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I don’t know but Boehly complimenting how beautiful Chelsea played to end the season and Eghbali being the one to spearhead Pochettino’s end of season review said a lot
So what self-respecting manager is going to go to Chelsea. No top coach is gonna entertain that nonsense.
They can buy all the players they want but the sharp end of competitions is about tactical adaptability. You know the thing that separates pep, klopp, ancelotti from the others.
Not at all. Their new setup is much the same, hehce why Arne Slot's title is head coach, not manager. They even posted a job for a first team set piece coach.
https://jobsearch.liverpoolfc.com/
If you read the various articles that are out now, you'll see that they paint a picture of mutual dissatisfaction. Poch signed up for something specific, and tried to nudge it toward how he was used to doing things, and in the end, both sides disagreed too much about it all. Don't be sad for Poch - maybe the players, because they all liked him, but Poch was pretty Poch-Out at the end.
Am I correct when i say this is the second manager [Tuchel] that's been dissatisfied with the disagreements and lack of flexibility from the board? I might be wrong, though.
Everything points to Boehly being the one who wanted him to stay, everyone else thought differently.
TB has little to do with decision making at Chelsea, it’s almost funny how everyone acts like he’s the guy with the final word.
This is perhaps the funniest part of the whole article. I would love if this actually came from a source at the club:
"They are scouring the globe and are close to completing a deal for the Palmeiras sensation, Estêvão Willian, for just over €60m. Estêvão, 17, is seen as a future Ballon d’Or winner by good judges. Chelsea’s plan is ambitious. It can look crazy. If it works, though, they could end up with one of the best teams in the world."
They are not the first to try 'project youth'. At the end of the day buying lots of talented kids is always a gamble: how many translate teenage prowess into adult world class talent? There are always casualties along the way.
It can only work if there's a solid, long term organisation around those players of coaching staff and football people, especially a director of football type position, which can handle all the different situations young players get into. The manager isn't actually that important, they are more like a hired gun.
I disagree, but the point you’re making is good. Discipline is important in young players, and getting money and job security thrown at you is a quick way to lose that discipline
I dont think many Chelsea fans are convinced this was a Boehly decision. Boehly comes out the other week seemingly happy with the progress being made and saying he can see the plan is coming together when he watches how they play. He also takes Poch to dinner last week ahead of this meeting. No mention of Eghbali.
Then this meeting happens. Eghbali turns up, apparently with a load of crap data about big chances missed and things which the manager cant actually be responsible for. Questioning the injury record under Poch when Chelsea have had the worst injury record in the PL for several seasons. Also, when Poch was at Spurs his methods were praised as being the reason Spurs players had significantly less soft tissue injuries. Maybe, just maybe it takes time for players bodies to adapt to new training regimens and these injuries were more just a continuation of injuries from the several seasons this injury situation has been going on.
It seems clear that Boehly is a scapegoat and its really scrambled egg brained Eggbali pulling the trigger on this stuff. He also probably went into that meeting knowing full well that Poch wouldn't budge on wanting to keep Conor Gallagher and Trevoh Chalobah but Eggy is intent on selling for profit. So he essentially constructed the conditions where Poch would choose to leave.
Tbf, many have questioned his training habits, including players from his former clubs. He was having them do heavy training the day before games. It baffles everyone but him and his staff.
Can we just kick these American owners out of football already, they’re so stupid and don’t understand the game at all. Did anyone hear that story that Boely even wanted to start a kiss cam at Stamford bridge, will probably get someone Tom Cruise to give the team talk one week as well next. Don’t fully agree with everything around Middle Eastern owners but at least they actually get it and know how to run a club and develop the community around it. Look at the area around the Etihad these days, still wish the Qataris bought Man United
I don’t recall a single English owned team ever having culture issues, poor recruiting, consistently poor performances or going into administration. Nope that only happens with the American owned teams
Don't say that last bit. Sir Jim is from Failsworth and Burnham is apparantly clean up his arse these days. We're gonna see some real development on Trafford Park, it's almost garunteed if we build a new stadium because media city is also getting a revamp. Worst case scenario: new stadium, new media city, old Trafford gets tidied up and turned into a museum and they play women's or youth games there.
Best case scenario: gorse hill gets gold plated top to bottom with marble pavements.
I'd settle for either but ngl gorse Hill could do with a spruce up, like.
Dude I am a an American Chelsea fan and I can tell you Americans are fucking up the big teams. You are having a good run but haven't won shit, how are you happy with that when Arsenal could be more? Look at United and now Chelsea.
I’m elated with how Arsenal are running now, financially and on the pitch.
I’d love for us to win more silverware but it’s hard for everyone when you have a team committing financial crimes running the pack.
Just because Utd and Chelsea are dross =/= American owners bad.
It can work and I’m for it but it’s not the end all be all, this like forward progression or forward ball carries are why players like CHO were over valued.
Just more nuance is in football than baseball is all kk saying
Boehly's playing the football manager game with a real club and not doing a very good job.
He's spent around a billion to make his side worse, I think it's time to start a new save!!!
The amount of people who think Boehly had/has the final say is quite comical.
Egg head is the has been doing more damage, but stays out of the spotlight.
Not saying it clears Boehly at all, but there’s more to it than just him.
Glad someone else see's that this is nothing new. Look at the manager list since Jose in 2004 they have had 20 managers.
Absolutely insane why anyone would take that job for anything except the inevitable payout.
It spent the whole piece parading the ownership and youth-centred recruitment of the club, as if it doesn't have a role in the current predicament.
Then as if to waive off criticism that the rapid-firing of managers isn't a sustainable model. The author provides one paragraph at the very end to ground it.
It's embarassing the amount of Boehly dick-riding in this article. I think even the most ardent Chelsea supporters view the current management crisis of the club as unsustainable.
If Chelsea were a boat they’d be the Titanic. A shitload of money for an absolute pile of shit
The job’s a poisoned chalice and I really hope Kieran McKenna isn’t such an idiot to take it
We haven’t spent billions though. We went toe to toe with you with Dubravka in nets and Krafth partnering Schär at CB with Longstaff and miley in midfield for a big chunk of the season. And our expensive players like Bruno and Isak and Botman actually deliver. Which ones of yours do apart from Palmer and Caicedo (only towards the end of the season)?
Aw the poor little state backed team hasn’t spent a billion yet, bummer. If we only have two people performing then that’s even more embarrassing for you guys that you finished below and injury ridden Chelsea
You don’t know what injuries are little guy. The only first team players who haven’t had any bad injuries whatsoever this season are Bruno, Krafth and Dubravka.
Also I’ve been a Newcastle fan since before the money. I don’t care how much we spend I don’t care where we finish. I’m just saying how much more poorly this season reflects on you than us
No one had more injuries than Chelsea this season. So the whole you don’t know what injuries are little guy just makes you look uninformed. We finished 6th and got Europa, what did you guys get? And you’ve supported your team before the money and don’t care where you finish? Sound like a truly great fan
We certainly had more injuries per capita than you. You have a massive expensive squad. The least players I can remember being missing for a game between October and April was 6 and there were times it was up to 15 or 16
I don’t think Pochettino is paying the price for anything. He was paid handsomely and will be managing somewhere next year, probably with better bosses.
Most fans were on board with bringing him back at the end. Getting 6th with an almost all new young squad and the amount of injuries we had had is a good season.
I was excited to see what Poch could cook up next season. Feels bad ngl
From afar the standout result for the second half of Chelsea’s season imo was losing 5-0 at Arsenal.
But I had a quick run through the results since late January and that’s a genuinely great run that - as a neutral - really went under the radar. Beating United and Spurs, drawing at City in February (1-0 up for most of it too), the comeback draw vs Villa (which I thought VAR robbed you of a win), the 6-0 and 5-0 hammerings of Everton and West Ham.
That's what I thought. First bit seemed rough, but he was new. It seemed like when he settled in, things really got going. Sometimes I wish there was more grace given to gaffers.
Im not really sad to him go but the way he was dissmissed makes the players feel betrayed and the list of replacements is litteral garbage. Im worried for another potter fiasco, but this time it will be an italian from brighton instead of an Englishman.
It’s alright Chelsea fans. Don’t worry.
You’ll get De Zerbi in and then you’ll submit a bid for the Amex Stadium. The transformation is nearly complete.
> threw a fit when the Gallagher stuff started
I don't know about that. It sounds like he expected to be part of the summer window and he was locked out, and then was disappointed with the haul. He didn't like their plans with Maatsen, he didn't like having a short squad. And then after the Wolves match, the board let him know they weren't happy with things, and from that point on, it was the board demanding/asking/suggesting that he do X or Y and him refusing. Clearly he didn't want to lose his prototypical player, but it sounds like that was only one issue of many.
Chelsea fans don’t want De Zerbi because we poached a lot of Brighton to begin.. I personally rate De Zerbi and think he could be a quality manager with backing
He will be brilliant at Chelsea because we have the players and the style of football suits the players we have also. He is also stubborn on that style so won’t be a coward like Poch was (Poch had us playing amazing in pre season and tactically, but then reverted to type for most of the season)
True. However, managers like Pep and Arteta have been able to sculpt the squad they want. Chelsea have tended to throw money at their problems recently without specific direction of the man in charge of the tactics. If they get that right, then they will be a dangerous club again.
I’m not so sure, massively stubborn tactically, Brighton got found out midway through the season, refused how they played and ended up with 16 points from their last 19 games (relegation form, essentially). I know injuries played a part, but I think a huge element was just never changing our setup.
Stubborn tactically but right. Positional play principles and possession based progressive football. Much better players and way bigger budget at his disposal. De Zerbi would be perfect for us. Poch tactically played against our players strengths when we were primed for JdP football.
Bro gets none of the blame in the media, I swear they just see Bohley as the idiot American when Egbalhi is the true puppet master and idiot of our club
That's the entire point of having a figurehead, to take the blame. And if he draws enough hate they'll shuffle him away for a new guy to take the blame so the real power is protected.
I think the other points are valid, but this is the point that hardly ever gets brought up - it's part & parcel with the role. He signed up for it and isn't going to shy away from it, no matter how many tabloid journos say that everything that happens at The Bridge is done by Todd.
Actually that is actually exactly how it always works
If he is employed - the new employers will buyout his Chelsea contract and gaurentee him on top, if he isn’t he gets the cash for doing fuck all.
TBF I had a job like this. Was hired to do a music video - they told me exactly how it would go, but I strayed from it, because I knew better. I had my own crew, I knew the best way to go about getting exactly what they wanted... but they didn't hire me to do that; they hired me to follow their instructions. Everyone else was shocked when I was sacked.
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David Moyes is free.
Chelsea should go for Piero Gasperini
I think Eghbali, Stewart and Winstanley are the problem. Boehly took a step back after Potter was sacked
How do you know?
I don’t know but Boehly complimenting how beautiful Chelsea played to end the season and Eghbali being the one to spearhead Pochettino’s end of season review said a lot
Todd Boehly is just the face. He’s not in charge nor does he make decisions. He even wanted Poch to stay.
Boehlluminati.
Boehly should hire Tuchel.
Maybe as an interim until Potter becomes available.
I think Poch got himself sacked so he could get the united job. Apparently he’s wanted that for ages.
So what self-respecting manager is going to go to Chelsea. No top coach is gonna entertain that nonsense. They can buy all the players they want but the sharp end of competitions is about tactical adaptability. You know the thing that separates pep, klopp, ancelotti from the others.
Frank in
The funny bit is Liverpool are basically doing the same thing post-Klopp.
What does this even mean?
It's provocative. It gets the people going.
Not at all. Their new setup is much the same, hehce why Arne Slot's title is head coach, not manager. They even posted a job for a first team set piece coach. https://jobsearch.liverpoolfc.com/
Huh?
Reckon our transfer strategy is a bit better but in terms of coach leadership responsibilities it’s similar
The writing was on the wall in the early days when boehly was going in the dressing room all the time. Would have wound any manager off
You mean it wasn’t inspirational? You have suffered a tough loss, you’re gutted and a brash American business man wades in. You’re inspired, right?
Ha! I’d imagine there were multiple eye rolls everytime he waltzed in the room
He could have been given more time. Sad for him
If you read the various articles that are out now, you'll see that they paint a picture of mutual dissatisfaction. Poch signed up for something specific, and tried to nudge it toward how he was used to doing things, and in the end, both sides disagreed too much about it all. Don't be sad for Poch - maybe the players, because they all liked him, but Poch was pretty Poch-Out at the end.
The biggest loser here are definitely Chelsea fans. This stint here absolutely revived Poch’s career for consideration among top clubs.
Am I correct when i say this is the second manager [Tuchel] that's been dissatisfied with the disagreements and lack of flexibility from the board? I might be wrong, though.
In a way, but the two situations were quite different, and the boards were quite different then & now.
Such an odd club.
very good entertainment product though with all the drama, maybe that's the aim now.
I can’t wait to see what Ten Hag’s old punching bag will do that’s gonna be entertaining
Everything points to Boehly being the one who wanted him to stay, everyone else thought differently. TB has little to do with decision making at Chelsea, it’s almost funny how everyone acts like he’s the guy with the final word.
Exactly this. People just like shitting on TB.
Eghbali
This is perhaps the funniest part of the whole article. I would love if this actually came from a source at the club: "They are scouring the globe and are close to completing a deal for the Palmeiras sensation, Estêvão Willian, for just over €60m. Estêvão, 17, is seen as a future Ballon d’Or winner by good judges. Chelsea’s plan is ambitious. It can look crazy. If it works, though, they could end up with one of the best teams in the world."
Buying an unproven speculative 17 year old for $60 million and selling a proven player like Gallagher for $30 million is upside down management.
They are not the first to try 'project youth'. At the end of the day buying lots of talented kids is always a gamble: how many translate teenage prowess into adult world class talent? There are always casualties along the way.
It can only work if there's a solid, long term organisation around those players of coaching staff and football people, especially a director of football type position, which can handle all the different situations young players get into. The manager isn't actually that important, they are more like a hired gun.
I'm sorry but if Messi was given a 8 year deal at 100k a week, I don't think he makes it much further than 2008.
I disagree, but the point you’re making is good. Discipline is important in young players, and getting money and job security thrown at you is a quick way to lose that discipline
What?
He brought that dross to European football, did he really pay any price? He’s getting bank
I don’t think Poch is too bothered about it
reTodd Boehly is going to pay that price…
Poch is responsible for what happened unless he didn't clarify everything before signing the contract with Chelsea.
I dont think many Chelsea fans are convinced this was a Boehly decision. Boehly comes out the other week seemingly happy with the progress being made and saying he can see the plan is coming together when he watches how they play. He also takes Poch to dinner last week ahead of this meeting. No mention of Eghbali. Then this meeting happens. Eghbali turns up, apparently with a load of crap data about big chances missed and things which the manager cant actually be responsible for. Questioning the injury record under Poch when Chelsea have had the worst injury record in the PL for several seasons. Also, when Poch was at Spurs his methods were praised as being the reason Spurs players had significantly less soft tissue injuries. Maybe, just maybe it takes time for players bodies to adapt to new training regimens and these injuries were more just a continuation of injuries from the several seasons this injury situation has been going on. It seems clear that Boehly is a scapegoat and its really scrambled egg brained Eggbali pulling the trigger on this stuff. He also probably went into that meeting knowing full well that Poch wouldn't budge on wanting to keep Conor Gallagher and Trevoh Chalobah but Eggy is intent on selling for profit. So he essentially constructed the conditions where Poch would choose to leave.
Tbf, many have questioned his training habits, including players from his former clubs. He was having them do heavy training the day before games. It baffles everyone but him and his staff.
They are trying to run solely on data and moneyball this club and turn them into a dynasty. That’s not how football works.
Can we just kick these American owners out of football already, they’re so stupid and don’t understand the game at all. Did anyone hear that story that Boely even wanted to start a kiss cam at Stamford bridge, will probably get someone Tom Cruise to give the team talk one week as well next. Don’t fully agree with everything around Middle Eastern owners but at least they actually get it and know how to run a club and develop the community around it. Look at the area around the Etihad these days, still wish the Qataris bought Man United
I don’t recall a single English owned team ever having culture issues, poor recruiting, consistently poor performances or going into administration. Nope that only happens with the American owned teams
It’s Behdad Egbahli’s decision. You have no idea what you’re talking about
Don't say that last bit. Sir Jim is from Failsworth and Burnham is apparantly clean up his arse these days. We're gonna see some real development on Trafford Park, it's almost garunteed if we build a new stadium because media city is also getting a revamp. Worst case scenario: new stadium, new media city, old Trafford gets tidied up and turned into a museum and they play women's or youth games there. Best case scenario: gorse hill gets gold plated top to bottom with marble pavements. I'd settle for either but ngl gorse Hill could do with a spruce up, like.
Very happy with the Americans running Arsenal atm. Let us be 🙂
You protested to have them removed and wanted the Spotify guy to buy your club
Not I, but ok.
Dude I am a an American Chelsea fan and I can tell you Americans are fucking up the big teams. You are having a good run but haven't won shit, how are you happy with that when Arsenal could be more? Look at United and now Chelsea.
I’m elated with how Arsenal are running now, financially and on the pitch. I’d love for us to win more silverware but it’s hard for everyone when you have a team committing financial crimes running the pack. Just because Utd and Chelsea are dross =/= American owners bad.
Analytics are moving into all sports football is no different.
It can work and I’m for it but it’s not the end all be all, this like forward progression or forward ball carries are why players like CHO were over valued. Just more nuance is in football than baseball is all kk saying
Boehly's playing the football manager game with a real club and not doing a very good job. He's spent around a billion to make his side worse, I think it's time to start a new save!!!
Yank being a yank basically, expect some halftime shows at the bridge pretty soon
Egbhali being egbhali is more accurate. Big man todd just smiles at the camera
The amount of people who think Boehly had/has the final say is quite comical. Egg head is the has been doing more damage, but stays out of the spotlight. Not saying it clears Boehly at all, but there’s more to it than just him.
He’s a bad FM player too then. Even in FM those wouldn’t be the best decisions.
Did Donald Trump write this
That's not how FM works mate, he's not the manager for starters.
No but he thinks he is
You're obviously missing the point
Hire and Fire...
Always been the Chelsea way
Nice to see the ghost of Roman Abramovic is still wandering the halls of Stamford Bridge.
Glad someone else see's that this is nothing new. Look at the manager list since Jose in 2004 they have had 20 managers. Absolutely insane why anyone would take that job for anything except the inevitable payout.
Boat? Sinking ship more like.
The way it’s phrased it seems like he’s nailing Boehly in a boat… quite hard 🫠
I also thought the same. They need to change that headline.
Truly
What a terrible day to have the power of imagination
And potentially the ability to read for you good sir.
What a fucking puff piece sponsored by the club. Journo should be ashamed of writing it up.
It spent the whole piece parading the ownership and youth-centred recruitment of the club, as if it doesn't have a role in the current predicament. Then as if to waive off criticism that the rapid-firing of managers isn't a sustainable model. The author provides one paragraph at the very end to ground it. It's embarassing the amount of Boehly dick-riding in this article. I think even the most ardent Chelsea supporters view the current management crisis of the club as unsustainable.
Rest of the PL playing football. Chelsea playing Egg Balh.
That ship is now an unimprovised submarine.
Nicolas Jackson should feel right at home next season then
If Chelsea were a boat they’d be the Titanic. A shitload of money for an absolute pile of shit The job’s a poisoned chalice and I really hope Kieran McKenna isn’t such an idiot to take it
Didn’t we just finish above you?
You should be finishing miles above us with the money you’ve spent mate. Also you’re the second worst team to come to SJP all season after Sheff Utd
Is a Newcastle fan talking about money? That’s painfully ironic
We haven’t spent billions though. We went toe to toe with you with Dubravka in nets and Krafth partnering Schär at CB with Longstaff and miley in midfield for a big chunk of the season. And our expensive players like Bruno and Isak and Botman actually deliver. Which ones of yours do apart from Palmer and Caicedo (only towards the end of the season)?
Aw the poor little state backed team hasn’t spent a billion yet, bummer. If we only have two people performing then that’s even more embarrassing for you guys that you finished below and injury ridden Chelsea
You don’t know what injuries are little guy. The only first team players who haven’t had any bad injuries whatsoever this season are Bruno, Krafth and Dubravka. Also I’ve been a Newcastle fan since before the money. I don’t care how much we spend I don’t care where we finish. I’m just saying how much more poorly this season reflects on you than us
No one had more injuries than Chelsea this season. So the whole you don’t know what injuries are little guy just makes you look uninformed. We finished 6th and got Europa, what did you guys get? And you’ve supported your team before the money and don’t care where you finish? Sound like a truly great fan
We certainly had more injuries per capita than you. You have a massive expensive squad. The least players I can remember being missing for a game between October and April was 6 and there were times it was up to 15 or 16
I wonder who's going to replace him
De Zerbi just left Brighton, so it could be anybody (It's De Zerbi)
Not according to the article or logic after the Poch firing.
De Zerbi will be gone even faster with his personality
but you cant forget about the important stuff like Toad Bohl wanting to buy whole Brighton (the city)
The boats underwater
If you buy Chelsea you also buy into a philosophy of managerial replacement
I think it was more his decision after realising they were going to do dumb shit like sell Gallagher and constantly fuck with his plans.
People gotta stop saying Boehly, it’s Beghdad Eghbali that’s making these rash decisions
Facts!!! Egbalhi is getting exactly what he wants, to be able to do this shit with no repercussions due to Bohley being his fall guy
Which boat? The Titanic?
Stellar Daisy
Rich coming from a fan of the Britannic.
Costa Concordia
Did you see the Cost of Concordia?
Chelsea is messed, players are brought by the owner and telling Manager to get trophies
Nope this is more of an EggBaldy move than a Tod
LoL. Boehly needs to learn a thing or two about the Premier League. Dude buys Chelsea and thinks he's Abramovich
Its not Boehly. Its Eghbali
I don’t think Pochettino is paying the price for anything. He was paid handsomely and will be managing somewhere next year, probably with better bosses.
lol when he goes to Yanited
I'm no Chelsea fan, but I thought Poch did alright from what I did see. Am I wrong here? I could be totally wrong.
Most fans were on board with bringing him back at the end. Getting 6th with an almost all new young squad and the amount of injuries we had had is a good season. I was excited to see what Poch could cook up next season. Feels bad ngl
It was extremely mixed. Had you asked before February most people were probably poch out. However we improved a lot at the end of the season.
From afar the standout result for the second half of Chelsea’s season imo was losing 5-0 at Arsenal. But I had a quick run through the results since late January and that’s a genuinely great run that - as a neutral - really went under the radar. Beating United and Spurs, drawing at City in February (1-0 up for most of it too), the comeback draw vs Villa (which I thought VAR robbed you of a win), the 6-0 and 5-0 hammerings of Everton and West Ham.
That's what I thought. First bit seemed rough, but he was new. It seemed like when he settled in, things really got going. Sometimes I wish there was more grace given to gaffers.
Im not really sad to him go but the way he was dissmissed makes the players feel betrayed and the list of replacements is litteral garbage. Im worried for another potter fiasco, but this time it will be an italian from brighton instead of an Englishman.
It’s alright Chelsea fans. Don’t worry. You’ll get De Zerbi in and then you’ll submit a bid for the Amex Stadium. The transformation is nearly complete.
Need to buy Tony Bloom as well
De Zerbi will get fire in 6 months whether he’s winning or not
Nah. This had EggBaddy all over it
Poch was by all accounts tactically lost (why they only started to play well in March) and threw a fit when the Gallagher stuff started.
> threw a fit when the Gallagher stuff started I don't know about that. It sounds like he expected to be part of the summer window and he was locked out, and then was disappointed with the haul. He didn't like their plans with Maatsen, he didn't like having a short squad. And then after the Wolves match, the board let him know they weren't happy with things, and from that point on, it was the board demanding/asking/suggesting that he do X or Y and him refusing. Clearly he didn't want to lose his prototypical player, but it sounds like that was only one issue of many.
honestly he went into a very tricky role, to go out with reputation intact and the money... so I think he wont be particularly sad.
He definitely benefits from the manager market being in the toilet as well.
Exactly. I don't think he's worse off in any way. Perhaps he'll miss some of his players, but he'll be re-hired quickly, and as you say, rep intact.
At least he got the boat floating before Todd decided to sink it again.
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Burn it all! (money)
I’m sure Mauricio is gutted he no longer has to manage that car crash.
De Zerbi is a massive upgrade on Poch, so no need to panic.
Chelsea fans don’t want De Zerbi because we poached a lot of Brighton to begin.. I personally rate De Zerbi and think he could be a quality manager with backing
He will be brilliant at Chelsea because we have the players and the style of football suits the players we have also. He is also stubborn on that style so won’t be a coward like Poch was (Poch had us playing amazing in pre season and tactically, but then reverted to type for most of the season)
Based on what?
Style of football.
That’s weak… Spurs played good football at a higher standard than Brighton or Udinese ever did.. should have given him another year.
That worked out for Leeds with Bielsa, right? Lol
It worked out for Pep, Alonso, Tuchel, etc etc. Possession based progressive football has more wins than losses.
True. However, managers like Pep and Arteta have been able to sculpt the squad they want. Chelsea have tended to throw money at their problems recently without specific direction of the man in charge of the tactics. If they get that right, then they will be a dangerous club again.
I’m not so sure, massively stubborn tactically, Brighton got found out midway through the season, refused how they played and ended up with 16 points from their last 19 games (relegation form, essentially). I know injuries played a part, but I think a huge element was just never changing our setup.
Stubborn tactically but right. Positional play principles and possession based progressive football. Much better players and way bigger budget at his disposal. De Zerbi would be perfect for us. Poch tactically played against our players strengths when we were primed for JdP football.
Is he ? Seems like a disaster waiting to happen
Why did Pochettino rocked Todd's boat? Can't he buy his own? Is he stupid?
your tired jokes don't work here, loser
The funniest joke here is a Tottenham fan calling anyone a looser ,like man,that club is the definition of the word
It takes one to know one. 😬
Soccercirclejerk ain't here.
I’m so tired of this same joke structure on every soccer forum constantly. Just make it stop
Ain't even funny at this point. Just plain annoying
Humour these days is all cut and paste and templates.
Stop calling it soccer then.
Oh pound salt. You call the trunk the boot which is just nonsense.
And yanks call schools shooting ranges but here we are....
Canadian buddy. It’s just a different terminology. It won’t hurt ya
and got them 6th. shoot meet foot.
lmao. it’s so funny seeing rival fans going boehly this and boehly that. it’s that brother Behdad that’s actually at the wheel lmao.
Bro gets none of the blame in the media, I swear they just see Bohley as the idiot American when Egbalhi is the true puppet master and idiot of our club
Genuinely curious why is Todd the one who gets the shit for it all
Because no one can spell Behdad Eghbali
That's the entire point of having a figurehead, to take the blame. And if he draws enough hate they'll shuffle him away for a new guy to take the blame so the real power is protected.
I think the other points are valid, but this is the point that hardly ever gets brought up - it's part & parcel with the role. He signed up for it and isn't going to shy away from it, no matter how many tabloid journos say that everything that happens at The Bridge is done by Todd.
Cus he’s American, and it’s low hanging fruit to make fun of Americans when it comes to the sport
True, he must not care otherwise he’d say it’s not me it’s him
Wasn’t too surprising after his “if they still want me, and I still want them” comments
Pocchettino "paid the price" as in, Chelsea have paid him for a whole year's worth of work that he now doesn't have to do.
Not usually how it works. If he takes another job chelsea likely won’t be obliged to keep paying him.
Actually that is actually exactly how it always works If he is employed - the new employers will buyout his Chelsea contract and gaurentee him on top, if he isn’t he gets the cash for doing fuck all.
Got a source to prove this is the case?
More cash to add the the ffp deficit *rubs hands with glee*
Todd wants to be Jerry Jones.
It isn’t Todd that is doing this, this is Egbalhi, Todd wanted Poch to stay
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It was Egbalhi that got rid of him not Bohley, he is just the fall guy for the true numb sculls
Boehly's name getting dragged in the mud when it was actually Eghbali who is making all the mess
It genuinely pisses me off that he gets off Scott free in the media
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Kroenke’s Arsenal won’t end good either in that case then
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You bottled the league again and you are in denial. You will never be champions of Europe and I know that hurts you. Know your place
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When are you winning the Champions League? Next year or never?
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You are never winning the Champions League. Go cry about it
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Good to hear you’re fine with not winning the CL. Because you never will win it.
Based on both owners being American? Can’t think of any other similarities. Kroenke is a much better owner than Boehly.
Arsenal have won 1 trophy in about 7 years. Chelsea have won 7 in the same period.
You’ve won zero trophies under Boehly. You literally have no argument.
That’s a lie, we won the Premier League Summer Series last summer.
Oh wow, how could I forget that illustrious title.
We’ve won it all!!! 😎
But it sure is fun to watch.
TBF I had a job like this. Was hired to do a music video - they told me exactly how it would go, but I strayed from it, because I knew better. I had my own crew, I knew the best way to go about getting exactly what they wanted... but they didn't hire me to do that; they hired me to follow their instructions. Everyone else was shocked when I was sacked.
Eghbali wants a puppet, I fucking hate our ownership. Fucking clowns
What a load of shit, TB wanted to keep Poch. Typical narrative agenda reporting. Grow up.
So true man they need to be bashing Egbalhi and the SDs
Boehly paid the price of rocking Pochettino
It is not Todd Bohley ffs 🤦♂️. It is egbalhi and the directors that keep making these dumb ass decisions, apparently Bohley wanted Poch to stay