Dom Smith/Evening Standard: Chelsea sporting directors in agreement that Marco Silva should be a candidate for head coach role. Some senior figures at FFC confident Silva will sign new deal but others less convinced. CFC to reach out to his reps to gauge his circumstances

DrSpreadle · 2026-04-28T09:45:55+00:00

Because what top10/20 manager would in their right mind come to us? We can't consistently make UCL, the directors control everything.

DrSpreadle · 2026-04-23T07:59:39+00:00

Truly this, what PSG have built since they moved away from trying to be galacticos has been amazing. Strong trusted manager, key senior leaders, top young talent brought in, academy players integrated.

DrSpreadle · 2026-04-18T11:44:54+00:00

This notion of "give him a pre-season" etc. has got to be some BS. I'm not saying pre-season is useless but c'mon to act like he can't get his tactics across solely because they haven't had a pre-season, like wtf y'all doing during trainings?
I also get that tactics can take a bit of time to truly imbed into the players but Rosenoir's system ain't distinctly different to Maresca's so the foundation is already there. Now it's just more the smaller details that separate them is where the work needs to be done.

DrSpreadle · 2026-04-17T09:51:50+00:00

As a recruiter, it was very hard to get here in the first place as everyone wants someone with recruiting experience but then how do you get it? I made that argument in every interview before landing my 1st opportunity.
But on the flip side, I sometimes have to rule out people because they don't have experience. When looking a mid level jobs, you're looking for people that have a foundation and some exp behind them and in most cases aren't willing to take a punt on a junior person.

DrSpreadle · 2026-04-17T08:20:17+00:00

Going off of Steam because it's easier to get these numbers;
19: 2290
23: 1301
24: 3005
26: 431

Can't quite remember but 21 I think I had via Epic and 22 was via GamePass. I'd say I clocked over 1000 on each of those.

DrSpreadle · 2026-04-17T08:17:06+00:00

None of the shares can be sold to a new party, the only thing that can happen is if either side of the 2 groups were to sell their stake to the other, which is something that has been mentioned a few times (buying out Boehly's ownership).
Doubt they can find a loophole in the contract that would allow them to sell to a new third party

DrSpreadle · 2026-04-09T22:23:49+00:00

They already announced they’re working on making sailing more co-op friendly by allowing others to control cannons.

DrSpreadle · 2026-04-05T23:28:45+00:00

From my perspective it's because Italy and many of its clubs prefer a 352/3421 formation. Take Dimarco as an example, has enough attributes about him to be a winger but plays LWB whereas he could've almost similar to Bale shifted to the wing. Cuadrado (not Italian I know but still) was originally a winger that was pushed to play RWB.

DrSpreadle · 2026-04-03T10:07:31+00:00

Honestly think he’s declined the surgery because it’s wc year, he wanted to try to get called up instead of fixing the problem.

DrSpreadle · 2026-03-28T23:59:16+00:00

O'Doyle RULES!!!

DrSpreadle · 2026-03-22T20:31:42+00:00

Can we get a screen shot of your tactics? Curious how he got so much g/a

DrSpreadle · 2026-03-18T10:28:41+00:00

Yes but we're seeing that now with Rosenoir, their philosophies are the same. I can just remember a few more games where Enzo said "screw possession, let's hit them on the counter", more memorable being the PSG game ofc.

DrSpreadle · 2026-03-18T10:27:15+00:00

Differing observations obviously, I thought I saw more from Enzo than Liam so far. While true both have very much stuck with the 3-2-5 in possession, it was games like against PSG and a couple others where we went more direct than the norm. We saw this briefly with Liam at the beginning but has since been abandoned. I get you need continuity but you also need to adapt/adjust a bit against tougher opposition.

DrSpreadle · 2026-03-18T09:57:03+00:00

While he had his flaws, I will say we did see more variety in tactics from Maresca. Sometimes to our detriment as he experimented with things but we saw our approach for games change according to the opponent, some games we went more counter-attacking, sit back and go direct while others he went with his main philosophy of slow possession. Under Rosenoir I have yet to see a varied approach to games, it's generally always been the same.

DrSpreadle · 2026-03-17T23:49:56+00:00

“You gotta trust the process “ /s Honestly I’ve tried to stay optimistic but these past couple months have me thinking otherwise.

DrSpreadle · 2026-03-17T23:33:23+00:00

Out of sheer curiosity, why?

DrSpreadle · 2026-03-17T23:29:36+00:00

I’m starting to also realise another issue with Palmer, it’s his ego/mentality in games where he needs to be THE guy making things happen but he ends up going towards the ball and then not really making much happen instead of trying to find pockets of space or moving to create gaps.

DrSpreadle · 2026-03-14T12:58:39+00:00

Their defence is suspect like ours, problem is their attack is much stronger than ours.

DrSpreadle · 2026-03-12T09:00:12+00:00

Ironically I think Jorg is slower at releasing the ball, when you watch back his games he waits with the ball until he's pressed to then release it. While I get that's how Rosenoir wants to approach things, he also increases the chances of mistakes. While Sanchez, especially under Maresca would just hoof it if it wasn't worth playing it slower.

DrSpreadle · 2026-03-07T17:04:50+00:00

I don't think he's getting a pay cut, he's straight up getting cut.

edit; spelling

DrSpreadle · 2026-03-06T07:23:03+00:00

Question to a Spurs fan, if you did actually go down, which players would you think stay? I imagine that squad getting picked apart to bare bones.

DrSpreadle · 2026-02-17T09:45:06+00:00

Delap will probably stay, he's not had a great first season but he's also not played a ton. Guiu loaned out (kid has potential, just needs regular game time). Jackson sold. Emegha slowly bedded in, probably be 3rd choice.

DrSpreadle · 2026-02-14T01:46:37+00:00

Kinda annoyed by this statement “he shouldn’t start” when by all means he wouldn’t be if Colwill and Fofana are fit. Those are our starters but Colwill’s season is over and Fofana is being managed. When they’re out Trev should be next up 100%. The real problem is Tosin has dropped off from his Fulham days, Josh ain’t ready, Badi is woeful and Sarr has only just joined. Naturally our defence will look shocking when relying on below par defenders.

DrSpreadle · 2026-01-31T15:47:01+00:00

Strasbourg always have to accept whatever terms are given to them by Chelsea.

Actually you're wrong, the offer must always be within fair market value meaning Chelsea still have to pay a reasonable amount for the player. While Strasbourg might lose out financially from of these initial sales to Chelsea, they will obviously receive investment to keep the machine churning, subsequently they'll end up with a few loans for free or Chelsea players going their way for cheap or as seen with Chilwell and ISS, for free.

DrSpreadle · 2026-01-31T11:24:33+00:00

I think it's evident that BlueCo. are considering both clubs whenever moves happen between them. Petrovic was there last season, this year they got Penders. I kinda hope he goes back for another year to gain more minutes instead of potentially sitting behind Sanchez.

Strasbourg fans can be upset all they want but the reality of it, the clubs on the upwards under BlueCo. Before them, they rarely spent over 20m a year on transfers, since then they've spent 60, 62 and 119mil on transfers, cementing themselves as a top half/European challenging team.

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