21 Mar 2025 13:43:23
Pochetino living up to his reputation as a serial loser again. Beaten by little Panama in the semi final last night.
21 Mar 2025 14:32:16
Anna. We can laugh now he is not our manager any longer!
21 Mar 2025 15:45:44
He just seems to have a way to lose in the big moments Tom. The Cup Final last season against Liverpool's kids still annoys me.
21 Mar 2025 20:32:13
Anna
I think it annoys all if us but all I would say is that he did get us to a cup final.
22 Mar 2025 09:06:58
That is EXACTLY my point Bill. He is a serial loser.
22 Mar 2025 10:47:02
And my point Anba is that at least he got us to one unlike another current coach I could name.
23 Mar 2025 07:57:16
So if he gets us to the conference league final and wins. Your going to rate him better than poch.
23 Mar 2025 08:39:22
If he beats the dog and duck in the final he will be up with De Matteo and Tuchel winning the champions league, I jest of course.
Don't forget, Tom's happy hammers even won this 3rd tier competition, a word I use very lightly in this instance.
23 Mar 2025 09:14:19
There were some happy hammers fans who played down winning the conference cup so it’s to be expected that a section of Chelsea fans would view it in the same way.
If we do win it, I see it as two things:-
(a) Winning a trophy can only be good thing for young side.
(b) This is a personal thing. I want our the club to be the only premiership to be able to say “we’ve won it all. ”
I didn’t want Poch sacked for obvious reasons but in my opinion he should never have been appointed for reasons I have given many times, one of which is some managers, for lots of reasons, they are just losers.
23 Mar 2025 09:25:22
Tom
Did you want Maresca to be appointed by us?
23 Mar 2025 10:59:54
Bill, EM was my third choice. By far and away my first choice was the Stuttgart manager and that was even when Slot was mentioned as a possibility. For the record my second choice was the Ipswich manager.
Also, I didn’t want Sarri, TT, Lamps (twice) or Poch but again for the same reason as always I didn’t want them sacked. Furthermore, I did want Potter.
23 Mar 2025 12:14:55
Fair shout for the Stuttgart coach Tom but not sure Mckenna like Maresca has the experience to manage a top team yet.
I also like the Bournemouth coach.
23 Mar 2025 13:07:11
Bill, you never find out who is a capable coach unless they are given the chance at some stage.
23 Mar 2025 14:56:10
What has the Bournemouth coach won? Or final he has got to.
Genuinely have no idea. Only really noticed him this season.
23 Mar 2025 17:38:55
As far as I know Cfc, nothing yet but I do like the way he sets his teams up and also the way the play.
23 Mar 2025 21:52:31
I didn’t want Tuchel to be sacked an I certainly didn’t want any of the ones since to be appointed. I am not really interested in giving coaches chances, they shouldn’t be appointed if they can’t deliver. Giving coaches chances has turned us into a mediocre team which doesn’t compete for trophies. That said, we are not likely to attract top level coaches without our set up.
Irola has done well at Bournemouth, he sets up the team well and given the limited resources and injuries he has done a great job. He certainly has an advantage over Maresca, he isn’t a miserable arrogant coach who has been appointed well above his level of competence.
24 Mar 2025 09:12:38
Totally agree Jimbo.
24 Mar 2025 10:00:18
Well Maresca guided us powerfully past Morecambe in the FA Cup before unluckily being hammered by the Seagulls in the very next round. In comparison Pochettino only got us to the semi-final of the same competition before losing to little known and unfancied Man City.
Yes Poch did badly to lose to Liverpool in the Carabao Cup final and was rightly criticised for nature of substitutions and not being able tio fdefeat an under strength and youthful LFC side (though in fact on average the CFC sude was younger) . In contrast Maresca masterminded a 5-0 thumping of Euro giants Barrow before quite understandably being felled in fourth round by the unbeatable Magpies who went on to win the entire competition and may still get the quadruple this season. um, er.
It's completely right to hate Poch as he should not have raised our expectations in what was a v difficult last season for the club by getting his far-worse-than-this-season - and without the further vast spend this last summer in transfers - injury hit squad so close to winning both competitions. Unforgivable!
Though to say that Poch is a serial loser is not quite right given he did win the league and French cup double with PSG. But then one could say I guess that this is similar to winning the Championship with Leicester?
24 Mar 2025 10:35:14
Enjoyed your post JBS.
24 Mar 2025 12:32:36
Unlike some, I didn’t want Poch because of his association to the spuds. To me he always seemed like a nice guy but tactically inept for big matches and I made that point before he joined not after the league cup final.
I have no idea if EM will be a success or failure as Chelsea manager but I want the owners to give him time in the same way I wanted Poch to given time and prove me wrong.
24 Mar 2025 13:15:51
But Tom, if the owners did not give Poxh time, why should they give LeicesyerMaresca time?
24 Mar 2025 15:00:04
Bill, I have no idea what parameters have been set for EM by the owners. I also have no idea why the owners decided to terminate Poch’s contract, maybe they thought he was a nice guy but inept coach.
The problem with not knowing what demands are made of our coaches is we are just left to guess the reasons. I do remember some pundits and posters suggesting the Poch sacking was more to do with the SD’s than the owners and another theory was the owners were split on sacking Poch. I really can’t see what difference it makes anyway. As I always say, The King is Dead Long Live the KING.
25 Mar 2025 16:08:52
I think Poch was also demanding some or more input over transfers and there was disagreement with SDs over their intentions here in terms of what would happen at the end of his first contracted year.
26 Mar 2025 13:32:45
We come up against so many low blocks. Touchel struggled trying to get us to break it down. As shown by the goal stats and chances created.
Poch struggled to get us producing against the low blocks again struggling to score goals and create chances.
EM at least at the start of the season was getting us to score more goals and if I am correct create the most chances other than Liverpool at one point. Now as I have said I don't like the tactics at the minute and we have dropped off with the stats for xg and all that jazz. So I am hoping he can bring that back out of the team.
If we get champs league and win conference league I would be happy for him to stay one more year. To see what the team grows into.
Is it correct no is it wrong no. But it's my opinion and been around long enough to know that it's not our turn.