Chelsea is fundamentally an extremely dislikeable football club, organisation, institution, or whatever it's meant to be under Clearlake.
From top to bottom with very little in between, there's not much reason to hope or care.
Damac Chelsea >
I thought Chelsea weren't negotiating contracts mid-season?
So many things have to go right for the potential/best of the squad to shine through.
And so little has to go wrong for it to look completely ridiculous so much of the time.
The depth is muddled and mostly not great, so when subs/rotation happens, the team gets weaker.
That's just how this stuff works.
It's what Chelsea have become, pretty much deliberately.
And that's maybe the most annoying thing.
Rosenior makes mistakes cus this is what he is as a manager right now. That's exactly what Chelsea hired.
They have two goalkeepers with flaws (one with basically no major strengths either), so stuff like this happens with a coach experimenting with a squad mid-season.
No elite CB, you get issues.
The thing about Chelsea is that they are exactly where they should be.
They aren't underperforming on the pitch, this is just what you get when you hire a relatively inexperienced manager with a squad like this.
The coach will make mistakes and so will most players.
That's what #CFC have become.
It's been a while but I'll be coming back here more now.
Makes sense that the first post is about Jackson, though.
Thinking about how those who hated Nicolas Jackson for poor performances + attitude continue to defend Pedro Neto.
Pushing a ball boy, playing terribly, showing bad behaviour, getting sent off. It's all there. It's all the same.
One was outcast + blamed for everything. The other starts each week.
I'm now four editions into View from the Bridge.
We're almost up to 300 FREE subscribers, which is so cool after just two weeks.
Really enjoying putting these together.
As ever, feel free to check it out and leave some feedback!
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It's out on Tuesdays and Fridays at 7am with headline features, CFCW/academy updates, a picture of the week and 'on this day' section, as well as transfer latest (for the summer) and analysis part.
If you enjoy, please share and offer feedback! I'm totally open to anything around it.
For anyone that doesn't use the other place, I've started a new Chelsea newsletter.
Twice weekly and straight to your inbox, it's ad-less and totally free to sign up for.
No clickbait or ITK BS, just a comprehensive #CFC roundup.
2nd edition here:
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I have down:
-Main headlines (3-4 stories in a sentence or two)
-Transfer stuff that has actually happened, not rumours and noise
-Women/academy updates
-What fans/analysts are saying - and where to find other sources of CFC content
Would a nostalgia section and maybe 'event of the week' get you?
I want to keep it concise and without too much of my voice (because who really wants that?) but still an easy to read and informative service.
There's no clickbait, no BS, just providing something that fans can engage with and enjoy without getting lost in ITK reports and other crap.
Hello BlueSky, it's been a while.
I'm starting a new Chelsea newsletter and this place is much better for gauging fan responses than Twitter.
My plan is to create a twice-weekly, totally ad-free and free to read #CFC roundup.
What sort of thing would you be interested in?
Hey Bluesky fam 👋
New episode with @tomcoley49.bsky.social
-Through to the final
-Abysmal first half
-Better second half
-Player ratings
-Jackson sees red
-2 wins from 2 needed for UCL
-And more
pod.fo/e/2d3ed0
I did a fag packet version of this and came to very similar conclusions
Sell the obvious where possible, use Chalobah, buy a CB, bring back Santos+Petrovic, buy a winger+striker, academy for cover everywhere else (ISS especially). Add Essugo + Estevao
Three signings, cut the losses, use internal
The highest % of Brexit voters in the country, from major Tory to Reform. Such a grim area.
I hate where I am from.
What a backwards, completely warped and outright stupid place.
Pretty confident that the best thing to come from this today for Chelsea is going to be the Tyrique George chant becoming normalised.
Robert Sanchez played long vs Ipswich so he will be dropped, right?
www.football.london/chelsea-fc/n...
Fancy explaining what you disagree with first or...?
For me, coaching is about being adaptable. It's about getting the best from your players, not tying them down to your way of playing and then limiting them, it doesn't promote freedom, expression, creativity, or pushing boundaries.
It can raise the floor for some but hinders the best.
Maresca's plans for specific matches have largely been good and a lot more adaptable than I expected but struggling/being unwilling to change (and then being so open about it) when things are going wrong is completely damning.
Chelsea were good enough and more than engaging for 20 minutes against Ipswich but there's no surprise that trust erodes as soon as a goal is conceded given the last four months.
As for the tactics part...
The other place is worse than ever, so here's a piece on why Maresca was obviously wrong to fight back against Chelsea fans after drawing to Ipswich.
www.football.london/chelsea-fc/n...
I see a lot of 'if Chelsea had a ST to score Neto's crosses he'd have more assists' but A) I'm not sure that's actually true, and B) If that is the case then it's a massive squad building problem.
Felix and Neto were bad enough buys as inviduals, let alone in the context of the rest of the team.
Looking back on the other memories, it's nine years since Samuel Eto'o's hat-trick against Manchester United.
These sarcastic David Moyes posts now seem very genuine after the Tottenham result though!
Some timely Facebook memories today...
