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Re: Premier League Prediction Thread 2022/2023
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Polkeins
on 19/06/2023, 19:05:24 UTC

In general it is logical that the root of all problems in Todd Boehly. Here it should be noted that he apparently adheres to the American position and in sports that money can solve almost everything. So apparently after the Potter debacle he decided to make a big purchase for Chelsea so that star players could fix the situation, but things as we understand it turned out differently.

Now Poccetino will have to rectify the situation, I think he will figure out who is superfluous in the team and probably many of the latest Chelsea purchases will be put up for sale or on loan, I think that by 90 percent will remain Enzo Fernandez and Mudrik, because he seems to have such a clause in the contract, and the other potential players for the transition.

But the real problem is that the harm is already done and can't be fixed within a single year. Not playing the Champions League is a massive drawback for the team and the club. First of all they need to get rid of any players who underperformed last season unless Pochettino thinks he can get them going again, but at the same time they need to keep their squad together. But when they don't participate in the Champions League it will be hard to convince new players to go to Chelsea. Boehly went literally crazy with all those transfers and now they have a ton of players and nobody really knows what to do with all those guys. He also expected that it would work out and now I wouldn't be surprised if there are also issues financially that limit their ability to bring in some other guys. This will be a rough year for Chelsea.
Yes, Chelsea is a big mess, but Poccetino has a lot of experience in bringing order after Tottenham. As we can see after Poccetino's departure all the mess that is in Tottenham came out. Just as in Chelsea there are a lot of "passable" and frankly weak players, incomprehensible transfer policy and Levy's eccentricities, in some ways similar to Todd Boehly's actions in Chelsea.

Of course it will be unusual without the Champions League and European Cups, but Poccetino will have time to play the squad to understand who can really play at a high level, and the players will have time to show themselves in the English Premier League and I think next season we should see Chelsea if not in the Champions League, then in the Europa League for sure.
Bravo! You just wrote a script, I hope things play out with this script. Chelsea is in a big mess and I don't believe that Mauricio Pochettino will be able to do magic suddenly. I agree that there will be an improvement, but this would be slight this next season, it can't just be sudden. I appreciate Pochettino as an experienced coach who knows where to touch, but at the same time, if you do not get it right with the correct players to let go and the new ones to bring to distort the equation, it's a problem.

And this goes beyond the performance of the players alone, it could be psychological, so the coach needs to reason beyond tactics, and this is delicate to get right suddenly.
Pochettino is certainly no wizard, but he's good at bringing order to an obscure collection of players who constantly pull the game and attention away from themselves, to the detriment of collective action. You can look at Tottenham now after Pochettino's departure, there are also a lot of expensive and seemingly good players who each play on their own and don't make the team.
Chelsea have everything to revive right away next season, we need not interfere with Pochettino to sort out the rubble of his predecessors and remove unnecessary players.

Of course, a lot will depend on the start of the season and the first games, if they are successful for Chelsea, it will be easy for Pochettino, but if there will be losses, it will take patience from the club's management, so as not to break the team's season again by starting chaotic dismissals.