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Chara, the Thiago Silva of cfcnet!

Apology accepted. As for December, there will certainly have been a lot of water under under Stamford Bridge by then, so it's hard to predict what is going to happen. If, however, we can replace Pochettino with an effective, modern, sophisticated, charismatic manager (and in my view that precludes Moyes and his ilk) then a top 5 finish is within our reach. Support the new man with a collaborative transfer policy and a revamped medical department and we could easily begin to entertain even higher aspirations.

Tough to answer this unless one is immersed in the details of managerial performance across all the major European leagues. What I do think is that the due diligence needs to be raised (or should that be reduced) to a forensic level. An exhaustively investigative process needs to replace whatever facile, one dimensional, allegedly data-led approach is currently favoured by the decision makers at the club: management is a mixture of hard and soft skills and a proper judgement of both is vital.

All true, but still no justification in retaining such an ineffective, unsophisticated manager. In order to maximise the effectiveness of the new guy there would need to be fundamental changes to policy as you say, but if a blind man breaks his leg you still need to reset the leg even if you can't restore his sight ! Absence of proper vision may be the main problem, but an inability to walk is the pressing issue.

Powerful stuff

I take your point and certainly agree on Pochettino, but Mudryk does appear to have more deficiencies than is explicable by his poor management by the manager. I don't think we have the luxury of having Mudryk as part of the first team squad next season: we are effectively a man down or worse with Mudryk in the side. He has had quite a bit of time to prove himself and if anything he has regressed technically and in his relationship with his oppos.

We also need to bear in mind that the video was highly selective. I watched the game and CHO was awful in the final 3rd on many occasions, shooting all over the place and poor passing decisions, the same issues for which we criticise Mudryk.

It doesn't really explain why they have failed to keep abreast of things though 😳

With your track record of nonsense you would be well advised to moderate your tone.

Unnecessary (but entirely consistent with your characteristically insulting tone) to describe an opinion which differs from your own as being deluded. This is indeed a squad capable of accumulating 70 points and would certainly do so with 2 or 3 squad changes, the return of some injured personnel and most importantly, the replacement of Pochettino with a competent coach.

Very interesting, especially the subtext about the different ways in which Jon Fearn and Eva Carneiro dealt with the Mourinho controversy.

Yep. Uncoached by Pochettino, utterly demoralised under Lampard and badly coached and selected under Potter. That's not to say it was clever to put together a side so devoid of experience, and it was certainly a ludicrous waste of a billion quid gross (in several senses) outlay, but this is comfortably a top 5 squad "coached" by a youth club PE supervisor. Put Guardiola, Klopp, Mourinho, Conte, Simeone, Ferguson, Holland, Tuchel, even Allardyce or Dyche in charge of this squad and we finish comfortably top 5. More importantly there would be some kind of platform for going forward rather than relying on untutored, unstructured individual efforts.

If we had a coach this would be a nailed on win for the Blues. Unfortunately all we have is a cheerleading uncle, so it's an absolute lottery : on the one hand a one dimensional, naive Spurs manager against a do-your-own-thing-boys Chelsea hand-holder. The outcome is anyone's guess.

Sorry, I can't subscribe to the Pochettino love-in over yesterday's second half comeback. My view is that we succeeded through the efforts of the players. There was no evident strategic input and no sense of an adapted tactical response. What we saw was an accidentally (through Enzo's enforced absence) assembled midfield which worked better than the Pochettino preferred norm, the presence of a previously exiled Silva, a return to form from Cucurella, a lottery winning goal from Mudueke (in the sense that he continues to buy a ticket and eventually wins the raffle - and this is not a criticism but a compliment), and a world class strike from Gallagher. None of this is down to inputs from Pochettino, but because the players are intrinsically better than Pochettino has made them look. The reason we are inconsistent is that we are uncoached.

Blimey! Steady on though; it's the hope that kills yer!

Clearly we have to take a hit on him. He can't stay here, taking up a place in the squad and contributing to the general negativity.

I'm fully expecting a hammering now. The fabric of the club is rotten.

We are completely uncoached. If Mourinho is a dinosaur then Pochettino is positively Permian!

The jury's in on Mudryk. He needs to go.

I hope Curd has his way today........I'll get my coat!

Don't mind me. I am clearly losing my marbles.

You got it absolutely spot on! except Cahlobah. Injured?

I added the Terry slip, so really we have won 5 😉

Yep. 5-4 😮

Probably nicked.