Good riddance.

He had a great chance here. Came in with zero top flight experience, and was given the keys to the castle. An exciting young team, with some of the best up and coming players around. Owners with deep pockets willing to spend big, and a team that had been stagnant, and in need of an overhaul - but with no real aspirations to win the league in the short term...

and immense chance....

...and he shat the bed. Rather than play to the strengths of the players, let them cut loose and have a go, he instead has us playing ultra negative dross, the same that many managers before him had us playing. Rather than forming an identity of our own, he copied others. Rather than being brave and giving the future a chance, he stuck with more expensive options.

The SDs are what they are. the model is what it is. But Fraudesca had a chance to do something new and different - and he f**ked it up.

Any manager that says Jackson is their Dream Striker - is NOT Chelsea material.

Just now, DarkMata said:

Is he available? Not sure they’d work like you said. I’d still take Iraola despite his recent winless run. High intense attacking football. Sabotaged by selling off half the team. Contract expires end of the season too so not massively expensive.

All moot.

It will be Rosenior !

Regime puppet Rosenior will not have my support. I'll come out and say it before he's appointed.

1 minute ago, Sconnie Blue said:

Telegraph reporting that Francesco Farioli of Porto could be an option. 13m to buy out his contract.

Let it be known this bloke bottled the league with A**x with a 9 point lead.

Makes Rosenior looking appealing.

1 minute ago, OriginalS said:

Regime puppet Rosenior will not have my support. I'll come out and say it before he's appointed.

+1

Chelsea FC should not be anywhere near these young managers who haven’t won anything

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1 minute ago, Dubair said:

Makes Rosenior looking appealing.

and that makes Alan Pardew look appealing

THERE ARE SOME ON HERE WHO DONT BUY INTO THIS THE MANAGER NEEDS TO PLAY THIS PLAYER OR THIS PLAYER

WATCH THIS VIDEO THAT CAME OUT ABOUT AN HOUR AGO

DEAN SAUNDERS KNOWS MORE THEN ALL OF US ON HERE SO I WOULD BELIEVE HIM

What a start to the new year, no more boring, rotating soul destroying defending hopefully

How can anyone say they don't want Rosenior?

He's the bloke who has been ' developing " our young Chelsea loan players for Blueco isn't he ?? 😂😂

Shambles FC . f**king ownership will continue with their"process " . We're going nowhere with this lot , more teenagers arriving every season , Managers coming and going ..

Record amounts spent and nowhere near the elite club they bought

My worry with Maresca being sacked or leaving, was who the ownership would recruit. I have no trust in their decisions to hire anyone who has been successful or done well previously. It will be rinse and repeat. Say what you like about Maresca, but he won two trophies and made top four with this squad. Yes, it was certainly helped massively by having Cole Palmer and starting the season well last season, but still. Unfortunately, the results and performances have been very poor this season and this was inevitable without a massive turnaround in form, which didn't look likely to come.

31 minutes ago, Sheva said:

Second manager to walk under them.

Project is going well

This !

Be shocked if its not Rosenior at this point.

Glasner, De Zerbi, Fabregas, all not being considered.

Reports new manager will be in place very soon, would also lean towards Rosenior or a free agent.

Out of the frying pan and into the fire

2 minutes ago, Caps_Lock_King said:

THERE ARE SOME ON HERE WHO DONT BUY INTO THIS THE MANAGER NEEDS TO PLAY THIS PLAYER OR THIS PLAYER

WATCH THIS VIDEO THAT CAME OUT ABOUT AN HOUR AGO

DEAN SAUNDERS KNOWS MORE THEN ALL OF US ON HERE SO I WOULD BELIEVE HIM

Dont be so f**king ridiculous, quoting that poisonous little c**t as some kind of insider 😅

Some of you are losing your minds.

8 minutes ago, nonotnowjim said:

Good riddance.

He had a great chance here. Came in with zero top flight experience, and was given the keys to the castle. An exciting young team, with some of the best up and coming players around. Owners with deep pockets willing to spend big, and a team that had been stagnant, and in need of an overhaul - but with no real aspirations to win the league in the short term...

and immense chance....

...and he shat the bed. Rather than play to the strengths of the players, let them cut loose and have a go, he instead has us playing ultra negative dross, the same that many managers before him had us playing. Rather than forming an identity of our own, he copied others. Rather than being brave and giving the future a chance, he stuck with more expensive options.

The SDs are what they are. the model is what it is. But Fraudesca had a chance to do something new and different - and he f**ked it up.

Any manager that says Jackson is their Dream Striker - is NOT Chelsea material.

Any manager who is given Jackson, and then Delap as their main striker is doomed anyway.

2 minutes ago, Caps_Lock_King said:

THERE ARE SOME ON HERE WHO DONT BUY INTO THIS THE MANAGER NEEDS TO PLAY THIS PLAYER OR THIS PLAYER

WATCH THIS VIDEO THAT CAME OUT ABOUT AN HOUR AGO

DEAN SAUNDERS KNOWS MORE THEN ALL OF US ON HERE SO I WOULD BELIEVE HIM

The big flaw in Saunders argument though.......Maresca was completely on board with this himself and pushing the owners vision. He signed up to this.

Sorry, but I'm not having this whole pity party with Maresca now.

I read a tweet that Maresca personally spoke to Delap and convinced him to come to Chelsea, so to say he had zero input on signings seems odd. Also, he signed a five year contract a little while ago, so things must have gone terribly downhill for this to happen so quickly. I do wonder if this started when Colwill got injured and the club told him to use what he had, because as I said previously, our performances have been very poor ever since the start of the season against Palace.

You know what they'll do to win the fans over?

Spend 31 days trying to get Kabi Mainoo

Just now, Scott Harris said:

The big flaw in Saunders argument though.......Maresca was completely on board with this himself and pushing the owners vision. He signed up to this.

Sorry, but I'm not having this whole pity party with Maresca now.

The name Dean Saunders was enough to decide against watching that video, he was not a fly on the wall in the boardroom or any other Blue space.

4 minutes ago, The Rising Sun said:

How can anyone say they don't want Rosenior?

He's the bloke who has been ' developing " our young Chelsea loan players for Blueco isn't he ?? 😂😂

Shambles FC . f**king ownership will continue with their"process " . We're going nowhere with this lot , more teenagers arriving every season , Managers coming and going ..

Record amounts spent and nowhere near the elite club they bought

I can hear the board right now saying Rosenior already knows Santos and Emehga and currently working with Penders and the Ecuadorian lad. What’s not to love?

Fck u clown lake .. fck u winstanley and rest of this rotten lot..

13 minutes ago, Sconnie Blue said:

Telegraph reporting that Francesco Farioli of Porto could be an option. 13m to buy out his contract.

Let it be known this bloke bottled the league with A**x with a 9 point lead. 1 win in 15.

I honestly do not care who the manager is as long as they do not do silly things like playing Gusto as a attacking midfielder.

The bar is really low for me, I am not asking for an elite manager. I just want simple football with players in their right roles. This team would suit a counter attacking manager so that would also be a bonus too.

Let’s face it, most would be an upgrade. Some of Enzo’s tactical decisions and line ups were self sabotage stuff.

As bad as the ownership is (and it’s been a shambles since day 1) they were left with little choice. Was their own doing hiring him in the first place

22 minutes ago, JM7 said:

Excellent job at Strasbourg 🤣

7th in a mickey mouse league with a team full of 'Generational talent' hand me downs.

What wonderful news to wake up to in the New Year.