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Scary... Think that's something subjective rather than objective. And speaking of conservative, it would be nice to have a manager who knows how/when to be conservative rather than just go play an open game and get slapped 4-0, 6-0 or suffer one humiliating defeat after another. At least the 'Sarri Out' brigade look at solutions. The Sarribots only counter arguments and offer no convincing arguments as to why we should keep him.

Please, do share where exactly have I criticized Sarri for his failure to break down defensive sides or the fact that he's never won trophies in his career. Could care less about managers winning trophies when the most important thing is showing progression and improvement with the team. I think it says a lot about Sarribots that their best argument on why the club should keep him is by countering any opposing argument. No proper reasons, convincing points as to why we should keep Sarri, nothing based on what Sarri has done at the club. No wonder people hardly take those idiotic Sarribots seriously...

Nuno. Hasenhuttl. Hell, might not even hurt to just hire an upcoming manager like Lampard since we've hired successful managers and somewhat less managers but are philosophers and gotten nowhere with both. Changing manager isn't great but sticking with Sarri isn't great either based on what we've seen this season. I would be willing to see Sarri stay if there has been progression, a promise that things will get better next season. But nope. We've been going from one disaster to another or if not, looking like idiots out there and Sarri has shown himself to be clueless in different things.

Means F all if Sarri is gonna stick around.

Both are terrible but rather have Morata than Higuain.

Is that more of hope than anything else? You've gone from backing Sarri to wanting him out to now backing him again. Sarri has shown nothing this season to suggest that he deserves to stay on for a second season (can't be bothered to mention the reasons again). Having a full pre-season with the first team would help but really, that is just a convenient excuse. Was that getting thrown around when we had that unbeaten run up till November? How often do you see people throw around this pre-season excuse when things go wrong? Half of the pre-season is usually spent travelling around and managers don't often get to train the players properly anyway. If you want proper full time, get knocked out of Europe and the cup competitions early! Speaking of Europe and cup competitions, I really don't get why you brought that up as some sort of distractions. We as a club want to be as successful as possible, want to win as many trophies as possible and now you're lamenting the fact that we have had to play so many games? Sarri did have an OKAY record in the big away games with Napoli but playing away at Man City, Man United, Liverpool, Arsenal, Tottenham is completely different than going to Juventus, Inter, Milan, Roma etc. I don't get what's the point of giving Sarri until October (or whatever month) just to see whether we are improving or going backwards when nothing this season has suggested that things will get better under him. It'll be worse if that transfer ban sticks, he can't buy his own players and he's stuck with the same set of players that he can't get the best out of. Also let's say if we sack Sarri in October, new manager comes in and does not do well immediately, then are you going to use the pre-season as an excuse again? If we're to sack Sarri, we're better off just doing it after the season and give the new manager proper time for squad planning, pre-season training etc rather than waste more time with Sarri and whatever uncertainty that will follow with him. Otherwise, we'll just become like Arsenal - stick with a manager who we all know isn't going to work and basically just left praying that things will come good.

Burnley just need to park the bus in the first half. Attack us between 46-60th minute, score 3 goals and then park the bus for a 3-0 win. Easy...

Chelsea 2-2 Burnley PRE/POST-MATCH DISCUSSION, LIVE CHAT AND ANALYSIS 2018/19 Premier League Match 35 22nd April, Monday, 2019 Stamford Bridge 20:00 Kick Off (UK time)

Our remaining fixtures... Burnley (h) Man United (a) Eintracht Frankfurt (a) Watford (h) Eintracht Frankfurt (h) Leicester (a)

C'mon now. Let's not pretend as if opponents don't put us under pressure in other periods of the game. And not to mention, we conceded only 6 goals between 46-60 minutes last season with almost the same group of players.

Did you? Must have missed it.

WHAT DOES SARRI SAY AT HALF TIME???

Don't worry mate. It will be easy according to @Mana.

It's gonna be Spurs v Liverpool in the final, isn't it?

Better late than never I guess but given how things panned out, all I see is a manager who lacked the balls to change his stubborn ways with his starting XI when we all saw the problem and he only did so after the fans protested against him for the second time within a month. Things might have gotten slightly better but it looked like an act of desperation from a man who was trying to save himself from the sack! It's also worth questioning whether he knows his best starting XI when he keeps making some mind-boggling changes from time-to-time. And this starting XI issue is only one of many issues with Sarri... Willian and Pedro have only 1 year left on their contracts. They can't be kept around forever. Even our board can't fail to realize that. If we avoid the transfer ban, we might well sell Willian given his contract situation (hello Barcelona...). It's a case of putting your faith in idiots in this one but if we sack Sarri, then gotta hope the board actually do their due diligence in the hiring process and not just hire the flavor of the month. I don't trust Sarri to manage and improve our young players. Take for example with CHO. For months, Sarri said one thing about him but then did another thing. It took two protests, countless of sacking reports, and media pressure for him to actually start CHO a tad more regularly than before. What does that say about him? Plus, he has barely managed to improve any of our senior players. If he can't do that, then what makes you feel confident that he will do so with our youth players in the long run? This is a manager who prefers to stick with bang average players like Kovacic. He would stick with the likes of him over more talented players. That positivity isn't gonna hide Sarri's deficiencies in the long run. Even if he has improved Loftus-Cheek and CHO, it doesn't mean he's the right manager long term wise. It's a similar case when we had Benitez in the past. Nothing Sarri has done this season gives me confidence that he will do better next time if we let him stick around and you could probably make a strong argument that we have the worst manager among the top six. Probably the worst of all is I rarely enjoy watching us play anymore this season. Am used to us having shit seasons but Sarri has just completely sucked the life out of football with the things he's done, which is ironic after he said he wanted to bring 'fun' to our play!

Trip to Prague? Where is Ampadu?

Why are people suddenly acting like Sarri is doing something revolutionary with our young players? Any non-blind manager would know we have good young players that can be developed into great players. It's just that the board were clueless (still are) and hired managers who don't have a good track record in developing talents. It's worth remembering that Sarri was still favoring Barkley/Kovacic over Loftus-Cheek and Pedro/Willian over CHO until the very recent protest at Cardiff. Had it not been for that, would Sarri have put out the XI we saw in the last 3 league games? Highly doubt it. And speaking of development, it's also worth questioning whether Sarri has actually improved the players, never mind the team as a whole. Has any player actually gotten better under Sarri? It's hard to even pinpoint one and worse of all, he hasn't even improved his own players like Jorginho, Kovacic etc. If he can't even improve the players, then what makes fit to turn our fortunes' around for the better in the long run?

Chelsea 4-3 Slavia Prague PRE/POST-MATCH DISCUSSION, LIVE CHAT AND ANALYSIS 2018/19 Europa League Quarter-Final Second Leg 18th April, Thursday, 2019 Stamford Bridge 20:00 Kick Off (UK time)

Our board are fucked-up but they aren't fucked-up enough to sell players if they are important players in the team, which De Bruyne and Salah weren't because MOURINHO preferred the likes of Oscar, Willian etc over them!