16 minutes ago, dkw said:

I'm bored saying this now but STOP BELIEVING BELLENDS ON TWITTER....

Exactly. It's such low quality content and most of the time they don't even say anything. "Chelsea haven't ruled out Mourinho", "understand new twist in de Zerbi talks with decision expected in next 72 hours" - this kind of bollocks. None of these c**ts have the inside track.

The owners being obsessed with Brighton can only mean that De Zerbi is our next manager for good or bad.

20 minutes ago, Gol15 said:

The owners being obsessed with Brighton can only mean that De Zerbi is our next manager for good or bad.

Bad. Just bad

1 hour ago, dkw said:

I'm bored saying this now but STOP BELIEVING BELLENDS ON TWITTER....

I heard Ted Lasso was also in the mix.....😂

2 hours ago, petre ispirescu said:

All of De Zerbi's previous clubs have played beautiful football and for him this is the natural step - to now sign for a truly big club and challenge for the major trophies. 

How come people have so short memory and only judge him for his 2nd season at Brighton. How about his 1st one?

What am I missing, though? His first season at Brighton was so good and he improved so many players. Finished 6th, only a few points behind Klopp and qualified for Europa League. All this while playing fantastic football.

2nd season Colwill came back to Chelsea, Caicedo and Mac Allister were sold, March, Enciso and Mitoma were out for most of the season and Ferguson and Estupinan were in and out of the squad because of injuries, too. That's 8 starters. And they put no effort in replacing the departed ones with quality ones. Brighton's marquee signing was a player from Championship and apart from that a bunch of 18 and 19 year olds.

What did you expect in his 2nd season with such a squad and mid week matches? For the first time in Brighton's recent history, their board went backwards and set the club for failure. Of course De Zerbi fell out with Bloom. This was a club new to mid week matches, running on a packed schedule and a squad that cannot be compared to the one in De Zerbi's first season.

I mean we were hanging around 10-12th places for the most part of the season with a way better group of players and no mid week matches. I personally think it is stupid to judge De Zerbi on his 2nd season at Brighton w/o looking at the bigger picture. 

Give him the same squad for his 2nd season, too, and he'd have challenged for top four 100%.

This quick notion you slipped in there worries me.

Not sure of De Zerbi but I don't care where he comes from whether it is Brighton or some other club. Fans put too much emphasis on the pissing contest with them. There is no contest and there is nothing to compare.

Brighton have led their club with intelligence and creativity. Let's give them praise for it. We should as we are harvesting that field. We have not been creative at one least bit. We have never done so (last 25 years at least). When you have the money you don't have to be. You only need to be creative cooking the books to comply with every restriction they are throwing at us.

De Zerbi clearly is on the rise and it would be the natural step to move to Chelsea. If it happens I am fine with it. De Zerbi however is not a long term solution I fear but not even sure the club is looking it like so. Less emphasis on the coach and more on the processes and system. 

I'd be happy if it's De Zerbi, although I have no idea why they were attempting to keep it a secret seeing as it's a pretty logical manager for us to be linked with.

If you look at our attack, I would say about 90% of our goals came from individual brilliance. Surely it would make more sense to get a manager in to shore up the defence as absolute priority.

That’s why I don’t want De Zerbi. He’s always had a leaky defence so I struggle to see how our defence would improve under him. If we try to outscore every team we’re not going to achieve much.

I can't really see it being anyone other than De Zerbi which, being blunt, excites me as much as reruns of Last of the Summer Wine.

I wasn't fussed about Poch leaving but see it as pointless if De Zerbi replaces him.

This is all very underwhelming. How is De Zerbi an upgrade on Pochettino? 

Brighton were literally the 16th best (5th worst side) in the second half of this season.

Someone's having a laugh.

1 minute ago, Jezz said:

This is all very underwhelming. How is De Zerbi an upgrade on Pochettino? 

Brighton were literally the 16th best (5th worst side) in the second half of this season.

Someone's having a laugh.

With the same fundamental flaws as we had under Poch.

We're being gaslit to believe the candidates apparently shortlisted for the job are better than Pochettino.

De Zerbi doesn't strike me as a yes man that will tolerate being pushed around by higher ups at the club.

On 24/05/2024 at 15:46, Nick05 said:

I'd first sell crap like Disasi, Badiashile, Mudryk, Sanchez, Cucurella and probably Sterling too.

Agreed, except I actually think that Cucurella has turned the corner and will prove to be an asset for the next coach.

Not feeling RDZ at all. Poch had his number all season.

Would also give him 2 years tops, strikes me as a manager who easily gets found out and doesn’t have a plan b. 

Edited May 26, 20242 yr by Sheva

Surprised we’re not linked with Xavi

2 hours ago, CFCCAN said:

I heard Ted Lasso was also in the mix.....😂

I’d prefer Led Tasso myself, less of a yes man.
 

I can't believe I am saying this after 53 years of supporting Chelsea, Home, Away, In Europe and through thick and a helluva lot of thin, BUT I really couldn't give a f**k anymore. The change of Owners to the current Clowns, the appointment of two Sporting directors who have a lot less footballing nouse than most of us on here and the absolute spunking of over £1 billion on some very very mediocre (poor even) players, has now made we seriously consider not spending more money following and supporting the Club. But, before I get dog's abuse for this, I will ALWAYS be a Chelsea fan, but may choose to go and watch Leatherhead in non-league football in preference to paying up to £200 for a day out at the Bridge to continue to witness the collapse of our once wonderful Club.

6 minutes ago, dan_cfc said:

Surprised we’re not linked with Xavi

WE bloody well should be, but these Clowns wouldn't know a good Head Coach, if he punched them both on the nose

Taking us for mugs about secret 4 choice when everyone knew it RDZ. He’s most likely already signed.

 

1.     Chelsea – the current Chelsea team is a great team to manage for any manager interested in attacking football.

2.     The current Chelsea team is the youngest team in top tier euro football

3.     We have some of the most gifted young players around – some of them might even be generational talent

4.     We have some players on loan that other clubs would love to have and we have a south American pipeline -  next summer bringing in two exceptional attacking talents

5.     We have a great academy

6.     Managing Chelsea is an awesome opportunity for any coach – I am sure Pep or any body else would rather be living in London than fooking Manchester or Liverpool etc

7.     Coaching Chelsea is a great job – Even under our current owners

8.     At this point in time – managing Chelsea could be the best job in European football – a lot of the groundwork has been done

AND we are told the candidates are two blokes from newly promoted championship sides and a chewing gum addict and some bloke he fell out with his boss while managing South London on Sea.
3 candidates and a mystery candidate

Thomas Frank? Why – plays counter attacking and direct football – and may be a great ‘motivator’ while being addicted to his chewing gum. . but why? He is not a good fit.

Ruben Amorim – sometimes he is one of the 3 candidates and sometimes it is Thomas Frank – depending on which rag you read.

Kieran McKenna and Enzo Maresca   -- then there are the two new kids on the block – who seem okay – but inexperienced . . .i would prefer McKenna but it seems like he would prefer Man United apparently -  either one would be a huge gamble. But why not gamble I guess.

the mystery candidate is De Zerbi? A mediocre possession based manager who .  .. why? Not really a mystery and not really very surprising. . .a manager who is a step down from Poch in all honesty – a step sideways at best - What is the point of this De Zerbi bloke? Is he worth paying Brighton 12 million quid for?  He’s not is he. His appointment has disaster written all over it. A disaster waiting to happen. 

 

1 hour ago, coombsie said:

I can't believe I am saying this after 53 years of supporting Chelsea, Home, Away, In Europe and through thick and a helluva lot of thin, BUT I really couldn't give a f**k anymore. The change of Owners to the current Clowns, the appointment of two Sporting directors who have a lot less footballing nouse than most of us on here and the absolute spunking of over £1 billion on some very very mediocre (poor even) players, has now made we seriously consider not spending more money following and supporting the Club. But, before I get dog's abuse for this, I will ALWAYS be a Chelsea fan, but may choose to go and watch Leatherhead in non-league football in preference to paying up to £200 for a day out at the Bridge to continue to witness the collapse of our once wonderful Club.

I’m an international fan, but I feel the same way. 
I’m not exactly sure why, but RDZ feels like the final nail in the coffin for me

1 hour ago, Jezz said:

This is all very underwhelming. How is De Zerbi an upgrade on Pochettino? 

Brighton were literally the 16th best (5th worst side) in the second half of this season.

Someone's having a laugh.

With that in mind I wonder how the Bayern fans are reacting to Kompany?

My vote is for Hearts ladies manage Eva Olid....

 

 

Lots of talk on twittter than De Zerbi is done. 

Breaking : Roberto DeZerbi is already in London finalizing details of backroom staff with #Chelsea . Announcement is immine