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popizaino:
Can we talk about the double standards? 🧱📉

Last night, the pundits spent 90 minutes killing Rosenior for being "too safe." But if we’d lost 4-0 playing "Heavy Metal" football, they’d be calling for his head today. 🚫🧤

Liam said it best: He’s been in that studio. He knows the game. 🧊🪄

You can't win with the "experts" unless you win on the pitch. They want "bravery" when it fails and "discipline" when it works. 🏗️🔨

The Truth: We went to the Emirates and held the best team in the country to zero big chances until the 97th minute. The plan worked defensively, the "wingers" just didn't deliver the offensive end. 🦁🧱

Stop listening to the noise. Trust the process


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bro there is no "process" to trust, just another transition in works. It might fail it might work, nothing to trust after many failed attempts

So you prefer gittens to garnacho

airmark:
We should get Mathys Detourbet by summer and send Garnacho on loan.

BlueRayDick:
Omo! But how can your coach start the match with just 3/4 attack minded players in the line up when he intends to overturn the first leg loss?

I thought he would take hato off, bring in garnacho and push cucurella back, there a chance cucu had and instead of shooting he tried to pass and got blocked. Ntl the coach made good subs it just didn't click for Chelsea. I didn't understand the point of a front two when delap was almost playing rw, almost no crosses or passes into the box before he got taken off

Carot:
Enzo5, airmark, ibime, did you see how havertz disgraced Sanchez

it's not like he won them the ucl

MorataFC:
Is this one commentator or a musician?

This is so funny!!! pic.twitter.com/DXfOxU5abU

— Frank Khalid OBE (@FrankKhalidUK) February 2, 2026

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UncleHaba22:
🚨 Chelsea may be forced to play their Champions League Round of 16 “home” match at a neutral venue outside London.

UEFA rules prevent multiple UCL games in the same city on the same night, giving Arsenal and Tottenham priority over Chelsea for March 18–19 fixtures. Without special dispensation, Stamford Bridge won’t host the tie. [MailSport]

Wow we really need a new stadium, this insult hit the spot

airmark:
That's how you know those from gutter backgrounds and they are still dwelling in there. They leave the crux of the argument and start going personal, exposing their filthy characters in public.

Anyways I will continue pressing their necks until they accept they goofed.

think of it on a lighter note, he CAN'T possibly be insulting his younger sister right

timbros:
Legit news?

I no even understand Mudryk case. Was he banned? For how long?

ya he was banned, but new evidences showed he was innocent, sad story though

Apparently Ukraine FA are to blame for the substance found in his system, and mudryk passed a lie detector test. I think Chelsea or shaktar his former club were threatening to sue their FA. So sad about how the whole thing dragged, first he was accused for many months then finally officially banned for something he was innocent of, but well on some less bright side it's just a year and not four years

airmark:
Chelsea squad? I thought they reported earlier that he would join Strasbourg or Sevilla.

a loan would do him good, or he can battle it out it's a new manager who may see him fit somewhere if chelsea haven't given up on him sha

Mykhailo Mudryk is set to return to the Chelsea squad on January 17th, 2026.

Another lwb or rwb option for liam

Yemike:
Rashford no get sense

wow most be one of the most hated united managers wow

WhoDeyHause:
There will still be unnecessary passes cause rosenior likes to play out from the back. What I want to even see if what will happen with James.

most likely RCB or cm

Capaldi:
I am genuinely surprised Joachim low hasn't landed a top job since he left Germany. Brilliant manager wasting away.

but Chelsea won't see him or Klopp but will go for Liam

Things I don't want or want Liam to do
1. Don't play from the back, I love when I watch Strasbourg do it but my heart would be up if I watch Sanchez and the rest of those clumsies do the same
2. Improve our defensive tactics
3. Create more shooting and scoring opportunities for palmer, our attackers and striker
4. Reduce the unnecessary passes especially back passes
5. Don't do any crazy experiments and play players in the wrong positions, he can wait till preseason to do that

drisham:
Rosenoir here we go


Our champions league charge begins here

Fully behind the manager

not like chelsea fans have a choice at this point

Did you watch Strasbourg vs nice?

FBS:
Chelsea's first goal of 2026 scored by Enzo.

Enzo no dey field, Enzo no dey field, man busy scoring goals or assisting.

But you know, Enzo no dey field and they sabi ball pass person wey dey play ball.

Enzo for president.

Happy New Year 😄

lol, forget the goal what about that last man clearance he gave, cus if he didn't get a leg to that ball that's a goal for city

Carot:
Rosenior is coming, Rosenior is coming, Rosenior is coming, Rosenior is coming

you seem excited

airmark:
Did you actually watch the match, talk true?

That's Delaps best performance this season.

drisham:
Delap was moving like a 9 yesterday


Hope he improves from here on

at times tactics make a big difference in how some players perform especially a number 9. Hope delap keeps it up

Sportsweb:
Pedro Neto.

Neto? nah maybe someone post maresca and benefited from his coming

nateevs:
What are you talking about? You are evading what is clearly a political struggle and talking about a purely technical matter.

This is a football club. There cannot and must not be a political struggle that impacts player choices by the manager. End of!

Let the manager you trusted to hire live and die by his own choices. Don't tell him who he should and should not have to play. If it doesn't work out using his own methods, then move him on.

When 5h!t like this starts to happen, the manager pushes back by whatever means, including trying to play people out of form just to prove a point.....a point of power ..... a point of who controls the team choices.

What sort of manager do you expect to sit and listen to the medical team tell him, oya play this guy, oya remove this guy at 65, Director say im value must not drop?

That's a sitting duck manager whose views will never be accepted by players. There will be dressing room turmoil, the fans hating the manager for unnecessary rotations, and the club loses the impact it was trying to exert in the first place.

How you see all this and begin dey argue another thing beats me.

which one is political struggled again, or you just want to blow grammar. I asked you did you not read where he agreed to the said working termz?

If anyone is evading anything, you did, answer this question first before trying to compare a working relationship to political struggle. It's not like we are talking about boehly vs his "friend" eghbali.

You wrote and I quote " If it doesn't work out using his own methods, then move him on." did you consider if "his methods" breeched a contract term to work in a certain way with certain players.

Bro we are talking about someone UNDER EMPLOYMENT which one is "including trying to play people out of form just to prove a point.....a point of power ..... a point of who controls the team choices." Bro if someone you EMPLOYED did this and wants to leave would you beg them to stay.

Please tell us nateevs did maresca want to continue managing in Chelsea and are these reasons sufficient for him to walk out mid season.

the only thing I may the board didn't do for maresca was get him a cb but they did almost every other thing, and maybe get him a top att mid.

I don't know where you got this from that you are asking me
"What sort of manager do you expect to sit and listen to the medical team tell him, oya play this guy, oya remove this guy at 65, Director say im value must not drop?"

Where did you read that it's the medical team that said so that their value would not drop but to answer your question bro, IT MAKES PERFECT SENSE TO LISTEN TO THE MEDICAL TEAM TELLING YOU TO REST SOME PLAYERS. Can't even believe you asked me that honestly.

Bro asking me to see your propaganda on how medical advise could to division in dressing is pure exaggeration.

Ibime:
Be quiet. Every Chelsea fan knows why Maresca makes 3 or 4 silly substitutions every 60 minutes mark without fail. He is under instruction. You are chasing game and bringing on Gittens and Tyrique or Delap, we all knew he was just sharing minutes for Blueco assets

All he said is if we are dropping points because of the silly substitutions you ask me to make, then give me grace and recognise that is the limitation of giving minutes to your players.

When faced with a Barca, PSG and in the run from February to May last season when we went on the best run to qualify for UCL, Maresca ditched the high rotations and knew what was required to see games out with tactical solidity. But when he's sharing minutes for BlueCo that's when we drop points anyhow.

you are very disrespectful dinosaur, you expect me to actually read your reply

We are talking about rotations, how many times has cucurella being rested or hato given game time, same thing happened with veiga. Now cucurella is currently either injured or unfit for city game

Whizlight:
Sources have told The Athletic that Chelsea had given Enzo Maresca two votes of confidence before things went sour.

One of those occasions was in the days after the 2-1 defeat at Atalanta on December 9, when he was assured his job was not at risk after he had conveyed concerns about what would happen if they lost their next match to Everton.

The timing of this was significant, given Maresca then complained about experiencing ‘the worst 48 hours of his career’ due to a lack of support at Stamford Bridge after securing a 2-0 win over Everton. This came as a surprise to everyone at the club, including the hierarchy and players.

People close to Maresca say his outburst was a reaction to the constant recommendations made by the medical department over the minutes players should play.

These people say that he was very concerned about the health of all Chelsea’s players, but that the recommendations by the medical department were a big part of why he wanted to leave.

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6935634/?source=fbuk

read stuff like this and you see why they said he lacks maturity and choose to leave. Those of us who have younger colleagues would understand how they a times have they moods when they are told "this thing I know we entrusted it to you but you are doing it in a way, why not do this instead or look at this or consider that".

How many times have we here questioned maresca, but is it now a problem for those around him to do so.

We have had many injuries this season so with the little I have read and followed of Chelsea's season I don't see why anyone should blame medical workers for DOING THEIR JOB given them by those who employed them.

nateevs:
Just read this 5h!t! Major operational gbege.

don't get your reaction, maresca is said to have agreed on such working terms from the beginning and Jacobs report doesn't directly blame the directors or medical team for them losing games.

I feel this is in reference to Josh which had been mentioned several times during interviews why he didnt play or him saying he trusts the player, they probably point to veiga and other players maresca dumped to one side because he wants to keep playing a few certain players even when they were not performing... and maybe even enzo, maresca didn't bench him even when the dude lost form, maresca barely used essugo before he got injured.

Even when Pedro would be struggling at 10, he won't take him off or play the loaned player.

Either Jacob is saying that it's the directors giving him line up and medical team doing the subs, I don't see what the big reaction is in them giving him inputs if they see him misbehaving

afrodoc2:
Medical department dey make recommendation to manager about who to play.

Hehehehe. Na doctor una suppose appoint next as manager.

and how do coaches find out who is fit and isn't fit for games? or you just wanted to type and post this?

Ibime:
Recommendation by Medical department is code for BlueCo sharing minutes to all their dud signings

God curse the day FIFA allowed 5 substitutions instead of 3, allowing them to think they can overstock everywhere and share minutes anyhow

which ones are you calling dud signings, is it hato or Josh or gotten or that loan player, is it guiu. Which dud signings are you referring to?

Did maresca resign or was he sacked?

Gucciboy:
After Pochetino was sacked, Cole Palmer posted a farewell message for him, appreciating for making him an elite player. But Still hasn't posted anything for Maresca though.

lol maybe because all their number of goals went down after maresca who kept going on about everybody scoring

Sportsweb:
Liam Rosenoir preferred lineup is 3-4- 2-1.

Could look like: GK: Robert Sanchez

Center backs: Fofana, Chalobah, Achampong

Wing backs: Cucurella, James,

Midfield: James, Caicedo

Double ten: Palmer and Estêvão.

JP up front

bro how many positions will james play in your xi?
I don't see cucurella a wingback, more of a lcb. wingbacks would likely be gusto, neto, garnacho and gittens