3 minutes ago, JM7 said:

Potter: “I’m sure there will be people out there that think I’m the problem. I don’t think they’re right but I’m not arrogant enough to say their opinion isn’t worth articulating”. 🔵 #CFC

“I’m here to help the team, keep working through a team period”.
 

What’s he trying to say here?

Only the wise one potter knows!!

4 minutes ago, WhiteWall said:

They have little option. Even the most bullish of entrepreneurs would struggle to swallow writing off £12m after 6 months, let alone what it could be if Boehly didn't have some damage limitation to the possible financial costs of an early sacking

I assume they have already decided that they are prepared to write off the money that would have come from Champions League qualification next season, in hopes of a better outcome long term. That will already have cost them a lot more than 12m

1 minute ago, abister1 said:

This is always my thought process. You can't keep calling a manager with over a decade in management a new or young manager. Lampard has been a manager for about half the duration and as sh*t as he was, his Chelsea did better. Arteta on his first gig, and several others younger than him in this profession also have a better record so if that's the criteria ie a young up and coming manager, he doesn't even meet it. 

Nothing in a decade long management has shown him to be anything other than a bottom half team manager.  I guess getting Brighton to 9th was him over performing. 

I'm not even saying Potter out because he will be put eventually, what I can't fathom is the thinking behind his appointment in the first place. 

It didn't make sense even then, please someone help me understand it. 

Boehly is a monumental f**k up, sh*t show of a performance. People say Roman didn't give interviews or was ruthless or overspent on duds, one thing he never ever did was give the wrong signal that it was okay to be just another team making up the numbers. 

Hence even oppo fans would say no matter how sh*t of a season Chelsea were having you knew their next title wss around the corner, be it a cup or something else. 

The media were hyping him up as a 'top young manager' when he's only two years younger than Tuchel 😂 he's the Jesse Lingard of football management

Unfortunately Scott football fans have changed over the years.

 

Your die hards are being priced out and the casuals/day trippers are in but that's no surprise.

 

At the same time I saw our fans trying to get the lads going but when the team is performing like they are it deflates everyone.

Me personally I wasn't convinced about Potter's appointment but I am now convinced he is not the guy and probably never will be.

I hoped he could show me something that justified his appointment but all I see is a person who is lost and that has transmitted to the players too.

 

Roman, for all his fault was actually pretty good at selecting managers. Rarely got it wrong. I think he could spot a winner.

1 minute ago, Argo said:

If you're doing it in seats you're paying them for they won't care.

The only language billionaire owners understand is cash, the only way fans could force a chance is if Stamford Bridge is half empty with a clear message it won't fill up again until they get the change they want.

Otherwise they'll be too busy counting the £70 you've just given them for a ticket and a further £5 for a half time hot dog.

Loud chants for Roman Abramovich + Tuchel banner would do the trick.

When the fans turn the owners are going to try to save their skin first and sack the manager they appointed and try to rectify their grave, grave mistake.

Fans have already turned on Potter for good reasons, there were chants for Roman and Tuchel away to Fulham and we have been even worse since. Now we only need the same at the Bridge and it will do the trick in my opinion.

 

 

Parking Potter for 5 minutes, the New Zealand guy hasn't had a very good first week either has he LOL

41 minutes ago, JM7 said:

This is a massive test of the owners belief in Potter and their strategy. Do they have the courage to stick with him and see it out? 
 

Personally I think they will. I don’t believe they will remove Potter before the summer. All they’ve talked about is long term. 
 

Either way, today was a turning point for the fans in the stadium. Atmosphere was apparently toxic, lots of anti Potter chants. The players clearly aren’t inspired or motivated by him. I won’t say hes lost the dressing room but we can all see when a team isn’t playing for a manager, it’s so obvious. Today was obvious. 

I haven’t heard any, but there were boos at the end of the first half and at the end of the game. The patience of fans at the bridge is running thin.

Just now, OriginalS said:

Loud chants for Roman Abramovich + Tuchel banner would do the trick.

When the fans turn the owners are going to try to save their skin first and sack the manager they appointed and try to rectify their grave, grave mistake.

Fans have already turned on Potter for good reasons, there were chants for Roman and Tuchel away to Fulham and we have been even worse since. Now we only need the same at the Bridge and it will do the trick in my opinion.

 

 

Do they? Arsenal fans protested, cried and demanded Wenger's sacking for years, it wasn't until The Emirates was half empty they finally got what they wanted.

Nothing done on the terraces will make a blind bit of difference.

On another note, Jorginho is having a great first week at Arsenal so far

Edited February 18, 20233 yr by Drogba1

The bigger immediate challenge for Potter is to stop the fans turning on him and that requires a big and quick upturn in results and performances

3 minutes ago, JM7 said:

Roman, for all his fault was actually pretty good at selecting managers. Rarely got it wrong. I think he could spot a winner.

He can't have been that good, he sacked them every 18 months. 

The players belief in the manager is crucial. They don’t look like they have any belief in him or his tactics. 

4 minutes ago, JM7 said:

The bigger immediate challenge for Potter is to stop the fans turning on him and that requires a big and quick upturn in results and performances

Think that ship just leaving port very difficult to get it to turn.

1 minute ago, JM7 said:

The players belief in the manager is crucial. They don’t look like they have any belief in him or his tactics. 

No argument is going to convince me James, Mount, Silva, Kovacic, Sterling and the others that have played for competent managers does not think Potter is a clueless fool. They are PR trained and know what to say in public but they for sure know he's a problem.

1 minute ago, El regreso said:

Think that ship just leaving port very difficult to get it to turn.

It would take a win at Spurs for a start and right now that looks unlikely

4 hours ago, bisright1 said:

This might be the game the fanbase completely give up...

Thought the boos at full time were surprisingly quite. The match going fans clearly are showing patience in majority. Good on them.

1 minute ago, axman2526 said:

Thought the boos at full time were surprisingly quite. The match going fans clearly are showing patience in majority. Good on them.

Boos was quieter at the final whistle than they were at half time.

Progress!

3 minutes ago, axman2526 said:

Thought the boos at full time were surprisingly quite. The match going fans clearly are showing patience in majority. Good on them.

If Sarri was in charge they probably would have invaded the pitch

2 minutes ago, axman2526 said:

Thought the boos at full time were surprisingly quite. The match going fans clearly are showing patience in majority. Good on them.

Yes. I felt like the commentators were almost willing on the boos to ring out loud at full time and were probably disappointed.

22 minutes ago, Argo said:

And that was shortly before the period Arteta went on a run of like 1 win in 10 scoring 5 goals 2 of them penalties.

Well until we reach that point, we can't compare. But as it stands right now, Potter is doing worse with the same amount of games at the club.

24 minutes ago, Argo said:

He was also playing football like Pulis' Stoke and not even playing the youth/players to build the future team around while singing Holding, Luiz etc to new deals even offering Mustafi the same. As sh*t as we are we still get the odd eye pleasing performance while playing players that will shape the future of the side.

No we don't. We haven't put in an eye pleasing performance since the win at Milan. I've seen 10-20 minute flurries, but nothing more. I hate our football, it's the most boring sh*t I have ever seen us play. I'm sick to death of seeing us walk the ball out of the penalty area, playing 6 or 7 passes before moving the ball into midfield, often getting us into trouble. I hate watching our wingers isolated out wide because we take an age to get the ball to them. I hate seeing our fall backs run forward only for our slow ball passing midfielders to get out muscled, lose the ball and force those fall backs to sprint back. I'm sick of us playing the ball backwards every time we can't see an opening. We try and walk the ball in, but we have a total of zero players who even have the passing ability to do that. It's like this in every single game, it never changes, it never improves and it's definitely not eye pleasing. We barely even manage a worthwhile shot in a game and we finish almost every game seeing our keeper forced to pull off more saves than any opposition keeper.

We have the players suited to a more direct approach, that is the kind of football I find entertaining and eye pleasing, not this sh*t version of Man City.

3 minutes ago, axman2526 said:

Thought the boos at full time were surprisingly quite. The match going fans clearly are showing patience in majority. Good on them.

12 minutes added time, might have impacted how many were actually there to boo! 

It's been pigeon steps forward for a few weeks, and then two massive jumps backwards today. 

Former players reacting to that shambolic post-match interview. Now imagine how our players are feeling. Never heard so many sh*t excuses in my life.

38 minutes ago, Sconnie Blue said:

Bloke gone and said it isn't my fault. 

Yeah i'm signing off 

Well is partly on him, but is also on the players. We were told what a game changing signing Enzo would be, still seeing very much a diamond in the rough there myself.

He played Mount, Felix and Madueke against the worst side in the league. What did they do? How much of a shift did they put in?

How about the attacking subs? Sterling misses 2 sitters and cannot trap a ball, mudryk makes blind runs in to defenders. Havertz actually looked our best attacker, thar says a lot.

Clear the players have turned on Potter to me and don't give a sh*t in most cases, though not players like James, Silva, Chilwell or either Fofana. Why? Because they are simply too good to let any manager, no matter how bad he may be, make them play this poorly.

The players before and during Grant and RDM showed this. We have some class players, yet they cannot score goals and play like that? Yeah all on Potter they have no professional pride.

8 minutes ago, OriginalS said:

Boos was quieter at the final whistle than they were at half time.

Progress!

Many had already left or fell asleep by the fulltime whistle