That booing was shocking
Hilarious.
Chelsea 2017/18 thread - FA Cup Champs, League chumps
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik (@Rood) is joined by CEO Duncan Drasdo and Financial Director Andy Green from the Manchester United Supporters Trust for a special episode on all things behind the scenes at Old Trafford including a brief history of MUST and their aims today, views on INEOS and Sir Jim Ratcliffe so far, and the Old Trafford regeneration.
Hilarious.
I've always enjoyed Chelseas twitter and club website articles. The North Korean style of PRfecking pissed myself at Chelsea's official twitter timeline.
Folks, as sweet as it is, let's not get ahead of ourselves yet.
They had an appalling start last season as well.
They had an appalling start last season as well.
Yep then got thumped twice in succession by many goals
They started with 3 wins.
Last seen dodging a Rooney bullet. Unfortunately, he jumped right into the path of 3 Burnleh ones.
Law of averages it was gonna happen. Even to a poor team.
Well what do we define as a start? The first 3 games? The first game? The first 6 games?
Yes, then drew, and lost twice the next 3 games.
Can't wait for Conte post-match's rant. He is gonna be a fury.
I would say the first 15% (which is 6 games) is fair enough to consider a start.
Against Liverpool and Arsenal. Then they switched to that new formation and cruised it. Their bad start is limited to 2 early losses against Liverpool/Arsenal.
They're getting battered at home to Burnley (yes Burnley), it's hardly the same as losing to Liverpool in & Arsenal is it? Granted they're down to 10 men but they look a total mess.
Who were by no means impressive at that time, and drew Swansea too.
Point is, it's premature to take seriously a bad opening game. Let's see where they are (and us for that matter) after 5 games.
It's just one game, you can't really take anything away from it with absolute certainty.
They will improve. Expect them to make a number of signings now.
Let's just enjoy this.
Let's just enjoy this.
They lost to Bayern and inter in their Asian tournament and couldn't beat Arsenal last weekend either.
Yes it was funny for us but shocking for the first game of the season.
They will, but there is no doubting that there is big problems at that club at the moment. Starts with the fact Conte looks restless.
We said that in 2015/16. I dunno. There's evidence from back then that the Chelsea dressing room can just go. All is not well. Hazard is still making eyes at Madrid. Costa hates Conte. Yes, they have some top talent to come back into the team like Pedro. Still, the mood around Chelsea seems off. What with Conte complaining about signings and sales publicly. They've collapsed before, its not unthinkable that they might do the same again.
Somewhat controversial opinion, but I've been paying attention to Courtois over the past 6 months, and I genuinely believe he has regressed.
It's quite obvious as well.
He is adequate to good, but not top 3 and has never reached the heights Cech achieved while he was there.
It's quite obvious as well.
He is adequate to good, but not top 3 and has never reached the heights Cech achieved while he was there.
I agree. He was better at Atletico.
Ah yeah for sure.
lol
Absolute garbage from Chelsea.
They're away at Spurs next weekend, now without Cahill or Cesc.
Great start to avoiding a "Mourinho season".
When are Bakayoko and Pedro back? Would they be fit for Spurs?
Conte couldn't resist saying that, could he?
I don't think it's that controversial. He's never developed that commanding presence you'd have expected him to by now. Often makes the defence nervous by refusing to come off his line even when his defenders are screaming at him to do so.
Comeback showed a lot of heart. Not worried now, we've still got the fighting spirit. Shitty day, but we all have them sometimes.
Conte probably thought that he couldnt win anything more than he did last year and probably wont even win the league this year so he had been whining his way out of the club this whole preseason. Probably, he has eyes set on some new club to manage already. He is responsible also for the tension in the club and for the two stupid reds in this match today, he has very good players, they outplayed Burnley even with 9 men, Morata looks pretty good, why not build on it and be positive ? All I see is him whining his way out of the club. He's a very good coach, but when he feels he cant accomplish something, he aggravates the simplest of problems. He's done that before at Juve. His whining probably even exceeds Mourinho's at his last season with Chelsea. Didnt think anyone could do that, at least Mourinho was in deep sh*t, Conte started the breakdown even before the season started.
To be honest, all things considered they played quite well. It's their depth that is the real worry not the quality. They need Hazard back asap though.
To be fair we had Hazard, Bakayoko and Pedro out injured today, and we're still trying to bring in more players. I'm not too concerned just yet.
The thing is signings this late ain't easy and the Chelsea board is known for having their own view on the matters. They may make signings but may be not the players Conte wants/needs.
Hazard & Bakayoko when being back on paper would help but they didn't have pre season so expecting them hit the ground running is gambling too.
I just see the Bakayoko thing as bizarre, especially with how good Matic has looked for us.
Think Matic is still the better player and will be missed.
Can't for the life of me see why you let him go so early in the window knowing Bakayoko is injured and could flop being new to the PL.