Topic: Chelsea - schooled by Liverpool's kids

[rafathegaffa83]

Can they afford to sack him with PSR issues? Or have they found a few more hotels to sell and Barcelona style economic levers to pull?

[The North Bank]

For a few years they looked like they’re nose diving but then would bounce back and win something big. This time its terminal. They are done. It’s beautiful to see, hopefully city end up the same way.

[BarryCrocker]

Can they afford to sack him with PSR issues? Or have they found a few more hotels to sell and Barcelona style economic levers to pull?

He'll be included in the Millenium and Copthorne Hotels sale where he will take up a new position as doorman.

[Brain Potter]

I long for Chelsea’s return to lower mid table irrelevance..maybe they’ll start parking cars behind the goal again.

[thaddeus]

I think that defeat to Man City really knocked the wind out of them, particularly as it was a game they should have won comfortably.  They had been in (relatively) good form up to that game and looked good throughout most of it.

Just the fight for sixth place and Europa League to motivate them now.  Villa and Spurs next look like two losses for them.

[kaesarsosei]

That was fucking embarassing last night, and it just shows that FFP/PSR is definitely having an impact or Pooch would have been sacked by now.

Btw where were Palmer and Gusto last night? They were about the only 2 Chelsea players showing any form these days. How do Arsenal keep dodging bullets like this? 

[RyanBabel19]

Odds on them going straight for Amorim after they sack Pochettino

[rossipersempre]

Odds on them going straight for Amorim after they sack Pochettino

Fairly high I'd say.

Expect they'll agree for Poch to "quit" and pay his severance off the books.

[BarryCrocker]

From The Guardian

Mudryk-Madueke-Jackson-Gallagher. This is a strange human soup, disparate parts, human talent as amortised numbers. We are the stuffed men. We are the hollow men. We are the Chelsea midfield. Imagine not beating this Chelsea team 5-0.

In a way it was refreshing. There is so much heavy systems football around. How liberating to see a team with no plan whatsoever. At one point Enzo Fernández carried the ball forward 30 yards, then just seemed to run out of bandwidth, stopping then starting again, visibly confused. Conor Gallagher’s only real job early on was to sprint in and stand in front of every Arsenal free‑kick. Well, it’s a living.

Talent has been hoarded here. But why? This is the question Chelsea seem to ask with every sideways pass, every shrugging restart. There is a serious drop off in quality in this Chelsea team without Cole Palmer and Malo Gusto. One odd thing about the 18-month mega-splurge was the narrow range of talent. Chelsea bought a lot of deeply room-temperature footballers. All filler no killer. This is our DNA now: the yeah-maybe player.

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2024/apr/23/chelsea-arsenal-football-premier-league

[GinKop]

From The Guardian

Oooof - beautifully put.

Hopefully, the toxic virus from previous generations has spread too far into this club's DNA now.

[AndyMuller]

Fucking bums.

[gazzalfc]

There are not enough hotels in the world that will save this football team

[FiSh77]

I long for Chelsea’s return to 2nd division irrelevance..maybe they’ll start parking cars behind the goal again.

Fixed for accuracy

[The North Bank]

From The Guardian

Beautiful

[Garlicbread]

To the surprise of no one. John Terry's an absolute dickhead.

https://twitter.com/The_Forty_Four/status/1783441573033685463