After 18 years, it’s time to say goodbye to Chelsea. I arrived as a nine-year-old with a dream, and I leave as a man who’s lived that dream in ways I never imagined. This journey tested me, lifted me, and strengthened me. To every teammate, coach, staff member, and supporter, thank you for shaping me. I gave everything I had, and I’m proud of the person this club helped me become. To the young players: the path won’t always be smooth. But stay ready, stay positive, and keep your faith. God’s timing is always right. Thank you all, truly, with love and gratitude.
Deserves a huge amount of respect from Chelsea fans. Was messed around by the club, put up for sale, loaned, bought back in, always stayed professional. Been Chels since a kid. Wish him all the very best and thankful for his time here.
When Chelsea fans protested against the European Super League outside the Bridge on April 20, 2021, at least club legend and performance advisor Petr Cech had the minerals and conscience to step into the throng to talk/plead with them. Different cause to now. And also to who now at Chelsea will communicate with protesting fans? Who do fans actually respect in the building? Disconnect between fans and owners is deeply damaging - and growing.
Supporters are understandably angered by BlueCo’s naive stewardship of their club, the lack of experience in the dressing-room, dug-out, recruitment department and boardroom. They rail against wretched results seeing them fall from the Champions League spots. They are concerned about the prospect of ticket price rises and, they fear, the focus on tourist and corporate fan over so-called legacy fans, the ones who were there in the bad times. Home and away. They fear the heart and soul being ripped out of their club - their club - and replaced by a US-made cash register.
BlueCo has to respond. No more spin. Be real, be genuine, be more open to fans before the marches escalate into people voting with their feet, leading to rows upon rows of empty seats. It’s not too late. Communicate properly, directly. Boehly and Eghbali are intelligent individuals, successful in business but they are new to the tricky currents of English football. They have to listen, they have to learn otherwise they’re going to lose all remaining credibility and lose a limo full of cash. #CFC
Desultory second-half display from Chelsea and a damaging result. What happens if they don’t re-board the Champions League gravy-train? Four points off fifth. Which players do they sell/which players want to leave? Enzo Fernandez? What happens to Liam Rosenior? More managerial churn?
Chelsea were always going to struggle against Manchester City, who have the better manager, players and mentality but that was an abject 45 mins from Chelsea. Also a damaging result for the “project”. You need to buy experience at times. Goalkeeper, centre-back and centre-forward needed. #CHEMCI
Chelsea are an absolute mess. No fight, no structure, no identity. It is hard to see what they are trying to do.
And let’s be honest, right now there is no chance of Champions League football playing like this, never mind winning titles. Under this ownership and model, they look miles off it. This is not a rebuild, this is a collapse
btw @ebehdad you/Clearlake have made Chelsea fans reach a stage where we loudly support a rival & hope to lose just to stick it to a rival London club that are first in the league. We are no longer competing at the top thanks to your fat ego.
Wish you the absolute worst in life.
Chelsea will likely lose Josh Acheampong this summer the same way they lost Lewis Hall and Marc Guehi - prioritising other players that should not have a long term future because the squad is padded with so many average options.