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[LAM09 6,777]

The whole hatred of him was truly bizarre, all because he replaced Ray Wilkins as assistant manager.

Signings like Papy & Hector are the reason people disliked him.

[Pizy 18,415]

Woah! 

Hopefully we can poach a director from another top club.

[Cosmin 2,484]

Wish we could have whoever's dealing with the transfers at Bayern or Juve

[Blue-in-me-Veins 4,067]

YO! This is major fucking news. Hollywood FC we outchea, What the fuck is happening behind the scenes at Chelsea? Did Roman actually back a manager over his stooges? What was the tipping point? 

Chelsea Twitter is a madness right now. 

 

Thoughts @Styles ???

[Tomo 21,733]

6 minutes ago, LAM09 said:

19 minutes ago, Tomo said:

The whole hatred of him was truly bizarre, all because he replaced Ray Wilkins as assistant manager.

Signings like Papy & Hector are the reason people disliked him.

Can never prove it but i am almost certain that was down to Jose insisting Pogba and Stones or bust, which led to us backing him in that and then panicking when we realised they weren't coming. Compared to under Conte where we have made positive deadline day deals, it's not a coincidence.

[Leif 6,006]

Nevermind disliking *him* - i didn't. My issue was, having a yes-man with 0 experience in his position, outlasting brilliant managers and brilliant players. Just hovering like an under-qualified ghost, picking up credit here and there that deserves to go to our scouts. He offered nothing and less still than anyone else in his position at a top club, I have no doubt about it. And that's enough reason to have angst and aggression towards his sector of the club, of which he was the accountable head. Beyond that, it's reasonable to put 2 + 2 together and deduce that he's had big says in big moments for us, big negative moments. But that's another discussion which honestly, none of us want to have again.

Ultimately this all goes back to Roman though, who appointed him, and allowed shambles to go on this long (and perhaps even longer if it's Emenalo's decision to walk.)

Point is, if you really love your football club, you don't want it run by headless chickens. He was a headless chicken. And Marina is the next one, no doubt about it.
Who knows - maybe Roman's ready to take a back seat to an extent, and bring in a real footballing board. 

[Miki-Liki 405]

Just now, Tomo said:

Can never prove it but i am almost certain that was down to Jose insisting Pogba and Stones or bust, which led to us backing him in that and then panicking when we realised they weren't coming. Compared to under Conte where we have made positive deadline deals, it's not a coincidence.

If he's responsible for Papy and Hector, then he also had something to do with signing the likes of Morata, Costa, Fabregas, Kante? No? Ok. I am wondering who the next scapegoat for everything that goes wrong will be.

[LAM09 6,777]

Can never prove it but i am almost certain that was down to Jose insisting Pogba and Stones or bust, which led to us backing him in that and then panicking when we realised they weren't coming. Compared to under Conte where we have made positive deadline deals, it's not a coincidence.

There have been plenty of signings which raised eyebrows for the wrong reasons. It obviously doesn't all come down to him but a large part of these strange transfers seem to have his rubber-stamp.

[Leif 6,006]

4 minutes ago, Blue-in-me-Veins said:

Hollywood FC we outchea

[El P. 1,354]

Thank you Conte, you beauty!

[Leif 6,006]

2 minutes ago, LAM09 said:

5 minutes ago, Tomo said:

Can never prove it but i am almost certain that was down to Jose insisting Pogba and Stones or bust, which led to us backing him in that and then panicking when we realised they weren't coming. Compared to under Conte where we have made positive deadline deals, it's not a coincidence.

There have been plenty of signings which raised eyebrows for the wrong reasons. It obviously doesn't all come down to him but a large part of these strange transfers seem to have his rubber-stamp.

Over the past 7 or so years, we've made more questionable signings than good signings. And the only constant at the club regarding signings throughout that time has been Emenalo. Need anything more be said? Would any club envy us for having him? Maybe an npower Championship side 

[calculatingInfinity 1,446]

The last shit stain that Avram Grant left, has been cleaned up. Nice.

[11Drogba 2,000]

All other top clubs must be contacting him right now. Because you know he was a genius

[FabHazard 655]

I will thank him for signing hazard alone..Tbf he is not that bad in identifying talented players...Apparently he had offer from As Monaco... Wish him good luck

http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/premier-league/michael-emenalo-resigns-chelsea-latest-news-antonio-conte-roman-abramovich-a8040276.html

Monaco are a club that have been looking to solidify their place among France's elite and as a perennial Champions League team. The sharp increase in Ligue 1 television revenue has allowed them to further invest in a club that raked in enormous transfer income last summer. 

Emenalo is one of a number of candidates that the principality club are looking at to strengthen and oversee their sporting infrastructure and that includes scouting and identifying talented youth players and channeling them into the first-team. 

[Leif 6,006]

9 minutes ago, Miki-Liki said:

If he's responsible for Papy and Hector, then he also had something to do with signing the likes of Morata, Costa, Fabregas, Kante? No? Ok. I am wondering who the next scapegoat for everything that goes wrong will be.

Whatever your opinion, just don't call the next one a 'scapegoat' if we've already been moaning about them for over 2 years It's a fallacy that we just pick new players and staff to target after another leaves. We don't move on from Mikel to Cahill - we wanted them both gone at the same time. Same for Emenalo and Marina. No scapegoats here.

And to think Emenalo signed Hazard, and not our bags of money, our dominance, our position in European football, our managerial history, our scout (one of the best if not the best to ever grace the game)...now that's crazy. As if Emenalo did anything to secure these signings which couldn't be done by anyone standing in his place. You really think it's Emenalo that was the convincer, the part that sealed the deal for these players? He was basically a paperwork-pusher when it came to acquiring our best players. We'd have had as much success by just sending Terry to meet these players we signed. So he can't take any credit, at all, for our great signings. They were not identified by him. 

Now, our terrible signings, like Papy, Miazga etc? None of our managers targeted them. So, who? This shouldn't need to be explained. Him not being instrumental to our successful signings, does not mean he was not instrumental with our bad signings. 

 

[FabHazard 655]

Interesting points in matt law's article

The move may be viewed in some quarters as a victory for Conte, but Emenalo has remained supportive of the Italian who he helped to appoint last year.

Chelsea suffered a frustrating summer transfer window, which caused tension between Conte, Emenalo and director Marina Granovskaia.

Sources have suggested that Emenalo does not wish to engage in a three-way power battle with Conte and Granovskaia who are known not to see eye to eye.

[It's too big 625]

29 minutes ago, Leif said:

No coincidence that Conte ignored him after our win. Maybe Roman grew some balls and realised, he really was a problem, for every manager.

Can anyone picture any of our ex-coaches having anything positive to say about him?

We don't really know anything about the situation or his job entirely, so to speculate he is the problem is a bit far fetched. 

[Leif 6,006]

3 minutes ago, FabHazard said:

Sources have suggested that Emenalo does not wish to engage in a three-way power battle with Conte and Granovskaia who are known not to see eye to eye.

Yet, he was perfectly happy to when past managers would bend over and take it in the end. Just not happy to play that game when his victim can overpower him.