Libero 075 | Are Chelsea Actually Good?

Libero

Sports, Soccer, Society & Culture

4.9 • 867 Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Chelsea held Arsenal to a 1-1 draw on Sunday even though they were reduced to 10 men in the first half. They looked like a proper Chelsea team, playing in a proper Chelsea atmosphere. And even though they missed the chance to go second, and close the gap to three points, it felt like a day that strengthened their reputation, and that of their coach Enzo Maresca. So on today’s Libero, Jack Pitt-Brooke, Miguel Delaney and Jonathan Wilson discuss Chelsea’s strong progress. And they ask whether we might all need to re-assess our views of Maresca, the coaching job he has done there, and maybe even the recruitment strategy of Todd Boehly and Clearlake too. Because some of their much-criticised signings now look like far-sighted investments. P1: (12:14) P2: (27:43) Produced by: Tom Bassam Email in via liberopodcast0@gmail.com Subscribe to our YouTube channel @liberopod Follow us on X @podcast_libero Follow us on Bluesky @liberopodcast.bsky.social Follow us on Instagram @liberopod Follow us on TikTok @liberopod Follow us on Facebook @liberopod Music: Kid Kodi - Blue Dot Sessions Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The world moves fast.
0:03.0	Your work day?
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0:05.0	Pitching products, drafting reports, analyzing data.
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0:25.6	Learn more at Microsoft.com slash M365 copilot.
0:29.6	Hello and welcome to Libero, the podcast about the most important of the least important things, as Ken Bates once said.
0:35.6	My name is Jack Pitbrook. I'm joined today by least important things, as Ken Bates once said.
0:43.8	My name's Jack Pitbrook. I'm joined today by Miguel Delaney of the Independent and by Jonathan Wilson. Hello, both. Hello. Thank you to everyone who keeps listening,
0:49.0	downloading, streaming, sharing. Please keep those comments coming. On Spotify, on YouTube and elsewhere, we need your support to keep doing this, which we really
0:57.8	enjoy doing.
0:58.8	And today, we are just going to talk about the Premier League.
1:02.6	And it felt like on Sunday for about 11 minutes, we had a title race.
1:06.0	So that's going to be our main focus today and how well we think Chelsea and Enz Moreska have kind of confounded a lot of the haters in the mainstream media.
1:14.9	But we're going to start with Liverpool against West Ham or so West Ham against Liverpool, Jonathan, which you covered.
1:22.1	How was it?
1:22.9	It was a, it was a terrible game of football.
1:26.2	There was a lot to write about.
1:29.7	So obviously you had the sad news about Billy Bonds's death
1:30.7	and it's one of those occasions
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