Many times I have wanted to post things relating to Chelsea that isn't about a specific player, coach, owner etc, and we have never had a topic for it (or I never really noticed it) so I thought I would make one.

12 hours ago, Scott Harris said:

"Everyone" 😁

Colwill's been gone for so long that he decided to grow out his beard.

Such a beautiful photo.... not a donkey in sight.

1 hour ago, nonotnowjim said:

Such a beautiful photo.... not a donkey in sight.

I see plenty

1 hour ago, nonotnowjim said:

Such a beautiful photo.... not a donkey in sight.

Not a good manager or goalie in sight either.

28 players in the photo. How many would everyone pick as a starter. I don’t think the squad is strong enough for top four or chmp Lge run.

4 hours ago, Richard P said:

28 players in the photo. How many would everyone pick as a starter. I don’t think the squad is strong enough for top four or chmp Lge run.

If all fit.

Sanchez

James Chalobah Colwill Cucurella

Santos Caicedo Lavia

Palmer Pedro Neto (Joao Pedro Striker, Pedro Neto on the left, just in case anybody is confused by the names)

Alternatively

Sanchez

James Chalobah Colwill Cucurella

Santos Caicedo

Palmer Pedro Neto

Delap

This is easily enough to qualify for Champions League with the right manager and if everybody is fit.

13 hours ago, Scott Harris said:

If all fit.

Sanchez

James Chalobah Colwill Cucurella

Santos Caicedo Lavia

Palmer Pedro Neto (Joao Pedro Striker, Pedro Neto on the left, just in case anybody is confused by the names)

Alternatively

Sanchez

James Chalobah Colwill Cucurella

Santos Caicedo

Palmer Pedro Neto

Delap

This is easily enough to qualify for Champions League with the right manager and if everybody is fit.

Agreed about starting 11 but we a learning the depth is not strong plus goalkeeper not strong to begin with

22 hours ago, Scott Harris said:

Surprised Trump isn't front and centre as we've got his trophy.

He's not here yet, but apparently this kid is really special

That shot power for a 17 year old is insane.

Was wondering what would be done to mark the return to the Champions League.

Well done to the people that came up with this. A Royal Flush of trophies.

Stand up for the special one:

12 hours ago, axman2526 said:

Stand up for the special one:

Why are Spurs included?

Some more great memories here:

Anyone think any of our attacking players (excluding Cole palmer) can score 14 or more goals this season?

1 hour ago, axman2526 said:

Anyone think any of our attacking players (excluding Cole palmer) can score 14 or more goals this season?

Nicolas Jackson

Certainly a lot of room for optimism after last nights and recent performances.

Looking at the last three games, pretty much exactly what you could expect when you take into account how young our team is and the injuries to key players. Great against Liverpool (surprisingly so), not so good against Forest, but still come away with a 3-0 win. Mixed bag against Ajax - great 5-1 result but bit messy at times and opposition extremely poor.

A lot of the youngsters are looking good (even George didn't look like a Championship level player last night when he came on), but this is when it's easy to get carried away (which I am all too guilty of previously). The two CL wins so far have been against the bottom two sides. We have some very tough fixtures in November, so probably best to wait until December, to see where we are but I am excited by this young squad, even though they are a bit up and down.

19 minutes ago, Nibs said:

Certainly a lot of room for optimism after last nights and recent performances.

Looking at the last three games, pretty much exactly what you could expect when you take into account how young our team is and the injuries to key players. Great against Liverpool (surprisingly so), not so good against Forest, but still come away with a 3-0 win. Mixed bag against Ajax - great 5-1 result but bit messy at times and opposition extremely poor.

A lot of the youngsters are looking good (even George didn't look like a Championship level player last night when he came on), but this is when it's easy to get carried away (which I am all too guilty of previously). The two CL wins so far have been against the bottom two sides. We have some very tough fixtures in November, so probably best to wait until December, to see where we are but I am excited by this young squad, even though they are a bit up and down.

I would be more optimistic if we could get over the first 20-25 minutes of lethargy each game, we are getting away with it the last few games but more by luck than judgement.

Our more recent form upturn has, aside from Liverpool, been against very poor sides. Lincoln, Anges forest, a poor benfica team and a terrible ajax side.

Need to see us beat some better teams consistently, sides like Everton, Villa, Napoli, Atalanta, Newcastle etc.

14 hours ago, axman2526 said:

Our more recent form upturn has, aside from Liverpool, been against very poor sides. Lincoln, Anges forest, a poor benfica team and a terrible ajax side.

Need to see us beat some better teams consistently, sides like Everton, Villa, Napoli, Atalanta, Newcastle etc.

And, except for the Liverpool game, I wouldn't say that we played well in any of these matches. The first 10 minutes or so against Ajax, until the send off, was the same side to side passing and I was dreading another game where we had no penetration. The send off changed everything to be honest, and we started to play with intent. The fact that Guiu scored immediately after the send off was provident too.

On 24/10/2025 at 01:44, axman2526 said:

Our more recent form upturn has, aside from Liverpool, been against very poor sides. Lincoln, Anges forest, a poor benfica team and a terrible ajax side.

Need to see us beat some better teams consistently, sides like Everton, Villa, Napoli, Atalanta, Newcastle etc.

I think it is worse than that. We haven't played well against anybody this season except West ham, Ajax. That is it. We could have easily lost against pool, forest, Fulham, palace.