Irakozium257

You mentioned exactly, completely what I've been thinking to myself during the course of this season, even when we were winning against the likes of Burnley & Sheffield. Elite football has evolved so quickly. If you are a club who has the means, you have to have, for all the positions, players who have an excellent ball technique and everything it entails to, at a minimum, grind out wins against 'smaller sides' over and over again and play confidently against 'big sides' even when you are playing away and are 2 goals behind with 'enough' minutes left. That includes the GK and the CBs. Liverpool/Klopp deservedly won the CL and the PL thanks to this approach, and Guardiola the PL before him.

Such a garbage manager and tactician. Before we know it, Liverpool will at a minimum grind wins over and over again and we'll be completely out of the title race because of his cluelessness. We need someone who has a near-mad scientist approach to tactics and in-game management, and Lampard is sooo average at both. I deeply hope that the board is in touch with Tuchel.

I might sound very cynical, but I would love Tuchel here ASAP. When did BILD mention that? I really don't have faith in Lampard after yesterday. He's such a mediocre tactician. His in-game management reeks of so much cluelessness, especially when we're trailing. He doesn't know how to adapt and he's often bailed out by players' individual brilliance, both in defense and/or in attack.

Well said! I hope one way or another he gets tactical 'Eureka!' moments, but after watching today's game, I truly can't help but feel that he is a false dawn, that he's very limited tactically, and strategically with regards to how to use players effectively.

I really, really hope that we 'Karius - Alisson' him and cynically get rid of him ASAP for a much better keeper. He's so goddamn bang average, and not least, too short. Sterling's shot epitomized his goalkeeping quintessence. I would honestly take Nick Pope over him. That's how desperate I am for a new, taller keeper.

I really hope that this is Azpi's last season anywhere near the starting line-up. He's so..... bland. His situational awareness is so below par.

You know, I truly think that we are a very small minority, the fans who would agree with all that you've just said. It seems like the majority truly think that Sarri isn't an abomination, that he's a victim of the circumstances he's had to deal with even though he's a goddamn stubborn POS. Higuain should have been taken off at HT. I absolutely don't see how the game vs Watford is gonna be any different from all the home games we should have won on paper vs Leicester, Burnley, So'ton, Everton, Wolves, etc. All those 'lower' opponents' were so comfortable defending against us. Watford aren't gonna be any different and you just know that that goddamn abomination of a 'coach' is gonna use the same tactics expecting a different result.

It's so saddening that this fraud has been allowed to stay by the board and the majority of fans believe in him. How many more predictable tactics over and over again till the majority finally wants him out? Never have I felt so hopeless and deflated about the state of this club until now and still having this toothless fraud as a manager just makes me apathetic. If we get top 4 and win the EL somehow, then great, I really hope it happens. Even then he doesn't deserve to still be here. Blame our opponents' shithousery but the elephant in the room is that we have unbelievably predictable tactics and it's always a goddamn given whatever the match.

How sickening, disgusting, infuriating, wack that this clueless, sickening leech is gonna still be here when we play the final. He doesn't deserve any goddamn chance to still be around. Are lots of fans really going to that match expecting a win? A boycott is much more logical if that disgusting chimney w**nkstain is still there. Gosh, the hate I have for that man...

All this sentimental deluded BS about giving him time because we can't keep sacking managers bla bla bla. He's a freakin' leech sucking the life out of the club. A fraud. A useless, lifeless, clueless fraud. It was a joy to watch the fans at the stadium suddenly have that collective epiphany about this leech. Most fans would have been understanding and patient despite the results if he was showing humble willingness at tweaking stuff that wasn't working and yet he keeps showing this stubbornness that, honestly speaking, is sickening. This has been going on for ages. Thank heavens he finally lost the match-going fans.

He is AVB 2.0 through and through. Plays great, attractive football in the homeland, turns out to be a tactically clueless and inadequate man-managing buffoon in the PL. Around this same stage of the season in '12 we lost 0-2 at Everton in what was one of the most pathetic showings of what was a lousy season bar the CL and FA Cup runs. The cluelessness similarities are huge between those two. All this naive optimism about him is so irrational. I've seen this downfall coming from miles away ever since Everton when Sigurdsson successfully nullified Jorginho and the house of cards of what is the ''Sarrismo'' orchestra fell apart for all the other upcoming opponents to easily recognize as the main strategical go-to option. The defective signs were there even from the first game at Huddersfield and kept showing throughout all those illusory wins against, among others, Southampton and BATE away. As much as I want to be proven wrong, I don't see the plot changing anyhow. It's gonna be the same turgid, predictable football rinse & repeat till he (finally) gets the boot. Jorginho is one of the most inadequate ''elite'' players I've seen of late. The guy is so out of place, he can't defend, knows how to only play one position. Azpi is so overrated with regards to what a modern FB should be.

Yes! This is definitely the conclusion to get from this game. Ruthless all around, there cannot be room for sentimentality whatsoever with regard to the squad. Azpi is one of the first who springs my mind. The guy is simply limited to be a starting RB for a team gunning for trophies.

Starting with Hazard! I've given up on that guy. You'd think that the most creative player on the team would live out that ''with great power comes great responsibility'' mantra full on but he's the biggest wuss. No sign of leadership from him, no sign of grit and encouraging others when then going gets tough for the team + all his BS flirting with Real. I'm done with him, and I can already see what a breath of fresh air it would be when he's gone. Look at Coutinho. His leaving Liverpool did wonders for them, the exact same would most def. happen here when Hazard's pretentious ass finally f**ks off.

I remember saying in the Arsenal game thread that Howe's preparation work for this game was already cut out because the tactics are as predictable and a given as night-time freezing temperatures in Siberia during winter Terribly predictable sh*t over and over again. We've been utterly humiliated, utterly destroyed because of that pathetic, stubborn coach. F**k you Sarri, f**ck you!!!!!

At this rate I just can't help but think to myself: Will we realistically see a change during this game? Will Alonso be dropped? Any optimism I had of Sarri is truly gone after the Arsenal game. He's one-dimensional, he brought with him a very limited player who pathetically can only play in one position. There's no unpredictability in the gameplay and I don't see it changing soon. (Right now Eddie Howe's preparation work for the game on the 29th is already cut out) He keeps rewarding mediocrity. Willian and Alonso don't deserve to be at this club, the sight of them on the pitch is disgusting.

I wanted Conte out after Watford away soooooo bad. I could see us losing top 4 from miles away after that game and yet he stayed thanks to that win against West Brom and the rest is history. I've completely lost confidence in Sarri after this game. I'm officially hoping that he f**ks off ASAP with his inflexible, rigid, turgid, pathetic useless tactics. We can still save our season. You can tell from what Mourinho said about Jorginho in that beIN clip that we're so hopelessly predictable and his United took full advantage of it back in October.

Yep, this is too reminiscent of the AVB trauma. There's nothing about his management that inspires confidence. Absolutely nothing.

Inflexible and predictable, stale tactics. Depressing BS that teams can prepare for weeks in advance.

Yikes!! We've got a coach who's indifferent to how much the board acts. FFS, Guardiola and Klopp get treated like princesses by being given the freedom and the means to sculpt the shape of the squad and we have a frea**ng yes man doormat. The future's not looking bright. It really isn't. We truly, deeply need a new owner who's got the passion, the flame to take us to new heights. We've stagnated so badly with this current pathetic board.

I can't even. The same feeling I had with regards to City away last season. Totally apathetic, totally devoid of any motivation to watch the game. Is it any wonder if Watford humiliates us once again? I've lost all the respect I had for Sarri. Useless coward who keeps rewarding mediocrity. Our club is in colossal shambles.

Unfortunately, I feel like the likes of you and me who are advocating for him to lose his place are in a minority. It's a total deja vu of Ivanovic from the 2nd half of the 14-15 season onwards. I can't help but dread that it would have to take a huge chunk of (back to back) humiliating defeats where his average-ness is illuminated with a billion suns' light, like Ivanovic vs Arsenal at the start of the 16-17 season, that he'll finally be erased from any first XI contention ever again. I don't want it to happen but I can't help but feel that all the teams we are gonna face soon in the league, Leicester, Watford, Crystal Palace, Southampton etc, are gonna contemplate and brainstorm ways to exploit him to the fullest. I remember Pardew mentioning in a pundit job how, when he was at CP, they purposely targeted Ivanovic in that 1-2 win at the start of the 15-16 season.

The way I see it, we are so limited tactically against ''smaller'' teams because of our FBs' inadequacies. The team rarely has them overlapping which makes the attacks predictable, easier to defend and so on. We were so lucky to come out of this game with 3 points, but the win will f**king mask these obvious deficiencies. It makes my boil to think that we have to get stuck with Alonso and Azpi as our first XI FBs. We're goona keep getting limited in attack against these kind of teams who have nothing to lose by getting 10 men behind the ball while defending. Any coach who want to play with 4 defenders will be limited because of these two, be it Sarri, Pep, Klopp or any other genius coach.

Alonso is so useless, I really hope he gets the same treatment that's been dished out to Moses. Just because these two were good in 16-17, shouldn't be their merit. The only difference between Fulham today and Tottenham last weekend is the quality. The only thing holding back Fulham from winning is their players' low quality. They have had their tactics right so far. We are in desperate need of new players, starting with the FBs. Azpi, as good as he is at defending, is not the type to create true overlapping and creating like Walker, Trippie, Alves. I've always hated Alonso's place in the pecking order and the day he finally f**ks off to oblivion from the team will be so glorious I mentioned this on the Reddit sub and I stand by it: ATM Zappacosta and Emerson deserve to be in the first XI instead for this system to work much more better.

He was aggressively hostile to Pavard throughout the whole game. I like him as a player for his passion and intensity, but those two things can unfortunately override his moral sense when he's under immense pressure. It's so obvious that he's got a huge reservoir of anger inside him. I noticed it too when Germany played Sweden. He also violently kicked a Lazio player when Roma were losing 0-3 in his last season there. IDC him being a Chelsea player, any player with a disregard for an opponent's health is a disgrace. I sincerely hope he changes, but I wouldn't be surprised if he does something like what Aguero did to DL if we're losing a game.

This is Ivanovic at the start of the 16-17 season all over again. Someone so undeserving of even making the bench who's a nailed on starter. What the hell does Sarri see in him? How is Emerson in any way inferior to him besides height and weight? F**kin hell, this useless git is gonna be our Achilles' heel. I f**king hate the sight of his name, the sight of him on the pitch. The word hate is not even adequate enough to express the frustration of this cockroach being a starter.