How do Chelsea turn turmoil into triumph?
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- čas přidán 14. 05. 2024
- Chelsea’s difficult season continued as Mauricio Pochettino’s side were held to a 2-2 draw by 10-man Burnley on Saturday.
There’s division among the fans, a billion pound squad yet to gel, and growing pressure on the manager.
So can Chelsea salvage something from their remaining games?
And after all the instability this season will there be another summer of sweeping change?
Ayo Akinwolere is joined by The Athletic’s Tim Spiers and our Chelsea writer Liam Twomey, who is also part of another podcast on this network: Straight Outta Cobham.
00:00 Intro
00:20 Do Chelsea lack hunger?
01:47 Raheem Sterling at Chelsea
07:10 Player expectations at Chelsea
08:35 Mauricio Pochettino’s future at Chelsea
11:50 What should be Pochettino’s next steps?
15:32 Player injuries at the club
18:19 Are Chelsea better now under Pochettino?
23:22 What can Chelsea possibly do better?
27:53 How do Chelsea win back fans?
30:33 Multi-club model
35:26 Will Chelsea have to sell players in the summer?
38:00 Chelsea vs Manchester United preview
40:33 Final comments
42:42 Outro
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poor old liam... its good to have a chelsea fan on the youtube who can speak about it all in a realistic honest manner and be a voice for the rest of us who arent actually self entitled and watched us slowly growing better before any hint of russia, those were the good times.. playing tromso in the snow while swedish fans watched standing on a hill.. vialli and zola smashing in the orange ball.. beer sponsors on baggy shirts.
Anyway.. once we get the right manager who instills a bit of fight we can start again... and all the sad little glory hunter fans will be gone.
Maybe Chelsea fans expect sterling's experience to shine through instead of him looking like he's 1 off the kids!!!!!!
The weird thing about all this is, as Chelsea fans we have to answer so many questions on why the team is shit, what is our style of play, why are players out of position. But when we ask those same questions towards Pochettino we are called impatient, privileged and harsh by the same people.
The blame should be with the people who decided to buy a squad of children to compete in the premier league 😂 cant think of a worse sporting decision thats happened in the last 10+ years. Comical planning by the higher ups at Chelsea. Raheem Sterling as the marquee big wage signing. Good god its awful, but funny looking from the outside in
Team isn't shit. It's looked good. Some really bad finishing and inexperience in defence hasn't helped.
@@abhishekjain6452I'm sorry but games in hand or no, this Chelsea team is in 12th. European football isn't even a dream at this point.
Is there potential there? Absolutely, but who thought you could build a top team with just potential?
@@tomsco7 alan? alan hansen?
My buddy keeps telling me injuries lol. Honestly, I think Poch has just been exposed as a bang average manager. I mean the guy doesn't have the CV for the Chelsea job. This whole nice guy act, and then getting frustrated when you don't get results is a sure way to loose the dressing room.
You say Chelsea are no where near a Europa spot but we are only 5 points behind West Ham with 3 games in hand. 8 points behind united with 1 game in hand who we have to play and they also have to play Liverpool which they will probably lose. That could be a 6 point swing.
If we win our next 3 games we will likely be 6th. It is a big if though given this team.
lol idk if we’ll get all those wins we’ve been saying tht all tht season we just need a run and we’re in Europe so idk. just hope Palmer can win tht fa cup
We couldn't get 3 points from 10 man Burnley mate.
@@Incognito-jf1dr Shhhhh 🤫 let's not talk about Burnley.
been 5 points behind 6th for 3 months brother
@@C2190 we are now 3 points behind with. A game in hand.
‘Trying too hard’ is ‘making it about him and not the team’.
Would love to get a pod with writers from the three Championship teams battling for the title, especially for football fans from outside England or the UK.
Asking for patience when there's 10 games left and we're 12th??? Give it a rest
Truth is every manager you have had has done extremely badly with these young players. Massive squad size as well so most of them will be disinterested.
@@TheNotSoFakeNews true, because all the managers Boehly & Co have employed were shit. You get a world class manager and that defense will be solved, the midfield will not have to rely on Caicedo carrying it and the attack will flow better
@@RICKYAKIMBO poch got to the champions league final with spurs he's hardly shit. Is he the right man for the job who knows, the only person who should be getting the sack is the guy who made all those transfers
@@TheNotSoFakeNewshe got to the champions league final 5 years ago. It’s worth noting that more recently he failed at PSG with the world’s greatest talents at his disposal
@@Daakkii yeah he lost to real Madrid and man city, teams with similar talent levels in the champions league
Sterling lost me when he didn't press a throw in, vs Brentford in the first game
He lost me at wolves away when didn't pass in a 2v1 situation
This was so so good. Great Job!
Instilling motivation and a sense of wanting and striving is the bare minimum a manager needs to be able to instil. All technical and tactical lack players may have might need longer times to improve, but work ethic is a minimum.
Come off it lads. Sterling is selfish and so should strikers be. His problem is him wanting to be the hero when he’s just not up to it, too many glaring misses, too many time losing the ball, too many times ignoring the pass. A player of his maturity should be helping his team not ignoring them.
Well Said 👏🔵
If you decide to turf out all the experienced players and sign a load of young players ...then you have to accept that it will be a case of inconsistency...simple as that
The issue is why on earth is that out strategy. No one forced them to sell all the experienced players and replace them with kids. Look at Madrid, lots of kids learning from and replacing the experienced winners over several seasons.
Can't remember the last I agreed with everything a pundit said about Chelsea but have to say that Liam Twomey is brilliant.
come a long way since a couple of phone in calls on Blue Lions Tv isnt it.. :) apparently he was already an established journo long before that but its the first place i remember seeing hima few years ago..
Potter with this squad we would have been top6 100%. A full preseason and a trimmed down squad we would have been so much better this year especially with the likes of Caicedo and Colwill.
Grow up.
Exactly what im saying i wou!d take potter back in a heartbeat the only thing that was wrong was that the players in the squad he managed couldn't finish but the defence was good
@@Darrzeditz same pleb calling for potter to go. You got no clue. Just an emotional clueless fan
@@archiehickox6518 what do you mean
@@archiehickox6518 I admit I used to call for potter to go don’t know how u know though but compared to poch I’d have him
Every video I watch about why a team is struggling has a segment about how unlucky they have been with injuries. Chelsea aren't alone.
Liverpool bare injuries 1st 🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤
We have 4 first team starters that have played a combined 290 minutes (Fofana, James, Lavia and Nkunku). We have never once been able to field our strongest 11. Not stating other teams don’t have injuries but we have had it bad since the start of the season.
It was especially telling when they lost against Middlesbrough and used that excuse against a team that was missing their entire first team.
Every team has been injured, we have had repetitive injuries. Nkunku has been injured on 3 different occasions this season, Gusto 2, Badiashile 2, Sanchez 2, Chukwuemeka 2, Chilwell 2, James 2, Lavia 1, Fofana 1. I'm sure I'm missing some
@@nathanhenry7692 yeah so that means finishing 12th is justified, poor you guys
How can Chelsea turn turmoil into triumph? Easy. Beat MANCHESTER x 3:
1. United in the league
2. City in the FA Cup semi-final and
3. United in FA Cup final (apologies, Coventry - yes, I’m assuming that United will beat you).
Chelsea fans would take that finale to a really disappointing season.
Bad news for ya I don't think either of our teams will make that final the inconsistent way we're both playing 😅
@@ronanfitzpatrick1261 Yes, quite. What Chelsea fans would gladly “take”, doesn’t mean they are going to get it! 😊
Praying nonetheless that Chelsea somehow “do” City. Having sleepless nights worrying about the prospect of United (this iteration of United!) standing between City and back to back Trebles - something which has NEVER been done before by any European team. Not by Real Madrid, Barcelona, Bayern Munich, Inter Milan, Man Utd or Ajax of the 1970s.
So, at the moment, I’m an Arsenal, Madrid and yes, Chelsea “fan” in Operation “STOP CITY”👊
@@really8930 😄 Sure same on the Utd side really. Lot of parallels atm
quick question if i may.... this Manchester united and manchester city you speak of.... are they better than the mighty burnley with one man missing and no manager to shout at them to try harder?
Could have covered the lack of conversion chances by the strikers and midfield. Bizarre player selections and game shape roles. The hesitation to give bench players opportunities even during: poor performances, injuries, load management issues, execution of game expectations. Leadership, spine, never-ending turmoil or crisis.
Young, less experienced players have consistently succeeded at great odds: Palmer, Gusto, Petrovic. These three have inate, mystic, magic, wow factors, game changing moments without too many yellow cards. Where others have waxed, waned or not delivered: Disasi, Badiashile, Colwill, Madueke, Mudryk and Jackson.
Silva is banished - too old, too slow, sit deeper, taking another player out of attack or retaining for protection. Yet we are still conceding or not scoring or not defending set pieces or tracking or being too easily exposed when pressed. Player quality, maturity, confidence, ability, coaching, measuring up to expectations, team spine and leadership. A dark, murky transition period when our key captain and vice captain are not in the line-up. Sadly after 2 1/2 yrs, the inability or reluctance to sign a certified center forward.
Revenue generation will be difficult: mid table at best, no European soccer, lack of big sponsors, inability to continue to entice better playes and coaches. Little money from EFL & FA & Charity Shield Cup. Consequently Chelsea will have to sell some of its attractive assets to raise capital to balance the books.
Since January we have not progressed. At the worse possible time - injuries, international break, player load management, inexplicably losing to teams with their own set of challenges, we are faced with a stretch of games every 3 days. How will fragile Chelsea fare?
We've only got 3 players who were in the champions league final squad in 2021. And they are Silva, James and Chilwell. (who are either injured or not playing) along with a completely brand new owner,manager and staff.
sterling is supposed to be there with experience but he throws a tantrum like he's 5 still
If potter had this team he’d be playing good football and higher up in the table
Kind of an obvious statement here but Chelsea aren’t good because they signed boom or bust young players, been plagued with injuries, and the older experienced players like Sterling have been putting up bang average numbers. Its a cesspool right now and I don’t think sacking Poch in the summer suddenly makes this team better. That would be their 6th manager in 3.5 years.
Looks like the owners have paid this people 😂😂
If this is "an impossible job for anybody", then Chelsea might as well just fold altogether.
I'm an Arsenal fan, so I wouldn't complain at all! Roman Abramovich basically killed the integrity of the league when he bought Chelsea. He opened to floodgates for ridiculous spends in the transfer window, for state funded countries with awful human rights records to start buying clubs, and for there to now be a massive disconnect between the "big 6"/Newcastle and the rest of the league.
I never heard discussions about financial fair play or profit and sustainability regulations before Abramovich. This is why I cringe, laugh and groan whenever I hear anyone talk about "the integrity of the league". That hasn't existed for over 20 years, and you can trace it back to Chelsea.
Yet United were consistently breaking the transfer record and have a reputation for paying of refs. Arsenal were the original Bank of England football club in the UK in the 1930s.
@@nathanhenry7692 wait... So you have an issue with united breaking transfer records with money they earned?
head... sand.. camel... nonsense.. limited research....tap ups.. sol campbell..... jesus.. h.. christ!!!! hashtag that.
Honestly, I think Poch needs to start taking responsibility for his repeated failures. Not bringing through Gilchrest was a mistake. Rushing back Reece was a mistake (3 full games, you've got to be kidding). Prioritizing Disasi at CB over Colwill with the possibility of playing Gilchrest LB was a mistake. Gallagher as captain is frankly an insult to Silva. Our reliance in attack on Gallagher is a mistake (love Gallagher as an exceptional squad player). Benching Mudryk, time and time after good and even match winning performances, is a mistake because the player needs to build confidence, and when he deserves the start he should get minutes. Playing Sterling for 9 games straight despite poor performances was a mistake when you have Palmer, Madueke and Mudryk who could play there. Selling RLC and Pulisic was a mistake. Selling Gilmour was a mistake. Idk, its a long list.
No Context taken into account with our injuries and suspensions. The amount of changes within the club.
Other clubs dealth with injuries better because theire squads have been together for years and have experienced dealing with injuries together.
Ade months ago I complained about your manner hosting these videos and you've improved so much. Keep going my brother.
He obviously paid a great deal of attention to your comments. Well done!
Trust the process
Lads it’s nothing to do with injuries. Sure perhaps they’d be a place or two above where they are but just look at the attitude and tactics!!
It’s April n I hv no idea what’s our style of play
Crazy
Lets be completely honest here, we have moved to a more attacking formation, and dont have our best defenders available through injury, potch doesent seem to recognise this and change to a formation that would make us 1. Harder to counter against, and 2. Make possesion count which would be a 3 4 3 , and for a supposed experienced coach is unforgivable in mu opinion
Two draws is about the best we can hope for this season. No Europe and no FA cup. The whole club isn’t functioning it’s like going back to the early 1980’s. FAB is a mouthpiece for the owners. Billionaires don’t have humility.
The comparison to be made is are chelsea off under aby manager than they were under tuchel
Potter and poch were both bad appointments
Is this the guy who used to host Blue Peter?
Opens video, see’s Ayo is hosting, turns off video.
He won trophies because he was at City in the best overall squad. At Chelsea he is supposed to be a leader but Sterling doesn’t have the personality for that. He is a mercenary as are Caceido, Enzo, Mudric and a most of the others in that squad. Not enough leadership quality in the Chelsea squad. No hunger or desire.
The Athletic have been asking for patience all season. They are out of touch with reality about how bad we are.
Reece Fofana Colwill should be on the starting XI 😞
Chelsea should be 4th apparently, according to Pochettino . . . guy's slowly losing the plot under the pressure at Chelsea
A little sad tbh, coming from a Tottenham fan he was absolutely adored at The Lane . #COYS 🤍
If we look at the likes of Liverpool, Man City and Arsenal, the managers have a big say in their recruitment. At Chelsea, the manager has no say whatsoever. Whilst I think Pochettino isn't doing himself any favours whatsoever, at least give him some of the tools he wants. It's well documented he wanted physical and more experienced players at we provided the complete opposite.
I think we've deserved more, not a lot more, and the "we should be 4th" statement was incorrect and made him look silly, but i think we've been significantly better than United. I still have faith in the project to be honest and i love watching these young players, i think they are giving everything.
in that case you ought to have really loved watching our own young players from 3 or 4 seasons ago... the ones who knew what chelsea was... with a manager who knew what we were too..... go back to frank and the lads first time around.. see him sitting in 10th and let him get on with it....
@yesthat3302 It was great, totally agree. I wouldn't personally have sacked him... although obviously TT came in after and achieved something incredible.
Total rubbish analysis regarding on-field issues. All excuses. No proper context on why Potter did not succeed, also on how Poch has never proven himself to be successful managing big clubs (PSG does not count, even a teenager with Football Manager experience can win with that squad).
One would think they have nostalgia of Poch's spurs style of play and wishing he could somehow replicate that with this patchwork Chelsea team.
Regarding their analysis on off-field issues, failure to analyse why were the past corporate management decisions made, which resulted in the on-field issues, is appalling. Just focusing on: 'club is in crisis, they must sell and that will make things worse' is very shallow analysis.
TLDR: this is just pub-banter.
Hard to understand how these are supposed to be professional journalists.
Can't wait for Poch to go.
They make too many excuses for Chelsea. Imagine if all that money was spent by United and they still sit in mid table consecutively
Answer: new owners
Totally Correct..... but the Athletic won't go there....wonder why.
Chelsea need to invest another billion 😅
Thankfully it is not your money.
The team was doomed from the very start of this Todd bohely project.
Despite signign about 30 kids they still did not reinforce key areas of the pitch, mainly ST and CB, no keeper, the midfield lacks a number 6 despite chelsea fans trying to convince themselves that enzo can play that position and because of that he is no where he shines the most, same with mudryk coming off from the left...
if you look that squad player by player they are not better than any midtable team at the moment plus the injuries plus the pressure plus the players being kidnapped by 10 years contracts. Truth is they are a middle table club now.
It is really unlucky that Chelsea are with one or two games to be played compared to other teams. When you really look at it they are only 5 points from 7th place with 3 games less...
For the people that want to criticize Pochettino, it is really convenient.
I think Chealse are struggling because of the owners they have a bloated squad and are selling off experience for new signings the team vs the Burnley game averaged 20/30 leauge appearances for chealse Gallager was the only 50+ prem appearances for them and youd struggle picking a nailed on 11 when fully fit
We lucked out with Cole Palmer. He is the sole reason we score more goals. The defense and midfield are worse. Poch has done nothing.
Its the same chat. Over and over again. Ad infinitum. Its back to basics for me. Team shape, backing other players up. Winning ugly. The more we can improve defensively the better, the more we will have a chance. Silva is 39 years old, in most other leagues he's coaching not playing. The fact that the other teams mentioned are able to generate money from their stadiums, while Chelsea still play in the same stadium ken bates used to own says it all. The academy graduates coming through aren't as good as before and simply put the team transfer profile is all wrong.
The panel offered no real solutions either
I'm young enough to remember the Tom Docherty era so I have been through the somewhat good and really bad times and all I can say is that this is the only time I have ever seen a club ruin a successful club to a weak one by the way the owners run and made changes to the club.
It would be best that we keep on losing. This would then result in the new owners probably being forced to sell simply because they paid £4.5 billion and the longer we are doing bad, it'll mean the club loses it's value and this is no good to Clear Lake because Chelsea needs to win in order to make the investment viable or at least force a change at board level and undo the sh!t show that Todd was responsible for.
Chelsea are the most successful team in London as we do hold two Champions League titles and will appeal to many people or at least for the owners to run the club the way it was previously but more sustainably so that the club is competitive etc
Todd played footy manager and thought he could buy a squad of children and have instant success its hilarious. Couldnt of happened to a nicer club
do explain yourself....
@@yesthat3302 What needs explaining? Think my comment is pretty clear
The injury argument is such a cowardly excuse, dont try to disguise it
It's called appoint the right manager lol it's not rocket science however it is hard to get the right one they were on the right path with potter folded and went even more backward with poch. Get de zerbi asap
Almost all of Chelsea’s players are 22 or younger, probably that simple
Tim Spiers had too much talking time, it's genuinely unprofessional how much people in football media openly enjoy Chelseas woes
No. Sterling has been rubbish. I’d let him go on a free. Sterling lost me ages ago and he’s just drifted further and further into the abyss
You guys lost me when you started defending sterling. He needs to leave asap
I know the ownership are far off...but wow, strasboug were close to liquidation, and dis talk of feeding cfc is false, chelsea cant have 50 player in a squad...that is d one fanbase rancour that has confused me
Are both Sterling and to a lesser extent Palmer flat track bullies?
At City for Sterling rest of the league was weaker than his team - more chances & space etc
Sterling Yes but Palmer was good enough that City didn’t want to let him go. There’s a reason Sterling isn’t seen as a City legend and it’s because he lacks the actual ability of a world class player.he got world class numbers because he was being enabled. He’s just a good player who can scale upwards.
so the first things you speak about is last weeks game and a bad player - same old same old
The players are not good enough. Sack Paul Winstanley. Man City looked to Barcelona as a model. Chelsea lost their collectives minds and fell in love with all things Brighton. Now we have a mid table mentalty at the Bridge. Pochettino is not the problem.
Chelsea needs a proper ST!
That's not their main problem. *Arsenal* don't have a proper striker and yet they've scored more goals than anybody.
Sign a tactically competent manager. Sort out the injury/scouting issues. Sell dead wood
Approach to Sterling was nice and respectful but he just isn’t good enough anymore. His contributions in build up play are genuinely awful and his only addition at this point is in front of goal where he still isn’t anything special
Sterling is by far chelseas best winger even in bad form mudryk os shocking and shouldn't be anywhere near a prem starting 11 Palmer is more a 10 than a winger maduke is no where near as good itha as sterling
Guardiola would not necessarily do better,he goes to ready made teams like Barcelona,Bayern Munich and Manchester City. Show me one team with young inexperienced players that he has developed.
He developed Messi into having the greatest goalscoring year ever seen, Foden into one of the best players in the league, Kimmich into one of the best CDMs of the generation, Busquets into the best CDM of all time amongst many others. However, No manager wants to deal with 20+ under 23s with any level of expectation on them. I don’t think anyone has had such a situation thrust into them so quickly since the Munich Air Disaster and that was an entirely different set of circumstances. I can’t blame Pochettino for it being bad but I don’t think he knows the solution or can reach it. Whether that’s a sackable offence is up to Chelsea fans and their board.
@@karmaascendant3936 give me a break he has done nothing with lesser teams in contrast to Mourinho, Klopp and numerous others.
Sack Poch and we become good again
Poch has to go, doing worse than ten hag with more money spent on squad and the media agenda is ETH out daily
Thumbnail 10/10. Chelsea 0/x
Poch and Jose should walk away from football. They were left behind years ago.
Always one taxi driver in the comments
Chelsea have no pace in the midfield or strength for that matter endzo is just another jorginiho slow and ponderous lacks strength whilst coisedo is a pound shop slow Kante on the other hand gallagher offers at least some tenacity
@archiehickox6518 Better than being deluded. Jose sacked yet again and wanted by nobody and Poch leading Chelsea to oblivion😁
By winning the FA cup.
todd boehly and co have to be one of the worst football owners ever.. they have spent 1bn+ to turn a champions league winning team to a lower mid table team..
thanks for the headline... are you enjoying October 23?
timo was shit but he worked hard, sterling doesnt work hard.
why should sterling believe he could win a golden ball? whats up with english football fetishizing confidence like it's the most important trait in a person??
you can be as confident as it gets but that wont change the skills or intelligence you are lacking. it's counterproductive for players like sterling to aim for the golden ball, come on, it's because of those ludicrous ideas that some players are inconsistent as hell. Imagine starting a season thinking you will be the best in the world, and then having a few bad games - all of a sudden the motivation is lost and downward spiral begins. looking from outside, players like rashford would be far better and more consistent if they were realistic about what they bring to the team. To be humble is far more powerful, a guy like Modric keeps it humble and voila - he gets what he deserves. sterling golden ball LOL LOL ROFL, never; even in his best seasons.
POCH HAS NOT IMPROVED ANY PLAYER AND HE HAS RUINED MUDRYK ,,UNDER PEP OR KLOPP HE BE FLYING ....POCH IS TOO WEAK
Get rid of poch simple lol not rocket science
Chelsea are finished. Their Russian oil man left.
OOOh the mental strength of sterling by.....going to work???
Chelsea are returning to their mediocre roots... theyre more a Millwall-type club... Bought for £1 by Ken Bates in the early 90's.
Terrible club legends pre-Ambramovich include: Dennis Wise (lol), Michael Duberry (lol), Tore Andre Flo (lol)
Pitiful club
flo was brilliant actually along with mark hughes... Gianfranco zola, ginaluca vialli, di matteo... and half the premierships teams as they kept buying them off us when we bought more. before abromovich ever came as you say... softhead.,,, read a book.
@@yesthat3302 I'll give you an ageing Zola and Vialli. Although they were legends in Serie A long before using Chelsea as their respective retirement home (like Ravenelli with Middlesborough
ps. Read a book? Okay, mate.
Poch is finished. Football has left him....He has always been average at best...
😂😂 so called influencers know nth abt the game and act like pundits social media generates hate and criticism thts all these idiots cant play a full game of football they will poop their pants 😂😂
I think Ayo by far is the worst football podcast host I’ve ever seen. Always looks uninterested in what’s being said. Questions all sounds like they were written by someone else and don’t adapt to how the conversation is developing. Incredibly forgettable.
That's racist
Ayo really is a useless host!
There's no turmoil at Chelsea. They have returned to what they historically were - a BANG AVERAGE mid table club that was briefly elevated by a billionaire who bought them a few trophies. But the job is not finished - now the Football Gods must turn their attention to *Man City* and punish them in the same fashion so normal order is fully restored. #COYG
Agree with you...overall the Premier league is foreign owned. All top teams belong to foreigners, all best managers are foreign, all best players are foreign. Just look at England. They are a joke. When did England win anything?? 1966....hahahaha...if you yake the last 50 years' performance, you are just as good as Liechtenstein or Luxembourg....😂😂😂😂
This doesn’t make sense. We’ve almost spent the same money under Boehly as Romans entire ownership? We’ve spent more money in a short amount of time than we ever have. Chelsea will always have money now, the club is an brand in London, so it won’t return to the 2nd division like rival fans hope. The squad requires 2-3 experienced quality players and they will be close to top 4/6
Chelsea were consistently in the top 4 even before Roman, have you ever tried using more than 1 braincell when you type comments? or does your tiktok attention span make it too hard?
@@Freestyle80 well said sir... even the old fools that shit on us can't seem to remember it right.... ranieri had us in 3rd and earmarked tons of decent players then abromovich came and mourinho got the credit... vialli did us proud as player manager after the Gullit coup too.
Genuinely, I don't get all the "controversy." Chelsea are now a bang-average mid-table side and show no signs of improving anytime soon. You don't need 45 minutes detailed analysis to get to that conclusion. Chelsea fans should be far more worried about what will happen to their club when the FA punish them for seriously breaking financial rules over the next couple of seasons.
No need for confusion
The reason we've gone from a top 4 team to a mid table laughing stock is....
The New Owners.