7 hours ago, JM7 said:

Alonso is an interesting one. Slight question marks about what happened at Madrid but it is a funny changing room.

One thing is that I bet it will massively annoy the Liverpool fans. I reckon most of them want him instead of Slot.

Alonso is certainly a better fit for their players than Slot, he prefers a quicker style of football, something they are used to under Klopp. With them going from that to slow build up play they now have under Slot, I can understand why they have hated their football so much this season.

2 hours ago, Sconnie Blue said:

“Lampard at 23 was a man. Players at 23 now, are brats.”

Mbappe is 27 and is still a brat. It's like he is still that 18 year old kid at Monaco.......actually, if anything, he was probably more humble back then.

11 minutes ago, Sconnie Blue said:

Yet they are on the verge of appointing Mourinho who publicly told Vinicius to stop crying after the racial incident earlier this year.

Can only go tits up with that ego-filled dressing room. Mourinho's days as a player charmer are long gone.

19 minutes ago, Sconnie Blue said:

Yet they are on the verge of appointing Mourinho who publicly told Vinicius to stop crying after the racial incident earlier this year.

We'll see what happens, but with players fighting maybe Florentino sees a tough coach as the solution to the personal problems in the changing room. We will need to see what Florentino says later this afternoon, he's called a press conference at 6pm CET.

45 minutes ago, The Boehly Babes said:

They literally have to just stick it out and keep us as a PL team to see a return on their money. That is all.

Trophies do not matter. At the end of the 10 years ‘turning a profit on the asset (CFC LDN)’ is all that matters to them. With TV rights going the way they are, that’s all their projections are. They have to do the bare minimum to keep us in the PL and eating from that table. If they can flip a few players in the meantime for some nice extra pennies then that’s a bonus.

What happens on the pitch has absolutely no bearing on how they see the asset (not club)

I'm not going to disagree that's the overall plan but I'm not sure why they'd not look after their investment in the meantime. No other owner is in it just for the love of the game especially nowadays, Roman was a one off - well maybe the City & PSG owners. It's not as if they haven't spent the money trying its just they're very bad at it.

Looking past all the cheating the fact City have taken over us in terms of quality and value is down to the investment made on top of being a very well ran club. Do you not think Man City are worth more now than if the owners just left them as a mid to lower table team. As we've proven money doesn't buy you trophies alone.

If things go on as they are we could end up like Spurs but without the modern Stadium. While given the rising prices they could still sell for a profit the value would be much lower than if we were serial trophy winners. I don't see why they wouldn't try to succeed while they're here, it would be counterintuitive to just let the club drop into mid table obscurity. Theres the platform to make this club an awful lot more valuable and the reason they bought it in the first place.

I haven't seen any evidence of them siphoning money out of the club. From my understanding its very different from say the Glasers using profits to pay off the loan used to buy the club. I think is just incompetence rather than anything sinister, which gives me a slither of hope they can mend their ways.

4 minutes ago, RMH said:

We'll see what happens, but with players fighting maybe Florentino sees a tough coach as the solution to the personal problems in the changing room. We will need to see what Florentino says later this afternoon, he's called a press conference at 6pm CET.

Present Mourinho isn’t tough though, he won’t survive a dressing room with 3-4 factions. What Perez needs to do is to sell one of Mbappe or Vinicius. Something that drastic will get everyone else in line.

10 minutes ago, markpitts said:

Present Mourinho isn’t tough though, he won’t survive a dressing room with 3-4 factions. What Perez needs to do is to sell one of Mbappe or Vinicius. Something that drastic will get everyone else in line.

I agree, I just don't see why Florentino would hire Mourinho other than because he thinks that he can instil some discipline and beat Barcelona as he did in the past. But we all know that Mourinho is not the same one.

23 minutes ago, RMH said:

We'll see what happens, but with players fighting maybe Florentino sees a tough coach as the solution to the personal problems in the changing room. We will need to see what Florentino says later this afternoon, he's called a press conference at 6pm CET.

All Mourinho has to offer these days is his colossal ego. He's as undisciplined as many of those in the dressing room. Check out him ambushing the ref in Roma's underground car park and abusing him. And his behaviour at Benfica. If he's appointed, sit back and enjoy the RM meltdown.

🗣️ @SkyKaveh on Chelsea target Xabi Alonso: “It's an open secret that his dream job is to manage Liverpool”
(🎥 via @SkySportsNews)

Not to say that he doesn’t want us. Suppose it’s abit like any club legend in management.

11 minutes ago, RMH said:

I agree, I just don't see why Florentino would hire Mourinho other than because he thinks that he can instil some discipline and beat Barcelona as he did in the past. But we all know that Mourinho is not the same one.

Pérez is one of RM's biggest problems, he has created the sh*tshow. Bringing in Mbappe - who they didn't need -sabotaged the team.

Can the Sporting Directors change their plan? Yes. Yes they can. They have changed before - when they first took over the club they were not signing kids but they were signing really useless burn out players like Sterling and Aubameyang - so yes they can change. In fact, it is a perhaps a wrong assumption to think that these ass-clowns have a "plan".

A top club needs a top manager. With no champions league football on the horizon IF you want all our 'top' players to stay and avoid a mass exodus then you have to give them players something - an incentive of playing for a top quality manager.

They must know by now that in football you MUST have the right manager. Liam got no respect from the players because the players realised in minutes that he didnt have a fcucking clue.

WWRD - What would Roman do? He would've gone out and got us that bloke from PSG. A lot of money sure - but how much did we just give Liam Rosenior in a pay out? Of course, these 5 clowns are not capable of doing that . . .So, here we are wwith talk of Alonso and then the bait and switch and we get . . .Oliver Glasner?

The question with either Alonso with whether he can make the step up from a mid level club to elite (granted, I know we are not currently elite). He failed at Madrid so it does make me question his man management.

Surely Iraola will stay at Bournemouth if they make champions league? Surely?!

1 minute ago, TheCeleryKing said:

Can the Sporting Directors change their plan? Yes. Yes they can. They have changed before - when they first took over the club they were not signing kids but they were signing really useless burn out players like Sterling and Aubameyang - so yes they can change. In fact, it is a perhaps a wrong assumption to think that these ass-clowns have a "plan".

A top club needs a top manager. With no champions league football on the horizon IF you want all our 'top' players to stay and avoid a mass exodus then you have to give them players something - an incentive of playing for a top quality manager.

They must know by now that in football you MUST have the right manager. Liam got no respect from the players because the players realised in minutes that he didnt have a fcucking clue.

WWRD - What would Roman do? He would've gone out and got us that bloke from PSG. A lot of money sure - but how much did we just give Liam Rosenior in a pay out? Of course, these 5 clowns are not capable of doing that . . .So, here we are wwith talk of Alonso and then the bait and switch and we get . . .Oliver Glasner?

Not in a million years. He's a control freak. He wouldn't wear the system and the system wouldn't want him.

1 minute ago, TheCeleryKing said:

WWRD - What would Roman do? He would've gone out and got us that bloke from PSG. A lot of money sure - but how much did we just give Liam Rosenior in a pay out? Of course, these 5 clowns are not capable of doing that . . .So, here we are wwith talk of Alonso and then the bait and switch and we get . . .Oliver Glasner?

interesting question about Roman. I believe Romans model got found out towards the end and he wasn’t hiring or buying elite players. He had dropped from title challengers to top 4 challengers.

Granted, there was ALOT to political issues going on and he clearly had to step back a little and couldn’t enter the UK so will cut him some slack.

2 minutes ago, JM7 said:

The question with either Alonso with whether he can make the step up from a mid level club to elite (granted, I know we are not currently elite). He failed at Madrid so it does make me question his man management.

Surely Iraola will stay at Bournemouth if they make champions league? Surely?!

The RM egos are unmanageable unless you're a unique individual like Ancelotti.

27 minutes ago, TheCeleryKing said:

Can the Sporting Directors change their plan? Yes. Yes they can. They have changed before - when they first took over the club they were not signing kids but they were signing really useless burn out players like Sterling and Aubameyang - so yes they can change. In fact, it is a perhaps a wrong assumption to think that these ass-clowns have a "plan".

A top club needs a top manager. With no champions league football on the horizon IF you want all our 'top' players to stay and avoid a mass exodus then you have to give them players something - an incentive of playing for a top quality manager.

They must know by now that in football you MUST have the right manager. Liam got no respect from the players because the players realised in minutes that he didnt have a fcucking clue.

WWRD - What would Roman do? He would've gone out and got us that bloke from PSG. A lot of money sure - but how much did we just give Liam Rosenior in a pay out? Of course, these 5 clowns are not capable of doing that . . .So, here we are wwith talk of Alonso and then the bait and switch and we get . . .Oliver Glasner?

If the bait and switch ended up being Glasner, I'd be much happier than if it was Iraola or Silva!

Alonso could be absoluteley creaming himself at the prospect of coming to Chelsea. BUT once he has a face to face meeting with the jokers pretending to be SDs, he will run a mile. At least we can rule out Gary O'Neil now as he's actually commited the cardinal sin, and pointed out what a sh*t job they did in the transfer window.

1 hour ago, dermott said:

Pérez is one of RM's biggest problems, he has created the sh*tshow. Bringing in Mbappe - who they didn't need -sabotaged the team.

At the same time he has taken RM to win a lot of titles, very much like we had with Roman.

Anyway, speculation over. Florentino has called for elections, he’s presenting himself as a candidate. He’s not talking about possible managers, which makes sense since he’s just called for elections.

https://removepaywalls.com/https://www.dailymail.com/sport/football/article-15811787/xabi-alonso-cesc-fabregas-chelsea-manager.html

Essentially the article says Alonso couldn’t manage Chelsea’s dressing room and Cesc would be a better fit. Opinion piece.

2 hours ago, JM7 said:

The question with either Alonso with whether he can make the step up from a mid level club to elite (granted, I know we are not currently elite). He failed at Madrid so it does make me question his man management.

Surely Iraola will stay at Bournemouth if they make champions league? Surely?!

Too late they've already replaced him with Marco Rose.

It is amusing seeing Liverpool fans freak out over the prospect of us appointing him.

5 hours ago, theGreenBaron said:

I'm trying to work out if you considered the neurodiversity of the author (me) before you decided to mock, I promise it's easier for you to understand what I mean't then it is for me to spell it.

Why would I ever consider something I wasn’t aware of? I just found the butchering of the word funny tbh it’s not that deep

4 hours ago, RMH said:

There were problems with Vinicius that threw the toys out of the pram because Alonso was subbing him in games and he didn't like to be subbed off. Florentino had to intervene and at the end they choose Vinicius over Alonso.

I’ll never understand the Vinicius hype. Modern day Aaron Lennon.

Chelsea have also MET with Iraola. Something that has been acknowledged by the recruitment department is the need for the team to become more physical. That heightens the appeal of Iraola. There is a sense he is capable of scaling up to a bigger job. (@guardian_sport)

1 hour ago, GarnachoCheese said:

I’ll never understand the Vinicius hype. Modern day Aaron Lennon.

Agreed. He isn't half the player Garnacho is.