🚨💙Thomas Tuchel on the problems at Chelsea:
🗣"I am a Chelsea fan and I love the club, but the Chelsea I knew doesn’t exist anymore. The root problem lies deeper in the management than in the coaching department.
The people at the top want to be involved in coaching decisions, and they are too fixated on signing kids with potential. You can’t win like that—you can only hope for the future, which leads to inconsistent results.
If they want to win and bring Chelsea back to where it was before, they must start recruiting quality, experienced players and mix them with young talents. It’s about balance, not quantity.
They also need a more experienced coach who can command respect in the dressing room. Young coaches are good, but managing young players requires an experienced manager alongside experienced players in the squad.
I hope they realise their mistakes and start fixing them as soon as the next summer transfer window."
(Fiction)
Jamie Carragher on MNF last year: "Chelsea have just got to stop buying players. Players have got to stop signing for Chelsea."
Carra in Nov 2025 after Arne Slot's Liverpool have spent £450m on Isak, Wirtz and co:
"Liverpool need to spend in January."
🗣️ John Obi Mikel: “My dad got kidnapped while I was playing for the national team at the World Cup in Russia and we were about to play Argentina.
Two hours before the game I got a phone call from my brother saying that my dad has been kidnapped for the second time in Nigeria.
He was kidnapped for the first time and I spoke to the kidnappers and they demanded lots of money from me, which I did eventually pay before my dad got released.
But the second time happened while I was playing for my country and I got this phone call from my brother saying that dad has been kidnapped again for the second time.
I remember Roman [Abramovich] saying do you want me to send people over? Because I know if I send people over, I can get your dad out. I was like, how are you going to do this?
He said don't worry about that. Just let me, if you want that option, I can do it."
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