries. It’s crazy and any club would struggle. 

But the players look miserable. They don’t seem to be playing for him. I can only suggest that we wait for the key players to return. 

Sometimes it just doesn’t work, for GPs sanity, please sack him Todd.

 

1 minute ago, JM7 said:

I’m trying to stay patient and not judge him too much given the amount of injuries. It’s crazy and any club would struggle. 

But the players look miserable. They don’t seem to be playing for him. I can only suggest that we wait for the key players to return. 

What if we wait until we’re in the relegation zone.

3 minutes ago, Drogba1 said:

 

Unfortunately this is looking likely to be true now. 

The owners need to spend big this month on a midfielder. We’ve lost Zakaria for god knows how long, and we can’t really rely on Jorginho, Kovacic and Kante.

Just drop 120m on Enzo. He’d revitalise the attack, especially Havertz.

I’m normally one for supporting the manager, but this is getting beyond ridiculous. We’re turning into a joke and these last 8 games have genuinely been relegation standard.

Why oh why did we have to sack Tuchel. I always thought we would never get someone better in. That has unfortunately been proven right. I never saw this happening however.