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Can't keep up nowadays, it's strange how our football is very far from being demanding on the body yet we keep picking up injuries.

The large numbers of buying and selling of players won't stop, it seems like the core part of the club's bussiness model; which makes the manager having control of irst team transfers all the more important.

-------------------Jorgensen--------------------- ----------James-----Tosin-----Chalobah------- -Gusto-----Caicedo-----Enzo-----Cucurella- --------Madueke---------------Neto------------ ------------------------Guiu----------------------- I think counter-attacking rather than possession football is the way to go if we want a result, Villa, just like us, struggle against counter-attacking teams..

To put it simply, we're a huge club, we stepped up the moment we won the Prem for the first time and joined the big boys, and stayed there. So, in order to be successful now we need to win silverware, or you have the alternative success which is have a realistic chance of winning silverware and also play great football. We are failing on both fronts. Would a better manager help us get the the alternative success? Yes. In order to get the real success I'm afraid we need new owners. We can however at least start with the alternative success, and that will start with bringing in a better manager. However the key thing still is, that manager will need control of his own transfers, the board can partake in all the human trafficking they want in the background, however the first team must have players who the manager can work with and wants to work with. Otherwise, us fans better prepare ourselves for a long haul of Arsenal and Spurs type of 'success'.

I'd like to think it's as simple as that, but I don't think it is. I pre-date the RA era by quite a few years but I'm not old enough to have gone to a game in 83; however, I don't think that means anything at all. For example, someone born in 2005 and has supported Chelsea since they were 10 for 40 years in 2055 will still be the same as a fan today born in 1975 and supported Chelsea since they were 10. I heard this from fans when RA came along, and a lot of new fans got the same stick I did from an older generation for not being born early enough to see people raising money to keep the club running on matchdays; it doesn't make a difference, everyone is a fan. RA didn't press the reset button on the club, his main changes came instantly on the field and then upgraded his backroom staff with those who understood the league and importance of heritage (Kenyon knew the importance of imbedding a old school approach to the club). I didn't see us as RA's toy, I saw a owner who wanted to win, wanted success, and sometimes got too emotional and made some off the cuff decisions but I never saw him making them because he viewed the club as a business or investment. These new owners have not made a correct decision yet, the quality of the squad has gone backwards since they have come in, and that's actually quite difficult to do considering it wasn't the best when they got here; they've signed enough kids to make P.Diddy break a sweat, all in the name of investment. I see the same badge, the same fans, but that is all; and it's not about the results, it's about no footballing brains behind the scenes and just business men in suits sat around a table. For all the squads faults (who won the CL last for us), we were stronger back then, instead of building on from it and improving things (at least RA went and got great players when making changes), these new guys have sacrificed the whole club in the hope a few young lads may double in value. They're butchering the club, and reality is as much as we want it to be OUR club; they know it's THEIR club, because they view us as a take over bid like when a car company buys another brand and all the cars start looking the same in the name of profit.

What I'm most worried about is, when does a football club stop being your football club... Are we losing the club we love? Will we lose it? Have we already but just don't know(accept) it? Maybe I'm jumping the gun, but something feels really empty about our club right now. In a few years will we all be chipping in to buy our own club and make it the real Chelsea again? Who knows hey.

Don't get me wrong mate, if it were possible I'd boot the owners out. I'd even support Trump putting a tarriff on football club ownership just to see them gone.

We need a very experienced manager, someone who is able to plug gaps, teach tactics, and manage games in real time; be proactive and not reactive. If we had a balanced team then the leaders and captains could step up, but we don't have any and it doesn't seem like it's part of our plans to buy any; so the manager is what needs to be changed.

Whatever happened to fullbacks playing down the wings, a playmaker having a free role to help dicate the pace of the game, centrebacks defending instead of thinking they're the next Pirlo, why is everything so predictable, boring, and rigid with no freedom; it's like Maresca thinks it's a game of subbuteo

Brighton is defending their lead in our half of the pitch.

If the system was so the players were getting on the ball but just not good enough then fair enough, this inverted fullback and attackers hugging the touchline stuff is total nonsense, Maresca is like a 15 year old trying to be Pep on Football Manager; we haven't got the players to play that way, any good manager would adjust and use the players to their strenghts; Maresca is lost.

Buck stops with him, needs sacking.

He failed to highlight we need more experience, even if he had to take a risk and go public, he seems happy to work on the 'project'; even when the project is all wrong, he should be demanding more experience.

Mate I think it has come to it now, I don't really want to see us get yet another manager because I'm not even sure who is out there; but we're so flat and Maresca hasn't shown anything to give us hope of seeing anything different.

Would a different manager get more out of this team? It's the only question that matters now.