They’ve been a very good home side but struggle a bit on the road but looking at that not if the road is the Kings Road.
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Further proof of massive refereeing inconstistencies with Caicedos yellow card yesterday.
If Curtis Jones’ was a red, that was 2 reds all day long.
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Yep one that actually plays the ball gets a red!
Just unfathomable IMO
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I thought Chelsea were turning a bit of a corner, that they might start building up momentum and maybe even get on the edge of the top four race. And then they laid another egg against Brentford. Hard to know what to think.
I expected Poch to fashion a team out of the vast collection of players, but it continues to stumble along.
Think he made a bad career move going to PSG and going to Chelsea was more of the same, except he isn’t guaranteed a trophy like he was at his last job.
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Someone who works well shaping a side, different managers fit different setups.
Chelsea is just stupidity at the moment. Like their buying was absolute whack. I look at our spending and I think yeah it all makes sense perhaps a CB should have been bought.
There one is like oh let’s buy about 4 players for one area and then leave another to subs. Their goalie situation is baffling.
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Even with a top coach you cannot throw that many new players together and expect something coherent out of them. Especially not when so many of them are so young and inexperienced. One of the underappreciated aspects of Klopp’s success was how thoroughly he turned over the squad he inherited - the CL final in 2018 he started with 7 new players. The following year it was 9. Yet he still did that with a sense of continuity year on year.
I think of all the mistakes the various Americans make when trying to “solve” football, it’s misunderstanding that.
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While I think the win over Spurs was not quite as good as it looks on paper, taken with this draw versus Citeh I would have to say Pochettino has got past his shaky start. Spurs weren’t as good as their record, but Chelsea now has taken points two of the top 4 teams inside a week. It won’t take much of that to start moving them up the table.
Matches versus Toon and ManU in their next three, so it is very much going to be time to find out who isn’t wearing any pants.
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Only issue is they’ve been very good in the big games.
When they play teams further down they look awful, so I wouldn’t yet say it’s turned the corner.
Spurs was a bit well lucky.
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I’d have to check but I think that Man City won at Stamford Bridge in every season they won the title under Guardiola, so I’ll take this as omen. That said, we also tend to win at Stamford Bridge whenever we win the PL title and we didn’t do it this season, so…
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I can only assume you are saying that for a laugh knowing that we’ve only won the PL title once 
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It’s United’s, isn’t it?
My PTSD sets in and my neck starts twitching just by reading this…
Good on them, and congrats to Thomas Frank
VAR going above and beyond to make sure the penalty stood for Abu Dhabi.
After doing everything in their power to help the Saudis win against Arsenal, their agenda becomes more and more vile as the weeks go by.
Yeah, as if the two PL titles they literally took away from us and gifted to Man City weren’t enough.
I AM SHOCKED. (not)
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That’s good to see. I also think they are going to get sanctioned for their spending this summer too. Because there was something very fishy about how that went down.
They spent all summer pissing about with the fee for Caicedo, despite Brighton making it clear that they were not selling for less than £100m. There was a suggestion that they were struggling with their FFP limits.
When Liverpool won Brighton’s auction with a very specific £114m bid, Mel Reddy (I think reported) that Liverpool’s bid was based on a calculation of what Chelsea could afford without breaking their FFP limits.
Then after all this Chelsea went to 115m for him, and also - in a bit of a shock move - then bought Lavia and tried to buy Eze.
It’s like the club made a strategic decision that if they were going to get done for breaching to get Caicedo, that might as well get it all done in one summer.
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