Two words

BEBE

Fernando Torres
Radamael Falcao
Andrei Shevchenko.

And that's just Chelsea

all world class players in their day. can at least say they hoped they could get them back in that form. bebe is a good shout i suppose, but the pure hopelessness and lack of ambition of chester makes it something to behold for generations.

Lads, it's Tottenham!

What's the lowest % of seats sold to a Europa League match

Anderson although he ****ted on Fabregas and scored a penalty in the UCL final

Probably some Milan game over the last few years at some point.

I've been making this point (well, a similar one) to my IRL friends recently.

Imagine Mourinho retired at the end of last season, and Chelsea appointed a new manager with a proven track record of spending wisely and consistently over-achieving with a lower-midtable club (but who had never actually won any trophies because, well, he was managing a lower-midtable club). Someone like, say, David Moyes circa 2013.

The new manager would be getting torn to pieces, and would most likely have been sacked weeks ago. When in reality, the squad had peaked last season and every last drop of rungood had been squeezed out. The terrible results this season are a combination of negative variance, natural decline, loss of confidence and a manager under increasing pressure. The only difference is this time there isn't some poor sap at the top who's just taken over at the wrong time to take all the blame.

I'm a self-confessed Moyes fanboy, and I know I'm over-simplifying this for the sake of my narrative. But I think the point stands that what's happening to Chelsea this season goes some way to supporting my contention that Moyes was terribly unlucky to take over at United at the time he did, and I will maintain that the man is/was an excellent Premier League manager as long as there is breath in my body.

lostostrich you are such an interesting human being

heh, I'll take that as a compliment

please

All of the explanations of Chelsea's demise dont quite get there.

They would be solid explanations of Chelsea dropping of the pace to about a Liverpool level of points/performance, a definitely outside top 4 flirting with mid table level level.

It does not explain one point off the relegation zone.

Out of interest what is Chelsea's relegation equity?

It isn't even close. John Utaka, Nigel Quashie, Titi Camara and Gary Charles were all signed by one manager and we're multiple times worse.

Andy Carroll is waving

I saw Titi Camara score the winner for Liverpool at Highbury. iirc Houllier started 9 defenders and it was the chance of the game.

Steve Daley or Gary Birtles back in the day.

Lol how is this discussion still going on? Bazooka posted a picture of the worst player in the PL era and it seems that everyone excluding myself ignored his post.

Ali Dia prob worst player but never the worst transfer, didn't cost anything and was released after one game. Bebe otoh cost 7m pounds (!!!) and was barely a level above Dia. Can't see how there could be a worse transfer than that.

Bebe was just the new David Beckham and we didn't know it

Replay angles on that video are tilting

Klopp being a wanker isn't exactly a newsflash.

Bebe the worst ainec, honestly if you've got a few mins to spare look up Bebe crossing show on youtube. It's no exaggeration to say most ppl ITT could do better.

how would a man go about getting tickets for the arse barca away leg... preferably with the away fans lol

Titi Camara doesn't belong in the conversation. Better than a number of starting forwards currently playing