2023-2024 EPL Season

[Paulie Gualtieri]

Already seems to be some friction. Don't think he likes how they will enter the dressing room.

 

[Savant]

Don't worry, this board can go crazy without you.

Apparently! Had some time to catch up on my flight home and y’all went for it

 

[LOGiK]

Thank the footballers on brighton for making this and last season some what exciting. Newcastle was fun enough last year, but it is so boring when the low teams miss walk-in opportunities early then lose undramatically to top table clubs... some real awful finishers on the bottom... then you wonder... are they on the bottom because they blow so many chances or do they blow so many chances because they are just that, a bottom level everything.

*now even haaland goes and misses almost 50% of his shots, I think more accurately is around 40% but still.... they get way more chances instead of just 1 shining golden moment to capitalize for the whole match.

 

[LOGiK]

Neither Spurs goals were flukey, they were open play goals while Arsenal got an own goal deflection and a hand ball that wasn't going in.

Arsenal only better than Spurs once in 8 years, talk about a fluke.

Arsenals goals in quite a few games are lucky. Either last minute lucky or handball / penalty lucky or deflection lucky.... they are a very lucky club....

 

[LOGiK]

lol, dont know how to take anything you say seriously if thats your stance

It was natural with momentum for his arms to swing (unless he took strict control of them and put them at his side) but he was caught in a bad way, just have to be more careful with the arms... that much is more obvious than arguing whether it was or was not.

 

[LOGiK]

the league table already looks like it's splitting into 4 groups.

Luton Burnley and Sheffield are so terribly bad... they are 18 easy points for the top 5...

Wolverhampton draws Luton... an absolute mess for the wolves...

 

[maclean]

Already seems to be some friction. Don't think he likes how they will enter the dressing room.

I mean he's not wrong

 

[LOGiK]

I mean he's not wrong

There is no magical fix over night. Getting upset / mad / distraught at the manager now will only set the club back further...

 

[Spring in Fialta]

I mean he's not wrong

Not to defend Chelsea's trash owners but sorry, I don't give a f*** how much of a 'project' it is, if the club spent close to a billion there's no part of the plan or learning curve that should include them having done as bad as they've done since the takeover. That club is failing at every single level.

 

[Duchene2MacKinnon]

I mean the coach isn’t the issue, chelsea need an exorcist. It’s the curse of Roman

 

[JeffreyLFC]

Chelsea need to sell Thiago Silva, Sterling, Lukaku, Gallagher, Chilwell and Cucurella, all too old. Only bring-in u21 wonderkids from South America and France to fix their team.

 

[S E P H]

I mean the coach isn’t the issue, chelsea need an exorcist. It’s the curse of Roman

If you're crazy, then you will obviously find a significant other who is just as crazy. Roman was obviously nuts and sold it to an owner who was just as nuts as he was.

 

[Savant]

I mean the coach isn’t the issue, chelsea need an exorcist. It’s the curse of Roman

The issue with Chelsea is they want to bring in all this young talent but have next to zero continuity in their infrastructure. They have enough talent that sometimes they can fall upwards, and yeah the strategy to buy all the young stars is great in theory; but if you are going to keep churning and burning your staff it’s obsolete. Also, maybe buy some goals.

 

[bleedblue1223]

It's pretty simple, it's a squad where the only proven finisher is Nkunku, who is hurt and new to the league, and final 3rd creators are all speed based, so when teams drop back, we have major issues.

All a team has to do against us right now is sit back and wait for a counter opportunity.

 

[maclean]

Not to defend Chelsea's trash owners but sorry, I don't give a f*** how much of a 'project' it is, if the club spent close to a billion there's no part of the plan or learning curve that should include them having done as bad as they've done since the takeover. That club is failing at every single level.

Poch's point seems to primarily be, don't blame me for how much you guys have f***ed things up until now and expect it to change overnight. I have no clue whether or not he is the person to solve it, but they green-lighted him to go ahead and try, so like a month of football is just a tad too soon to pull the plug (again)

 

[Spring in Fialta]

It's pretty simple, it's a squad where the only proven finisher is Nkunku, who is hurt and new to the league, and final 3rd creators are all speed based, so when teams drop back, we have major issues.

All a team has to do against us right now is sit back and wait for a counter opportunity.

How in the world does a team spend 1B and only has one finisher? It just doesn't compute for me. Injuries aren't what's sinking Chelsea. It's all rotten.

 

[Bringer of Jollity]

How in the world does a team spend 1B and only has one finisher? It just doesn't compute for me. Injuries aren't what's sinking Chelsea. It's all rotten.

Not only just one finisher but also (apparently) build a completely speed based attack when 75% of their games are going to be against teams that are just going to drop into a block and make them get creative and technically precise.

 

[S E P H]

For all the hype on Jackson, the commentator in the last match did mention he has more yellow cards than goals lol.

 

[luiginb]

Poch's point seems to primarily be, don't blame me for how much you guys have f***ed things up until now and expect it to change overnight. I have no clue whether or not he is the person to solve it, but they green-lighted him to go ahead and try, so like a month of football is just a tad too soon to pull the plug (again)

Poch should start playing left backs at left back.

 

[maclean]

Poch should start playing left backs at left back.

I mean, sure, like I say, not only do I have no opinion on whether he's the answer, I have no interest in an answer being found either

 

[JeffreyLFC]

How in the world does a team spend 1B and only has one finisher? It just doesn't compute for me. Injuries aren't what's sinking Chelsea. It's all rotten.

That is the obvious answer. Spend 1 billion pounds on multiple defensive midfielder, unproven wingers and centerbacks then get all confused when the team cannot score goals.

 

[Peen]

Ideally we never lose Rudiger. We don't run the club into the ground where kovacic wants out all year.

We shouldn't have lost RLC, Mount, Werner.

The level of turnover we had was just too substantial .

Should have gotten Tchouameni and not given in to the demand from TT to sell Gilmour, etc.

It's like a decade of crap that reared its ugly head. We were the 3rd/4th best team in England with flawed squads/squad planning for a few years after the 2017 title and then ate all the problems at once.

I just can't stomach watching hte team right now. It's actually painful .

 

[bleedblue1223]

The one critique I hate is when people point to the squad that beat City for UCL and how it was dismantled. Like the win against Bayern, it was a fluke, that team never should've won it, but that's sports, our squads that should've won it, didn't.

 

[Spring in Fialta]

The one critique I hate is when people point to the squad that beat City for UCL and how it was dismantled. Like the win against Bayern, it was a fluke, that team never should've won it, but that's sports, our squads that should've won it, didn't.

I do think that Chelsea would gain by having more veterans than just Silva/Chilwell (depending on how you want to define James you can add him too). Say what you will about the exits but that's a lot of experience/guys who won at a very high level (whether in England/other domestic leagues or internationally or in Europe) that went out the door.

Granted they're playing better than last year when you watch them on television but it's still not great and nothing's going right. Who can step up there?

 

[Duchene2MacKinnon]

There veterans sucked ass last year and are sucking this year. Chelsea stink transcends age and talent.

You simply cant buy this amount of players (regardless of individual talent) in that short of period and expect to play as a team. This isnt Fifa... someone should tell the American.