Tactics and Transfers: Horrid and Irredeemable Chelsea

The one long-term Blue sacrificed his well-being for the side the way so many supporters feel they would do the same if they were of the level to play for the club. Meanwhile, the rest of the side who only recently have even met one another did nothing to defend the badge.

That’s really all there is to say about it but the answer it should be clear is not to fire Graham Potter.

The English manager hasn’t even had a pre-season with the team and came in during the middle of one of the most peculiar seasons in football history. The queen’s death made a break in play which was followed by the first (and hopefully last) winter world cup in history and that was followed by one of the most extreme transfer windows if not the most extreme one in the history of the game.

These don’t excuse the results.

They have been truly and completely terrible. Everyone at the club: the board, recruitment department, medical staff, players, and coaches should take a long hard look in the mirror and decide whether or not this is the sort of thing they expect from themselves.

Maybe Chelsea football club isn’t the right place for them.

Not to be entirely rude but the lives of players and staff members of Leeds, Bournemouth, Derby, and Burnley are all very different if you catch my drift. We have players holding out for 300k per week salaries in the midst of a season in which they look like they’ve never played football before.

We have players sitting in hotel rooms in other countries just days before a game to try and force a move into happening rather than politely and professionally preparing to compete for the team which is in that very moment paying them.