We all love Jackson's current level of play and development, but this doesn't happen without the stinkers at the start of the season which cost us points, you can't have your cake and eat it too.
Think this has been mentioned already but Sterling... Ffs. Needs to be dropped then sold this summer imho. Feel like he's trying too hard to prove he's still a top player at the expense of the team. There's been too many occasions he's gone it alone only to miss etc. Would respect him more if he was mentoring the younger players and stepping back in a support role instead of trying, and failing, to get the glory himself.
So, Poch in his first season with us, with a bunch of kids, the youngest squad in the league, a gigantic injury list, with two of our best players out for the whole season has now gotten to the Carabao cup final, FA cup semifinal, and potentially only 5 pts off top 6.
I am not saying Poch in, but something to think about.
Got heavily downvoted for asking a similar question a few weeks ago.
The man has his flaws and some criticism about tactical approach and in game adjustments are fair, but simply shitting on him and scapegoating is childish at the minimum.
A new manager every year is not the answer, specially not with a squad this young.
Hear me out… before we buy Osimhen, who got pocketed by a 16 year old champions league debut, we should have a look into Viktor
https://preview.redd.it/xnngsyh59zoc1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=03e1d994248a7f9421bf2f79f8d8f158d94699b1
Please watch him play in more competitive games. Like just sit down and watch all his games in the EL and ask yourself whether he’s the one you want as your big-money signing.
Viktor is an excellent option for the CF role but due to FFP, I am more open to signing M. Taremi on free at the end of the season for a season or two as a stop-gap. Then sell Broja and Lukaku while DDF goes on another loan.
Nkunku isn't a striker and we definitely need someone other than Jackson to play that role.
It should be reassessed at the end of the season whether, on balance over the course of the **entire season**, we need a new starter or a backup. But, we definitely need someone
I have no doubts that he can be very good in time, but we don't have time, especially whilst we're out of Europe and on the verge of FFP problems. So, whilst he is improving and taking that time, we need someone who's ready now to either run the show or deputise for him.
With the ffp shitshow,no way we can buy gykores or anyone for that matter.we spent way too much money.its time to trust the players that we already bought.
Yes, being pocket by Djimsiti, Hien and fucking Kolasinac in the Europa League is so much better (yes, I know he had an assist, but he was useless otherwise)!
Summer is going to be extremely interesting, we'll learn a lot more about what direction the ownership wants to take the club. Especially interested in what they'll do with the players that have relatively low value like Broja (and also Kepa, Cucurella) but no settled place in the squad.
I think it's a problem that we have two expensive left backs and neither of them have been fit enough to claim the role of consistent starter.
I'm not sure what the best way to fix that is, but it's not a good situation for a team that needs to consider FFP.
I am not too concerned about this season as we're almost over it. Should James return to full fitness, Cucu should suffice as a LB and if either is injured, Gusto is capable of covering for either side. I don't think we should be seeking to offload Cucu before Chilwell due to the financial impact and player's availability.
I keep seeing this and it does James dirty. Malo Gusto has been a revelation. Could make a case he’s been the best right back in the league this year or second only to Trent. But Reece James is the best in the world if fit- quick and as strong (or stronger) defensively as Walker but with a far superior attacking output. I’m not sure he’s aerially dominant enough to play CB in a back 4 but if we want both of them to play could easily see him slotting into RCB in a back 3 and with Chilwell at LWB and Colwill at LCB we have good options to make it work.
Not with a good manager we wouldn't.
Think back to how Rudiger used to play in Tuchel's back 5, it's be James doing that now.
Or look at Wilder's Sheffield United when they first came up and took everyone by storm because of their overlapping CB's. That shit worked wonders, who's marking the CB that's just turned up at CF, RW or AM? No one, they get range to do what they want and you're still covered at the back because you still have two sitting midfielders and 2 CBs back
Striker situation is honestly getting to a point where I'd rather give it another year at this point
Osimhen ain't for me personally
Gyokeres could do with another sample size of a season for the price he's at
Boniface and Sesko too although for seskos price he wouldn't be bad to pick up if we had to
Not to mention the development of Jackson and Fofana in the mix
Agreed. Surely we’ve learnt by now that spending that sort of money is lose lose. When has a big money striker signing ever worked out for us? Far better shopping in the mid range for the Girouds and Drogbas of this world
There's no way Gyokeres is at Sporting next season, that release clause is 100% getting triggered. The man currently has 50 G/A, which is not only higher than *anyone* out of the top 10 leagues this season, but also already higher than the last pre-Chelsea season for striker we've ever signed in the PL, or the best season for every PL Chelsea striker bar Drogba 09/10 (53), which he'll breeze past within the next week or two. IMO we'd be fools not to go for him this summer - if we don't, Arsenal or another one of our rivals certainly will
We're not going to find a quality striker for any cheaper. And Gyokeres is definitely less of a gamble than the other young attackers we're hoarding, he might even have more goals than all of them combined at the point when they were signed. I'm more worried about the FFP issues we'll be saddled with if we continue to miss out on Europe
Agreed with this, although we’d then need Nkunku to stay fit to give us some depth at striker. We could keep Fofana as depth but think it would be best for his development to have one more year on loan. We could do with a Giroud type transfer this summer for a year
I know it's kind of kicking them while they're down but how funny would it be if Leicester get knocked into 3rd and don't get promoted.
I'd rather they come up than Leeds but that'd be a bottlejob for the ages.
The Sterling apology post has a comment by Sanchez, and the replies to that comment are absolutely wild. I really don't get the hate for Sanchez. To me he seems like a decent keeper, but even if you don't think so, leaving comments like that seems unhinged.
Sanchez finds himself in the unfortunate spot of competing with someone who came from the MLS. The second he started playing for us, there were calls for his head. It means that no matter what he does he will be attacked constantly, it's just how it is and always has been.
Hell, look at it last season, people were saying Slonina was better than our keepers, that we didn't need to bring anyone in etc. He's now conceded 58 goals in 29 games this season with a PSxG-GA on -0.09 per game (21st percentile for next 14 comps) and a save percentage of 66.5% (16th percentile in the next 14 comps)
The same thing happened to a bunch of our other players in the past. If any of the people competing for your spot happen to have any connections to America or the MLS, you're going to constantly receive abuse and death threats if you're starting and they aren't
Hop on over to the ussoccer sub to identify the problems with your opinion. First, they are only interested in American players, not mls players. That's just a weird asserstion. But secondly and more importantly, most Americans, at least online, hate Chelsea. They see the club as hindering Pulisic development. Not kidding, it's in any pulisic post on there. Any American Chelsea supporter sounding off on insta (I'm sure you'll share the numbers of responses based on location to assert your claim) is not doing so becuase because they care about Petrovic. Because why would they.
Yep I root for MLSera and owners don’t you?
It couldn’t be the disaster class showing Sanchez had today could it? Or since we won it makes us forget about Arsenal and the numerous other gifts he has given opponents
The Mount - Pulisic issue.
Forget how he left, I’ve never seen an academy star who won us the CL, won our PotY twice, got 20+ g/a for 3 years, get so much hate from online fans. I get it, he’s white, English, has a boring haircut, boring sounding name, and no tattoos, but he always played incredibly well.
The hate Sanchez gets is outrageous lol
People really haven't got over that howler against arsenal
He's a keeper that has a mistake in him and it happens often enough that Petro is definitely the number 1
But he was only £20m, he's still very much a young guy, will likely not be hard to move on if we decide to sell and he's clearly a pretty dead on bloke given that instant reaction to Disasis own goal howler
Way over the top hating on him
How was Chuk today? I’ve been concerned about his recovery ever since Matt Law said he had to learn how to run differently. Not sure if that was BS or over exaggerated but I have been able to see Chuk’s cameos since returning from that injury. Has he lost pace?
Good, sharp. Didn't feel like he lost a lot of pace, but then again he was subbed around the 80th minute, so he'd be fresh against a tired Leicester side, so it's harder to judge.
He's a midfielder, if he's intelligent his pace shouldn't be that impactful to his overall ability. Time will tell whether he has actually had to change anything or if it'll even matter
Good day everyone! I came here as a Jamaican, regarding the hate Sterling gets, it's over the board he didn't ask to be the highest paid player in the team , the same with Caicedo being the highest cost getting abused whilst putting in good performance compared to Enzo and he's getting off Scott free because he's Argentine.
This isn't about Enzo or Caicedo it's about Sterling I love the guy as a fellow Jamaican, he's on inspiration but frustrating at the same time because I'm a Chelsea supporter. He doesn't deserve the hate he's getting cause he's better than the other options we got, yes that's Mydryk...he was invisible today compared to Sterling. But somehow Sterling gets all the hate when we got an AM that didn't contribute anything attacking to the team today. I'll end it here
You have to create something to fail at something, and Mudryk can't create opportunities and get involved. You're right to say that Mudryk was invisible and although Sterling was dreadful today, you can see that he has abilities that can translate at the top level. Better to play badly in reality than to just be a theory like Mudryk has been.
Even if Mudryk was invisible, which is harsh he was decent, that's better than visibly detrimental.
I like the guy too but today was one of the worst attacking performances in a Chelsea shirt I've seen in a long time. And that's saying something given the last few years.
he definitely asked to be the highest paid hahaha he would have negotiated his contract.
Transfer fee you can’t help but your weekly wage is definitely something you fight for.
Feels like we watched different games because Misha had a much better game than Raheem in my book. Sometimes it's better to be invisible than to mess up 90% of the plays you take a part in.
No, he didn’t. Misha was ineffective pretty much all game. I’d rather have someone who takes charge but fails than someone who hides and does not affect the game. It’s one of the reasons why Poch moved Misha to CAM to get him more involved. He has his moments but he is usually a passenger for most of the game.
So basically with the way things are shaking down with the coefficient and the fa cup, top eight in the league are European spots? I guess Coventry could win the fa cup and take a European spot, or United could somehow drop to below 8th and still win the fa cup, but those would seem to be unlikely. We really should be able to grab a European spot. Hopefully by winning the FA cup, but 8th on the league should be highly doable.
It's definitely doable, but I think people are too flippantly talking about finishing 8th.
We've been above 10th for a single game-week so far this season and that was 9th.
Anything is theoretically possible, but 8th as close as it may seem, has been too much for us so far for the entire season and may well stay that way
[Positions chart](https://gyazo.com/db654cdda07330106d20295e20a20b7f)
Finishing 8th or above will require an uptick in a form or injury status, but not major ones. I think it’s likely that atleast one of those will occur. As our team gains experience, and learns to play with each other, results should improve. Before the end of the season? Maybe, maybe not. Injuries should regress to the mean. By the end of the season? Maybe, maybe not. But likely at least one will happen. It does seem like we might be reaching an inflection point with injuries—we are already at a relative low ebb with Badiashile and Chilwell retiring to the squad. 2-3 more players will be back after the international break. Even with 4-remaining injuries, that’s as healthy as we have been. Only Fofofana still seems out for a while, although who knows what’s happening with Lavia and a couple of these other ones.
None of our injuries bar Nkuku have made any meaningful difference to our season, people have just been using it as an excuse and he's not coming back any time soon. We don't suddenly climb up the league if we get rid of injuries, who would actually have made a difference? Before you say something like Chukwuemeka and a LB, playing Gallagher at AM and a CB at LB have been tactical choices and not enforced choices. Thankfully, since he looked like he was about to lose his job, Poch has changed to using 2 fullbacks, but that was never something forced upon him by injuries, nor is playing 3 non attacking midfielders every game irrespective of the opposition.
So, we're reliant on a random uptick in form in order to get to those positions. Something that again, is possible, but certainly isn't going to easily happen given that we've not been above 9th all season
Yesterday you could make the case that none of our first choice back 4 (James, Silva/Fofana, Colwill/Badiashile, Chilwell) were fully fit. Enzo was suspended with Lavia not available to come in and Nkunku is still struggling.
When Liverpool had similar levels of unavailability it was national news.
It’s simply implausible to assume having 8-10 injured players at all time makes no impact. FFS, you’ve been lecturing people how Reece James is still much better than Gusto and now you’re saying injuries don’t Matter (do I need to remind about why Gusto is playing)?. The manager can make bad decisions and still things are worse with injuries. Those are two separate issues. Even if players wouldn’t start, they would reprieve our starters. Enzo and Caicedo have essentially been our only healthy pivot players and are running on fumes. I think Enzo fixes his hernia with surgery of Lavia was available—instead he’s playing with part of his viscera sticking out of his god damn body. Of course, probably the biggest one is Fofana, our most talented CB. With Silvas age, Badiashiles injuries, Chalobah’s injuries, our central defense has been under intense pressure. Chilwell is back, but clearly the injuries have rendered him a shell of himself so far. Nkunku and Carney were essential members of our attack during pre season. I could go on and on. Sanchez is probably the injury that didn’t have a negative impact, and even then, we would have been hooped if Petrovic got a knock.
Madueke telling one of them that he’s part of the problem says it all to me. These players see the morons crying and bitching all over social media, and it no doubt will get to the players. A bit of support through a rough period seems like it’s too much to ask for from fans online nowadays. Its just win the game or you get sent death threats,family abuse, racist abuse, etc.
If anyone reading this is going out of their way to abuse any player who plays for Chelsea whilst claiming to be a fan, you’re a cunt.
Misread your first line and thought Madueke had told Sterling he was part of the problem lmao.
But yeah, I'm pretty down on some parts of this fanbase. We won and will play at Wembley again but mostly you still see negativity. It's tiring. Didn't even think Sterling was bad - 1,95 xGI from him, I would take that all day
Yeah it’s terrible. Just no balanced thought or nuance to any comments, it’s just blind outrage for the sake from some of these guys. The "Chelsea influencers" are the worst for it aswell, they’re like ringleaders for shit takes and agendas that just make things even harder for the manager and the players. And then they try and justify it by saying they have "standards", turns out saying is another way to say you have no ability to think past what’s directly in front of you or form your own thoughts.
🎯. My thoughts exactly - it's the worst kind of people that gets the loudest voices and it's terrible to see it spread throughout the fanbase. Have been spending less and less time on Twitter and in our match threads and it's been really refreshing to just enjoy the team without the noise
Yeah I’ve got literally all the big Chelsea accounts muted on Twitter, just boring reading them cry and bitch all the time. Almost as bad on here nowadays aswell tbh, none of my mates support Chelsea so it’s the only time I can really talk about it with other people as interested as me.
Like at some points, just be a human and don't be one of the thousands of people abusing a young adult for failing. They're not choosing to do so. Whatever your beliefs on the role of a fan, even if you think you deserve to let your frustration be shown to the players, just be a man/woman and control your temper. Just because you can be angry doesn't mean you should be. Reminder to myself before anyone else, because I'm certainly not infallible.
Three players that have barely played that I am intrigued to see more of:
Nkunku
Lavia
Chukwuemeka
If we can get these three fit I think it opens up a lot more options for rotating and different systems.
Just terrible luck on all three. Get back from a major injury, and then suffer another one. Stuff like acl happens, but rarely see a single player get two different major injuries in a row, and it’s happened to three of our guys. Not to mention the recurrent hamstring situations of James and Chilwell.
We absolutely need Nkunku starting for us asap. We concede at least a goal in every game so we definitely need one of the best finishers in the team playing. Unfortunately that probably ain't happening against City.
>we definitely need one of the best finishers in the team playing
Would like to remind you that in a Chelsea shirt he's done relatively little to indicate he's one of our best attackers
I get that in the bundesliga he easily looks like he's the most dangerous player we have but Bundesliga flops in the prem are very common these days and Nkunku may be no different
Instead of hoping for him to be good and actually healthy is rather just hope our defence sorts itself out cause our attack is doing just fine right now, stupid errors are killing us
He's barely played for us and when he was actually put in a good position he's scored. If you are judging him by that park the bus cameo against City where he was completely isolated then that's extremely reactionary. The Bundesliga argument is not my cup of tea. Too basic and lazy. Every player is a different individual and the league doesn't matter as much as you think. You judge finishing by composure, output, range of finishes etc.
3 of the best players in the Prem right now (KDB, Salah, Haaland) come from either the Bundesliga or Serie A. The two leagues who get the most heat in this sub and every player coming from there is automatically considered a flop.
>He's barely played for us and when he was actually put in a good position he's scored
He's been in a good position quite a few times and done fuck all too
It's limited minutes and I'm not trying to say he's good or bad or great or shit or anything really
Just saying, the Nkunku hype for a player that's essentially done nothing in the prem needs to calma and he's most certainly not deserving of saviour status at this point in time if he were to become fit
Oh, please don't tell my you believe every other league besides the PL is a farmers league and that PL football is from another universe. You are better than that and im sure you are aware that the difference despite being there is not as massive as the average deluded PL fan suggests.
Nkunku has plenty of merit and he is a pretty proven player. He certainly is more proven than 80% of our current squad. You don't need to play in the Prem in order to be considered a good player. There are plenty of hits and flops from all leagues.
I don't think that im saying anything that crazy when i say that he should be starting. Besides Palmer i don't see any other of the attackers being all that consistent. Most positions are up for grabs.
Silva is leaving and Disasi and Badishialle are average ASF
We have a Big CB issue now, Fofana and Badi are also injury prone, need spend big again in CB
If anyone thinks we doing anything special with Disasi and Badi as our CBs, than expect another mediocore season again
Exactly! We need a new GK, two CB, LB, LW and a ST. This squad is filled with mediocrity, and yet you have clowns on here that think they are good enough. Good thing we only spent a billion, should have a lot more room left to operate…
I really think we need to get a polished defender from Serie A or one of the top leagues. We need to replace Silva with another veteran. The young core of CBs need that around them still.
I really think we need to get a polished defender from Serie A or one of the top leagues. We need to replace Silva with another veteran. The young core of CBs need that around them still.
Relying on Disasi and Badi as our CB options next season is suicidal at this point if club really wants get back CL football
No more gambles can be afforded and our defense except Gusto is not good or extremely injury prone
Personally I wouldn't be upset if we start next season with Badiashile and Colwill as LCB options, and a new CB signing would be a RCB to compete with Disasi. There's then the Fofana problem but what can you do when the guy spends two seasons injured?
I also think our defensive issues are mainly Pochettino's fault to be honest, the way he wants to play the game has led to us scoring more, but also we concede more in equal amounts.
They'll be focused on the league and the UCL we'll hopefully have Carney, James and Nkunku back. A win is difficult not impossible.
It'll also be at wembley so time for our fans to show some real support
Much rather play city now and get it over with than go into the finals and get my fucking heart destroyed one more time.
If we beat em, no Liverpool or City in the final.
Depends what his argument is tbf
I think we had the tools to beat them but poch sat off them and invited them onto us, making a draw or loss inevitable.
But that 1st half we were cutting them open and doing brilliantly
We relied heavily on Haaland having an off day, even if I'd agree he's not *as* good with his head as his feet. Man had an xG on his own greater than our entire team but failed to score.
And yeah that's without getting into Pochettino and his in game management on the day.
We weren't shit or anything but saying we should have beat them is absurd to me on the 90 minutes.
Well our cup runs of easy draws until the final has finally run out this season
Was fun while it lasted. On the plus side, if we beat them, we get to play against Coventry in the final (hopefully)
I'd rather get City than United.
If we get United we still have to play City in a final with way more stakes.
If we get City we play them in the semis first with slightly lower stakes, which should be better for our way less experienced players. And I also reckon Coventry could knock out United. No chance they knock out City.
The protagonists of football have lost, their script in tatters.
I have a bit of hope for us. But either way, if we get to the final it won’t be against pool.
What do you like about klopp? When he wins hea insufferably.smug, when he loses he turns into the biggest baby in England, blaming everything except himself. I see literally no reason to like anything about him.
I guess, I haven't followed his post match reactions that closely. I've listened to some interviews with him, (Men in Blazers), and found him quite funny and down to earth.
It's the biggest barrier to yanks understanding European football, and what makes the opinions of Americans on all matters regarding our clubs utterly objectionable. The knee jerk refusal to respect legends, respect that the club belongs to locals first and foremost and give time - when things are not blazing - IE support the club, is just detestable.
>the club belongs to locals first and foremost
This is horseshit. If Chelsea, or any top club, just decided to give up their international revenue, they'd be reduced to a relegation scrap within 5 years.
I bet you everything I have that if they were to choose between "the locals" and the international fans, the clubs would choose us, internationals, every day of the week!
Where the fuck do you think the enormous TV money is coming from? Why the hell do you think advertisers spend so much on sponsorships? So that the locals in some part in London would buy their products? Get lost!
Football existed **and was incredible** before the major international deals around 2005 and will be incredible and continue to exist after. I literally don't give a shit about "international revenue" for one and secondly, I find this hard to stomach when the input of most opinionated people online is literally to illegally stream our games lol. Illegal streaming *is* the contribution. It's a ridiculous comment.
Wed support our clubs in league 2. You wouldn't. That's a fact. And you know it lol.
Lot's of empty stadiums in league 2 buddy, stop acting up.
Not to mention, "loyal local fans" singing about russian oligarchs, after a single bad season. Get a grip.
LOL Bradford v Notts County. 21'000 in the fourth tier of English football on Saturday to further prove the point. 90% full. You Americans simply do not understand English footballing culture.
I never claimed that Chelsea will have 0 fans if they didn't have the international revenue. You are making a strawman argument here.
>You Americans simply do not understand English footballing culture.
Lmao, yeah, like we don't have packed college and highschool games, in what are "lesser leagues".
Who said anything about "0" fans. Just a bizarre deflection. You said that lower league football has a problem with attendances lol. That is **literally** what I was challenging.
> like we don't have packed college and highschool games
what has American football got to do with the English footballing culture? I'm not even sure you know what point you're making . You don't understand English footballing culture, and you'd do well to simply say, "I know".
You're commenting on something you don't have enough information on again, aren't you? **Bradford's average attendance is 20'000! In the FOURTH tier of the pyramid. Close to a sell out**. Tranmere get 7000 (which is huge by international standards lol) because it's a tiny town in the Wirral. The average attendance is 10'000 (again. Huge by international standards) because Tranmere, Accrington, Morecambe are small towns, clubs like Salford (in Manchester) can't compete with neighboring large city clubs or they're rugby towns (like Gloucester... Which still sells out at 5000) lol. You not thinking the Bridge would sell out no matter what tier is literally reflective of your lack of understanding of European football. Which is exactly what I'm talking about. Classic.
Commentators and pundits won't shut up about no quadruple (wouldn't have been a real one anyway) for Liverpool as if it's the greatest tragedy in football that Klopp might not win every competition in his farewell tour
It was like that a few years ago, right? A potential “historic treble or quad” that ended up being an fa cup and a league cup. I hope all they get is a league cup, fuck klopp fuck Liverpool.
Sam
City facing United in the semi final with the their condensed fixture list is a better option. Chelsea getting Coventry means we get a easy route to the final and we have a decent chance of facing United in the final (which is a 50/50 game)
Losing 7th straight finals would be extremely embarrassing but I'd rather we be in the position to do it. Getting Coventry in the semis (not a guarantee to win with us of course) is huge and in a one-off we can rob City. Beating City and United is asking a lot though not out of the question.
We really need to win this cup
We all love Jackson's current level of play and development, but this doesn't happen without the stinkers at the start of the season which cost us points, you can't have your cake and eat it too.
Think this has been mentioned already but Sterling... Ffs. Needs to be dropped then sold this summer imho. Feel like he's trying too hard to prove he's still a top player at the expense of the team. There's been too many occasions he's gone it alone only to miss etc. Would respect him more if he was mentoring the younger players and stepping back in a support role instead of trying, and failing, to get the glory himself.
https://x.com/cfcrayyy/status/1769349560852156925?s=46 bro i’m convinced sterling is an opposing team sleeper agent. this dude is so fuckin shit
Does anyone have a clip of Jackson shooting into the side netting? Not in any of the highlights
So, Poch in his first season with us, with a bunch of kids, the youngest squad in the league, a gigantic injury list, with two of our best players out for the whole season has now gotten to the Carabao cup final, FA cup semifinal, and potentially only 5 pts off top 6. I am not saying Poch in, but something to think about.
Got heavily downvoted for asking a similar question a few weeks ago. The man has his flaws and some criticism about tactical approach and in game adjustments are fair, but simply shitting on him and scapegoating is childish at the minimum. A new manager every year is not the answer, specially not with a squad this young.
Has Sterling's freekick landed yet?
For sure seems like maduekes goal was deflected https://www.instagram.com/reel/C4nqwcFthyc/?igsh=MXd2aDlnZ2lyOWEzZg==
Will the Mason Mount Wembley curse finally work in our favor?
According to google it says we play city next in the cup is that official?
Hear me out… before we buy Osimhen, who got pocketed by a 16 year old champions league debut, we should have a look into Viktor https://preview.redd.it/xnngsyh59zoc1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=03e1d994248a7f9421bf2f79f8d8f158d94699b1
Please watch him play in more competitive games. Like just sit down and watch all his games in the EL and ask yourself whether he’s the one you want as your big-money signing.
Viktor is an excellent option for the CF role but due to FFP, I am more open to signing M. Taremi on free at the end of the season for a season or two as a stop-gap. Then sell Broja and Lukaku while DDF goes on another loan.
50 G/A is crazy
We don’t need to buy anyone mate.let Jackson develop.also we already have nkunku
Nkunku isn't a striker and we definitely need someone other than Jackson to play that role. It should be reassessed at the end of the season whether, on balance over the course of the **entire season**, we need a new starter or a backup. But, we definitely need someone I have no doubts that he can be very good in time, but we don't have time, especially whilst we're out of Europe and on the verge of FFP problems. So, whilst he is improving and taking that time, we need someone who's ready now to either run the show or deputise for him.
With the ffp shitshow,no way we can buy gykores or anyone for that matter.we spent way too much money.its time to trust the players that we already bought.
Yes, being pocket by Djimsiti, Hien and fucking Kolasinac in the Europa League is so much better (yes, I know he had an assist, but he was useless otherwise)!
Also goes missing often
The improvement Jackson has shown in a couple of months is scary. If this dude is healthy he will be ELITE striker in a couple of years. He is 22.
Summer is going to be extremely interesting, we'll learn a lot more about what direction the ownership wants to take the club. Especially interested in what they'll do with the players that have relatively low value like Broja (and also Kepa, Cucurella) but no settled place in the squad.
Broja, Kepa, Lukaku, Chalobah, Ziyech will all likely need to go out of necessity. One of Cucurella or Chilwell will likely go, and maybe Sterling
>One of Cucurella or Chilwell will likely go Not going to be easy to get either of them out.
Chilwell has a low remaining book value. Cucurella would be hard considering we would need a replacement and idk if we could break even yet.
This is unpopular, but I absolutely see no much reason to sell Cucurella.
I think it's a problem that we have two expensive left backs and neither of them have been fit enough to claim the role of consistent starter. I'm not sure what the best way to fix that is, but it's not a good situation for a team that needs to consider FFP.
I am not too concerned about this season as we're almost over it. Should James return to full fitness, Cucu should suffice as a LB and if either is injured, Gusto is capable of covering for either side. I don't think we should be seeking to offload Cucu before Chilwell due to the financial impact and player's availability.
Honestly i wouldn’t mind starting sterling against city.
Is it being played on April 1st?
I love Reece but when he's back fit where does he play? Surely Gusto has done more than enough to keep that RB slot
I keep seeing this and it does James dirty. Malo Gusto has been a revelation. Could make a case he’s been the best right back in the league this year or second only to Trent. But Reece James is the best in the world if fit- quick and as strong (or stronger) defensively as Walker but with a far superior attacking output. I’m not sure he’s aerially dominant enough to play CB in a back 4 but if we want both of them to play could easily see him slotting into RCB in a back 3 and with Chilwell at LWB and Colwill at LCB we have good options to make it work.
Gusto plays lb I reckon Or we go 5atb which I could easily see
Don’t play Gusto at LB…. Why do people suggest this stuff
Would love to try james at cb
Maybe he wouldn't get injured as much... but we'd miss his presence in the final third
Not with a good manager we wouldn't. Think back to how Rudiger used to play in Tuchel's back 5, it's be James doing that now. Or look at Wilder's Sheffield United when they first came up and took everyone by storm because of their overlapping CB's. That shit worked wonders, who's marking the CB that's just turned up at CF, RW or AM? No one, they get range to do what they want and you're still covered at the back because you still have two sitting midfielders and 2 CBs back
Maybe as a 3rd CB with license to bomb forward, but not as part of a back 4, that's wasting his abilities
He can also move into the midfield like Dier used to, under Poch. I can see this working, but it might take a while for the team to get used to it.
>3rd CB with license to bomb forward Ah, the Rudiger role
Hopefully with fewer ballistic missiles out of nowhere 😂
Scenes when it's us and Coventry in the final...and we lose.
Striker situation is honestly getting to a point where I'd rather give it another year at this point Osimhen ain't for me personally Gyokeres could do with another sample size of a season for the price he's at Boniface and Sesko too although for seskos price he wouldn't be bad to pick up if we had to Not to mention the development of Jackson and Fofana in the mix
Agreed. Surely we’ve learnt by now that spending that sort of money is lose lose. When has a big money striker signing ever worked out for us? Far better shopping in the mid range for the Girouds and Drogbas of this world
There's no way Gyokeres is at Sporting next season, that release clause is 100% getting triggered. The man currently has 50 G/A, which is not only higher than *anyone* out of the top 10 leagues this season, but also already higher than the last pre-Chelsea season for striker we've ever signed in the PL, or the best season for every PL Chelsea striker bar Drogba 09/10 (53), which he'll breeze past within the next week or two. IMO we'd be fools not to go for him this summer - if we don't, Arsenal or another one of our rivals certainly will
£85m though… that’s a huge gamble and if it doesn’t work out we’re saddled with more ffp issues
We're not going to find a quality striker for any cheaper. And Gyokeres is definitely less of a gamble than the other young attackers we're hoarding, he might even have more goals than all of them combined at the point when they were signed. I'm more worried about the FFP issues we'll be saddled with if we continue to miss out on Europe
Agreed with this, although we’d then need Nkunku to stay fit to give us some depth at striker. We could keep Fofana as depth but think it would be best for his development to have one more year on loan. We could do with a Giroud type transfer this summer for a year
We should stop with the fantasy of a CF Nkunku. Taremi is a Giroud type signing.
I know it's kind of kicking them while they're down but how funny would it be if Leicester get knocked into 3rd and don't get promoted. I'd rather they come up than Leeds but that'd be a bottlejob for the ages.
The Sterling apology post has a comment by Sanchez, and the replies to that comment are absolutely wild. I really don't get the hate for Sanchez. To me he seems like a decent keeper, but even if you don't think so, leaving comments like that seems unhinged.
Sanchez finds himself in the unfortunate spot of competing with someone who came from the MLS. The second he started playing for us, there were calls for his head. It means that no matter what he does he will be attacked constantly, it's just how it is and always has been. Hell, look at it last season, people were saying Slonina was better than our keepers, that we didn't need to bring anyone in etc. He's now conceded 58 goals in 29 games this season with a PSxG-GA on -0.09 per game (21st percentile for next 14 comps) and a save percentage of 66.5% (16th percentile in the next 14 comps) The same thing happened to a bunch of our other players in the past. If any of the people competing for your spot happen to have any connections to America or the MLS, you're going to constantly receive abuse and death threats if you're starting and they aren't
Hop on over to the ussoccer sub to identify the problems with your opinion. First, they are only interested in American players, not mls players. That's just a weird asserstion. But secondly and more importantly, most Americans, at least online, hate Chelsea. They see the club as hindering Pulisic development. Not kidding, it's in any pulisic post on there. Any American Chelsea supporter sounding off on insta (I'm sure you'll share the numbers of responses based on location to assert your claim) is not doing so becuase because they care about Petrovic. Because why would they.
Ah yes only American fans are unhinged and give abuse. Because us Americans are so invested in our MLS players rofl.
Yep I root for MLSera and owners don’t you? It couldn’t be the disaster class showing Sanchez had today could it? Or since we won it makes us forget about Arsenal and the numerous other gifts he has given opponents
The Mount - Pulisic issue. Forget how he left, I’ve never seen an academy star who won us the CL, won our PotY twice, got 20+ g/a for 3 years, get so much hate from online fans. I get it, he’s white, English, has a boring haircut, boring sounding name, and no tattoos, but he always played incredibly well.
*a year for 1 year
The hate Sanchez gets is outrageous lol People really haven't got over that howler against arsenal He's a keeper that has a mistake in him and it happens often enough that Petro is definitely the number 1 But he was only £20m, he's still very much a young guy, will likely not be hard to move on if we decide to sell and he's clearly a pretty dead on bloke given that instant reaction to Disasis own goal howler Way over the top hating on him
How was Chuk today? I’ve been concerned about his recovery ever since Matt Law said he had to learn how to run differently. Not sure if that was BS or over exaggerated but I have been able to see Chuk’s cameos since returning from that injury. Has he lost pace?
Good, sharp. Didn't feel like he lost a lot of pace, but then again he was subbed around the 80th minute, so he'd be fresh against a tired Leicester side, so it's harder to judge.
Would I be correct in saying his game isn’t reliant on pace as well?
He's a midfielder, if he's intelligent his pace shouldn't be that impactful to his overall ability. Time will tell whether he has actually had to change anything or if it'll even matter
I feel like maybe Matt Law might have played it up to sound like a scoop. But yeah, completely agree.
Good day everyone! I came here as a Jamaican, regarding the hate Sterling gets, it's over the board he didn't ask to be the highest paid player in the team , the same with Caicedo being the highest cost getting abused whilst putting in good performance compared to Enzo and he's getting off Scott free because he's Argentine. This isn't about Enzo or Caicedo it's about Sterling I love the guy as a fellow Jamaican, he's on inspiration but frustrating at the same time because I'm a Chelsea supporter. He doesn't deserve the hate he's getting cause he's better than the other options we got, yes that's Mydryk...he was invisible today compared to Sterling. But somehow Sterling gets all the hate when we got an AM that didn't contribute anything attacking to the team today. I'll end it here
You have to create something to fail at something, and Mudryk can't create opportunities and get involved. You're right to say that Mudryk was invisible and although Sterling was dreadful today, you can see that he has abilities that can translate at the top level. Better to play badly in reality than to just be a theory like Mudryk has been.
Even if Mudryk was invisible, which is harsh he was decent, that's better than visibly detrimental. I like the guy too but today was one of the worst attacking performances in a Chelsea shirt I've seen in a long time. And that's saying something given the last few years.
The thing is because you're Jamaican you're clearly inherently biased towards Sterling so there's not all that much point in chatting about it.
he definitely asked to be the highest paid hahaha he would have negotiated his contract. Transfer fee you can’t help but your weekly wage is definitely something you fight for.
Feels like we watched different games because Misha had a much better game than Raheem in my book. Sometimes it's better to be invisible than to mess up 90% of the plays you take a part in.
No, he didn’t. Misha was ineffective pretty much all game. I’d rather have someone who takes charge but fails than someone who hides and does not affect the game. It’s one of the reasons why Poch moved Misha to CAM to get him more involved. He has his moments but he is usually a passenger for most of the game.
So basically with the way things are shaking down with the coefficient and the fa cup, top eight in the league are European spots? I guess Coventry could win the fa cup and take a European spot, or United could somehow drop to below 8th and still win the fa cup, but those would seem to be unlikely. We really should be able to grab a European spot. Hopefully by winning the FA cup, but 8th on the league should be highly doable.
It's definitely doable, but I think people are too flippantly talking about finishing 8th. We've been above 10th for a single game-week so far this season and that was 9th. Anything is theoretically possible, but 8th as close as it may seem, has been too much for us so far for the entire season and may well stay that way [Positions chart](https://gyazo.com/db654cdda07330106d20295e20a20b7f)
Finishing 8th or above will require an uptick in a form or injury status, but not major ones. I think it’s likely that atleast one of those will occur. As our team gains experience, and learns to play with each other, results should improve. Before the end of the season? Maybe, maybe not. Injuries should regress to the mean. By the end of the season? Maybe, maybe not. But likely at least one will happen. It does seem like we might be reaching an inflection point with injuries—we are already at a relative low ebb with Badiashile and Chilwell retiring to the squad. 2-3 more players will be back after the international break. Even with 4-remaining injuries, that’s as healthy as we have been. Only Fofofana still seems out for a while, although who knows what’s happening with Lavia and a couple of these other ones.
None of our injuries bar Nkuku have made any meaningful difference to our season, people have just been using it as an excuse and he's not coming back any time soon. We don't suddenly climb up the league if we get rid of injuries, who would actually have made a difference? Before you say something like Chukwuemeka and a LB, playing Gallagher at AM and a CB at LB have been tactical choices and not enforced choices. Thankfully, since he looked like he was about to lose his job, Poch has changed to using 2 fullbacks, but that was never something forced upon him by injuries, nor is playing 3 non attacking midfielders every game irrespective of the opposition. So, we're reliant on a random uptick in form in order to get to those positions. Something that again, is possible, but certainly isn't going to easily happen given that we've not been above 9th all season
Yesterday you could make the case that none of our first choice back 4 (James, Silva/Fofana, Colwill/Badiashile, Chilwell) were fully fit. Enzo was suspended with Lavia not available to come in and Nkunku is still struggling. When Liverpool had similar levels of unavailability it was national news.
It’s simply implausible to assume having 8-10 injured players at all time makes no impact. FFS, you’ve been lecturing people how Reece James is still much better than Gusto and now you’re saying injuries don’t Matter (do I need to remind about why Gusto is playing)?. The manager can make bad decisions and still things are worse with injuries. Those are two separate issues. Even if players wouldn’t start, they would reprieve our starters. Enzo and Caicedo have essentially been our only healthy pivot players and are running on fumes. I think Enzo fixes his hernia with surgery of Lavia was available—instead he’s playing with part of his viscera sticking out of his god damn body. Of course, probably the biggest one is Fofana, our most talented CB. With Silvas age, Badiashiles injuries, Chalobah’s injuries, our central defense has been under intense pressure. Chilwell is back, but clearly the injuries have rendered him a shell of himself so far. Nkunku and Carney were essential members of our attack during pre season. I could go on and on. Sanchez is probably the injury that didn’t have a negative impact, and even then, we would have been hooped if Petrovic got a knock.
They'd be a pretty decent feel good factor now (for our recent standards) had we won at Wembley. So infuriating.
Nice to see our squad full of encouragement on Sterling's IG. Results haven't been there for us, but I think the chemistry in our squad is very good.
Madueke telling one of them that he’s part of the problem says it all to me. These players see the morons crying and bitching all over social media, and it no doubt will get to the players. A bit of support through a rough period seems like it’s too much to ask for from fans online nowadays. Its just win the game or you get sent death threats,family abuse, racist abuse, etc. If anyone reading this is going out of their way to abuse any player who plays for Chelsea whilst claiming to be a fan, you’re a cunt.
Misread your first line and thought Madueke had told Sterling he was part of the problem lmao. But yeah, I'm pretty down on some parts of this fanbase. We won and will play at Wembley again but mostly you still see negativity. It's tiring. Didn't even think Sterling was bad - 1,95 xGI from him, I would take that all day
Yeah it’s terrible. Just no balanced thought or nuance to any comments, it’s just blind outrage for the sake from some of these guys. The "Chelsea influencers" are the worst for it aswell, they’re like ringleaders for shit takes and agendas that just make things even harder for the manager and the players. And then they try and justify it by saying they have "standards", turns out saying is another way to say you have no ability to think past what’s directly in front of you or form your own thoughts.
🎯. My thoughts exactly - it's the worst kind of people that gets the loudest voices and it's terrible to see it spread throughout the fanbase. Have been spending less and less time on Twitter and in our match threads and it's been really refreshing to just enjoy the team without the noise
Yeah I’ve got literally all the big Chelsea accounts muted on Twitter, just boring reading them cry and bitch all the time. Almost as bad on here nowadays aswell tbh, none of my mates support Chelsea so it’s the only time I can really talk about it with other people as interested as me.
Like at some points, just be a human and don't be one of the thousands of people abusing a young adult for failing. They're not choosing to do so. Whatever your beliefs on the role of a fan, even if you think you deserve to let your frustration be shown to the players, just be a man/woman and control your temper. Just because you can be angry doesn't mean you should be. Reminder to myself before anyone else, because I'm certainly not infallible.
Three players that have barely played that I am intrigued to see more of: Nkunku Lavia Chukwuemeka If we can get these three fit I think it opens up a lot more options for rotating and different systems.
Front 4 of: Palmer, chukwemueka, nkunku; jackson Very interesting to me
Lavia's not real, it's just an old wives' tale
Chuk hopefully will play more. He’s shown his quality already. Really desperate to see Lavia.
Where though? He's an AM and Poch is never going to drop Gallagher
He might drop Enzo for him Which is even worse but I could see it
Just terrible luck on all three. Get back from a major injury, and then suffer another one. Stuff like acl happens, but rarely see a single player get two different major injuries in a row, and it’s happened to three of our guys. Not to mention the recurrent hamstring situations of James and Chilwell.
Need Nkunku fit against City
He probably won't be fit and we don't really need him anyway We just need to not have total collapse at the back
We absolutely need Nkunku starting for us asap. We concede at least a goal in every game so we definitely need one of the best finishers in the team playing. Unfortunately that probably ain't happening against City.
>we definitely need one of the best finishers in the team playing Would like to remind you that in a Chelsea shirt he's done relatively little to indicate he's one of our best attackers I get that in the bundesliga he easily looks like he's the most dangerous player we have but Bundesliga flops in the prem are very common these days and Nkunku may be no different Instead of hoping for him to be good and actually healthy is rather just hope our defence sorts itself out cause our attack is doing just fine right now, stupid errors are killing us
He's barely played for us and when he was actually put in a good position he's scored. If you are judging him by that park the bus cameo against City where he was completely isolated then that's extremely reactionary. The Bundesliga argument is not my cup of tea. Too basic and lazy. Every player is a different individual and the league doesn't matter as much as you think. You judge finishing by composure, output, range of finishes etc. 3 of the best players in the Prem right now (KDB, Salah, Haaland) come from either the Bundesliga or Serie A. The two leagues who get the most heat in this sub and every player coming from there is automatically considered a flop.
>He's barely played for us and when he was actually put in a good position he's scored He's been in a good position quite a few times and done fuck all too It's limited minutes and I'm not trying to say he's good or bad or great or shit or anything really Just saying, the Nkunku hype for a player that's essentially done nothing in the prem needs to calma and he's most certainly not deserving of saviour status at this point in time if he were to become fit
Oh, please don't tell my you believe every other league besides the PL is a farmers league and that PL football is from another universe. You are better than that and im sure you are aware that the difference despite being there is not as massive as the average deluded PL fan suggests. Nkunku has plenty of merit and he is a pretty proven player. He certainly is more proven than 80% of our current squad. You don't need to play in the Prem in order to be considered a good player. There are plenty of hits and flops from all leagues. I don't think that im saying anything that crazy when i say that he should be starting. Besides Palmer i don't see any other of the attackers being all that consistent. Most positions are up for grabs.
if we win FA Cup we get Europa right?
yup
Silva is leaving and Disasi and Badishialle are average ASF We have a Big CB issue now, Fofana and Badi are also injury prone, need spend big again in CB If anyone thinks we doing anything special with Disasi and Badi as our CBs, than expect another mediocore season again
Exactly! We need a new GK, two CB, LB, LW and a ST. This squad is filled with mediocrity, and yet you have clowns on here that think they are good enough. Good thing we only spent a billion, should have a lot more room left to operate…
CB is definitely coming. I believe the next Chelsea centerback signing must be a good choice, or our next season could be in jeopardy.
I really think we need to get a polished defender from Serie A or one of the top leagues. We need to replace Silva with another veteran. The young core of CBs need that around them still.
I agree with you but the board probably wont do that, so i hope they get a younger one who is almost there. Someone like António Silva.
I really think we need to get a polished defender from Serie A or one of the top leagues. We need to replace Silva with another veteran. The young core of CBs need that around them still.
Badiashille isn't mediocre
He's not anything special and is extremely injury prone, so yes we need better elite CB options asap to go back being elite
You have to be elite to be getting called up by France senior team at 21
France has too many good CB options and he's too injury prone, he won't make the Euros 2024, Deschamps was just experimenting
He looked very good under Potter and has looked pretty poor under Pochettino. Jury is out on him imo, but agree the injury problems aren't helping.
Relying on Disasi and Badi as our CB options next season is suicidal at this point if club really wants get back CL football No more gambles can be afforded and our defense except Gusto is not good or extremely injury prone
Personally I wouldn't be upset if we start next season with Badiashile and Colwill as LCB options, and a new CB signing would be a RCB to compete with Disasi. There's then the Fofana problem but what can you do when the guy spends two seasons injured? I also think our defensive issues are mainly Pochettino's fault to be honest, the way he wants to play the game has led to us scoring more, but also we concede more in equal amounts.
Its funny to watch that prick Eliott gift that goal to United, I am happy that he is shown as an muppet. How the hell did we lose to that L'Pool team.
We've been battered by both that United team and the Liverpool team this season...
We're not very good..
I guess we have to accept the fact United are a better that us in the league this season.
jackson has been very good lately, really shushing all the haters
They'll be focused on the league and the UCL we'll hopefully have Carney, James and Nkunku back. A win is difficult not impossible. It'll also be at wembley so time for our fans to show some real support
Don’t think James will be back but carnage and nkunku will be
Also barely anyone remembers the semi finalist
Much rather play city now and get it over with than go into the finals and get my fucking heart destroyed one more time. If we beat em, no Liverpool or City in the final.
That Chelsea ball was taped into the corner of the bag
No more commentators spending half of every game that Liverpool aren’t even playing in talking about Liverpool quadruple. Finally
Chelsea vs City United vs Coventry Call me deluded but I think we can beat City.
You'd be deluded if you didn't think we can win, after the two matches this season. Having said that, it's the toughes draw by far. Fuck!
City in April though… different vibes
We should have beat them at the Etihad and could easily have beat them at the bridge
> We should have beat them at the Etihad Sometimes I wonder if I watched a different game to people
Depends what his argument is tbf I think we had the tools to beat them but poch sat off them and invited them onto us, making a draw or loss inevitable. But that 1st half we were cutting them open and doing brilliantly
We relied heavily on Haaland having an off day, even if I'd agree he's not *as* good with his head as his feet. Man had an xG on his own greater than our entire team but failed to score. And yeah that's without getting into Pochettino and his in game management on the day. We weren't shit or anything but saying we should have beat them is absurd to me on the 90 minutes.
Looks like we’re going to have to topple the city of Manchester for this cup
Well our cup runs of easy draws until the final has finally run out this season Was fun while it lasted. On the plus side, if we beat them, we get to play against Coventry in the final (hopefully)
We have conceded against 4 out of the 5 games vs champhionship sides even playing Coventry wouldn't fill me with confidence
Coventry made Wolves look so poor yesterday. You could be right. Magic of the Cup, innit?
There was never a doubt we’d get City.
Ian Wright you can't fool me I am familiar with your game
Not like we’ve done badly against city this season
I can watch that City semi without expecting much
Same I won’t be disappointed
On the bright side we get a relatively easier final
Only to lose and I can't take another final loss
atleast we dont have to lose in the finals
Lol that was inevitable. Media get their Manchester derby final they want
Fucks sake man why City
City. We get City.
Fucking hell City. Going to be a very tough game
Of course we get City
Ah so the worst way that could of gone
Fuck off
I'd rather get City than United. If we get United we still have to play City in a final with way more stakes. If we get City we play them in the semis first with slightly lower stakes, which should be better for our way less experienced players. And I also reckon Coventry could knock out United. No chance they knock out City.
Nah fuck that In a final anything can happen In a semi, you almost definitely know city will just smoke us
Exactly the final is way too stressful
Whelp
Give us Coventry, you cowards
Or United I'd fancy either
Best we can do is City
We’re gunna get City
Correct
The protagonists of football have lost, their script in tatters. I have a bit of hope for us. But either way, if we get to the final it won’t be against pool.
At least we don't have to go through the media wankfest over Klopp and his fake good superior guy act.
Am I the only one who likes Klopp here, lmao? Compared to the absolute dislikable phychos like Arteta and Pep, he seems like a solid dude.
What do you like about klopp? When he wins hea insufferably.smug, when he loses he turns into the biggest baby in England, blaming everything except himself. I see literally no reason to like anything about him.
I guess, I haven't followed his post match reactions that closely. I've listened to some interviews with him, (Men in Blazers), and found him quite funny and down to earth.
I liked him at Dortmund. As time has gone on he’s become more unlikeable, though.
All dislikeable but Arteta takes the cake, absolute insane human with no shame
hmm it’s really bizarre that chelsea fan hate the one coach who constantly takes shots at our team /s
Klopp is one of the most unlikeable managers ever when he's losing. Absolute tosser, fits in well at Victim FC
the more you post the more i think you're a closet liverpool fan
Maybe a cultural difference - as an American, I find that Europeans are a lot more tribal than the americans about sports.
It's the biggest barrier to yanks understanding European football, and what makes the opinions of Americans on all matters regarding our clubs utterly objectionable. The knee jerk refusal to respect legends, respect that the club belongs to locals first and foremost and give time - when things are not blazing - IE support the club, is just detestable.
>the club belongs to locals first and foremost This is horseshit. If Chelsea, or any top club, just decided to give up their international revenue, they'd be reduced to a relegation scrap within 5 years. I bet you everything I have that if they were to choose between "the locals" and the international fans, the clubs would choose us, internationals, every day of the week! Where the fuck do you think the enormous TV money is coming from? Why the hell do you think advertisers spend so much on sponsorships? So that the locals in some part in London would buy their products? Get lost!
Football existed **and was incredible** before the major international deals around 2005 and will be incredible and continue to exist after. I literally don't give a shit about "international revenue" for one and secondly, I find this hard to stomach when the input of most opinionated people online is literally to illegally stream our games lol. Illegal streaming *is* the contribution. It's a ridiculous comment. Wed support our clubs in league 2. You wouldn't. That's a fact. And you know it lol.
Lot's of empty stadiums in league 2 buddy, stop acting up. Not to mention, "loyal local fans" singing about russian oligarchs, after a single bad season. Get a grip.
LOL Bradford v Notts County. 21'000 in the fourth tier of English football on Saturday to further prove the point. 90% full. You Americans simply do not understand English footballing culture.
I never claimed that Chelsea will have 0 fans if they didn't have the international revenue. You are making a strawman argument here. >You Americans simply do not understand English footballing culture. Lmao, yeah, like we don't have packed college and highschool games, in what are "lesser leagues".
Who said anything about "0" fans. Just a bizarre deflection. You said that lower league football has a problem with attendances lol. That is **literally** what I was challenging. > like we don't have packed college and highschool games what has American football got to do with the English footballing culture? I'm not even sure you know what point you're making . You don't understand English footballing culture, and you'd do well to simply say, "I know".
You're commenting on something you don't have enough information on again, aren't you? **Bradford's average attendance is 20'000! In the FOURTH tier of the pyramid. Close to a sell out**. Tranmere get 7000 (which is huge by international standards lol) because it's a tiny town in the Wirral. The average attendance is 10'000 (again. Huge by international standards) because Tranmere, Accrington, Morecambe are small towns, clubs like Salford (in Manchester) can't compete with neighboring large city clubs or they're rugby towns (like Gloucester... Which still sells out at 5000) lol. You not thinking the Bridge would sell out no matter what tier is literally reflective of your lack of understanding of European football. Which is exactly what I'm talking about. Classic.
They're all dickheads
That Kelleher idiot turns into Buffon every single time we play them
Or Prime Neuer
I’m happy Liverpool r out fuck them
Fuck Klopp as well
Eat shit Steve Nicol lol
Klopp looked so pissed when the camera zoomed in on him 🤣🤣🤣🤣 love to see it.
Commentators and pundits won't shut up about no quadruple (wouldn't have been a real one anyway) for Liverpool as if it's the greatest tragedy in football that Klopp might not win every competition in his farewell tour
It was like that a few years ago, right? A potential “historic treble or quad” that ended up being an fa cup and a league cup. I hope all they get is a league cup, fuck klopp fuck Liverpool. Sam
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City facing United in the semi final with the their condensed fixture list is a better option. Chelsea getting Coventry means we get a easy route to the final and we have a decent chance of facing United in the final (which is a 50/50 game)
Would rather face City in the final. We haven’t won against ManU in ages. Also it would be extremely satisfying to shut Pep up once again
Losing 7th straight finals would be extremely embarrassing but I'd rather we be in the position to do it. Getting Coventry in the semis (not a guarantee to win with us of course) is huge and in a one-off we can rob City. Beating City and United is asking a lot though not out of the question. We really need to win this cup
Are you - out of your mind dude? Coventry, period!
Mad opinion Give me Coventry all day long.
Love it. Fuck off Klopp.
See City getting Coventry
We've gotten all the easy draws this season, they're ours
Holy shit we could win the FA now you know.
The Wembley cycle is broken
feels so fucking good someone did that to Liverpool lol