Was happy to give him a go, even with huge reservations but the evidence is pretty clear. You can't buy, borrow or steal experience, and it is so obvious in this case. He had nothing on his resume that qualified him for this job (Side note that I also felt the time came to soon for frank but he had more then Liam)

people think a Jose was just an overnight hit, Jose who spent years under bobby and VanGal before taking on a number of clubs in portugal, and we only plucked him at the peak of his powers, carlo and conte the same, Chelsea should not be a learn on the job club. Maresca at least had served some kind of half decent apprentaship but he also wasn't ready.

Needs to go and soon, but beyond there the broom needs to keep sweeping all the way to the top.

17 hours ago, Nibs said:

He has very quickly become a dead man walking. But we are such a sh*t-show, it really doesn't matter who they replace him with as you know it won't be anyone worthy.

4 hours ago, strider6004 said:

7 league matches to go, would love to see JT given a chance.

Sadly he's too busy getting involved in Burka politics.

10 minutes ago, Caps_Lock_King said:

EDDIE HOWE ANYONE?

Looks like he will get the boot

Regardless, he wouldn't wear the Chelsea set up. He's a control freak. Good coach, let down at Newcastle by some very dodgy recruitment.

3 hours ago, petre ispirescu said:

Out of curiosity I've just had a look at Newcastle's upcoming fixtures.

They will be three points behind us today and four behind Liverpool with probably the most accessible fixtures a club fightining for a UCL spot can have until the end of the season.

Newcastle will get UCL football. Count them in.

Oops !

3 hours is a long time in football LOL

Will LR last the season? I mean it is obvious that he has LOST the dressing room already. The players body language is already screaming "WTF". The players are totally lost, they are young players who need guidance/management. No amount of cute little paper notes is going to help anybody.

We are long overdue a proper grown up manager/coach.

3 hours ago, Caps_Lock_King said:

  On 15/03/2026 at 09:27, Caps_Lock_King said:

LOOKS LIKE WE WILL BE GETTING LESS POINTS THEN I SUGGESTED AT THE TIME

At best I can see 3 points from the remaining games. Nothing from City, Liverpool , Brighton or Sunderland. Might get a point each at Home to Forest, Utd and Spurs. I reckon 8th might be the best we can hope for. Although we might beat Port Vale I don’t see a Wembley FA Cup Final…The entire project needs an overhaul and complete rethink including the manager this club desperately needs. This season is two steps back from last season.

28 minutes ago, TheCeleryKing said:

Will LR last the season? I mean it is obvious that he has LOST the dressing room already. The players body language is already screaming "WTF". The players are totally lost, they are young players who need guidance/management. No amount of cute little paper notes is going to help anybody.

We are long overdue a proper grown up manager/coach.

While LR is clearly an issue, I am not so sure that it just the manager that lost the dressing room. In fact I am not sure that he ever really had it. I think that many players look like they have thrown in the towel with the entire project. The previous 2 managers were generally liked by the players, and both left because they fell out with the owners. Now they just have a coach who is clearly just a mouthpiece for the SD's and owners and I suspect that has led to some disillusionment among the squad.

2 hours ago, OTL said:

Is this what LR was eluding to in a recent press conference when he said something like " experience? we are growing experience, wait and see in the summer"

I love it when he teases us, hes such a sharp cookie.😐

Teases us…… I don’t like having a cock rubbed round my face. Well 2 drink minimum 😜

1 hour ago, theGreenBaron said:

Was happy to give him a go, even with huge reservations but the evidence is pretty clear. You can't buy, borrow or steal experience, and it is so obvious in this case. He had nothing on his resume that qualified him for this job (Side note that I also felt the time came to soon for frank but he had more then Liam)

people think a Jose was just an overnight hit, Jose who spent years under bobby and VanGal before taking on a number of clubs in portugal, and we only plucked him at the peak of his powers, carlo and conte the same, Chelsea should not be a learn on the job club. Maresca at least had served some kind of half decent apprentaship but he also wasn't ready.

Needs to go and soon, but beyond there the broom needs to keep sweeping all the way to the top.

JM came to Chelsea year after winning Champions League -first time round - with Porto (2004). Don't see LR doing that, even in twenty years time.

The manager's have never really been the biggest problem.

The underlying issue has been the project and transfer policy imposed on the club by the ownership..

From Elite club to laughing stock club within months of the club being bought and run by people with no football knowledge, but who decided that they could do it better than the previous owner.

I've unlocked a new fear.

Tottenham will stay up because they beat us.

8 minutes ago, bisright1 said:

I've unlocked a new fear.

Tottenham will stay up because they beat us.

8 minutes ago, bisright1 said:

I've unlocked a new fear.

Tottenham will stay up because they beat us.

9 minutes ago, bisright1 said:

I've unlocked a new fear.

Tottenham will stay up because they beat us.

Worse still they stay up next year before we go down or work out how to post without dogfood!

1 hour ago, Sexyfootball said:

Oops !

3 hours is a long time in football LOL

😂

I even wrote that when the game did not even start yet.

1 hour ago, forbzy said:

While LR is clearly an issue, I am not so sure that it just the manager that lost the dressing room. In fact I am not sure that he ever really had it. I think that many players look like they have thrown in the towel with the entire project. The previous 2 managers were generally liked by the players, and both left because they fell out with the owners. Now they just have a coach who is clearly just a mouthpiece for the SD's and owners and I suspect that has led to some disillusionment among the squad.

Yes, agreed. It is NOT entirely the manager. But then again it IS the manager. I mean Man U are actually a worse run club than even us and yet they are having a bounce with a manager and tbh they have had better managers than us recently. The club ownership is not going to change any time soon. BUT the SD's can change their minds - they have done so previously - and if they can get us a top level experienced manager in the summer we do have some quality players and things could get better.

10 minutes ago, TheCeleryKing said:

Yes, agreed. It is NOT entirely the manager. But then again it IS the manager. I mean Man U are actually a worse run club than even us and yet they are having a bounce with a manager and tbh they have had better managers than us recently. The club ownership is not going to change any time soon. BUT the SD's can change their minds - they have done so previously - and if they can get us a top level experienced manager in the summer we do have some quality players and things could get better.

I'm not convinced ManU are a worse run club than us. They may have bought some dross (and managed to offload a few, to us in one fine example), but they at least have a squad with decent experience. Their Americans are probably just as unpopular as our Americans, but ours are quicker in ruining the club completely. So there!

25 minutes ago, Valerie said:

I'm not convinced ManU are a worse run club than us. They may have bought some dross (and managed to offload a few, to us in one fine example), but they at least have a squad with decent experience. Their Americans are probably just as unpopular as our Americans, but ours are quicker in ruining the club completely. So there!

I agree. United are a mess but I'd swap our approach for theirs in a heartbeat.

They have made some really bad decisions in terms of recruiting players and managers, but it seems at least that they've always went for who they thought would improve then.

None of that "market opportunity sign anyone who fits the profile regardless of what they could bring to the team" crap.

Edited March 22Mar 22 by yaz

pffft, so then who is this squad built for? 😂

The previous manager that constantly stated he wanted better players!!??

Ladies and gentlemen. BlueCo PR 😆

The worrying thing is that there isn't even a hint of sacrificing at least one of the five SDs.

All five are bullet proof. Zero compromise on that front.

1 hour ago, The Rising Sun said:

The manager's have never really been the biggest problem.

The underlying issue has been the project and transfer policy imposed on the club by the ownership..

From Elite club to laughing stock club within months of the club being bought and run by people with no football knowledge, but who decided that they could do it better than the previous owner.

The manager's have never been the problem because they could get something out of the squad. Even if it was terrible football, it wasn't a total joke.

Now we have problems up top compounded with a manager that consistently humiliates himself. He can't help himself from throwing out word salad

31 minutes ago, Valerie said:

I'm not convinced ManU are a worse run club than us. They may have bought some dross (and managed to offload a few, to us in one fine example), but they at least have a squad with decent experience. Their Americans are probably just as unpopular as our Americans, but ours are quicker in ruining the club completely. So there!

Man U are a far worse run club than us. I know it is hard to imagine. But it is true. The Glazers have seriously messed up the clubs finances. Darcie Glazer took a loan using her Manchester United shares as collateral, the purpose of the loan has not been disclosed (probably to finance her wedding!). The Glazers have used that club for its money and have put the club into crippling debt. There is still time for our owners, but so far they have done nothing as diabolical as the Glazers have at United. The Glazers have literally taken money out of United as "fees for the family". they see the club as their personal "slush fund".

I would aslo say that we actually have better players. Caicedo, Cucurella, James, Palmer, Pedro and Esta-Wow!

Edited March 22Mar 22 by TheCeleryKing

6 minutes ago, Sconnie Blue said:

pffft, so then who is this squad built for? 😂

The previous manager that constantly stated he wanted better players!!??

Ladies and gentlemen. BlueCo PR 😆

Didn't want to build a squad for Nagelsmann, Enrique but wants to build a squad for Rosenior

Which superstar's gonna go "Boy, can't wait to play for Rosenior! "

20 minutes ago, TheCeleryKing said:

Man U are a far worse run club than us. I know it is hard to imagine. But it is true. The Glazers have seriously messed up the clubs finances. Darcie Glazer took a loan using her Manchester United shares as collateral, the purpose of the loan has not been disclosed (probably to finance her wedding!). The Glazers have used that club for its money and have put the club into crippling debt. There is still time for our owners, but so far they have done nothing as diabolical as the Glazers have at United. The Glazers have literally taken money out of United as "fees for the family". they see the club as their personal "slush fund".

I would aslo say that we actually have better players. Caicedo, Cucurella, James, Palmer, Pedro and Esta-Wow!

True, but our directors have found a way to mess up our finances in another way: overpaying for unproven teenagers and giving them a salary way beyond their experience and abilities. In a couple of years this will bite us in the a$$. And we may have a few players (underperforming at present BTW bar Estevao) that on an individual basis are better than ManU's, but their squad manage to work together and as a unit get better results. Not that a 7 point difference between us is huge, but it's the difference between money-making CL and lots-of-obscure-stamps-in-passports Conference League, if that at all in May.

38 minutes ago, Sconnie Blue said:

pffft, so then who is this squad built for? 😂

The previous manager that constantly stated he wanted better players!!??

Ladies and gentlemen. BlueCo PR 😆

Do they think we’re dumb to believe that? They didn’t take any other manager’s opinion in buying players and suddenly they are doing it for Liam? And even if it is true why should we trust the judgement of an in experienced manager like him? If they are actually looking to support a manager in building a squad (and I doubt it) they should start by actually getting an experienced manager and sporting director that are on the same page and will actually target players we need and not the flavour of the month 20 year old winger.

18 minutes ago, Valerie said:

True, but our directors have found a way to mess up our finances in another way: overpaying for unproven teenagers and giving them a salary way beyond their experience and abilities.

Man U are in a far worse financial situation than us.

7 minutes ago, TheCeleryKing said:

Man U are in a far worse financial situation than us.

Give it time, hun, give it time.