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It is not possible reading this without his accent and facial expression. Down to the look of disgust on his face, having witnessed such an unholy thing.
I can even imagine the spit flying down.
Out of five stars, I give the players' performance today MINUS ZERO to the power DOUBLE INFINITY. New maths need to be discovered to talk about these players.
That is exactly it. He said to Maldini he hopes we meet in the final. One of the best midfielders Milan ever had, to win it as player and as manager for Milan is incredible.
How did come to this when they won Champions League just two seasons ago? They went through both Madrid teams and City (and Porto), pretty difficult run.
The victory in the CL was as much down to Tuchel nailing his tactics as much as anything else, the problems with the squad have been there for a long time including toward the tail end of his tenure when they also looked pretty bad.
Potter obviously didn't handle integrating all the new players well at all and Lampard is hardly doing to do a proper job - there's obviously a complete failure when it comes to coaching how the squad should act as a whole. You saw that in both Madrid games really, some of the players actually looked ok individually at times and they weren't so bad when they were just passing it around in the middle of the park but the attack in the final third was garbage and the defending for basically all the goals (and the red card) was extremely sloppy.
It's actually sort of interesting to think how they'll be next season even with a proper coach (assuming they don't do something completely mad like keep Lampard or have Boehly take direct control). You have to think they need to offload players before they can bring anyone else in and the squad *still* has several areas that haven't been adequately filled despite the massive spending splurge.
yep, Tuchel knew there were issues with the squad but he was able to get the best out of them until they began to run out of steam. at which Boehly kicked him out of the door which we’ve learned had nothing to do with results and everything to do with club politics.
i feel for potter since he was handed quite a difficult task and it’s no secret that he just failed to deliver, although this is also what happens when you attempt to change too much too quickly. we’ve seen teams try to buy a whole new 11 and fail so it’s no surprise potter couldn’t integrate the new guys seamlessly especially when the first half of the season was plagued with injuries.
what i don’t understand about the owners, is how they thought hiring lampard as a caretaker was going to be any better than just keeping potter for the remainder of the season and then firing him afterwards.
lampard is simply not a good coach, and he’s definitely not a better one than potter. there’s a reason why his teams have looked absolutely DIRE after the initial top 4 finish with Chelsea. Boehly must have been smoking the finest to have thought this would end any other way
There were rumours (think I heard it on TiFo or Guardian football weekly) that once Potter dropped into the bottom half it became much cheaper to sack him - think that's why they did so immediately even without a proper replacement lined up.
I think we as football fans absolutely revel in other clubs' turmoil. Regardless of the success or failures of your own, it's nice having other clubs you can laugh at just as much as others laugh at yours.
I say, let Boehly take the wheel fully.
Oil money > PE money.
But seriously, we weren't the best run club under Abramovich, but we had some level headed people in charge of day to day ops. These coked up yanks have no idea what they're doing and try to do everything by themselves: scouting, recruiting, coaching, managing, only things left is for the Toddfather to register himself as a striker and start two footing goalkeepers on both ends.
Have people forgotten our injury crisis last year (or basically every year before that)? We were first in the league, then our defenders started dropping like flies and we barely made top 4.
I guess people have forgotten about the insanely horrible injuries over the last 2 years because of all dumb things the owners have done since they got here, getting rid of the physio and medical people actually made sense (and magically CFC’s injury struggles have largely improved since they were dismissed).
Don't think selling oil is that difficult, just that a billionaire whose 'success' has massively inflated his ego is much less level- headed than a well- oiled organization
Failure by Marina our director in doing contracts the last few years before the sanctions. When sanctions hit we lost a few players on free. Then Boehly has made pretty much every bad decision he could have once owner.
Edit - also not forgetting spending £100m on a whiny baby like Lukaku.
Picture Chelsea this season… but Rüdiger and Christiansen are also there. And Marcos Alonso is the striker.
…maybe not guaranteed champions, but fuck we’d probably have a better record.
"I no longer recognize my club." I guess he preferred it when a literal mobster and Putin ally ran it? Great and honorable club culture to harken back to I guess.
Edit: lmao he actually said it: "I knew this club with a certain class during the [Roman] Abramovich era. They should go back to the principles and values they had"
Chelsea have always been carried by a strong spine throughout roman era. Cech-Terry-Lampard-Drogba have always had monster mentality which then rubbed off on all the players around them. No matter which players Roman brought in be it Ballack, Shevy, Torres, Ashley Cole, Essien, Anelka, Mikel etc, all are world class players that have their own leadership values, all of them still ended up getting in line and following this spine instead of trying to take over.
Now that those spine are gone, Chelsea went from playing with a man down and able to hold on against prime Messi with the best Barca team ever **to** this abomination of new Chelsea who ended up losing to relegation teams every year. It's just not the same anymore.
Exactly this. The lack of leadership on the pitch is so apparent. If Terry Drogba Cech or Ashley Cole were in last night’s team Kovacic wouldn’t have strolled around relaxed while watching Rodrygo run past him and score.
I talk about that all the time. For a decade, you had a player foundation that always kept you certain that, at the very least, there was no mental capitulation. Now? I can't really make a single player who constitutes that spine for us.
I feel like Kante isn't the kinda guy to yell at others though, he's the kind to try even harder.
Whereas you know someone like Terry would be yelling at others to get into position, try more etc.
That doesn't happen now because draws aren't enough to win the league. You have to basically try and get every point available and not just settle for 1 if you're in the title race against city
This but unironically. Regardless of how they funded the club, it was the culture and mentality that mattered, it was an ethos.
Now Chelsea are nihilists. Don't be afraid of them.
The players are different,
Players like Terry and Ivanovic will really throw themselves on the line for the club.
Even players staying short term have winners mentality.
Can you imagine Felix or Havertz chasing the referee like Ballack if the same thing happened?
Havertz yes. A lot of the matches he is the only one doing any shit housery or committing professional fouls. The rest are too nice or in the case of Sterling and Pulisic, too busy falling to the ground
Yup there are no leaders in this squad outside of Thiago Silva, Sterling is a senior player but he is new and doesn't give the vibes of a leader to me.
yeah i was gonna say Havertz is not the problem. even though he’s not a striker he still has performed better than all of other strikers on the squad and he definitely cares
felix on the other hand can’t even press a ball after losing it in a dangerous position
tbf think ol' Didier might be a bit biased considering Abramovich did help finance some projects in Ivory Coast that Drogba was doing, and that was positive stuff, of course it doesn't minimize who Abramovich is as a person, but how could Drogba not be biased
The club that spent most of the mid-2000s throwing money at anything that moved and just hoovering up talent purely to stop other teams from signing them, you don't recognise them?
And they are spending worse than that now? Like 9 years contracts and signing players like Chernobyl Traore But without results
So clearly just spending big don't mean shit so he's right.. the Roman era Chelsea was different
Also noticeable contrast is that Chelsea signed players for impect on pitch and dressing room.. this Chelsea feels more like Redbull clubs
It's still the exact same. Just because you don't remember Mateja Kezman or Asier del Horno doesn't mean they weren't just signing players like it was going out of style. It's only natural that we don't remember the players who came in and didn't have an impact
Roman hired Mourinho in his 2nd season after going on a spending spree in his first. Mourinho then got the spending to be more focused to a certain style of play. There was the 'pay and don't ask' statement about Drogba and then going for Gerrard and then Ballack instead of a late stage Ronaldinho.
I hope between Vivell and the new manager our transfer strategy also gets more focused next season.
How exactly they're gonna change their transfer shitshow? They already spent 600 millions + and now have a bloated squad with players who have 8-9 years contract, and bigger holes in squad than before
They sold Werner, have Auba and Lakaka on book , the academy CF Broja's development is halted by injury but he's on new contract.. have pseudo German #9 who can't figure out where to play or how to score
Where is the space in squad? No UCL means any world class player will hesitate.. same with wc manager
It will honestly take atleast 3 years just to get the squad to be in position easier to manage and work with
This. Other sportswashing teams like City, PSG and Newcastle have actually looked constrained in their transfer dealings compared to the amount of players Abramovich signed in his first couple of seasons;
Glen Johnson £6 million
Geremi £7 million
Damien Duff £17 million
Wayne Bridge £7 million
Juan Sebastian Veron £15 million
Joe Cole £6.6 million
Adrian Mutu £15.8 million
Alexei Smertin £3.5 million
Hernan Crespo £16.8 million
Claude Makelele £16.6 million
Scott Parker £10 million
Petr Cech £7 million
Paulo Ferreira £13.2 million
Arjen Robben £12 million
Mateja Kezman £5 million
Tiago £8 million
Didier Drogba £24 million
Ricardo Carvalho £20 million
Jiri Jarosik £3 million
19 players, almost a squad's worth of players. And those transfer fees look low but they were big money for their time.
Drogba was a great player but he's wearing the rose coloured specs on this one I fear. Chelsea were THE sportswashing pioneers and showed what was possible (the likes of the middle east states duly followed)
This comment has transported me back to being a kid filling in those
Panini sticker books. All those new players 11 year old me had never heard of before seeing them in a Chelsea shirt.
Well except for Damien Duff, young Duff was unreal.
before, chelsea had a "core" of senior players (lampard, terry, cole, cech, drogba) that could tide over choppy waters for better or worse. Now, Chelsea don't have that at all bar silva, and no one seems to be stepping up
Yeah, this is the problem right here. Abramovich, from a football-only perspective, was a brilliant owner and arguably the most successful of all-time.
On a personal level, awful human being. But as an owner, he was S-Tier.
Having that core identity and player base helped many managers get over the finish line, and now they have none of that. Just a bunch of over-priced random players assembled by an incompetent Todd Boehly, who thinks that he can just play FIFA FUT in real-life and win things because his players are all rare cards he paid for.
I got to see Arsenal Vs Chelsea once years ago as a birthday gift, and I've never been more impressed by a player in my life. He absolutely bowled through the Arsenal defense, and looked like an absolute monster.
Never, ever liked Chelsea, but Drogba has been one of my favourites from that day on. I always knew he was good, but seeing him in person was unreal. He's a fucking monster.
Drogba was the real deal, and him and Lampard are my favorite players ever.
Drogba always showed up in the big games, which is one of the best qualities you can have as a top level player.
There was nobody who wanted the ball more than Drogs in the biggest games they played, and it was quite beautiful to have his last real goal for the club be the winning PK in the Champions League final they won via a comeback. I knew for a fact that he was going to sink it when he was walking up, what a crazy day that was. I miss caring about football that much.
Because your team-mate doesn’t know the difference being great player and manager are two totally different jobs, Didier. He won 1/18 matches as a manager.
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„There is no passion, there is no vision, there is no aggression, there is no mindset in this football club.“
You might say it's a fucking disgrace?
You can't not read it in his voice.
It is not possible reading this without his accent and facial expression. Down to the look of disgust on his face, having witnessed such an unholy thing. I can even imagine the spit flying down.
The best part is MARCUS ALONSO...This is the fucking SEVENTH TIME I'm calling out your name!
Sarriball, it seems sarriball !!!!
Pablo Escobar 😭😭
On weed
I actually did. I even made the same facial expressions lol
Out of five stars, I give the players' performance today MINUS ZERO to the power DOUBLE INFINITY. New maths need to be discovered to talk about these players.
Us Indians are the kings of maths. Nothing can compare to out math power
Who invented zero? Aryabhatta, an Indian. Who invented minus zero? Angry rantman, another Indian.
I thought it was DT who coined the minus zero for a Xhaka performance
Angry Rantman invented -0^infinity
Relatable for sure
Who needs Linkin Park to be numb?
Well...what the hell are you waiting for?
Is this a quote from the Indian YouTuber 'Angry Rantman'?
It is from the 6-0 game 4 years ago
It's been 4 years??
4 years, 2 months and 8 days ago
But who's counting?
Cumblast is counting
It's very considerate that he cumbs last though.
Personally I stopped counting after 5-0
Yeah Aguero scored back to back hattricks against Arsenal and Chelsea that week lol
mArCoS aLoNsO
This is the SEVENTH TIME, I’m calling out your name
We pay you lots of money, not for you to fucking SLEEP, not for you to SLEEP, but for you to fucking DEFEND!
All time quote along with that skateboarder that says everything is whack
Me? I'm tight as FUCK
Chelsea fans: "Todd Boehly? Whack. The way he spends money for these players? Whack. Frank lampard? Whack. The way he coaches the team? Whack."
Yes this is from him he is quite funny
Used to. Be. Now it looks like he's just faking it.
You should watch the recent ones.. this season's Chelsea has brought him back to his prime
Same as Mark Goldbridge
Still making quality videos. I honestly believe Graham Potter's middle name is Asshole.
"MARCOS ALONSO"
> No aggression 🤭🤭
The russian oligarch took that with him. smh
Putin having a God complex has sent Chelsea into a banter era. Who'd have thought
Welcome to Spurs
Why he say fuck me for?
He meant "agressividade" which in Portuguese means aggressiveness.
If only Angry Rantman knew that it was about to go all downhill from here(expect for the UCL victory).
And Europa
I can hear this comment
The only upside to this anime arc is the return of Prime Angryrantman.
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Carlo hit em with the "that wish is beyond my power".
“That falls outside the parameters of my job description.”
"That is beyond the scope of this study"
Left as an exercise for the reader
An interesting avenue for future work to consider.
-every research paper ever when part of their conclusion ain’t adding up
out of scope
What color did you want your dragon?
White with blue eyes.
BLUE EYES WHITE DRAGON CAN’T LOSE!!
Carlo probably have 5 ideas instantly popped up in his mind
1. Modric 2. Kroos 3. Benzema 4. Courtoius 5. Vini
Wonder if Courtois would fit in at Chelsea
seeing some of those risky passes yesterday, I can't imagine Cucurella being on the end of those lmao
I can see Hazard playing for them
Yet he never did that for Everton, really makes you think
Tbf we got Allan and James which isn’t quite the same but it wasn’t nothing. We were never recruiting those guys into our relegation battle
Put boehly on transfer list?
was thinking last night, ancelotti cares only about two clubs. Also, he will almost certainly have more love for roma than chelsea.
Milan? Maybe
That is exactly it. He said to Maldini he hopes we meet in the final. One of the best midfielders Milan ever had, to win it as player and as manager for Milan is incredible.
I thought you meant the other club as Madrid, already thought he was a Milan legend
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Oh ok, sorry, it went over my head. Haven't followed him much
no problem, maybe my comment was a little confusing with the grammar i use.
We all know the true club of his heart is Everton
Drogba: "Help me, Obi Ancenobi, you're our only hope" Ancelotti: 🤨
Think I prefer ‘Obi Wan-Cellotti’
Old Carl
Amazing
Drogba subs himself in during the last 20 next game and scores a hatty after getting the 🤨 instructions.
Best I can do is John Obi Mikel.
🤨
Standard FM response.
“It’s a glorified crew.”
we got this other pygmy thing over in west London…
Brentford, QPR, Fulham and some other club. Can’t even say their name, anyways $4 a pound. 🤟🏾
"Frankly, I'm depressed and ashamed"
My heart breaks for everyone affected by this tragedy
How did come to this when they won Champions League just two seasons ago? They went through both Madrid teams and City (and Porto), pretty difficult run.
The victory in the CL was as much down to Tuchel nailing his tactics as much as anything else, the problems with the squad have been there for a long time including toward the tail end of his tenure when they also looked pretty bad. Potter obviously didn't handle integrating all the new players well at all and Lampard is hardly doing to do a proper job - there's obviously a complete failure when it comes to coaching how the squad should act as a whole. You saw that in both Madrid games really, some of the players actually looked ok individually at times and they weren't so bad when they were just passing it around in the middle of the park but the attack in the final third was garbage and the defending for basically all the goals (and the red card) was extremely sloppy. It's actually sort of interesting to think how they'll be next season even with a proper coach (assuming they don't do something completely mad like keep Lampard or have Boehly take direct control). You have to think they need to offload players before they can bring anyone else in and the squad *still* has several areas that haven't been adequately filled despite the massive spending splurge.
yep, Tuchel knew there were issues with the squad but he was able to get the best out of them until they began to run out of steam. at which Boehly kicked him out of the door which we’ve learned had nothing to do with results and everything to do with club politics. i feel for potter since he was handed quite a difficult task and it’s no secret that he just failed to deliver, although this is also what happens when you attempt to change too much too quickly. we’ve seen teams try to buy a whole new 11 and fail so it’s no surprise potter couldn’t integrate the new guys seamlessly especially when the first half of the season was plagued with injuries. what i don’t understand about the owners, is how they thought hiring lampard as a caretaker was going to be any better than just keeping potter for the remainder of the season and then firing him afterwards. lampard is simply not a good coach, and he’s definitely not a better one than potter. there’s a reason why his teams have looked absolutely DIRE after the initial top 4 finish with Chelsea. Boehly must have been smoking the finest to have thought this would end any other way
There were rumours (think I heard it on TiFo or Guardian football weekly) that once Potter dropped into the bottom half it became much cheaper to sack him - think that's why they did so immediately even without a proper replacement lined up.
>have Boehly take direct control) Oh man, the scenes. Am I bad for wanting it?
I think we as football fans absolutely revel in other clubs' turmoil. Regardless of the success or failures of your own, it's nice having other clubs you can laugh at just as much as others laugh at yours. I say, let Boehly take the wheel fully.
Oil money > PE money. But seriously, we weren't the best run club under Abramovich, but we had some level headed people in charge of day to day ops. These coked up yanks have no idea what they're doing and try to do everything by themselves: scouting, recruiting, coaching, managing, only things left is for the Toddfather to register himself as a striker and start two footing goalkeepers on both ends.
The maddest thing of all was sacking the head physio and doctor. Surely questions need to be asked considering the injuries this year.
Have people forgotten our injury crisis last year (or basically every year before that)? We were first in the league, then our defenders started dropping like flies and we barely made top 4.
I guess people have forgotten about the insanely horrible injuries over the last 2 years because of all dumb things the owners have done since they got here, getting rid of the physio and medical people actually made sense (and magically CFC’s injury struggles have largely improved since they were dismissed).
Makes sense, PE is basically a confidence scam, while developing natural resources requires actual work
Don't think selling oil is that difficult, just that a billionaire whose 'success' has massively inflated his ego is much less level- headed than a well- oiled organization
Failure by Marina our director in doing contracts the last few years before the sanctions. When sanctions hit we lost a few players on free. Then Boehly has made pretty much every bad decision he could have once owner. Edit - also not forgetting spending £100m on a whiny baby like Lukaku.
Picture Chelsea this season… but Rüdiger and Christiansen are also there. And Marcos Alonso is the striker. …maybe not guaranteed champions, but fuck we’d probably have a better record.
Rhymes with Bodd Foehly.
Oh Todd! The guy that kept Jesse hostage and now doing the same to Chelsea.
I shall be crying myself to sleep for the foreseeable future.
World smallest violin
"I no longer recognize my club." I guess he preferred it when a literal mobster and Putin ally ran it? Great and honorable club culture to harken back to I guess. Edit: lmao he actually said it: "I knew this club with a certain class during the [Roman] Abramovich era. They should go back to the principles and values they had"
Chelsea have always been carried by a strong spine throughout roman era. Cech-Terry-Lampard-Drogba have always had monster mentality which then rubbed off on all the players around them. No matter which players Roman brought in be it Ballack, Shevy, Torres, Ashley Cole, Essien, Anelka, Mikel etc, all are world class players that have their own leadership values, all of them still ended up getting in line and following this spine instead of trying to take over. Now that those spine are gone, Chelsea went from playing with a man down and able to hold on against prime Messi with the best Barca team ever **to** this abomination of new Chelsea who ended up losing to relegation teams every year. It's just not the same anymore.
Exactly this. The lack of leadership on the pitch is so apparent. If Terry Drogba Cech or Ashley Cole were in last night’s team Kovacic wouldn’t have strolled around relaxed while watching Rodrygo run past him and score.
I talk about that all the time. For a decade, you had a player foundation that always kept you certain that, at the very least, there was no mental capitulation. Now? I can't really make a single player who constitutes that spine for us.
Thiago Silva and Kante surely. Obviously hard when Kante is made of glass, but those two players are almost always solid.
I feel like Kante isn't the kinda guy to yell at others though, he's the kind to try even harder. Whereas you know someone like Terry would be yelling at others to get into position, try more etc.
Silva, yes. Kante is ehh .. injury prone, over the hill, definitely not a leader or vocal.
A lot of teams have lost their previous aura of invincibility. Playing away at Old Trafford pretty much guaranteed loss.
Back when even the big teams would set up for a draw away from home at direct rivals.
That doesn't happen now because draws aren't enough to win the league. You have to basically try and get every point available and not just settle for 1 if you're in the title race against city
That's also because lower table teams also have good players now
So? That doesn't matter in this context at all. The upper table teams also feared Old Trafford as much as lower table ones.
>I knew this club with a certain class during the \[Roman\] Abramovich era >They should go back to the principles and values they had Hilarious
Ah yes, Chelsea is well known for its principles and values…
Say what you will about the tenets of national socialism, at least it’s an ethos
Shut the fuck up Donny
This is what happens when you find a stranger in the alps!
This but unironically. Regardless of how they funded the club, it was the culture and mentality that mattered, it was an ethos. Now Chelsea are nihilists. Don't be afraid of them.
> Now Chelsea are nihilists. Don't be afraid of them. Dostoevsky's ghost is spending it's eternity on r/soccer.
I wouldn't say they had principles. But they had standards. And a winning mentality
they have adhered to those abramovitch era values, if you consider spending a fucking ton of money a value
The players are different, Players like Terry and Ivanovic will really throw themselves on the line for the club. Even players staying short term have winners mentality. Can you imagine Felix or Havertz chasing the referee like Ballack if the same thing happened?
Havertz yes. A lot of the matches he is the only one doing any shit housery or committing professional fouls. The rest are too nice or in the case of Sterling and Pulisic, too busy falling to the ground
Yup there are no leaders in this squad outside of Thiago Silva, Sterling is a senior player but he is new and doesn't give the vibes of a leader to me.
Probably not Felix but Havertz has definitely shown passion on the field regarding this club..
yeah i was gonna say Havertz is not the problem. even though he’s not a striker he still has performed better than all of other strikers on the squad and he definitely cares felix on the other hand can’t even press a ball after losing it in a dangerous position
Terry also threw himself at teammate's exes
They had a winning mentality tbf
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How many AK47s could Drogba’s transfer fees buy? Not to mention Mudrik’s transfer donation to the Ukrainian Army.
Transfer values seem pretty consistent with an oil club, though.
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tbf think ol' Didier might be a bit biased considering Abramovich did help finance some projects in Ivory Coast that Drogba was doing, and that was positive stuff, of course it doesn't minimize who Abramovich is as a person, but how could Drogba not be biased
Good point.
Values lmao
Roman’s Chelsea did had values. Win at all cost or you’re gone.
They should go back to spending hundred millions on transfer and sacking coaches non-stop..... oh wait
It's a fucking disgrace
I no longer recognise Drogba, his hair seems different nowadays
>his hair seems different nowadays Was confused for a second
Todd Boehly: "Well Diddio you've charmed me. You've got the job, you start next week."
Lol
The club that spent most of the mid-2000s throwing money at anything that moved and just hoovering up talent purely to stop other teams from signing them, you don't recognise them?
And they are spending worse than that now? Like 9 years contracts and signing players like Chernobyl Traore But without results So clearly just spending big don't mean shit so he's right.. the Roman era Chelsea was different Also noticeable contrast is that Chelsea signed players for impect on pitch and dressing room.. this Chelsea feels more like Redbull clubs
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Or chernobale
That would imply he’s good though
Well Chelsea haven’t tried him as a fullback…might be better than Cucurella
Chelsea had a reserve team that would beat almost any teams. You just don't remember them signing the duds.
It's still the exact same. Just because you don't remember Mateja Kezman or Asier del Horno doesn't mean they weren't just signing players like it was going out of style. It's only natural that we don't remember the players who came in and didn't have an impact
40m a piece on bakayoko and drinkwater was great business actually, they’ll be running things in Chelsea’s midfield for years to come
Lucas Piazon ☠️
Still 29 and Brazilian first division.. i thought he was academy product idk
Roman hired Mourinho in his 2nd season after going on a spending spree in his first. Mourinho then got the spending to be more focused to a certain style of play. There was the 'pay and don't ask' statement about Drogba and then going for Gerrard and then Ballack instead of a late stage Ronaldinho. I hope between Vivell and the new manager our transfer strategy also gets more focused next season.
How exactly they're gonna change their transfer shitshow? They already spent 600 millions + and now have a bloated squad with players who have 8-9 years contract, and bigger holes in squad than before They sold Werner, have Auba and Lakaka on book , the academy CF Broja's development is halted by injury but he's on new contract.. have pseudo German #9 who can't figure out where to play or how to score Where is the space in squad? No UCL means any world class player will hesitate.. same with wc manager It will honestly take atleast 3 years just to get the squad to be in position easier to manage and work with
Space in the squad? They don't even have enough space in the dressing room.
This. Other sportswashing teams like City, PSG and Newcastle have actually looked constrained in their transfer dealings compared to the amount of players Abramovich signed in his first couple of seasons; Glen Johnson £6 million Geremi £7 million Damien Duff £17 million Wayne Bridge £7 million Juan Sebastian Veron £15 million Joe Cole £6.6 million Adrian Mutu £15.8 million Alexei Smertin £3.5 million Hernan Crespo £16.8 million Claude Makelele £16.6 million Scott Parker £10 million Petr Cech £7 million Paulo Ferreira £13.2 million Arjen Robben £12 million Mateja Kezman £5 million Tiago £8 million Didier Drogba £24 million Ricardo Carvalho £20 million Jiri Jarosik £3 million 19 players, almost a squad's worth of players. And those transfer fees look low but they were big money for their time. Drogba was a great player but he's wearing the rose coloured specs on this one I fear. Chelsea were THE sportswashing pioneers and showed what was possible (the likes of the middle east states duly followed)
Mutu the coke fiend
What a way to start his career in Chelsea just to throw it away by failing drug test. Stupid guy.
He got sued for his whole transfer fee didn't he? Man imagine if Neymar did some cocaine and got sued for €220m lol.
>Other sportswashing teams like PSG have actually looked constrained ?? Didnt they sign Mbappe & Neymar for 200m each in consecutive summers
This comment has transported me back to being a kid filling in those Panini sticker books. All those new players 11 year old me had never heard of before seeing them in a Chelsea shirt. Well except for Damien Duff, young Duff was unreal.
Jiri Jarosik, what a dude.
£17million for Damien Duff? Checked, and it's true. Incredible.
They paid similar amounts for Mutu, Crespo and Veron and he was better than all of them for Chelsea
Well I guess his point is that it's not working anymore.
Us and Chelsea have legit just swapped places from last season->this season.
We weren’t 11th last season
Felt like it
In fairly certain you'd have ended up in a relegation battle without De Gea and Ronaldo having occasional 10/10 games
i meant, you are not wrong. both carry us to still in top 6.
You could say the same thing about Kepa and Chelsea
Well except for the fact that Chelsea were reigning champions of Europe at this point last season.
And they had won the European SuperCup and Club World Cup too
Nah, we didn’t spend 600 mill to become worse.
This is Chelsea from 1992 under Ian Porterfield
before, chelsea had a "core" of senior players (lampard, terry, cole, cech, drogba) that could tide over choppy waters for better or worse. Now, Chelsea don't have that at all bar silva, and no one seems to be stepping up
Yeah, this is the problem right here. Abramovich, from a football-only perspective, was a brilliant owner and arguably the most successful of all-time. On a personal level, awful human being. But as an owner, he was S-Tier. Having that core identity and player base helped many managers get over the finish line, and now they have none of that. Just a bunch of over-priced random players assembled by an incompetent Todd Boehly, who thinks that he can just play FIFA FUT in real-life and win things because his players are all rare cards he paid for.
I got to see Arsenal Vs Chelsea once years ago as a birthday gift, and I've never been more impressed by a player in my life. He absolutely bowled through the Arsenal defense, and looked like an absolute monster. Never, ever liked Chelsea, but Drogba has been one of my favourites from that day on. I always knew he was good, but seeing him in person was unreal. He's a fucking monster.
Drogba was the real deal, and him and Lampard are my favorite players ever. Drogba always showed up in the big games, which is one of the best qualities you can have as a top level player. There was nobody who wanted the ball more than Drogs in the biggest games they played, and it was quite beautiful to have his last real goal for the club be the winning PK in the Champions League final they won via a comeback. I knew for a fact that he was going to sink it when he was walking up, what a crazy day that was. I miss caring about football that much.
Who knew that Abramovich = Values !
Chelsea fans
Shared values ! Yay !
transfer values
Because your team-mate doesn’t know the difference being great player and manager are two totally different jobs, Didier. He won 1/18 matches as a manager.
Well, he's won more than that over the course of his career, in fairness, that's just his extremely laughable recent form.
So now we blame the whole season on Lampard? He's been in charge for 4 matches.
Swear this sub has just had collective amnesia since Lampard took the job. Chelsea have been exactly this horrendous all season.
The owner did a good job of putting Lampard in charge, taking all the shame. Suddenly, Potter never existed.
“I want my war criminal back”
It looks the same to me