The change of club owner and its subsequent restructuring is always an extremely complex and slow process that not everyone goes through. Chelsea, having said goodbye to Roman Abramovich, entered the American era of Todd Bowley, which began with an interim collapse. Chelsea changed head coaches, made it out of the Champions League group with difficulty, lost the first game of the Champions League playoffs, and in the English Premier League fell to 10th place. Only one point separates the Blues from moving to the bottom of the table. The situation is depressing, the pressure on the coach and the management is maximum, but as you know, if they criticize, they offer. In this article, I have put together a stock algorithm for Chelsea, which can at least somewhat mitigate a disastrous season.
Beat Borussia Dortmund and move on
Already obvious. that Chelsea will miss out on the next Champions League, so why not make one last noise at Europe’s premier tournament? The “aristocrats” will take the eighth or conditional 14th place in the Premier League, there is no difference, but some Champions League semifinal can soften the sensations somewhat.
It’s hard for head coach Graham Potter to motivate players into a near futile struggle in the Premier League every three or five days, but much easier in the Champions League. If the Londoners manage to get past Dortmund to the 1/8 final, it will be a positive campaign with a hint of a happy future. The class of Chelsea players is definitely not inferior to that of the Germans, and they are capable of passing at least one stage of the Champions League. It will be a small, low-key home win in club history, but it will be a big one in terms of team psychology.
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Graham Potter has repeatedly acknowledged his concerns about an overly bloated roster causing even parts of the players to train separately. Do I need to explain why this is bad for such a complex and unified mechanism?
Graham Potter now looks like a fashionista who opens her closet and puts on what she wants, no matter the style, comfort or weather. It is clear that when the head of the club spends hundreds of millions of euros on newcomers, she immediately wants to use them to the fullest, but this approach never gives results. Pep Guardiola himself very slowly and carefully introduces new players into the team, and Potter obviously will not be able to integrate 6-8 expensive players into it.
The same Mikhail Mudrik in the first days after the transfer began to go to the base, but what’s the point? The Ukrainian has not had a single goalscoring action for several days, which is not surprising, because he did not play in winter, and his preparation was as messy as possible. And only now Potter admitted the mistake, as a result of which Mudrik was in the reserve.
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Chelsea needs a squad cleanup this summer, but if Potter continues to pick different squads from match to match, it won’t be clear who to get rid of. The coach must decide on the backbone of the team, which in the coming years could become the basis of the project. Even if Potter is threatened with dismissal, to make amends for all his mistakes at least a bit, he can still benefit the club.
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Graham Potter looks like a Todd Bowley puppet right now, and he alone is to blame. What does José Mourinho himself do when a barrage of insults and criticism from fans and sports media falls on him? That’s right, he answers them. Yes, even if he does not always look correct and beautiful, but he feels character. This type of behavior can further irritate others, but the main thing is that sometimes it works and gets the team going.
Potter just goes with the flow and doesn’t seem to be trying to change anything. And this is fundamentally wrong.
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