The adult move: Keep Poch.

We realize our team is currently rebuilding but yet dont have the patience to go through the rebuilding process. To expect Poch to get this team to top 4 with this current squad is ludicrous. It took years for Arteta to get arsenal back it wont happen overnight at chelsea. We need to stop this carousel and have some stability at coach for once.

Pulisic and loftus cheek two injury prone players at Chelsea have been fit all season for Milan

I fully want Poch to remain the manager, for the sake of stability.

The earlier Chelsea stick to a long term plan, the better for the club

I know you want Poch out, but it's the right decision mate. They have occantionally been world class. Can only be better, give Poch time

If u look at the bigger picture, 85% of the games we played, we shoulda won but poch can’t make the saves or score the goals or even completely prevent individual errors from worse players because half the squad is injured, genuinely don’t blame him and want him to stay

- They called him Fraudiola in his first year or two in charge - They wanted Klopp out for not being able to adapt to the Premier League - Arteta came 8th in his first two seasons BUT Chelsea fans do not want to give a chance to someone who OVERACHIEVED with both Southampton and Tottenham FC. As a matter of fact, he almost won a UCL, AND he has been playing the whole season with injuries to KEY PLAYERS. Wouldn't be bad to think about this before asking for him to go. Unfortunately it takes time

Keep poch get rid medical staff

The energy in that second half was glorious, I wish we have the same level of energy arsenal played us on in the first half.

One can see a clear trend of improvement at Chelsea, as a team and of individual players. It makes perfect sense to continue with Pochetino instead of experimenting with a new manager. Stability and patience are important ingredients for further improvement.

George, I admire this story, there is a lot to learn looking at the training regimes. However, I can feel in my bones that something is really bubbling under the water. You must see it too, and we must thank Poch for creating this vibe. We all know that this looks like a good team it just needs time and I think Poch will continue building. You yourself said Caicedo had the best game in a Chelsea shirt, Conor Gallagher can be our Captain for another 5 years, Enzo will be massive when we emerge. So there you have it, best midfield, full stop. Such a pity we got rid of Kova, and even Barkley, they could have really taught these young guys a lot. Scrap the stuff about centre forwards we've got enough. Jackson will do for 10 years, he's playing like Havertz already. Gusto, Chilly, Alfie, Cucurella, James a squad of attacking fullbacks the envy of every club in the EPL and every one of them ready to die for our shirt. Sort out the central defenders (it's coming), sort out the wide-outs, and leave Palmer where he is. This is a great looking team for the future. So for me, unlike you, although the COnference League might seem mundane, to give a young squad the experience in travelling constantly, with a heavy fixture load, and international football, often playing against teams coached to a really high level. Bring it on, let them learn together. Just my thoughts.

removing poch just wouldnt make any sense its not his fault the players keep making mistakes on the pitch, always quick to blame the manager but not the players

Thiago Silva is 39, yet GB expected him to have been ready to play Arsenal on Tuesday after playing against MC on Tuesday

Tell you what, Sack the sporting directors, bring back Petr Cech, send the new owners to a play room round the back to distract them while work gets done.

We've had major injury problems for a good 18 months before Poch joined us

If Poch is selecting players according to how hard they practice (just like Lampard did as manager), the likes of Hazard & Aguero would never get selected. They weren't the best at training but on match day it was a whole other matter 🔥⚽🔥

Our players seem to rate him it will probably disrupt dressing room. I feel like next season if he gets some of his signings he will improve! but im still 50/50 tbh

Poch was planning around Enzo all the season but now he had to move all the pieces and it looks like Caicedo Is freer to advance (as Well all the team) instead of be defensive.

FACT: we're in the top 5 teams in the EPL in terms of points in the year 2024. Fact: our xg points for the whole season has us in the champions league next year. Fact: this is the youngest squad in the league and things are beginning to really gel. FACT: Poch is extremely well liked and respected by the players. He's also known as a great manager to develop young talent. Fact: Poch has had crazy injuries to deal with and hasn't had a proven striker. Fact: this is Poch's first season; give it time. We are seeing a lot of green shoots of hope.

Tbh i think we should be ready to give poch some time to improve, if he doesnt, then sack him, But currently he should stay

Chelsea 2nd half against Villa, so talented best team in the making,

Silva - should be offer as coaching staff(defend) + player

Anyone who is gonna sit back and blame Poch for everything about the club is so ignorant and clearly doesnt watch the games!!!

Seeing Tuchel at United is going to kill me

I think we should give Pochettino another season, just in terms of continuity. We cannot keep chopping and changing managers. I remember what they were saying about Arteta a few years ago. He was given time and the people upstairs at Arsenal were willing to buy what he was selling.

Yes guys, In Poch we trust. Give him another season we need to sign a new striker and all will good.

It's easy to find excuses for Poch, Nicholas Jackson has been missing sitters the whole season, the squad has been plagued with injuries, but he's had a few stinkers that are inexcusable. Playing Chilwell as a winger in the beginning of the season and Colwill as a left back, even though he got skinned game after game after game, not even giving Maatsen a chance to pay as a left back, while he is now in a Champions League semi final, not telling categorically to the owners that we need at least one more striker with Jackson for the second part of the season, when we have Broja and Fofana on loan, not giving Mudryk starts in the games after he scores, not using Madueke enough even though he's pkayed well most of the time he's had the chance to, not using Chukwumeka enough while Gallagher playing 90 min as a number 10, etc. But his greatest chokes are the Carabao cup loss to an academy Liverpool team and the total humiliation against Arsenal after such a spiritless performance. Those two things make you wonder if Poch has what it takes to be a top-level coach.

Give the man a full squad, a decent striker and let’s see what he can actually do

poch should play badiashille as defensive mid or inverted full back .. he has great passes but always on preasure as a fullback. and caicedo should play all round the pitch

Please bring back the live streams on game day, I know the team isn’t always showing up but it brings a community vibe to watching games from the opposite side of the world

Chelsea made big mistake not keeping Kai Hawerd, and Joe Flex to help young players get goals scored at the same time.

I think blaming Poch is completely wrong. Lack of experience in the dressing room is what needs addressing. You listen to Lampard, Terry, Drogba or numerous others from the past 20 years, the slightly older experienced players set the tone. They regulated the dressing room, set standards, let the young players know what it means to play for the club. Who does that when the whole dressing room is these young players needing guidance? That's why you see the penalty fiasco and the outbursts at full time against Villa, the manager cannot control everything 100% of the time, you need need leaders in the dressing the room making sure the culture is maintained.

It’s not his fault we can’t score or defend. A lot of these players are average at best

Blaming Poch for the injuries is just absolute nonsense lol

I'm with you I think Poch is better as a manager than most of the others. He should definitely stay and it promotes stability

Give poch more control in the summer cause rn he has 0 input on buying players and how he wants to manage the club

Poch deserves another season with a fully fit squad , a Proper striker and a couple Senior players ! Stability is key and there's no manager out there who I think fits what we need now

I don't really buy into this idea that Poch is responsible for the injuries considering we had just as many injury problems before he arrived.

Poch has progressed this squad with the most injuries any squad has had. Injuries aren’t new, poch has been patient bringing them back even with pressure from fans. We were 12th last year, we’re almost certainly not finishing below 8th this season. Scored 38 goals last season and although at the detriment of defending this season , we have now scored 63 so far this season. When we play the big teams we generally have matched or been better with the exception of Arsenal and Liverpool away. The problem is you either are in denial and expecting the standards of yester year without any reason to expect that from the youngest squad in Europes top 5 leagues. Or you are in reality, and can see this has been progress this year , things are still not perfect , the manager has publicly said what he needs is the experience to add to the youngsters. You all want him sacked but because that become the popular narrative which was always coming whenever he lost a game because of his spurs roots. He’s building something, rivals want us to fail. We keep ripping up and starting again, players , managers in future will never come. And we will only ever see the odd trophy rather than the dominance we want to replicate like Man City. Stick with the manager

Love all of your videos

I am pleased that Poch gets next season. The team is slowly but surely going in the right direction. Great to see youth getting opportunities. Just keep Gallagher for God sake.

Young players don’t win you anything. We need players that are older and experienced. Poch for me is the right man. He’s just not having the best of look cause of the squad he has is mostly young but we look like we’re starting to gel. I think we will be loads better next season. Maybe get some experience players in this summer but we will deffo be back at some point. I can feel it. I’m just writing this season off. I’m just waiting for next season.

Btw even when Poch joined chelsea he always emphacised on bringing on experienced players in the squad even before the season started, i think he already identified that need.

We need to bring john Terry in to the defence coaching setup watching his interview with Si Jordan he is the man to come in to put some passion in the club

I’m 1 million percent with it! Poch deserves that! The less the owners could do for him is to give him another season! Great adult with balls move 👏🏿👏🏿

Hi George I love your videos from Kenya.

The problem with the training session is that no one knows if they are appropriate or in line with the latest scientific understanding of how to train. There needs to be some sports science applied to it as with athletics and for all we know that’s not been done. As you say most of the injured players are not getting injured in competitive matches.

The question is could anyone had done better than poch? Chelsea must keep pochetino if we really want to succeed

It is good that there is a clear target for Poch. Qualify for Europe. He either makes it or not. Therefore he either should be sacked or not. Currently Chelsea are 9th and don't have it in their own hand if they qualify for Europe or not. I don't think Chelsea will make it to 7th at the end of the season. What would be really worrying for me is if Chelsea don't qualify for Europe but still stays.

The team seem to be happy with Poch, so changing the coach will upset an already fragile team. At the moment they need stability. It would also appear that all the clubs in the league are suffering from multiple injured players. It’s not just Chelsea.

Dude, you are a Chelsea content creator. Watch the press conferences. Trev and Thiago were rested against Arsenal for injury concerns/rest. Seems the right move, considering Thiago couldn't last the 90 against Villa either.

I know this tournament has been an emotional rollercoaster... We love certain players, the next week ee hate them, one week the team looks strong, the next we're awful... We cannot ignore the fact that we haven't have one single match without injuries. On the other hand, our players are too young, a couple of them either have had too much pressure or simply are not good enough. We cannot afford starting over with a different coach...

Blaming Poch for injuries is rubbish and you know it George

I don't see any coaching badges in the background George but we see what potch done with Southampton and tottenham with his young squads. So we know he can make this work. How soon it should happen is not for us to say cause circumstances are different.

A 2-2 draw has most our fan base convinced potch needs to stay which is so worrying. There's alot of managers available in the summer and we're gonna just let them all go to other clubs. Tuchel, honnes, amorim, Alonso, mourinho and many others so by the time we panic and realise thing's are actively getting worse under the spurs man we're gonna go panic and go get some mediocre manager who Roman would never have hired. Never forget potch said this season he wants to have his players feel like they're playing 3 games a week with how intense his training is and now we have an injury crisis and let's not forget when he said trophies don't mean anything they only build egos that's who you guys want to keep. Our fan base is okay with being mediocre now 😓

Nice to see a more measured, reflective video. 👍🏾

If we come 7th or 8th and end up with conference league, then we have the chance to get some of these youngsters on loan in the mainstream of the squad. I think we should expand our squad to between 28 and 30 knowing that one third of that list won’t be available for the season😂. Players like Hutchinson, Santos, Hunphries some academy boys and maybe Jackson if we get a proper striker can be useful to prosecute the early stages of the conf league and also serve as back up for next season. We can’t do the whole season with 25 player squad we currently run. We need to expand a bit more with some quality youngsters who can also step in for EPL games when we have injuries. We are still rebuilding and I think we should allow Poch continue

No idea how you can start a blog complaining about how Poch has to take the blame for overloading players causing injuries and then in the same breath moan that he rested a 39 year old and a player who has missed the entire season sparing them from playing twice in three days. Obviously, Silva and Trev were not ready to go again. Also, you can't just make up what Poch thought and said at halftime v Arsenal and Villa! The measure I take of the manager is that he has taken points and often outplayed all of the top 4, particularly City 3 times! All with 10 players missing every week and no spine to the team. There is no Cech, Terry, Lampard.Kante or Drogba in this team mate. Just a bunch of kids. As for him being too soft on the players, who knows? He's not gonna ball them out in public. You don't get 20 caps for Argentina by being a softie either.

how can we get a squad to gel when we can’t trust the process of a manager and change the manager every season

I finally see his gameplans coming together and am fine with one more year. I think we can take 7th place. If he had a team he had bought then it would be much better

As long as Tuchel or another manager better than Poch is available we should keep him. The defence and our striker are the biggest problems at the moment. Gyokeres is in my opinion the best budget striker that we can get the best value from. That guy is unbelievable.

We don't have choice😢 let's be patience and support poch

With Tiago Silva leaving the club and having the youngest squad in the Premier League (and probably Europe), there is no way Chelsea can compete for the top 4 next season. Besides, Poch's tactics are now familiar with the other club managers.

I’m so happy Enzo has gotten the surgery. Gallagher and Caicedo together is som much better then with enzo in there. Love enzo but we can’t play with 3 midfielders and especially with connor as the 10. We need a experienced cb, dm, leftback, winger, striker. Bastoni 60 mill, zubimendi 50 mill, bradley locko, nico williams 40 mill, toney 40 mill and maybe a gk in Carnesecchi or Bento as first option for now and future

I certainly believe Poch shld get one more season. Aside from Newcastle, Arsenal, ManU, and one or two more away games. They have definitely not been bad to watch. One thing clear is that they have been far better as a whole this season compared to the season we came 12th.

I am not a Pochettino fan, but however if the players are fighting for him, it may help with player harmony, give him until January to see where the team is at that time. Maybe with the players getting a full pre- season and some of the players come back from injury we can then see where Chelsea are at. This could turn out to be a good decision.

If poch stay at Chelsea he will be a success manager

3 experienced players needed down the spine..defender,mid and striker

Omari Hutchinson needs to come back and mudryk should b sold BCOS of his poor play and hattitude probs ..😂come on Chelsea,good video Bunsen.

I think we should keep Poch. Great video as always but I disagree with a lot of the points made in this video. For example the point about Poch being too soft on the players, that’s for the media. You dunno what happens in the dressing room. As you shouldn’t. You saw what happens in Pep’s dressing room because of a documentary. How often does he display things like that in press conferences

Benson, you're a flipflop mate 😂

And assuming players like the manager cause he is us soft is jus biased . potch can't do anything right for you amd you should be honest man. Cause when he dropped silva after his wife comments wasn't soft and him dropping madueke for his clubbing wasn't soft either and these are tangible examples but you jus say he is soft cause you cant let him get any good press. Like you blame him fir injuries like he was here last year when we had all these injuries.

He has to stay as the coach next season. We desperately need a sense of stability.

For this young and new squad Conference league is a very good start Ant expected to qualify for Champions League but wont even get past group stage

Poch is similar to ancelotti & zidane, they focus on man mgt & motivation rather than rigid tactics. They need extremely fit & smart athletes for their philosophy to work

George, I will give you a new idea, successful teams have less and shorter injuries during the season, not successful teams have more and longer injuries during the season, as a player or a employee in any job if we don’t like are job and not enjoying it we will stay home at any opportunity, just think about that! Example on the championship league win season, under Lampard at the beginning of season we had a long list of injuries, when Tuchel came in we had less injuries, but more important players came back as quick as they can to get the opportunity to play.

Can see Poch staying perfect yes man for the owners, I’ve heard we’ve got rid of the under 25 rule so we can get solanke

With all of his efficiencies, if Poch had striker that knows how to score We'd be top 6 at least I don't totally support it but I understand it We still need to have this midfield convo Remembering we can't sell either Enzo or Caicedo We've to make it work

I worry for the standards of the club with silva leaving slipping even further, the owners have to abandon this under 25 policy

The players rate him, they back him. Let's give him one more chance next season. I'm sure the upper management will let him choose players he needs for next season. After that, no excuses. Also, remember that these current players are getting valuable experience playing against teams like city, Liverpool, and arsenal

No no no, he's made too many mistakes ! Bring Amorim in give him Gyokeres and Paulinha and watch us shine

i don't think it's about the player consistency all of them are injured weekly without playing 3 or 2 games.

I say keep Poch the constant never ending cycle of managers is stupid, Its why we have been unable to create an identity

GB you want Poch to stay. Be brave about it. Majority of fans share that view. No to conference league! The best thing that can happen to chelsea next year is not to have the distraction of insignificant European competition

Poch asked for experience, all season even before the January transfer market . Poch had asked for a broja replacement and he wasn't given any . Literally all are best 5 players : James/ nkunku / fofana / chukwemeka/ lavia . Even colwill and ugochukwo . Get all of them present and we are actually getting 5th . We would easily win agaisnt Aston villa ,already defeated United and spurs . This is not even an exaggeration. You remove man city's best players KDB / Rodri / haaland and see where they finish not 1st that's for sure . Last season arsenal only lost 1 of their star players : saliba and they crashed out .

Improve the medical team, clear the deadwood and bring in some over 25s across the pitch - need a LB, x2 CBs, a left winger and a striker

With all due respect, George, I really love your passion for this club and your strong emotions towards our success, but this season has shown a lot of your viewers that you lose knowledge of this sport when your emotions are high. That being said, I don’t know how you can point to poch’s training method as the issue for these injuries being that the conditioning aspect was already proven to be a preseason training. There is no credible information to suggest that his training methods are the cause of injuries, let alone to suggest that he is still using these training methods. Furthermore, can we talk about how almost every game that we lost earlier This season was because we could not finish? Games where we would be a go away from victory and young players would squander their opportunities. How can you blame the coach for this? The coaches job is to provide strategies for us to score, but not score the goals for us. We have played more fluid offense this season then we have in the previous 3 to 4 years. Last game Cole Palmer was almost invisible, and our players were still able to play as well as they did in our second half. Bottom line is we need to be patient. We cannot compare our situation with any other club because Chelsea situation is different than any that has ever occurred in the history of English football. Starting from the transition, into the new leader ships mentality down to the age group of the players . The fact that we still keep thinking that we should be higher up the table than we are shows us how spoiled we are and how much we lack in knowledge.

You spoke my mind on Pochettino. He is not the coach for Chelsea

Considering the injuries this season, I will support him to stay for another season if we sign at least 4 good players(2 world class and very good defenders, 1 good striker and 1 playmaker).

I believe it's good. I just think we should add Elanga and Aino from Forest. Surely, those two are better than mudryk and Badiashile, respectively

Caicedo’s looking like a new kante

We have a conversion problem from Jackson and we have a wing problem from Mudryk. Pochettino doesn't want to bench Jackson for Deivid washington despite his awful misses. Then why can't he use Jackson as a left winger, and play Mudryk as a false 9. Both players may perform better if their roles are switched. Mudryk plays better playing straight at goal, Jackson plays better from the wing. Simple solution.

Conference league was formulated mainly because of the lower football nations in Europe….its to give teams from Greece,Israel,Denmark and the rest of such caliber (you get what I’m saying) more European football….cos a lot of countries are omitted in the UCL few get spots in Europa league….

Chelsea are 100% getting 8th atleast , with 6th and 7th still highly possible, but we can slip up in these next 5 matches ,united and Newcastle who are stopping us from 6th are battling each other too , that means one will beat the other and the winner will be our rival for 6th .

Let’s be fair about the injuries most of the key injuries have nothing to do with Poch or his drills. Players like Reece James, Chilwell, Nkunku and Lavia are legacy problems. Yes he has issues with tactics but please don’t blame injuries on him. That’s either on the medical or the recruitment

Poch will stay I think but they need to support him with buying some established and experienced players in the summer

When the season ends I know CFC will be at 11th place of the table ! So we can kiss all the fat hopes of European football goodbye !

We want conference league. If we win we are the first.

Stability is what is needed right now. Over expectancy is putting pressure on the team