1 hour ago, Sconnie Blue said:

Has to go, along with the sporting directors who are sabotaging the football club.

Clearlake surely has to see sense here. All of this is in the control of the people they appointed to run the football club, and they are running it to the ground.

ClearLake investors aren't bothered about football. Todd said a few weeks ago that the club is now worth more than they paid for it. ' The trend is our friend" was the phrase he used.. That's a successful investment

1 hour ago, Sconnie Blue said:

Has to go, along with the sporting directors who are sabotaging the football club.

Clearlake surely has to see sense here. All of this is in the control of the people they appointed to run the football club, and they are running it to the ground.

The directors are bullet proof mate.

Just now, axman2526 said:

The directors are bullet proof mate.

If the directors are bullet proof we're never touching top 4 again.

On 27/03/2025 at 18:00, just said:

How to you think he compared to Brendan Rogers? Who is the better manager in your opinion?

Brendan was a better manager in my opinion. He was & still is an arrogant twat but he's a good coach.

For me Maresca was given a team at Leicester that good by Championship standards & should have won promotion anyway. The football got worse as the season progressed & this was down to Maresca's influence on the style of play. The other clubs worked out what he was doing & worked out how to beat his system.

1 hour ago, RMH said:

I wonder what eivisy is thinking right now. Yeah, “a rookie coach with a young team”. We’re playing a team that’s a rookie in the PL, that is dogsh*t but has scored twice from two attacks.

That's almost exactly what he said up there !😂

7 minutes ago, timetowaste said:

How many times over would Roman have sacked this fraud so far? At least 3 surely

He would never have hired him in the first place. He got a few appointments wrong, but he would never have gone for a coach that just won promotion from the Championship.

5 minutes ago, The Rising Sun said:

ClearLake investors aren't bothered about football. Todd said a few weeks ago that the club is now worth more than they paid for it. ' The trend is our friend" was the phrase he used.. That's a successful investment

Looks like I have someone who views this exactly the way I do 👍

1 minute ago, Scott Harris said:

He would never have hired him in the first place. He got a few appointments wrong, but he would never have gone for a coach that just won promotion from the Championship.

Not wrong there, this obsession with trying to find the next great tactician has got to stop. It was a terrible appointment that no fan wanted and he's proven us correct.

10 minutes ago, timetowaste said:

How many times over would Roman have sacked this fraud so far? At least 3 surely

Imagine Roman appointing a manager straight from just one season in the Championship! .

4 minutes ago, Drogba1 said:

If the directors are bullet proof we're never touching top 4 again.

Most likely aye. Sporting success is a bonus to the model making them money in the end, not a key part of it.

Maresca: We controlled the game, we were unlucky. They scored with their first chance and then again with their only other chance. Would have been so much better if my dream striker had of scored instead of hitting the post.

1 minute ago, axman2526 said:

Looks like I have someone who views this exactly the way I do 👍

To me, it should be obvious to everyone that American investors aren't going to take a gamble on making money that's solely dependent on such an unpredictable and difficult outcome as an EPL club being successful on the pitch.

Their first destructive season should have killed any notion that football success has any part in their strategy.

On 11/04/2025 at 17:40, Drogba1 said:

We do look a lot worse with Nkunku up front instead of Jackson though

Jackson's not world class but at least he runs and offers some physicality

Cucurella is the best target man we have. Better finisher and better in the air than Jackson.

Let's face it..What top manager who doesn't take sh*t from the owners would want to come to Chelsea?

Okay having now calm down and looking back with a bit more of a clearer head I will say we were a bit unlucky.

We had 34 shots and missed 4 big chances off the top of my head. Players should be doing better with those even if handicapped by the manager.

I still want Enzo sacked though and can’t tolerate this style of football as you can argue a better set up would have avoided the first goal we conceded and this whole start slow first half to attempt to finish them off in the second half is also his idea.

Just now, The Rising Sun said:

Let's face it..What top manager who doesn't take sh*t from the owners would want to come to Chelsea?

Pochettino quit, and he wasn't even top level himself. When do you ever see a coach quit after finishing 6th? He would rather quit than take the money from getting sacked, that's how rotten this project is. I'm amazed there is still anybody left deluding themselves into thinking we're on the right track.

Edited April 13, 20251 yr by Scott Harris

3 minutes ago, Remodez said:

Okay having now calm down and looking back with a bit more of a clearer head I will say we were a bit unlucky.

We had 34 shots and missed 4 big chances off the top of my head. Players should be doing better with those even if handicapped by the manager.

I still want Enzo sacked though and can’t tolerate this style of football as you can argue a better set up would have avoided the first goal we conceded and this whole start slow first half to attempt to finish them off in the second half is also his idea.

If anything, we were lucky to draw being trailing after a horrible first half 0-2 to one of the worst sides in the PL.

43 minutes ago, yaz said:

Now watch the c**t praise a great performance to come back from being 2 nil down to a relegated team that has nothing to play for.

I want him to be sacked, but I'm terrified of who the idiots who appointed him might replace him with.

Can't get any worse (or can it?)

Just now, RMH said:

If anything, we were lucky to draw being trailing after a horrible first half 0-2 to one of the worst sides in the PL.

Ipswich also had more chances to score themselves, so they would argue they could have had at least 4.

3 minutes ago, RMH said:

If anything, we were lucky to draw being trailing after a horrible first half 0-2 to one of the worst sides in the PL.

They probably could have scored 3 yeah, like I said he should still be sacked as this starting slow is inviting pressure.

If you want to talk chances overall though then we should still have won.

4 minutes ago, Remodez said:

They probably could have scored 3 yeah, like I said he should still be sacked as this starting slow is inviting pressure.

If you want to talk chances overall though then we should still have won.

Why - game after game - does he send us out to and instruct our cbs to pass it between themselves over and over again?

2 minutes ago, nonotnowjim said:

Why - game after game - does he send us out to and instruct our cbs to pass it between themselves over and over again?

Control is King

10 minutes ago, Remodez said:

They probably could have scored 3 yeah, like I said he should still be sacked as this starting slow is inviting pressure.

If you want to talk chances overall though then we should still have won.

I don’t think we deserved to win. But that’s all about opinions, the reality though it’s quite different, and whether we were unlucky or not, we couldn’t beat Ipswich in two legs.

Let's be honest, is anyone even surprised, let alone shocked at this result/performance? We've been crap since Christmas period.

I'm not even upset anymore. The team does not deserve to be in the Champions League. Can you imagine this group of no hopers facing the likes of Bayern, PSG or Real?

In three years they've managed to destroy all the legacy that was built in the previous twenty years. Maresca is an average manager in charge of imbalanced squad severely lacking in quality and the people in charge of assembling this squad are incompetent buffoons.

48 minutes ago, The Rising Sun said:

Imagine Roman appointing a manager straight from just one season in the Championship! .

Frank Lampard…..but I know what you mean.