In consecutive weeks eaten by their own 'Nursery Club', the season of Chelsea threatens to implode.
At the start of the Stamford Bridge regime of Todd Boehly, the American signed nearly a quarter of a billion pound when recruiting members of the staff of Brighton and Hove Albion.
From the British record signing of Moises Caicedo to the poaching of Graham Potter and his entire back room team.
From the eye-watery £ 62 million reimbursement agreed for full-back Marc Cucurella to the non-convincing goalkeeper Robert Sanchez to sports director Paul Winstanley, there seemed to be an obsession with all things Brighton.
So it seemed to strengthen that Chelsea had to be beaten from the FA Cup after all that headhunting and then hand over their heaviest defeat of the Premier League season by the club that they supposedly helled out.
Throw the spit of Enzo Maresca with Brighton's spiky German children's boss Fabian Hurzeler and those two trips to Good Old Sussex through the sea have sent the Chelsea campaign in a tail spider.
Now Chelsea behind Brighton's Japanese winger Kaoru Mitoma, who scored my goal of the season against them in Friday's 3-0 Drubbing in the Amex.
Mitoma, who wrote a university thesis famous about the art of dribbling, must surrender to more football intellectualism before scored it.
A practical exam question: “Imagine what kind of goal Dimitar Berbatov could have scored if he was blessed with pace.”
Well that was it. And Chelsea only have seven senior wingers in the building, on loan or, in the case of £ 62 million Mykhailo Mudryk, stationary after having failed a drug test.
Maybe they need one. Or two. Yankuba MINTEH from Brighton looks pretty good.
Maresca, a curious agreement to replace Mauricio Pochettino in the summer, reduced his Standing with Blues fans by claiming that the Cup defeat could concentrate his team on the competition and the Conference League.
Some of us can remember Jose Mourinho who mocked the old sparring partner Rafa Benitez for winning the Europa League, while Chelsea's interim boss.
Mourinho claimed that the club should never have been in the second -class competition of UEFA.
What the old special would think of a Stamford Bridge boss that concentrates on the third class Conference League-in which Chelsea so far, from memory, Noah and the Whale, Mumford and Sons and Camper Van Beethoven has defeated a gamble .
Who thinks Chelsea they are? West Ham or something?
The back-to-back-downguags are part of a run of 11 races in which Chelsea has only defeated Morecambe, Wolves and, by chance, Potter's Hammers.
During this time they have increasingly walked on a couple of talented young people who urgently need guidance of some adults.
The Chelsea project of Boehly is based on the idea of 'genius' to register dozens of young prospects about extremely long -term contracts. And so this would always happen.
Alan Hansen got up because he stood: “You can't win anything with children”, when the class of Manchester United '92 started to originate at the start of the 1995-96 campaign-one season in which Sir Alex's side Ferguson won double.
But that United Squad included seasoned campaigners such as Eric Cantona, Peter Schmeichel, Steve Bruce, Gary Pallister, Denis Irwin and Brian McClair
Chelsea has no outfield player older than 30.
Even the excellent 22-year-old Cole Palmer shows the tribe of Chelsea for 18 months.
In April, Palmer missed a visit to Arsenal and Pochettino for his players to prove 'they are not a colmer FC'. Chelsea lost 5-0.
Maresca correctly claimed that his side was not ready for a title challenge when it seemed rosy earlier in the season.
Yet he is now confronted with the prospect not to be eligible for the Champions League.
Fifth should be good enough. Chelsea is sixth and shot of trust.
Is Maresca threatened? Perhaps how good a sixth manager would be in 2½ seasons if the entire Boehly project looks so poor.
Even Brighton does not only try to win with children.
A BIG -DEAL
As the only manager who has won the title in all five major European competitions, Carlo Ancelotti can skillfully swear in five different languages.
So when Jude Bellingham was sent to use dirty and offensive language with a referee during the 1-1 draw of Real Madrid with Osasuna on Saturday, Ancelotti, 65, played the cunning language card.
The real boss claimed: “I think the referee did not understand the English of Jude Bellingham. He said 'f *** off', not 'f *** you'. . . That is very different. “
This opens a whole look with dirty mouth worms.
First, is 'F *** you' really considerably stronger than 'F *** off'?
Since 'F ***' is the most versatile word in the English language, Spanish referees should really be expected to understand the nuances of his countless applications?
His Premier League refs trained to understand the use of foreign abusive words to weigh whether a specific copy deserves a red card?
And if not, does this overseas players give an advantage over native English speakers in our top flight?
Or maybe Bellingham should just stop cursing at civil servants.
Mighty moush
Manchester City clearly signed a few seriously good players in January.
So why didn't boss Pep Guardiola have the guts to start Omar Marmoush of Nico Gonzalez in the first stage of City's Champions League play-off against Real Madrid?
In the 4-0 bumping of Newcastle on Saturday afternoon, Marmoush dropped a hat trick, while the midfield anchor Gonzalez was dubbed by his manager 'Mini-Rodri'.
Guardiola thinks that his side has only one percent chance to fall in the second stage in the Bernabeu in the second stage tomorrow night.
But with those two in the team, the opportunities of the city should be a lot better.
Oliver's turn
Management Touchline mode have become fascinating in recent years.
From Roberto Mancini's husband City scarf to Pep Guardiola's Roll-Necks to the entire wardrobe from Scott Parker, fashionistas have often made a speek.
But for me, a middle -aged man who spends many winter evenings in the cold watching football, there is a clear winner.
That is why I hope that I will soon be able to choose from the Oliver Glasner Alpine Knitwear Collection in the Crystal Palace Club Shop.
Start by encouraging
Since Adama Traore arrived in England ten years ago, the Spaniard has had the potential to be the most frightening winger in football.
Built like a bull but blessed with quickly Gonzalez Tempo, there has been a tendency to view Trainore and say: “Imagine he could cross a ball.”
Well, under Fulham's enormously underrated boss Marco Silva, Traore has learned how at the age of 29-as illustrated in his man-of-the-match display against Nottingham Forest on Saturday.
The prospect for Premier League left backs is frightening.
On the way to the south
While the death march from Southampton to relegation went on with a loss of housing for Bournemouth, cameras fell to their largest Premier League player – the wild conspiracy theoreticist Matt le Tissier.
“I wonder if he has his boots,” said the game of the day commentator.
“I wonder if he believes that the disastrous season of Southampton is due to the malignant influence of a shady international cartel run by a malignant reptile domination,” I said.
It's a sin
World Tennis No.1 Jannik Sinner has accepted a three-month ban for the failure of a doping test-handy planned so that the Italian does not miss Grand Slam events exactly.
That will teach him.
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