I am being forced to write this on my Birthday. I wanted to be on here today writing about a Chelsea win to help us get back on track in the race for Champions League football.
But here I am, on my day of birth, speaking about another embarrassing thrashing which happens to be our fourth defeat in a row, and second in a row in the Premier League.
Thanks Chelsea. Thanks Liam Rosenior. Thanks players. But mostly, thanks owners/SDs. We have to keep our focus here. We have to keep our blame at them. After all, they signed these players, they hired this manager. They keep hiring and firing the managers. They have employed raw inexperience across the entire club from top to bottom. It’s entirely their fault.
I’m not saying that Liam Rosenior is not out of his depth, because he fully is. Rosenior is a yes man. You cannot blame him for yet another Chelsea demise right now. You have to blame those who hired him. Anything else is taking the focus away from the root of the problem at our football club – Clearlake/BlueCo.
The more you all talk about yet another s**t Chelsea manager, the more the focus is diverted away from the people who hired him, the others before him, and built this squad that is far from good enough.
I’ve wanted to back Rosenior but the truth is he’s just another Gareth Southgate, and you all know my thoughts on him! But we need to keep the focus on the actual major problem at this club right now – the owners and SDs. They’ve infected this club with a virus.
Sacking managers and keeping focus on the manager is just plastering over our major issues at this club – the owners.
As I saw a Chelsea fan post on X last night, it’s about a lot more results. It’s the disrespect to Cobham, it’s the briefings against players, it’s Vivid Seats, it’s the celebration of mediocrity, it’s the Bomb Squad, it’s the commoditisation of footballers. It’s BlueCo values not aligning with the fanbase. It’s the heart and soul being ripped out of the club. Its the raw culture change. It’s the gutting of anyone ‘proper Chels’ from within the club. It’s much more about the results, and this is why I have stayed consistent with my criticism of them and will not flip flop just because we get a few wins, or we win the Club World Cup, which in my opinion has just papered over the cracks.
Chelsea have not scored a goal in our last three games. In our last four games, we have scored two and conceded TWELVE goals. That is truly shocking.
To have the Everton admin mocking us on X last night is literally rock bottom.
But this just sums up where we are at as a club right now. We are not Chelsea anymore. I don’t not recognise my club, as Didier Drogba said not so long ago now under this ownership.
But don’t worry folks, we controlled the game yesterday, Everton didn’t get a sniff of the ball with just 35% possession and only 1.08xG. Chelsea had all the possession and 1.23xG. We basically won the game, so don’t worry about it.
I’m sure someone somewhere in the data room is saying and thinking all the above right now upon reflection. But unfortunately people, the only thing that counts is the score line. And the score line shows Everton THRASHING Chelsea 3-0. It shows Everton getting more shots on our goal than we managed (7 v 4). If you do not shoot on target, you do not score goals. Scoring goals is what wins football matches. As I keep saying, football can be a very simple game if you let it.
Even our Sofascore ratings were terrible….
How Robert Sanchez is still deemed good enough by many to be Chelsea number one is beyond me and has been beyond me for some time now. Yes, he had an uptick in form, but no, he’s NEVER been good enough to be Chelsea number one. It worries me how I’ve always seen that, but the decision making ‘experts’ at our club has not.
I’ve also seen for some time that Wesley Fofana, and our entire defence, is also not good enough. Yet all the recruitment team did in January was bring back another raw centre back with potential, one who is not even trusted to play by a manager who had him at Strasbourg! Riddle me that.
Romeo Lavia is made of glass. Marc Cucurella’s form has dipped MASSIVELY and I’d even suggest that he’s already checked out and is off this summer. I’d be surprised if Enzo Fernandez is still here next season.
Pedro Neto does the odd good thing but he’s overall just not good enough – same with Alejandro Garnacho. Cole Palmer’s form has been dipping in and out but he’s just hugely frustrated with those around him. Joao Pedro is quality but he has ZERO competition.
And this was built by spending £1.5bn. Imagine if any of us performed this poorly in our jobs whilst spending that much doing so? We’d be sacked and probably up for fraud charges, right? I’m so angry that I’m passed anger now.
Chelsea fans have organised a joint protest in London alongside Strasbourg fans, and to me, that is a good move. Something needs to happen, something needs to change. This lot need more than telling.
What a dark and gloomy place my beloved clubs has been put in by these business people.
But it’s OK, because they signed Estevao Willian, and he’s good, right? ‘We did good there, didn’t we? We’ll pat ourselves on the back for that one.’
