🚨 BREAKING: Xabi Alonso has accepted to become Chelsea next manager, HERE WE GO! 🔵🔜
The agreement is set to be completed.
#CFC prepare official announcement for the upcoming days, but Xabi said YES. 💣
I've been hurt by Sunderland players leaving before...
Darren Bent to Aston Villa, Patrick Van Aanholt to Crystal Palace, Stéphane Sessègnon to West Brom, even Josh Maja to Bordeaux...
I could always handle players like Henderson, Mignolet, Jobe taking huge, deserved leaps, Pickford the same after we were relegated... but I've never liked players making sideways steps.
Nothing though, will be able to prepare me for seeing Granit Xhaka in a Chelsea shirt... I can't begin to fathom it.
Chelsea are a bigger club, with a better chance of silverware over the next few seasons... but they've finished 10th or below twice in the last 4 years, finished 3 places below Sunderland in 25/26, losing to us home and away, and feel like a long way off their peak.
Xhaka would throw away EVERYTHING he's said about Sunderland, the fans, the community... to move back to London, work with a manager he's already worked with and represent one of Arsenal's biggest rivals?
I'm always reluctant to use words like betrayal... football is a business, players have to make decisions that they think is best for them...
But for me it would be one of the most soulless moves of the summer.
🤯 Since it returned to the calendar, if you win the Austrian GP in an even numbered year, you don’t become champion that season.
2014 🇦🇹 - Rosberg ❌
2016 🇦🇹 - Hamilton ❌
2018 🇦🇹 - Verstappen ❌
2020 🇦🇹 - Bottas ❌
2022 🇦🇹 - Leclerc ❌
2024 🇦🇹 - Russell ❌
2026 🇦🇹 -
If Clearlake get me Lacroix/Palestra/Xhaka/Wharton and keep Josh this window I’m okay with not signing a superstar attacker if money is tight. JP/Palmer alone is top 4 + keeping Jackson.
Puts us in a great position for #ProjectRodrygo2027
UCL discourse is genuine fucking cancer, fucking hate this sport. Ronaldo fans have ruined Football discourse. Vini is “better than” Hazard because he played for a UCL super team is his peak.