Sarri But Not Sarri Thread

[kc_blue 265]

If I recall CHO had a contract offer before Sarri showed up and still hasn't signed it.  I wouldn't put the blame on him, at least not all of it.  I think the CHO situation is strongly linked to what has happened with our past youth players well before Sarri got on the scene.  He isn't blameless, just wouldn't be the major target of my ire.  That would be higher up the food chain.  We are reaping what we've sown with our past lack of youth integration.

[Tomo 21,751]

13 minutes ago, Vesper said:

hink Sarri may well keep rolling out Alonso and Willian until he is stopped via the sacking

Before he started playing false 9 Willian only started if there was something wrong with Hazard or Pedro.

[xPetrCechx 13,570]

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[mccg 1,528]

Look at all these players with real doubts/transfer calls Pulisic in...The summer

No.        Position    Player
1    Spain    GK    Kepa Arrizabalaga fresh

31    England    GK    Robert Green ? Leave Summer/Age/contract

13   Argentina   GK   Willy Caballero ? Leave Summer/Age/contract
2    Germany    DF    Antonio Rüdiger seems happy
3    Spain    DF    Marcos Alonso ? Leave Summer/hopefully

21    Italy    DF    Davide Zappacosta ? Leave Summer or Now

24    England    DF    Gary Cahill (captain) ? Leave Summer or Now/Age/contract
27    Denmark    DF    Andreas Christensen hopefully not
28    Spain    DF    César Azpilicueta surely not

30    Brazil    DF    David Luiz ? Leave Summer/Age/contract 

33    Italy    DF    Emerson ? maybe if pissed

44    Wales    DF    Ethan Ampadu future

5    Italy    MF    Jorginho only if daddy sarri leaves
6    England    MF    Danny Drinkwater ? Leave Summer or Now lol
7    France    MF    N'Golo Kanté not allowed
8    England    MF    Ross Barkley probly not hg needed

17   Croatia   MF   Mateo Kovačić (on loan from Real Madrid)

12    England    MF    Ruben Loftus-Cheek future
10    Belgium    FW    Eden Hazard ? Leave Summer/REal Saga

11    Spain    FW    Pedro ? Leave Summer/Age/contract

15    Nigeria    FW    Victor Moses ? Leave Summer or Now/no games

18    France    FW    Olivier Giroud ? Leave Summer/Age/contract
20    England    FW    Callum Hudson-Odoi ? Leave Summer or Now/january mare

22    Brazil    FW    Willian ? Leave Summer or Now/Age/contract

29    Spain    FW    Álvaro Morata ? Leave Summer or Now/not happy

[Milan 17,956]

Sarri and this squad is a fucking disaster. Every man has his favourites but our man has the wrong favourites, terrible players with no football talent. Additionally, the football we have been watching is beyond awful.

If the board is not willing to support him and provide him with quality players, I hope he will get sacked. I really do. Because Sarri and this squad, that is just shocking.

[Alabama 1,992]

2 minutes ago, milan.cech said:

Sarri and this squad is a fucking disaster. Every man has his favourites but our man has the wrong favourites, terrible players with no football talent. Additionally, the football we have been watching is beyond awful.

If the board is not willing to support him and provide him with quality players, I hope he will get sacked. I really do. Because Sarri and this squad, that is just shocking.

How do you support someone saying its impossible to lose Willian...ffs willian and keep playing Alonso ahead of Emerson...

[Laylabelle 9,534]

Don't know what Sarri ball was meant to be but if it's what we're seeing... Lets not do it anymore. Soon as we score we collapse! Just pass pass pass down the other end it goes. 

[Sir Mikel OBE 4,920]

He's living off that win vs Manchester City right now. Surely nobody is happy with the brand of football we are playing.

[Jase 43,479]

Having a manager like Sarri is making me crave for the 16/17 Conte or pre-2015 Mourinho.

[ChelseaFanUK 1,014]

the football is turgid at times.  Sideways, pass, pass, pass.  I think i can count on one hand amount of times we shoot from outside the box

[Jase 43,479]

3 minutes ago, ChelseaFanUK said:

the football is turgid at times.  Sideways, pass, pass, pass.  I think i can count on one hand amount of times we shoot from outside the box

"At times"? You're being generous there.

[Magic Lamps 11,692]

thank god we have an attacking coach. couldn't stand those endless 1-0, 2-1, 0-0, 0-1 streaks under Conte and Mou...oh wait.

[Bosnian Blue 2,471]

35 minutes ago, Magic Lamps said:

thank god we have an attacking coach. couldn't stand those endless 1-0, 2-1, 0-0, 0-1 streaks under Conte and Mou...oh wait.

I consider Sarri a defensive coach too. He is defending by keeping the ball and passing it sideways all the time. Players have no freedom whatsoecer, apart from maybe Hazard. And he is reduced our best player to being a back flick merchant. 

The football is quite frankly atrocious at the minute. Thank fuck Arsenal are so poor and Mourinho seems to have done us a favour by destroying United, otherwise we would have been out of the top 4. Still every game will be like a final until the end.

[Yeboii 1,844]

6 minutes ago, Bosnian Blue said:

And he is reduced our best player to being a back flick merchant

You mean our best player with 10 goals and 10 assists in half a season?

[dreamcfc 182]

1 hour ago, Bosnian Blue said:

I consider Sarri a defensive coach too. He is defending by keeping the ball and passing it sideways all the time. Players have no freedom whatsoecer, apart from maybe Hazard. And he is reduced our best player to being a back flick merchant. 

The football is quite frankly atrocious at the minute. Thank fuck Arsenal are so poor and Mourinho seems to have done us a favour by destroying United, otherwise we would have been out of the top 4. Still every game will be like a final until the end.

I agree with this to an extent but I do think the result at Spurs made Sarri take a slightly different approach to games, since then we have looked defensively more stable but everything has slowed right down, the games before we met Spurs, we played with a little more tempo and even then Sarri said we were still too slow in his post match interviews, now he doesn't really say much about us needing to play quicker it's more focus on the "defensive phase".

The players do not seem to have freedom because they are stuck to a system of having to be available for possession, Jorginho is a good example but all the players are doing it because it is how they are being coached, there are many times Jorginho could have gone forward to offer something but he will always come backwards so he is available for the pass, I understand there are positives to playing this way but for this to work effectively we need to speed things up. All the players still need to make adjustments to play in this system, even Hazard.

We have too many players who want to hold the ball and dribble etc. As Zola described it, playing in a Sarri team is like an Orchestra, if 1 player isn't doing his job or in the right position the team will suffer.

We can only hope now the mid week games are cooling off that Sarri will have more time on the training ground and sort these things out and get us playing the tempo needed to open up these teams that park the bus.