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It’s Chelsea, perhaps the worst of the lot of the snake 6 for how they run their club and how they deal with other teams. So irrespective of how I really liked Enzo last season, if he goes, I genuinely hope he and his team fail next season! Preferably spectacularly fail! 😂

Did they not appoint Potter and Lampard then?

We’ve had multiple players asset stripped by Chelsea and now potentially a manager and a coaching squad. We didn’t get Fofana to revolt against St Etienne, Chelsea very publicly courted him and thus encouraged his behaviour. Which club have used Luke Chelsea have used us over the last decade then?

I’ve been a Leicester fan my whole life and if I was in Enzo’s shoes I wouldn’t go there instantly. I certainly wouldn’t be drip feeding through Romano that I was ‘super keen.’ Have some class Enzo ffs. I’d expect a bit of loyalty considering he was plucked from a coaching role after failing badly in his first managerial role. If he does go, I hope he fails, mainly because other than 2015/16 Chelsea have classlessly asset stripped us, tapping up Chilwell mid season, encouraging Fofana to down tools and have generally lived up to all the negative characteristics that the big 6 get criticised for.

If Enzo is confident in his ability he wouldn’t be ‘super keen’ to go to Chelsea, He’d realise that he had a project at Leicester and he’d be super keen to finish that! Every manager that Chelsea’s owners appoint end up leaving acrimoniously after no more than a year, even if they win a major trophy like Tuchel.

I’d say Poch’s reputation hasn’t been enhanced by him taking over Chelsea. Same for Potter. The most memorable thing about Potter during his Chelsea time was his ‘glow up.’ His football reputation was at its peak just as he left Brighton and it dipped with his sacking and after what de Zerbi did with Potter’s squad of players at Brighton. The Chelsea job also pretty much ended Lampard’s career as a potential top level manager.

First of all I’ve been a massive fan of Enzo since day one. I’m desperate for him to stay. I think him potentially going to Chelsea after all of their own financial issues and terrible manager history is very disappointing but the silence from the Maresca camp is deafening. If he leaves then I hope the move fails tbh. With regards to the story, the word I used was ‘supposedly’ but you’d be naive if don’t think this factor wasn’t drip fed off the record from a Maresca source. Similar concerns are expressed in The Times and other sources. It’s pretty much everywhere with no Maresca denial of any links or any details.

We do have money. It’s the PSR that may prevent us from spending it!

Well Fernandez and Caicedo have been poor together. Chelsea’s improvement coincided with the season ending injury to Fernandez. Poch moved Gallagher back to play alongside Caicedo and allowed Palmer to work his magic more centrally

As reported today in The Guardian LOL. see attachment The vast majority of fans think Enzo’s done an excellent job though I’d argue that compared to most of The Championship our circumstances have been favourable rather than ‘extremely challenging.’ Leicester were favourites to get promoted and alongside Leeds we had the best squad in the league even after the departures. He’s got excellent potential but ffs he’s managed for 1 season and a quarter, the majority of that in the 2nd tier. He’s not ready for a club as ruthless as Chelsea and the outcome is inevitable if it happens. He’ll have a short tenure and it’ll end acrimoniously as it has with pretty much every manager that’s moved to them in recent years, especially under this new ownership.

Is it Cole Caicedo Palmer (middle name) or Cole Caceido-Palmer (hyphenated surname?)

Supposedly one of the factors that has encouraged Enzo to speak to Chelsea is the impending points deduction that we are likely to get. Does he not realise that Chelsea are also facing a similar deduction? Tbh if we look at the previous asset stripping that Chelsea have done to us, it often doesn’t work. If they do poach Maresca after the opportunity we’ve given him and after such a short period of time I hope it’s a failure for both Chelsea and Enzo.

Lookman played out of position in the vast majority of games for us and he did that because apparently Barnes has a complete inability to play on the right.

Yes one of the very few times when he was allowed on the left and guess what? He looked different class.

Getting ugly flashbacks of Rodgers refusing to give Lookman a go on the left. Steadfastly sticking with Barnes and continually playing Lookman out of position even when pace merchant but trickless Barnes had been found out by his fullback.

I liked Yunus, I think he would’ve done better in the Premier League which is less physical and has overly protective referees. He has great technique. Unfortunately he fell between the two roles for Enzo. Not really a winger, not quite a number 8. Probably the perfect number 10 as a plan b which we don’t really use! He’s likely a victim of previous financial failings at the club. If we could spend with less restriction then £7m for him would’ve been a no brainer.

VAR for offsides is fine and it’ll be quicker next season when it’s semi automated. It prevents onside goals being disallowed. Removing that from top level football would be a backwards step.

It’s a shame we can’t find a place for Akgun if the article is correct. I thought he looked good and would probably find it easier in the less physical surroundings of the Premier League compared to The Championship.

I don’t really understand why on social media it’s considered to be unacceptable to point out a hypocrisy or (to use a favourite derogatory word of yours) to identify a whattaboutery in someone’s argument or standpoint?

It’s genuinely laughable that you’d actually compare the two from an ability perspective. One is a right sided holding midfielder, not particularly impressively defensively (check out his stats) but a great leader with good energy, good positional sense and very consistent. One is a left sided attacking midfielder, a strong runner with the ball who looks to assist and score goals. The only thing they have in common is that they are both midfielders.

Do you not realise the honours you win as a footballer are directly related to the team that you play for? Hendo played an entirely different role for a better Liverpool than KDH does for a clearly not as good Leicester. Hendo was a leader on the pitch for Liverpool but he wasn’t in there for his creativity, his breaking from midfield, his assists or his goals. The reason this debate started was someone posted that Liverpool could buy KDH as a Hendo-type player. Other than both being midfielders, they have a totally different skillset and role.

That’s due to Hendo playing for a big 6 club and KDH playing for a club with a fraction of the budget of Liverpool. Less to do with the comparable abilities of the two players or even the completely different roles they played for their respective clubs.

Only makes sense if the selling of KDH costs us less points than a points deduction!

Yeh but KDH is a completely different type of footballer. Certainly more creative, a better finisher and better at assisting but not the leader that Hendo is. But as I say not the same type of player at all.

You ITK? The player doesn’t want to leave and it’s not like the era when Pipes was forced out, nor are we facing administration. If a big 6/7 club comes in for him then maybe he’ll go m, but Brighton? Fulham? Brentford? Can’t see it. He’ll have his wages cut if he joins one of these clubs for a start.