The Official Chelsea Thread [Vol 3]

[stuartmmcfc]

Blue62 said:

I posted on the EFC thread that I find it surprising that nobody is asking the question about City pulling out of the Everton game on Monday because of a Covid outbreak, while providing little in the way of hard proof and then pulling Chelsea apart 6 days later.

6 1st team players with COVID plus at least 2 staff members going down iin the days before the game, the “bubble” obviously compromised?
The PL seemed happy with the proof, on yesterday’s dispoay, Everton were very lucky the game got pulled.

[TwigtheWonderkid]

Frimley111R said:

Yep, we (United) got beaten 5-1 by Spurs and are now joint top! Chelsea only lost 3-0. No need to panic Mr Mannering!

6-1 and 3-1.

[TEKNOPUG]

Any player from abroad would typically take at least a season to start performing in the Prem. More so young ones. So having so many in the team, as well as inexperienced home grown players, regardless of how talented they are, should limit the expectations this season.

If the buying youth policy was driven by the club and also having an inexperienced manager, one would imagine that the expectations are that top 4 is unlikely (last season should be no indication of future performance under the circumstances). So Frank's position should be safe for at least another season.

If however the signings were driven by Frank, then not so much...

[jammy-git]

I agree.

Inexperienced players and inexperienced manager means that expectations should be lowered and longer terms goals should be set.

[smn159]

Indeed. Lampard is not setting the direction, the board are. It may have been prompted by the loss of Hazard and the transfer ban, but rather than go for established players they have decided on a 'buy young for the future' policy. It remains to be seen whether they get cold feet at the first signs of trouble.

They may well decide that a more experienced manager could get more out of the players in the short term, but presumably they would have known the risk when they hired him.

So a huge admission of failure by the board if he isn't given this season at least - I think he will be.

[968]

Dunno. There are lots of rumours Allegri being lined up as an experienced replacement.

[trackdemon]

968 said:

There are lots of rumours Allegri being lined up

Where?

[smn159]

trackdemon said:

968 said:

There are lots of rumours Allegri being lined up

Where?

Seems to have originated as a speculation piece in an Italian sports daily, which a number of outlets have picked up and are running as click bait

[968]

The Athletic I believe.

[trackdemon]

Not great today are we? Lets see if we'll push on now, 10 to go...

[TwigtheWonderkid]

Made very hard work of that.

[GT03ROB]

I know it can be tough against 10 men, but that really wasn’t very good

[Wadeski]

Big game against Leicester coming up. Predictions?

[LHB]

It’ll be a hard game to win but I’m feeling confident with the line up put out, with the exception of Ziyech not being in it.

Wonder what happened with Frank and Zouma for him to be dropped all of a sudden.

[smn159]

Hope that I'm wrong, but recent performances suggest that disappointment awaits, so probably 80% possession and lose 2-0

[A Winner Is You]

Hope to be proven wrong, but I'm not confident and a loss here could mean the end of the Frank experiment.

[trackdemon]

Yup, I'm not confident of a win here - Leicester are going great and recent performances from us have been underwhelming. Fingers crossed nonetheless

[Wadeski]

cracking start

[968]

1-0 down after 5 minutes.

[LHB]

Oh.