Harry Dowd scored wrote:After them cutting the wage bill in defence, and a real lack of investment going forward, they can play the kids in all the cups and still won’t make it in the league.
Businesses who try and get money from the tax payer aren’t interested in trophies, it’s all about the dividends
Priority is to keep Chelsea busy until the end of the season.
They have two tricky PL fixtures to play and could lose both.
Hopefully, they arrive in Porto deflated, having lost the FA Cup final, not got top four, tired and carrying injuries.
That would initiate some introspective thinking re the current narrative around Tuchel, who is being portrayed as some sort of Einstein like genius.
There is another view, if Chelsea have not qualified for top four and therefore no CL, won’t they be more hungrier to win the final, because otherwise no CL next season, they will be desperate to win, even more incentive if that is necessary, just a thought.
I don't buy this "to keep" Chelsea busy. They are professional players, they can keep this up at this level so them playing to the end for getting the 4th spot means that they can get momentum and a form near the game.
For us having three friendlies before that game is so and so. We are lucky there are just 2 weeks until the game and no more, but we need to use our players with Newcastle and Brighton, but rest the squad with Everton.
Remember Baldie's first season at Bayern? They were the best team in Europe until march when they won the league having 1000 points ahead of everyone else. What happened? Lost the tempo and the motivation and they lost the semis.