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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. 

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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 :cig: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. 

 

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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.

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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. 

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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.

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1 minute ago, It's too big said:

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. 

He was part of the problem. There are only so many people at Chelsea, and we can name them one by one, and conclude that 99% of them do brilliant jobs. We end up being left with simply 'the board' as we call them. Nobody's calling him the problem anyway, everyone's acknowledging both Roman and Marina in this.

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10 minutes ago, FabHazard said:

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. 

But he isn't a scout, so does he identify talent? We don't know what exactly he does. Maybe he has last say on talent coming? Plenty of clubs were looking at Hazard along with us, but because we won the CL he chose us (apparently) so not really anything special by Emenalo in that situation. 

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Emenalo has always had contacts with certain agents, agents close specifically to Papy, as one example I can remember explicitly. 

With the amount of managers we go through, we had long periods where there were no managers to make signing-related decisions for us; we had interim managers, or brand new managers who weren't allowed to hammer home their own philosophy. Throughout all of those shaky periods, Emenalo has been chief of signings in one way or another. His role has been very fluid so it's hard to define. A jack of all trades, a master of none.

Anyway, I believe our very best signings, were often identified eventually by some of our 'new' managers, who'd clearly been interested in those players while at prior clubs. Specifically AvB comes to mind there, and then Jose. And then Conte too, who hasn't made a bad signing (and regardless what you think of Baka, everything points to the idea that Emenalo went for him. I mean, jumping on a player after 1 season of being in the papers - it's something unlike Conte, but very much like Emenalo, considering it took into account 0 footballing knowledge, and more of a marketing-related mindset. 'If a player's hyped, he must be good!!!!!' Baka's certainly not a Conte player, neither is Drinkwater his desired quality, and odd signings like these are why any potential power-struggle needed crushed, violently, far sooner than now. And, if a DoF is going to have a say in our signings, like most clubs allow now, have someone with experience at other top clubs in that role at least) 

As for the Belgians, that's all Piet. Even he himself has said he identified them in his book. I mean he's the guy who found Ronaldo and Romario - do people think he just sits here and isn't a driving force behind our brilliant Belgian acquisitions? 

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4 minutes ago, It's too big said:

But he isn't a scout, so does he identify talent? We don't know what exactly he does. Maybe he has last say on talent coming? Plenty of clubs were looking at Hazard along with us, but because we won the CL he chose us (apparently) so not really anything special by Emenalo in that situation. 

His position includes being head of the scouting department, so yes, he got a very big say in the scouting of players. This can be read even from Chelsea's official site.

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10 minutes ago, It's too big said:

But he isn't a scout, so does he identify talent? We don't know what exactly he does. Maybe he has last say on talent coming? Plenty of clubs were looking at Hazard along with us, but because we won the CL he chose us (apparently) so not really anything special by Emenalo in that situation. 

His exact job is really vague. No one really knows.I think you are correct in the sense that he has final say in signing talented players...I do not like when managers are given too much power...They select players according to their style eventually leave with players who do not suit for successive managers ...It is very important to have overall vision and to define a chelsea style or philosophy..Hope this board cares about that

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Just now, Leif said:

Well fuck knows what Emenalo's vision was.

 

His vision was a 3 man defense of Hector, Matt Miazga and Papy. It would be bad, but quite possibly the most entertaining defense in the premier league of all time.

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