4 minutes ago, forbzy said:

Then what? We will just get another inexperienced yes man and expect something different? Honestly we may as well stick with him if nothing else is changing.

We should, but we won’t.

Clearlake will need someone to blame to explain to the shareholders why we missed out on Champions League.

Dude if the directors are still employed this summer I’m giving up.

I honestly think that if LR read this forum and followed what the fans want, the players would still mess up. This is so bad that its no longer on the manager and thats a huge problem. It starts from the top. All comes down to the Sporting Directors for building such a sh*t squad if the expectation is major honours.

He’s got a hell of a job to get top 4 now with the last 3 results. 2/9 points has killed any hope really.

I think if we don’t beat Villa on Wednesday, CL is over. Must win.

1 minute ago, JM7 said:

He’s got a hell of a job to get top 4 now with the last 3 results. 2/9 points has killed any hope really.

I think if we don’t beat Villa on Wednesday, CL is over. Must win.

Really it depends on how well he follows the company line, rather than what we do this season, whether he has a job for next season here or not.

Fail to get top 5? All good the BlueCo will spin their PR that it is all Marescas fault, and the majority will believe it. Lose to PSG? Wrexham? Yup that's on Maresca too.

Proven track record for it. Is Roman's fault we are in a poor financial position, was Tuchels fault for not collaborating, was Potters for being in way over his head, Lamps made out to be a PE teacher, Poch too Spursy, Maresca messing up the season. Some day down the line it will be all Roseniors fault as well.

And many will buy what they are selling.

3 hours ago, axman2526 said:

Really it depends on how well he follows the company line, rather than what we do this season, whether he has a job for next season here or not.

Fail to get top 5? All good the BlueCo will spin their PR that it is all Marescas fault, and the majority will believe it. Lose to PSG? Wrexham? Yup that's on Maresca too.

Proven track record for it. Is Roman's fault we are in a poor financial position, was Tuchels fault for not collaborating, was Potters for being in way over his head, Lamps made out to be a PE teacher, Poch too Spursy, Maresca messing up the season. Some day down the line it will be all Roseniors fault as well.

And many will buy what they are selling.

I mean it's the same story internally at BlueCo too. Clearlake say it's all Boehly's fault, the minority group think Clearlake are stalling.

Clowns.

Lose midweek and Blue Co will prepare the way to sacrifice LR. The project must go on, the strategy is fine, trust the process. Bring in the next lamb to the slaughter. Gary O'Neil probably isnt looking forward to his next job. He knows how it ends, we all do.

We need either 8 wins, or 7 wins and 3 draws, to match last seasons 69 points total.

10 hours ago, JM7 said:

I think if we don’t beat Villa on Wednesday, CL is over. Must win.

Villa are in a bad run of form (1 win in last 5) which obviously means that we are going to hand them a win.

4 hours ago, OTL said:

Lose midweek and Blue Co will prepare the way to sacrifice LR. The project must go on, the strategy is fine, trust the process. Bring in the next lamb to the slaughter. Gary O'Neil probably isnt looking forward to his next job. He knows how it ends, we all do.

Gary O'Neil knows he is not good enough for a big club and would never get the chance to manage one, but found the perfect loophole through this Strasbourg - Clearlake connection. He knew very well since day one that if he goes to Strasbourg then he will automatically be the first in line to manage Chelsea next. And soon. And took the opportunity with both hands.

Imagine Rosenior gets the boot at the end of the season and after all these years of us being fed with this idea of a project that is going to finally kickstart in Clearlake's 4th or 5th season and then we end up with Gary O'Neil as a manager at the start of a season that supposedly was meant to be the first one we were going to challenge for major trophies...

Depressing. The stuff of nightmares.

Not going to blame him as the players let him down yesterday big time. This arensal team is rubbish

4 minutes ago, El regreso said:

Not going to blame him as the players let him down yesterday big time. This arensal team is rubbish

I'd blame him for having Sanchez trying to play out from the back when it has been proved time and time again that it's his biggest weakness. It's obviously a coaching directive. It piles unnecessary pressure on Sanchez, his nerves yesterday were palpable from the outset and it cost him and us.

I feel there's a good manager in LR, he may surprise a few people, given a chance. The problem is, just like with Maresca, in the current setup he's just a figurehead who has little to no say on how the club is run and how the squad is built.

The whole structure is rotten. The players know that the manager, whoever he may be, has no real power, so why should they give a sh*t. The manager knows he has to deal with whatever he's been given and those who assembled this pile of dogsh*te in the first place will just point a finger at him at an opportune moment and replace him with another scapegoat. Those at the very top are playing their own game that has everything to do with some financial schemes and f**k all to do with the actual football, so they don't give a sh*t about what happens on the pitch and even less about what supporters think.

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29 minutes ago, dermott said:

I'd blame him for having Sanchez trying to play out from the back when it has been proved time and time again that it's his biggest weakness. It's obviously a coaching directive. It piles unnecessary pressure on Sanchez, his nerves yesterday were palpable from the outset and it cost him and us.

Rosenior obviously never saw this video LOL. Some absolute howlers from a young Sanchez in here ! I particularly like the one where he tries to dribble past Ivan Toney on his own goal line.

24 minutes ago, Sexyfootball said:

Rosenior obviously never saw this video LOL. Some absolute howlers from a young Sanchez in here ! I particularly like the one where he tries to dribble past Ivan Toney on his own goal line.

Rosenoir doesn't need to look at videos. He has seen, first hand, numerous times, that Sanchez cannot play out. That it's a recipe for chaos at the back. More importantly, that his nervous uncertainty seriously undermines the rest of his game.

5 minutes ago, petre ispirescu said:

Gary O'Neil knows he is not good enough for a big club and would never get the chance to manage one, but found the perfect loophole through this Strasbourg - Clearlake connection. He knew very well since day one that if he goes to Strasbourg then he will automatically be the first in line to manage Chelsea next. And soon. And took the opportunity with both hands.

Imagine Rosenior gets the boot at the end of the season and after all these years of us being fed with this idea of a project that is going to finally kickstart in Clearlake's 4th or 5th season and then we end up with Gary O'Neil as a manager at the start of a season that supposedly was meant to be the first one we were going to challenge for major trophies...

Depressing. The stuff of nightmares.

Folk are getting very carried away here.

LR won't be sacked this season and we won't be getting Gary f**king O'Neil!!!

7 minutes ago, Nibs said:

Folk are getting very carried away here.

LR won't be sacked this season and we won't be getting Gary f**king O'Neil!!!

Today should be different? The SEF: where negativity is the default option and doom the plat du jour.

I’m very positive, I’m positive we need a change of direction from SD - manager.

Where they work together for the benefit of the first team now while always thinking about the future of the club. It’s not really that hard really.

2 hours ago, dermott said:

I'd blame him for having Sanchez trying to play out from the back when it has been proved time and time again that it's his biggest weakness. It's obviously a coaching directive. It piles unnecessary pressure on Sanchez, his nerves yesterday were palpable from the outset and it cost him and us.

This.

Rosenior said a couple days ago that he hasn't really had the time yet to implement his ideas.

Yesterday was the first time i've seen Sanchez play as this auxiliary 3rd CB where he had the 2nd most touches on the pitch the first half. If this is "Rosenior's football" as the GK playing as a sweeper was a common theme at Strasbourg, then even if Rosenior stays next season I am fearful.

57 minutes ago, Sconnie Blue said:

This.

Rosenior said a couple days ago that he hasn't really had the time yet to implement his ideas.

Yesterday was the first time i've seen Sanchez play as this auxiliary 3rd CB where he had the 2nd most touches on the pitch the first half. If this is "Rosenior's football" as the GK playing as a sweeper was a common theme at Strasbourg, then even if Rosenior stays next season I am fearful.

2 reasons I didn’t want LR was his lack of credentials and experience for the job and 2 the style of play.

He’s another over complicated coach with inverted full backs and sweeper keeper etc.

I wanted us to do what Utd have done. Got in JT. Let him have a few months at it with different ideas. Simple things like playing players in their best positions, regularly,simple fast paced attacking football. No messing about at the back etc etc.

I looked at the team selected and thought what more can LR do with our squad but he has to get them playing to their strengths not his system.

8 hours ago, axman2526 said:

We need either 8 wins, or 7 wins and 3 draws, to match last seasons 69 points total.

Given we only have 10 games left then one of those options is already off the table ;).

I think 8 wins from last 10 would be pretty incredible looking at the remaining games. We'd do well to get 65 points. Hard to know how many points will be needed for 5th place finish. Our best hope would be to reel in Villa, but that really needs to start with us winning there this week.

£2.5bn and we are going backwards.

Least Clearlake can't gaslight us again that "the club is making progress". The late/spring summer BlueCo PR will be ripping into Maresca. Just you watch.

I just can’t.

4 hours ago, dermott said:

I'd blame him for having Sanchez trying to play out from the back when it has been proved time and time again that it's his biggest weakness. It's obviously a coaching directive. It piles unnecessary pressure on Sanchez, his nerves yesterday were palpable from the outset and it cost him and us.

Actually yes that I will blame him for this 100%. It also cussed Sanchez to be a bag of nerves all game because of this.

Just now, El regreso said:

I just can’t.

I think Dermot Gallagher claimed today that this should have been ruled as a penalty by VAR.

While this is a clear error from refs/VAR, didn't we score from the resulting corner? So it unlikely affected the overall score.