Your right if Fergie was in line for LFC manager we would go mental, who would we go mental at, the tw*ts making the decisions, the owners, not the guy acceptin a job You should be going f**kin mental at Abramovic, cos he hasnt got a clue about football and its passion,problem your all s**thouses, scared of disappearing down the hole you came from. But you aint got the bottle, thats what happened when he took over, you are powerless, Roman can employ who he wants and stuck 2 fingers up at the fans when he employed Benitez, but ur sh*t scared to do anythin
The fans actually disagree with alot of Roman's decisions and believe he's ruining their club. The long-term (pre-Roman) fans would prefer (in many cases) for him to leave and let them build properly again. But quite frankly, their methods of showing displeasure to Roman is cowardly at best. What was their chant, something like "Roman Abramovich, what are you doing?" Yeah, real displeasure with that one... Chelsea fans need to decide what they want. Stick or twist with Roman because he's not going to change. I think they'll stick...because they know they need him. Not even their 'Messiah' Mourinho will save them with FFP coming into play.
Within your bitter little rant, there is possibly a reasonable point trying to get out. Stop frothing at the mouth and maybe make it.
It's been proved to you that you are both clueless when it comes to your comparison and gutless when it comes to dealing with your owner. Now go away.
Roman's not perfect but you'll struggle to find a Chelsea fan who thinks he has done more harm then good for us so we'll show him some respect when voicing any displeasure. I know you're desperately hoping we turn on him and he leaves but I'm afraid you'll have to keep living in our shadow a little longer.
<Doh> Wasting my time trying to discuss/debate/argue with you. You just fail to address the point completely.
Stop deflecting answering his valid point, Abramovic hires and fires Chelsea's managers(including RDM), so why no Abramovic out campaign? 6xD's is correct, you all know hes in the wrong but you aint got the bollocks to say so. please log in to view this image
But he didn't say we were perfect, none of us ever do. I can understand you getting a bit defensive, but your attempt to berate someone for something that you yourself made up just makes you look desperate and foolish. I've said earlier that I sympathise with genuine Chelsea fans for the state you find your club in. Seems to me you've sold your souls for a few years worth of success. The sad thing is that more and more clubs are likely to go the same way before things get better. If they ever do.
Hiring and firing managers has gone on for ever, just because we are successful and have a rich owner we have sold our souls if we don't start burning Roman effigies!?! How many fans are completely happy with their board / owner? Romans mostly down well by us, he's perhaps out of touch with fans wishes but then fans aren't always right. Liverpool fans wanted Kenny Dalglish back.
Ok, that's a little bit better. We can work from this. His more good than harm basically equates to deep pockets, correct? Would you rather have Roman and all his money but his lack of respect for the fans, managers and club's reputation, or a well run club with a manager given time? I can see the positives he's given you, but he's been going downhill in many ways the last 4 years with some absurd decisions. Your next manager won't be Pep, it probably won't be Jose; and any other manager given the job won't be fully backed because it's not one of the previous two! Where is the future of Chelsea going with Roman still at the top? I actually liked Chelsea pre-Roman. I enjoyed watching the team with Zola, Desailly, Di Matteo, Le Saux, Poyet et al. I like competing (or as you call it, living in the shadow) of teams who have quality players, but I, like alot of football fans in the country, have lost alot of respect for your team since he's took over.
PMK - are you really stupid enough to think Roman and the board don't know we (the fans) think he got the RDM / Rafa thing wrong??? We've made it perfectly clear and don't need to chant Roman out (which is an entirely seperate issue) to make that point.
Funny how a lot of fans liked us pre Roman when we had good players and attractive football but weren't a serious threat to the status quo. Funny how that changed when we started winning things. Mmmm. I don't think Roman has a lack of respect just a strong personality that believes the decisions he makes are the right ones. That's how he has succeeded in business by being ruthless and single minded. Does that translate running a football club, maybe not in some areas and there have been some bad decisions made at board level probably starting with sacking Jose. However he has helped bring the most successful period of our history to us, improved our infrastructure, our global appeal, the clubs worth, written off the debt, improved training facilities and provided us with a great batch of kids that'll hopefully start coming through more regularly. Do you really expect us to turn on him cos he makes a bad decision now and then. That's not to say we wont voice our displeasure but come on.
There you go again making excuses for the mad Russian, it cant be a seperate issue because Rafa was given the job by the Chelsea owner against the wishes of the baying mob at the Bridge. Just admit Rasputin doesn't give a **** about the supporters and he hasn't got an igloo about football, how the **** can your club find stability when it's just a halfway house for out of work 'interim' managers.
I try to avoid slanging matches so I'll ignore the KD dig. Yes, hiring and firing goes on, but not to the extent that's happened at Chelsea since RA took over. I think we've got too trigger happy over the last few years, but at least the change of owners goes part way to explaining that. My general point was that the influx of big money by owners who interfere too much with something they aren't expert in is ruining the game. Chelsea are a case in point, but the problem is one that increasingly affects us all. Owners should, imo, just put a manager in place and back off and give him time to do his job.
Maybe Roman doesn't really give a **** about the fans? He would like to see Chelsea do well as its a laugh and something to brag to his buddies on his yacht about? He's been playing FM for real for a few yrs - FFP may spoil his fun a little who knows? He may not be able to buy the history he wants? I do feel for the proper fans - it highlights what the game has become over the last 10 yrs or so. Sugar daddy success or real life mediocraty?
Errr..No you don't need to burn effigies but the abuse hurled at Rafa from day one was misplaced. You didn't all suddenly only overhear his comments about your club so it wasn't instant outrage. Your reaction was to the appointment of someone that had made those comments about your club. So why hurl abuse at him; he didn't appoint himself? But you didn't show a similar level of hatred and anger at the real villan, the person who appointed him. Sooo It's easy for us to assume that it is not out of respect (how can you respect a man who knowingly appointed such a hate figure) but out of fear that he'll up and leave that you don't show the same level of outrage at the real person responsible for the situation. Your frustration at all being Romans powerless bitches is the real reason for your vent at Rafa. Of course if it IS still becaue you respect RA then I'll still think of you as a bit classless. You'll ignore him repeatedly treating you all as irrelevanices just because he's bought you some recent trophies. Basically it makes you whores. As to comparisons with Roy. He made his comments WHILE manager not before. And I'm fairly sure you could find marches & protests against H&G (pre Roy) and while I disagree with the anti Brendans on this board, you'll find that they share their displeasure about FSG appointing him in the first place in equal measure. So no hypocrisy here. I'm sure you're rich 'client' will be round to bend you over in the summer but it's ok if he leaves you another present eh?
You could argue that respect is listening to the fans who are the entire essence of your club. Roman doesn't listen. Therefore, I would argue, has no respect. Our owners are nowhere near the best, but they earn alot of Kudos for listening to the fans every now and then. Like I said, success through his wealth, but at what expense? Are you happy with how your club is perceived in the footballing world? Whilst this siege mentality will bring your club together for the final few weeks of the season, it's just glossing over the biggest problem with your club right now; Roman. He came, to took you to a higher level, he's improved your team and youth, now he needs to go and let the club move forward. He hasn't got the nouse, respect or (with FFP) money to take the club higher. His two top manager targets won't be coming in, and the next manager needs time which they won't get either. He lacks patience. You still would rather keep him?
So basically what ever we do you think we're wrong / classless / bitches then. Mmmm.... Maybe you just don't like us and any chance to have a dig. Ultimately we didn't want RDM sacked but if he was and then say Jose had been appointed in his place, we could have lived with it. Instead a guy who slagged the club and worse still, slagged the fans off during his tenure at one of our biggest rivals (certainly at the time) then shows the hypocrisy of accepting a job offer from our club, presumably out of desperation cos no one else of note wanted him post Inter. I can actually understand why he was appointed, it's a decision of the head made by a business man. But as fans, we didn't want him. However by having some awful results on the pitch has led to the position not getting better. If Rafa wanted to get us on side, results needed to improve, instead they got worse. So he is the easy target for the fans' frustrations, right or wrong.
