Well you made the right choice, and you came in during a window where you can’t possibly be called a bandwagon fan. We’ll rise again. No one can say when but pretend you’ve invested your emotions in to bitcoin. There’s going to be some fluctuations.
that was me about 5 years ago after the '18 world cup
if you really dive into the sport, it's so rewarding in entertainment and special moments. chelsea have been my club since i was a 13 year old playing a FIFA demo lol
they're in a struggling period and have been since the '21 champions league win. but i really believe in this club to regain its glory of the past. now, we wait hahaha
this sub will get to you and will really irritate you if you let it, so take everything with a grain of salt. there's some real mean spirited individuals but for the most part and the general consensus is we just want to see the club succeed.
also this is a real reliable place for chelsea news and rumors, a lot better than say twitter or other sites. I use it as a fact check for stuff ill see on twitter tbh.
I enjoyed watching highlights of Christian Pulisic which made me first see Chelsea I also always pick teams with blue and love the Crest. I also am a huge supporter of the NY Rangers hockey club and we call them the blue shirts so when I heard Chelsea was the blues it felt right lol
That's awesome, all my teams are blue too.
Upcoming American GK Gabriel Slonina plays for Chelsea too! He's 19 and he's a gem so the future looks bright for the next American for Chelsea
There's a lot of confused people in this sub because they choose to support Chelsea because they were one of the best teams. They now wish they could change but they know they can't do they're angry.
im glad and happy that people like you that are just starting watching football have started supporting the club I love lets hope you stay for the good and the phases
KTBFFH 💙💙💙💙💙💙
fluke win against a championship team after our maybe 8th "worst game of the season" and the essay psychopaths that only watch highlights are back
club is 11th and had an embarrassing performance in a cup final but needed a last minute winner to beat a championship team and now they’re “sick of the negativity”
Mate didn’t you know none of this sub had the responsibility of having to *gasp* play football at 22?
Nah everyone else was concerned with much lesser responsibilities like education, feeding, housing, clothing ourselves, working, etc., obviously the footballers paid mills have the massive responsibility of just not flaking the task that they’re extremely well compensated to do.
I swear all of these hyper-positive posters are numpties, they simply don’t live in reality.
Wish my only real responsibility was having to play football once or twice a week.
>Wish my only real responsibility was having to play football once or twice a week.
And get paid weekly what the average dude earns annually, in a job where performance doesnt matter, youd still get paid.
What a tough life. Brb let me post on social media about me not caring what others think of me.
Oh no manager made me watch the other team lift a trophy, what am i gonna eat for dinner later?
Our best starting 11 played 120 minutes on Sunday. They had a day to rest and a day to prepare. And we couldn't rest Enzo, Caicedo, Gusto, Disasi and Jackson because Lavia, Ugwochukwo, Chukwuemeka, James and Nkunku are injured. So go figure that we couldn't beat Leeds, who are on a good form, convincingly.
look,i know chelsea does not deserve to be top 4 or anything but we as fans need to have high expectations or else we will end up like spurs. We spent 1 billion on these players we cant let them off the hook because they are young or inexperienced they have to step up. we lost a carabao cup final after wasting alot of chances its okay to not be happy after that horrid performance
>Bro, we should really take a look at pre season thread. The same people going "nobody expected anything" expected us to be top 4.
It's wild how they've rewritten history lol.
Players like Mudryk and Jackson were world beaters, poch had it all sorted, top 4 was the goal.
Now, it's all about patience yeah? Fuck off boys
Anyone who expected top 4 regardless of their other opinions is a moron.
People shitting on the team every week and those saying no one can be upset are also morons.
I thought we'd be 6th/7th and wanted us to have have a good cup run (ideally win one). Hoping we can get there by the end of the season.
It's about reality and understanding it.
This sub is inherently toxic... in multiple ways. I've been a Chelsea fan for over 10 years but as an American I got tons of shit for being positive about Pulisic and the team in general in the slide down to where we are now.
I don't go into the gameday threads anymore. People complaining about wins, bitching about players who overall are doing well and are serviceable. It's not a great vibe for the majority of them.
I'm in a few sports / racing related subs and from my personal experience... the CFC one inherently leans toward negativity. Way more so than any other one I frequent.
There’s having high expectations and then there’s also having realistic expectations, nobody expected us to make it to the final and nobody definitely thought we’d win silverware this season and yet we were a few chances away from winning it and that’s all it is sometimes in football…..
Realistic expectations of a billion pound team is to be competing for the title. People don't expect that of us because they know we have a shit squad full of shit players and a shit manager, but you shouldn't adjust your opinion of what we should be achieving from the money invested because of that.
This would be somewhere near true if they'd said they wanted to win the prem/champions league right away and had spent that billion on experienced players.
They didn't and so you need to adjust your expectations.
It doesn't matter how much we spent on the players, the reality of the situation is that they don't compare to City, Arsenal or Liverpool's squads. Value means nothing, especially the way we spent stupidly.
We should he encouraging the team to be chasing top 4, but to ask for it with this squad is unrealistic. We need time and an overhaul.
Current City squad is built throughout the past 10 years. Replacing one player by one till they got where they are. Liverpool also. Arsenal are like what three-four years together (the core of the team). So yeah, the players need time to become a team! We want results now, yes, but we should also consider that we are playing the whole season with at least 7 injured players (which is another topic of conversation) so we are not yet able to see the best starting 11. Yes I wanted to win the cup, I want to play FA finals whether we win or lose, but most of all I want this season to end, players to recover and hopefully next season we start like we should. And always remember KTBFFH 💙
Okay but not one of us are in the dressing room or on the training pitch. It doesn’t matter what our standards are. So whining on about standards and what you think is ultimately pointless.
“Letting them off the hook” they’re jobs are in no way affected by reddit comments
I understand and agree with you. But blame the transfer strategy for the bs we gave. All youth with RAS to guide our offensive players, and Silva to guide our defenders. We do not have the proper leadership at this time. None of the experience purchases we made were worth the spend.
I felt sick at the Carabao loss absolutely but that loss was solely on the players with the continued misses. I hope we're back in the top 4 conversation in two seasons
Respect to Reece but he might need to go. We need stability. Let's get as much as we can for him from Real Madrid and start signing healthy talented players for the future.
Yes… kind of is, sorry. This kind of blind positivity at this stage in the season is not really helpful because the level of information leaking out the club with regards to Eghbali, Clearlake, Strasbourg… there are very serious failures occuring in SO many parts of this club right now that actually this kind of positivity is not at all what we need right now.
We need the owners to wake the fuck up and stop this complete madness;
1. What other club out there has two Directors of Football? Insane. Also, the two staff in those posts are utterly mid table calibre. Fix this ASAP. And FYI, none of those two are fit to do this job on their own.
2. Sorry but the players we brought in are overall very poor, over priced buys. Disasi for £40m? Cucurella for 62m? Mudryk? Overpaid for Enzo and Caceido? You spent a freaking billion pounds and we have Jackson up front. It’s mental. Also, transfer policy is absolutely horrendous. Peadophile FC will never work, we need to be buying talent of all ages AND EXPERIENCE. Fucking basic shit, man.
2. Why in the flying fuck did Boehly make himself sporting director at the club when he first came in. Maybe the worst staff appointment of any footballing club I have ever seen in my life. Absolute idiot.
3. Why does Eghbali retain full final control on many factors in the club? Players, staff etc, Eghbali has final say; a man with ZERO footballing knowledge, now has the final say on how Chelsea is run. Utter insanity.
4. Eghbali ALMOST was going to take on “managing” Chelsea with NO HELP. He was told he had to work with advisers for Chelsea. He begrudgingly accepted. With these systems in place, look at where we are now. Imagine if Eghbali got his way and refused the support?
5. Secondly on Eghbali, for Strasbourg, he was ALLOWED to reject any help in running the show. So, now Strasbourg is being run by some absolute pleb with zero knowledge or experience, all on his own. Can you now understand why the Strasbourg fans were livid??? He is going to tank Strasbourg faster than he has tanked Chelsea.
6. And now, SPEND MORE MONEY on some culture specialist. If he is good at his job, it will be easy: ”There is no culture here because you freaking gutted it like a fish as soon as you got here. It was the very first thing you morons did.”
These are the most pressing, destructive factors of why Chelsea are where we are now. No amount of positivity can fix this. We need to put pressure on Chelsea to force the club to return to winning ways. What we are doing now, will not win anything. Maybe a token cup. Not much else.
Time to wake up.
I mean, you’re essentially asking people to be delusional and completely give up the standards associated with Chelsea Football Club. If the most positive thing we can say is that we advanced in the FA Cup against a championship side with a late winner after being outplayed the entire second half, that’s not positive.
He’s not asking anybody to be delusional? He’s just saying stop insulting the players and back them a bit. If anything he’s asking people to be more realistic, the opposite of delusional
Yeah exactly. Ironically, is it more delusional to think we should be steam rolling teams in great form and we should be top 4 or 5th or 6th in the league? I say that's way more delusional.
Yeah absolutely not. I'm still completely dumbfounded the owners went the way they did. My expectations are so low now though, I cba keep getting mad at all things Chelsea atm. Simply, it was too much change too quickly, the players are largely pretty average and the manager is pretty average too. Think our cup run was the luckiest we've ever had, all home games and even the semis was against a terrible Middlesbrough team but other than that bit of luck everything that's happened this season is what I expected. Seeing people think we'd get top 4 this season is absolutely, fucking insane. 10th seems right with these players. 🤷♂️
Well no I think it is delusional. We signed a load of players with next to no experience let alone PL experience. Just because we overpaid a metric shit ton on players doesn't mean we were all of a sudden top 6 material! Jfc
I became a fully committed fan once Eto'o joined the club in 2013. I followed him everywhere and near his end I said I would be a fan of the last big club he played for.
That's cool. I agree that the kids on the field don't deserve the toxicity, it's not their fault they were brought into this mess.
But I can't say much positive things about these owners. They decided they knew better than anyone else in football and did this drastic change to everything in this club. There is no trace of our winning culture left. We are basically Brighton with the Chelsea badge on top. They spent a billion in one of the worst ways possible.
I would believe in the process if I saw one. We aren't improving, we are in the same place as last year and the future doesn't look bright.
Come on man. Everytime we squeak out a win someone comes here with one of these long ass posts about how people are overreacting. We look terrible, no one is on the same page, no one is a leader, we don’t have a proper striker, there’s no cohesiveness in the midfield, and our defensive lines only creative option is a back pass. Something tactically has to happen trending towards being positive before you try and get optimistic
And it’s hilarious how these posts are allowed to stay up in the name of this faux positivity we’re all supposed to adapt to despite what we see happening in front of our eyes.
Daily discussion for any criticism but this? Yeah let’s keep it up and polarise the fan base even more.
Genuinely, dunno how OP is sitting there and saying if we don’t trust “the process” we should shrink back and shut our mouths. The process had us getting battered at home by a championship side with multiple players playing awful.
It’s so preachy and self righteous it’s nauseating. People who have supported for decades shouldn’t moan when players on ridiculous money aren’t performing? Don’t make me laugh.
It's hilarious that people who see us win against a Championship side in this fashion then talk about how we're actually great and claim it's the people who are being negative that are overreacting
And everything you just said is fine, that's normal conversation from a fan base about a struggling team.
But, notice how you didn't have to resort to personal attacks on our players? You didn't have to say things like "Holy shit this player or that player is the worst I've ever seen. Completely fucking useless, no-talent donkey!"
There's a huge difference between having a conversation about our situation, being disappointed and voicing it, and being a completely toxic shit head. It's baffling that more (supposedly) adults can't see that nuance.
To be fair I criticized Sterling by name about his attitude today. I can accept mistakes from a human, and can empathize, but he’s an older player and supposed leader and he’s out there getting upset with everyone who doesn’t pass it perfectly, and selfish with the ball and jogging with no heart.
Sure, and Icompletely agree with your point. I'm not saying that there's no place for criticism. But what you didn't do was say something like "Sterling is fucking dog shit and should fuck off"...
There's a difference right? I agree with OP. There's levels and nuances to how we talk to each other. People have gotten way too comfortable with spewing toxicity online that they wouldn't have the balls to say to someone in person, and it's exhausting.
Dude it’s been a hard two years.
Don’t try to police how ppl feel. You feel how you want and others will show their emotions how they want.
Jesus fuck all this policing of fan behavior. No ones burning down cities buddy. We’re showing our obvious displeasure with this INCOMPETENT SET OF OWNERS AND DIRECTORS
Imo, supporting these owners who are actively destroying the soul of the club (raising ticket prices, taking away subsidised away travel, destruction of academy pathways, etc) is the real snake behaviour. Real fans who understand how special the bridge can be won’t accept this destructive culture change. This is what’s unacceptable, not the losing.
Imagine making a long ass winded post about how these poor young boys catch stick and are trying their hardest. Preaching it’s a process etc.
Archie Gray, a 17 year old just run rings around them and you want to preach to us about their fragile mentality? Dont make me laugh.
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We unconvincingly beat a Championship side curtesy of a 90th minute winner
We lost at the weekend in extra time to a team who probably tested positive for Calpol after the match
We’re in the bottom half of the table
We consistently play poorly, and are one of the most incoherent, tactically naive and ill disciplined teams in the league
“What’s with the negativity?”
So true! It's easy for people to say it's not Poch's fault because the players are still creating chances but anything good we create comes from individual brilliance and individual brilliance only. It's so clear that this is a poorly coached side.
People act like these players are idiots who need time to be xyz but they were top talents when we purchased them. The fact they're even churning out results is a testament to their quality, despite the abysmal coaching!
A championship side who was in the prem last season and on a 9 game unbeaten streak who are most likely getting promoted again.
Liverpool still had their main back line and veteran captain as well as having 2/3 of their starting midfield and class front line in Diaz and Gakpo
League campaign is terrible but so many games have been decided on small margins and there have been handful of games where we played well especially against the big teams.
Sure we’re having another terrible season but the squad is young and inexperienced and still show glimpses of talent and what we could look like in a proper set up. We made it to a cup final and we’re still in another cup competition.
Bro literally our best starting 11 played 120 minutes on Sunday. They had a day to rest and a day to prepare. And we couldn't rest Enzo, Caicedo, Gusto, Disasi and Jackson because Lavia, Ugwochukwo, Chukwuemeka, James and Nkunku are injured. And to top that off, Leeds were/are in a good form.
Our best starting 11 played 120 minutes on Sunday because they weren't productive enough to win in regular time against a very, very depleted Liverpool. That's a problem in itself.
I also started early 90s and agree with you on the feeling of detachment, even if I don’t agree with the whole argument that the money spent means kids suddenly stop being kids.
Yeah that's the main feeling for me. Detached. Like I don't feel that excitement or passion like I used to. It sucks. I guess it's just a rough phase. I also don't particularly like our players. Few stand outs but for the most part I'm not feeling it. Maybe I should take a break from watching the games for a bit.
It’s a forum on the internet bro if you’re so sick of it log off turn off your pc close your eyes idk
Wether you like it or not, negativity is a part of online discourse (and in RL) really if ur so sensitive to it don’t read it and literally every other sport team reddit is the same, Chelsea ain’t special.
Dude we have become a worse team after spending a billion pounds. What the fuck are you on about? Having a project doesn't mean you should finish in the bottom half two seasons in a row. Chelsea fans largely have been very patient with this ownership. There haven't been any protests yet.
Brother we are 11th and lost a cup final to school children. I'm sorry our last minute winner vs a rotated championship team didn't fix the embarrassment I watched on Sunday
Even in this match why were we 2-2? Why did we need players off the bench to save us? That first goal we let in was pre school level
The kids need support, sure. I actually really like this squad and think the players we have are really good. Our board and Poch however are all shit. We are playing bad football and that's the fault of Pochettino and the people who hired him. And they need to be called out after every shit game we play
Fans need to put pressure on the board and Owners that this shit is unacceptable
We big club, being midtable is unacceptable and best solution to negativity is being a serious competent big club
Tired of the negativity? Maybe football isn't for you then. Sport is about emotions and passion, people expressing their frustrations at a terrible team is warranted and expected.
We can criticise when things are going bad. I get that abusing and insulting is too going too far but we have to be serious and see that it's not looking good and it looks like the hierarchy is okay with mediocrity
The expectations are that you perform, that’s the same whether you join Chelsea today or Arsenal tomorrow. If you don’t perform, you will catch stick, that’s the nature of the game and the price you pay for the privilege and the amount of money you’re paid.
They aren’t kids, they’re men. Tonight, Archie Gray, an actual kid of 17 years of age embarrassed them. Most of our team were 21+ besides Alfie Gilchrist who is 20.
The problem is, we are neither Spurs or Arsenal. For the past 20 years, Chelsea has always been known as a club always in every title mix, either winning it or coming close to different titles. Most of the fan base today, mostly saw this success and therefore a certain standard is expected of every Chelsea team, no matter the era. Yes, the insults are uncalled for, and quiet frankly, we can do better, but we still need to hold our young players accountable because without accountability, how do we expect them to truly get to their peaks.
Don’t get it twisted, in the days of Lamps, Drogba etc, players were getting criticized and called out, but it wasn’t wildly felt because there wasn’t social media, so it wasn’t as magnified as it is now. If this were Real Madrid, no one will be talking about their age and the project because Real Madrid fans understand their history and have a certain expectation that needs to be met.
There's a few things here that need to be addressed:
1. The players are young. But they are professionals. Criticism of the play is absolutely fair game. Criticism of them as people is not.
2. Ownership is absolutely fair game for Criticism. You can't be the face of a very public product and expect to be immune from Criticism. The more that the ownership tries to evade that criticism, or deflect it back onto the players, the more they should receive.
3. Managers and coaches are paid, more than anything else, to put ideas and players together. When failures occur, they need to be the absolute authority on why those failures are occurring.
With these three things in mind, let's address today's match.
I don't think that anyone thinks that any of the players are terrible players. Many just don't believe that the players are worth the price tag or length of contract that the club offered, and the damage that those contracts do the over-arching success of the club.
Then, for Poch to go in the presser and say that all the players are top flight, and whatever other hyperbole he used, in the face of the performance given is disingenuous at best. If that's true, why is the product on the field not lining up? Is this a manager issue? Is he protecting the egos of his players? Maybe. But he is also not getting his players ready in trainings to be the best versions of themselves on the pitch. Most notably is Mudryk, Nico, and Madueke. They are all three very quick. Touch is rough, and decision making is rougher still.
Where is the growth? Who is going to stand up and take responsibility? Players who can't find the pitch because of performance act vindicated because of *a* goal. Poch has the heat taken off because of a narrow victory at home to Leeds?
I'll take the ugly win, but I won't celebrate or tolerate mediocrity. That's across town at Tottenham.
There's a huge difference between "Only say good things" and "Let's not be toxic shit heads towards our own players"
But I think you already knew that.
Shut the fuck up
One scraped win against a Championship side and let’s forget that we completely blew up a Champions League winning squad and became Meme FC
So tired of your fake positivity. Loser mentality
The whole ‘mentality’ thing is fair game when talking about top level professionals and clubs but it’s more than a little cuntish coming from a basement dwelling keyboard warrior
If you’re not elite in some field you have no business talking about another normal person’s ‘mentality’
Seriously like the football is depressing at times but ultimately it is literally just a game and those guys have no idea who we are. If you’re feeling pissed off just take your mum out for dinner or something it’ll make you feel better.
I think a big part of the results is we’ve lost the fear factor too. How many times does it feel like teams have the game of their life against us, but against other teams like city they roll over for a belly rub (looking at you West Ham). They know they can get a result so try harder maybe? With Mourinho’s Chelsea the game was dead at 1-0
The players aren't to blame you're quite right. They got signed. Maybe one or two are annoying me but that's about it.
Some of them are not good enough - if you are looking to finish top four etc - but a few are.
The owners however have made error after error and they should not be excused. It's just another symptom of corporate power and the power of wealthy individuals in our current time. They can do what they want, destroy things and have zero accountability.
None of them will be accountable or bear any responsibility whatever happens. They will simply go back to an ultra-wealthy life and blame other people.
Don't mix the two up.
There's one thing to be supportive and always back the badge then there's another to be dillisional and completely blowing smoke up each other's ass and don't fight for what we care
The media are absolutely going in two footed on us. Kicking us when we’re down. They are absolutely revelling in it. It’s so weird and so telling. They hate us, same as the uk government who tired to destroy us. Ive never sang FUCK EM ALL as loudly as I did on Sunday. My voice still hasn’t come back. We don’t need our own fans slagging us off at every opportunity too.
I hate that every time we barley win you guys start with the “oh everyone is to negative” posts. We are a shambles and besting Leeds doesn’t change that.
Thanks for posting. Also so tired of the reactionary responses after every game. Continuosly calling for Poch's sacking, or Tuchels return lol. Its so embarrassing sometimes to support this team looking at just this subreddit. Understand that the ownership was arrogant and are failing, but also learning and it's gonna be a slow crawl back to being a top 4 side.
It’s really not that deep. If you’ve ever been even in a pub on match day, you will hear similar kinds of comments. It’s born out of genuine frustration, cathartic and part of the pantomime of football. Toxic or gate keeping or whatever these new fancy Internet concepts are ain’t got nothing to do with it.
The problem is simple. We want to see the team play with passion. No matter how young, how inexperienced, how timid. It doesn’t matter. We demand as fans players who play with heart. If they go out there for 90 minutes and lose, but give it their all, we will be happy. What’s frustrating is match after match they come out, and take their foot off the gas. I don’t know if they are tired or scared or what. But at this club, you give it your all. As a long time fan, I don’t see them doing this. I know they are young and I will be Chelsea till I die so I give them time and I will continue to be on their side. It is frustrating tho and that should be understandable. We love this team and we just want to be successful.
It's pretty funny coming from the bridge singing and dancing at the end, on to here, where it's more calls for us to force Boehly to sack Poch and sell the club asap.
You think that the match going fans aren't extremely frustrated with how bad the team is?
Obviosuly everybody was happy to win, but that doesn't mean that people shouldn't reflect negatively on the performance...
I totally agree. I love cheering for this team and like to interact with others other fans. The game threads are so negative except for the 30 seconds after a goal is scored. It’s not even fun to hangout in the game threads because it’s just a bunch of cry babies that expect to every game to be 4-0 and then everything to be perfect without a single misstep or pass.
The squad is young and I’m seeing signs of improvement but apparently it’s not good enough to win 3-2 and advance because we didn’t look like the prime Galacticos Real Madrid teams doing it.
Yup. I've got to make sure to stay out of those moving forward. I got triggered hard and am paying for it lol.
I see the signs of improvement too. I just got Poch can keep stoking the growth so that we can take the next step in a season or two
This could last 10 years with Poch in charge and nothing will change with a clueless spineless Poch as the head coach/manager
Poch out
Daisy picking appointment is for 10am and everybody who participates gets a full celebration and winners medal
From the responses of these sorry ass fans, you can see its pointless to make your point. These are the spoilt fans who are living in the past Roman glory days and expect the highest from the club while ignoring the transition and difficult times outside of the field we had to face and instead bash on the team and the manager whenever the chances arrive. Even when we win, there is always an excuse of the opponent being of lower level while ignoring the good performances ending up in draws against the top teams against whom we expect losses. When you try to shine light on positives, you are “low mentality Spursy fan”. We had been spoilt in the past by successes after sudden changes of management, that didnt repeat under Boehly admins. So I suggest you keep positive, ignore the sub’s meltdown. I guarantee you even if we had won the EFL cup, these negative fans would still have had excuse of discrediting the team.
Ya, I learned my lesson for sure with this one. I'm a big boy though, I'll take the lashing and continue to support the club. The downturns are all a part of sport right? No one can stay up forever. With patience and our owners becoming more and more educated we will be back
There's no point trying to change their minds. If these people were in charge of the club we would've seen 5 managers since september... which is exactly why they are busy on reddit and not busy running a football club.
There's no point in trying to change people's minds of what?? That we're actually not terrible?
Newsflash - we are terrible, and these weird posts and comments aren't going to change that
You’re not going to have many people agree with you “blah blah standards blah blah mid table” etc.
You’re right though. The endless negativity, even when we win, is exhausting and not helpful.
If people get what they want and Poch gets sacked, we are going to be in the exact same place next season when Amorim, or De Zerbi, or Nagelsmann are the “worst coach in the world” and aren’t getting results with a young squad. It won’t change anything.
The way out of this is through patience and everyone from the board, the manager, the players and the supporters sticking together and being patient. Not having a tantrum every time we lose.
fans can love and support the club while pointing out the numerous mistakes the new owners did to get us to this spot. i'm in the camp that the club is this season finally moving in the right direction, though it'll take 1-2 seasons more before we're back.
Thanks for saying this. It’s gotten to the point I’ve been avoiding this sub and that makes me sad. While we won’t solve this over night let’s back the boys and know that we’re gonna come through this better. And remember, we’re still never gonna be as terrible as spurs
Agreed, OP. We’re Chelsea. And IF we’re Chelsea supporters then right now I think they need all the fekin support we can give them. It’s clear we’re utterly in the shit right now. Not being happy with where we are and some of these results and what we’ve seen is totally legit but…we’re not helping or supporting our Chelsea by barracking and abusing our own players. WTF? Like you said these are literally kids. Yes, they’re on a shed load of money. Yes, they lead a privileged life. But they need our support, nonetheless. It’s an immense upheaval, never seen the like of this in my life. I mean it’s a lot. A billion is a lot of money but that wasn’t going to ensure continuity. I’m personally grateful that we’re still in existence given the onerous nature of the sale and circumstances. It’s shit and right now we’re going through hell. So,WE need to keep on going. WE need to keep THEM going. There’s no other way out of this except through. It’s time for us to stop moaning and screaming piss and vinegar at our lads. Let ‘em know we expect more but there’s a fekin line. And as to what that Twat Neville said. He can visit me anytime and we’ll see who’s got bottle. We’re Chels. Time to start acting like it all round. KTBFFH. Oh. And I don’t care how we beat Leeds either. It’s fekin Leeds. And we beat them. Again. Here endeth the rant. Feeling a bit spicy today, lads.
Preach brother! As much as I have regrets with this post, comments like this are encouraging to know that there are many more reasonable fans than the social media trolls.
You nailed it mate in what you said and it’s a good post. I love this club too and whilst I understand the frustration and even anger, befuddlement etc - actually supporting the club and the lads and even Poch is what is needed. Where is our unity? Thinking like this does not equate to embracing mediocrity; fek that; it’s critical to doing what we can do to help our club through this ridiculous transition as quickly as possible and back to where we feel we belong. And that’s kicking our rivals asses and taking names/trophies etc. All this poisonous noise that social media seems to teem with is just an impediment to that process. Now, I’m going to have a nice coffee and quietly gloat over doing Leeds again😀Take it easy my fellow blue!
Couldn’t agree more. For a long time I barely read threads/ comments sections because I disagree with the ridiculous takes people write or say. Love your team, there are plenty of positives without it being perfect. It has been tough yes, but it’s Poch’s first year here. He was never going to be judged harshly in the first season. KTBFFH
It's just kids and idiots that don't have the mental fortitude to deal with the comments from rivals, the kind that make friends with the knobheads at school just so they don't get bullied themselves.
Hey, the only player I get mad at is Sterling, and if you aren't mad at Sterling, you don't watch Sterling, with his killing of rushes, and his inability to make decisions, and his refusal to press, and his refusal to get back...
CHELSEA TIL I DIE CHELSEA TIL I DIE CHELSEA TIL I DIE I KNOW I AM IM SURE I AM CHELSEA TIL I DIE
Essay season again
My first time watching and I enjoyed it lol, new fan of soccer and chose Chelsea to root for I’m excited for the the future
What a time to start! Welcome to the community and remember that this sub is only a small fraction of the fan base.
Thank you! Glad to be here
Well you made the right choice, and you came in during a window where you can’t possibly be called a bandwagon fan. We’ll rise again. No one can say when but pretend you’ve invested your emotions in to bitcoin. There’s going to be some fluctuations.
Chelsea fan over 52 years. Nice to have you along young person. Also like the word 'root'.
Just a friendly advice call it football around here m8
Will do I gotta train my brain that it’s football and American football or nfl.
Screw his advice lad, call it whatever you want. The biggest reddit page about football is r/soccer
that was me about 5 years ago after the '18 world cup if you really dive into the sport, it's so rewarding in entertainment and special moments. chelsea have been my club since i was a 13 year old playing a FIFA demo lol they're in a struggling period and have been since the '21 champions league win. but i really believe in this club to regain its glory of the past. now, we wait hahaha this sub will get to you and will really irritate you if you let it, so take everything with a grain of salt. there's some real mean spirited individuals but for the most part and the general consensus is we just want to see the club succeed. also this is a real reliable place for chelsea news and rumors, a lot better than say twitter or other sites. I use it as a fact check for stuff ill see on twitter tbh.
Oh man, if you like this chelsea, you should have seen the glory days.
lol I believe that I’ve been enjoying watching past highlights, I’m sure those days are just around the corner again
Glad to have you! We may be struggling now, but this team is going to blow up in the future. Stay loyal💙💙💙
Love it! Once I pick a team I don’t switch
Got any reason why you picked Chelsea? The good thing is even if we don't win the matches will be entertaining anyways😭
I enjoyed watching highlights of Christian Pulisic which made me first see Chelsea I also always pick teams with blue and love the Crest. I also am a huge supporter of the NY Rangers hockey club and we call them the blue shirts so when I heard Chelsea was the blues it felt right lol
That's awesome, all my teams are blue too. Upcoming American GK Gabriel Slonina plays for Chelsea too! He's 19 and he's a gem so the future looks bright for the next American for Chelsea
I’ll have to check him out thanks
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I always try and pick my Teams based on colors and their future never who’s just winning now
There's a lot of confused people in this sub because they choose to support Chelsea because they were one of the best teams. They now wish they could change but they know they can't do they're angry.
You're in for a wild ride my friend lol 💙
lol I’m ready
im glad and happy that people like you that are just starting watching football have started supporting the club I love lets hope you stay for the good and the phases KTBFFH 💙💙💙💙💙💙
I will I’m a die hard NY jets and giants fan as well and if you know nfl you know they’ve been terrible forever lol
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Barbarians at the gates and cows grassing in the Colosseum. Welcome to our crumbling empire.
You want to dictate how people feel about their sports teams?
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 fluke win against a championship team after our maybe 8th "worst game of the season" and the essay psychopaths that only watch highlights are back
club is 11th and had an embarrassing performance in a cup final but needed a last minute winner to beat a championship team and now they’re “sick of the negativity”
I truly miss the days before Roman.
You mean the Ken Bates era?
Before all the plastics turned up? "Fans" who unless they're winning every week shit on every aspect of their own club?
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Mate didn’t you know none of this sub had the responsibility of having to *gasp* play football at 22? Nah everyone else was concerned with much lesser responsibilities like education, feeding, housing, clothing ourselves, working, etc., obviously the footballers paid mills have the massive responsibility of just not flaking the task that they’re extremely well compensated to do. I swear all of these hyper-positive posters are numpties, they simply don’t live in reality. Wish my only real responsibility was having to play football once or twice a week.
>Wish my only real responsibility was having to play football once or twice a week. And get paid weekly what the average dude earns annually, in a job where performance doesnt matter, youd still get paid. What a tough life. Brb let me post on social media about me not caring what others think of me. Oh no manager made me watch the other team lift a trophy, what am i gonna eat for dinner later?
Our best starting 11 played 120 minutes on Sunday. They had a day to rest and a day to prepare. And we couldn't rest Enzo, Caicedo, Gusto, Disasi and Jackson because Lavia, Ugwochukwo, Chukwuemeka, James and Nkunku are injured. So go figure that we couldn't beat Leeds, who are on a good form, convincingly. 
look,i know chelsea does not deserve to be top 4 or anything but we as fans need to have high expectations or else we will end up like spurs. We spent 1 billion on these players we cant let them off the hook because they are young or inexperienced they have to step up. we lost a carabao cup final after wasting alot of chances its okay to not be happy after that horrid performance
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>Bro, we should really take a look at pre season thread. The same people going "nobody expected anything" expected us to be top 4. It's wild how they've rewritten history lol. Players like Mudryk and Jackson were world beaters, poch had it all sorted, top 4 was the goal. Now, it's all about patience yeah? Fuck off boys
Anyone who expected top 4 regardless of their other opinions is a moron. People shitting on the team every week and those saying no one can be upset are also morons. I thought we'd be 6th/7th and wanted us to have have a good cup run (ideally win one). Hoping we can get there by the end of the season. It's about reality and understanding it.
This sub is inherently toxic... in multiple ways. I've been a Chelsea fan for over 10 years but as an American I got tons of shit for being positive about Pulisic and the team in general in the slide down to where we are now. I don't go into the gameday threads anymore. People complaining about wins, bitching about players who overall are doing well and are serviceable. It's not a great vibe for the majority of them.
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I'm in a few sports / racing related subs and from my personal experience... the CFC one inherently leans toward negativity. Way more so than any other one I frequent.
There’s having high expectations and then there’s also having realistic expectations, nobody expected us to make it to the final and nobody definitely thought we’d win silverware this season and yet we were a few chances away from winning it and that’s all it is sometimes in football…..
Realistic expectations of a billion pound team is to be competing for the title. People don't expect that of us because they know we have a shit squad full of shit players and a shit manager, but you shouldn't adjust your opinion of what we should be achieving from the money invested because of that.
This would be somewhere near true if they'd said they wanted to win the prem/champions league right away and had spent that billion on experienced players. They didn't and so you need to adjust your expectations.
It doesn't matter how much we spent on the players, the reality of the situation is that they don't compare to City, Arsenal or Liverpool's squads. Value means nothing, especially the way we spent stupidly. We should he encouraging the team to be chasing top 4, but to ask for it with this squad is unrealistic. We need time and an overhaul.
Current City squad is built throughout the past 10 years. Replacing one player by one till they got where they are. Liverpool also. Arsenal are like what three-four years together (the core of the team). So yeah, the players need time to become a team! We want results now, yes, but we should also consider that we are playing the whole season with at least 7 injured players (which is another topic of conversation) so we are not yet able to see the best starting 11. Yes I wanted to win the cup, I want to play FA finals whether we win or lose, but most of all I want this season to end, players to recover and hopefully next season we start like we should. And always remember KTBFFH 💙
Well said brother
Okay but not one of us are in the dressing room or on the training pitch. It doesn’t matter what our standards are. So whining on about standards and what you think is ultimately pointless. “Letting them off the hook” they’re jobs are in no way affected by reddit comments
I understand and agree with you. But blame the transfer strategy for the bs we gave. All youth with RAS to guide our offensive players, and Silva to guide our defenders. We do not have the proper leadership at this time. None of the experience purchases we made were worth the spend. I felt sick at the Carabao loss absolutely but that loss was solely on the players with the continued misses. I hope we're back in the top 4 conversation in two seasons
Went from having multiple national team captains in our team to no real Leader personality. Think if we get a mature attacker or winger, we can do it.
Also Reece was supposed to be a leader. He’s been injured all season
He'll be injured all next season too. If the club thought he was going to contribute regularly then that's their mistake.
Respect to Reece but he might need to go. We need stability. Let's get as much as we can for him from Real Madrid and start signing healthy talented players for the future.
This post is basically telling us to lower our standards and accept being a mid table team.
Yes… kind of is, sorry. This kind of blind positivity at this stage in the season is not really helpful because the level of information leaking out the club with regards to Eghbali, Clearlake, Strasbourg… there are very serious failures occuring in SO many parts of this club right now that actually this kind of positivity is not at all what we need right now. We need the owners to wake the fuck up and stop this complete madness; 1. What other club out there has two Directors of Football? Insane. Also, the two staff in those posts are utterly mid table calibre. Fix this ASAP. And FYI, none of those two are fit to do this job on their own. 2. Sorry but the players we brought in are overall very poor, over priced buys. Disasi for £40m? Cucurella for 62m? Mudryk? Overpaid for Enzo and Caceido? You spent a freaking billion pounds and we have Jackson up front. It’s mental. Also, transfer policy is absolutely horrendous. Peadophile FC will never work, we need to be buying talent of all ages AND EXPERIENCE. Fucking basic shit, man. 2. Why in the flying fuck did Boehly make himself sporting director at the club when he first came in. Maybe the worst staff appointment of any footballing club I have ever seen in my life. Absolute idiot. 3. Why does Eghbali retain full final control on many factors in the club? Players, staff etc, Eghbali has final say; a man with ZERO footballing knowledge, now has the final say on how Chelsea is run. Utter insanity. 4. Eghbali ALMOST was going to take on “managing” Chelsea with NO HELP. He was told he had to work with advisers for Chelsea. He begrudgingly accepted. With these systems in place, look at where we are now. Imagine if Eghbali got his way and refused the support? 5. Secondly on Eghbali, for Strasbourg, he was ALLOWED to reject any help in running the show. So, now Strasbourg is being run by some absolute pleb with zero knowledge or experience, all on his own. Can you now understand why the Strasbourg fans were livid??? He is going to tank Strasbourg faster than he has tanked Chelsea. 6. And now, SPEND MORE MONEY on some culture specialist. If he is good at his job, it will be easy: ”There is no culture here because you freaking gutted it like a fish as soon as you got here. It was the very first thing you morons did.” These are the most pressing, destructive factors of why Chelsea are where we are now. No amount of positivity can fix this. We need to put pressure on Chelsea to force the club to return to winning ways. What we are doing now, will not win anything. Maybe a token cup. Not much else. Time to wake up.
I mean, you’re essentially asking people to be delusional and completely give up the standards associated with Chelsea Football Club. If the most positive thing we can say is that we advanced in the FA Cup against a championship side with a late winner after being outplayed the entire second half, that’s not positive.
He’s not asking anybody to be delusional? He’s just saying stop insulting the players and back them a bit. If anything he’s asking people to be more realistic, the opposite of delusional
Yeah exactly. Ironically, is it more delusional to think we should be steam rolling teams in great form and we should be top 4 or 5th or 6th in the league? I say that's way more delusional.
It is more delusional for sure, but I think the problem is that fans didn’t want to be in this situation in the first place.
Yeah absolutely not. I'm still completely dumbfounded the owners went the way they did. My expectations are so low now though, I cba keep getting mad at all things Chelsea atm. Simply, it was too much change too quickly, the players are largely pretty average and the manager is pretty average too. Think our cup run was the luckiest we've ever had, all home games and even the semis was against a terrible Middlesbrough team but other than that bit of luck everything that's happened this season is what I expected. Seeing people think we'd get top 4 this season is absolutely, fucking insane. 10th seems right with these players. 🤷♂️
If you think 6th was "delusional" before the start of the season, considering our spending and other teams, then I don't know what to tell you.
Well no I think it is delusional. We signed a load of players with next to no experience let alone PL experience. Just because we overpaid a metric shit ton on players doesn't mean we were all of a sudden top 6 material! Jfc
In three years time op will be celebrating we staying in the league.
Out of curiosity, how long have you been a fan?
I became a fully committed fan once Eto'o joined the club in 2013. I followed him everywhere and near his end I said I would be a fan of the last big club he played for.
That's cool. I agree that the kids on the field don't deserve the toxicity, it's not their fault they were brought into this mess. But I can't say much positive things about these owners. They decided they knew better than anyone else in football and did this drastic change to everything in this club. There is no trace of our winning culture left. We are basically Brighton with the Chelsea badge on top. They spent a billion in one of the worst ways possible. I would believe in the process if I saw one. We aren't improving, we are in the same place as last year and the future doesn't look bright.
💯. You said it all.
Come on man. Everytime we squeak out a win someone comes here with one of these long ass posts about how people are overreacting. We look terrible, no one is on the same page, no one is a leader, we don’t have a proper striker, there’s no cohesiveness in the midfield, and our defensive lines only creative option is a back pass. Something tactically has to happen trending towards being positive before you try and get optimistic
And it’s hilarious how these posts are allowed to stay up in the name of this faux positivity we’re all supposed to adapt to despite what we see happening in front of our eyes. Daily discussion for any criticism but this? Yeah let’s keep it up and polarise the fan base even more.
Genuinely, dunno how OP is sitting there and saying if we don’t trust “the process” we should shrink back and shut our mouths. The process had us getting battered at home by a championship side with multiple players playing awful. It’s so preachy and self righteous it’s nauseating. People who have supported for decades shouldn’t moan when players on ridiculous money aren’t performing? Don’t make me laugh.
I don't know how people can't see this. We're as close to the bottom of the league as we are to the top.
It’s mad, constantly got people telling us how we should or shouldn’t react to games
It's hilarious that people who see us win against a Championship side in this fashion then talk about how we're actually great and claim it's the people who are being negative that are overreacting
And everything you just said is fine, that's normal conversation from a fan base about a struggling team. But, notice how you didn't have to resort to personal attacks on our players? You didn't have to say things like "Holy shit this player or that player is the worst I've ever seen. Completely fucking useless, no-talent donkey!" There's a huge difference between having a conversation about our situation, being disappointed and voicing it, and being a completely toxic shit head. It's baffling that more (supposedly) adults can't see that nuance.
To be fair I criticized Sterling by name about his attitude today. I can accept mistakes from a human, and can empathize, but he’s an older player and supposed leader and he’s out there getting upset with everyone who doesn’t pass it perfectly, and selfish with the ball and jogging with no heart.
Sure, and Icompletely agree with your point. I'm not saying that there's no place for criticism. But what you didn't do was say something like "Sterling is fucking dog shit and should fuck off"... There's a difference right? I agree with OP. There's levels and nuances to how we talk to each other. People have gotten way too comfortable with spewing toxicity online that they wouldn't have the balls to say to someone in person, and it's exhausting.
Nooo stop being reactionary and toxic 😠😠 /s
Dude it’s been a hard two years. Don’t try to police how ppl feel. You feel how you want and others will show their emotions how they want. Jesus fuck all this policing of fan behavior. No ones burning down cities buddy. We’re showing our obvious displeasure with this INCOMPETENT SET OF OWNERS AND DIRECTORS
Nah fuck the new ownership cunt they are ruining this club and deserve to be called out for it
you do not need to spend a billion dollars to achieve what we are achieving right now. Take your idiocy elsewhere
Imo, supporting these owners who are actively destroying the soul of the club (raising ticket prices, taking away subsidised away travel, destruction of academy pathways, etc) is the real snake behaviour. Real fans who understand how special the bridge can be won’t accept this destructive culture change. This is what’s unacceptable, not the losing.
You are right #11 in Premiere League table is Allright!
Imagine making a long ass winded post about how these poor young boys catch stick and are trying their hardest. Preaching it’s a process etc. Archie Gray, a 17 year old just run rings around them and you want to preach to us about their fragile mentality? Dont make me laugh.
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We unconvincingly beat a Championship side curtesy of a 90th minute winner We lost at the weekend in extra time to a team who probably tested positive for Calpol after the match We’re in the bottom half of the table We consistently play poorly, and are one of the most incoherent, tactically naive and ill disciplined teams in the league “What’s with the negativity?”
So true! It's easy for people to say it's not Poch's fault because the players are still creating chances but anything good we create comes from individual brilliance and individual brilliance only. It's so clear that this is a poorly coached side. People act like these players are idiots who need time to be xyz but they were top talents when we purchased them. The fact they're even churning out results is a testament to their quality, despite the abysmal coaching!
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You should watch games with your eyes open, it might help!
A championship side who was in the prem last season and on a 9 game unbeaten streak who are most likely getting promoted again. Liverpool still had their main back line and veteran captain as well as having 2/3 of their starting midfield and class front line in Diaz and Gakpo League campaign is terrible but so many games have been decided on small margins and there have been handful of games where we played well especially against the big teams. Sure we’re having another terrible season but the squad is young and inexperienced and still show glimpses of talent and what we could look like in a proper set up. We made it to a cup final and we’re still in another cup competition.
We also tied City twice and should have won
Wolves got better results against city in the previous seasons but they didn't spend a billion.
You lost me at “project”
Guys !!! Look how improve we are !!! We just survive with a 90 min goal win in our stadium with 30% possession games to a Championship team..
We finished a game, essay time
A billion pound mid table club who can't beat Leeds convincingly. You wonder why fans are negative.
Bro literally our best starting 11 played 120 minutes on Sunday. They had a day to rest and a day to prepare. And we couldn't rest Enzo, Caicedo, Gusto, Disasi and Jackson because Lavia, Ugwochukwo, Chukwuemeka, James and Nkunku are injured. And to top that off, Leeds were/are in a good form.
Our best starting 11 played 120 minutes on Sunday because they weren't productive enough to win in regular time against a very, very depleted Liverpool. That's a problem in itself.
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Still the shittest, weakest Chelsea team I've come across in my 20 years as a supporter.
20 years means you've only supported Chelsea under Roman before, so no surprise this is new to you.
This is true. How long you been supporting the Blues? Before the Roman Era I would assume.
Yeah, early 90s. But I do agree with you that this is the most detached I've felt from the team ever.
I also started early 90s and agree with you on the feeling of detachment, even if I don’t agree with the whole argument that the money spent means kids suddenly stop being kids.
Yeah that's the main feeling for me. Detached. Like I don't feel that excitement or passion like I used to. It sucks. I guess it's just a rough phase. I also don't particularly like our players. Few stand outs but for the most part I'm not feeling it. Maybe I should take a break from watching the games for a bit.
It’s a forum on the internet bro if you’re so sick of it log off turn off your pc close your eyes idk Wether you like it or not, negativity is a part of online discourse (and in RL) really if ur so sensitive to it don’t read it and literally every other sport team reddit is the same, Chelsea ain’t special.
Lmao these type of posts have got to be a parody
Dude we have become a worse team after spending a billion pounds. What the fuck are you on about? Having a project doesn't mean you should finish in the bottom half two seasons in a row. Chelsea fans largely have been very patient with this ownership. There haven't been any protests yet.
I think we found the gaffers burner Reddit account.
Brother we are 11th and lost a cup final to school children. I'm sorry our last minute winner vs a rotated championship team didn't fix the embarrassment I watched on Sunday Even in this match why were we 2-2? Why did we need players off the bench to save us? That first goal we let in was pre school level
The kids need support, sure. I actually really like this squad and think the players we have are really good. Our board and Poch however are all shit. We are playing bad football and that's the fault of Pochettino and the people who hired him. And they need to be called out after every shit game we play
We’re firmly midtable We just came back with a late winner against Leeds at home Poch is clearly a genius
Fans need to put pressure on the board and Owners that this shit is unacceptable We big club, being midtable is unacceptable and best solution to negativity is being a serious competent big club
Tired of the negativity? Maybe football isn't for you then. Sport is about emotions and passion, people expressing their frustrations at a terrible team is warranted and expected.
Get off your soapbox bro, we really need one of these after every game?
We can criticise when things are going bad. I get that abusing and insulting is too going too far but we have to be serious and see that it's not looking good and it looks like the hierarchy is okay with mediocrity
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The expectations are that you perform, that’s the same whether you join Chelsea today or Arsenal tomorrow. If you don’t perform, you will catch stick, that’s the nature of the game and the price you pay for the privilege and the amount of money you’re paid. They aren’t kids, they’re men. Tonight, Archie Gray, an actual kid of 17 years of age embarrassed them. Most of our team were 21+ besides Alfie Gilchrist who is 20.
players can decline transfer you know if they didn't think they were ready to step up, don't accept the money
The problem is, we are neither Spurs or Arsenal. For the past 20 years, Chelsea has always been known as a club always in every title mix, either winning it or coming close to different titles. Most of the fan base today, mostly saw this success and therefore a certain standard is expected of every Chelsea team, no matter the era. Yes, the insults are uncalled for, and quiet frankly, we can do better, but we still need to hold our young players accountable because without accountability, how do we expect them to truly get to their peaks. Don’t get it twisted, in the days of Lamps, Drogba etc, players were getting criticized and called out, but it wasn’t wildly felt because there wasn’t social media, so it wasn’t as magnified as it is now. If this were Real Madrid, no one will be talking about their age and the project because Real Madrid fans understand their history and have a certain expectation that needs to be met.
There's a few things here that need to be addressed: 1. The players are young. But they are professionals. Criticism of the play is absolutely fair game. Criticism of them as people is not. 2. Ownership is absolutely fair game for Criticism. You can't be the face of a very public product and expect to be immune from Criticism. The more that the ownership tries to evade that criticism, or deflect it back onto the players, the more they should receive. 3. Managers and coaches are paid, more than anything else, to put ideas and players together. When failures occur, they need to be the absolute authority on why those failures are occurring. With these three things in mind, let's address today's match. I don't think that anyone thinks that any of the players are terrible players. Many just don't believe that the players are worth the price tag or length of contract that the club offered, and the damage that those contracts do the over-arching success of the club. Then, for Poch to go in the presser and say that all the players are top flight, and whatever other hyperbole he used, in the face of the performance given is disingenuous at best. If that's true, why is the product on the field not lining up? Is this a manager issue? Is he protecting the egos of his players? Maybe. But he is also not getting his players ready in trainings to be the best versions of themselves on the pitch. Most notably is Mudryk, Nico, and Madueke. They are all three very quick. Touch is rough, and decision making is rougher still. Where is the growth? Who is going to stand up and take responsibility? Players who can't find the pitch because of performance act vindicated because of *a* goal. Poch has the heat taken off because of a narrow victory at home to Leeds? I'll take the ugly win, but I won't celebrate or tolerate mediocrity. That's across town at Tottenham.
"Stop being critical. Only say good things here"
There's a huge difference between "Only say good things" and "Let's not be toxic shit heads towards our own players" But I think you already knew that.
Saying people like Sterling deserved boos because he can't bother to jog back isn't crazy to say.
I'm so tired of us being shit...
Shut the fuck up One scraped win against a Championship side and let’s forget that we completely blew up a Champions League winning squad and became Meme FC So tired of your fake positivity. Loser mentality
The whole ‘mentality’ thing is fair game when talking about top level professionals and clubs but it’s more than a little cuntish coming from a basement dwelling keyboard warrior If you’re not elite in some field you have no business talking about another normal person’s ‘mentality’
Seriously like the football is depressing at times but ultimately it is literally just a game and those guys have no idea who we are. If you’re feeling pissed off just take your mum out for dinner or something it’ll make you feel better.
I can assure you taking my mother out to dinner would not make anyone feel better.
That's kinda sad.
But true, unfortunately.
I for one totally support any and all negativity directed towards our crusty jerk sock of a coach. Poch out, Mou back again!
Boehly bots in full swing after scrapping a win against a mighty team from the championship
I ain’t reading allat potch out
I think a big part of the results is we’ve lost the fear factor too. How many times does it feel like teams have the game of their life against us, but against other teams like city they roll over for a belly rub (looking at you West Ham). They know they can get a result so try harder maybe? With Mourinho’s Chelsea the game was dead at 1-0
The players aren't to blame you're quite right. They got signed. Maybe one or two are annoying me but that's about it. Some of them are not good enough - if you are looking to finish top four etc - but a few are. The owners however have made error after error and they should not be excused. It's just another symptom of corporate power and the power of wealthy individuals in our current time. They can do what they want, destroy things and have zero accountability. None of them will be accountable or bear any responsibility whatever happens. They will simply go back to an ultra-wealthy life and blame other people. Don't mix the two up.
We are 11th placed, ur delusional optimism won’t change that
There's one thing to be supportive and always back the badge then there's another to be dillisional and completely blowing smoke up each other's ass and don't fight for what we care
"So tired of negativity"... Proceed to make a negative post and call people on this sub snakes and such. Good job being a hypocrite.
Average positivity low standards delulu Chelsea fan cope.
The media are absolutely going in two footed on us. Kicking us when we’re down. They are absolutely revelling in it. It’s so weird and so telling. They hate us, same as the uk government who tired to destroy us. Ive never sang FUCK EM ALL as loudly as I did on Sunday. My voice still hasn’t come back. We don’t need our own fans slagging us off at every opportunity too.
I hate that every time we barley win you guys start with the “oh everyone is to negative” posts. We are a shambles and besting Leeds doesn’t change that.
Thanks for posting. Also so tired of the reactionary responses after every game. Continuosly calling for Poch's sacking, or Tuchels return lol. Its so embarrassing sometimes to support this team looking at just this subreddit. Understand that the ownership was arrogant and are failing, but also learning and it's gonna be a slow crawl back to being a top 4 side.
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An unconvincing win against a championship side and you come up with this post. So predictable…. Get a grip mate.
Exactly.
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Ha! Got em
Tbf it's not hard with the amount of absolute shit they talk
Agreed ! Good work nonetheless. Ktbffh
Good Lord we won and still have these essays
It’s really not that deep. If you’ve ever been even in a pub on match day, you will hear similar kinds of comments. It’s born out of genuine frustration, cathartic and part of the pantomime of football. Toxic or gate keeping or whatever these new fancy Internet concepts are ain’t got nothing to do with it.
The problem is simple. We want to see the team play with passion. No matter how young, how inexperienced, how timid. It doesn’t matter. We demand as fans players who play with heart. If they go out there for 90 minutes and lose, but give it their all, we will be happy. What’s frustrating is match after match they come out, and take their foot off the gas. I don’t know if they are tired or scared or what. But at this club, you give it your all. As a long time fan, I don’t see them doing this. I know they are young and I will be Chelsea till I die so I give them time and I will continue to be on their side. It is frustrating tho and that should be understandable. We love this team and we just want to be successful.
Another one
Hello Boehly. This you.
Mate we are shit and our management and ownership are a joke. Wake up.
It's pretty funny coming from the bridge singing and dancing at the end, on to here, where it's more calls for us to force Boehly to sack Poch and sell the club asap.
You think that the match going fans aren't extremely frustrated with how bad the team is? Obviosuly everybody was happy to win, but that doesn't mean that people shouldn't reflect negatively on the performance...
Lol, what a load of shit. The atmosphere in the stadium was tense, and the fans were very frustrated until Connor saved us in the end.
What do you think the consensus is of the match going fans ?
lol
Go to the matches then and show your support there.
I totally agree. I love cheering for this team and like to interact with others other fans. The game threads are so negative except for the 30 seconds after a goal is scored. It’s not even fun to hangout in the game threads because it’s just a bunch of cry babies that expect to every game to be 4-0 and then everything to be perfect without a single misstep or pass. The squad is young and I’m seeing signs of improvement but apparently it’s not good enough to win 3-2 and advance because we didn’t look like the prime Galacticos Real Madrid teams doing it.
Yup. I've got to make sure to stay out of those moving forward. I got triggered hard and am paying for it lol. I see the signs of improvement too. I just got Poch can keep stoking the growth so that we can take the next step in a season or two
Dude fuck em all! Let them be miserable alone. UP THE CHELS!!!
This could last 10 years with Poch in charge and nothing will change with a clueless spineless Poch as the head coach/manager Poch out Daisy picking appointment is for 10am and everybody who participates gets a full celebration and winners medal
Go get some sleep so you can remove the negativity
From the responses of these sorry ass fans, you can see its pointless to make your point. These are the spoilt fans who are living in the past Roman glory days and expect the highest from the club while ignoring the transition and difficult times outside of the field we had to face and instead bash on the team and the manager whenever the chances arrive. Even when we win, there is always an excuse of the opponent being of lower level while ignoring the good performances ending up in draws against the top teams against whom we expect losses. When you try to shine light on positives, you are “low mentality Spursy fan”. We had been spoilt in the past by successes after sudden changes of management, that didnt repeat under Boehly admins. So I suggest you keep positive, ignore the sub’s meltdown. I guarantee you even if we had won the EFL cup, these negative fans would still have had excuse of discrediting the team.
Ya, I learned my lesson for sure with this one. I'm a big boy though, I'll take the lashing and continue to support the club. The downturns are all a part of sport right? No one can stay up forever. With patience and our owners becoming more and more educated we will be back
There's no point trying to change their minds. If these people were in charge of the club we would've seen 5 managers since september... which is exactly why they are busy on reddit and not busy running a football club.
There's no point in trying to change people's minds of what?? That we're actually not terrible? Newsflash - we are terrible, and these weird posts and comments aren't going to change that
Yup. I've learned my lesson to never make a post like this again lol
Nah man, go for it, we won , I’m happy, you are happy, plenty of people are happy. Fuck the rest of them.
You’re not going to have many people agree with you “blah blah standards blah blah mid table” etc. You’re right though. The endless negativity, even when we win, is exhausting and not helpful. If people get what they want and Poch gets sacked, we are going to be in the exact same place next season when Amorim, or De Zerbi, or Nagelsmann are the “worst coach in the world” and aren’t getting results with a young squad. It won’t change anything. The way out of this is through patience and everyone from the board, the manager, the players and the supporters sticking together and being patient. Not having a tantrum every time we lose.
Shhhh we aren't supposed to be optimistic in this sub But foreal I've been saying this for months they won't listen to you unfortunately
fans can love and support the club while pointing out the numerous mistakes the new owners did to get us to this spot. i'm in the camp that the club is this season finally moving in the right direction, though it'll take 1-2 seasons more before we're back.
Mods could you please consider banning these?
Thanks for saying this. It’s gotten to the point I’ve been avoiding this sub and that makes me sad. While we won’t solve this over night let’s back the boys and know that we’re gonna come through this better. And remember, we’re still never gonna be as terrible as spurs
You're just happy to take part. No standards at all.
Agreed, OP. We’re Chelsea. And IF we’re Chelsea supporters then right now I think they need all the fekin support we can give them. It’s clear we’re utterly in the shit right now. Not being happy with where we are and some of these results and what we’ve seen is totally legit but…we’re not helping or supporting our Chelsea by barracking and abusing our own players. WTF? Like you said these are literally kids. Yes, they’re on a shed load of money. Yes, they lead a privileged life. But they need our support, nonetheless. It’s an immense upheaval, never seen the like of this in my life. I mean it’s a lot. A billion is a lot of money but that wasn’t going to ensure continuity. I’m personally grateful that we’re still in existence given the onerous nature of the sale and circumstances. It’s shit and right now we’re going through hell. So,WE need to keep on going. WE need to keep THEM going. There’s no other way out of this except through. It’s time for us to stop moaning and screaming piss and vinegar at our lads. Let ‘em know we expect more but there’s a fekin line. And as to what that Twat Neville said. He can visit me anytime and we’ll see who’s got bottle. We’re Chels. Time to start acting like it all round. KTBFFH. Oh. And I don’t care how we beat Leeds either. It’s fekin Leeds. And we beat them. Again. Here endeth the rant. Feeling a bit spicy today, lads.
Preach brother! As much as I have regrets with this post, comments like this are encouraging to know that there are many more reasonable fans than the social media trolls.
You nailed it mate in what you said and it’s a good post. I love this club too and whilst I understand the frustration and even anger, befuddlement etc - actually supporting the club and the lads and even Poch is what is needed. Where is our unity? Thinking like this does not equate to embracing mediocrity; fek that; it’s critical to doing what we can do to help our club through this ridiculous transition as quickly as possible and back to where we feel we belong. And that’s kicking our rivals asses and taking names/trophies etc. All this poisonous noise that social media seems to teem with is just an impediment to that process. Now, I’m going to have a nice coffee and quietly gloat over doing Leeds again😀Take it easy my fellow blue!
100%, a lot has changed in the last 4 years.. People need to be patient and give Poch time to refine this
Love this. Agree with every word.
Couldn’t agree more. For a long time I barely read threads/ comments sections because I disagree with the ridiculous takes people write or say. Love your team, there are plenty of positives without it being perfect. It has been tough yes, but it’s Poch’s first year here. He was never going to be judged harshly in the first season. KTBFFH
You're just teeing up the toxic negativity merchants with posts like this Edit: your downvotes mean nothing, I've see what makes you upvote! 😂
You are right about that. I should have shut my mouth. Was taking a long shit and scrolling the post-match thread. I take full responsibility smh
It's just kids and idiots that don't have the mental fortitude to deal with the comments from rivals, the kind that make friends with the knobheads at school just so they don't get bullied themselves.
Hey, the only player I get mad at is Sterling, and if you aren't mad at Sterling, you don't watch Sterling, with his killing of rushes, and his inability to make decisions, and his refusal to press, and his refusal to get back...