Sarri But Not Sarri Thread

[Superblue 6,372]

Whilst I don't think the Sarri project is working, I'd be sceptical over replacing him mid season.

It would be very difficult to take somebody already in a job mid-season.

The prime candidate available in Zidane I cannot see taking over the job in the middle of the season when we're not playing well.

I could possibly see someone like Blanc perhaps taking the risk mid-season to get back into a big job but he hasn't been in work for 2 and 1/2 years.

It would leave the likely short term replacement until the end of the season almost certainly to be Zola and he just doesn't strike me as someone who could get a different tune out of this group of players. At least with Di Matteo he still had that core group of 'old guard' players to lean on and even the other members of that team such as Mikel and Ivanovic were also vastly experienced.

[Bosnian Blue 2,471]

9 minutes ago, Superblue_1986 said:

 

It would leave the likely short term replacement until the end of the season almost certainly to be Zola and he just doesn't strike me as someone who could get a different tune out of this group of players. At least with Di Matteo he still had that core group of 'old guard' players to lean on and even the other members of that team such as Mikel and Ivanovic were also vastly experienced.

Zola just by being Zola already has far more authority and influence on the players than Sarri has. I'm sure they would listen to him like they all did with Robbie. 

[OneMoSalah 8,885]

5 minutes ago, Bosnian Blue said:

Zola just by being Zola already has far more authority and influence on the players than Sarri has. I'm sure they would listen to him like they all did with Robbie. 

That was probably more of a result of AVB alienating all the senior pros than Robbie coming in and completely building up everyone. Some of the players had a new lease of life but again the level of performances under AVB were similar to what we seen under Jose, Conte and Sarri in terms of effort. Absolutely pathetic.

Zolas managerial career has been abysmal, no disrespect to him. Robbies was average but Zolas is so so bad. Could work could not.

[kc_blue 265]

I really want him to succeed but some of his decisions I just can't get my head around.  Bringing Hazard and Kante on 2-0 up?  There must be a reason but it's not clear to me.

[Blue Armour 4,436]

22 minutes ago, kc_blue said:

I really want him to succeed but some of his decisions I just can't get my head around.  Bringing Hazard and Kante on 2-0 up?  There must be a reason but it's not clear to me.

No idea...

if he thinks that bringing them on to 'enjoy' a win against Malmo will boost their confidence...smh...

Whatever it is...his idea flopped. They just conceded a goal instead of adding to the total.

Not even one of our youth players in the lineup...there's a good chance he will play majority of the senior squad again against United.

Will be really pissed to see Jorginho huffing and puffing again in that central midfield.

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7 hours ago, Vesper said:

I love you as a poster too!

hell yes

agree 100%

That's really strange that you posted this because when I read Magic Lamps post, I thought it was your post then reliased it wasn't after checking. Lol. 

[Jase 43,479]

Though we won against Malmo last night, I don't think it's an exaggeration to say our performance left a lot to be desired again and Sarri's post-match comments were just bizarre really, saying that 'we played our football' (you mean crap Sarriball?) and 'we played with confidence' (really?!). Feels like he's just making things up as we go along and blaming anything bad that happens on this and that but offers no solution to solving problems.

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15 hours ago, Vesper said:

Sarri football or SARRI AS A man manager?

HE IS SHIT on the latter

our board is shit and will NOT build him a team that is actually capable of playing his footie in the EPL arena

he and the board have to GO

SELL THE TEAM to Ratcliffe

 

 

15 hours ago, Mana said:

Jorginho, Sarri’s engine, his main man is downright awful. Can’t defend, can’t assist, can’t do forward passes most of the time...

WTF.

 

i think it's pretty obvious now, that he wants to play a more creative midfielder in the dm position. remember guys, there are different roles within one position. if a player plays as a defensive midfielder it doesnt mean that he's fully a defensive midned player. just like pirlo at milan in ancelottis days. he was the dm and gattuso played in central midfield. saying that all sarri has to do is just place kante on the dm will solve our problems are stupid. sarris football is based on a playmaking dm, someone who will have million touches per game with the ball and sometimes will have a long pass. cant see kante at all in his position, we would be even worse going forward.

btw when matic was still here, he played as a dm and not kante, and we won the league. so kante does not have to play a dm so that our football has to be successful. 

and jorginho is one of those players who will be the best when he has competent teammates around him. 

[MoroccanBlue 5,378]

1 hour ago, Mana said:

Point is, we shouldn't be pointing at other managers "success stories" as an excuse to ignore/deflect Sarri's failures so far. Sarri should be making his own success story.

No one is using it as an excuse. Even Sarri's biggest defenders can admit he lacks true game management. 

People reference Pep and Klopp, because look at what they accomplish when they do have their players. Especially the former. 

This season was never, ever, going to be an easy one. Too many players at our disposal used to conservative football and/or just technically inept. 

[Henrique 9,133]

Vinicius Jr. Zero experience in european football. Real Madrid is not afraid to  start him in a Champions league game...Hudson-Odoi, coming from Chelsea own academy, Sarri is afraid to play him in a fucking Europa League against a minnow side from Sweden.

 

[Special Juan 28,132]

4 minutes ago, Henrique said:

Vinicius Jr. Zero experience in european football. Real Madrid is not afraid to  start him in a Champions league game...Hudson-Odoi, coming from Chelsea own academy, Sarri is afraid to play him in a fucking Europa League against a minnow side from Sweden.

 

Wasting your fucking time making sense around here, all you get is some people saying he's been slowly introduced and readied for the next game...it's all bullshit.

Zola came out with some bullshit in his PC this afternoon about it.

[MoroccanBlue 5,378]

8 minutes ago, Henrique said:

Vinicius Jr. Zero experience in european football. Real Madrid is not afraid to  start him in a Champions league game...Hudson-Odoi, coming from Chelsea own academy, Sarri is afraid to play him in a fucking Europa League against a minnow side from Sweden.

 

Need to mention they did spend 50 million on him.

 

4 minutes ago, Special Juan said:

Wasting your fucking time making sense around here, all you get is some people saying he's been slowly introduced and readied for the next game...it's all bullshit.

Zola came out with some bullshit in his PC this afternoon about it.

Again. If he doesn't start against United, there is justifiable reason to slate Sarri on this matter. 

[kc_blue 265]

Sarri hasn't done himself any favors with the line ups he's picked or subs used in games, but was anyone actually expecting much more then this?  An up and down season.  An inconsistent side who when on actually looks pretty good but when it's not on looks like a pick up team at the park.  It's deja vu at Chelsea, we have all seen this play out before, as recently as last season.  

Shockingly, with that great off season and all those additions and upgrades to the squad, we're right back in almost the same position we were last season.  Did anyone really think adding Jorginho, Kovacic, and Higuaín at the end of January, was going to be enough investment make up ground on the teams ahead of us.  Maybe if Manure had kept Jose another month or two it would have been enough for 4th, but come on.  As much as it hurts we just aren't as good as the teams ahead of us right now and we haven't done enough to make up the ground.  Something needs to change and it's more then just the manager.  The club needs to decide what style of football they want to play and build towards that and be consistent in that approach with managerial appointments and players bought.  

I don't know if Sarri is a great manager or not.  At the moment it's not looking so great but it still seems like it's far to early to be calling him names or calling for a replacement.  Not everything he's tried has come off and from the outside some of the decisions seem perplexing but we really don't know what's going on behind the scenes.  If he's really been told he has to get CL football next season or he's gone then I can almost understand the Hazard and Kante subs yesterday.  Maybe he thought bringing them on for 20 minutes would enable us to kill the game off there and then and make it easier to rotate for the second game, just a thought I had and didn't turn out that way.  I still want to see him have a full pre season and get a few more players in that suit how he wants to play but it's getting harder and harder to see that happening.

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