The Roberto Di Matteo Thread

[Amblève. 4,995]

As a Chelsea fan I feel ashamed that we sacked this legend and replaced him with that wanker Benitez.

[Milan 17,902]

http://www.express.co.uk/sport/football/376717/German-job-for-Roberto-Di-Matteo

Schalke would be a good match. And it could mean him and Guardiola against each other once again

[robdog 2,084]

Interesting quotes here from Supa Dan Petrescu on the treatment of RDM by the Club.

[English Freak 456]

  On 11/02/2013 at 23:33, robdog said:

Interesting quotes here from Supa Dan Petrescu on the treatment of RDM by the Club.

Pointless article on skysports.

It's been close to 3 months since the sacking and Di Matteo is going to land a good managerial role at a German/Italian club sooner rather than later.

[The only place to be 11,313]

  On 11/02/2013 at 23:33, robdog said:

Interesting quotes here from Supa Dan Petrescu on the treatment of RDM by the Club.

Yeah, we're awful. We hired him when he couldn't get an interview at a fucking Championship club.

[manpe 10,861]

  On 26/01/2013 at 21:04, bushman said:

That´s your opinion. Personally, his style of park the bus did not sit well with me. Even Roman was not too pleased about it.

He seemed rather pleased lifting the CL trophy.

[FriendlyMailman 15]

Club legends and CL winning managers mean nothing here at Chelsea where if they let us lose a few on the bounce they are sacked. We are too good to deal with imbeciles like that

[bushman 2,043]

  On 12/02/2013 at 08:27, manpe said:

He seemed rather pleased lifting the CL trophy.

Did you expect him to do anything else ?

[manpe 10,861]

  On 12/02/2013 at 09:03, bushman said:

Did you expect him to do anything else ?

I don't know. Maybe his son was crying because of how shit we played and Roman was all smiles and happy because he finally had an excuse to sack the useless turd.

[bushman 2,043]

  On 12/02/2013 at 09:08, manpe said:

I don't know. Maybe his son was crying because of how shit we played and Roman was all smiles and happy because he finally had an excuse to sack the useless turd.

All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power & not truth.

[manpe 10,861]

@bushman, can I ask you one question? How can you possibly claim to know what Roman thinks or feels when he's probably the richest man in the UK to have never spoken a word to the media?

[BlueLion. 21,491]

His "style of park the bus".... wait, are you fucking kidding me? We played defensive football in three games under RDM. In the rest we played expansive, attractive attacking football. Absolutely hilarious some of the stuff you read on here nowadays.

[bushman 2,043]

RDM style whether one calls it defensive or whatever I agreed with. There was no other option then.

Did I like it ? No, I did not. Simple as that. No need to dwell on it. It´s over. Chelsea won CL & I was very happy, then.

[LDN Blue 7,903]

I think we let Robbie's "Legend" tag get to us a little too much when it comes to this subject-matter. I think we've done him a favor to be honest, the timing of his departure didn't tarnish his hero tag because it was so early one. He's in the Champions League Winning Coach's alumni and no-one will take that away from him, but if he wasn't a club legend, I don't think his sacking would come as a surprise to most - considering he wasn't the club's ideal choice in the first place.

[Spike 12,049]

I'd rather win trophies ugly than lose all pretty like. Success > aesthetics.

Spike has spoken.

[LDN Blue 7,903]

  On 12/02/2013 at 12:11, Spike Spiegel said:

I'd rather win trophies ugly than lose all pretty like. Success > aesthetics.

Spike has spoken.

I grew up watching English football, English tactics, English style.. All this "play like Barca" sh*t makes me sick.

[Spike 12,049]

  On 12/02/2013 at 12:13, LDN Blue said:

I grew up watching English football, English tactics, English style.. All this "play like Barca" sh*t makes me sick.

I grew up watching Australian rugby, Australian tactics, Australian style. When I see people like Steve Nicol talk about the 'hard days of football' and 'these diving foreign types' I kind of laugh, I'm used to seeing 120kg monsters running at eachother and even AFL is twice as physical as football. Need to jump higher in AFL? That's alright, you can use the opponet's head as a launch pad, haha. I though I'd share my history...

I don't give a fuck how it's done (as long it's within the rules of the game), winning is winning. You only need to score 38 goals a season to get maximum points.

[LDN Blue 7,903]

  On 12/02/2013 at 12:19, Spike Spiegel said:

I grew up watching Australian rugby, Australian tactics, Australian style. When I see people like Steve Nicol talk about the 'hard days of football' and 'these diving foreign types' I kind of laugh, I'm used to seeing 120kg monsters running at eachother and even AFL is twice as physical as football. Need to jump higher in AFL? That's alright, you can use the opponet's head as a launch pad, haha. I though I'd share my history...

I don't give a fuck how it's done (as long it's within the rules of the game), winning is winning. You only need to score 38 goals a season to get maximum points.

Indeed.

Of course I understand the attraction of watching pass-pass-pass. But when pass-pass-pass fails, there's often no plan B and that's what Guardiola found out when he played us, when we did play defensive football - counter-attack football.