10 Dec 2025 09:57:39
Pedro to EM, bossing scored and although you put on 27 defenders, we still lost.
EM to Pedro, I said to thecm Atlanta coach, we will score first and you won't score as we will have so many defenders.
Pedro to EM, but you also had Garnacho playing.
EM to Pedro, who?
Pedro to EM, why did you not play Palmer and Estavo?
EM to Pedro, I did not want to disturb them, they are happy on the bench, nice and warm, playing their games on the phone.
Pedro to EM
So what is your team for Saturday?
EM to Pedro, well you need a rest so I was thinking about paying Sanchez as the main CF, putting Estavo in goal, playing Cucurella and Chabs on the wings, Guiu, Neto and Garnacho can play at the back, just trying to rotate the system. Maybe at last I will be sacked and will get my compensation just like my compatriot, Antonio Conte.
10 Dec 2025 10:47:28
Bill, very good. I have an idea let’s play Delap in a sling and Colwill in a plaster cast.
This anti rotation thing is a constant joke.
10 Dec 2025 12:42:52
Tom,
The point i made was after everyone is 'fit', not at this present time.
The only joke is the rotation.
10 Dec 2025 15:05:07
Bill, we are fans. We are not fitness coaches or doctors. We have zero idea how a player is judged to be fit to play or how long a rehab process for every type of injury takes.
On top of all those issue we have suspensions.
No manager is going to satisfy every fan on team selection (fit or not) anyway.
The truth is you want him sacked and whatever he does is wrong.
10 Dec 2025 15:19:35
Yet you keep mentioning these so called injuries.
We have 2 "first team players injuried" lavia and delap. Neither have played more than probably 30 games for us.
10 Dec 2025 15:35:14
Tom
I have already said that Maresca will be with us until the end of the season, that does and should stop me complaining about the ricidilous amount of rotation game in, game out. It also does not stop me from moaning about the sure football we are playing.
If Maresca stopped his massive rotation every game and played attractive football, I would back him, no problem.
Happy for you to be bored if you so wish, as I have previously said, everybody is entitled to their own opinion.
10 Dec 2025 17:30:00
Bill, I’m never happy when play badly or lose but I don’t want us playing well and lose that’s for sure. If some fans are happy with that so be it but I promise you there will be a huge amount of fans who will moan about losing and playing so called pretty football.
We saw what happened big Ange and how the fans turned on him when he employed his bonkers tactics.
10 Dec 2025 17:58:23
Every team rotates reason clubs buy more players for squad dept but maresca is over doing it. Not convinced about delap however. Maresca must have a starting 11 and stop this rotation madness. I might be anti maresca if he jokingly fail to qualify for the next stage in the ucl . The club should be ashamed of themselves for spending so much without addressing key areas like the striker, and defence. I like maresca but he must understand he's Chelsea manager who are spoilt with winninigs. Occasionally we.
10 Dec 2025 18:21:51
Tusole, you are correct every team rotates. Teams who are not in European competition rotate. Teams who did play in the CWC rotate.
Delap wouldn’t have been my choice but I am reluctant to give an opinion on him as a player until I’ve seen him play on a regular basis.
10 Dec 2025 19:43:05
chelsea forever
The Colwill injury and Palmer injury still not yet fit have had a bigger impact than that of Lavia and Delap although I see them both as top players in the near future if they can stay clear of injuries
Think i read somewhere that we were second or third on the days lost to injury list but agree that Maresca sometimes doesn't help himself with changes to the back 3 or 4.
10 Dec 2025 22:04:04
It’s also about managing player who had long term injury issues, like Fofana and James.
It’s injuries, suspensions and the amount of games played, particularly if your club is in a European competition.
Rotation isn’t an excuse, in my opinion it’s a necessity.
11 Dec 2025 08:44:47
TOM agree with all of that,
the fixture list is going to get so congested if we get to the semis of the League cup and have to play in the CL playoffs Jan and Feb become packed with fixtures.