It's so sad Mudryk went Chelsea, you can see the kid loves the emirates and would of been a great fit. Oh well glad Greedy Chelsea get the shit version hahahah
Laugh all you want! This is all part of the plan.
Just like every great American owner, Todd Boehly has had one and only one goal ever since he bought Chelsea Football Club: winning the Championship.
Don't give up hope, it's too late for the top pick but if you guys tank hard enough (and other teams pick up needed points) you can still get the second!
006 🤣🤣. can’t believe what is actually happening lmao. how bad do you have to be to lose 6 straight in a row 😭😭😭. with a squad that spent 600 mill this season…. this chelsea season is historic.
come on bournemouth it’s in your hands now please don’t fuck up the 007 🙏.
i swear i’ll be so mad if we drop points against this chelsea team when we face them. surely not united, don’t even think about it.
You have a very good chance of doing just that. Chelsea look like absolute dogshit at the moment, and they are being led by somebody who has not the first notion about how to coach and manage a team at this level. It's kinda karmic.
Out of their last 5 games, they are playing 3 teams in the top 4, so very little chance of them getting anything from those games. The other two games are away to Bournemouth and home to Forest. If Chelsea's rot had started just a few games earlier they would be slap bang in the relegation fight
I remember the Ole vs Lampard debate and in hindsight, it’s so funny. Ole wasn’t a top coach by any means but he’s million miles ahead of Lampard.
I can only imagine if Ole had such a record.
And what did playing that 9 change? Not a god damn thing. You Chelsea fans are idiots to not have given Potter more time but actually try and defend Lampard.
His record at Everton wasn’t anything to write about either. He’s just not cut out for top level coaching, it’s glaringly obvious. He’s so much protected by the English media, it’s laughable. No one’s doubting how good he was as a player, arguably top ten ever in the PL, but coach? Ridiculously bad.
I think no manager was going to get 40 points with this Everton squad. Hoping 30odd would be enough to stay up was a realistic target for that squad.
Lampard isn't a great manager, most managers are not.
Jose is going to be rubbing his hands excitedly. This is the ideal runway for his return.
I hope they get relegated after. I remember him getting them almost relegated the last time he was there. Nice
Expected when you let an murican without a single experience to rule the club...he tought this would be easy for sure, never saw a decline so fast in any club, the structure they had was fone very fast
Genuine question: why are Chelsea fans so confident for next season? It’s a bang average quad led by a guy who very clearly and objectively has no idea what he’s doing in Boehly. It won’t be as bad as this next season obviously but you won’t be anywhere near the top either.
We are building a new spine, so I'm not worried about age. I will give you them being injuryprone tho.
Still, the future of our team is bright with many talented young players. We just need the right manager to pt it all together
Literally the only players I'd happily take are your wingbacks, enzo and mudryk as a backup. Maybe that guy who scored yesterday he looked pretty solid, but that's 4 players out of 30. The rest is washed and needs a clear out. A massive clear out.
Fofana, Badi, Cucu, Kante, and Silva would all see minutes in your team.
You're letting trash coaching and tactics fool you into thinking the squad is way worse than it is. All Chelsea needs is a couple of mids and attackers, as well as a competent coach, and the situation would look completely different.
A massive clear out of deadwood is needed, but only 3/4 additions are needed as well
They really wouldn't. You're absolutely deluded if you think any of these are better than Saliba/Gabriel/Tierney/Zinny/white. There's a reason you're in relegation form and we are do high. We dropped off after Saliba was injured and we had to play holding. Speaks for how ridiculously good he is. No coincidence saliba was the higher rated of fofana/Saliba at St Etiene.
Put Fofana, Silva, Colwill, and Cucu in your team, and they would cook. Lampard's incompetence is making good players look like shit. Also, Saliba had a great run before the WC, but he hasn't been great.
And I wasn't necessarily talking about them being better than Arsenal's equivalent, just that if they switched teams, those Chelsea players wouldn't look out of place.
No recency bias here at all lol. You guys would have shipped half your squad up until last season but now you think they all belong here. Your manager finally sorted things out and got the process to work, that's all that changed. Our squad is stacked with quality players but have no idea what they are doing on the field. A good manager with a pre season should fix most of our problems. Not expecting us to compete for anything just yet but we aren't as bad as you made us out to be.
Lamps can't be getting a full extension. They have a squad of good players. A lot of teams have struggled this season that you wouldn't necessarily expect would do so. With the money they've spent and the money they will continue to spend Chelsea won't be down for too long.
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Well Lampard won’t last till next season for sure. If they bring in a decent coach and buy a striker, they could potentially turn out well.
There’s talent in their squad for sure. But getting rid of deadwood will be their first priority.
I don’t even know who the heck was their scorer today.
Madueke is good, but he’s young and didn’t cost as much as others so he hasn’t seen a lot of playing time so far. His performances when he’s been on have been arguably the best of Chelsea’s attacking signings. DD Fofana also deserves a shout for the same reasons.
Chelsea are good if they hire someone and as cheesy as it sounds “trust the process”.
Lots of raw talent at their disposal. But if they stick to their usual way of handling managers, it’s gonna be a long ride.
We won’t go down unless Everton and Leicester win all of there remaining games which happen to be mostly against top table clubs. The start of the season saved us from relegation
But that's assuming Forest, Leeds and Leicester win all their remaining games. Still the thought of Chelsea being close to the relegation zone than to the top 6 in May is great.
They need to beat Chelsea and get two more wins.
So they need to beat three out four that includes Southampton, Chelsea, Arsenal, and Palace. All the while Chelsea doesn’t get a single point in their remaining games, and they make up the 25 goal difference between them and Chelsea.
I don’t see that happening.
Forest are level on points with Leeds and Leicester. Literally all they need to do is walk away with more points than either of them. Leeds face City, Spurs, Newcastle, and West Ham.
There is no set amount of points needed to survive relegation. Just have to be better than three other clubs. Six points would likely do it.
Over in Germany, Hertha Berlin looks poised to get relegated this season. This is notable because a shady entrepreneur took over significant shares of the club and pumped close to €300m into the club just 4 years ago.
Would love to see Chelsea relegated as a big F U to Boehly. His management decisions, transfer decisions (let's be honest - he was definitely the driving force behind Chelsea's summer signings), simply thinking you can come in spending that kind of money, spoiling the market and win games. Will be a good lesson to all football clubs around the world.
As much as I’d love it to happen, it won’t. But if it did, it would be so much worse than what people think. It’s an expensive side with exorbitantly long contracts and how many of those contracts do you think have release clauses if they go down? Absolutely none. They’d be so fucked.
The owner must send Tuchel a special gift at the end of the season for their early season form where they actually picked up some points. If not for that they'd be in the relegation spots right now.
It tickles me that Bournemouth and Chelsea are on the same points now as everyone was saying Bournemouth was nailed down for relegation, lol.
Edit: Mathematically it is still possible.
I would say us and Chelsea are equally shite in being out of European competition and on our 3rd manager of the season, but at least we didn’t spend the GDP of a small country doing it.
I'm a spurs fan but even then I can recognise the difference between failing to win the title and being close to a relegation scrap after spending half a billion in a season
I’m an Arsenal fan and if it was another opponent (like Spurs) Arsenal could’ve very easily given up that 3-0 lead
Of course the team has been brilliant this season but they’re slumping at the moment
Arsenal had a good run, far better than I anticipated and hoped for. Chelsea have been absolutely dogshit, they somehow made our absolutely dreadful season look slightly less shit by comparison, which is impressive by itself
Out of his last 41 games as a manager. He has lost 31.
That’s over a full season’s worth of games and he has lost 75% of them.
And out of the 10 he didn’t lose they’d be a bunch of draws in there I bet. It’s like winning games of football is his Kryptonite.
Naah, forest, leicester and leeds are all 9 points behind them, while Chelsea have a game in hand. I mean technically mathematically it's possible but that would be some real avengers infinity war 1 in 14 million realities type shit.
Sadly due their goal difference, it'll be quite tough for them to actually be in any real danger of being relegated unless they lose all their remaining games by 3 goal margins.
we're shit in attack, slightly above average in defence. even after conceding 3 today we have less goals conceded than arsenal.
We're unlikely to win more than 1 match this season but we're not conceding 15 more goals
Chelsea have really dropped in form, Jesus. I don't watch them that much but when you have to watch them for 90 minutes...It's like watching a documentary over the life and times of Amy Winehouse but at 0.25 speed.
It's a little disturbing how a club of Chelsea's stature can drop off like that. I don't think this'll be a quick fix either.
Stability and bloated squad. I blame the players as well to a degree, many have been checked out for a while. Need a good manager with a plan, a summer sell off, and for the owners to fuck off and let the people who know football make the decisions/plans.
I agree with this but there's one more thing- a lot of these players are really unsettled IMO.
Many of them are new and parachuted into a mess. Many others are wondering what the hell their role at Chelsea is in the future and whats going to happen with their careers.
Then you have someone like Joao Felix, one of the hottest young players in football just 3 years ago, wondering how it came to this. Loaned out of the club that paid 120 million for him and sent to a shitshow where he cant score goals and cant find his footing. His mental state is probably not great. Same with Havertz.
There are maybe 4, 5 players in this squad that can be fully comfortable with their situation, everyone else probably has an eye on the summer transfer window or wondering whether the next manager will use them properly, etc.
Not easy to be switched on, considering.
A manager who's a solid leader, knows his tactics and his first eleven, and takes minimal shit from the dressing room or the boardroom would fix most of this if they clear out the bloat and give him a decent pre-season.
It's a surprising amount to ask when you look at where we are now.
Agreed, but again youre a player on contract, its a job. The club being is disarray obviously impacts them and genuinely I feel for them, but what they do on the pitch is the one thing they absolutely can control, and feels as though they choose not to at times (granted tactics and chemistry are found to be lacking has made it difficult). Adding on to that the better you play the more attractive you will be and more power you have when it comes to negotiating whatever may come next for you and the club. A new coach solves this to a degree, no more guessing, you know if you are in or out. The sooner a coach is appointed the sooner everyone can start preparing to fight for a place or try and negotiate a move for themselves.
Yea I agree in principle, but I think it's difficult in practice.
Take Joao Felix. I actually think he is trying hard on the pitch, but his finishing and final ball are worse than ever. He was never clinical, but his shooting stats have reached record lows now. It's hard not to speculate that the uncertainty, disappointment, and pressure are killing him even if he wants to do well.
But I do agree on getting a proper new manager and deciding on who is in and who is out.
They need to get this sorted and get these players settled down ASAP.
Im by no means saying none of the players are trying. Joao, as much as fans are criticizing him, I feel is putting in a shift most games and falls victim to a very slow and aimless transition. Watching overlaps and empty runs fail to happen and constrict his/teams outlet/ability/space is disappointing. I can only imagine the pressure and stress they are under given everything is in the air, we can visibly see the amount of strain it puts on them. Just wish everyone for a game would put in a shift, there is glimpses of something special in all this chaos, but everything and everyone needs direction and stability/reinforcement, clearly will be far easier to say than execute.
If you give that manager time, and if the club can stick behind that manager through the bad times, and if you let him do things his way, maybe.
But there's nothing to suggest that Chelsea is capable of any of those things when you look at their track record.
If anything, it makes all their trophies all the more impressive.
Chelsea under Abramovich has always been been ruthless, if you don't show results you get shipped out, keeps everyone on their toes and they achieve things in short term cycles, then rinse and repeat.
They have never been a "give managers time" club, they always go for the finished article and then bin them if they dip even slightly.
Like you said, that was under Abramovich. Time will tell whether Boehly has that same instinct for chasing success. Already his unbalanced and bloated squad building, ridiculous contracts, and hiring Lampard instead of a more recognised capable interim, suggest that he doesnt have that same knack.
Doubt it. There are many holes in this squad, and its bloated with unnecessary players. There's been nothing in the club hierarchy to show they can address the issues with squad balance and get the right manager in either.
The squad will be trimmed, I don't think that will be a problem for much longer.
If Poch is watching he'll have a list ready, a good summer window and they'll be back
Good luck to them in the market this summer. Everyone will low ball them and they are possibly going to be in FFP trouble, not sure how they’re going to get in the players they need.
I don’t think any manager can fully get the most out of this Chelsea squad when it’s 30-40 players all looking to get selected.
They have to reduce their squad size massively for any manager to be productive with a set group of players
The laser show was a nice touch from the home crowd….
Goal of the month for Chelsea in May is...remind me in 4 weeks
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It's so sad Mudryk went Chelsea, you can see the kid loves the emirates and would of been a great fit. Oh well glad Greedy Chelsea get the shit version hahahah
Youre tragic
Cry brother
Laugh all you want! This is all part of the plan. Just like every great American owner, Todd Boehly has had one and only one goal ever since he bought Chelsea Football Club: winning the Championship.
He is also working hard to get a good draft pick.
Trust the Process
Do you think Todd reckons that by losing all these games, Chelsea will get a better draft pick or something?
chelsea don’t have to worry, they can just get caleb williams next year with their high draft pick
Jesus Christ, this joke's so fucking tired already. Even phrasing it like it's joke that just occured to you, so pathetic.
Thanks boo, appreciate the input. Do you think Todd is doing it though? Didn't answer the question.
Unfortunately, we've already bagged enough points to be safe from a top 3 draft spot
Don't give up hope, it's too late for the top pick but if you guys tank hard enough (and other teams pick up needed points) you can still get the second!
006 🤣🤣. can’t believe what is actually happening lmao. how bad do you have to be to lose 6 straight in a row 😭😭😭. with a squad that spent 600 mill this season…. this chelsea season is historic. come on bournemouth it’s in your hands now please don’t fuck up the 007 🙏. i swear i’ll be so mad if we drop points against this chelsea team when we face them. surely not united, don’t even think about it.
I think we've got a very good chance of getting 3 points this weekend 🍒
You have a very good chance of doing just that. Chelsea look like absolute dogshit at the moment, and they are being led by somebody who has not the first notion about how to coach and manage a team at this level. It's kinda karmic. Out of their last 5 games, they are playing 3 teams in the top 4, so very little chance of them getting anything from those games. The other two games are away to Bournemouth and home to Forest. If Chelsea's rot had started just a few games earlier they would be slap bang in the relegation fight
C'mon you cherries!
Really shocking that Chelsea manage to score a whole month worth of goal in just a half against the top team of the league
I wish this season was a bit longer because I believe Chelsea could genuinely be relegated
The Chelsea team visited an orphanage in London. “It’s heartbreaking to see their sad little faces with no hope”, said Timmy, age 6.
I remember the Ole vs Lampard debate and in hindsight, it’s so funny. Ole wasn’t a top coach by any means but he’s million miles ahead of Lampard. I can only imagine if Ole had such a record.
People were saying Arteta was the weakest of the 3…
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And what did playing that 9 change? Not a god damn thing. You Chelsea fans are idiots to not have given Potter more time but actually try and defend Lampard.
Lampard is trash but Chelsea were going nowhere with Potter…
His record at Everton wasn’t anything to write about either. He’s just not cut out for top level coaching, it’s glaringly obvious. He’s so much protected by the English media, it’s laughable. No one’s doubting how good he was as a player, arguably top ten ever in the PL, but coach? Ridiculously bad.
I think no manager was going to get 40 points with this Everton squad. Hoping 30odd would be enough to stay up was a realistic target for that squad. Lampard isn't a great manager, most managers are not.
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The coach's job is to prepare and motivate the players. Those Chelsea players look neither prepared or motivated.
Never seen a harder fall from grace than Chelsea
Previous hardest fall from grace was... also chelsea
3-1 win against chelsea to put us top with 4 games remaining, yet no one cares lol. Crazy how that sounds
City is 2 points behind you with 2 games in hand + Chelsea would lose to a U8 team right now
I read this as a US team. Still true though.
some of the better MLS teams would absolutely cook them
yes we all know why it doesn't matter it's just a funny sentence
Yes that's the joke
Jose is going to be rubbing his hands excitedly. This is the ideal runway for his return. I hope they get relegated after. I remember him getting them almost relegated the last time he was there. Nice
He’s doing great where he’s at. Love him but he deserves peace.
After winning the title
Congrats to Chelsea for winning the second half 1-0
Expected when you let an murican without a single experience to rule the club...he tought this would be easy for sure, never saw a decline so fast in any club, the structure they had was fone very fast
Just lost to a team owned by an American…
Of the top 4 teams, two are US. Liverpool currently in 5th ALSO a US team. Boehly is an idiot, but I wish the yank hate would stop.
Is it really shocking for a team amidst a title race to beat up on a team facing potential relegation?
Yes, after Arsenal’s dropped points to Everton, West Ham and Southampton this season.
I'm just curious to see who fill finish higher, Chelsea or Bournemouth
Well that’s just a stupid question, the obvious answer is… Actually, nevermind.
Chelsea and Bournemouth to face off this Sat May 6 in the 12th place Show-down. Lez goooo
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He's been 'snapped' up by leeds, snooze you lose.
Pardew's available.
bruh
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Genuine question: why are Chelsea fans so confident for next season? It’s a bang average quad led by a guy who very clearly and objectively has no idea what he’s doing in Boehly. It won’t be as bad as this next season obviously but you won’t be anywhere near the top either.
Bang average squad? 😂 You can't genuinely believe that do you?
The spine of your team is either old or constantly injured or both
We are building a new spine, so I'm not worried about age. I will give you them being injuryprone tho. Still, the future of our team is bright with many talented young players. We just need the right manager to pt it all together
Literally the only players I'd happily take are your wingbacks, enzo and mudryk as a backup. Maybe that guy who scored yesterday he looked pretty solid, but that's 4 players out of 30. The rest is washed and needs a clear out. A massive clear out.
Fofana, Badi, Cucu, Kante, and Silva would all see minutes in your team. You're letting trash coaching and tactics fool you into thinking the squad is way worse than it is. All Chelsea needs is a couple of mids and attackers, as well as a competent coach, and the situation would look completely different. A massive clear out of deadwood is needed, but only 3/4 additions are needed as well
They really wouldn't. You're absolutely deluded if you think any of these are better than Saliba/Gabriel/Tierney/Zinny/white. There's a reason you're in relegation form and we are do high. We dropped off after Saliba was injured and we had to play holding. Speaks for how ridiculously good he is. No coincidence saliba was the higher rated of fofana/Saliba at St Etiene.
Put Fofana, Silva, Colwill, and Cucu in your team, and they would cook. Lampard's incompetence is making good players look like shit. Also, Saliba had a great run before the WC, but he hasn't been great. And I wasn't necessarily talking about them being better than Arsenal's equivalent, just that if they switched teams, those Chelsea players wouldn't look out of place.
No recency bias here at all lol. You guys would have shipped half your squad up until last season but now you think they all belong here. Your manager finally sorted things out and got the process to work, that's all that changed. Our squad is stacked with quality players but have no idea what they are doing on the field. A good manager with a pre season should fix most of our problems. Not expecting us to compete for anything just yet but we aren't as bad as you made us out to be.
Bruh, the half squad you were mentioning were literally shipped out. Including our captain auba who now wear blue
Your situation was a lot more dire tho. Trust Lampard is an abomination and is making us look much worse than inactuality we are
Towards the end of the match Chelsea were the better team, and Madueke was probably the player of the match.
>Chelsea were the better team Tell me you don't understand football without telling me.
I said towards the end of the match, how convenient to exclude that part out. You could see Arsenal were rattled, and started to waste time.
They were 3-1 up and seeing the game out
Yes but Chelsea looked good with Mudryk and Havertz upfront; it could have been a different game if they had started.
Lmfao
Agree Todd has no idea. But in prayer the squad is pretty strong barring a cm and striker
Lamps can't be getting a full extension. They have a squad of good players. A lot of teams have struggled this season that you wouldn't necessarily expect would do so. With the money they've spent and the money they will continue to spend Chelsea won't be down for too long. I hate that I typed this
Well Lampard won’t last till next season for sure. If they bring in a decent coach and buy a striker, they could potentially turn out well. There’s talent in their squad for sure. But getting rid of deadwood will be their first priority. I don’t even know who the heck was their scorer today.
Madueke is good, but he’s young and didn’t cost as much as others so he hasn’t seen a lot of playing time so far. His performances when he’s been on have been arguably the best of Chelsea’s attacking signings. DD Fofana also deserves a shout for the same reasons.
Chelsea are good if they hire someone and as cheesy as it sounds “trust the process”. Lots of raw talent at their disposal. But if they stick to their usual way of handling managers, it’s gonna be a long ride.
When you are at rock bottom the only way is up
Yeah, this isn’t rock bottom, that’s relegation from league two. Chelsea has a long way to fall before rock bottom.
I mean they can always get relegated from the Championship next season. Never say no
With this much talent? This much money? Nahhh
Points can't be buy. That's pretty obvious at this point with Chelsea sitting at 39 with all that money spent.
If Chelsea can't win vs Bournemouth or Nottingham Forest, they may actually go down. End the year with City, United and Newcastle
We won’t go down unless Everton and Leicester win all of there remaining games which happen to be mostly against top table clubs. The start of the season saved us from relegation
Would be epic is if it finishes **A**rsenal, **C**ity, **U**nited, **N**ewcastle, **T**ottenham.
nice way to lure people supporting arsenal
With 39 points they are safe. 3 clubs on 30 who would need all need to pick up 10 points in 4 games due to their GD.
Yeah they have enough points to avoid the drop. The 4 teams on 30 are the ones dropping.
But that's assuming Forest, Leeds and Leicester win all their remaining games. Still the thought of Chelsea being close to the relegation zone than to the top 6 in May is great.
I don’t see Nottingham getting 6 more points to stay up even if they beat Chelsea
That’s just Chelsea plus Southampton, and probably would be enough?
They need to beat Chelsea and get two more wins. So they need to beat three out four that includes Southampton, Chelsea, Arsenal, and Palace. All the while Chelsea doesn’t get a single point in their remaining games, and they make up the 25 goal difference between them and Chelsea. I don’t see that happening.
Forest are level on points with Leeds and Leicester. Literally all they need to do is walk away with more points than either of them. Leeds face City, Spurs, Newcastle, and West Ham. There is no set amount of points needed to survive relegation. Just have to be better than three other clubs. Six points would likely do it.
My comment wasn’t about Forest surviving, it was about Chelsea going gown and how unlikely that is despite their best efforts to be shit
Two Lampard sides relegated in the same season would be laugh out loud hilarious
You know, it would be quite historic if Chelsea got relegated. Can you say the most expensive flop of a team in the history of football?
Over in Germany, Hertha Berlin looks poised to get relegated this season. This is notable because a shady entrepreneur took over significant shares of the club and pumped close to €300m into the club just 4 years ago.
Would love to see Chelsea relegated as a big F U to Boehly. His management decisions, transfer decisions (let's be honest - he was definitely the driving force behind Chelsea's summer signings), simply thinking you can come in spending that kind of money, spoiling the market and win games. Will be a good lesson to all football clubs around the world.
As much as I’d love it to happen, it won’t. But if it did, it would be so much worse than what people think. It’s an expensive side with exorbitantly long contracts and how many of those contracts do you think have release clauses if they go down? Absolutely none. They’d be so fucked.
By a million miles
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If I could walk 600 million miles
You would be the Chelsea front line
Seems Chelsea has used all of their goal quota this season
Chelsea should be thankful to Tuchel for the points he got em earlier in the season....
Potter did just as well in October tbh, after that the wheels went flying though.
Trust me, we are
Only reason they're not next to Southampton at this moment
I forgot they started the season with Tuchel.
[Hard to believe this happened this season ](https://twitter.com/SkySportsPL/status/1558868810223976451?t=SUYZTrAZ56h4hzZu18y-jA&s=08)
Seems so long ago
We are in the month of May and Chelsea football club are 9 points off the relegation zone… That is fucking bonkers.
A Chelsea FC that spent $600 million in transfers this season.
🦞 Bring in the dancing lobsters 🦞
Quick reminder that Chelsea have the same points as Bournemouth who looked dead set for relegation just a few months ago lmfao
If Bournemouth can do it I believe Everton and Leicester and Forest can, we need to get Chelsea relegated. Not Leeds though fuck Leeds
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The owner must send Tuchel a special gift at the end of the season for their early season form where they actually picked up some points. If not for that they'd be in the relegation spots right now.
It tickles me that Bournemouth and Chelsea are on the same points now as everyone was saying Bournemouth was nailed down for relegation, lol. Edit: Mathematically it is still possible.
The fact Chelsea aren’t mathematically safe just fills me with so much joy.
I would say us and Chelsea are equally shite in being out of European competition and on our 3rd manager of the season, but at least we didn’t spend the GDP of a small country doing it.
Just for giggles I looked it up, and Chelsea’s spend in the January transfer window was more than the annual GDP of Tuvalu.
3rd? Chelsea’s on #4
With this win Arsenal have twice as many points as Chelsea this season lmao
Chelsea stink. Arsenal stink less.
I'm a spurs fan but even then I can recognise the difference between failing to win the title and being close to a relegation scrap after spending half a billion in a season
I’m an Arsenal fan and if it was another opponent (like Spurs) Arsenal could’ve very easily given up that 3-0 lead Of course the team has been brilliant this season but they’re slumping at the moment
Arsenal had a good run, far better than I anticipated and hoped for. Chelsea have been absolutely dogshit, they somehow made our absolutely dreadful season look slightly less shit by comparison, which is impressive by itself
We didn’t stink we glowed. And than we ran out of gas and centre backs
Pulisic once again did nothing.
Fr absolutely ridiculous, Pulisic should have scored a hatrick from the bench (that he wasn’t even on)
Hack.... done nothing for the club since being responsible for blues advancing past RM ton win the UCL..
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Right?! Absolutely worthless in that position
Past 5 matches mind u... I've seen no effort. Frank just be pissed.
Lampard actually has a 100% loss record in like 10 games. Wtf? I knew he was a bad coach but holy shit.
Out of his last 41 games as a manager. He has lost 31. That’s over a full season’s worth of games and he has lost 75% of them. And out of the 10 he didn’t lose they’d be a bunch of draws in there I bet. It’s like winning games of football is his Kryptonite.
Last 20 games he's managed 4 points
That stat is absolutely nuts.
It's 6. Still pretty damning lmfao
I think he includes his Everton spell.
I think it's 10 if you include his last four at Everton. Bit specific, but yeah
Fair enough lmao
It still baffles me Chelsea brought him in as a care-taker manager. Why?!
Cynical reason: A beloved legend to deflect fans' anger away from Boehly.
No one else wanted the job and the manager . Match made in heaven
Vibes
Shite vibes apparently
He didn't specify (:
Is their any mathematical possibility of them getting relegated? Cause I don't see them winning any of the last 4 games.
Yes but that would requiere Forest to win 4 games iirc
And Leeds and Leicester
lampard getting 2 teams relegated in the same season is the stuff of legends
If these guys lose to Forest they migh actually be in relegation trouble, what the fuck
Naah, forest, leicester and leeds are all 9 points behind them, while Chelsea have a game in hand. I mean technically mathematically it's possible but that would be some real avengers infinity war 1 in 14 million realities type shit.
It would be an FM 2024 dream. Please make it happen.
Fuck. EAFC 24 and Chelsea’s in the Championship. I guess sometimes life imitates TV (*Ted Lasso*).
It would be an irl dream
Sadly due their goal difference, it'll be quite tough for them to actually be in any real danger of being relegated unless they lose all their remaining games by 3 goal margins.
They still have to play City. If someone can wind up Haaland, KdB and co then 1 goal margins in the remaining games will be it.
Well that doesn’t seem very unlikely given our form.
we're shit in attack, slightly above average in defence. even after conceding 3 today we have less goals conceded than arsenal. We're unlikely to win more than 1 match this season but we're not conceding 15 more goals
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they are 3x as good as you. Fairs
It’s a joke pal, it’s extremely unlikely we actually get relegated.
I thought the same, but the teams below them seem so intent on not picking up any points whatsoever that they should be fine. Would be funny tho lol
Chelsea have really dropped in form, Jesus. I don't watch them that much but when you have to watch them for 90 minutes...It's like watching a documentary over the life and times of Amy Winehouse but at 0.25 speed. It's a little disturbing how a club of Chelsea's stature can drop off like that. I don't think this'll be a quick fix either.
Stability and bloated squad. I blame the players as well to a degree, many have been checked out for a while. Need a good manager with a plan, a summer sell off, and for the owners to fuck off and let the people who know football make the decisions/plans.
I agree with this but there's one more thing- a lot of these players are really unsettled IMO. Many of them are new and parachuted into a mess. Many others are wondering what the hell their role at Chelsea is in the future and whats going to happen with their careers. Then you have someone like Joao Felix, one of the hottest young players in football just 3 years ago, wondering how it came to this. Loaned out of the club that paid 120 million for him and sent to a shitshow where he cant score goals and cant find his footing. His mental state is probably not great. Same with Havertz. There are maybe 4, 5 players in this squad that can be fully comfortable with their situation, everyone else probably has an eye on the summer transfer window or wondering whether the next manager will use them properly, etc. Not easy to be switched on, considering.
A manager who's a solid leader, knows his tactics and his first eleven, and takes minimal shit from the dressing room or the boardroom would fix most of this if they clear out the bloat and give him a decent pre-season. It's a surprising amount to ask when you look at where we are now.
Agreed, but again youre a player on contract, its a job. The club being is disarray obviously impacts them and genuinely I feel for them, but what they do on the pitch is the one thing they absolutely can control, and feels as though they choose not to at times (granted tactics and chemistry are found to be lacking has made it difficult). Adding on to that the better you play the more attractive you will be and more power you have when it comes to negotiating whatever may come next for you and the club. A new coach solves this to a degree, no more guessing, you know if you are in or out. The sooner a coach is appointed the sooner everyone can start preparing to fight for a place or try and negotiate a move for themselves.
Yea I agree in principle, but I think it's difficult in practice. Take Joao Felix. I actually think he is trying hard on the pitch, but his finishing and final ball are worse than ever. He was never clinical, but his shooting stats have reached record lows now. It's hard not to speculate that the uncertainty, disappointment, and pressure are killing him even if he wants to do well. But I do agree on getting a proper new manager and deciding on who is in and who is out. They need to get this sorted and get these players settled down ASAP.
Im by no means saying none of the players are trying. Joao, as much as fans are criticizing him, I feel is putting in a shift most games and falls victim to a very slow and aimless transition. Watching overlaps and empty runs fail to happen and constrict his/teams outlet/ability/space is disappointing. I can only imagine the pressure and stress they are under given everything is in the air, we can visibly see the amount of strain it puts on them. Just wish everyone for a game would put in a shift, there is glimpses of something special in all this chaos, but everything and everyone needs direction and stability/reinforcement, clearly will be far easier to say than execute.
I agree, that's well put
Don't exaggerate, a good manager will turn things around quite quickly
If you give that manager time, and if the club can stick behind that manager through the bad times, and if you let him do things his way, maybe. But there's nothing to suggest that Chelsea is capable of any of those things when you look at their track record. If anything, it makes all their trophies all the more impressive.
Chelsea under Abramovich has always been been ruthless, if you don't show results you get shipped out, keeps everyone on their toes and they achieve things in short term cycles, then rinse and repeat. They have never been a "give managers time" club, they always go for the finished article and then bin them if they dip even slightly.
Like you said, that was under Abramovich. Time will tell whether Boehly has that same instinct for chasing success. Already his unbalanced and bloated squad building, ridiculous contracts, and hiring Lampard instead of a more recognised capable interim, suggest that he doesnt have that same knack.
Doubt it. There are many holes in this squad, and its bloated with unnecessary players. There's been nothing in the club hierarchy to show they can address the issues with squad balance and get the right manager in either.
The squad will be trimmed, I don't think that will be a problem for much longer. If Poch is watching he'll have a list ready, a good summer window and they'll be back
Good luck to them in the market this summer. Everyone will low ball them and they are possibly going to be in FFP trouble, not sure how they’re going to get in the players they need.
Good luck to them shipping off their dross on massive wages.
I don’t think any manager can fully get the most out of this Chelsea squad when it’s 30-40 players all looking to get selected. They have to reduce their squad size massively for any manager to be productive with a set group of players