Hazard Warning Signs - The Chelsea Transfer Thread

Way too soon for Frank and quite frankly I think Frank would agree with that

 

How can you not know?

 

Romanticism and nostalgia is a dangerous thing to have in sports, honestly.

I would love it if Lampard came back and did a Pep and so on, but it never really works that way. And it's starting to show with United and Solskjaer.

 

Different people would say Chelsea culture means very different things. Until Mourinho it meant playing beautifully and failing at the last stage, footballing wise. What does it mean now? What does it really mean from a holistic perspective?

 

True, true.

But the underlying culture of the club, Pre-Roman, Pre-Jose, etc. has been a culture of glamour. yep, Glamour. From the fans, to the area, to the show-biz world connections, etc. Glamour. Even in the darkest hooligan days will still boasted rock star fans - Joe Strummer, Cook and Jones from the Pistols - and our under achieving team. We're not total scum like Millwall, but we have had some vicious fans, and we are not boring like the Arsenal fans aka "the library" for many many years. We are the glamourous team from the Kings Rd. George Best in his Fulham days spent his time drinking with the Chelsea players. Lord A - our life president - and the "luvvies" of the cinema and stage. The famous and the glamourous etc The culture of the club is culture. Culture and glamour.

 

Some of our away fans don’t seem to share your “club of culture” sentiment.

 

Away fans? Who gives a flying fcuck . .about away fans?

 

OUR

 

You don't like OUR fans? wtf??

 

Everybody was high on Dyche before...and he’s obviously good at getting players playing well at the Bridge. If we miss the CL and are stuck with the ban, maybe he’s actually the right guy to make the best of a bad situation.

 

Some of them, very much no, I don’t. I’m not in favor of anti-Semitic or racist chanting.

 

Fvck no. Absolutely fvcking not. What are we, a club hoping to stave off relegation?

 

What happened to Eddie Howe? He was a delicious flavor of the month for a month or so last season.

 

Oh yeah, maybe it was Eddie Howe. I’m getting my mid-table great-English-hopes confused.

 

Bournemouth sit 14th.

What he's done is remarkable, but let's not be too hasty.

 

I was joking, of course.

I'm not sure what to do about the manager. I think it's more down to the players. We have a mix of very good players and very average players and one generational talent player.

And let's not ignore what that last bit means. I counted numerous times yesterday where Chelsea players hung their heads after every single ball got played into Hazard expecting him to do something magical. That's not Sarri-ball or any other kind of game plan. It handcuffs us as a team and detrimental. I'm not saying we'd be better without him. We'd be better if he were used as a vital component rather than The Answer.

 

Squad's needed a revamp for ages. Conte said as much, even Jose was probably saying as much.

 

Yep. Sarri hasn't really impressed but I would persist with him and see what he can do with the players he wants. Ideally, we should have done it with Conte but that ship has sailed. At some point, the board has to put their hands up and say, ok the manager can do only so much.

 

Remember, though. Sarri hates the transfer window and likes the players he already has. That's what Roman liked about him in addition to how Napoli played.

Meanwhile, he only came with Jorginho. And needed Higuain.

 

Yeah, not ideal but else is flavor of the month now?

 

My key gripe with him is not using Kante, the best holding midfielder in the world, in the right position

 

I feel that is the least of our worries, honestly. He's great wherever he plays and still is responsible for most of our take-aways and shifts from defense to offense. The problem is that we suck in so many other areas. RLC has been a fresh breath of air and is better than Barkley or Kovacic, but is he the answer? Not sure.

We only started two games now with RLC, CHO, Emerson on the field at the same time. The first, we got beat at Liverpool 2-0 and just now, we were essentially beaten by Burnley at home.

 

We also beat Brighton.

 

Agreed. Who could. However I have to say that the working class and poorly educated supporters of ours and any other club are growing in awareness. The same could not be said of Farage [Dulwich college boy] and the eton boys of Boris and the pig fcucker. Our supporters - and yeah even the scummy ones - have supported our teams of multi-ethnicities and races and cultures. We had the first team of foreigners. Our fans have changed and they are beginning to change more every day. They have a capacity for change. The Eton boys will never change. Ultimately culture is a slow burner and you cannot democratize culture . . .but you can democratize democracy [weird that]. So the media outlets that focus on this whilst ignoring the wider failings in society. Well that is what really bugs me. If you got 40,000 old Etonians together - of wealth and privilege - that is where the problems in our global society lie. that is where the real racism truly is. 40,000 Chelsea fans are far more aware and far more kind.

Peace

 

What Howe has done with a club like Bournemouth is astronomical! Its all very well 'scoffing' at them being 14th (I am not suggesting you are 'scoffing' by the way) but if you really think about it the fact that a tiny - yes tiny club like Bournemouth are competing AND often beating (as we very well know) multi billion pound giant football clubs is incredible. Guardiola may be sitting pretty at the top of the league but he spent a billion pounds on global superstars to get there, could he have taken a club from a low level league playing in front of a couple of thousand fans and turned them into a Premier League outfit? I'm not so sure.