Clockwork

Allegri would be a terrible hire, he is the coach you would want if you have a constructed team in place. Like Juventus or at the start of his tenure at Milan. Hiring him for a rebuild, a transfer ban, dependence on playing youths would be incredibly unwise. Allegri almost got Milan relegated in his final year, and that squad was much better than the current Milan team. I simply cannot emphasize enough how bad his hiring would be.

If it is Lampard, any worry about Derby hiring Jody Morris? Hiring Lampard would be very iffy, without Morris i would be even more concerned.

Laurent Blanc is a good manager. Won with Boureaux as an underdog and dominated with PSG. He plays an attractive football, flexible, plays youth and enough experience to not allow the board to push him around. He is on par with Sarri, in fact with attributes i appreciate more.

Reports are Atletico are after Alonso, and he wants a return to Madrid.

The market for strikers is scarce, you have no choice you have to take a punt on a Jovic or Piatek. If you wait you will lose him out to another team, if he stays you will face increased competition for his service later on. Werner or Jovic would be excellent signings.

Not a fan of seeing Cech and Lampard coming back at this stage, it reeks of a PR move to hire popular figureheads to hid away general incompetency by the board.

I agree, coming to Chelsea right now would set him up for failure. This is not the situation for an inexperienced manager to walk into. We definitely need the ban frozen, RLC and CHO injury unfortunately made this decision an easy one. The squad needs a rebuild, and i would trust Sarri in this situation.

LOL, i am not Sarri biggest fan, but honestly i want him to stay on badly now.

I think they might do something like they did with James Rodriguez, loan+option to buy.

I don't see why Chelsea would sack Sarri, i have concerns but he met his goals. I think it is more likely Sarri leaves Chelsea than he get sacked.

Honestly is it a bad idea to sell him, if offered the right money? Lets be honest we are not competing for PL and CL in the next two years, we are quite bit off of City and Pool, and even more so with the loss of our best player Hazard. There is also the the transfer ban, which will limit us closing the gap. regardless if we freeze it now or serve it in 2020. One way or another this is problematic in the future, we will need significant investment to catch up with them. Kante is at the prime of his career, and the style we are pursuing right now he is not much of a different maker. Personally would take the Hazard and Kante money and aggressively rebuild around young players.

Sell Kante, and buy Ndombele and Aouar. We better off?

Personally rate Allegri higher than Conte, mainly due to the fact he is a bit more proactive and not the coward Conte is. Conte is the better team builder though. I think Allegri would be good fit at PSG, and i would take Tuchel at Chelsea. That would be a good scenario.

What is going on with Timo Werner?

Buy someone obviously, i am quite bearish on Mason Mount honestly. Not impressed by his overall skillset. Kovacic and Barkley are not going to cut it, they were not good enough this season, and more will be expected of them without Hazard next season.

Sarri will fail undoubtedly fail if he persists with Azpi at RB. Can’t expect to be a strong possession football team, when your FB can’t handle the slightest press.

Even on a off night, RLC looked a class above everyone else. Thought most good things came off of him.

Glad to see Sarri experimenting with Azpi at CB, think this is his best position in this system.

Along with getting CL football, RLC has been the best thing about this season. Next season will tell us a lot about what kinda player RLC can become, barring injuries of course. Today game was a complete performance; doing the dirty work defensively, superb in the buildup, and scoring a goal.

Tony Gale is a huge RLC fan, i remember he was consistently praising him when he was at Crystal Palace.

https://weaintgotnohistory.sbnation.com/chelsea-fc-transfer-rumours-news/2019/5/4/18529316/chelsea-continuing-to-monitor-tuchel-as-psg-chase-mourinho-reports That would be ideal.

Elite speed/acceleration like that cannot be taught, while being very good technically.

AC biggest weakness is physicality, yes he needs gain some weight. But another big issue is the lack game time, no training sessions will get a player ready for the physicality of a PL game. AC has done a lot of good things this season, 1-2 games should not change that.

I think this is one of the best design of our socks, it fits with the rest of the kit.