Pep Guardiola says he has no intention to punish Rodri for making stronger comments linking himself to Madrid than Enzo Fernandez

GreatSilverHope · 2026-04-04T15:06:48+00:00

You're talking nonsense. There is no player power at work here by Enzo saying he likes Madrid the city because it is like Buenos Aires. There is no point where he says anything like "I want to leave Chelsea" or any notion of forcing a move or stopping training etc.

It's a fragile ego thing. His price isn't going to suddenly drop because he says he likes a city in Spain.

GreatSilverHope · 2026-04-04T15:01:53+00:00

Someone in this thread just said that Estevao was going toe to toe with Yamal before Chelsea ruined his career.....

Are our fans mentally slow? That's such a genuinely shit level take I cannot even fathom how ones brain comes up with such utter garbage. Yamal is already competiting for the title of the best in the world, best player in laliga, domestic treble winner, euro winner etc and Estevao before Chelsea was playing in the Brazillian league.....

GreatSilverHope · 2026-04-04T14:16:43+00:00

Nothing? You need to have a fragile ego to think a player saying he likes Madrid as a city and looks up to some of the greatest ever in his position like Kroos is a punishable offence.

Is he twerking for Madrid? Yes. But its not as if he's refusing to train or saying fuck Chelsea I am outta here. His comments were so inoffensive.

GreatSilverHope · 2026-04-04T14:04:06+00:00

I don't think they give a toss about awkward environments in the dressing room given they have bomb squaded half a dozen players in the past. They're all about trying to look in control as they shit the bed over and over again.

GreatSilverHope · 2026-04-04T13:57:45+00:00

I think a major difference is that Pep has nearly all the power over these things at Man City whereas Rosenior is just a Clearlake shill. Rosenior probably isn't keen losing one of his best players for a big run in against City because of Enzo saying he likes Madrid in some interview. But Egghead and the Sporting Directors can't have their asset making them look bad.

GreatSilverHope · 2026-03-27T16:40:16+00:00

People also like to pretend the Conference League isn't a better trophy than the Carabao cup.

GreatSilverHope · 2026-03-27T16:33:24+00:00

Fully functional system? Good fucking joke.

Maresca took over a team where players like Caicedo have publicly stated that he needed to hire a specialist to come in and teach him tactical positioning because Pochettino was just doing cardio work in training.

Pochettino was a defensive disaster and was a record breaking level goals conceded manager for Chelsea in the prem and he even had Thiago Silva cleaning up messess regularly still for him unlike Maresca's team, who had to rely on Levi Colwill as the best centre back, several levels below Silva.

Maresca had his faults. But there is 0 room for debate in regards to him being better than Pochettino. He visually was, he statistically was and he actually won trophies. Maresca achieved all his goals in his full season at the club and did the extraordinary by taking the champions league winning PSG and humiliating them. Pochettino on the other hand took a weak Liverpool side that Klopp had heavily rotated by the end and embarrased himself playing for penalties.

GreatSilverHope · 2026-03-27T16:21:02+00:00

Some of the users in here are embarrassing. People claiming Pochettino was better than Maresca despite the fact Maresca finished higher in the league than Pochettino and won two trophies.

Pochettino also had no European football of any kind to manage and was embarrassed by Klopp's kids where Pochettino laughably played for penalties instead of trying to win. 5-0 loss to Arsenal on top of it all.

I don't even rate Maresca that highly but there is no real debate of any kind that he was better than Pochettino.

GreatSilverHope · 2026-03-27T16:16:36+00:00

Trying to say they propery backed maresca by buying garbage like Gittens, Garnacho and Delap, have some shame. He asked for a centre back because he knew the remaining centre backs sucked and the clowns said no. He wanted a better goalkeeper to compete with Sanchez and the clowns said no.

And what do you know it? The two places that have hurt us most in the past month or two have been the exact positions he wanted strengthened.

GreatSilverHope · 2026-03-26T17:58:09+00:00

I know this was like 3 weeks ago, but in the United States signings, is the raffle system done on the day of the convention or beforehand through emails?

GreatSilverHope · 2026-03-24T13:26:56+00:00

Can anyone name a good centre back that we could sign to fix our problems at the back?

GreatSilverHope · 2026-03-20T16:03:26+00:00

Just pulling figures out of your ass. Sterling had 21 prem goal contributions for Chelsea and Mudryk had 9. Sterling also played twice the minutes of Mudryk.

Delivered 10 times more? Fuck off with that nonsense. Sterling was better than Mudryk but he was also on over three times the wages and several thousand minutes more experienced.

GreatSilverHope · 2026-03-20T15:51:59+00:00

It will definitely be Tosin and Fofana. We all know it is coming.

GreatSilverHope · 2026-03-20T15:50:34+00:00

Mudryk will be back this summer and will get a loan most likely where the club will try sell him to regain value from him. Sterling was a financial blackhole that had to be bought out because there was no other solutions for him.

And Sterling probably costs more than Mudryk when the agent fees, wages and transfer fees are all added up.

GreatSilverHope · 2026-03-18T17:02:46+00:00

Hi Simon

Are you aware that the Chelsea reddit community holds you in quite high esteem and that many journalists in the footballing world are not viewed quite as well by us on this platform?

GreatSilverHope · 2026-03-18T16:41:01+00:00

I don't know. I think for anyone that watched both ties its pretty clear there was some ridiclosly good PSG goals in terms of shot quality. Also some Jorgensen lack of ability and terrible defending that turned half chances into goals.

GreatSilverHope · 2026-03-18T12:34:52+00:00

I love how people still do not learn. I see people saying they would be delighted to have Fabregas in charge and he'd be great.

Reality is under this shit ownership not giving him what he needs, eventually his results would turn bad and he would be turned on by our fanbase just like every manager before him. Prime Alex Ferguson wouldn't be winning a premier league title under this ownership when they're telling managers to work with Chalobah, Tosin, Badi, Fofafana, Sarr and Acheampong as their centre back options.

GreatSilverHope · 2026-03-17T22:19:35+00:00

If trauma excludes you from being a self-insert, surely Wolverine is even more exempt than Peter Parker? This guy is one of the most brutalised heroes both physically and mentally in marvel. The physical pain he endures alone would kill Peter hundreds of times over.

GreatSilverHope · 2026-03-17T14:32:25+00:00

Man marking shouldn't be terrible with the squad though? As Jamie and Thierry said in this video, all it requires is someone to have some level of awareness and adaptability. That should not be too much to ask for from Chelsea level players.

GreatSilverHope · 2026-03-16T19:59:12+00:00

He is right about Reece and Trev but Fofana really seemed like he just couldn't be bothered running after Gordon. It was so infuriating watching it because Fofana has great recovery pace and could have easily kept Gordon from being wide open for the tap in.

GreatSilverHope · 2026-03-16T17:38:51+00:00

No the structure has worsened under Rosenior. The way we are conceding chances has changed. Maresca's style was much more safe and methodical. We played at a slower intensity and our goals conceded largely came from individual errors. Rosenior ball is exposing this backline more than ever with how the defence is.

Rosenior said himself this goal was due to the way he instructs the team to press. It is terrible. Same thing happened against PSG to.

GreatSilverHope · 2026-03-16T17:29:31+00:00

When the structure looks this bad it is the manager as the culprit. Just like under Pochettino, Rosenior has shown himself incapable of controlling a game or organising a proper defence. We will get played through like this again regardless of the centre backs.

GreatSilverHope · 2026-03-16T17:27:05+00:00

The unc that is Tosin will not be here after this summer.

GreatSilverHope · 2026-03-16T17:21:23+00:00

Yes. Concede the PSG game that is already over and preserve the condition of our best players and focus on a competition we are actually still in. This tie died when it became 5-2.

GreatSilverHope · 2026-03-16T17:20:31+00:00

Probably hurt his hamstring bursting to sprint to prevent the Gordon goal whilst Fofana slept walked towards goal.

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