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[Samoulito @Samoulito]

@umehstanleo You could say you're abandoning ship very quickly. 😂

[Samoulito @Samoulito]

@Blue_Footy I will trust him completely, no matter what. CFC deserves a sustainable future and he has all the qualities to take us to great heights. There will be lows, but the highs he will bring if we trust him are far more important.

[Samoulito @Samoulito]

@ajmaxwell5 Give him time to get his players and balance. You make me laugh, thinking you're smarter than Xabi. 😅

[Samoulito @Samoulito]

@Blue_Footy I wonder what a partnership with Caicedo would yield 🤔

[Samoulito @Samoulito]

@iam_brau Cucu and Enzo want to leave

[Samoulito @Samoulito]

@PxtRaph C’est pas parce que Maresca le met de côté que c’est une mauvaise signature non plus

[Samoulito @Samoulito]

@moh_eenn @MobyChe If you can't see that these are crucial players who will have three weeks to get back to 100 percent, you need glasses.

[Samoulito @Samoulito]

@ajmaxwell5 Palestra was unavailable and Gusto was awful, who do you put in? 😅

[Samoulito @Samoulito]

@blues_sideup @cfc_wise_ @BetweenThePosts Especially between the defense and midfield. The average positioning of the players shows this. Neto is also much too high up the pitch in his starting position, which creates gaps if Palmer doesn't drop back to track his marker.

[Samoulito @Samoulito]

@siphillipssport 100% agree Bring our Captain Legend !

[Vince™ @Blue_Footy]

This is Leverkusen against Bochum in Alonso’s final year at Leverkusen.

And this is what the average positions in most of their games that season looked like.

We are far from this. Our pressing is still poor. The defence still don't know how to close the space between them and the midfield.

That's one of the reasons we are conceding a lot of chances.

[Vince™ @Blue_Footy]

Doubting the process now means you don't even understand the process.

[Samoulito @Samoulito]

@FPLVikhyat @FPLGOAT7 And Joao Pedro . Alonso will have 3 week to think about the good form

[Samoulito @Samoulito]

@iam_brau Time, give Alonso time, that's all.

[Vince™ @Blue_Footy]

✍️ If you look at Pochettino's reign as Chelsea manager, he struggled to find the right balance until March, two months to the end of the season, and he won the last 5 games.

Maresca struggled for consistency and balance in his first season, until February, and finished strong, the rode that into CWC and won it. Then injuries to Colwill and Palmer, with poor recruitment made the following season a bit unstable but we remained close to top four until he left.

However, we were there not because of the quality of the squad which was already compromised but because the main core of the squad already understood his game and demands. That's what you get with stability. You can manage better when big players are out. Look at Villa, they made those changes and kept Unai Emery — it will help them a lot.

For us, the moment Maresca left and we tried to change in the middle of the season, everything went down the drain. It's simply very difficult to do with an inexperienced squad.

For me, at this point, stability is not negotiable for us, it doesn't matter how long it's going to take. We must make sure we don't mess up this time. We must believe in Alonso and give him all the time he needs. There is no other option.

Going back and forth doesn't help us.

[Vince™ @Blue_Footy]

Chelsea fans keep asking me, "Do you see how Brighton played against Arsenal?"

Yes, I did, and Hürzeler has been there for three seasons. If Alonso stays for three seasons, we will play better than that. Plus, he also beat that Brighton team in his first month in the Premier League.

The difference between teams with long-term managers and one with a new manager is usually stability. You can't have stability in how you apply a manager's principles if he is new. That is why you will see inconsistent performances at the beginning.

But our fans will never learn. When you talk about the benefits of time, they will think it's a joke. Yet those fans who use Brighton as a reference will still be the first to question Alonso after two months.

You guys should calm down, and for once accept the process and see it unfold. You will be a joker if you believe that Alonso doesn't see his errors and the players errors that need to be corrected.

In due course, the players will learn to apply his style and principles even in their sleep. That's what Arsenal and Brighton have and are enjoying. The same with City with Maresca because Maresca learned from Pep. They do the same thing.

Time equals stability in football. But if you don't have patience, you can never have stability. It's as simple as that.

[Samoulito @Samoulito]

@iam_brau There's no comparison possible between the league levels. That's a bogus argument; Felipe Luis could just as easily have gone to the Premier League and lost 4/5

[V.R @Humphrey_Pato]

Based on the agreement between the Chelsea hierarchy and Xabi Alonso, he was given time to build his team and implement his philosophy. The time he was given is three years.

Chelsea believe that in the next three years, Chelsea will be a competitive team, a winning team, a team that will be competing for the No. 1 spot in the Premier League or winning the Champions League. That is the agreement and that is the project.

We are just two months into Xabi Alonso’s time at Chelsea, and some Chelsea fans are already calling him out for not being good enough. Xabi Alonso has barely had his first full month in the Premier League, and you already expect him to turn Chelsea into an invincible team.

Why?

You have to understand that this is a process. Xabi Alonso was not brought here to magically fix everything within two months. He was brought here to build a team, implement his philosophy and put Chelsea on the right track.

So far, Xabi Alonso has brought a lot of light into this Chelsea squad. We have seen our attackers doing wonders. We have seen this team score so many goals despite having a bad defence and not even having a proper midfield available.

Even Moisés Caicedo, our one man in midfield who gives us that sense of security, has not been available in our last three games. Throughout this season, whenever he has come back, he has suffered another setback. We have basically been playing without a proper midfield, yet Xabi Alonso has still been putting in good results.

I just don’t understand why every Chelsea fan expects Xabi Alonso to go invincible.

Look at Xabi Alonso at Bayer Leverkusen. He was given time. In his first season, did he go invincible? No. Did he win the Bundesliga? No. He delivered in his second season, when Bayer Leverkusen won the Bundesliga unbeaten.

Look at Jürgen Klopp. Before he won his first trophy for Liverpool, it took him three years and seven months. His first major trophy with Liverpool was the Champions League.

Look at Pep Guardiola. Did he win the Premier League in his first two seasons at Manchester City? No, he didn’t.

Look at Mikel Arteta. He has stayed at Arsenal for six-plus years. They continued putting their faith in him and believing in his philosophy. Years back, he kept saying, “Trust the process.” The fans trusted the process and stuck with him.

So why is it different for Chelsea?

If you look at this Chelsea team without a midfielder, without a proper defence, and you expect us to win games week in, week out, then I’m sorry, you are mistaken.

Xabi Alonso has shown us his blueprint. Now the players need to believe in it, work towards it, train it and understand his philosophy. That doesn’t happen overnight. It takes months, and sometimes it takes a year or two.

So if you decide to blame Xabi Alonso, drag him or start saying he is not good enough after just two months, then maybe you need to change club.

Maybe go to Barcelona. They are winning games week in, week out.

Go to a winning team if you’re not ready to build with us.

Or you can as well join Enzo Fernández at Manchester City.

[Vince™ @Blue_Footy]

✍️ The process of building a team is always fascinating to me, as there is a lot that happens which fans do not even consider. For us fans, it often seems as simple as buying good players and putting them in a formation to perform at a high level, but in reality, it is not that simple.

Players need to understand the coach's tactics, apply his principles, build chemistry, and learn how to solve different problems using the manager's approach.

For the manager, he must continuously correct every error, poor application, bad decision, and misinterpretation of his ideas, which continues until the players have learned.

Furthermore, a coach needs to understand the different characters in his team and keep blending the right group to achieve the best results.

It is easier for experienced teams to learn under a new manager because they have already gathered knowledge from facing various scenarios on the pitch, so the coach does not need to waste time on the basics or spend weeks correcting a single problem.

However, if you trust a manager's decision-making, you have to give him time to go through the process, make corrections, and weed out bad habits; you must believe in the manager and the process.

No team looks their best under a new manager in the first month, it is extremely rare. Teams always get better with more time in training and games.

Personal, I don't think we could've hired a better coach than Alonso, we just need to back and believe in him and his process and everything will fall in place. It's not rocket science. We just lack the patience to see out a process.