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FANS have all been making the same joke after realising that Joao Felix will win Chelsea’s goal of the month for February.Life at Chelsea has not been going well under Graham Potter and in February the club failed to win any of their five matches.
Joao Felix’s goal against West Ham was the team’s only one of the monthCredit: Getty
The Blues lost Premier League fixtures to Tottenham and Southampton as well as their Champions League first-leg tie against Borussia Dortmund.
While they drew to Fulham and West Ham at the start of the month.
However, they only managed to score in the game 1-1 draw against the Hammers.
The goal came from Felix and fans have been joking about the club’s goal of the month competition and that he will win the accolade due to a lack of competition from his team-mates.
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One tweeted: “That is the only goal scored man hahaha.”
A second commented: “1 goal in a month? When was the last time this happened with Chelsea?”
A third wrote: “João Félix’s goal against West Ham will win Chelsea’s February Goal of the Month award. Because it was their only goal this month.”
While a fourth said: “Chelsea, had only one goal this month? I am surprised for them.”
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A fifth added: “Scoring one goal in a whole month is insane.”
Although, the club’s in-house competition does also feature goals from the youth teams and women’s team, so it is not a foregone conclusion that Felix will win the award.
The women’s team netted 12 goals in February including Lauren James’ great strike against Tottenham. More

CHELSEA starlet Andrey Santos was spotted at Vasco da Gama’s match against Bovaista.The Brazilian is believed to be set to join the club on loan for the remainder of the season.
Andrey Santos was spotted in the stands watching Vasco de GamaCredit: Twitter – @FabrizioRomano
Santos signed for Chelsea in JanuaryCredit: Getty
The midfielder watched on as the Brazilian side won 4-1 at the São Januário Stadium.
Fabrizio Romano has Tweeted that the player will start training with Vasco this week.
He said: “Andrey Santos, in attendance for Vasco da Gama game yesterday night.
“Loan deal has been agreed on Monday and it will be completed soon with Chelsea 🚨🔵
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“Andrey will return to Chelsea in July for 2023/24 season.
“He will start training with Vasco later this week.”
The reporter suggested that the highly rated 18-year-old will return to Chelsea ahead of next season.
Santos only signed for the Blues from Vasco in January but is yet to play for the Premier League side.
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This is because he is waiting for a work permit that will allow him to play.
Since his move to the club he has been in action for the Brazil under 20s.
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LIKE many people, I feel sorry for Graham Potter.The Chelsea boss is a very likeable man, the sort you’d love as a brother-in-law or nextdoor neighbour.
Graham Potter is under growing pressure at ChelseaCredit: Getty
And a talented coach who has proved himself an enlightened over-achiever at lesser clubs.
But when the manager of an elite football club becomes a figure of widespread sympathy, it feels he isn’t cut out to be an elite football manager.
It was interesting that Potter chose to disclose last week that he had received death threats from supporters.
Such treatment is vile and criminal. It is a sad indictment on football’s rampant anger culture and anyone with an ounce of humanity feels for Potter.
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The Chelsea boss has a masters degree in emotional intelligence. If he wants to make those death threats public, he does so with a more informed background than most of us.
Shining a light on such despicable behaviour might do football some sort of service.
But brutal as it sounds, it didn’t help with the image problem Potter has among Chelsea fans.
Since arriving at Stamford Bridge, Potter has become the epitome of the old adage ‘show me a good loser and I’ll show you a loser’.
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That quote from legendary Green Bay Packers coach Vince Lombardi is harsh but enduring because, in top-level sport, it is true.
The greatest managers hate losing – see Alex Ferguson, Jose Mourinho and Arsene Wenger, who despite being intelligent and urbane, was the worst loser of the lot.
Did anyone ever feel sorry for Ferguson, Mourinho or Wenger?
Potter takes every defeat on the chin – never angry; always stoical.
But his Chelsea team is terrible. Truly pitiful. They aren’t winning or scoring.
A home defeat by bottom club Southampton was followed by a limp surrender in a supposed grudge match against Tottenham.
A club which finished third last season, and have since spent £550million, have two wins from 15 games and one goal in six outings.
There is every chance they will finish in the bottom half, as the third best team in west London, below Fulham and Brentford.
Is there really no limit to how low Chelsea can go this season before Potter is sacked?
The Blues have been in relegation form since the World Cup but are still ten points and eight places above the drop zone so there is no genuine danger of the drop.
If Chelsea fail to overturn a 1-0 deficit and exit the Champions League to Borussia Dortmund next week, perhaps that will be the trigger point.
It is a year since the Russian invasion of Ukraine and therefore a year since the start of the decline of Chelsea, the plaything of Putin crony Roman Abramovich for the previous 19 years.
New owner Todd Boehly seems utterly determined to stick with Potter and prove he is nothing like hire-and-fire Abramovich.
And it’s unlikely that any of Boehly’s mates will launch a full-scale invasion of a sovereign nation anytime soon.
Showing patience can be a good thing. Mikel Arteta – whose Arsenal side sank lower than Potter’s Chelsea have yet done – was backed and may now win the title.
But surely for Potter to survive, there must be signs that the manager has a plan, that the players believe in him, that there is hope?
At Spurs on Sunday, there was none of that.
The Chelsea boss spun his Potter’s wheel again, making six changes. And it got even worse.
Hakim Ziyech, who would have joined Paris St Germain on January deadline day before the deal fell through, started the game, was lucky not to receive a red card and was generally shocking.
Mykhailo Mudryk, all £88.5m of him, was benched.
Benoit Badiashile, the one January signing who has settled in impressively, was dropped too.
Kai Havertz, who really isn’t a centre-forward, was centre-forward again.
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang got a late run-out after a month in the wilderness during which he was axed from Chelsea’s Champions League squad.
Reece James and Ben Chilwell, who thrive as attacking wing-backs, were neutered in a back four.
Enzo Fernandez, the most expensive player in English football history, gave the ball away for Oliver Skipp’s opener.
For the second goal, Raheem Sterling was marking Harry Kane at a corner. Sterling is a little winger, Kane is Tottenham’s most prolific goalscorer. Kane scored. Go figure.
So where are the signs here? Where is the pattern? Where are the hints that Potter might turn this around?
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Nobody takes any pleasure at pointing this out because everyone recognises Potter’s inherent decency.
But elite football management is no country for nice men.
Chelsea have won once in 11 gamesCredit: Alamy More

GRAHAM POTTER fears his Chelsea training sessions are suffering as a result of his £600m 31-man squad, according to reports.The Blues spent £250million in the summer, with Todd Boehly backing then boss Thomas Tuchel with eight players.
Graham Potter feels his training sessions are suffering due to having a large squadCredit: Getty
Potter has 31 layers to fit into sessionsCredit: Getty
However, following a poor start to the season, Tuchel was SACKED in September and replaced with then Brighton boss Potter.
Before the New Year, Potter had managed to pick up eight wins in 15 games across all competitions.
A further £290m was then spent in January, bringing in big names such as World Cup winner Enzo Fernandez, Mykhailo Mudryk and Joao Felix on loan from Atletico Madrid.
But Potter has been unable to get a tune out of his 31-man £600m-plus squad.
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Chelsea have won just ONE game in 2023.
That came on January 15 in the 1-0 win over Crystal Palace.
And with the Blues without a win in their last six outings, pressure is building on Potter to turn around results.
But according to the Daily Mail, Potter fears the quality of his training sessions at Chelsea are taking a hit due to having to manage a big squad.
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Potter has been forced to alter his coaching sessions to accommodate all his players.
The Englishman typically likes to run 11 vs 11 training matches – but has had to leave several players hanging around or working in smaller groups elsewhere until required.
Potter said earlier this month: “There are challenges when you’ve got that many players.
“There are challenges in terms of what role they play because most players want to play.
“They want to play, be on the pitch and help the team.
“When they are not, it is a challenge and it is a challenge for lots of reasons at this football club.
“When you go through a period of transition and the steps we’ve gone through then there are going to be periods when it is going to be tougher than you ideally want – it’s not optimal.
“I am not complaining about it and I have to do my best to support and manage the club.
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“Step by step I want to put the team in a better place than when I arrived.”
The Telegraph report that Potter has “two make-or-break” games to save his job as Chelsea boss. More

GRAHAM POTTER faces “two make-or-break” games to save his job as Chelsea boss, according to reports.The Blues manager’s struggles continued with Sunday’s 2-0 defeat at Tottenham.
Graham Potter is clinging on to his job as Chelsea managerCredit: Getty
Chelsea have now lost their last three games without scoring and are winless in six – with just one goal.
And according to The Telegraph, the matches against Leeds and Borussia Dortmund are key to keeping Potter in charge.
Goals from Ollie Skipp and Harry Kane in the second half saw the Blues fall to that 2-0 defeat at White Hart Lane yesterday.
That came after last week’s shocking 1-0 home loss to relegation-threatened Southampton.
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Their Champions League hopes are also on thin ice after a 1-0 defeat at Borussia Dortmund.
They take on the German giants again next Tuesday, knowing an early exit from Europe would effectively end their season.
The first-leg defeat was preceded by draws with West Ham, Fulham and Liverpool.
Chelsea’s last win came in 1-0 victory over Crystal Palace on January 15.
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That remains their only win from 11 matches in 2023, including an FA Cup hammering at Manchester City.
Chelsea owners have supported Potter and recognise it will take time for the £600million worth of new signings to gel.
They also know the new manager’s appointment is a long-term project, just as he demonstrated at Brighton.
Potter signed a £10m-per-season, five-year contract at Stamford Bridge in September.
But The Telegraph report suggests patience is finally beginning to wear thin with the owners, senior players and fans.
New signings are even said to be stunned by the pressure they are under and others are furious at being left out of matchday squads due to the number of players at the club.

Mateo Kovacic missed the Spurs defeat through illness while Potter admitted Trevoh Chalobah, Marc Cucurella, Carney Chukwuemeka and David Datro Fofana were “unfortunate” to be left out of the squad.
The problems of an overloaded squad will only worsen when N’Golo Kante, Christian Pulisic and Edouard Mendy return from injury.
Potter is said to be concerned about the size of the squad and has altered his regular training methods to accommodate the high numbers.
Speaking about the increased pressure after the Tottenham defeat, Potter added: “If results aren’t good enough, which they aren’t at the moment, you can’t rely on support forever that is for sure.
“I take full responsibility for those results and it isn’t good enough for Chelsea. We want to improve it, absolutely.
“My job is to keep going, to keep working with the team to try and change the moment. The players are hurting. It’s a tough moment for us.

“We were talking before the game about watching ‘All or Nothing’ and Arsenal two years into Mikel’s [Arteta] reign, he is close to getting the sack, people are wanting him out and it is a disaster.
“Obviously now things have changed a little bit, but that is just the way it is. You look at Jurgen’s [Klopp] situation. He hasn’t got the results and all of a sudden people want him out. That is just the nature of football.”
Boehly is set to be joined by co-controlling owner Behdad Eghbali for the upcoming clashes with Leeds and Dortmund.
And even though a further two matches without victory may not spell an immediate sacking next week, it is thought there would ultimately be no way back.
A petition for Potter’s sacking has hit more than 30,000 signatures with the club languishing down in tenth in the Premier League table, 14 points adrift of the top four.
Incredibly, Chelsea are now closer to bottom-side Southampton with their tally of 18 points just 13 fewer than the West Londoners’ 31.
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However, as Mikel Arteta has shown at Arsenal, it is not impossible to turn this dire situation around.
The Spaniard battled through a torrid patch at the beginning of last season and now his side sit top of the Premier League with a game in hand.
Potter is struggling to get a song out of the Chelsea playersCredit: Getty More