Let's All Laugh At... Let's all laugh at Chelsea thread

[Dov67]

PL teams need to learn and stop appointing coaches of fierce rivals.

Mourinho, Benitez, Conte, Graham now Poch.

The pressure is on them immediately and fans already have their knives out.

Said when they appointed Poch he would need at least 18 months to really get them into gear and he wouldnt even be given 6 months.

Well we are into 8 months and they want him gone.

Though we won one of our only 2 trophies in 25 years with the Man in the Raincoat as our manager

 

[Rout-Ledge]

Depends on the bar for "worked" but Arry did alright

West Ham doesn’t count. They aren’t important.

 

[Misfit]

Though we won one of our only 2 trophies in 25 years with the Man in the Raincoat as our manager

A 7th place finish too which was nosebleed territory for us at the time.

 

[fishhhandaricecake]

From Shed end loving seeing them squirm: Agent Poch thank you!! 🫡
•Even if we somehow managed to turn it around, just get him out, please.

Every rare win is just paper over the cracks...
•All I ask for is him to coach the team like he's being paid £10m per annum because that's what he's getting paid but what are we getting from him and the team?
•He's an absolute fraud. Cole Palmer have single handedly saved his sorry career until now but hopefully this is the straw the breaks the camels back.

We got some top players in this side, he's making us way worse than the sum of its part.

We'll probably get a result here today, Wolves are suspect defensively but get him out! Throw the directions that hired him out at the same time and start over.
•Yeah, I'm starting to shift towards the Poch out bandwagon... and I really didn't want to and give him the full season instead. But I really don't know how a "supposed" top draw manager cannot inspire a team against Wolves... especially after the spanking in the previous game.
•Pochettino is not able to motivate this lot, so I’m starting to think that a change in coach to a Dyche-like manager should be made.
•Another game where Pochettino is being out coached. Let's see if he responds 2nd half, I cant see it tbh. We feel like a team that is poorly coached. Reminds me of Lampard in a way.
•It's not attacking football, it's not possession based football, it's not counter attacking football either, nor park the bus football. It's not even the trash football Mourinho plays nowadays. Then what it actually is?
•Ughh, it's getting difficult to defend this if I'm being honest.
•Two 4-1 defeats in a week, really showing our level, f**k off now agent Poch, your Spurs hurting is nearly avenged #HazardnCosta
•Couldn't even lift his lazy arse off the comfortable seat he's sitting in to try and instruct the pathetic side he's put out.
•
Lost almost half our games this season. Minus goal difference. Bottom half of the table. How are we any better off than with Potter? What is he doing day-in day-out?

• The season is over now, Poch as I said earlier couldn’t get Messi and co at PSG to play together, we fundamentally have a good team in the midst of the Blue sh*te Poch has created!
• I called him Pocherttino early on, and he is indeed just the Argie Graham Potter.
  
  In fact he is worse, Potter at least had us organized at the back. Maybe with players like Palmer and Nkunku we would have got goals under him as well.
• • He is suppose to develop young players but which one has he developed?.
  Sack him now.

 

[fishhhandaricecake]

Lol true I didn't say it worked every time but certainly when he first joined us he turned around a team in a pretty dire situation

Oh sorry you meant for us? I wouldn’t count West Ham many years ago as the same as Poch to Chelsea or Jose and conte to us etc personally.

 

[Marty]

Depends on the bar for "worked" but Arry did alright

But that's because we don't give a shit about West Ham. We mean the proper rivalries.

 

[arunspurs]

 

[rossdapep]

To be fair we were fully behind Conte from word go. He was the master of his own downfall here.

Agree that it has never worked though, as a rule. Managers need to be able to form their own unique attachments to important clubs in this country. If a bond already exists somewhere else for whatever reason it just doesn’t seem to work.

Thats true and we didnt have knives out for José either but when poor form hits, a good percentage start to voice their original opinion "Chelsea scum" etc.

I do think we are quite a tolerant fanbase, I certainly wasnt on José or Contes back.

I agree though. A coach should have to develop their own unique attachment.

It needs to be fresh.

Its why I didnt want Poch. Originally it would have been all smiles and happines. Rekindle everything.

But it also would have reattached the bad moments like his persistance to leave subs late, changes of system, confusing press conferences.

 

[ItsBoris]

Indeed.

Something else I forgot to say is Chelsea need the money in before the cut off point. Whereas if any buying club is genuinely interested at realistic fee's, unless they are way under the ffp limits as of right now, they will want to wait until after the cut off point so that the spend isn't factored onto this seasons books. Making it even more unlikely they will be able to sell enough to cover their loses in time.

I dont really understand how FFP works but if they were way under the limits as of now wouldn't they want to spend before the cutoff, so they have more room on next year's books? In other words use up the remaining balance for this year while they can?

 

[Styopa]

To be fair we were fully behind Conte from word go. He was the master of his own downfall here.

Agree that it has never worked though, as a rule. Managers need to be able to form their own unique attachments to important clubs in this country. If a bond already exists somewhere else for whatever reason it just doesn’t seem to work.

I think the difference was though Conte was seen as a massive coup for us at the time, so most of us were really excited, especially after Nuno.

Whereas Chelsea are a club who have won multiple major trophies over a period of twenty years. So appointing ex Tottenham “who don’t win anything” head coach Pochettino, who (a bit like Tottenham) has also won nothing of note, was always going to be a harder sell.

 

[ukdy]

I think it was on the Price of Football pod (or could have been here) I heard that the trouble Chelsea are in financially would be made even worse as if they sack Poch, they'll still have to pay him off/his wages (and staff) - as well as those of the new guy and staff they bring in.

Making their PSR FFP situation that much more dire.

I am laughing.

 

[only1waddle]

Amazed that Winstanley is surviving all of this, imagine bringing in the guy from Brighton and then doing the exact opposite of how Brighton operated bringing in potential/developing talent.

 

[Spursmatty87]

cole palmer wont help much with ffp though, it will help a bit but they need to sell all there youth players first

He’ll go for about £80m so would help massively

 

[thekneaf]

He’ll go for about £80m so would help massively

Yeah, and I can see Arsenal trying that

 

[Trix]

He’ll go for about £80m so would help massively

To who?

 

[luRRka]

I dont really understand how FFP works but if they were way under the limits as of now wouldn't they want to spend before the cutoff, so they have more room on next year's books? In other words use up the remaining balance for this year while they can?

Believe trix is talking about buying clubs being under (chelsea are definitely well over). For example if they want Gallagher, unless they are well under the limit now and can afford Gallagher, they will just wait until after the cut off so it is included in next year's books.

 

[Trix]

Yeah, and I can see Arsenal trying that

No chance they need a CF and are pushing ffp limits themselves. The only English clubs able to spend like that right now are ourselves, Pool and City. No chance any of those 3 are going to spend that kind of money on Palmer.

 

[Yiddo1982]

We all know they will play like Brazil 1970 when we go to the Bridge though

 

[Blake Griffin]

so glad we didn't sign gallagher.

 

[knowlespurs]

He’ll go for about £80m so would help massively

No one can pay that for him and they bought him for 45m anyway , they would probably get that back