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Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by nateevs(m): 10:39pm On Jan 25, 2025
Android17:
Chelsea fans, remember Poch finished 6th last season. I ask again, if Enzo finishes 6th or lower, will you accept that you were unfair to Poch?
Still no. Poch is supposed to have over a decade's worth of top division football experience. He was here for a full year, and no Chelsea fan could identify us with any reasonable way or method of playing.

Maresca had only one full season of Championship football ever; yet has immediately imprinted his style and methods on the team, clear for everyone to understand and see.

The fact that he's contending in the same result zone as Poch, show that tactically and technically, he's miles ahead of Poch. Poch was not treated unfairly abeg.

On top of this, Maresca is a yes man in his own employment, with no absolute power over who stays, who leaves and quite frankly, who he must play because of circumstances of their contract length. Given all the conditions, he's doing fantastically well.

Is he going to make rookie mistakes? Yes. Absolutely!All those yapping are talking out of context. None of your favourite top class managers would work under these conditions, let alone produce results.

Let's dead that matter finally. With Maresca I stand. Give him the tools to work with, and he will do well.
Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by wman(m): 10:41pm On Jan 25, 2025
Hmmn.

Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by Ballzproblem2: 10:41pm On Jan 25, 2025
Ibime:
Trust the process grin grin
Shege banzai grin
Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by Ballzproblem2: 10:42pm On Jan 25, 2025
Mbappe na cheat from left wing!! I apologize for calling him flop.
Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by drisham(m): 10:44pm On Jan 25, 2025
nateevs:
Still no. Poch is supposed to have over a decade's worth of top division football experience. He was here for a full year, and no Chelsea fan could identify us with any reasonable way or method of playing.

Maresca had only one full season of Championship football ever; yet has immediately imprinted his style and methods on the team, clear for everyone to understand and see.

The fact that he's contending in the same result zone as Poch, show that tactically and technically, he's miles ahead of Poch. Poch was not treated unfairly abeg.

On top of this, Maresca is a yes man in his own employment, with no absolute power over who stays, who leaves and quite frankly, who he must play because of circumstances of their contract length. Given all the conditions, he's doing fantastically well.

Is he going to make rookie mistakes? Yes. Absolutely!All those yapping are talking out of context. None of your favourite top class managers would work under these conditions, let alone produce results.

Let's dead that matter finally. With Maresca I stand. Give him the tools to work with, and he will do well.
I respect your opinion egbon


But. It's only God that knows what you see in maresca

Walai to me he is just there, nothing special about him
Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by Gucciboy: 10:45pm On Jan 25, 2025
This is crazy funnygrin grin grin grin grin grin grin grin

Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by Ibime(m): 10:46pm On Jan 25, 2025
swiz123:
Who was the weakling that was crawling on the floor even after given a head start?

And the fool who just looseguard his man for this goal now?

Thunder will fire you very soon for all the mids you push to this club.
Mumu at the point he slipped, what can Haaland do here, with Cucurella on the cover except that eediot Sanchez did not give Haaland an out. He's done his work of holding up Haaland till cover arrived.

Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by wman(m): 10:47pm On Jan 25, 2025
nateevs:
Still no. Poch is supposed to have over a decade's worth of top division football experience. He was here for a full year, and no Chelsea fan could identify us with any reasonable way or method of playing.

Maresca had only one full season of Championship football ever; yet has immediately imprinted his style and methods on the team, clear for everyone to understand and see.

The fact that he's contending in the same result zone as Poch, show that tactically and technically, he's miles ahead of Poch. Poch was not treated unfairly abeg.

On top of this, Maresca is a yes man in his own employment, with no absolute power over who stays, who leaves and quite frankly, who he must play because of circumstances of their contract length. Given all the conditions, he's doing fantastically well.

Is he going to make rookie mistakes? Yes. Absolutely!All those yapping are talking out of context. None of your favourite top class managers would work under these conditions, let alone produce results.

Let's dead that matter finally. With Maresca I stand. Give him the tools to work with, and he will do well.
Someone that isn't tactically flexible?


Someone that Leicester fans disliked for almost bottling a 30 points Championship lead?

Chelsea is not a training club for mid championship managers. We are a club for top quality managers. Look at the club for the last 20 years and tell us how any mid-level manager performed or fared?

Endure mid-level managers and become a mid-club with a losing mentality. Mid-level managers that cower at the sight of big clubs and set up their teams to narrowly lose or get a draw against top clubs.

We don't care about his style of football or methods. Sarri had his unique style but we wanted him out. Conte had his 3-4-3 style but we booted him out.

Maresca is in no way better than or even equal to Poch. Poch even had serious injuries to senior players in his team. And he was bold enough to at least stand to these stupid directors and owners. Maresca is just a lap dog that will eat up whatever they say. It isn't a coincidence that multiple top managers rejected this failed £1.5bn project.
Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by Skimpledawg(m): 10:51pm On Jan 25, 2025
Ellexy:
Skimpledawg abeg wetin be scores?
Match don finish.

You been dey sleep?
Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by Unlimited22: 10:54pm On Jan 25, 2025
Scambappe scores a hatty
Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by Skimpledawg(m): 10:57pm On Jan 25, 2025
bisqit:
What is maduekes purpose on the right other than cut to the left, cut to the right till the ball is cut off his legs
I been no plan laugh this night o grin grin grin
Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by Bimmarlykay(m): 10:58pm On Jan 25, 2025
Wailing and Lamentations... y'all see how important Foden can be when fully fit.. not that Zombie looking niqqa that can't shine against any big 5 Clubs in EPL..can never be my Yamal.😁

😁😁
😁😁
😁😁
😁😁😁😁😁😁
FODEN>PALMER
😁😁😁😁😁😁
#Whodeyhouse.
Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by rooftops: 10:58pm On Jan 25, 2025
wman:
Someone that isn't tactically flexible?


Someone that Leicester fans disliked for almost bottling a 30 points Championship lead?

Chelsea is not a training club for mid championship managers. We are a club for top quality managers. Look at the club for the last 20 years and tell us how any mid-level manager performed or fared?

Endure mid-level managers and become a mid-club with a losing mentality. Mid-level managers that cower at the sight of big clubs and set up their teams to narrowly lose or get a draw against top clubs.

We don't care about his style of football or methods. Sarri had his unique style but we wanted him out. Conte had his 3-4-3 style but we booted him out.

Maresca is in no way better than or even equal to Poch. Poch even had serious injuries to senior players in his team. And he was bold enough to at least stand to these stupid directors and owners. Maresca is just a lap dog that will eat up whatever they say. It isn't a coincidence that multiple top managers rejected this failed £1.5bn project.
I don't even know the tactics he keeps hammering on, tactic we don't see in times of crises. The team has been on a downward slope for a while and the great maresca tactic is no where to bail us.

How can one person be supporting Jackson and maresca at the same time? No be witchcraft be that?
Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by popizaino(m): 11:11pm On Jan 25, 2025
ToyinDipo:
Pep is now playing Jose’s type of attack, 1 long ball from keeper, and 2 passes = a goal.
The kind of football i have been advocating for.
Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by swiz123(m): 11:13pm On Jan 25, 2025
Ibime:
Mumu at the point he slipped, what can Haaland do here, with Cucurella on the cover except that eediot Sanchez did not give Haaland an out. He's done his work of holding up Haaland till cover arrived.
You are shameless. Which work did your weakling do? He was outpaced, out muscled and left to crawl on the floor like an 8 months baby. Never knew you can hold up anyone by crawling grin grin

What do you say about the third goal where the mumu left his man Foden as he ran through on goal.
Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by nateevs(m): 11:14pm On Jan 25, 2025
wman:
Someone that isn't tactically flexible?


Someone that Leicester fans disliked for almost bottling a 30 points Championship lead?

Chelsea is not a training club for mid championship managers. We are a club for top quality managers. Look at the club for the last 20 years and tell us how any mid-level manager performed or fared?

Endure mid-level managers and become a mid-club with a losing mentality. Mid-level managers that cower at the sight of big clubs and set up their teams to narrowly lose or get a draw against top clubs.

We don't care about his style of football or methods. Sarri had his unique style but we wanted him out. Conte had his 3-4-3 style but we booted him out.

Maresca is in no way better than or even equal to Poch. Poch even had serious injuries to senior players in his team. And he was bold enough to at least stand to these stupid directors and owners. Maresca is just a lap dog that will eat up whatever they say. It isn't a coincidence that multiple top managers rejected this failed £1.5bn project.
Carry your vex and meet the owners. Which one concern Mareca?

This season alone, Maresca has played 4 at the back, 3 at the back, inverted left back, inverted right back, inverted LB into 6, inverted LB into 8. Inverted RB into 6, inverted RB into 8. 2 attacking 8s, 2 defensive 6s, one DM, and one floating 6/8..... Palmer on the right 8, Palmer on the left 8.

Please don't tell me about Maresca not being tactically flexible. Y'all may not be paying attention.

Meanwhile, your owners and Directors are implementing a ban on transfers for over 25s. Your owners are leaving Madueke in the team as our main RW, Sanchez as our main GK, no experienced CBs, Andrey Santos on loan, stock-piling kids, selling English players and Academy for profit - Gallagher, Hall, Chalobah, Odoi, etc. Then they had one full month to address the matter, and not a single player walked through the door. Instead we shamelessly went to recall a defender they said had to be frozen out?

There's 3 goals between Sancho and Neto so far all season, and you want magic.

Please leave Maresca out of this shit abeg. How many of your favourites can take this team to 2nd place on the table? Abi you think it was by luck?
Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by nateevs(m): 11:20pm On Jan 25, 2025
rooftops:
I don't even know the tactics he keeps hammering on, tactic we don't see in times of crises. The team has been on a downward slope for a while and the great maresca tactic is no where to bail us.

How can one person be supporting Jackson and maresca at the same time? No be witchcraft be that?
We had a very strong Chelsea team on a downward slope to 11th with JM in charge. And tactics did not help at that time of the crisis.

What were your views at the time?
Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by rooftops: 11:24pm On Jan 25, 2025
nateevs:
We had a very strong Chelsea team on a downward slope to 11th with JM in charge. And tactics did not help.

What were your views at the time?
My view is that his tactic won us trophy the season before, so he is excused not this mid coach with mid ambitions.
Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by nateevs(m): 11:27pm On Jan 25, 2025
rooftops:
My view is that his tactic won us trophy the season before, so he is excused not this mid coach with mid ambitions.
And my view is that Mareca's tactics took us up to 2nd this season. A feat Poch could not smell at his best.

Maresca did not advertise himself as a PL winning manager before your owners hired him. So what is the misplaced outrage about?
Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by rooftops: 11:30pm On Jan 25, 2025
I just pray that esteavo guy comes in and click. I can't stand one more season of lil baby even as a sub
Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by rooftops: 11:33pm On Jan 25, 2025
nateevs:
And my view is that Mareca's tactics took us up to 2nd this season. A feat Poch could not smell at his best.

Maresca did not advertise himself as a PL winning manager before your owners hired him. So what is the misplaced outrage about?
I think this is where you getting it wrong, our current position is what matters most. If season ends today, no champions league for us. So him getting us to second earlier in the season is inconsequential if by the end of season we finish 15th.
Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by ToyinDipo(m): 11:33pm On Jan 25, 2025
Android17:
Pep (I wish he did it often) switches it up based on how teams play against us. Chelsea were trying to man mark like PSG but did not have the same intensity.
He might have won about two more champions league, as he has had some very technical players that will easily adapt, but what will Xavi for instance be doing when the midfield is bypassed.
Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by Silentgroper(m): 11:33pm On Jan 25, 2025
Android17:
Haha. No way.

I'll give you a clue, his shirt number 👕 goes with that A-K gun. wink
Absolutely no idea ...
Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by ToyinDipo(m): 11:34pm On Jan 25, 2025
popizaino:
The kind of football i have been advocating for.
It should have been his plan b for a while.
Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by Ibime(m): 11:39pm On Jan 25, 2025
swiz123:
You are shameless. Which work did your weakling do? He was outpaced, out muscled and left to crawl on the floor like an 8 months baby. Never knew you can hold up anyone by crawling grin grin

What do you say about the third goal where the mumu left his man Foden as he ran through on goal.
He is not the first to slip or be outmuscled by Haaland, dem plenty for that table. What matters is he'd done enough to slow Haaland down to where Cuku had caught up, but Sanchez decided to wreck everything
Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by Ibime(m): 11:42pm On Jan 25, 2025
Unlimited22:
Exactly, that's why he's won 4 PL titles, the champions league and treble as a starting DM, the euros, and a ballon d'or.


Make city no reach 95 points this season first. You think we've forgotten
Was he doing this against prime Liverpool or Europa league Liverpool?

He cannot and has not done what Fernandinho did, simple until he reach anywhere near the points Fernandinho delivered

I did not know Fernandinho was playing for Man City this season
Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by Bimmarlykay(m): 11:44pm On Jan 25, 2025
Gucciboy:
Top 4 is becoming harder than winning the league itself.This season is too competitive.

Top 7/ European spots are no joke as well

You sleep you loose.
For more than 4-season now.... EPL has always been tougher in top-4 race compared to who was gonna win the league tho....decline.😎
Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by Singapore1(m): 11:48pm On Jan 25, 2025
I dey watch the highlights now i just dey laugh. do you know the amount of discipline needed to play highline cheesy cheesy . you con introduce am out of the blue.



Maresca should just win Conference league to guarantee us Europa .. then hand over to more ambitious manager
Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by Bimmarlykay(m):
Android17:
Never been City's major issue.

City's midfield is the bane of the team's existence. No legs. Can't press. Can't run. Can't tackle. Can't win duels. Too slow. Can't score. Can't create adequately.
Although City won, you're quite correct!!

Chelsea killed their game the moment they chose defence and hopping on counters...cuz i saw how sluggish City was from my end, each time Chelsea was tryna counter/attack,Kova was lethargic,same as Kashanov or whatsoever (they'll miss walker in that regard).😑😎
Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by Android17: 12:06am On Jan 26, 2025
nateevs:
Still no. Poch is supposed to have over a decade's worth of top division football experience. He was here for a full year, and no Chelsea fan could identify us with any reasonable way or method of playing.

Maresca had only one full season of Championship football ever; yet has immediately imprinted his style and methods on the team, clear for everyone to understand and see.

The fact that he's contending in the same result zone as Poch, show that tactically and technically, he's miles ahead of Poch. Poch was not treated unfairly abeg.

On top of this, Maresca is a yes man in his own employment, with no absolute power over who stays, who leaves and quite frankly, who he must play because of circumstances of their contract length. Given all the conditions, he's doing fantastically well.

Is he going to make rookie mistakes? Yes. Absolutely!All those yapping are talking out of context. None of your favourite top class managers would work under these conditions, let alone produce results.

Let's dead that matter finally. With Maresca I stand. Give him the tools to work with, and he will do well.
Oga Nateevs. Please let us not airmarkify this conversation. When Poch was here, the narrative was "it is all on the manager, another manager will handle these players better". You yourself said you'd never criticize the players until you saw them under another manager. A.K.A they will cook under another manager.

You even did victory laps here. No backpedalling. I like the energy. Let us keep it the same. No need for "give him the right tools". I've not made any conclusions on EM. He can still finish top 3 and the difference will be clear, but your arguments here won't hold up if he finishes below 6th - I'll tell you that.

Siddonlookmode.
Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by Android17: 12:19am On Jan 26, 2025
Bimmarlykay:
Wailing and Lamentations... y'all see how important Foden can be when fully fit.. not that Zombie looking niqqa that can't shine against any big 5 Clubs in EPL..can never be my Yamal.😁

😁😁
😁😁
😁😁
😁😁😁😁😁😁
FODEN>PALMER
😁😁😁😁😁😁
#Whodeyhouse.
They don't want to have that talk 'cause it's a sore spot wink

Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by Unlimited22: 12:20am On Jan 26, 2025
Ibime:
Was he doing this against prime Liverpool or Europa league Liverpool?

He cannot and has not done what Fernandinho did, simple until he reach anywhere near the points Fernandinho delivered

I did not know Fernandinho was playing for Man City this season
Fernandinho played for City for 9 years and could not deliver a CL

Rodri came and did it in under 5 years along with only the second ever treble in English football history

Rodri won the ballon d'or (debatable, but even having him in the conversation alone is enough) as a DM

Fernandinho ko, Archduke Franz Ferdinand ni
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