Conte is a quality manager and we’d be smart to give him time and the financial backing to build his vision. Odds are good that we will do neither, but I’d love to be proven wrong.
So you think he forgot how to manage in under a year? Seems unlikely. Some of it has to fall at the feet of the players as well. Of course, most of this is the board’s fault for fucking around during the window last summer.
I'm feeling the yellow for sure. 3rd is interesting, but we usually need those ~5 times per year. I would never buy a 3rd shirt for myself because they always end up looking pretty bad. The black and orange is the only recent exception.
I won’t argue that dropping 2 points to Huddersfield with UCL qualification in the balance is acceptable. That said, changing managers every 2 years is a vicious cycle that we need to break if we ever want any level of consistency.
Conte has done a solid job keeping the team in it. Would have been easy to pack it in after the home loss to Spurs. We should totally sack him. [emoji849]
Giroud has been playing his ass off. He definitely deserves to keep starting over Morata. FA cup final vs Mou. The press will be entertaining if nothing else.
When our good news is that our rich club was able to save $500k on a teenager, well......things are pretty bad.
I would love to let myself get excited about Ampadu, but I am just going to assume we never end up playing him and turn him for a profit in ~3 years like we seem to do with nearly every other young promising player in our system. Hopefully he ends up being another Christensen type of exception.
Morata had another howler today in a 1v1 vs the keeper. Luckily it didn’t cost us the three points, but I was never sold on him and he’s done nothing to change that opinion.
I knew better than to click this thread, but I did it any way. So fucking predictable. Every UT basketball thread turns into an unreadable flame fest between Derka and people that give him the attention he so badly wants by debating his asinine takes. It’s such a fucking beating and it sucks that there isn’t a place to discuss the team without the same person turning every thread into a fucking dumpster fire.
Morata is such a waste. He’s neither strong nor fast. His runs are decent but he lacks the physical traits needed to win battles against defenders. When his head is right, he’s a decent finisher but that’s the nicest thing I can say about him. Losing Lukaku and settling for Morata combined with the decision to buy Bakayoko as a replacement for Matic are two of the largest mistakes that tanked our season.
FIFA has been optimized for HDR and 4K. Looks incredible. I’ve also played COD WW2 and that looks ridiculous too. If you’ve got the TV to take advantage of it, it’s hard to go wrong in all honesty.
They need to go ahead and sell off Courtois and Hazard. Both guys seem destined to leave for bigger clubs anyway, and it’s hard to blame them for wanting to stick by a club that’s as poorly run as Chelsea. I’d love to say that they could reinvest those dollars into a whole new core of the club, but the board will probably pocket profit or piss it away on the wrong players.