CallyRed
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If we go for Poch we'll have to let Amadaeus return. So careful what you wish for.
No worries. The player can despair on the 8 years left on his contract then.
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Chelsea got into a cup final, lost in another SF(against the same team that beat United in the final last year), and as for the league - reference the "less individual talent". They pretty much put in the same performances, United just didn't have guys missing sitters. More in general, both teams were largely really good, except for like 5-6 games - but in those games they were not merely bad, they looked amateurishUnited finished 3rd, got into 2 cup finals and won 1. Chelsea scraped into Europe with a few games left, possibly only the Conference League, didn't challenge for anything all whilst being by far the biggest spenders.
You're right, exactly the same.
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Always has been the posher WatfordChelsea the new Watford?
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He will have the next 7 years to ponder it fully.
I doubt it since he's been shite under Poch. We looked massively better without him, which can't be good when we spend 120m+ on him.cheeky punt on Enzo Fernandez?
I probably would as well. Tuchel is more likely to fallout with a couple of players, however he's also a hell of a lot more likely to finish top 4 and win some trophies.I would rather have Tuchel than Poch.
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Tuchel is the guy you hire after someone like Poch has spent 2 or 3 years building a quality, cohesive group… and just can’t get them over the final jump to titles.I probably would as well. Tuchel is more likely to fallout with a couple of players, however he's also a hell of a lot more likely to finish top 4 and win some trophies.
ETH is 54 and Poch is 52This appointment ranks only slightly above Southgate for me. With ETH we had a young up and coming coach who could have taken us somewhere (still might). With Poch we know exactly what we're getting, mediocrity.
I never mentioned anything about ten hag, and me not wanting Poch doesn't mean I want ten hag to stay, I just don't think Poch is good enough, I think he's a tier below who we should be looking at.He is more than good enough. He is a top tier PL manager with a strong track record of getting his teams to perform better than the sum of its parts and he runs rings around Erik Ten Hag in the coaching department. If we hired him and not the clown Ten Hag (like we should have), we would be in a far better position right now. Chelsea are complete boneheads for firing him when he managed to get that team three points off 5th after the dumpster fire of a situation that the owners put him in. Ten Hag would have had that Chelsea squad fighting for relegation.
What exactly is it that isn't true? We haven't spent 8 out of 9 months this season faffing about in the bottom half?In fairness, that isn’t really accurate though. We were extremely unlucky in many ways, and there were those computer models that took all the stats from each game (expected goals, etc) and thought we should be in third.
Then, from Christmas on, we essentially WERE 4th.
That’s wading through a sea of inconsistency and injury. I’ve tried to play with a similar type of abdominal hernia, and made it about twenty minutes. The “shots” don’t help that much.
You had the Madueke’s of the world trying to grab penalties and throw tantrums.
You had a ref agenda that saw us pass a legendarily dirty Leeds teams ever for a yellow cards in a season record… while our players had blood drenching the backs of their calves and cracked jaws without so much as a finger waved in the other teams direction.
Amid all of this, this team was genuinely maturing. They were coming together as a team, and, most importantly, they seemed to be convinced they were fighting for a chance to save their season and their manager.
Whether that was ever true or not, there is ample evidence they believed it was, otherwise why all the “the job isn’t finished” references with two games left?
And we have just told them that none of that, nothing they did actually mattered, none of the growth they showed mattered. It was all a foregone conclusion due to some unlucky results back in October and November.
That probably won’t have a negative mental impact on the team.
There's a few posters fawning so much over Poch at the moment that I think they might actually be Amadeus!If we do bring back Amadeus!
We had a player advantage over Liverpool during the start of extra time and he pulled back an attack that was working to play the entire extra time for a draw. When asked about that decision he threw it on the players saying the lads wanted to play for PKs.What is this loser mentality you speak of?
Both are young in managerial terms. ETH was young and up and coming. Poch is just young.ETH is 54 and Poch is 52
52 is the new 30Both are young in managerial terms. ETH was young and up and coming. Poch is just young.
What were Pep and Nagelsmann when coming through by your terms then? Toddlers?Both are young in managerial terms. ETH was young and up and coming. Poch is just young.
Yeah, poster was saying don't go for Poch, stay with ETH who is young and upcoming, whereas in fact Poch is younger!Both are young in managerial terms. ETH was young and up and coming. Poch is just young.
ETH is also just “young” now. Not so much that up and coming hot prospectBoth are young in managerial terms. ETH was young and up and coming. Poch is just young.
According to reports Boehly was keen on retaining Pochettino whereas equally influential co-owner Behdad Eghbali wasn'tChelsea under Boehly are something else
That last paragraph is why I wonder if he fits into what INEOS are trying to implement, having said that he doesn't have the supposed character concerns they would probably have about appointing Tuchel.I preferred Poch over ETH two years ago, mainly because I thought he would be better at whipping the dressing room into shape. But Im not really sure whether he would be a good shout right now.
I think the aim is to move to a first team coach model, with an increasing amount of managerial responsibility devolved to other people in the club, a bit like Brighton do. However we're not there yet and the manager will have a fairly large responsibility for at least another season or two while new people and new systems get bedded in. Poch is the kind of manager that likes to be involved in everything, so I can see that it might work as an interim measure. But it may cause problems down the road.
I wasn't saying ETH was better because he was younger. He was the hot prospect of European football when we hired him. Poch hasn't been that for years, if ever. He's always been a bit average.Yeah, poster was saying don't go for Poch, stay with ETH who is young and upcoming, whereas in fact Poch is younger!
That's what I'm saying.
PS it was also Poch that knocked ETH out of the Champions League semi, when ETH was at his best Ajax having their best CL season.
Ah, ok, my bad.I wasn't saying ETH was better because he was younger. He was the hot prospect of European football when we hired him. Poch hasn't been that for years, if ever. He's always been a bit average.
ETH is older of the 2, and we also know what we're getting with him...disfunction, failure and terrible style of play.This appointment ranks only slightly above Southgate for me. With ETH we had a young up and coming coach who could have taken us somewhere (still might). With Poch we know exactly what we're getting, mediocrity.
No wonder Tuchel fell out with them. Boehly trying to force his famous 443 formation onto him.
Honestly, a lot of this stuff feels like noise. Whenever something happens at Chelsea it seems like every journo in the country wants a piece of the pie with an angle or narrative they're desperate to get people outraged about.