Let's All Laugh At... Let's all laugh at Chelsea thread

[ItsBoris]

So stupid, imo Tuchel is in a different league to Potter

It'll be similar to our appointment of Nuno, won't last long

 

[chas vs dave]

5 year deal. Nice payday when his eventual sacking occurs.

 

[Rout-Ledge]

It’s a risky appointment for sure.

 

[Harrier]

5 year deal. Nice payday when his eventual sacking occurs.

Yep it either indicates he’ll be given time or they’re not afraid of a sodding great compo pay off.

 

[chas vs dave]

Yep it either indicates he’ll be given time or they’re not afraid of a sodding great compo pay off.

Chelsea never give managers time. I doubt that has changed. He is going to have to get used to having no influence over signings

 

[Tucker]

Took all the coaching staff too? Modern football fucking sucks. Don't be ambitious, you'll just be carved apart.

Not sure how this is particularly indicative of “modern football” bigger clubs have always poached the talent of smaller clubs, both coaches and players. Managers always tend to bring their trusted back room staff with them as well.

 

[Insomnia]

They didn't fuck around. Potter all agreed and done

Is delighted! Are delighted you fucking shit ****s get it right, anyway fuck em

 

[Colonel_Klinck]

He'll make so much money from that contract his kids kids will never have to work. Can't blame him.

 

[glacierSpurs]

Surprisingly sensible appointment.


Hope he fails miserably.

I think he will. Not because of him, but the jerk of the players there.

 

[Hotspur1978]

 

[WePlayWednesday]

 

[SandroClegane]

If you think American fan bases are apathetic and don't punish "poor seasons" you couldn't be more wrong. Go have a poor season in New York or LA and watch what happens.

Chelsea has massive revenue streams to the point that CL qualification doesn't matter in the same way to them that it does to us. Does it hurt them if they don't qualify for the CL? Of course. But it's definitely not the same if we don't.

American sports aren't all the same and they all run differently. Baseball is by far the most similar in the way it works to the way football works in Europe. The Dodgers who are a giant "franchise" were an absolute mess when Boehly took them over in 2012ish with massive revenue streams but no success.

They hadn't won a championship in decades before his ownership group took over. Fast forward a decade later and the Dodgers are one of the best run teams in baseball who won a championship in 2020 for the first time in 30 years and now financially terrorize the sport. Sound familiar?

Or I could point you to FSG and Liverpool. They hadn't won a league title in decades before they took over. What happened? They also turned around the Red Sox who hadn't won a championship in almost a hundred years before they turned them around too.

There are good American owners and bad American owners. Just like there are good and bad owners in every sport of every nationality in every league everywhere on the face of the earth. Saying the owner is immediately bad because he's American and doesn't understand the way the Premier League works is absolutely ridiculous.

Boehly is most definitely a bright guy and a good owner. I really wish he wasn't but those are the facts. The next thing he'll do after he hires Potter is find a really good director of football to run Chelsea just like he did with the Dodgers when he paid a metric shit ton of money to pry Andrew Friedman from the Rays. Then he'll keep the money flowing as the new DOF and Potter reshape the club.

It's all disgusting. I can't stand them. I wish Roman sold them to the Ricketts who are the prototypical bad owners that you seem to think Boehly is.

They won a COVID title and have had no other successes so far. They're a historically great regular season team and choke in the postseason. And they've gotten there simply by outspending every single other baseball team, he could never do that outside of baseball. Baseball does not compare to other team sports in that it's largely individual.

Oh and FSG is currently running the Red Sox into the ground while they collect their profits. They turned the Sox around with spending and then decided to cut back their investments and focus on Liverpool and the Penguins.

 

[gavspur]

At least he probably won’t have to move house, guessing he lives near Brighton, and the Chavs training ground isn’t really far from that area.
He seems too nice for Chelsea, I wonder if they’ll turn him into a twat?
On a side note, I bet Conte was laughing at Tuchel getting sacked.

 

[Twizzle]

I'm surprised we haven't yet seen a headline from Sky or similar

"The real reason why Tuchel was sacked"

 

[Spurslove]

You'd have to question the brains (or complete lack of) any club who spends £280 million on new players, sacks the manager and hires a new one who's going to want to buy new players. It's an evil club from top to bottom and obviously, not one of the brightest financially. Fuck 'em and fuck that tosser Tuchel. God moves in mysterious ways matey!!!
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[spursfan77]

I'm surprised we haven't yet seen a headline from Sky or similar

"The real reason why Tuchel was sacked"

There was an athletic article earlier today about it. Fucking long though so no chance of reposting.

I didn’t read it all but lots was to do with transfers over the summer. It just sounded like the Americans had no clue what to do and what they were doing pretty much.

 

[whitesocks]

You'd have to question the brains (or complete lack of) any club who spends £280 million on new players, sacks the manager and hires a new one who's going to want to buy new players. It's an evil club from top to bottom and obviously, not one of the brightest financially. Fuck 'em and fuck that tosser Tuchel. God moves in mysterious ways matey!!!
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maybe potter had some say in the transfers...

 

[Amo]

I'm disappointed he decided to go tbh. I had this image that he'd stay at least to the end of a season.

 

[TheChosenOne]

maybe potter had some say in the transfers...

I think Potter was tapped up before they gave TT the tin tack. It happened too quickly

 

[Spurslove]

maybe potter had some say in the transfers...

I can't convince myself that ever happens in real life, but then Chelsea are a bunch of fruitloops so who knows?