Chelsea Team Talk/Gossip/Rumours Thread 2023/24

bullpost · 20-04-2021 5:27pm

Wrongway1985 wrote: »

I would pointless having invested free time from work to watch matches only for UEFA not bother to deliver the end product, next season grand but that's the plan isn't it.

Would be right silly to tank the Prem as some sort of goodwill gesture to the fans.

Reservations over how lads behind the scenes in football conduct themselves is nothing new, devious to the core. I swear most who claim wish to have their club suffer for making this unique play to increase revenue should have ran a mile from these mega wealth clubs ages ago! see how it all plays out anyway it's a very bold move.

They wont risk this seasons competitions - too much dosh in TV rights etc.

peteeeed · 20-04-2021 6:51pm

https://twitter.com/AbsoluteChelsea/status/1384563967209660421?s=20

Tom Mann Centuria · 20-04-2021 6:53pm

peteeeed wrote: »

https://twitter.com/AbsoluteChelsea/status/1384563967209660421?s=20

Hopefully it's true. Finger's, toes and everything else crossed.

peteeeed · 20-04-2021 6:57pm

Tom Mann Centuria wrote: »

Hopefully it's true. Finger's, toes and everything else crossed.

everyone is reporting it now

RichT · 20-04-2021 6:59pm

Proper Order !!!!

peteeeed · 20-04-2021 7:03pm

https://twitter.com/ChelseaFC/status/1384568101027581955?s=20

GavRedKing · 20-04-2021 7:07pm

Finally, some f**king sense.

Nalz · 20-04-2021 7:07pm

Thank you Chelsea

kalych · 20-04-2021 7:12pm

Well done to the Board. Must've been Petr's influence to at least some extent.

peteeeed · 20-04-2021 7:37pm

kalych wrote: »

Well done to the Board. Must've been Petr's influence to at least some extent.

he always saves

Killinator · 20-04-2021 8:28pm

https://twitter.com/ronnabe/status/1384565129988214784?s=20

Plenty of young supporters there, the same young supporters Perez doesn't believe exist anymore.

A great moment for the fans of the club

Barr · 20-04-2021 9:22pm

Big improvement needed second half if we are to get 3 points here

Wrongway1985 · 20-04-2021 9:57pm

Tis been more interesting off the pitch tonight,performance not worthy of a super league.

Killinator · 20-04-2021 10:10pm

Terrible terrible performance.

The only excuse I would grant was the CL midweek and City at the weekend draining the team.
But that's not good enough at all.

peteeeed · 20-04-2021 10:13pm

very very very flat performance

Garzorico · 20-04-2021 10:34pm

Absolute dross. No attacking intent at all. This false 9 lark is just that, a lark. I lost count of the number of times the centre backs passed it into the feet of a teammate in midfield under severe pressure from an opposition player and then loose the ball. Shocking performance. Players don’t appear motivated at all - dare I say it (and I say it only half in jest) but it looked like some of them have downed tools.

On another note it’s games like this is why the Americans want the ESL - boring 0-0 draws do not attract customers.

GavRedKing · 20-04-2021 10:42pm

Beat City, leave the ESL and then draw with Brighton in a game that we should have lost.

What a s**t show.

It's typical Chelsea after a really good performance.

Was the same against WBA when we had beaten Atelti.

We can't string consistently good performances together and it's a reason, why with this squad that we'll win f**k all.

Tuchel might get get a tune out of some of the players but if you can beat City and play them off the park for 70mins and then be championship level quality performance against Brighton, something has to give.

I actually put a some of it on the team he picked but when we needed a goalz Havertz has to bury his chance, himself and Zieych were absolutely awful tonight, not the other 9 were much better.

Huge chance to solidify top 4 lost tonight and we've West Ham at the weekend and City in the PL soon.

Killinator · 20-04-2021 10:49pm

Garzorico wrote: »

On another note it’s games like this is why the Americans want the ESL - boring 0-0 draws do not attract customers.

True...but at the weekend 2 of those 'super' clubs played in the FA Cup semi final and it wasn't exactly a game for the ages!

2 quality teams playing each other is not a recipe for fantastic football every time, plenty of Super Sundays in the past which were boring as paint to watch

Garzorico · 20-04-2021 10:59pm

I can’t see us getting CL football next season unless we win it. We have only won 15 games and also had 10 draws so far this season. The only positive is we are playing good teams apart from Fulham til the end of the season and that seems to suit us better.

Garzorico · 20-04-2021 11:02pm

Killinator wrote: »

True...but at the weekend 2 of those 'super' clubs played in the FA Cup semi final and it wasn't exactly a game for the ages!

2 quality teams playing each other is not a recipe for fantastic football every time, plenty of Super Sundays in the past which were boring as paint to watch

Ah yes, but watching Messi v Neymar playing badly beats AN Journeyman v Neymar playing badly.

You’d have to wonder what the clubs were up to with the ESL after such an easy quick climb down. CEO wars most likely. Makes for great TV.

peteeeed · 21-04-2021 7:50am

with the couple of hours of chaos before the game that was a tough game to play , even the Brighton manger after the game said how strange the day was .

TomSweeney · 21-04-2021 9:50am

Doesn't bode well for the Real Madrid game ...

Barr · 21-04-2021 10:00am

They players should have been buoyed. So disappointing given what was at stake

Brighton will be kicking themselves they didn’t win it .

In a lot of games Havertz gets right on my wick, like last night .

GavRedKing · 21-04-2021 2:29pm

Barr wrote: »

They players should have been buoyed. So disappointing given what was at stake

Brighton will be kicking themselves they didn’t win it .

In a lot of games Havertz gets right on my wick, like last night .

Ya, he's not anywhere consistent in his performances and his finishing is absolutely awful.

He's not a CF and I hope to jesus he isn't playing there ever again.

I'd sooner play Tammy or Giroud up top than Havertz.

What's unbelievably worrying is our top scorer this year has 6 PL goals.

Theres teams in the bottom 3 with better stats than that.

Barr · 21-04-2021 2:54pm

Give me Giroud any day of the week !

Did ye see David Moyes was there last night . He probably skipped out of the Bridge based on that performance :mad:

GavRedKing · 21-04-2021 8:01pm

We've no gimmes in the last 6 games.

Think the dropped points to WBA and Brighton will cost us top 4.

We're going to need probably 12-15pts to finish top 4ans i cant see it with this group and the last 6 games.

Tubbs4 · 21-04-2021 8:40pm

West ham should win
Fulham should win
Man city depends on if they still in champions league
Arsenal should win
Leicester draw
Aston villa win

13 points handy. The game against West ham if we win should set the mark.
If only we had a striker who could score starting games.

GavRedKing · 21-04-2021 9:23pm

No should, in football.

We should have beaten WBA and Brighton but he made too many changes and the subs were off the wall.

It's our own fault if we don't get 4th for taking 1 or from those 6pts available.

Win both and we'd be home and dry in 4th.

Tubbs4 · 22-04-2021 9:21am

GavRedKing wrote: »

No should, in football.

We should have beaten WBA and Brighton but he made too many changes and the subs were off the wall.

It's our own fault if we don't get 4th for taking 1 or from those 6pts available.

Win both and we'd be home and dry in 4th.

We should have loads of goals as we bought a brilliant free scoring striker

. If they don't beat the teams europa Cup if we are allowed in next year.

At least the women's team are now 3 games away from winning the league.

grumpymunster · 22-04-2021 9:54am

I wonder will the punishment be a fine or a transfer ban or some such, would be a major move for UEFA to ban those 12 teams from CL games next season as it would devalue the competition greatly. You could guarantee PSG or Munich winning it next season.

It would also quite likely lead to the formation of a "friendly" competition involving those 12 clubs which would not be good overall for UEFA you would have thought.

Tubbs4 · 22-04-2021 11:36am

I say a fine at most or they lose too much money. Can't really punish the players as none came out in support of it.

hots · 22-04-2021 12:03pm

It's difficult to even fine them, what rules were broken? What they can do is enforce new stricter rules to stop it happening again.

peteeeed · 24-04-2021 4:31pm

https://twitter.com/chelseafc/status/1385979383224143873?s=21

GavRedKing · 24-04-2021 7:30pm

Good win, fairly comfortable.

Tubbs4 · 24-04-2021 7:42pm

A little bit of room to work with. Bad when fighting for 4th and rival is West ham.

GavRedKing · 24-04-2021 8:16pm

TBF, Moyes has them punching a over their weight.

Tubbs4 · 24-04-2021 8:22pm

Also have Liverpool in a bizarre season with spurs being spurs.
Arsenal look lost at this stage.

Roll on Tuesday.

RichT · 24-04-2021 8:36pm

Never a red.

If you told me at the start of the season that we would be fighting neck and neck with West Ham with 5 games to go, I would have soiled myself!

GavRedKing · 24-04-2021 8:43pm

Tubbs4 wrote: »

Also have Liverpool in a bizarre season with spurs being spurs.
Arsenal look lost at this stage.

Roll on Tuesday.

We've the toughest run in of all the teams anyway.

I'd take finishing 8th and winning the CL anyway.

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Tubbs4 · 24-04-2021 8:57pm

GavRedKing wrote: »

We've the toughest run in of all the teams anyway.

I'd take finishing 8th and winning the CL anyway.

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4 league wins and unless a big goal swing be 4th with a double

peteeeed · 24-04-2021 9:04pm

really good win , controlled most of the game

grumpymunster · 25-04-2021 9:43pm

GavRedKing wrote: »

We've the toughest run in of all the teams anyway.

I'd take finishing 8th and winning the CL anyway.

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We seem to be muck against the lower teams and decent against the higher teams. Fulham could be our hardest game

GavRedKing · 25-04-2021 10:03pm

10 pts from 5 games should see us over the line.

Buuuuut, one game at a time is the only way to handle it at this stage.

Start with Tuesday night, avoid a defeat away to Madrid and do um at the Bridge.

GavRedKing · 25-04-2021 10:13pm

Great content here.

https://twitter.com/_SpursTrophies/status/1386369586224930822?s=19

Be awhile before it's reset to 0 too.

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Barr · 27-04-2021 3:54pm

Some month ahead

SEMI-FINALS
Real Madrid
20:00
Chelsea

Saturday 1st May
PREMIER LEAGUE
Chelsea
17:30
Fulham

Wednesday 5th May
CHAMPIONS LEAGUE
SEMI-FINALS
Chelsea
20:00
Real Madrid

Saturday 8th May
PREMIER LEAGUE
Manchester City
17:30
Chelsea

Wednesday 12th May
PREMIER LEAGUE
Chelsea
19:45
Arsenal

Saturday 15th May
THE FA CUP
FINAL
Chelsea
17:30
Leicester City

Saturday 15th May
PREMIER LEAGUE
Chelsea
15:00
Leicester City

Sunday 23rd May
PREMIER LEAGUE
Aston Villa
16:00
Chelsea

greendom · 27-04-2021 4:12pm

Hopefully the A40 will be free of traffic late afternoon on 15th !

SureYWouldntYa · 27-04-2021 5:04pm

Wonder what sort of side we'll side tonight, Tuchel was quite conservative against West Ham with Dave as the wing back, I hope we bring the game to Madrid I don't think we should fear them at all

I'd love to see the following

Mendy
Dave Christensen Rudiger
James Kante Jorginho Chilwell
Mount Havertz Werner

Silva might well get the nod over Christensen due to his vast experience, but other than that I really hope the lineup isnt that different, Kovacic is a doubt I'd much prefer him to Jorginho, and I'd prefer Mount in midfield again but I know that won't happen

RichT · 27-04-2021 6:17pm

Need to get a goal (or 2)

0-0 will be no good to us at all

Absolutely no advantage in playing 2nd leg at home in this fan free time. Think I'd prefer a 2-1 loss than a 0-0.

I'm convinced this semi-final will be decided on away goal(s)

peteeeed · 27-04-2021 6:53pm

https://twitter.com/chelseafc/status/1387100637146517509?s=21

SureYWouldntYa · 27-04-2021 6:56pm

Not a fan of Dave at wing back

He’s not quick and wont stretch them the same as Reece James and CHO would

Crosses from deep arent really an option with Werner and Pulisic up top

Dont know why Havertz isnt starting when he got zero at the weekend

Hopefully Tuchel proves me wrong

Chelsea Team Talk/Gossip/Rumours Thread 2023/24

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