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New GK coming in.

Unlimited22:
Proper midfielder.

Him, Nkunku and Reece will be like new signings wallahi

The problem here na our wingers and maybe GK

Then the backup options do not make for comfortable viewing

Disasi, Emeka, Ugochukwu, Chilwell etc

Tell me about it. This is why the support cast is the first thing to spend money on before striker.

What can your striker do when the likes of Sterling and Madueke have atrocious decision making?

zeusis:
Before he got that first chance from sterling he skied, he slid a pass behind for Guiu. Guiu's shot wasn't so good. The pass he slid behind for Guiu, it was only palmer that dared to do that last season.

I am glad you noticed that. That's KDH in default mode. This is why I am begging for Maresca to find a way for KDH and Palmer to be main stays in the first 11. Our chance creation efforts will double overnight.

And both of them are clinical.

Y'all are not ready for Lavia I swear

Damn we are wasting chances.

Another idiot on the left.

Maresca. Please you have to consider using Palmer as RW and Angelo as deputy.

He's an idiot.

Madueke needs to understand that one can become a phenomenal winger even from assists.

zeusis:
KDH making use of the half spaces on the left. Seen his sneak into the box on 3 different occasions

This is actually one of his many abilities.

Guiuuuuuuuuuu

KDH. You have to hit the target there.

Obere4u:
Madueke will make our RB suffer o

Madueke is going to be a problem.

This Sanchez na enigma

3 gbosa for the guy that spotted and recommended Guiu.

See Madueke

BlewMahn:
No be penalty sha but nice play Labia

Nkunku on the beat...nice start.

Serious dive. Meanwhile lazy penalty by Nkunku

Goal

Penalty

Unlimited22:
Salah dey chop disrespect shaa

I swear. What have these toddlers done to be quoted in the same sentence as Salah?

The effing disrespect.

BlueAngel444:
this post wasn't to me o but your number seems harsh and unfair

1. At the time Chilwell had injury issues, they bought the best lb in the league not outside, but EPL so their isn't an excuse of adjusting and all that. Rudiger and Christensen, left for free, and we bought Series A best CB. We got Sterling after losing out on Raphina, this ain't your so called average players. The players you would say that made the transfer turn to billions would be the 60m+ transfers not the many >30m or >40m players. Chelsea had serious squad problems, due to past owners issues as well.


2. Which nonsense ruining academy spirit. When they gave James and Colwill contracts were they renewing the academy abi is there something we are missing. Was it not Chelsea that kept the Chalobah many here didn't even rate to sell the marketable Guehi and other players. Or is it because a midfielder turn lb was sold to Newcastle and who hasn't turned to some superstar now or the selling of Oscar. Abeg how did they ruin the academy in less than 3seasons? Did they lose any top talent, abi u no dey follow news, with the contract Chelsea are giving those kids they value. Chelsea never wanted to keep Gallagher. That's old news, and they might keep him.

3. There may be some point to this, for a club that's been a whole lost of phrases recently but last season was a bright spark compared to their first season. But how can you confidently say they haven't built a structure nor have a technical plan to build the club. You buy almost 40 new players and obviously a some would be bad, it's a miracle it's a few that have been bad or even that bad.

4. Which one is stacking up players for the sack of it. Lot of links sound like rumors, we needed a new GK, Sanchez has his issues, Petrovic has his weakness when it comes to style and pattern of play, Slonina was barely 18 or 19, it's the kind of buy Abrahamovic era would have done. We didn't buy a LB because it's not in their plan. Tuchel Potter and now Maresca use a 3atb kind of system. We needed a LW yes or yes😮‍💨 they bought Sterling and Mudryk instead of Leao. Now if Chelsea had spent 120m on Leao instead of 70m on Mudryk would he have been better? Even with all the stacking almost a dozen players were injured last season. Imagine a 38yr still starting at CB, is it their fault Fofana missed a whole season with injury and they bought Disasi.


5. Apart from Ugochukwu who barely played 3games, who could be sold for profit. Who else, who in the academy could they promote, when they loaned out Santos and have Lavia injured

I skip this fake number 4, because Tuchel deserved to be sacked I only agree that the timing was wrong. And Nagglesmann who, he may have flopped as well.

Lol Poch was going to be sacked, they never fully trusted him nor wanted him. I agree with you sacking Poch isn't part of the problem.

I feel the board as a plan around a 343, 3223, style of play

Funny enough, I am not on the side that the board are completely rubbish. There's a lot of shenanigans going on but I strongly believe that they are slowly walking back their initial mistakes.

I think at this point, they are on the right track, and they are more likely to succeed than they are to fail. It might take lots of stumbling to get there, but we will.

One cannot boldly say the signings of Estavao, Paez, Guiu, Lavia, Caicedo, Gusto, Veiga, Palmer represent anything close to bad business.

That's not to say that they have not tampered with the spirit of the academy. You see the likes of Mendel Idowu, Lewis Hall, Rio Ngumoha deciding to leave the club on the basis of "no longer seeing a path to the first team".

You also see the likes of Neil Bath and Jim Fraser who have been with the academy for nearly 20 years quit. This is very bad news for the academy, and it's ruined the spirit, let's been frank. Unless you have not been following the news.

So there's good and bad. We just have to hope that we start getting more good than bad.

Leyqute:
Theres no need for long discourses. Pushing Palmer into AM and bringing in Noni Madueke as RW didn’t improve results. You’re right!

Bros. Dead the matter. You didn't watch enough Chelsea games to be postulating on this matter.

You actually think the last five games were the only games Palmer played AM and Madueke as LW? Don't be joking baba.

We have many many problems. Our owners have proper madness about them. Plenty sef.

1. Wasting a billion on otherwise averagely priced players. Leading us to a place where they have to sell HG players (first team and academy) because they are pure profit, to comply with PSR.

2. Ruining the academy spirit as a result. The once best academy in the country.

3. Having no technical plan to build the club.

4. Stacking up on players for the sake of it.

5. Spending still, a combined hundreds of millions on average duds like Ugochukwu, instead of promoting from academy and saving money.

4. Sacking Tuchel.

5. Not hiring Nagelsmann.


They have plenty problems. Firing Poch was not one of those. It was the right decision at the right time.

Now did they hire the right person in replacement? Time will tell. But let nobody try to tell us Poch should not have gone.

Poch that everybody wanted to drive back to Buenos Aires right after the Arsenal game is the same one we are now saying should not have been sacked only 3 weeks later?

Abeg!

Leyqute:
When last did Chelsea “win 5 on a bounce” in the past decade?

Apart from winning games, Chelsea were better structured and some players were excelling in their positions.

Not true sir. He inverted Cucu from FB at half time during the Aston Villa game. That's the single and only tactical change he made to the team that led to the wins. Apart from that, we were clearly Palmer FC.

We still had no clear method/pattern of attack, we were running too much with the ball, and heck his training methods were causing recurring injuries to players, over and over again. No new signings would protect us from this shit. They would have also gone straight to the injury table.


If you are truly confident he figured things out, ask yourself truthfully, would we have won any of those games without Palmer in the team?

Genuinely!

Leyqute:
No matter how you want to push the narrative, Chelsea did wrong sacking Poch- especially when he finally seemed to have figured things out.

No matter how we want to push the narrative, he did not figure jack shit out. We won 5 on a bounce between May 2nd and May 19th. That's only 17 days of football. That's the "figure out" we want claim now and rewrite history about?

raumdeuter:
Nateevs

Abi kin pe Celtic
Celtics world bestie
Green jerseys they are not Chelsea

NairaMarley, o tun ti de o.

Elnino4ladies:
At least he can invert and was a bit rusty going forward. Inverting James is limiting his abilities.

Maybe inverting James is limiting his abilities. Another perspective is that James might have the ability to do this, but his body does not allow him to. James has not had one full season of this thing you are talking about, since Tuchel's first season with us.

Running up and down that flank, he breaks down again within 6 or 7 games and he's out for another 15 games again. So we need to find a way to use him without breaking him. Let's not be disingenuous abeg.

I welcome any method that allows us find use for James's defensive abilities for a full season. Also, James played in midfield in loan at Wigan for nearly a full season, so it's not technically true that he's being played out of position.


In any case, if you watched only 5 mins of how Maresca plays since he was hired, you would have understood that the guy is an idealist, this is how he plays, and that there will be inverting fullbacks. I no know why we come dey shock 3 months after.

Time will tell whether like Pep, he would understand that evolution and change is what sets you apart as a manager, or whether he will follow Poch and waka out the door.

But I would rather stick with a guy who has a method, and at least we can clearly see what he's trying to do, than with Mr Poch who had Palmer to rescue him game after game, with no method of play and was claiming that he later figured things out. He didn't. He just had Palmer.

I would also rather he makes all the mistakes now in Pre Season, understands his squad now and finds solutions asap, than not having a plan going into the season like Poch.

Elnino4ladies:
Exactly!!! The set-up is utter crap. Playing players out of position. I hate this inverting nonsense

When Poch was inverting Cucurella, you dey complain?

Elnino4ladies:
Like, I don't get the argument. It's Celtics not playing preseason as well?

This is Celtic's last PS game. They are far ahead in their preparation than we are. They put 4 goals past Man City in their last game. You will be shocked how much two or three more games can improve match sharpness.

Let's be calming down.

Elnino4ladies:
How are you watching this, and your conclusion is, it's just Preseason

It's preseason sir. Calm down.

Last last Viega will replace Benoit

Elnino4ladies:
Because this is not an upgrade on Poch

1. We could never know that with only 2 games in. This time last year, we were doing well in PS, only to start doing nonsense in the league. Is that what you want. I prefer we build slowly but surely. We don't know which way it will go but it's still too early to tell.

2. Even though your next hire could be a mistake. This doesn't mean the last fired person did not deserve it. We were going nowhere with Poch. We don't want to go 5 years to realise this.

Elnino4ladies:
Sacking Poch seems like a mistake

This is nonsense. Explain.