[Football] Fat Frank's Chelsea

[Herr Tubthumper]

I keep reading about them having a decent squad but I just don’t see it. Not only have they got an appalling manager (he’s a manager in name only) but I actually don’t think their squad is all that either. I think mid table is probably about right.

Their best player is 38 year old Thiago Silva but after that, there’s very little real quality.

Sterling was their big summer signing and he is a shadow of the player he used to be, awful yesterday. Fernandez their big winter signing is decent but as we saw yesterday, he’s miles behind Caicedo and the other top central midfielders in the world. Of their other big name January additions, Mudryk is promising but that’s it at the moment. Joao Felix is lovely to watch technically but offers no final product - Atletico Madrid have improved massively since he left.

Mount has regressed hugely as has Pulisic after his serious injury and the Chelsea Havertz is a completely different and worse version than the Leverkusen Havertz. I could go on, they’ve got a lot of players at Cobham but they’re really not all that and it’s hilariously funny after all of the money they spent.

....and on top of all of this you then end up with Frank Lampard managing this motley crew. As you say, hilariously funny.

 

[5Ways Gull]

Boehly must rue the day he bought them.

His wealth depleting by the day.

With no CL football next season, his world record spend based on “quick, let’s beat ManC and Tottenham to every media-hyped name”, is going to be a huge financial millstone.

In the words of Wham?! “Hey sucker”.

So you know there are those film awards for really bad films / acting performances (The Turkeys, Raspberries?) is there an equivalent for football? The Ballon Doh! maybe? If so Todd Boehly must be a shoe in for "Most inept, incompetent, stupid, hopeless owner of a football club" lifetime achievement award?

 

[RexCathedra]

So you know there are those film awards for really bad films / acting performances (The Turkeys, Raspberries?) is there an equivalent for football? The Ballon Doh! maybe? If so Todd Boehly must be a shoe in for "Most inept, incompetent, stupid, hopeless owner of a football club" lifetime achievement award?

Warren Buffett -- a seriously rich man, net worth 113.8 billion USD, could buy Boehly with pocket change -- has a rule: "Risk comes from not knowing what you are doing." You don't invest in things you can't understand.

 

[Springal]

Boehly is just a front for a consortium isn’t he? It’s not all his money

 

[ConfusedGloryHunter]

Boehly is just a front for a consortium isn’t he? It’s not all his money

No. A lot of it is ours now.

 

[Gwylan]

Wasn’t Norman a Palace fan in his youth given he grew up around there ?

He grew up in Surrey - he went to school with Keir Starmer. So, perhaps he may have been a Chelsea fan at some point.

 

[JBizzle]

Boehly is just a front for a consortium isn’t he? It’s not all his money

Boehly is Chairman and the front for Behdad Eghbali and Clearlake investment. He's undoubtedly hugely rich, but if he'd had his way he'd have kept Potter apparently. It's Eghbali (working off Winstanley's analysis) that made the call to remove him.

Then James Corden recommended Frank Lampard............

 

[severnside gull]

What’s the story with Bruno, is he still there?

O sign of him on Saturday so guessing he’s going to be released once a pay-off can be agreed.
Roberts was on the pitch coaching the keepers

 

[Hove Lagoonery]

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Who's put Columbian flags next to our Ecuadorians!

 

[GT49er]

Boehly is Chairman and the front for Behdad Eghbali and Clearlake investment. He's undoubtedly hugely rich, but if he'd had his way he'd have kept Potter apparently. It's Eghbali (working off Winstanley's analysis) that made the call to remove him.

Then James Corden recommended Frank Lampard............

To be fair, Boehly's plan with Potter wasn't a bad one - build and develop a team with a proper identity. OK, doing the summer shopping himself, and waitimg too long to sack Tuchel (if he was going to) were idiotic, but the Potter plan was sound enough. What he didn't take into account was:

1). Loads of entitled chelsea fans outraged at getting a manager from '#TeamslikeBrighton FFS',
2). Unfortunately some overpaid and equally entitled player had the same attitude, and
3). The noise eventually got so loud he lost his nerve.
The season wouldn't have ended any worse under GP - and with a summer spent mainly getting rid of rotten apples improvements may well have come next season (although probably even then not fast enough for some of the more idiotic fans who'd cling to the belief they deserve nothing less than a CL/world cup winner!)

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

To be fair, Boehly's plan with Potter wasn't a bad one - build and develop a team with a proper identity. OK, doing the summer shopping himself, and waitimg to long to sack Tuchel (if he was going to) were idiotic, but the Potter plan was sound enough. What he didn't take into account was:

1). Loads of entitled chelsea fans outraged at getting a manager for '#TeamslikeBrighton FFS',
2). Unfortunately some overpaid and equally entitled player had the same attitude, and
3). The noise eventually got so loud he lost his nerve.
The season wouldn't have ended any worse under GP - and with a summer spent mainly getting rid of rotten apples improvements may well have come next season (although probably even then not fast enough for some of the more idiotic fans who'd cling to the belief they deserve nothing less than a CL/world cup winner!)

Potter wouldn't know a good team if it bit him in the bum

 

[GT49er]

Potter wouldn't know a good team if it bit him in the bum

He left a good team at the Amex in September! Some people have short memories, or just like re-writing history!

 

[Weststander]

Who's put Columbian flags next to our Ecuadorians!

The Cartel.

 

[cjd]

He left a good team at the Amex in September! Some people have short memories, or just like re-writing history!

Our recruitment team, left a good players team ready for the next manager in September.

 

[Stat Brother]

Say what you want about him but he's a bloody consistent manager.