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Guardiola/Klopp may have insisted with his philosophy but at least he's not so stubborn to stick with the same formation or players and expect things to fall his way. With Sarri? It's do-or-die with his 4-3-3 and his group of favorite players. It's true that Guardiola/Klopp had the money to spend to perfect their squad but Sarri won't get that here. We aren't going to spend 300-400 million on players and make this squad his. So, if that's the case and he has players that aren't suited to his way of playing, shouldn't he then find ways to maximize the players' talent in a compatible system, rather than try forcing players that are incompatible to his? Conte once said that "every coach must be a very good tailor and adapt his beliefs to the human material he has available" but Sarri is doing the opposite and we're seeing horrendous performances and bad results.

Is Sarri gonna get all the players that he wants to play his football here? Probably not. And then what? Is he then going to persist with Plan A and players that don't suit his system and pray things fall into place?

All for backing the manager. But backing a manager who isn't willing to change things that aren't working, is stubborn and rigid in the way he does things? That's highly questionable. People talk about City, Spurs, Liverpool...thing is while Guardiola, Klopp, Pochettino have their way of playing, they are at least flexible. They know how to tweak things, how to make minor changes to try and fix the problem. Sarri? He hasn't shown those capabilities or doesn't seem to want to. His solution? "To hell with Plan B! Persist with Plan A!". As a famous saying goes, insanity is doing the same mistakes over and over again but expecting different results...it's not going to end well.

Comparing with others just to make ourselves look good isn't the brightest of ideas.

Am all for giving the manager time but problem with Sarri is, we've been down this road before with Scolari, AVB. Stubborn, rigid, persisting with things that aren't working. Keep this up and it's only gonna end one way...

I don't think Sarri is like Mourinho or Conte who will press the board for transfers. He seems like the kind of manager who will just accept what he's got. Aurelio De Laurentiis recently mentioned that he didn't want to know about signings at Napoli. If he's like that, then he definitely won't take on the board, never mind trying to take control of transfers.

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Not finishing in the top 4 will mean fuck all if Real don't come calling.

If Sarri can only make things work when he has all the tools, then I'm afraid we'll have problems long term!

It's clear that the players we have got right now isn't suited to his tactics. The last 10-15 games have proven it. So why hasn't Sarri changed anything? So why Sarri hasn't tried to maximize what he's got now first? He said results come first for him Chelsea. So, why isn't he trying to make sure we get them? And oh, this isn't even without mentioning his reluctance to rotate players. He's been going full strength in almost every game, has always selected his favorites and now, we're suffering injuries everywhere!

This is the problem with hiring idealists - they can be extremely stubborn and only know one way of playing. If Plan A doesn't work, keep going with Plan A!

Sarriball? More like Sarribore! Said it before, his rigidity/stubbornness is gonna cost us this season.

Seriously, we are rubbish. Suffering With The Ball FC. Every time we open a tiny gap on Arsenal, we allow them back in by dropping points in the following game. Useless. Fucking useless!

It's only January and we've reached the point of 'JUST WIN AND RUN!'.

Suffering With The Ball FC.

Long and Austin on the bench...

I'd imagine our US popularity will take a hit if we screw this up.

OR he will just run down his contract.