As is often the case you have written another fantastic article. Sorry I’m late to it. The crux of the matter is unless the ownership, take ownership (sorry for the pun) of the mistakes they made in respect to the sporting directors we’re not going to be able to move forward! I hundred percent agree with you that we should be doing whatever we can to entice Luis Campos and give him the power to run the football club in the correct manner. He has still yet to even engage on a new contract with PSG and seems committed to leaving and this is an opportunity we cannot afford to miss. We need to do it now so that he is engaged and involved in the summer transfer window.
Bravo! Agree with more or less everything in this piece.
The SDs have a major responsibility, possibly the main responsibility, for what's happened during this ownership to answer for (including the quality of some of the players they've recruited, ganging up on Poch and chucking him under the bus while managing to avoid an "annual review" of their own prformance by the owners last summer).
The only debate is whether to change boss again. Ideally we shouldn't have to, but persisting with a coach that's arguably not up to it at the top level, is like the definition of madness - "doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result".
I guess it's really just a matter of WHEN you pull the trigger rather than IF.
Youve reminded me of what I was saying last season about if Poche left, the new manager would face the same lack of support, the same squad issue and just be a whipping boy to excuse the SD's incompetence.
I do think the issue isnt just the SD's but Egbali as well and that is something a Luis Campo would have to deal with were he given the Director of Football position.
I cant see Egbali not meddling.
Maresca hasnt helped himself, tbh he has been dire with many decisions and shown himself to be Inflexible and the question for me is "Does Chelsea have the time to let him improve and become a Premiership quality manager let alone a Champions League winning manager?"
Don't agree unfortunately. No matter how bad the environment is Maresca should have done a lot better with this squad. There are some top players here and with a decent manager like Emery they would fly. Maresca's a chump, transforming Cole Palmer from a genius into his current state in less than a season and picking Sanchez in goal every week alone should be enough evidence for everyone that he needs to be shown the door asap.
Had a nice chuckle reading "The transfer flow".......Chelsea are probably not going to execute Jadon Sancho’s purchase option, on account of him looking a bit slow these days. Ukraine Bolt is still suspended after testing positive for a banned substance. You don’t need me to tell you that they’re going to buy a very silly amount of players this summer, but the one that they genuinely do need is a fast winger.
Enter 19-year-old Jesús Rodríguez of Real Betis. Chelsea have recently stepped up their interest in him, according to Simon Jones of the Daily Mail. And Rodríguez might have my favorite radar of any player we’ve looked at on this newsletter recently.
No shoot. No pass. Only run. 99th percentile dribble and carry OBV, 99th percentile fouls drawn. Hell yeah. Full article at https://archive.ph/nsya1
spot on! The hierarchy needs to change first and foremost. No decent coach will work under the 2 jumped up scouts. Every good coach will want a bit of a say in transfer decisions and wouldn't want half a dozen mediocre signings chucked at him every window.
As is often the case you have written another fantastic article. Sorry I’m late to it. The crux of the matter is unless the ownership, take ownership (sorry for the pun) of the mistakes they made in respect to the sporting directors we’re not going to be able to move forward! I hundred percent agree with you that we should be doing whatever we can to entice Luis Campos and give him the power to run the football club in the correct manner. He has still yet to even engage on a new contract with PSG and seems committed to leaving and this is an opportunity we cannot afford to miss. We need to do it now so that he is engaged and involved in the summer transfer window.
Bravo! Agree with more or less everything in this piece.
The SDs have a major responsibility, possibly the main responsibility, for what's happened during this ownership to answer for (including the quality of some of the players they've recruited, ganging up on Poch and chucking him under the bus while managing to avoid an "annual review" of their own prformance by the owners last summer).
The only debate is whether to change boss again. Ideally we shouldn't have to, but persisting with a coach that's arguably not up to it at the top level, is like the definition of madness - "doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result".
I guess it's really just a matter of WHEN you pull the trigger rather than IF.
Hi Score.
Youve reminded me of what I was saying last season about if Poche left, the new manager would face the same lack of support, the same squad issue and just be a whipping boy to excuse the SD's incompetence.
I do think the issue isnt just the SD's but Egbali as well and that is something a Luis Campo would have to deal with were he given the Director of Football position.
I cant see Egbali not meddling.
Maresca hasnt helped himself, tbh he has been dire with many decisions and shown himself to be Inflexible and the question for me is "Does Chelsea have the time to let him improve and become a Premiership quality manager let alone a Champions League winning manager?"
Don't agree unfortunately. No matter how bad the environment is Maresca should have done a lot better with this squad. There are some top players here and with a decent manager like Emery they would fly. Maresca's a chump, transforming Cole Palmer from a genius into his current state in less than a season and picking Sanchez in goal every week alone should be enough evidence for everyone that he needs to be shown the door asap.
Had a nice chuckle reading "The transfer flow".......Chelsea are probably not going to execute Jadon Sancho’s purchase option, on account of him looking a bit slow these days. Ukraine Bolt is still suspended after testing positive for a banned substance. You don’t need me to tell you that they’re going to buy a very silly amount of players this summer, but the one that they genuinely do need is a fast winger.
Enter 19-year-old Jesús Rodríguez of Real Betis. Chelsea have recently stepped up their interest in him, according to Simon Jones of the Daily Mail. And Rodríguez might have my favorite radar of any player we’ve looked at on this newsletter recently.
No shoot. No pass. Only run. 99th percentile dribble and carry OBV, 99th percentile fouls drawn. Hell yeah. Full article at https://archive.ph/nsya1
spot on! The hierarchy needs to change first and foremost. No decent coach will work under the 2 jumped up scouts. Every good coach will want a bit of a say in transfer decisions and wouldn't want half a dozen mediocre signings chucked at him every window.