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The thing that worries me most is that one of the reasons Rosenior is favoured is because he plays the same sort of football that we currently play. That’s scary.
Apart from being fairly decent at winning the ball back high up the pitch, our football is absolutely diabolical, boring, predictable and easy to negate. We’ve been absolutely terrible and there seems to be no recognition of that, since Maresca has gone because his relationship with medical staff and other management broke down. I mean, if that’s all they care about, and not the absolutely turgid performances, then we’re in trouble.
We need a proper, top class manager with credentials earned at the highest level, and who is empowered to have proper input to signings. Not another roll of the dice on an up and comer.
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Ed & pajero: I think that under this current ownership, Chelsea won’t ever be a title contender. All they want is young players and a young coach. I start to resign to that fact. In no circumstance under this current ownership that Chelsea will be a winning team like under Abramovich ownership. I have no doubt that they want to win trophies but they will only do so their way: young players, young manager. Their way or no way.
Maresca went down in the exact circumstance as Poch. They both felt that the pressure to win is too high. They started to criticize direct or indirectly the owners, asked for more experienced players. And then the owners sacked them as they don’t conform anymore with the owners’ vision.
Rosenior, I am not personally against the man, but what a joke. And trust me, he will go down exactly in the same way as Poch & Maresca. Chelsea fans are accustomed to winning trophies. And we won’t win things with an unexperienced manager and unexperienced players.
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Aindro – I sadly agree. If this lot remain in charge for the next 20 years then who knows, we might fluke a league title but we won’t dominate. We’ll mostly be in the hunt for Top 4 and be a cup side. However, the league must be our priority.
Just seems bizarre because with a couple of signings and a top manager, we’re not far at all from being one of the top contenders for years to come.
Why put next big thing players on long-term contracts, which represents a huge investment both in terms of transfer fees, wages, the incumbent risk of doing so (think Mudryk, Disasi etc), and not appoint a top manager on a 2 year contract to manage them to reach their potential?
Winners breed winners. That’s been clear with Mourinho, Ancelotti and Conte.
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Look at where Sunderland are at now. Not long ago they were crashing and burning big time. The club is doing amazingly well likely because of smart investment with success a priority over the pound note. The purchase of Granit Xhaka a major reason for where they are now at. We should be doing the same, integrating some experienced hardened pros with a mix of what we already have. That is not and likely will never be on the radar of these owners as it doesn’t fit the model. They won’t break the current wage structure. Also, why would Caidedo and Palmer want to stay on 150K a week (the limit) when they could get mountains more elsewhere. It won’t be long before they show discontent and want to move on. Maybe that is already the case. Who knows.
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I did not expect we stole a point at City. The first half was City’s all over but they did not create too many chances either. Their goal IMO was a bit of luck that Jorgensen was beaten at his small angle. He should have done better but he was faultless besides that during the match. His distributions were even IMO better than Sanchez. The 2nd half I still say that City were better but we started to create chances with Delap who offered a more physical play. We should have won it with Enzo missing a sitter earlier in the 2nd half but I took a draw gladly. I think the celebration of Enzo’s goal says it all: the team is together despite what happened to Maresca. A well deserved result for Chelsea
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Good summary Aindro, may i add why we always do well against the top clubs and always drop points to the lesser clubs? Cant really figure it out.
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Rover – the top clubs don’t set themselves up to negate and frustrate our very obvious strategy of trying to constantly set up 1 v 1 situations with the wingers, which is what lesser clubs do; they then punish us from set pieces or wait for the errors to be made that consistently appear in our squad.
The reason top clubs don’t do that is because they don’t think they have to set up to negate – they can play their own game. Hence why we were so much on the backfoot in terms of possession etc, against City. Against lower teams we’re always 65%+ in possession, even against Villa.
Our only other tactic to score goals is to win the ball high up the pitch and capitalise on mistakes… which you can negate with long ball, another lesser team get out clause.
We lack a Drogba/Costa type that can score out of nothing.
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So the worst kept secret in football is out we have rosenior as manager. He is given a 6 year contract and part of his brief is to develop players. So nothing changes there. He got sacked from hull because of his football style the owner wanted attacking football!
Did they actually interview anyone else
So in my opinion and others we will have to put up with even more boring football as his style is worse than morescas._____________________________
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A 6.5 year contract? If the board are so sure about Rosenior then why was Maresca ever in charge…?
More madness. This board doesn’t want to win, they just want to scrape Top 4 and win a few trophies whilst farming players and making a profit.
Apparently he was favoured because he plays the same system as Maresca. What a joke.
I hope for the best of course but I’m filled with no optimism.
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No offense to Rosenior, but for me he doesn’t have credentials yet to manage a team like Chelsea. His title is head coach though, as Maresca. Not manager. So very possibly he won’t have any say on transfers. So I retracted what I had said somewhere in October or November that the owners wanted to win as like LA Dodgers where Boehly co-owns.
At Chelsea, or at soccer even: I start now to think that they don’t want to win. At least not for a foreseeable future. All they want is to revolutionize European football, by having multiple club ownership and then establishing sister clubs to be a ‘training and development’ to feed their bigger clubs etc etc. They want a conglomeration, like in business, companies …. It’s looking like business more and more to me. I now start to believe what others say. When big offers come for Enzo or Estevao or Palmer, they will sell them for profit.
One doesn’t hire Rosenior if they want to win. One would hire Klopp, Mourinho, Zidane …. even Oliver Glassner who won the FA Cup last season. So yeah I am disappointed with the appointment. I thought we had almost everything in the puzzle to compete, we were not far. Just needed one or two experienced players. But it’s clearly not what the owners think by hiring Rosenior, a very junior coach. This is like hiring Frank Lampard before, with little or almost no experience.
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