Abysmal and disgusting in United defeat, This is NOT progress, What even is the culture at Chelsea? Will Mudryk and Nico Jackson make it at Chelsea?, Full news roundups, Much more...
The Chelsea FC Newsletter: Thursday 7th December 2023!
Morning all,
Ah man. I’m writing this on Wednesday evening and if you’ve seen my match debrief you will know that right now I am just angry and I have no clue what to say or what to think right now. Last night’s game has really put me on the edge now for this whole project and current situation. But as I said in the debrief, I’m sleeping on it and reflecting tomorrow (so today). I’ll do a bunch of articles on it all today when I’ve had time to reflect. But that was truly horrendous, disgusting, embarrassing, and absolute litter from everyone yesterday, manager and all. This is NOT a project. You can read my debrief here, but it’s not much of a ‘report’ - I was far too angry.
We had more articles today but in the event of the United game now being a tragic depression, they have unfortunately become irrelevant. But I’m sure most of you saw Luke Rushbrook’s pre-match article yesterday anyway.
Will Reyner was back for his weekly column for us and he honed in on Mykhailo Mudryk and Nicolas Jackson, simply asking, will they make it at Chelsea? Does Will rate them and have a belief in them? Find out his answers in here. This might be the only article other than the debrief that has stayed relevant after that shambles.
I did an article on Pochettino speaking about the winning culture at Chelsea before the game, but even that has now aged horrifically. Sigh, I’m tired.
I ran the live blog yesterday as usual here and you can read any Chelsea news that happened before the game in there. I couldn’t even face Pochettino’s post-match press conference after the game so I’ll round that up today.
Finally, this was supposed to be a really exciting Podcast announcement but Chelsea have ruined my mood so much that it’s just meh now. Well it’s not meh, because Macca is back, but yeah….
Who better to join myself and Jai tonight on the Podcast to fully review and dissect the United game and get their general feelings on Chelsea right now than the man, the myth, the legend, and one of the original Kings of SPTC, Dan ‘Macca’ McCarthy!!? Yes, Macca is back on the Pod this evening, and the show will be out around 6pm! BE THERE! I’ve been in a WhatsApp chat with Macca after the United game and he has A LOT to say, mainly about Poch! So you best tune in.
There, I did the whole exciting announcement anyway!
Live blog running as usual today from around 8am. See you all there if you’ve got any motivation to do anything Chelsea related today. I don’t, but I have to…
Peace, Si.
It's the first game that indicates to me that Poch isn't the right man for this team long term.
I had visions of 18/19 under Sarri yesterday. It's like we were the reincarnation of that 18/19 team.
Apart from that the fluctuation between games in terms of performances is something I don't see in other teams "projects" At least not to this extent IMO.
Something is off about the coaching in this squad that's just my opinion. I don't expect to be right but just my suspicion.
It hurts very much but we’ve seen flickers of light in patches so let’s not be too apocalyptic in our comments. KTBFFH! 💙