Pp. Chelsea Football Club is an English professional football club based in Fulham, West London. Founded in 1905, they play their home games at Stamford Bridge. The club competes in the Premier League, the top division of English football.
They won their first major honor, the League championship, in 1955. The club won the FA Cup for the first time in 1970. Their first European honor, the Cup Winners’ Cup. In 1971, and became the third English club to win the Club World Cup in 2022. Chelsea is one of five clubs to have won all three pre-1999 main European club competitions. And the only club to have won all three major European competitions twice.
They are also the only London club to have won the Champions League and the Club World Cup. Domestically, the club has won six league titles, eight FA Cups, five League Cups, and four FA Community Shields. Internationally, they have won the UEFA Champions League. The UEFA Europa League, the UEFA Cup Winners’ Cup the UEFA Super Cup twice each. And the FIFA Club World Cup once since their inception. In terms of overall trophies won it is the fourth-most successful club in English football.
Before the 2022-23 season started the club changed ownership. Todd Boehly – Clearlake from Roman Abramovich who had been with the club since 2003 after purchasing the club. from former owner Bates who was then facing a financial crisis for a fee of £60 million. Abramovich had to sell the club after the British government. Imposed sanctions on him doing Business in the country with the assertion that he supported. Russian President Vladimir Putin to invade Ukraine. Boehly-Clearlake’s takeover happened in March 2022. Where an amount of £4.25b was used to purchase the club.
The departure of Marina Granovskaia and Peter Czech
Soon after taking over the club, Todd Boehly who had little knowledge of European football got rid of one of the best in terms of player transfers in Marina and assumed the position himself.
He took charge of all the transfer activities in the summer. He signed Raheem Sterling from Manchester City, Kalidu Koulibaly from Napoli, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang from Barcelona and other stars with the intention that manager Thomas Tuchel could merge them with the old players for them to perform at the highest level. In the same window, they loaned Romelu Lukaku to Inter Milan and transferred Timo Werner to RB Leipzig in the Bundesliga.
It is important to note that Marina has confirmed her spell at Chelsea. The manager who targets the acquisition of players. Boehly on the other hand failed to get the targets of the manager and had to rely on second options. This has led to some poor performances within the season.
The sacking of Thomas Tuchel
The club’s new owners arrived at a decision to sack Thomas Tuchel on Wednesday, 7th September 2022 just after a 1-0 defeat to Dinamo Zagreb.
Tuchel, already in the season was getting poor results but with experience. The majority of the fans believed he could have turned things around. unfortunately, he was shown the exit.
Tuchel managed to win a champions league for the club in his first six months. He also won the FIFA Club World Cup and the UEFA Super Cup during his stints with the club.
The appointment of Potter
The club’s board appointed Brighton and Hove Albion manager Graham potter as the new manager to replace Tuchel. Potter was doing creditably well with a mid-table team Brighton. Hove Albion FC was seen as a viable replacement for Thomas Tuchel. Though inexperienced, other thought with the job he has done with Brighton who does not have the capacity to purchase high-profile players, he may be able to do better at Chelsea who are capable of buying any player.
Honestly, from the start of his coaching career at Chelsea, his side has not seen any improvement. The club currently lies 10th on the league table. Have been eliminated from the EFL Cup and the FA Cup. It is very likely they would miss out on a champions league place this year. When you take a very good look at the current crop of players in the club, about seven players who could start in every game are our due to injury. Players who have been brought to the club. Look is totally out of form or are not interested to play. Graham Potter’s inexperience has been very bare and lots of fans have questioned whether he is capable enough to manage the club.
Graham Potter
It is quite obvious that the manager cannot use the materials at his disposal at the moment. The players are either bigger than the manager or are unwilling to play for the manager due to disbelieving in his tactics.
In four days, he has tasted defeats twice all in the hands of Manchester City. 1-0 defeat at home in a Premier League game and a 4-0 thumping at Etihad Stadium in an FA Cup game. Even though many are calling for him to be sacked. But I think it will be wise if Chelsea can keep him until the end of the season and give him the opportunity to learn. Potter might be part of the problems but he is not all of the problems. It will take time for the problems to be resolved.
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