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Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by Ihebu4chelsea(m): 5:21pm On Dec 29, 2025
andrewbaba44:
He will frustrate pl teams with palace

Crystal palace is even a better team than then getafe and have better players in all positions

They should kiss goodbye to good football
Lol, that getafe team na eyesore.
Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by afrodoc2: 5:24pm On Dec 29, 2025
Kilishihunter:
Commiserate with palace fans ke abi you teams that will play him 😂
We will face them 2 times a year. Palace fans will be watching it every week.
Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by PDPGuy: 6:13pm On Dec 29, 2025
We have a massive problem brewing for next weekend.

Moisés Caicedo is currently one yellow card away from a one-match suspension. If he gets booked against Bournemouth on Tuesday, he is OUT of the Manchester City game next Sunday. 📉🚩
Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by Sportsweb: 6:34pm On Dec 29, 2025
raumdeuter:
Amadioha will not let him see this option

Best tactic IMO.

Caicedo --- James
------Enzo
Palmer-- JP---Neto

Many times its too easy to cut through Chelsea midfield
As in. You only Caicedo in Midfield, both plamer and Enzo are way too up. Like ibime said too many wingers that needs to play which means continuous 4231.

A 433 will shut down one winger spot.
Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by rooftops: 6:45pm On Dec 29, 2025
E be like all African teams Dan hack this using mixed breed to play for them. See Zimbabwe having like three on the pitch grin
Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by Gucciboy:
Ibime:
There is no way any coach does anything other than a 4-2-3-1 formation with the way the foolish TDs set up the squad. Even 4-3-3 can only be deployed on spacial occasions otherwise you are condemning their investments and you will get sacked
So they will sack maresca for winning games without their flopping investment or with a different formation. Can you listen to yourself? This is the worst take l have seen so far.
Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by Sportsweb: 7:39pm On Dec 29, 2025
Gucciboy:
So they will sack maresca for winning games without their flopping investment or with a their formation. Can you listen to yourself? This is the worst take l have seen so far.
Maresca should Damm the consequences and set-up the way he thinks he can win. It will be impossible to sack a manager on winning streak even if he disobeyed the board
Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by Gucciboy: 7:50pm On Dec 29, 2025
Cole Palmer has never had a good season under maresca. Check his performance and stats from pochetino season and see the truth.

Now most of these players are turning average and people still think it's the board faults that a coach can't do his job.

Okay let's keep fooling ourselves and for the records maresca has never demanded for a specific player like conte during his time.

If you know any player ,then mention his name let's know where the blame game really starts?
Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by Gucciboy: 8:06pm On Dec 29, 2025
Sportsweb:
Maresca should Damm the consequences and set-up the way he thinks he can win. It will be impossible to sack a manager on winning streak even if he disobeyed the board
You really believe those stupid agenda ? Gosh the Board is not interested with players selection just results that's why they don't care how maresca has been mismanaging these players even playing them in wrong positions like James despite the fact that seems to work out well.


Now watch tosin start against Bournemouth despite his woeful performances and you still think it's the board faults that a coach can't do his job.
Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by Ibime(m): 8:25pm On Dec 29, 2025
Gucciboy:
You really believe those stupid agenda ? Gosh the Board is not interested with players selection just results that's why they don't care how maresca has been mismanaging these players even playing them in wrong positions like James despite the fact that seems to work out well.
James is a solution Maresca worked out himself to inject small stability to the midfield

Look what the board demand of him

AMs:
Gittens, Garnacho, Estevao, Neto, Palmer, Buonanote, João Pedro, Tyrique George

That's 8 players for 3 positions

Meanwhile for the CM 3 positions, they only have Caicedo who is reliable, he had to convert James himself to be able to field 3 CMs at times, although James can only play once per week

This is definitely a design of the board. I spoke on this repeatedly in the summer

Ibime:
Are you not already sick and tired of the overbooking in wing positions

Can you name any wingers at Liverpool the EPL Champions aside Salah and Diaz

It's this wingers overbooking feewlishness that Emenalo used to do back then that made us chase away Salah and KDB

Not to mention puts the manager in a tactical hamstring of having to practically play 4-2-4 to accommodate all the wingers while one of the key components of that 2 in midfield is not fit for purpose to carry the workload

I am looking for how to sell Madueke AND Pedro Neto (as well as Nkunku, Sterling, Felix, Mudryk and Carney) WITHOUT ANY FURTHER ADDITION of wingers and we will still be good and overstocked with Gittens. Joao Pedro, Palmer, Estevao and Tyrique

That's 5 wingers for 2 positions, people still dey mention Kudus and Nnwaneri. Utter madness
Ibime:
Anyone who thinks signing million wingers is improving a squad instead of getting the CM right should look at Brighton

Since Brighton went to playing 3 wingers behind the striker (Mitoma, JP and Minteh/Rutter), they have been falling down the table for the last 2 seasons

There is no winger at Brighton who you won't want at Chelsea whether Mitoma. JP or Minteh, yet they keep getting worse because they sacrificed their central midfield/ or a 3rd centreback for more wingers

Even their wingers they sent away or benched (Encisco, Buonanote, Adingra) had them performing better than they are now because their middle was stronger then. Same feewlesh format Chelsea is following, buying more and more wingers and sending away other wingers hoping the next winger will make the key difference, while chasing the law of diminishing returns on wingers

If Encisco, Buonanote and Adingra could achieve better league finishes than João Pedro, Mitoma and Minteh, that should tell you their solution never lay in chasing more wingers.

cc Nateevs
Ibime:
No, Maresca should not be sacked but he should sit up

I can't think of many managers that can find solutions to the tactical straitjacket that Chelsea directors always put him in, with having to accommodate 3 wingers in his starting line-up plus a ghost worker behind them. They already build weakness into the set-up with their transfer policy
Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by PDPGuy: 8:28pm On Dec 29, 2025
Brahim Diaz!
Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by Ibime(m): 8:43pm On Dec 29, 2025
I won't watch Coventry again this season

They have lost the 2 matches I watched, e be like na me dey bring them badluck
Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by andrewbaba44: 9:00pm On Dec 29, 2025
Ihebu4chelsea:
Lol, that getafe team na eyesore.
Dem too useless
Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by Kimbeast: 9:40pm On Dec 29, 2025
Ibime:
James is a solution Maresca worked out himself to inject small stability to the midfield

Look what the board demand of him

AMs:
Gittens, Garnacho, Estevao, Neto, Palmer, Buonanote, João Pedro, Tyrique George

That's 8 players for 3 positions

Meanwhile for the CM 3 positions, they only have Caicedo who is reliable, he had to convert James himself to be able to field 3 CMs at times, although James can only play once per week

This is definitely a design of the board. I spoke on this repeatedly in the summer
You cant really blame the board. For the cm role it's 5 players for 2 position. Caicedo, Essugo, Enzo, lavia and Santos. Unfortunately Santos, Essugo and Lavia have been unavailable for most of the season.
Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by Kimbeast: 9:48pm On Dec 29, 2025
Gucciboy:
Cole Palmer has never had a good season under maresca. Check his performance and stats from pochetino season and see the truth.

Now most of these players are turning average and people still think it's the board faults that a coach can't do his job.

Okay let's keep fooling ourselves and for the records maresca has never demanded for a specific player like conte during his time.

If you know any player ,then mention his name let's know where the blame game really starts?
That was Palmer first season and he took the league by surprise. Everyone knows him now and he's getting man marked. He needs to grow up and adapt. The major difference between Palmer first season and 2nd under Maresca was the number of penalties he had. 9 compared to the 4 under Maresca.
Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by airmark(m): 9:51pm On Dec 29, 2025
Ibime:
I won't watch Coventry again this season

They have lost the 2 matches I watched, e be like na me dey bring them badluck
Please watch their next match and inform me. Money can be made off that. grin
Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by Kimbeast: 9:53pm On Dec 29, 2025
Caicedobets:
Chelsea is one Pedro Neto ACL injury away from improving their attack
A player we must sell in May.
Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by Caicedobets(m): 9:58pm On Dec 29, 2025
Kimbeast:
A player we must sell in May.
man clearly has an empty brain...
Incredibly low IQ

Sorry to say Madueke is better than that dumb skull
Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by Sportsweb: 10:37pm On Dec 29, 2025
Gucciboy:
Cole Palmer has never had a good season under maresca. Check his performance and stats from pochetino season and see the truth.

Now most of these players are turning average and people still think it's the board faults that a coach can't do his job.

Okay let's keep fooling ourselves and for the records maresca has never demanded for a specific player like conte during his time.

If you know any player ,then mention his name let's know where the blame game really starts?
Maresca himself is a big stat hater. He said he prefer every attacker scoring 5 goals than one person scoring all the goals
Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by Ibime(m): 10:55pm On Dec 29, 2025
Kimbeast:
You cant really blame the board. For the cm role it's 5 players for 2 position. Caicedo, Essugo, Enzo, lavia and Santos. Unfortunately Santos, Essugo and Lavia have been unavailable for most of the season.
Remove Lavia who doesn't exist and Enzo the stroller

What do you think is the mandate, to get the most out of a £13m Essugo or a £50m Gittens?

Essugo is an afterthought, and quite a poor player
Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by Ibime(m): 10:58pm On Dec 29, 2025
Kimbeast:
That was Palmer first season and he took the league by surprise. Everyone knows him now and he's getting man marked. He needs to grow up and adapt. The major difference between Palmer first season and 2nd under Maresca was the number of penalties he had. 9 compared to the 4 under Maresca.
The major difference is clearly what Android17 said couple of days ago

Every man and his dog knows Palmer is a better RW than AM, yet the board will keep stacking two RWs and forcing Maresca to use Palmer in AM

Palmer and Estevao was enough for the RW this season, Neto should have been sold especially with Quenda coming
Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by Nemesis0147(m): 7:09am On Dec 30, 2025
Which one is the worst?

Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by Thazard(m): 9:19am On Dec 30, 2025
pamcode:
It's unbelievable how we spent so much money on attackers and ended up downgrading the attack.

You want to tell me this gittens is better than madueke on the right or neto on the left?

Garnacho gets into a lot of good positions but what does he do with it?

Na Delap shock me pass. I was expecting a sharky agbero like diego costa who was a bloodhound that was the nightmare of defenders but what do we get?

Man looks more like a model than a footballer.
grin grin grin
Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by drisham(m): 10:05am On Dec 30, 2025
Sportsweb:
Can't Maresca return back to 433. Cole Palmer back to RW.. Enzo, Moises and Santos/James Midfield?
A neto acl will save our season
Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by popizaino(m): 10:35am On Dec 30, 2025
Nemesis0147:
Which one is the worst?
Giroud.

90 minutes
0 touches.
Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by andrewbaba44: 10:51am On Dec 30, 2025
Sportsweb:
Maresca himself is a big stat hater. He said he prefer every attacker scoring 5 goals than one person scoring all the goals
There is nothing like big stats hater

And Luis Enrique was the first Coach that said he prefer 5 attackers sharing 10 goals each than one attacker scoring 50 ,that also didn’t stop dembele from outscoring all psg attackers and winning the ballon d or ,maybe he was dissing mbappe ,who knows
Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by andrewbaba44: 10:53am On Dec 30, 2025
Gucciboy:
Cole Palmer has never had a good season under maresca. Check his performance and stats from pochetino season and see the truth.

Now most of these players are turning average and people still think it's the board faults that a coach can't do his job.

Okay let's keep fooling ourselves and for the records maresca has never demanded for a specific player like conte during his time.

If you know any player ,then mention his name let's know where the blame game really starts?
When Cole Palmer begin play ball and when maresca begin coach Chelsea ?

It seems some of you are more concerned about cole Palmer stats than the betterment of your whole team

No be under maresca cole Palmer take enter ballon d or top 10 after winning the CWC as the best player there ?

It seems you prefer Palmer scoring useless goals and penalties than winning trophies grin
Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by popizaino(m): 11:07am On Dec 30, 2025
NinjaMetahuman:
lmao

Trevor will tell you that wind moved the goal post before ball could enter.
In DJ khalid's voice another one.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DS0O_sTDLXN/?igsh=c2tybmF1emhmaDdk
Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by StarchAndBanga: 11:15am On Dec 30, 2025
andrewbaba44:
When Cole Palmer begin play ball and when maresca begin coach Chelsea ?

It seems some of you are more concerned about cole Palmer stats than the betterment of your whole team

No be under maresca cole Palmer take enter ballon d or top 10 after winning the CWC as the best player there ?

It seems you prefer Palmer scoring useless goals and penalties than winning trophies grin
Palmer's best position is on the right.. Even during the Club World Cup, his best performance came when he played on the right
Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by Lana1(m): 1:06pm On Dec 30, 2025
For the first time in a long time you people aren't computing dy/dx and linear regression for your super eagles on how to qualify from a group stage phase. We thank God
Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by Lana1(m): 1:07pm On Dec 30, 2025
Meanwhile what are the odds that Bournemouth will burn your mouth today?
Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by airmark(m): 1:59pm On Dec 30, 2025
Ibime:
The major difference is clearly what Android17 said couple of days ago

Every man and his dog knows Palmer is a better RW than AM, yet the board will keep stacking two RWs and forcing Maresca to use Palmer in AM

Palmer and Estevao was enough for the RW this season, Neto should have been sold especially with Quenda coming
Neto sold for a Quenda that will arrive next season?

Without Neto and Palmer out for months, we would have drowned into the relegation water with the ineffective '2 Gees' at the LW. Not selling Neto was one of the best decisions by the club this term. Forget the agenda hawkers, Neto has contributed more than all these hyped wingers.
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