Mauricio Pochettino says Blues ‘gave up’

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21 comments
  1. He’s right. The sooner Chelsea fans realise that Poch isn’t the issue, the better.

    Although it’s easier just to blame him and call for him to be sacked. And I hope they do sack him and then Chelsea get the replacement that they deserve and then they really fuck the whole organisation.

  2. He gave up when he put out that dogshit backline last night. What the actual fvck did he think was going to happen?

  3. I hope next season will be better for the blues

  4. Look. You can’t put out an entire squad of inexperienced players every single match without having a tactical structure in place and expect them to be successful. Poch doesn’t do “structure.” He believes players should have complete freedom within the game. You can’t do that with kids. They don’t have the discipline to know when to go and when not to, or with a completely new squad that has no clue how to play with each other.

    Couple that with his terrible team selections – take last night’s backline, which defies all defensive stats/metrics, as well as common sense – and always too late substitutions (a career-long criticism), and yes, Poch and his philosophy is certainly part of the problem.

  5. Do you think it’s a case of badly bought players? Besides Cole Palmer, has there been a good purchase since Todd Bohley arrived?

  6. I mean their salaries should ensure that giving up is not really an option right??

  7. I still remember my chelsea supporting friend showing me the r/chelseafc deadline day thread from January last year and how much Boehly was being worshipped. He told me there and then that it would only be a matter of months before the fanbase changed its tune completely, he saw through it. Absolutely glorious how tits up things have gone since then, feel for him though

  8. It’s not all on Poch, or the players, or ownership. It’s the whole thing, which is ownerships fault since they’re the ones who decided to blow up a winning formula. It’s baffling how the new owners saw what Abramovich had built and decided to keep **none** of it. If someone told me Todd Boehly in fact hates Chelsea and wants to destroy them from the inside there would be a compelling case.

  9. Possibly. Asking himself how things may have been different if Jackson actually attempted that header early on, or doesn’t overthink his one on one. But Arsenal were all over them.

  10. I really, really, hope he gets sacked soon. Just give him the Bayern treatment and announce you’re parting ways in the summer.

    Please don’t keep him for next season. He’s such a bad manager.

  11. That’s clearly a lie, they have to turn up before they can give up.

  12. You would think they learned after Graham Potter…didn’t they pay Brighton 13m sterling to approach him?

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