Football now isn't the same game I grew up playing and watching and Chelsea now aren't the same club I grew up loving.
Today I still love the club as much as ever but have fallen out of love with the game at our current level where loyalty and honour has given way to money and success at all costs.
José deserved the season regardless. That's a given. We owe him.
Of course I'm not happy with how things have gone this season but im used to it as a seasoned Chelsea supporter and understand its sport where the unthinkable can happen, the improbable is sometimes probable and the outcome is uncontrolable.
That's why we live it. That's why we love it. That's why we come on here to share our passion for this once wonderful game.
But now it seems, it's all about moneyball football, run by accountant's and rich plastic owners, where the supporter has become marginalised to the point of almost being a necessary burden to the club.
As much as we all try to claim our clubs have some form of identity, this is being washed away with every ridiculously priced mercenary signing the club makes who's pandered and adored existence at the club is repaid with dishonest endeavour and selfish fortitude with every passionless display and every self promoting performance when it only matters to them.
The connection between the club and the fans is fast becoming lost to a new age of ultimate player power and our game is dying with every fake kissing of a badge that means nothing to the average player at my club.
Today, and not for the first time in recent years, I'm massively disappointed by the dealings of my club and disagree entirely about how we have treated José.
We will now replace him, eventually, with another top name who will go on to gain success for us, but make no mistake, this was our chance to really build something with a manager who understood Chelsea and loved the club. only to be cut down in his prime after only his first poor lengthy spell at the club. Ridiculous.
They have to show greater faith in a man they already knew and the baggage and reputation that came with him. Otherwise why bother just for a bit of short term success?
There's no way he would have relegated us, and rebuilding would have started and we all know in what areas. Simple fixes.
But no. They sack him. Player power at its worst.
The club has shown little class and honour and for that I'm ashamed.
KTBFFH
My Take On Things....
posted on 17/12/15
It beggars belief that a man who has saved the club from administration and bank rolled successive managers to unprecedented success at Chelsea Football Club seems to be under criticism for dismissing the incredible sulk
Only one person is to blame for Jose losing his job and that is Jose...again! The idea that RA should be facing criticism is clearly from plastic fans who jumped ship from United / Liverpool / Arsenal a few years back
RA backs his managers to the hilt. He isn't unrealistic in expecting a return on his investment. With a long term contract Jose should of been restructuring the club for 'long term' sustained success instead of throwing a tantrum when his public pursuit of the likes of John Stones didn't work!
He's tried to literally portrait himself as hard done by....he's got 'poor me' syndrome
posted on 17/12/15
comment by HenrysCat (U3608)
posted 2 minutes ago
IT is:
1. He won't have taken us down. That much would have been certain. - Irrelevant to the question, not sure why you mentioned it.
2. If the players won't play for him, start rebuild in Jan and Summer. - If things haven't been patched up with the players he's fallen out with by now, why should it suddenly change?
3. Look to the long term and commit to this through thick and thin - meaningless waffle, nothing to do with the question.
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Move along. I'm not interested in you're argumentative comments. It's not my problem you can't grasp simple answers to even simpler questions.
posted on 17/12/15
comment by Respectedabsolutetruth11 (U9573)
posted 3 minutes ago
It beggars belief that a man who has saved the club from administration and bank rolled successive managers to unprecedented success at Chelsea Football Club seems to be under criticism for dismissing the incredible sulk
Only one person is to blame for Jose losing his job and that is Jose...again! The idea that RA should be facing criticism is clearly from plastic fans who jumped ship from United / Liverpool / Arsenal a few years back
RA backs his managers to the hilt. He isn't unrealistic in expecting a return on his investment. With a long term contract Jose should of been restructuring the club for 'long term' sustained success instead of throwing a tantrum when his public pursuit of the likes of John Stones didn't work!
He's tried to literally portrait himself as hard done by....he's got 'poor me' syndrome
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We won the league under José 7 months ago
posted on 17/12/15
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posted on 17/12/15
comment by Guess Who's Back -NPE (U20804)
posted 6 seconds ago
Football now isn't the same game I grew up playing and watching
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Oh boo-hoo.
You know why it isn't, because Abramovich and to a lesser extent, Ken Bates, shot us into the football stratosphere...
If anyone deserves time, it is Roman.
Jose dug his own grave, ruined the season through his own errors, and let's get out the world's smallest violin for his 10million pay-off.
We owed him nothing.
Jose never gave us "identity" and it is time we mvoed away from acting like some Meso-American trippy little cult that worships individuals.
Only our worship of racist Terry bothers me more than pitiful, billious garbage written about an overrated bloated manager.
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posted on 17/12/15
It's all unbecoming of a man in such a privileged position. His lack of humility and basic standards of behaviour towards others is appalling. He deserves whatever criticism he gets
He's not a 'character', he's not good for the game, he's a 'legend' in his own mind with fundamental flaws to be a long term success at any club. There are plenty of managers who win multiple trophies at big clubs. Even RDM won the CL at Chelsea, Jose couldn't! It's everything else that builds a club. Jose doesn't really care about Chelsea, he cares about himself!
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This. Respect.
Thanks for all you did Jose, but I can no longer stomach you being the image of my club. Bravely done Roman - and it was the right thing
posted on 17/12/15
comment by TheWhiteChameleonWallProjectSock (U17633)
José deserved the season regardless. That's a given.
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The club has shown little class and honour and for that I'm ashamed.We owe him.
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That just about sums it up for me
posted on 17/12/15
comment by CapeApe (U19277)
posted 2 hours, 7 minutes ago
comment by Manfrombelmonty (U1705)
posted 23 minutes ago
Today I still love the club as much as ever but have fallen out of love with the game at our current level where loyalty and honour has given way to money and success at all costs.
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You were the pioneers of this. You reap what you sow.
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Spot on
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call me crazy but "pioneers" really?