2 hours ago, The Rising Sun said:

"Rosenior: Chelsea 'very close to outstanding' despite PSG thumping

03/11/2026 - 11:59 PM

Paris Saint-Germain put on a late show at Parc des Princes but Liam Rosenior did not leave discouraged by Chelsea's showing

Even at 4-2, we were still right in it. The fifth goal, that's the painful one. It's something I have to really solve. We are very close to being an outstanding team," Rosenior said during his post-match press conference.

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11 minutes ago, Scott Harris said:

We're nowhere near it. We're going to finish the season over 20 points behind Arsenal, I'm expecting it to reach 30 minimum. 3 players isn't going to close the gap, because even if we found a world class GK, CB, and LW, the squad as a whole is horrible. There are 5 players in total I rate highly, Palmer, Pedro, Caicedo, James, Estevao, everybody else is either the tier below, too young, or just horrible.

Nah 3 great signings is all we need. It will actually boost the rest of the team. Thing is we can't even stay fit and our SDs won't make 3 upgraded signings in those key positions.

Three signings don't come near improving our bench options. So no, imo we need more than three signings to be competitive at the top, plus a coach with experience.

6 minutes ago, KonaKai Blue said:

Nah 3 great signings is all we need. It will actually boost the rest of the team. Thing is we can't even stay fit and our SDs won't make 3 upgraded signings in those key positions.

Challenging for titles requires a squad, not just a first 11. I think there are just too many low quality, barely Premier League level players in our squad, our bench is horrible in most games. It's not only that either, it's the football and coaching. I think we could have the best squad in the world and our football and coaching would still cripple us.

Edited March 12Mar 12 by Scott Harris

#BringInTheNextUselessPrickFromStrasbourg

3 signings would transform our side. Whether they would make us champions is debatable.

Unfortunately we have needed these signings for years now and they ain’t happening. Not at the level required anyway.

Look what Allison, Van Dyke and Salah did for LFC.

22 minutes ago, RMH said:

Three signings don't come near improving our bench options. So no, imo we need more than three signings to be competitive at the top, plus a coach with experience.

Yup.

1 top class keeper and 1 capable understudy happy to be number 2

2 World class centerbacks and 1 excellent understudy to go with Levi and Acheampong

1 top class left attacker and 1 very good competition

1 very good back up striker

1 world class manager

Then we can challenge for a title

But we won't because BlueCo

19 minutes ago, Scott Harris said:

Challenging for titles requires a squad, not just a first 11. I think there are just too many low quality, barely Premier League level players in our squad, our bench is horrible in most games. It's not only that either, it's the football and coaching. I think we could have the best squad in the world and our football and coaching would still cripple us.

Part of the problem has been the horrific squad balancing from the SDs.

This season we've had a squad with 11 defenders, 5 midfielders and 8 forwards as the outfield options, which with a couple of injuries has meant half (or more) of the bench is routinely made up of defenders. Midfield, with long term injuries to Essugo and Lavia, has basically been 3 players, and the quality in the forwards has been very sub optimal.

13 minutes ago, C3blue said:

3 signings would transform our side. Whether they would make us champions is debatable.

Unfortunately we have needed these signings for years now and they ain’t happening. Not at the level required anyway.

Look what Allison, Van Dyke and Salah did for LFC.

They also had world class coaching. We have no good coaches and our football is horrible.

Remember the days when Roman would have flown out Jurgen Klopp to one of his yachts told him to name what he wants to be the Chelsea boss and made it happen.

Roman had clout, these guys are clowns.

20 hours ago, Deino said:

You have to be blind to think Rosenior can manage at this level

He had maybe 4 warnings before they scored the second goal but still didn't change anything. Also that first goal, how can we still be that unorganised?

I said he won’t make the start of next season and I stand by that

51 minutes ago, axman2526 said:

Yup.

1 top class keeper and 1 capable understudy happy to be number 2

2 World class centerbacks and 1 excellent understudy to go with Levi and Acheampong

1 top class left attacker and 1 very good competition

1 very good back up striker

1 world class manager

Then we can challenge for a title

But we won't because BlueCo

Our strategy under Clearlake has been to by a lot of young players with potential rather than a few high quality signings. Look at the GK situation as a great example. We had Sanchez who has his limitations but can be decent under the right conditions (if not asked to be a sweeper). Then rather than sign 1 really good keeper alongside him we signed Petrovic, Jorgensen, Slonina, andPenders. All 4 were either nowhere near good enough or won't be ready for several years (e..g Penders). We already had youth team options so we really just needed one really good keeper that would potentially allow Sanchez to be a decent backup.

Pretty well the same in other positions. As long as this strategy continues, we will perennially be a team with potential and never one that is ready to challenge for the big trophies. We'll have a few decent players among the dross but on the law of averages many promising players just don't go on to fulfill their potential. For every Caicedo there are many Paes.

If Clearlake were planning to model themselves on Brighton they might reach that goal eventually when we become a selling club that sits in upper midtable.

3 minutes ago, forbzy said:

Our strategy under Clearlake has been to by a lot of young players with potential rather than a few high quality signings. Look at the GK situation as a great example. We had Sanchez who has his limitations but can be decent under the right conditions (if not asked to be a sweeper). Then rather than sign 1 really good keeper alongside him we signed Petrovic, Jorgensen, Slonina, andPenders. All 4 were either nowhere near good enough or won't be ready for several years (e..g Penders). We already had youth team options so we really just needed one really good keeper that would potentially allow Sanchez to be a decent backup.

Pretty well the same in other positions. As long as this strategy continues, we will perennially be a team with potential and never one that is ready to challenge for the big trophies. We'll have a few decent players among the dross but on the law of averages many promising players just don't go on to fulfill their potential. For every Caicedo there are many Paes.

If Clearlake were planning to model themselves on Brighton they might reach that goal eventually when we become a selling club that sits in upper midtable.

Yup. The successes see the failures ignored.

Having Gusto and Hato as youthful understudies to James and Cucu they can hang their hats on.

cole, Estevao, Joao Pedro they can say look we have found quality.

Is not good enough for what has been spent and wasted though. No way near.

Even With the remit of nothing over 25 I mean just look at the player at PSG we were linked with/ could have got for good fees in bluecos time.

Pacho

Neves

Vitiniha

Kvara

Doue

Barcola

All affordable in fees and structured wages and bonuses.

Only Dembele would have not been feasible.

Not to mention if we were willing to have a "star players" wage bracket we could have got Donnrumma and Dembele BUT even within the model we could have got some, even all, that first list.

Liam Rosenior showed he is capable and can manage the team which was not a sure thing when the club appointed him.

Overall he done well but yesterday he made bade judgements. He just came in and made his choices but the call for Jorgensen was too early. The players don't trust him and now everything is in doubts.

You don't play your second (now first) keeper on a night like this. He barely played all season and only because can play better passes, which is not true either. If it fails just one time you get a goal. I don't get it. He has to recognize that Sanchez is better, just let him hoof it up the field. Why try to be clever, let the team work who was still finding its way.

1 hour ago, El regreso said:

I said he won’t make the start of next season and I stand by that

I mean I can but hope, he Is not good enough.

But neither is Gary O'Neil, nor whoever else blueco employee.

Maresca is probably the most successful head coach they will ever have.

16 hours ago, Nibs said:

I would usually agree with this but at 2-2, although we were tiring, before the Jorgensen howler, we looked comfortable and with our options on the bench it's easy to see why LR didn't make changes. Without Estevao, we just don't have the quality the likes of PSG have. Maybe put Santos and Acheampong on but as much as I rate Lavia, he still looks a bit rusty after the long layoff.

As for Delap, I really was hoping he would come good but he so looks like a Championship level player right now.

Nah, that is not an excuse. We don't need any of this player to change the game, we just need somebody who can run.

Edited March 13Mar 13 by Bob stark

Considering the night before Spurs failed miserably with their second choice GK, it's just madness to pick our second choice for a CL knock out game. Maybe it's our intention CL as a lower priority, maybe Sanchez had a knock or injury. Aside from that, just a really poor call by the manager, against a good team who's not in great form until we handed them a lead.

13 hours ago, Scott Harris said:

This reaction is going to be used a lot going forward

We needed this, excellent work @Mod !

13 hours ago, RMH said:

Three signings don't come near improving our bench options. So no, imo we need more than three signings to be competitive at the top, plus a coach with experience.

3 is more than good enough.

Let's just focus on attacker, we play with 3 attacker.

Palmer, Jp, new guy

Bench : Estevao, Neto, Garnacho

Done.

We beat them 3-0 I'm the CWC with our keeper kicking it .long . . Our defence becomes nervous wrecks when the keeper plays it short to them , our risk free boring football further up the pitch is pointless when we play high risk, low or non existent reward football on the edge of our box.

It's beyond belief that we tried it against a team like PSG.

16 hours ago, The Rising Sun said:

We beat them 3-0 I'm the CWC with our keeper kicking it .long . . Our defence becomes nervous wrecks when the keeper plays it short to them , our risk free boring football further up the pitch is pointless when we play high risk, low or non existent reward football on the edge of our box.

It's beyond belief that we tried it against a team like PSG.

Rosenior doesn’t seem to agree…even with actual proof.

3 hours ago, Sconnie Blue said:

Rosenior doesn’t seem to agree…even with actual proof.

Mental. He thinks the only alternative to dangerously f**king around at the back is to just sit back and give the opposition the ball?

The way we played the other night was generally ok, just don't tell a keeper who can't play out from the back to f**king play.out from the back especially when the opposition is closing down your options.

5 hours ago, Sconnie Blue said:

Rosenior doesn’t seem to agree…even with actual proof.

Weird thing is, at the 80th minute when the score was 3-2, he did do exactly that with the Delap and Lavia sub..