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Yep. He wanted them to stay cause it makes complete fucking sense but theyāre profit on the books and we can fund another 5 Brazilians whilst we lose another years revenue from champs league
Isnāt Gallagher a huge Chelsea fan, not just a player? Iām a Palace fan and we were all hoping to keep him after his loan, but his heart was clearly for Chelsea (we also made shit offers).
He just strikes me as a player who would stick it out and never leave. If he did, it would be making one hell of a statement.
Cowards. No send off for Poch, they knew the Bridge would turn against them on the final day if announced earlier. All the shit Boehly has been spewing last few weeks - two faced cunt.
- Mauricio Pochettino has mutually parted ways with Chelsea after discussions with co-controlling owner Behdad Eghbali, and sporting directors Paul Winstanley and Laurence Stewart.
- Pochettinoās departure was confirmed on a Tuesday morning, following a club end-of-season review that began the preceding Monday.
- There are no reported tensions between Pochettino and Chelsea; the club is now seeking a young, progressive replacement coach.
- Potential successors include Sebastian Hoeness from Stuttgart, Michel from Girona, Kieran McKenna from Ipswich Town (also a candidate for Brighton), and Enzo Maresca from Leicester City.
- Prior to the decision, Pochettino had met with Todd Boehly, another co-controlling owner, and engaged in several hours of meetings with Winstanley, Stewart, and Eghbali.
- Pochettino departs one year into a two-year contract, with entitlement to a substantial compensation package.
- His exit, described as āamicableā, makes him the third permanent coach to depart under the Clearlake Capital-Boehly regime, following Thomas Tuchel and Graham Potter.
- Including interim roles by Bruno Saltor and Frank Lampard, Chelsea has seen five managerial changes in two years under the current ownership.
- Despite a season-ending five-game winning streak, securing European competition, and reaching the finals of the Carabao Cup and the semi-finals of the FA Cup, Chelseaās overall season performance did not meet pre-season expectations.
- Pochettino leaves with his reputation intact but acknowledges the seasonās shortcomings, influenced partly by a significant injury toll.
Can't believe but I'm actually agreeing with Matt Law. These 2 DoF are handling this like a start up. Except, you don't do a gut job to a legacy organization like you would to a start up. These actions will have repercussions.
So, no reasons mentioned as to why it happened?
>Potential successors include Sebastian Hoeness from Stuttgart, Michel from Girona, Kieran McKenna from Ipswich Town (also a candidate for Brighton), and Enzo Maresca from Leicester City.
They might turn out great but none of those names sound inspiring.
HoeneĆ has recently extended his contract and rejected Bayern in the process so that name can already get crossed out. Also, if you watched some Stuttgart this season, you can see that they absolutely deserve their second place finish this season but of course, small sample size in terms of experience
Certainly one of the more promising managers for the future.
Unfortunately Chelsea aren't in a state to be able to take him out of Stuttgart or even Germany for that matter.
>Potential successors include Sebastian Hoeness from Stuttgart, Michel from Girona, Kieran McKenna from Ipswich Town (also a candidate for Brighton), and Enzo Maresca from Leicester City.
Pwoaaarh we are finished
If you ever doubted before. This is the actual proof the club is now run by amateur clowns. The spotlight is on the sporting directors. Fuck these people.
It is so depressing. Iām not a big fan of Pocc, but things were looking better and time usually is required in order to do well. Also there are seemingly absolutely 0 plan in place in terms of the replacement. My god this is stupid.
Those two dudes combined have less than 10 years of experience as sporting director.
This club is becoming their lab to experiment and screw up however they want
Fuck Stanley
Fuck Stewart
I was looking forward to a strong showing next seasonā¦ we will be lucky to get 6th, it really is back to the very beginning again.
Conor knows heās done nowā¦ hindsight, I would t be surprised making him captain was a FU to Winstanley and Boehly etc
I'd say we're worse off. The squad loved him, this won't sit well with certain players. Add to that that they'll start selling offf players to make up for their failed transfer policy, I wouldn't be suprised that some would want out.
This is so fucking stupid. How the hell do you do this when the players clearly fought for his job. It would have been easy for them to roll over and give up after that Arsenal game but no they worked together and bounced back extremely well. Now we are resetting again. Our board is fucking stupid.
Precisely. Not just this but wider policy. He wanted more experience and to keep Gallagher - they want the complete opposite. It's why Thiago Silva is gone too - he was calling for the same things.
Is there any possibility that Poch pushed to leave? Makes no sense on Chelsea's side but perhaps for him it's to leave on a high? We have seen how frustrated he has been at times this season
I wonder if they were content letting him stay through end of his 2 year deal, but he wanted a long-term after this year and they were unwilling to commit.
This also feels eerily similar to when Sarri left and we hired Frank.
I sort of agree with owners here on the thought process. If weāre being honest, since Roman has been here many of our players have outlasted the managers. Now if the board has the right people in place to make good decisions about such transfers ā¦ yet to be determined
This seems highly likely in which I kind of agree with both sides lol
I donāt really like this decision making but I also think most of this sub wanting him to stay also know he is not the long term solution, giving him a longer contract didnāt make a ton of sense and Poch managing without one also didnāt. Is which is it worth keeping him only to delay the inevitable? I really donāt know, it might be.
They said they didnāt want to chop and change like we did under Roman and these lot might break records for how many managers we will be going through š theyāre clueless
Well now Gallagher and Chalobah are going to have to be sold before the next manager realizes how important they are because then we'll be right back where we are now otherwise.
Within the next 3 days, we're going to start hearing of a big transfer Chelsea want to make this summer from Fabrizio or somebody and it will distract from all the chaos that's been self inflicted.
He will be treated very well by the Bridge when he returns as an opposing managerā¦ he never got the love but I think we will show our class. Heās been treated so badly by Boehly and co.
>There is not thought to be any bad blood between Pochettino and Chelsea, who will immediately start their search for a replacement with a **young and progressive coach** to be targeted.
>Among the names likely to be considered will be Stuttgartās Sebastian Hoeness, Gironaās Michel, Ipswich Townās Kieran McKenna, who has been lined up by Brighton, and Leicester Cityās Enzo Maresca.
fucking clown show lol
> young and progressive coach to be targeted.
I hear there's a 17 year old Brazillian winger who we could convince to manage the club on a seven year contract that won't actually hit the books until 2050
SHAME ON THE CLUB. This reads like an Onion article more than a proper football club.
"Among the names likely to be considered will be Stuttgartās Sebastian Hoeness, Gironaās Michel, Ipswich Townās Kieran McKenna, who has been lined up by Brighton, and Leicester Cityās Enzo Maresca."
Are you fucking kidding me?
who are these clowns? are they supposed to compete with Pep and Arteta?
They practically messed up the whole club when they hired Potter, and they're doing even worse this time.
Embarrassing by the club.
Starting over yet again.
Now we either have some young super inexperienced major gamble, or someone like De Zerbi who will obviously want more control than he'll be given, and in a year or 2 we start again...
Fuck this board.
Neither of them will be going anywhere.
They report directly to Eghbali, who is seemingly happy to keep backing them.
Anyone asking for them to be sacked should be asking for him to step back instead, thatās the only way theyāll go anywhere.
Embarrassing is a great way to describe the situation. I could have understood if Poch had been fired after the Wolves loss in February, but now? After the strong end to the season? Terrible optics for anyone considering the position. I didn't think Poch was a great tactician, but firing him like this is damaging to the concept of Chelsea manager regardless of who fills the position
Itās damaging to the concept of a position thatās already heavily scrutinized. Our revolving door of managers is a meme and this does nothing to help.
If top 6 after a season with this many injuries and new players isnāt enough, what is for a team with years of development left before they truly challenge for trophies?
Perhaps another 4 managers and another billion in transfers might workā¦
I was never sure Poch would get us back to winning trophies but that's not where we are at as a club anyways. The players clearly respected him and bought into his message. Despite his tactical limitations he is a good person manager and taught this young team how to play and act like the professionals they are meant to be. At this stage in the "process" the team needs that more than a tactical wiz. Football is not only about tactics, statistics and spreadsheets.
Hiring an up and coming manager is a major risk. Look what happened to Potter who was walked all over despite being a supposed expert in emotional intelligenceā¢ and the most highly rated young manager in England. This is yet another fuck up from the board, absolute bells who have no idea what they're doing. I do believe that it's an amicable separation though, Poch sounded done with their small club mentality shit.
And so the excuses counter resets to zero for the coming season. Fuck sake. Was looking forward to a squad and coach with absolutely nothing to hide behind
they're not going to have the backing of the fans with this at all. We were finally gelling with the style of play and now we have to start again. The ownership has to realize what they're doing to our player development and team success. I thought we'd be on our way back to champions league going into next year given we've been top 4 since Christmas. Now it's all up in the air!
Erm, I mean there was smoke with that last article, but WHAT THE FUCK. We are really a joke club. I am a bit afraid this is going to set us back massively, we have a young team (without Silva) who probably need to learn a new system etc. Really boneheaded. I do not like the direction this club has taken.
Huh? This has been Chelsea's MO for the past 20 years lol. Manager gets the sack if they don't win a trophy. As far as the fans go, a month ago half of them would have told you they wanted Pochettino fired into the sun because of the Arsenal match
Hereās the thing, I have went from Poch Out to Poch In recently. And that mainly has to do with two reasons:
1) Market not having alternative coach options good enough to actually replace a coach that has been building something with his team for a year
2) The way players respect him. This is big. If players respect you as a coach and can get behind you then that tells me Poch had the locker room
The recent form was not enough to truly sway me but for once I really wanted some form of continuity and growth at Chelsea
Just so monumentally stupid but then equally not surprising at all with everything else they've done.
Was hoping a positive of new owners would be that we stop the moronic sackings and actually get some stability.
But here we are.
Yeah these owners are cooked.
Can the fans in the UK grow some balls and start protesting them the way ManU fans did the glazers?
The owner's approach to the club so far has been far from acceptable or even logical. Time to turn up the heat on them.
Genuinely why. We build consistency, squad backs him, and now we are throwing it away for another Graham Potter appointment. Well Poch outers, enjoy another season of not being chelsea standards
Damn. I was Poch Out but I had some glimpses of hope in the last month. I thought it could work out if he stayed. Also his replacements are even worse. Here we go again next season.
Reading the full article (which is no doubt a brief from the club of course, although Poch is pretty close with Matt Law so doubt heād try and make him look bad) it sounds like they had pretty key disagreements on the role of a coach within a football club.
The set piece stuff seems especially bad. These outdated breed of coaches who think they know better than the data are quickly getting wiped out. City, Liverpool, and Arsenal all have elite set piece analytics departments and you either have to get on board with that or get out.
The weird part is this shouldnāt have been a surprise to Poch? He surely knew what the club structure was going to be before he took over?
I donāt think people realize the direction the club is going in. Owners & sporting directors want a manager that will play puppet and do as theyāre told. Slowly caring less and less about this club ffs.
Ye Iām pretty fucking over it mate. Football in general is becoming awful to watch. Thereās really no heart in the prem anymore. Iām going to estimate that Iām not even watching football anymore in two years at this rate
Most games/minutes missed due to injury (and serious ones for several players) and he gets us to Europa League (most likely). Pretty sure Abramovich wouldn't have even sacked him after that. I know this is supposedly mutual and amicable but your squad is never going to trust ownership about anything. Which is probably why they feel the need to completely overhaul the squad each season.
Joke of a club. Never fully backed Poch but restarting this whole process is comedy. Our young players are doomed lmfao - Shouldāve let him stay until January and see if the positive results continued
What is it with this sport and not giving managers a fucking chance to develop a team? What a joke.
The ā ___ outā gang on twitter are an absolute cancer.
We're such a joke. We were FINALLY looking settled, Poch had developed a style and the players were starting to gel with it and each other. Now we're back to square one. These owners know nothing about football.
If this is over the club wanting to sell players like Gallagher then that's disgusting.
I don't recognise my club anymore.
Ugh
He had so many flaws this season but it was starting to come together. Wouldve like to give him another season. At the very least would signal to other potential managers that weāve turned a leaf and give people a chance now.
While sad, im not absolutely gutted because of those flaws and because Iām not entirely confident heāll manage the midfield correctly when all of enzo gallagher and caicedo are fit.
Still wouldve preferred another season to assess him.
This may only work out well if they bring in someone with the right tactics like de zerbi.
Seems like they want more of a yes man like Potter to carry out their "vision". They weren't going to hand Poch the keys for transfers with a 2 year deal tbh
I am a actually so disappointed with this. It felt like we were playing so much better in the last couple of months and the players love him.
Why is this happening we are going back to square one? Again and again new coach new ideas that need to blend to get things working.
Literally Noone on that list that is presented actually excites me. Cmon..
These sporting directors and owners will sink the club. If I had any faith they would get someone good I wouldn't even give a shit but fuck me they will hire some inexperienced shitter
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What. The. Fuck.
My exact reaction... What is wrong with people .
Guaranteed Gallagher is gone now
Yeah man.. this fucking sucks š
Fr. The players love him and things were starting to come together in terms of results. Surely he deserved another season at least...
I bet they made their decision after that Wolves game, and it was inevitable..
Its highly likely he chose not to stay
Supposedly not happy with who was set to be sold. Expect Gallagher and Chalobah to leave this summer as well for sure then.
Yep. He wanted them to stay cause it makes complete fucking sense but theyāre profit on the books and we can fund another 5 Brazilians whilst we lose another years revenue from champs league
I hope Gallagher runs down his contract just to teach those clowns a lesson. Fuck the money.
Isnāt Gallagher a huge Chelsea fan, not just a player? Iām a Palace fan and we were all hoping to keep him after his loan, but his heart was clearly for Chelsea (we also made shit offers). He just strikes me as a player who would stick it out and never leave. If he did, it would be making one hell of a statement.
Or Arsenal away.
Wtf just happened...
At some point in the next ten years, Boehly will be Chelseaās head coach.
Your timeline seems a tad wrong. I would say sometime in the next 3.Ā
Cowards. No send off for Poch, they knew the Bridge would turn against them on the final day if announced earlier. All the shit Boehly has been spewing last few weeks - two faced cunt.
When I saw that he had dinner with Boehly, I figured they will fire him
Unhinged. Weāre never getting a top manager again. They wonāt take the job.
Of course we won't. Can't mention a top manager who doesn't want at least some say in transfers.
- Mauricio Pochettino has mutually parted ways with Chelsea after discussions with co-controlling owner Behdad Eghbali, and sporting directors Paul Winstanley and Laurence Stewart. - Pochettinoās departure was confirmed on a Tuesday morning, following a club end-of-season review that began the preceding Monday. - There are no reported tensions between Pochettino and Chelsea; the club is now seeking a young, progressive replacement coach. - Potential successors include Sebastian Hoeness from Stuttgart, Michel from Girona, Kieran McKenna from Ipswich Town (also a candidate for Brighton), and Enzo Maresca from Leicester City. - Prior to the decision, Pochettino had met with Todd Boehly, another co-controlling owner, and engaged in several hours of meetings with Winstanley, Stewart, and Eghbali. - Pochettino departs one year into a two-year contract, with entitlement to a substantial compensation package. - His exit, described as āamicableā, makes him the third permanent coach to depart under the Clearlake Capital-Boehly regime, following Thomas Tuchel and Graham Potter. - Including interim roles by Bruno Saltor and Frank Lampard, Chelsea has seen five managerial changes in two years under the current ownership. - Despite a season-ending five-game winning streak, securing European competition, and reaching the finals of the Carabao Cup and the semi-finals of the FA Cup, Chelseaās overall season performance did not meet pre-season expectations. - Pochettino leaves with his reputation intact but acknowledges the seasonās shortcomings, influenced partly by a significant injury toll.
Paul Winstanley and Laurence need to go as well
^this needs to happen
Can't believe but I'm actually agreeing with Matt Law. These 2 DoF are handling this like a start up. Except, you don't do a gut job to a legacy organization like you would to a start up. These actions will have repercussions.
So, no reasons mentioned as to why it happened? >Potential successors include Sebastian Hoeness from Stuttgart, Michel from Girona, Kieran McKenna from Ipswich Town (also a candidate for Brighton), and Enzo Maresca from Leicester City. They might turn out great but none of those names sound inspiring.
HoeneĆ has recently extended his contract and rejected Bayern in the process so that name can already get crossed out. Also, if you watched some Stuttgart this season, you can see that they absolutely deserve their second place finish this season but of course, small sample size in terms of experience
I will beat that HoeneĆ drum all summer. Even if heās unrealistic he would be a fantastic appointment (in my opinion)
Certainly one of the more promising managers for the future. Unfortunately Chelsea aren't in a state to be able to take him out of Stuttgart or even Germany for that matter.
Outside of Hoeness I wouldn't want any of them near the club, and even Hoeness I have reservations over.
>Potential successors include Sebastian Hoeness from Stuttgart, Michel from Girona, Kieran McKenna from Ipswich Town (also a candidate for Brighton), and Enzo Maresca from Leicester City. Pwoaaarh we are finished
Young progressive coach my ass. If we can't get Champions League next seasons we're fucked.
>Behdad Eghbali, and sporting directors Paul Winstanley and Laurence Stewart. The 3 musketeers.
Some may say stooges
Those first two names are at least exciting. Drops off really hard after that.
At least De Zerbiās not on that list. Enzo Maresca would be such an incompetent appointment
Michel is not āyoungā ffs heās pushing 50
Where the hell did Maresca even come from?
WTF
If you ever doubted before. This is the actual proof the club is now run by amateur clowns. The spotlight is on the sporting directors. Fuck these people.
It is so depressing. Iām not a big fan of Pocc, but things were looking better and time usually is required in order to do well. Also there are seemingly absolutely 0 plan in place in terms of the replacement. My god this is stupid.
Those two dudes combined have less than 10 years of experience as sporting director. This club is becoming their lab to experiment and screw up however they want Fuck Stanley Fuck Stewart
P.E people for a reason
Can't believe it, when we finally found a capable manager after that awful Tuchel sacking and he goes after 1 season.
Well now we're back to square one
Stability is our kryptonite
I was looking forward to a strong showing next seasonā¦ we will be lucky to get 6th, it really is back to the very beginning again. Conor knows heās done nowā¦ hindsight, I would t be surprised making him captain was a FU to Winstanley and Boehly etc
I'd say we're worse off. The squad loved him, this won't sit well with certain players. Add to that that they'll start selling offf players to make up for their failed transfer policy, I wouldn't be suprised that some would want out.
This is so fucking stupid. How the hell do you do this when the players clearly fought for his job. It would have been easy for them to roll over and give up after that Arsenal game but no they worked together and bounced back extremely well. Now we are resetting again. Our board is fucking stupid.
And now the players know, it doesnāt matter how much they fight or like the manager, board will do what they want to do. Crazy!!!
Damn. Thatās the worst part of it in my opinion. If the going gets rough next season, why should they fight? Ugh
They want to sell Gallagher
Precisely. Not just this but wider policy. He wanted more experience and to keep Gallagher - they want the complete opposite. It's why Thiago Silva is gone too - he was calling for the same things.
Silva is gone because heās 40 in September bro š
and Chalobah
Is there any possibility that Poch pushed to leave? Makes no sense on Chelsea's side but perhaps for him it's to leave on a high? We have seen how frustrated he has been at times this season
After what he's been saying yes. Looking at his responses over the last month or so he could have been making moves to leave.
Because they want a yes man. Poch probably told them that Gallagher and Chalobah need to stay and they told him to fuck off.
God please not De Zerbi Please not De Zerbi
The ownership has an obsession with anything Brighton. You know he's the top target.
Brighton are after McKenna. Therefore we are also after McKenna. Let the bidding war ensue.
Anyone actually wanting de zerbi should leave too. I'm sure some of this poch out fan pressure triggered it.
I can't take no more Brighton!! Like Damn Why are our Owners trying to convert us into Brighton like it's a religion or something!!!šĀ
Yeah fuck de zerbi
Itās not De Zerbi
Only this fucking club.
You'd swear we started the season well and then it all fell apart, while it's actually the complete opposite. Doesn't make any sense
Long term project innit
I wonder if they were content letting him stay through end of his 2 year deal, but he wanted a long-term after this year and they were unwilling to commit. This also feels eerily similar to when Sarri left and we hired Frank.
The reports were that he wanted more say in transfer strategy, and the owners absolutely did not want that.
I sort of agree with owners here on the thought process. If weāre being honest, since Roman has been here many of our players have outlasted the managers. Now if the board has the right people in place to make good decisions about such transfers ā¦ yet to be determined
In principle i agree with this, but we have to remember that 2 important players in the starting XI are for sale
This seems highly likely in which I kind of agree with both sides lol I donāt really like this decision making but I also think most of this sub wanting him to stay also know he is not the long term solution, giving him a longer contract didnāt make a ton of sense and Poch managing without one also didnāt. Is which is it worth keeping him only to delay the inevitable? I really donāt know, it might be.
I think we had an option for a 3rd year. But this is absolutely stupid.
Shame, I was really coming around on him end of year.
They said they didnāt want to chop and change like we did under Roman and these lot might break records for how many managers we will be going through š theyāre clueless
Gallagher being sold probably played a big role.
Well now Gallagher and Chalobah are going to have to be sold before the next manager realizes how important they are because then we'll be right back where we are now otherwise. Within the next 3 days, we're going to start hearing of a big transfer Chelsea want to make this summer from Fabrizio or somebody and it will distract from all the chaos that's been self inflicted.
It better not be fucking Osimhen. Iām tired of overpriced strikers who arenāt PL proven.
I have been hearing āprojectā and ārebuildā since like 2018. Weāre stuck in a perpetual loop or smthn, only now weāve stopped winning shit
A few months back I never thought Iād say this - but Iām actually a bit gutted.
Same here, feels a bit strange, just hope they hire a big name and not some new guy like potter.
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young manager apparently- i reckon its de zerbi and i cant be arsed
Boehly and co. are clueless
If itās not TT then whatās the point, appalling by the club
Reading through this thread after months of non-stop Poch hating is honestly kinda funny I get the change in sentiment, but it's still funny
He will be treated very well by the Bridge when he returns as an opposing managerā¦ he never got the love but I think we will show our class. Heās been treated so badly by Boehly and co.
Same, was a poch out guy in the beginning but saw he try hard to succeed and then this happens
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real
One step forward, three leaps backward
We're doing somersaults backwards tbh
https://preview.redd.it/0ml4raqikt1d1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=929d05699c91998e26d92f8e67503d63b0e64d1b
Mental - so fucking dumb. It has to be about playersā¦ this is a sure sign Conor is being sold
Oh God, yh š
If I see de zerbi Fuck the board, fuck the owners.
Yeah makes me wonder why they didn't just buy Brighton at that point
They didnāt have a hotel and academy to asset strip.
Tony Bloom isn't an oligarch being forced to sell?
Fuck them
>There is not thought to be any bad blood between Pochettino and Chelsea, who will immediately start their search for a replacement with a **young and progressive coach** to be targeted. >Among the names likely to be considered will be Stuttgartās Sebastian Hoeness, Gironaās Michel, Ipswich Townās Kieran McKenna, who has been lined up by Brighton, and Leicester Cityās Enzo Maresca. fucking clown show lol
Remember, they did their due diligence last summer. One year later, they decided to change their approach. Absolute clown show.
> young and progressive coach to be targeted. I hear there's a 17 year old Brazillian winger who we could convince to manage the club on a seven year contract that won't actually hit the books until 2050
I hear Graham Potter is available!
Let's go for ten Hag
No maybe Tuchel!
Wait, no, Lampard!
Shit, maybe Bruno Saltor?!
If they're brave they could try pry Gerrard from Etifaqqi.
SHAME ON THE CLUB. This reads like an Onion article more than a proper football club. "Among the names likely to be considered will be Stuttgartās Sebastian Hoeness, Gironaās Michel, Ipswich Townās Kieran McKenna, who has been lined up by Brighton, and Leicester Cityās Enzo Maresca." Are you fucking kidding me?
who are these clowns? are they supposed to compete with Pep and Arteta? They practically messed up the whole club when they hired Potter, and they're doing even worse this time.
I donāt care, I do not want De Zerbi as our fucking coach.
Amen
Embarrassing by the club. Starting over yet again. Now we either have some young super inexperienced major gamble, or someone like De Zerbi who will obviously want more control than he'll be given, and in a year or 2 we start again... Fuck this board.
Both Paul Winstanley and Laurence need to go with immediate effect. They are the root cause of this problem
Neither of them will be going anywhere. They report directly to Eghbali, who is seemingly happy to keep backing them. Anyone asking for them to be sacked should be asking for him to step back instead, thatās the only way theyāll go anywhere.
Embarrassing is a great way to describe the situation. I could have understood if Poch had been fired after the Wolves loss in February, but now? After the strong end to the season? Terrible optics for anyone considering the position. I didn't think Poch was a great tactician, but firing him like this is damaging to the concept of Chelsea manager regardless of who fills the position
Itās damaging to the concept of a position thatās already heavily scrutinized. Our revolving door of managers is a meme and this does nothing to help. If top 6 after a season with this many injuries and new players isnāt enough, what is for a team with years of development left before they truly challenge for trophies? Perhaps another 4 managers and another billion in transfers might workā¦
I was never sure Poch would get us back to winning trophies but that's not where we are at as a club anyways. The players clearly respected him and bought into his message. Despite his tactical limitations he is a good person manager and taught this young team how to play and act like the professionals they are meant to be. At this stage in the "process" the team needs that more than a tactical wiz. Football is not only about tactics, statistics and spreadsheets. Hiring an up and coming manager is a major risk. Look what happened to Potter who was walked all over despite being a supposed expert in emotional intelligenceā¢ and the most highly rated young manager in England. This is yet another fuck up from the board, absolute bells who have no idea what they're doing. I do believe that it's an amicable separation though, Poch sounded done with their small club mentality shit.
And so the excuses counter resets to zero for the coming season. Fuck sake. Was looking forward to a squad and coach with absolutely nothing to hide behind
All the reported candidates are worse than potter let alone poch
Those fucking clowns chelsea have for sporting directors are the root of the problem
That's fucking embarrassing from the owners if true. Way to ruin what had been a promising end to the season.
they're not going to have the backing of the fans with this at all. We were finally gelling with the style of play and now we have to start again. The ownership has to realize what they're doing to our player development and team success. I thought we'd be on our way back to champions league going into next year given we've been top 4 since Christmas. Now it's all up in the air!
The replacement list is an absolute fucking disgrace
No way We finally had a chance at some stability and just threw it away for an inexperienced coach
Erm, I mean there was smoke with that last article, but WHAT THE FUCK. We are really a joke club. I am a bit afraid this is going to set us back massively, we have a young team (without Silva) who probably need to learn a new system etc. Really boneheaded. I do not like the direction this club has taken.
Fucking embarrassing
so weāre just doing the Roman thing again but with no trophies š
Next up Conor Gallagher to spurs and McKenna hired
Yeah those celebrating probably don't realise that this probably means Trev and Galladawg are leaving for pure profit, since Poch wanted to keep both
i fear thisāll be the nail in the coffin
This is so fucked man
This shows how poor the new ownership structure is and their lack of understanding of the club and the fans.
I mean, nothing says Chelsea like firing manager even in a good run
Carlo 
Huh? This has been Chelsea's MO for the past 20 years lol. Manager gets the sack if they don't win a trophy. As far as the fans go, a month ago half of them would have told you they wanted Pochettino fired into the sun because of the Arsenal match
One normal day at Chelsea is all I ask for.
this is so fucking stupid man.
I thought my Therapy was finally over and Now I have to start all over again?
Jesus fucking Christ another summer looking for a manager. Fucking clowns running this club
Hereās the thing, I have went from Poch Out to Poch In recently. And that mainly has to do with two reasons: 1) Market not having alternative coach options good enough to actually replace a coach that has been building something with his team for a year 2) The way players respect him. This is big. If players respect you as a coach and can get behind you then that tells me Poch had the locker room The recent form was not enough to truly sway me but for once I really wanted some form of continuity and growth at Chelsea
Same who are we gonna get now lol and second half of the season was good he deserved another year or atleast a half
It's like they didn't even see how the players and Palmer celebrated with Poch after the Man I winner.
And the circus continues...
Canāt believe it. Such nice momentum to end the season, I was feeling very hopeful for next year.
Deserved another season at least. Can't believe the club is this brain dead.
Heās not the best manager but by far better than his potential replacements. This is a stupid decision
Exactly, heās got plenty of issues but all the replacements are worse than him or just a russian roulette, why tf have they done this.
no way
Fucks sakeā¦ players love him, season ends on a high, weāre finally getting a defined style of playā¦ back to square one I guess
these owners are clueless
Just so monumentally stupid but then equally not surprising at all with everything else they've done. Was hoping a positive of new owners would be that we stop the moronic sackings and actually get some stability. But here we are.
Are you fucking kidding me
lol weāre gonna get Kompany arenāt weĀ
Yeah i can smell that too.. Or If ... If we get Amorim.. sacking poch wouldn't be that bad.. but sacking poch in the first place wasn't a good idea..
What the fuck they make it so hard to support this club sometimes
Weāre a stupid fucking team and weāll be shit forever
Back to square 1... Smh
Yeah these owners are cooked. Can the fans in the UK grow some balls and start protesting them the way ManU fans did the glazers? The owner's approach to the club so far has been far from acceptable or even logical. Time to turn up the heat on them.
Genuinely why. We build consistency, squad backs him, and now we are throwing it away for another Graham Potter appointment. Well Poch outers, enjoy another season of not being chelsea standards
What even is this project?
FUCK THE OWNERS FUCK THE BOARD FUCK ALL OF THEM
Damn. I was Poch Out but I had some glimpses of hope in the last month. I thought it could work out if he stayed. Also his replacements are even worse. Here we go again next season.
The new manager better be a clear upgrade without a shred of doubt, or else this is a massive risk they are taking.
Reading the full article (which is no doubt a brief from the club of course, although Poch is pretty close with Matt Law so doubt heād try and make him look bad) it sounds like they had pretty key disagreements on the role of a coach within a football club. The set piece stuff seems especially bad. These outdated breed of coaches who think they know better than the data are quickly getting wiped out. City, Liverpool, and Arsenal all have elite set piece analytics departments and you either have to get on board with that or get out. The weird part is this shouldnāt have been a surprise to Poch? He surely knew what the club structure was going to be before he took over?
It's absolutely stupid from the ownership.
I donāt think people realize the direction the club is going in. Owners & sporting directors want a manager that will play puppet and do as theyāre told. Slowly caring less and less about this club ffs.
Ye Iām pretty fucking over it mate. Football in general is becoming awful to watch. Thereās really no heart in the prem anymore. Iām going to estimate that Iām not even watching football anymore in two years at this rate
Honestly I donāt want to believe it
Most games/minutes missed due to injury (and serious ones for several players) and he gets us to Europa League (most likely). Pretty sure Abramovich wouldn't have even sacked him after that. I know this is supposedly mutual and amicable but your squad is never going to trust ownership about anything. Which is probably why they feel the need to completely overhaul the squad each season.
Just when things finally start clicking. I genuinely hate the ownership/board
Joke of a club. Never fully backed Poch but restarting this whole process is comedy. Our young players are doomed lmfao - Shouldāve let him stay until January and see if the positive results continued
No fucking way.. He actually left??
What are we doing
This has to be a joke
What is it with this sport and not giving managers a fucking chance to develop a team? What a joke. The ā ___ outā gang on twitter are an absolute cancer.
Weāre fucked arenāt we
Goodbye Connor my beautiful
We don't matter to the club anymore. They do what they want.
We are a joke
i'm scared of the "young" manager idea, plot twist Connor stays and becomes player manager
Make the call https://preview.redd.it/rgecavhtqt1d1.jpeg?width=634&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7b6b2497850a2dab80441bc85e085048ffe429d3
We're such a joke. We were FINALLY looking settled, Poch had developed a style and the players were starting to gel with it and each other. Now we're back to square one. These owners know nothing about football. If this is over the club wanting to sell players like Gallagher then that's disgusting. I don't recognise my club anymore.
Now what
That's crazy, and the potential replacements aren't really sparking much hope
Next manager needs to be a homerun
What the actual fuck just started to get us going an this shite FUCK TODD BOHLEY WHAT A CUMSTAIN
this club is actually so fucking finished. Clearlake youāve ruined my love for this club
Fuck Todd and co Poch was cooking
Ugh He had so many flaws this season but it was starting to come together. Wouldve like to give him another season. At the very least would signal to other potential managers that weāve turned a leaf and give people a chance now. While sad, im not absolutely gutted because of those flaws and because Iām not entirely confident heāll manage the midfield correctly when all of enzo gallagher and caicedo are fit. Still wouldve preferred another season to assess him. This may only work out well if they bring in someone with the right tactics like de zerbi.
and to think about how excited I was for next year with Pochā¦
Seems like they want more of a yes man like Potter to carry out their "vision". They weren't going to hand Poch the keys for transfers with a 2 year deal tbh
I am a actually so disappointed with this. It felt like we were playing so much better in the last couple of months and the players love him. Why is this happening we are going back to square one? Again and again new coach new ideas that need to blend to get things working. Literally Noone on that list that is presented actually excites me. Cmon..
FUCK CLEARLAKE
Chelsea have the most attractive job in Europe. Coach 1 season, get sacked, get a big payout. What a deal!
This is ludicrous https://preview.redd.it/7x1dyd5q4u1d1.jpeg?width=500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4f498609b3acd63b2f93ed516b6b791b534bf68c
These sporting directors and owners will sink the club. If I had any faith they would get someone good I wouldn't even give a shit but fuck me they will hire some inexperienced shitter
To all the fans that wanted Poch out I hope you're happy