State of the Club: Chelsea

Tifo Football Podcast

The Athletic

Football, Soccer,, Sports, Soccer

4.6 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2020

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Seb Stafford-Bloor talks to Dom Fifield about Chelsea's recent coaching history, from the money spent to sack Antonio Conte, to the reasoning behind the appointment of Maruizio Sarri, and finally: Frank Lampard's tenure and future. This episode is an extended version of a clip from Tifo Football's recent State of the Club episode on Chelsea. Visit the Tifo Football YouTube channel for the full video, including contributions from David Ornstein and Matt Slater, Alex Stewart on Chelsea's tactics, and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and
0:03.5	welcome to a special episode of the Tefo football podcast.
0:06.8	I'm Joe Devine and I'm here today to introduce
0:09.2	Sebb Stafford Bloor and Dom Fyield of the Athletic.
0:13.0	Later on today, we're releasing our second episode of State of the Club.
0:18.0	State of the Club is a video series where we look at one club per episode and diagnose them in several different
0:24.8	ways we look at their tactics we look at their finances we look at their
0:28.3	recruitment we look at the management and the coaching and we try to analyze all the
0:32.2	most interesting themes related to that club.
0:35.0	And today's club is Chelsea.
0:37.0	Chelsea are a fascinating club at the moment.
0:40.0	The team once associated with Roman Abramovich and Jose Marino has ushered in a new era,
0:46.0	where we're more regularly hearing names like Marina Graz Skia, and obviously Frank Lampard has returned to be the coach. What you're about to hear on today's podcast is the extended and full version of a conversation
0:57.1	between Seb Stafford Bloor and Dom Fife Field.
0:59.4	Seb and Dom take us back to 2017.
1:02.0	They talk about the money that was spent on Sacking Conte.
1:05.2	They talk about the decision-making behind a Maritzio Sari's appointment. And finally, they talk
1:09.6	about Frank Lampard and his network at the top of the club and what the future might hold for him and for Chelsea.
1:15.0	It's far-ranging and fascinating and a shorter version of it appears in the video.
1:20.0	So I hope you enjoyed today's conversation and I also hope that you will visit our YouTube channel.
1:24.0	If you just search for TIFO football on YouTube you'll find us and our most recent video will be this state of the club episode.
1:30.0	It'll be about an hour long maybe, Full of contributions from people like David Ornstein and Matt Slater.
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