Chelsea’s owners are about to embark on their third season since the takeover, and things are well and truly on the edge.
Many Chelsea fans have a real dislike for the ownership group already, perhaps some of it harshly, but a lot of the concern and discourse is fully justified.
They’re asking fans to buy into a long-term project, but they’re operating like they’re in a rush. They wanted Champions League qualification at least this season and again next season, and they have now gone through FIVE different managers since they arrived at the club. How do they expect anyone to back a project that looks like that?
And now this summer, they could really lose any of the fan base that they might have left onside and not just lose them, but lose them for good. They have created distance between themselves and the fan base. Why not come out and explain some things? We heard Todd Boehly speaking about patience and belief in the project, and then a couple of weeks later another manager is gone ahead of appointing their SIXTH manager under their tenure. But Todd doesn’t speak directly to Chelsea fans, he speaks via business summits around the globe. Speak through a Chelsea channel! Tell us you’ve made mistakes, tell us how you’re fixing them. Tell us why you apparently have so much belief in these sporting directors to literally have so much responsibility when they have no experience of squad building/building a team for a certain tactical setup? You preach data, so tell us what that data is saying and why you place so much sole reliance on it?
The gap between the ownership and the fan base can increase this summer, and that is all on who they hire to be the next head coach. The names linked have caused anger amongst the fan base once again. If they hire their next manager and said manager fails again, they will lose an entire fan base to the point of no return, and that is NOT a place they will want to be in.
I continue to back the project and the…
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Author : Simon Phillips
Publish date : 2024-05-23 11:40:32
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