Chelsea Banter Archive March 18 2019

18 Mar 2019 23:16:28
ed a report in daily mail today said fifa will give there response to chelseas appeal before summer window, so if still upheld we can have time to appeal to CAS any truth.

{Ed002's Note - Sort of. It is a case of FIFA hearing the appeals of The FA and Chelsea by the end of July, but preferably the end of June.}

19 Mar 2019 10:15:48
Hi Ed, would it be possible to expand upon what the side issue is?

{Ed002's Note - I would rather not.}

19 Mar 2019 14:27:25
Fair enough, I actually meant to post that in response to this:

{Ed002's Note - It is not really like that. Chelsea need to decide the best way forward but there is a side issue. }.

{Ed002's Note - OK

18 Mar 2019 19:55:19
alonso was bad yesterday he seems to have gotten his new contract and thought that will do
who knows what's going on in there personal lives but he just seems like he ain't bothered since he signed a new deal.

18 Mar 2019 20:40:54
He is just not playing well. Bringing any issues they may or may not be happening in his personal life is irrelevant and bonkers IMO.

Why must there be a reason fo poor form? It happens to all players!

18 Mar 2019 21:20:09
it was just a comment tom sometimes no one knows why players form drops and believe it or not it could be something nor related to football just personal circumstances it wasnt a justification just there humans like the rest of us and also if there crap there crap
i remember my uncle always took me to palace matches for years even though i support chelsea
there was a player called andy gray a really good midfielder for a few years and when his mum died he was pants for the rest of his career.
im going through a really tough time at minute and couldn't give to s1hits about my work go in and do bare minimum to survive
these players aren't machines they have lives outside football that's all i meant sorry may have put it wrong.

18 Mar 2019 21:27:10
He is just playing crap like a lot of other players, not worth speculating on why?

18 Mar 2019 21:46:03
ok because no one speculates on here i was speaking out of turn sorry.

18 Mar 2019 22:23:55
No problems with speculation Franco.

Hope your issues work out for you. Keep your chin up mate!

19 Mar 2019 08:29:10
He’s just not good enough defensively against the smaller teams he normally plays well attack wise but as soon as Everton pushed there wing backs on us we struggled for me Emerson has to play especially in them tougher games, he played against spuds and we was defensively sound. Sarri seems to be playing them the other way round. I get why CHO is not starting every week he needs time to develop but Loftus-cheek needs to be starting games now. The Kante position has been talked about time and again we all no he needs to be in his normal position and IMO Jorghino is out of position too he literally the slowest player we have, I think he should be in a more Eriksen like position and let Kante do the running.

18 Mar 2019 08:03:13
Biggest problem I have at the moment is that I didn't think we'd beat Wolves last week and I didn't think we'd beat Everton today.

I carry no confidence in Chelsea winning games at the moment.

I don't trust Sarri to win games with the current squad, due to them not fitting his system and his reluctance to change the system.

If the transfer ban stands, and he is unable to bring in players suited to his system, then he will simply have to go. We'll need someone who can make the most out of what they have. Sarri, for me, clearly isn't that type of manager.

18 Mar 2019 10:09:32
I think the players have limited confidence as well J.

No leadership on the pitch and some would say no leadership of the pitch.

IMO Sarri isn’t the only problem, there is a very long list of problems.

18 Mar 2019 15:24:34
I feel the same vs West Ham and all the other teams that fall in the same bracket. We simply can't finish teams off and we are desperately prone to any sort of counter attack. Every loss has been so predictable. Also why does conceding 1 goal break the back? What's happened to the fight?

I agree the current team simply cannot adjust to his tactics. As a manager he should be more inventive and change things and the fact that he doesn't will cost him his job in the end. Same old story every weekend.

I'm bang in the middle with Sarri. I know there are a lot of people that want him out and some that want him in. However, his stubbornness is slowly killing me as a fan. His substitutions beg to differ.

Out ticket to success this season is the Europa League. We just have to hope that we don't fact Napoli or Arsenal somehow.

18 Mar 2019 15:35:22
100% Sarri isn't the only problem. Sacking him and bringing a new manager would effect very little unless it was part of bigger changes.

18 Mar 2019 16:16:33
J, my real point is sacking Sarri may well be missing the target and IMO will NOT solve the fundamental issue that our last three managers have all raised.

It’s all to easy to blame the manager and think that sacking him alone will solve the problem.

18 Mar 2019 20:56:32
Well we won't face Arsenal or Napoli until the final if we get there. We have either Benfica or Frankfurt in the semi if we win our quarter final.

18 Mar 2019 08:01:36
Is he going to work out that RLC offers more than barkley or Kovacic anytime soon? It's getting embarrassing now! Some serious weaknesses in our team unfortunately. Azpilicueta is fastly becoming the worst RB in the prem! I don't think I've seen a player decline so quickly, Reece James HAS to play next year but no doubt we'll sell him because that's just what Chelsea do! How CHO isn't starting is baffling. Fingers crossed this man isn't in charge of us next season. Most boring I've seen is play for a long long time and he's so stubborn. I thought he'd turned the corner but unfortunately not. Out for me still.

18 Mar 2019 09:59:07
Nick, you have expressed reasonable views but I think we have to judge him at the end of the season.

Can I ask my fellow posters a question. if we qualify for the Champions League will have been a successful season?

18 Mar 2019 18:13:24
Yes if we qualify for Champion's League I would think it would 'successful enough' given circumstances, not least fact that strength of City and Liverpool this season meant winning it unlikely. And we were unlucky not to win Carabao League Cup and may well have qualified for Champions League by winning Europa Cup (ie a trophy)

18 Mar 2019 19:45:28
I agree JBS and that’s another reason why I think we should make any judgements at the end of the season.

18 Mar 2019 01:55:19
Regardless of current results the signings we’ve made over the last 3 years have mostly been failures. The scouting team and transfer committee I believe are mostly at fault for our current position.

Signings like Drinkwater, Bakayoko, Morata, Barkley, Jorginho, Zappacosta, Luiz, Emerson and more that are not coming to mind are not players that have improved the side. They’re not bad players and I support them but Ed002 said a couple months ago Roman still wants to win everything with Chelsea and with the signings of them players; there’s a lack of statement of intent.

I think the transfer committee needs a reshaping. Liverpool done it a few years ago and they went from signings like aqualani to Mane, Salah, Firmino, Van Dijk ect .

May be a naive view but from what I can see and my lack of knowledge of the club, that’s the reasoning for me.

Sorry for the long post.

18 Mar 2019 08:02:28
Well reasoned post Standard. I think there are lots of reasons for a recent poor form and some of our investments have been questionable.

18 Mar 2019 15:25:54
Good post Standard and probably the transfer issues had a lot to do with the fall out with Mourinho and Conte as both said after winning the title that the team needed strengthening to defend it and look what happened.

18 Mar 2019 16:18:47
And they both said something along the lines that the players attitude sucked.