Morning all,

Corrr we’ve had a right old week haven’t we? It’s been a madness.

Liam Rosenior has gone, and Callum McFarlane leads us into the Leeds game this weekend. More protest plans for the game at Wembley with a Blueco out van going around. Not good. But anyways, lets hope for the best and hope for a final to look forward to at least.

Chelsea fans have well and truly had enough with this club under these owners - many of us are holding on by a thread, even those who have always been so positive up until this point.

I’ve got ALL the exclusive insider info on Liam Rosenior being sacked and what happens next. Names of new candidates in here.

Just imagine consistently performing badly in your job but then being backed by your manager, given a contract extension, and a pay rise. Imagine. That’s what’s happening at our beloved club right now. But yeah, let’s just keep blaming managers instead eh? Words here.

John Terry should have been handed the interim head coach role without any doubts at all, or at least put on the staff with Callum. But no, the club are dead against that, and it’s absolutely disgraceful how our legend is being treated. Words here.

The Score has also hit rock bottom supporting this club. You can get his latest words here detailing the sad state of affairs right now.

Round up all your latest general Chelsea news from across the last 24 hours in the same place here.

Anyways, we do have a game this weekend so Up The Chels as always! I’ll have the Live Discussion Thread going on the app, and I will be on the site on Sunday with my latest set of articles, bound to have more exclusives for you with everything going on!

Peace, Si.

I don’t care what their reasons or excuses are, and I’m sure they’ll have some crappy excuses for it. But the fact John Terry continues to be ignored by the club is an absolute disgrace and pure farc…

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This is as low as I’ve ever been as a Chelsea fan. I seem to be saying that a lot recently, but the Brighton game was a new low. I’ve been a fan since the late 80s, so to say that really means something

I know fans disagree on various issues right now, and even people on this site I know disagree with me on some things, which is totally fair, we all have different perspectives. But for me, honestly, right now its not about who was right or wrong all along, or whether we disagree on certain things, because I think every fan agrees what we’re seeing right now is an utter disgrace.

We can disagree why or about various semantics, but the bottom line is I’m absolutely furious and I think every Chelsea fan will be, and we have an absolute right to be.

What’s happening with the men’s team especially right now is an absolute disgrace from top to bottom, and I think everyone agrees on that.

Bad recruitment, bad decisions, bad appointments, a lack of accountability, disconnect with the fans. It’s all horrible.

Liam Rosenior has gone, but that’s not enough. He was a symptom of the problems, not the deeper problem itself. There needs to be wider change.

For starters, the Sporting Directors, Paul Winstanley & Laurence Stewart, need to go. They built this mess of a squad, and its their mentality of never taking responsibility which has seeped down into it. After three and a half years in their roles, we have one Champions League qualification out of their three full seasons, and two relatively minor trophies despite spending £1.6 billion, coupled with this season’s disaster, there have to be consequences. They cannot be in charge of the appointment of the next head coach or this summer’s recruitment.

Liam Rosenior should never have been offered the Chelsea job. It was way too early in his career, he wasn’t ready, and was out of depth. He may be a talented coach, and I feel a degree of sympathy with the fact he came into the job in a tough situation.

However I have to say, he was was arguably the worst Chelsea manager I’ve seen in my lifetime, certainly for 35 years. The ownership too, absolutely need to own up to their part in this and make radical changes in terms of strategy, recruitment and structure, it simply cannot go on like this.

The players aren’t innocent here either. I know they’ve played a LOT of football in the last two years, and frankly they’re on fumes right now, mentally and physically. But that’s no excuse for recent performances, where they seem to have just downed tools and given up. There’s been total lack of effort, a lack of pride, no fight, no spirit, no work ethic. That’s totally unacceptable.

Every single of one of those players should be ashamed of themselves. Even if they’re totally fatigued and worn out, even if the coach isn’t great, even if they want to leave or don’t like the ownership, players should still be professional and make an effort. This is an absolute non negotiable for me, at all times.

Players should still fight for the shirt. They should still put in 100% every minute of every game, and show some pride in the shirt, and just as professional footballers. I’ve not seen that for a while, and all I hear from players in interviews is pathetic excuses and trying to pass the buck, as if they’re innocent victims in all this. No, they’re not, they’re part of it, and this attitude is in part a result of this toxic culture which has been created by the people above them.

Everyone involved in the men’s side is culpable here. Ownership, sporting directors, coaching staff and players. Its an absolute disgrace to the badge. So many fans feel completely disconnected, many long term ones too. My dad’s been a fan since the 1950’s, even he feels disconnected right now. When that kind of thing is happening, its a huge red flag.

I’ll be honest, although I rate a fair amount of players in our current squad, the only players I feel a real connection to right now are Reece James, Levi Colwill, and maybe Moises Caicedo. They get what Chelsea means, they understand the responsibility, respect the fans and almost always give their all (when fit). Estevao and Jarrol Hato haven’t yet been corrupted by the toxic culture and have generally shown up when its been tough in recent games.

I’d quite happily see half this squad sold, if I’m honest. Instead of whining and agitating to leave, maybe some of them should look at themselves and their recent performances. Because big clubs watching them won’t be impressed with their attitude to dealing with conflict, or their performance levels.

I’d genuinely rather have a squad who all fight for the shirt and care about the club, and want to be here, finishing 6th every year and winning some cups, than have a bunch of players who think they’re better than they actually are, and are ready to leave at the first sign of trouble.

We had a good season last year, top 4 and two trophies, and some want to leave after one really poor season, which they have been a part of? Nah, that’s not it for me. They can go, absolutely spineless.

Truth is everyone involved needs to take a long hard look in the mirror. No one is exempt. Because what I’m seeing, isn’t Chelsea Football Club. The lack of fight, the excuses, hiring poor unproven managers, having people running the football side who aren’t best in class, a lack of understanding of what this club means, disrespecting fans, its all horrible.

Then there’s the amount we’ve spent. Chelsea’s net spend is £850m under this ownership (£1.6b overall), but even for that money, to have this run of results and be 7th in the Premier League over three years in, is simply unacceptable. The Sporting Directors positions are, to me, simply untenable.

It truly was a dark day for the club against Brighton, because it wasn’t Chelsea anymore, from anyone representing our club.

The away fans, again, huge respect to them, travelling down midweek, showing up to watch that crap. Then staying to the end, and letting the players and club know how they feel. They do us proud, they keep going and cheering us on even when its awful.

Suffice to say, as we all know, big changes are needed. Sporting directors, head coach, squad, and a big cultural reset too. There’s simply not a choice here, that has to happen. I think a public apology from all concerned is in order too. Admit they got it wildly wrong, commit to change and then actually do it.

Do I think this will happen? No idea to be honest. But it certainly cannot go on like this any more, this isn’t Chelsea.

As fans said last night, we want our Chelsea back.

The Score

I was not surprised at all to hear that Chelsea are still …

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Chelsea officially sacked Liam Rosenior yesterday as expected, and also as reported, Callum McFarlane has taken charge as interim manager until the end of the season.

Chelsea will appoint a new permanent manager in the summer, and the work has begun on this now.

The club already had a shortlist of manager names that they like, and they will soon start making contact for many of the names on this list and arrange interviews.

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See you all Sunday! Have a great weekend all. Any news I do get given between now and then will go out on the Substack App chat section only. UTC!

18.10pm - Enzo F and Cucurel…

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Morning all,

Hope you’re well. Very fun to be a Chelsea fan right now eh?

I didn’t miss much yesterday did I? Obviously Wednesday’s I have my boy, and it was the WORST time this week as it literally went crazy. Liam Rosenior was sacked, and I’ll have a sourced article out this morning on replacements and also some stuff on what happened and what went on. I did my best to get stuff out yesterday regardless, and actually had all of the exclusive drops before anyone else as the news was coming in.

This article was written early on Wednesday morning at 9am, and it pretty much told us everything that was about to happen throughout the day as exclusives!! Check it here.

Round up all your latest Chelsea news in general from across the last 24 hours in the same place here. This covers all the stories and the Rosenior news as it came in.

I also had an exclusive article out on outgoing midfielder situations for the summer window. Manchester United keen on Andrey Santos. Romeo Lavia could go. Much more here.

Chelsea were outrun by Brighton on Tuesday night just as they have been in every game so far this season. This is THE biggest on field issue right now. I dissect all of that here and prove why Trevoh Chalobah’s comments were wrong.

I’m well and truly sick to death of Chelsea FC right now. Or rather I’m sick to death of what Blueco are doing to Chelsea FC, my beloved club. Some words from me on all of that here.

See you all on the next live blog around 8.45am today on the home page.

Peace, Si.

Amongst all the madness that is going on out there right now around our club, the summer transfer window is still approaching us.

So as I do on this site, it’s business as usual in terms of reporting on transfers. Because no matter who our manager is, the plans and targets will pretty much stay the same.

As I reported last week, there are some midfield situations that could happen this summer. We could see as many as three new names arrive in the midfield positions this summer, and as many as three (or more) depart.

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Football can be SO simple. Forget tactics, forget quality, forget managers. Football games can be won on aesthetics alone. It’s literally been proven time and time again.

Obviously I am not saying tha…

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The worst part of this current situation is that it’s impossible for me to walk away from it. I could never stop supporting Chelsea. It’s literally impossible for me to do so even if I wanted to. The…

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You will all be fully aware of this, but this article is written at 7am on Wednesday morning UK time, and published at 9am. So, things with this can change VERY fast.

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Andoni Iraola is a leading candidate to become the next Chelsea boss. TalkSPORT understands Iraola is the leading candid…

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Morning all,

Chelsea were in action last night away to Brighton in the Premier League, and what an absolutely abysmal and disgusting performance it was. I’ll have something out soon on whether Liam Rosenior will be sacked or not, but he needs to be, so do the SDs. So do the owners, but we can’t sack them unfortunately.

You can grab my full thoughts, debrief, reactions, and conclusion here.

I also rounded up all the latest general Chelsea news from across the last 24 hours in the same place here.

And then as well as that, I had not one, not two, but THREE exclusive transfer articles out for you all yesterday that would have gone to your emails anyway.

But in case you missed it. I had news on a new transfer target for the summer that will excite Chelsea fans - Iliman Ndiaye from Everton! Get that full story here.

And then came the outgoing news. I have got LOADS of news in these two articles on a bunch of players including Joao Pedro, Pedro Neto, Josh Acheampong, Alejandro Garnacho, Liam Delap, Wesley Fofana, and more! Get the drop on defenders first here.

And then head to the attackers section here.

See you all on the next live blog from around 8.45am today on the home page. I’ll have the sourced article on midfielder outgoings out later today!

Peace, Si.

Debrief

The worst 45 minutes (first half) I’ve seen Chelsea play since the Frank Lampard interim stint when 75% of the players were leaving in that summer. It’s no coincidence that I watch a similar p…

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As we all know, it could be a very busy summer transfer window for Chelsea in the coming months.

They are basically looking at every position on the pitch again, and we know there is going to be a defensive reshuffle as priority.

There are quite a few defenders who could leave the club this summer, and we have a round up of significant news on some of them below….

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We’ve got plenty of transfer updates out today on the site, with this being the second of our third summer transfer window sourced article out.

There are many possible movements and big changes we could see in the squad this summer, and the winger/attacker positions is some we could see some reshuffles in.

We all know the story around Alejandro Garnacho now. As we exclusively revealed on this site, Chelsea are open to selling him this summer.

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As we approach the summer transfer window, Chelsea fans will be wondering what is in store for them after hearing so much about the club now targeting proven additions and a bit more experience.

This next potential transfer target would certainly tick those boxes and also, he is a player who is on most Chelsea fans want-lists [he was on mine] for the summer.

Well, he is also on Chelsea’s, we can reveal….

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Signing off here now. Live Discussion Thread is up on the Substack App, and I’ll have my match report out soon after the final whistle tonight.

UTC!

18.30pm - Bit of early team n…

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Morning all,

Hope you’ve had a good start to your week.

Chelsea play away to Brighton tonight, and Brighton are just ONE point behind us in the league right now. In fact, we are closer to 14th place in the Premier League than we are to 5th place. Just deep that and read all about it here.

Obviously Liam Rosenior is well out of his depth as Chelsea manager and should have already been given his marching orders. But the main problem is above him, those who hired him. Read about that here.

I read a mostly fair assessment on Chelsea’s issues yesterday, although the author did ruin it with a bit at the end. But mostly, a lot of this in here is pretty fair.

With all our problems right now, Chelsea players will be asking their agents to get them moves away from the club this summer. And that’s not me reporting it this time, that is Joe Cole telling us this will absolutely be happening. We all know it will be. Read all about that here.

We had a Podcast out yesterday, I’ve always wanted to have my Dad and my cousin on the show! They’re both big Chelsea fans! So we did it here! It was great fun!

And as always, round up all your latest Chelsea news in general from across the last 24 hours in the same place here.

See you all on the next live blog from around 8.45am today.

Peace, Si.

You see a lot of extremism, a lot of emotions [from me sometimes], and a lot of analysis that might not always be entirely accurate. But when looking into the current state of Chelsea Football Club r…

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