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The fate of Graham Potter did not pass, as Chelsea suffered two defeats with very few goals conceded and found themselves in the bottom half of the Premier League table, and the project, voted down by Todd Boeley and Clearlake Capital, again found itself in With great respect.
Mauricio Pochettino and his graves are now flocking with open hostility to the side of their powerful patients, and there is no one equal to the club of non-embezzlement from criticism and nutrition. This is probably ideal preparation for the English League Cup final against league leaders Liverpool at Wembley this month.
The Athletic takes a look at how Chelsea are coping with the remaining turmoil: from head coach to players, players and patients.
How Pochettino copes with the situation?
With every passing day of his praises, Pochettino, who was present at his first official press conference at the seat of the head coach of Chelsea in Lipna, remains in the distant future.
Under Potter's leadership, Honorable Man was able to convey his thoughts at the briefings for ZMI more clearly and with greater individuality.. We have compiled a detailed overview of how a long list of injuries affects the team. The absence of key gravers not only means that you cannot regularly trade with your smallest warehouse, but it also means that there is competition for space in the warehouse.
Meanwhile, several signs appeared that the voltage was showing on the new one - a number of sharp surges from the journalists from the drive they supplied power.
The rest of them became last year, if it was emphasized that the number of points scored by Pochettino was similar to Chelsea’s performance last season. After a 4:2 defeat to Wolverhampton this week, Pochettino gained 31 points in 23 championship matches, as at the same stage last season..
“I wasn’t here last season,” Vin snarled.. " How can you compare? Now we need to look at everything in context. We need to bring everything together - to motivate the team, without it being like a wave of a charming wand."
There is a soundness to this argument, but the team already shows signs of progress.
Instead of Potter, he won honorably due to the fact that he had a full pre-season for work in the warehouse, plus fewer games for the number of European Cups.
I, despite the low level of injuries, have the main group of soldiers who can be used for most of the campaign. Thiago Silva, Axel Disasi, Levi Colville, Enzo Fernandez, Moises Caicedo, Conor Gallagher, Cole Palmer, Raheem Sterling, Mikhailo Mudryk and Nicholas Jackson each played 19 matches for the Premier League and more.
In such a context there will appear signs that a plan is already in place.
Perhaps Chelsea's best performances - home draws with Liverpool, Arsenal and Manchester City - fell in the first three months of the season. The biggest ones - international matches against Newcastle, Manchester United, Middlesbrough and Liverpool, as well as a home defeat against Wolverhampton - fell in the remaining three months.
It's about deterioration, not expansion.
Deeds dzherela, close to rasdyagalny, who are talking about the anonymity of The Athletic, admitted that the beginning of tactical elements is interconnected, and the gravers, in fact, are playing in the mind. Others insist that this is not so.
Pochettino does not help to win the acceptance of patients, replacement parts are often made too late in order to change the course of the game. This season, Chelsea have lost three matches against the first - against AFC Wimbledon from League 2 in the League Cup, against Burnley and Tottenham after losing two people.
His behavior on the sideline during the hour of matches becomes more streamlined, and, perhaps, in the game with Wolverhampton, the 51-year-old fakhivets will be somewhat passive. When Chelsea lost to Newcastle in the leaf fall, they were separated and gave free rein to their addictions. As a result, the spark went out in the post-match press conference that followed the injury.
Considering that Pochettino comes from Tottenham, it has never been easy for him to conquer the sensibility of these patients.. A number of veteran fans have told The Athletic early on that their link-up with the London superstars means they won't accept it.
But the role of head coach at Stamford Bridge is complex, regardless of who is in this position, and remembering that it is important to enjoy the joy of hundreds and trim in control of it. We saw Chelsea in the first cup final when the new rulers came to power.
Last year, it was noted that Jurgen Klopp was given an hour to turn Liverpool into the successful team they are today, and he respects that he must develop the same curiosity.
Victory in the League Cup at Vembly to give his fellow freedom to act.
Chi all iz vlasniki?
Do you remember, since Abramovich's era began in 2022, how often you heard or wondered about Todd Boehly
For those who had been hanging out with the patients at the early Annual Lunch at the breast, their appearance at Stamford Bridge was even rarer. Nowadays it is rarely possible to study Boli and his colleague Behdad Eghbali at the same time.
More recently, one person who also spoke to The Athletic in anonymity confirms that the team is not doing as well as before. Chelsea will categorically say, nakedly, that between all the senior football players, including sporting directors Paul Winstanley and Lawrence Stewart, everything is very.
Boli and Eghbali, who may have a greater impact on the management of Chelsea, many people think, dined at the same time in Los Angeles at the end of the past fate and today contact the phone or for an additional SMS. As in most businesses, differences were discussed at the very top, and sometimes they were voiced in the presence of others..
But, in essence, the couple, as before, is pursuing a consistent strategy - both commercial and sports.
Both in Boel and in Eghbala and other important business interests. At the same time, Eghbali, Winstanley and Stewart are reminiscent of Stamford Bridge, either in the stands or at home after matches..
The rulers are pleased that they hired fakhivtsev to manage the club, and after the upheavals associated with the additions, they feel that they are now in a better position to collapse forward. In the coming months, under the leadership of Winstanley and Stewart, new people will be assigned to the recruitment team.
There was a lot of talk about Chelsea's apparently unlucky entry into the transfer market in Sichna. It was reported that they are trying to comply with the Premier League profit and stability rules (PSR). Prote Chelsea made a proposal about the purchase of the Gravians, the signing of Antonio Nusa from the Club Brugge.
However, this failure was not regarded as catastrophic: Chelsea is already dismantling plans for summer additions, what can we say about those how much the stink is felt in their formation in the PSR. The people will continue to come, but Chelsea will not need to be sold in order to be bought. The number of arrivals and departures may be small, as of 2023 (if they have been in place for the past 30 years, including rentals), since the club respects that most of Abramovich's stock of hours has already been completed.
The strategy now is to make changes, not mass changes.
I have a plan in place to evaluate everything, including Pochettino’s positions at the end of the season. This intention is being lost, and, looking at those who will lose the head coach’s contract 12 months before the end of the contract (that is, an option for a third player), this position seems logical, especially in the context of the failures of the past season.
Potter's quest for the 2023 season did not come to fruition, and the team's campaign became even more confused. Chelsea respect that in order to praise a similar decision, Pochettino will need a significant decline in form.
The club, which still has a lot of money to go into the European Cups, having finished high in the Premier League, is supported by the remaining entries, the results and Chelsea's entry into the championship. Left behind Tottenham, in fifth place, with 13 points, but looking at the injuries that the team has faced, faith in Pochettino and his process is preserved.
One official told The Athletic that Chelsea's idea from the very beginning was to create a team ready to move quickly if Pep Guardiola and Jurgen Klopp were to lose their posts at Manchester City and Liverpool. try to compete on all fronts, but.
Klopp's decision to leave Liverpool at the end of the season came earlier than predicted. Guardioli's contract will end soon, and although the 53-year-old Fahive has declared that he is ready to sign an extension, Chelsea respects the great certainty that nothing can be won. Whose hope lies?.
But in the end, Pochettino, like any other coach, will be assessed for the results and how much the graves have improved under his care.
What is the reaction of the Gravians?
If, having realized that the Chelsea season was going to be difficult under the care of an inflexible head coach, between the senior stars, whom John Mikel remembers calling “great lads,” I would have tied up with: John Terry, Frank Lempard, Diedi Drogba i Petr Cech.
Abramovich was all over the place, and if he took his thoughts into account during the crisis in Cobham, their assessments invariably underestimated the greatest value.
Who can be called \? Most of them have neither the intelligence nor the character to take on such a role.. Thiago Silva, perhaps, is the only one, and his squad, Belle, is more public, but not himself. This is the answer with a call to “changes” under the hour of striking from Wolverhampton, which is obvious without being seen, and it is important to understand the main target of the criticism of former Pochettino.
It's time to change. If you wait any longer it will be too late? — Belle Silva (@bellesilva) February 4, 2024 Over the past few months, tension on the field between Silva and his head coach has become a recurring theme..
A similar situation did not happen when Cole Palmer celebrated the holiday in the match against Wolverhampton this week. It’s worth noting that Pochettino tried to win Silvy’s respect on the dry line, but in his pocket he had to call Enzo Fernandez to convey the message, after which, as a veteran defender, he either didn’t feel it, or simply didn’t at least a little bit.
Regardless of the fact that this season Silva is in the lead for the number of matches won by the Premier League, she is marrying her to the club in order to achieve Pochettino's release.
Most likely, there will be another season at Stamford Bridge, partly due to the fact that the contract has recently expired, and partly due to the fact that his physical shortcomings with increasing regularity are being played by the opponent’s richly young and swedish forwards.
It's a young, unassuming team that has seen the season without captain (James) and vice-captain (Ben Chilwell) through injury. At the same time, Chelsea’s negligence does not matter that the team recognizes difficulties through a lack of information. Your warehouse has a lot of experienced workers.
Sterling and Chilwell are one of the team's senior players. Lack of information is not correctness.
The crisis with injuries, it seems, will be resolved, but the remaining tens of years Pochettino will not be able to reinforce, as the gravel form has been smoothly turned.
This is not stabbed, but in Chelsea there is a thought that the newcomers are sorry for the drive to sign long-term contracts and not to carry out the grandiose project that they imagined from the very beginning.
Add to this the inconsistency of young people, the pressure of great prices and the general contempt of patients, and the result is a toxic mix..
How to reassure patients?
It is significant that the series won in five matches in seven matches, with all losses until the defeat of Liverpool could not calm the dissatisfaction of Chelsea fans.
Losing 1:0 to Middlesbrough in the first match of the League Cup semi-final, as well as all the missed goals scored at the gates of Liverpool and Wolverhampton within an hour or two afterward, again raised the surface of the rot, which is a lot of things. I feel almost every aspect of the work of the team of Boehli and Clearlake.
What are the transfer fees in the world 1 billion ($1.27 billion), a lot of money was spent on young and apparently unproven talents, either sharply constricting the “middle-class” of the Premier League, or unpopular price increases on various aspects of the matches, someone else looks like chaos without trophies.
Confidence in football strategy is at a record low, and calls are increasingly being made until Winstanley and Stewart are punished for unsuccessful or overly expensive ventures. It is also more important to know the friends who believe in the creation of Boeliya and Eghbali to highlight the grandiose revival of Chelsea or to bring the club back to the values \u200b\u200b\u200b\u200bof those who follow it.
There is a feeling of instability - from gravelists, from trainers and from leaders - there is a feeling deep in the souls of rich patients that, if they want a damn improvement in results, they can change the situation a little, without being more smeared cracks that cannot be closed simply by winning a few football matches.
The most promising thing is that the opposition to the leaders at matches will become more organized, less chanting of Abramovich’s name. It is obvious that in the coming months Chelsea will announce their plans for ticket sales for the 2024/25 season, and many patients will notice that the number of season tickets has increased in more than a decade.
In the meantime, you can appreciate that swearing, booing and angry chants will be missing from the soundtrack until Chelsea's most important days in the upcoming future.