06 Feb 2018 21:59:48
Massive clearance needed. Conte needs to play Ampadu regularly and use Hudson-Odoi more often. Young players will play their heart out if given the chance. The quicker Christensen is back the better.

The board should step back and reflect before making the decision to sack Antonio Conte. It is clear some of the players are not playing for him at the moment. However, we need to change our ways for the better of the club. This 'player power' issue needs to be eradicated. Also this stigma of 'sacking managers' as soon as the going gets tough needs to be removed permanently. Disgusting traits and uneccessary pressure for the coach. Us fans get carried away like most of us did yesterday but after all we are fans and the board should know more than us and be able to deal with matters better.

Carragher summed it up yesterday, liverpool can have 3 or 4 bad results in a row but there is never the talk of sacking the manager but Chelsea on the hand based on their history will sack the manager. Hence why this never happens to any other club but us, the media literally jump on it and wait for Chelsea to lose games in a row because putting pressure on a chelsea manager is always headline news. Same thing happened when we lost to Arsenal and Liverpool last year.

Whether or not Antonio Conte is the right man or not for the future isn't the point here. However, he was terrific last year and did play some really good stuff with the team at the start of the year. This is a learning curve for him and hopefully he learns from all the mistakes his made. You can't be a bad coach if you have won the premier league.

This is a perfect opportunity for the board to sort out the 'player power' issue and the 'sacking' stigma. History would usually dictate that Chelsea sack the manager and replace him with an interim manager. However this sends out the wrong message. Conte should be given time to address the decline and as a coach we cannot hear him say any longer that he made mistakes with the starting 11. He needs to play players that want to play for him and the fans and he should use Ampadu and Odoi more regularly. However, if he doesn't change after yesterdays mauling and continues to make mistakes by selecting Cahill, Baka etc then his sealing his own fate and should be disposed of.

I hope the board do the right thing as it would be for the better of the club for the long run. Every coach in the world will go through bad bad phases in life but we have to give them time to sort the issues out.


1.) 08 Feb 2018
08 Feb 2018 09:18:46
out of 30 points we can only muster 11 points! meaning in the last ten games played we only won 2 and lost 3 and drew 5. this is only usually good enough for a 15th placed team. it is not good enough for a Top 4 team, it is not only losing the last two games, the writing has been on the wall for a while now.