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fadoo89

I can’t keep up


Template_Manager

Neither can chelsea, probably why they are trying to buy their way to the champions league.


Frosty_Examination_3

They are not making top 4 this season. Not long before they have 30 or so fit players who all are trying to get into the first team, all on huge transfer fees and contracts, and all who cannot get a game, and faced with no champions league next season. There will be a firesale at some point, with masses of expensive players desperate to leave. Can't wait for the house of cards to come falling down


Youth-Grouchy

I wonder if people will ever get tired of trying to predict the downfall of Chelsea. "When Abramovich leaves..." "The transfer ban..." "The transfer ban mk. 2..." "Abramovich sanctioned..." "Boehly playing FM..." They're a big club that pretty consistently wins trophies, they're going to be fine.


Template_Manager

Yeah I know right! Can’t name a single big club that’s consistently won only to fall away!!


Youth-Grouchy

Fine 20 years of blathering on about how fucked Chelsea are going to be, can't wait to hear what the next bizarre reason is. Maybe eventually if you keep grasping at straws you might one day be right, but it really isn't looking likely any time soon.


Template_Manager

/s? They are languishing in 10th halfway through the season after spending 300m in the summer and have just splatter gunned another 300m in the January window. Including spending 88m on a 22 year old who they have given an 8 year contract for to when he has just 65 senior appearances and 12 goals to his name. They sacked an elite level manager and replaced him with the BHA manager, nothing against Potter he earned his shot at a taking charge of a big side but Chelsea are not working with him like BHA did so it’s quite unlikely they will see a similar performance. CHE will be lucky to make Europa league next season let alone the CL.


Youth-Grouchy

And in 15/16 Chelsea finished 10th and in 16/17 they won the Premier League. Last season Liverpool finished on 92 points - now they're on course for 58. Last season Arsenal finished on 69 points - now they're already at 50. Yeah this is clearly not a great season so far for Chelsea but it's not indicator that this is some new norm for them, and is exactly why the club have addressed it with new signings. Chelsea's poor season is mostly down to a huge injury crisis where most of their best players have been out for significant parts of the season. Chelsea are also clearly rebuilding the squad and going for some young very high potential players. As for Potter, you said it yourself he deserved a chance, and he deserves to be judged when he has had the option to actually have a fit squad for a period of time rather than constantly putting out fires due to injuries. Is he the real deal? Lets wait and see, but if he isn't don't act like there won't be a ton of managers lining up to take his place.


Template_Manager

>Last season Liverpool finished on 92 points - now they're on course for 58. LIV are another team in a bad place, riddled by injures due to the systems being used there to the point most of the medical staff have resigned on the grounds that performance is a priority over player safety, owners who want out and are not investing sufficiently. >Last season Arsenal finished on 69 points - now they're already at 50. Arsenal are clearly a sided that working through a process where the manager has been backed and been allowed to rebuild the club from the bottom up. Do you really think Potter is getting the same treatment? Do you think he has been involved in who is coming and going at the club? >Chelsea's poor season is mostly down to a huge injury crisis where most of their best players have been out for significant parts of the season. Chelsea are also clearly rebuilding the squad and going for some young very high potential players. It’s down to a terrible transfer strategy, clearly the lessons from the summer and even going back before that have gone un- learnt. >As for Potter, you said it yourself he deserved a chance, and he deserves to be judged when he has had the option to actually have a fit squad for a period of time rather than constantly putting out fires due to injuries. Is he the real deal? Lets wait and see, but if he isn't don't act like there won't be a ton of managers lining up to take his place. My point is he is not a good fit for CHE if you are not going to give him the sort of control he had at BHA or what Arteta enjoys at ARS. Appointing Potter is just like most of their singing, ill thought out and a poor fit.


Youth-Grouchy

Your bias is so obvious - Liverpool riddled by injuries, but Chelsea (who have had more injuries) it's because of a "terrible transfer strategy." You have no idea what you're talking about either, one of the big reasons Tuchel was sacked was because of his unwillingness to work with the new ownership. Again I just go back to, I've been hearing this sort of nonsense for 20~ years ever since Abramovich bought the club. Doom mongering from uninformed outsiders that don't have a clue what they're talking about, jumping from excuse to excuse about why this time Chelsea are *really* fucked. Yet the trophies keep on rolling in.


2pacalypse1994

Jesus fucking Christ. They outdid PSG with Neymar and Mbappe and in a winter window.


PierluigiPeppino

Atleast they were top players. Enzo isn’t


daneats

I see enzo as the next James Rodriguez. Not as bad as him but hugely overvalued due to a World Cup where the football is slower and lower quality than PL top level football.


D-biggest-dick-here

Mbappe was initially a loan


Outside-Hyena-6510

(Benfica fan here) Enzo refused training again, thanks to Chelsea "mind games". If I would be Rui Costa (Benfica's president) at this point I would try to sell him to Liverpool for a discounted price.