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Olise signed for Bayern for £50m in July, we signed Neto for £54m and João Félix for £45m in August. ‘felt finances involved beyond reach’ as they didn’t want to break their wage structure so instead they ended up overpaying for less talent. smart business, that.

@Blue_Footy @cfc_whale Experience is required at Chelsea; PSG have it with Marquinhos. Have it with Hakimi. Dembele has also played in 3 countries & played for one of the biggest teams in world football prior to joining PSG. What Chelsea need is more physicality.

@cfc_whale No reading between the lines, we talk with facts, stats and figures. Not gut feeling. Maybe, you can specify your meaning of experience to guide me.

Hazard didn't play with kids while at Chelsea, and neither did Messi or Ronaldo with Barcelona and United, respectively. There needs to be balance. 1 or 2 kids in the midst of experience players is the way to go. We saw it with Terry, Lampard, Mikel Obi, Oscar, Hazard, Petr etc

@talkSPORT Just one mistake?!? 😂

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@DonJon1066 @TomLevins1 And any experienced manager who has worked with top professionals knows you do not try to reinvent the wheel when coming in midseason. That shows his inexperience & why he is not right for the club

@TomLevins1 @alan_hines83 Who knows, you won’t know until you try, but TBF to anyone who joins as manager of any.club. U need to apply time,u need to get your players in,u need to develop your own style & trust in players & equally players/fans need to trust you. Thats longer than 3 mths

Just to be clear, he’s shown nothing vs Arsenal, drawn at home to Leeds & Burnley & been played off the park for c.120 minutes vs PSG. Oh and lost to Newcastle at home. He should be gone. The fact he shouldn’t even be here in the 1st place is just as worrying though

It took @clearlake @paulwinstanley9 @Loz_Stew @todd_boehly @Dannythefink about 18 months to turn @ChelseaFC into Wenger's worst version of Arsenal. Let that sink in @Dannythefink - that's what you have helped create here. That is why fans hate the model & the ownership #CFC

After all my threads "defending" the project it's time for me to say what I really feel about it on a personal level – as objectively as I can. For the past couple of years I have tried to explain what the project actually is and why decisions are being made. I've always chosen to have faith in the project as long as visible progression has been evident. Up until this point I believe it has, now, however, it looks more and more like the project – with it's current execution – has arrived at a standstill. To start I will talk about the model. The "model" refers to several different things. Transfer strategy, wage structure, staff setup, dividing of power and control etc. I will start talking about the transfer model. When it comes to our transfer strategy, I do agree and I do have high belief in it, in theory. The theory of signing the best young players in the world and having them develop together is a genuinely good theory. However, in order for it to work, you have to actually sign the best talents. Signing random talents or signing players because they can be "saved" should not be as big of a part of our strategy as it has been up until this point. If you look at our squad now, only a few players actually fits into the category of signing we actually should be looking to make all the time (Estêvão, Quenda, Enzo, Caicedo, Hato, Gusto). Keep in mind, I'm not talking about how they have done at the club, I'm talking about the stature of the player the moment we signed him. Some signings have turned out well because our directors knew them already (Palmer, Joao Pedro, Caicedo). And some signings is a product of actually good scouting, most of which initially ends up at Strasbourg (Santos, Penders, Barco, Sarr, Panichelli, Satpayev etc). In conclusion on this point, I think we're signing too many players below the shelf we should be signing from and I think we're ignoring the advice of scouts too often (obvious and reportedly). This brings me to my next point – dividing of power and control. The point of this entire project was initially supposed to be that we have a massive teamwork between different sections of the club. The coach and players are responsible for what's happening on the pitch. The scouts are responsible for identifying the perfect profiles. Medical team is responsible for keeping players fit. Sporting directors are responsible for signing the players the scouts recommend and the coach needs and for overseeing the other sections. The owners are responsible for overseeing that the work the sporting directors are doing is actually bearing fruit. This, however is, at least from the outside, seemingly not how the project has evolved. The coach and players are still responsible for whats happening on the pitch but the coach seems to have very little, if any power at all. If the coach is responsible for on-pitch performances, he should also be allowed to ask for specific profiles to perfect the system. For example, if the coach wants a winger with specific qualities, he should get that if he doesn't already have it – without being questioned and/or being told that he doesn't need it (which currently seems to be the case). As I alluded to above, the scouts should carry the load of finding the IDEAL players to be signed to fill specific profiles requested by the coach. They are the experts in this field and they should be trusted by the sporting directors – otherwise, what's the point of even having scouts at all? I do agree with the intervention of the medical team. They are the experts in this field and their main job is to keep players fit. A coach wanting to play his best players at all times or a player wanting to play a big game should not overrule that. 1/

@Bk8iP3 @SebC__ Probably because we turned down the opportunity to sign him 🤷🏻‍♂️

Opposition player doing Drogba’s celly at Stamford Bridge is darkkkk

I see the idiots have fallen for the new PR piece by @paulwinstanley9 & @Loz_Stew

@GoldbergCFC Are you going to come out and call out the ownership & the SDs anytime soon?

Agree or disagree with Troy here?

How on earth more and more people aren’t questioning the likes of @paulwinstanley9 & @Loz_Stew is beyond me. Clueless, out of their depth & killing a football club

Pat Nevin: "#Chelsea are closer to relegation than to Arsenal, and this is a team that has spent £1.5bn. This is four years into the project. You have to start asking some questions." (@BBCSport)

@MunichChels @GoldbergCFC @paulwinstanley9 @Loz_Stew Oh 100%

@alan_hines83 @GoldbergCFC @paulwinstanley9 @Loz_Stew Not only them but it would make a good start

Hahahah look who wanted him & his brother, and now Chelsea might be hijacking it 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Rosenior couldn’t get the team to score past this lacklustre Newcastle team; but people tell me we should give him until the end of the season & a preseason too. No chance #CFC

@MunichChels @GoldbergCFC It’s shocking. Get @paulwinstanley9 & @Loz_Stew out of our club

@GoldbergCFC We are absolutely fucked. I watched him couple of times. He’s a good talent but that’s it.

@CFCMJordan Playing all of them would also be a disaster at set pieces - crying out for height and physicality

I feel like this balance is one of our biggest issues at the moment. In Pedro, Palmer, Estêvão, Enzo and Quenda(summer) we have some incredible attacking talents. However, we can't actually use them all at the same time because our defenders are too f*cking poor. Better defenders unlocks A LOT. The main difference between Chelsea and PSG imo. Our attackers has got to be sh*t scared of losing the ball lol

@Blue_Footy @hooligan_soc Absolute rubbish; there has been nothing show to warrant keeping him. And why aren’t you calling out the uselessness of the SDs and ownership?

I explained on @hooligan_soc why it makes little sense to sack Rosenior now. Rather, he should get at least the summer window, and then we can judge him next season. hooligan-soccer.com/examining-liam…

@suds2525 @breezy_345 I’m full aware of the shortcomings of the squad; there is a reason why Rosenior’s teams concede high xG. He is not good defensively. The team does not believe in him.

@alan_hines83 @breezy_345 I will give you an example of why manager isn’t the issue kompany relegated burnley and went to Bayern… do you think he would have done similar job with any other club …its just because of the squad they possess. Same is the case with Liam give-him preseason with reinforcement

@MobyChe @NewsJeffJ1 The press was nonexistent & the cover for the defence - which has been an issue since Poch, still hasn’t been solved. People are afraid to call out the elephant in the room that we don’t have a competent DM

PSG's ruthless ability to punish mistakes with their press and quality in attack to manipulate Chelsea's M2M press was on show as they humbled the European Champions, who failed to capitalise on their own high ball wins. Chelsea vs PSG Tactical Review is out chelseasvoice.substack.com/p/how-psg-mani…

@suds2525 @breezy_345 I’m of the view that neither should have been appointed in the first place; so you are arguing with the wrong person. Wholeheartedly agree the squad isn’t good enough - especially for the money spent, and that’s a SD issue. But setting teams up properly tends to help

@alan_hines83 @breezy_345 Man we were not able to beat 17th placed Atalanta … we drew with qarabag …people asking for Liam to be sacked need to understand individual players have been at fault. Maresca had conference league to deal with midweek where we played BTeam now we have CL we cant do the same.

Every single one of them. #BlueCoOUT