ChelseaBoy

That was a better display than our local council puts on !!!!!

It's not often that Chelsea do anything easily.

Yep, he has done remarkably well with some of the players who downed tools for Lampard and like SG at Gers his own tactical nouce has mad Chelsea harder to beat, which is always a good starting point. If he can emulate DiMatteo and win the FA Cup and CL he will become a legend at the Bridge. Hopefully the powers that be will give him more time than Roberto.

Yes ownership of football on the whole is seen as either a status symbol, a way to refinance debt or an opportunity to graft some cash, legally or not - there are exceptions but as Bury FC and Portsmouth before them to name just two of the many would testify, the size of the club is nothing compared to some of the owners egos, greed or incompetence... or all three.

Stop trying to improve Spurs, I like them just the way they are.

Not when they have had Voldemort running them for the last 20 years!!!

That's the million dollar question that most supporters ask. Try asking Everton who have been trying for years.

Agree, and unlike the Glaziers, Abramovich has at least used his own funds without leveraging debt on the club. One of the Interesting stats I noticed in a recent review of those ESL clubs, Chelsea was the only one of the twelve in the black. Also steps have been made to balance the books, hence the £130m for Hazard was used to buy most of the players bought last year, plus the emergence of Mount, James, Hudson Odoi, Gilmour, Christiansen, Abraham and Gallagher all coming through the youth team. It's not perfect but its is neither owned by a country or American franchisee and being milked. Then again, Mike Ashby has been doing that quite successfully at Newcastle and don't get me started on Gold/Sulivan at the spanners or Lewis/ Levy at the Spuds. Is there any modern template of a decent owner?

No so sod off

Wow that was tense, Derby hang on at 3-3, though at HT they were down!!!

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Never underestimate the stupidity of UEFA, as these where the clowns that sent Chelsea and Arsenal to Baku where hardly anyone could get to. But well done the Blue boys.

I'd say Wycombe, Rotherham and hopefully Derby.

City have been strong all season, but it has been puntuated with strange losses/performances, like the one at Old Trafford, Leeds and Spurs and in the FA Cup Semi - they are prone to a failure, especially against sides that can keep it tight then break with speed. And yes i am hoping for that if Chelsea get there!

Bloody Brilliant

Well they sat around on their arses while protestors pulled down statues and defaced the Cenotaph last summer - why should we expect anything else from the PC Police.

I was thinking that, he would be a good fit if he could get a run of games. Also what about Drinkwater, if he can find his Leicester form he would be a nugget in midfield and probably get for a good price?

Steady. Tuchel liked to play with two strikers in Germany so will be looking for another to play just in front or around Werner next year with Havertz and Mount both in for some games, or Kante and Kovicic the defensive wall in others. He likes to change the team quite often depending on the opposition so the current squad with a couple of additions and 4 or 5 leaving from those on fringe or on loan, Kepa, Alonso, Giroud, Bakayoko, Moses, Drinkwater, Barclay, Batshyuiyi and Loftus Cheek. It may mean that Connor Gallagher comes back from WBA where he has starrred, and Sarr comes back from Porto. I think Chelsea's priorities will be a keeper, and striker.

Yup. I dont think he has the strikers he wants. He dosen't like tall slower in box strikers so Giroud and Abraham may not be around next year.

They did the same when Arsenal and Chelsea had to play in Baku. UEFA are just as bad as the ESL oranisers, corrupt and totally ambivilant towards fans.

Not sure that is a go'er for the same reasons put up by the EPL opponents of the ESL, in that the fans of Ajax, Anderlecht etc, would want to play their local rivals such as Feynoord and PSV Einhoven or Brugge and not want to play Porto or Benfica instead. Being quite tribal fans love to play their rivals for the same city or north vs south and in the EFL the games between any of the Welsh clubs and English clubs have great atmosphere having once been to a Cardiff v Millwall game - and yes i did make it out with all limbs !!!

Agree, Can you imagine David Sullivan and the Gold brothers turning down an invitation for West Ham to play in any ESL? No neither can I. It's the same with Leeds owners and probably half of the 14 that were so outraged not to be asked and now want the other 6 punished.... again to help their own cause not for the good of football. I am agaisnt a closed shop, but UEFA/FIFA have been proven to be corrupt so will not take any lessons from either. It is a moot point about any clubs moving South and I would have thought it will come to a head if there was a vote for Independence. Then the decision is whether you want to continue in a league operating outside of the UK?

Iterative improvement year on year and honest endevour is something good to aim for after the mess of the last 5-7 years.

And that comes down to money to attract the better players while producing quality youngsters around them. But it isn't easy. They have messed about with the structure many times over the last 10 years, but has anything really improved or actually gone backwards? Certainly Aberdeen, Hearts and Hibs have all gone backwards leaving Gers and that other lot as the only two possible SPL winners. But that in itself does not make a weak league as it;s the same in many European leagues, Portugal with Benfica or Porto, Spain with Barca and Real (occaisionally with Athletic but usually not) Germany largely Bayern, France, PSG and Italy with Juve or the two Milan sides - across Europe their isn't many leagues except the EPL that has 4 or 5 candidates for the title. How do you improve the Scottish League to make it more competative and attract more investment?

Humorous look at the weeks ESL fiasco and the other benign influences stalking football today. https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/04/22/why-i-have-finally-stopped-watching-football/ Must admit, during an Ashes series or other test match series I am so glad of a break from football and all it has become.