comment by SWTN - Judas is number 1 (U7916)
posted 2 hours, 4 minutes ago

comment by CFC_Steve (U1194)
posted about 3 hours ago
Maresca: “Probably one thing that has to be clear, Chelsea three years ago won the Champions League but now it is not that kind of Chelsea so now sometimes if you dont win it is normal” (@BBCSport)
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And whose fault is that? That was a young confident side that won the CL. It wasn't a team coming to the end of its life cycle.
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Even if this fever dream strategy somehow ends up paying off at some point, I'll never understand why any new owners would come into Chelsea FC in 2022 & think to themselves "this needs total revolution ASAP".

As long as you had money & ambition (which Clearlake did), you could've have inherited a better foundation to SLOWLY build outside of Man City. I'm just fundamentally never going to come to grips with that.

comment by ＴＬＬＬ (U4640)
posted 17 minutes ago
Play him at RB and he'll deliver. James also looked lost in that midfield role/3rd CB role in pre season. Both will be wasted in this system.
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Why isn't Cucurella on the left being used as the inverted fullback instead of Gusto on the right ? Cucu clearly at his best in that role yet we're not doing that.

Probably because he doesn't trust Gusto as a 3rd CB. Once James returns i think Cucurella will play that inverted role.

Not sure what Enzo was trying out today though. Cucurella was in his natural LB position, Caicedo at CB, Fofana at RB, Palmer our deepest midfielder and Gusto I have no idea where.

Yeah that's a mess and Enzo Fernandez playing far too high up the pitch and looking lost. Play him as a deep lying playmaker or don't play him at all. I prefer the latter though tbh.

One thing Carlo does well is trying to build the system around the strengths of the players he has. As opposed to shoehorning them to fit his ideal tactics.

You’d think that if you can spend a huge amount of players, you’d be able to get a bunch who fit your ideal system. But it’s across different managers so there’s no cohesion there. So instead a manager which inherits the squad has to try and work towards what the players are good at.

comment by CSTP (U1453)
posted 8 hours, 19 minutes ago
Gusto is the most concerning disappointment so far this season. He was pretty good last season but has been crap so far. James needs to return after the internationals.
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Is he actually fit

Just watched our highlights...thoughr we were very decent should've won that 4-1

Just looking at which players got marooned and failed to find a club. Not as many as I feared but Chilwell and Chukwuemeka are big ones.

Also the likes of Lucas Bergstrom, Omari Kellyman, Angelo Gabriel, and Datro Fofana who aren't crucial but you'd hoped we'd have found a loan for.

I guess there were too many players in the squad and so they ran out of resources trying to find takers for everyone.

Excellent management.

Chilwell could join Mourinho, two weeks left of their window left

Chuk is a weird one should just have him as part of squad. Mudryk is so $hit I know the club won’t write him off due to the cost but wish he’d get binned

Can’t even beat palace at home Lol Maresca should be sacked

Arne Slot taken no time to adapt to PL Football and we’ve got a better team/squad than Liverpool

Needs to start starting Nkunku

International break after 3 games of season Lol

comment by CSTP (U1453)
posted 38 minutes ago

I guess there were too many players in the squad and so they ran out of resources trying to find takers for everyone.

Excellent management.
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Tbf, as NPE said, I could've been worse. I expected it to be worse.

But you know, buying unnecessary players (by which I mean players in positions already stacked even if they're sh!t) when you need to trim the squad will do that.

This is why Marseca's comments about the squad were tactless in the circumstances, a bit AVB'ish.

Respect the boldness on his part, but it's not gunna look good/help establish his authority. if he has to go crying back to someone like Chilwell at some point this season.

BBC: 'Slot has made daunting task of replacing iconic Klopp look easy'

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Bit premature eh

comment by Filip Jorgensen = Season Saved (U6489)
posted 35 minutes ago
BBC: 'Slot has made daunting task of replacing iconic Klopp look easy'

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Bit premature eh
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BBC with their tongues firmly jammed up Liverpool's ass hole as per. No surprise there

comment by Sheriff JW Pepper (U1007)
posted 4 hours, 12 minutes ago
Just watched our highlights...thoughr we were very decent should've won that 4-1
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Similar to too many games last season then.

comment by Oscar. #TeamFury #TeamTrump2024 #FightFightFig... (U12980)
posted 1 hour, 23 minutes ago
Needs to start starting Nkunku
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Yup I've been saying he should start as striker. No disrespect to Jackson who can still be very useful as an alternate striker or winger.

That Nkunku only got a couple of minutes yesterday was strange. He should have got at least 30 minutes to try to have an impact on the game, if not started.

comment by Oscar. #TeamFury #TeamTrump2024 #FightFightFig... (U12980)
posted 2 hours, 27 minutes ago
Can’t even beat palace at home Lol Maresca should be sacked

Arne Slot taken no time to adapt to PL Football and we’ve got a better team/squad than Liverpool
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Based on what....?

comment by Oscar. #TeamFury #TeamTrump2024 #FightFightFig... (U12980)
posted about 2 hours ago
International break after 3 games of season Lol
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Perfectly normal...whilst annoying

comment by Superb (U6486)
posted about an hour ago
comment by Oscar. #TeamFury #TeamTrump2024 #FightFightFig... (U12980)
posted 1 hour, 23 minutes ago
Needs to start starting Nkunku
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Yup I've been saying he should start as striker. No disrespect to Jackson who can still be very useful as an alternate striker or winger.

That Nkunku only got a couple of minutes yesterday was strange. He should have got at least 30 minutes to try to have an impact on the game, if not started.
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Yeah...thats a waste of time...needs 30 mins at least...id be starting him too

Only thing I can think is that the club aren't sure that he wont break down injured so they're reintroducing him back slowly. After he missed most of last season

Think we'd be better off trying to mold Felix or Nkunku into a false 9 (and backup for Palmer in no10) rather than forcing them into winger role.

At the moment we don't really have a proper backup for Jackson (Guiu is far too raw) and I think the above two would be far more use to the team if they could fill that role. Especially now that we effectively have 4 wingers (Sancho, Madueke, Neto and Mudryk)

Yeah totally agree. Nkunku and Felix became default strikers after we failed to bring in a top striker this window.

Nkunku even more so as he can score plenty of goals getting 35 goals in the season before he came here. And he identifies as a striker anyway.