04 Jan 2025 20:48:35
I no its tough without the Legend Ed 02, but can any of the Ed, s provide us with any sort of potential ins and outs in January,
I get the feeling enzo does not trust felix, nkuku or dewsbury hall are they likely to leave?
We look so light in midfield and defensively due to badishille and disasi been absoulotely terrible and viega nit PL standard and lavia been injury prone
My question is why waste more money on dross and just bring back santos and chalobah?
Thanks for any response
This side is now under pressure so is maresca let's see how he reacts to this terrible run wev started.
{Ed001's Note - I don't know much sorry, though Maresca did not want Felix in the first place and fought hard to get Dewsbury-Hall, so I would be surprised if the latter leaves, though not so surprised if Felix left.}
04 Jan 2025 21:20:48
What I don't get ED001, if Maresca wanted KDH, why does he not play him.
{Ed001's Note - probably because he is not as good as the other options.}
04 Jan 2025 22:29:34
Surely Maresca should have known if he was not as good as the other players. If not why do you think this was not the case.
05 Jan 2025 08:46:28
Bill, KDB was bought in the summer window. The manager would have been assessing all the players plus using his knowledge of this particular player’s performances when he was manager of Leicester.
KDB performed really well for the manager in Leicester’s promotion season. Sadly KDH hasn’t played well so far in his Chelsea career, although there were some small signs of improvement pre his injury.
I will not be righting him off just yet but then I never do until they have played a season at least for our club.
Felix is different as I couldn’t work out why we wanted to sign him given we had him on loan before and he didn’t pull up any trees in the premiership. There are rumours of the player leaving in this window, apparently to Benfica.
05 Jan 2025 09:36:50
Tom
Apparently for Maresca's interview he apparently threw down a booklet on the players and went through each one with the SD's so the question is if he was so knowledgeable of the players during the meetings, why did he not know there were better than KDH.
JF, don't get me started on that one, I would put that down to the DD's but in some people's eyes they can do mo wrong.
As you know Maresca would be nowhere near the club if it was my choice, but hopefully I'm wrong on that one, time will tell but it's not looking good at the moment.
05 Jan 2025 10:17:43
Bill, saying EM “threw a booklet down” sounds very dramatic but to me it just shows he did his homework on the squad.
We had a player on loan at Leicester last season, so got that reason I watched a lot of there early season matches, KDH was the stand out player in there team and would say he was one of the best players in that division. EM obviously rates him but he hasn’t played well so far in his Chelsea career. Cucarella had a shocking first season so I’m happy to trust the manager and give the player some more time.
EM, was my third choice to become our manager but I have been pleasantly surprised. We are 4th in the league and that’s about what I expected. I can’t see the point in making a Judgement on his managerial abilities until the end of the season. As much as the results haven’t been good over the last few games most fans were happy prior to this slump.
I’ve also been happy enough with the way we played over the last few games despite the results but as I’ve said I’m not happy with our game management.
05 Jan 2025 10:55:37
As I said Tom
Maresca would be nowhere near our club if it was my choice however I did also say that I hope I'm wrong and that tine will tell.
While he is here he is our coach but that does not mean I need to think he us a hold coach and the right one for our club.
Of course, it's just my opinion.
05 Jan 2025 11:38:33
Bill, I didn’t think Sarri, Conte, Lamps, TT or Poch should have been our manager. I did think Potter was the right choice, so what do I know!
When we appointed them they all got my support but when I felt it necessary my criticism but let’s look at this season in the round and I think most fans will be satisfied with the progress being made by the team.
05 Jan 2025 12:56:27
Let's see where, we are at the end of the season.
I for one would not know who could replace Maresca as there is a dearth of good coaches, and coaching in the premiership is a other dimension entirely.
05 Jan 2025 15:47:06
Most corporations have succession plans in place but I find it hard to believe they are contemplating replacing EM.
07 Jan 2025 12:59:59
We forget that Maresca really doesn't have much managerial experience. We never should have bought Dewsbeury-Hall.