The Sarri Thread

[Milan 17,957]

You won't last long. And I won't mind. Attacking football my arse. While on the way ruining Kante and Azpi. To the point that I don't want to see them in the starting line up.

[Tautvix 1,321]

Boring boring...

Reminds LVG's Man Utd.

[Vybz Kartel 1,613]

He doesn't have a plan B 

[Alabama 1,992]

How on earth CHO and Emerson doesn't get ahead of Willian and Alonso...I don't understand...

[Laylabelle 9,535]

Not really going well so far. Was at first... 

Maybe see what happens in summer. Have a transfer window to add his own Input into. Buy who we need and go from there. Except we'll no doubt buy bang average players and all be shite 

[Special Juan 28,141]

I've got zero issues with Sarri, you can see his style and what he wants to happen, the problem being, and the biggest problem is the limited 4-5 we have.

Back him and we will be fine, problem being is we buy middle of the road shit.

[Sir Mikel OBE 4,920]

Kovacic was fantastic and you yank him out instead of Jorginho after 60 minutes? The match was lost there.

[MrExcalibur100 7,124]

Its worth pointing out that Sarri has yet to be given a real transfer window. He hasn't signed anyone other than Jorginho. Managers like Guardiola, Mourinho and Klopp have been given countless amounts of money and numerous transfer windows to build their team.

Sarri needs to start trusting some of the other players though. The fact that Willian and Alonso, two of the top 5 absolute worst players in the squad are deemed "untouchable" is beyond ludicrous. I'll have thought after 4 months Sarri would have seen how unreliable and useless two of those players are.

[Laylabelle 9,535]

7 minutes ago, Special Juan said:

I've got zero issues with Sarri, you can see his style and what he wants to happen, the problem being, and the biggest problem is the limited 4-5 we have.

Back him and we will be fine, problem being is we buy middle of the road shit.

That's the problem. Even does decide who he wants it'll either be messed up and faffed round with or just be case of nope next! I can't imagine us having a successful window for him. Going by recent times. 

[Vesper 30,175]

LOL, my wife is freaking out how pissed off I am

lolol

Been bottling it up for months

[Vesper 30,175]

I have a wicked bad temper in RL, when it comes out

major weakness I got from my crazy Barbados side 

400 years of lunatics is my genetic inheritance

[Clockwork 1,794]

4 minutes ago, Sir Mikel OBE said:

Kovacic was fantastic and you yank him out instead of Jorginho after 60 minutes? The match was lost there.

Kante should have been taken off, he was easily the worst on the pitch. Jorginho is still instrumental in building our attacks from the back. 

[Blue Armour 4,439]

With my earlier post, I was not advocating for Sarri to bite the dust.

Just saying it as I see it.

Right now, he seems as much a victim to his 4-3-3 as Conte was to his 3-at-the-back formations. Maybe Laurentiis in all his ramblings had a point after all.

Honestly right now just wish I could fast forward to when Lampard/JT get to the dugout.

[Tomo 21,751]

1 minute ago, Blue Armour said:

With my earlier post, I was not advocating for Sarri to bite the dust.

Just saying it as I see it.

Right now, he seems as much a victim to his 4-3-3 as Conte was to his 3-at-the-back formations. Maybe Laurentiis in all his ramblings had a point after all.

Honestly right now just wish I could fast forward to when Lampard/JT get to the dugout.

I love JT but i hope he never becomes manager here.

[Blue Armour 4,439]

Just now, Tomo said:

I love JT but i hope he never becomes manager here.

Just postulating mate...Lamps alone would suffice.

ATM, I'd dream of anything to distract me from what we're seeing on the pitch.

[Johnnyeye 7,509]

Sarri needs to stop smoking that crack pipe and wake up ffs.

[Vesper 30,175]

In Bim, I am considered one of the more quiet normal ones!!!!!!

 

roflmaoooooooooo

my family there is not just cray, they are EVIL

my auntie Darks, when I was summering in Christchurch when I was six, got mad up at my stray cat pseudo pet

cuz it ate her cutter (a bajan fish sandwich) when she went over to the stan'pipe to get water

so she tied it up to an ackee tree with a rope

and let some stray dogs from down road maul it it to death in front of all us kids

I went turning bewitch and threw my suck-a-bubbi right in her face and she whax-pallaxed me so hard I cant still feel it when I think about it

 

 

 

 

[Tomo 21,751]

We have got the ball retention bit right for the most part, the way we hold the ball under pressure at times is delightful very little of the panic hoofing under Conte and Jose. I don't even think we are that bad defensively given the circumstances, usually at this stage of an attacking managers tenure the defense looks really bad whereas i think we have been allright with a few bad times, we are light years ahead of Klopp and Pep's defences at the same stage put it that way.

The bits that need big work still are the speed of play and chances created, many times this season I've been screaming speed up at the TV/inside the stadium, there's almost been a 10/11 esque lack of urgency chasing results at times and chances goes without saying, we just simply aren't creating enough and that's down to poor decision making and to tie in with my last point lack of speed of play..

Sarri in my opinion deserves a chance to sort the second paragraph out because in my opinion he's done very well with what i mentioned in the first. When you are struggling for results in the first season under a manager the one question you need to ask is "can i see his plan and what he's trying to do?" and the answer with Sarri is yes.

[Jase 43,479]

It's all good saying that we need to back Sarri in the transfer market but you gotta ask, is he giving good reasons for us to do so? I mean, six months into his reign as our manager and we have barely seen the kind of football that he became known for at Napoli. Granted, I'd agree that we have some very average players in the team right now but given that he has had SIX months, shouldn't we be seeing the attacking football, the fluid movement in attacks etc at the very least, even just a tiny bit here and there? We do have some very average players but these are not players from the Conference. They are still decent enough to be playing/executing some kind of attacking football at the very least. But nope, the only major trait we've seen here from Sarri's Napoli side is us dominating possession but very little penetration. There have been times when it felt like Mourinho or Conte was still in charge because the football wasn't very much different at all.

Also, Sarri is so rigid with his formation and player selection for certain position. It's 4-3-3 or nothing. It's Jorginho or Fabregas as the deepest midfielder, it's Kovacic or Barkley or Loftus-Cheek as the left center-midfielder. Hell, Sarri has even thrown Loftus-Cheek out wide just to accommodate Kovacic or Barkley in that midfield role. Even Guardiola - arguably the best manager right now at possession/attacking football - is flexible and adaptable enough to change formation from time to time and switch players around within the formation. With Sarri, it's so rigid that it's becoming probably predictable and easy for opponents to deal with us. It also doesn't help that Sarri has been channeling his inner-Mourinho and persisting with players who's out of form etc. 

And oh, Sarri said after today's game that he doesn't understand why we keep on reacting badly to conceding goals. He's been saying that a lot recently and it's a concern when you keep on hearing your manager say that and no closer to finding out the exact problem...

[DDA 9,938]

Just now, Jason said:

It's all good saying that we need to back Sarri in the transfer market but you gotta ask, is he giving good reasons for us to do so? I mean, six months into his reign as our manager and we have barely seen the kind of football that he became known for at Napoli. Granted, I'd agree that we have some very average players in the team right now but given that he has had SIX months, shouldn't we be seeing the attacking football, the fluid movement in attacks etc at the very least, even just a tiny bit here and there? We do have some very average players but these are not players from the Conference. They are still decent enough to be playing/executing some kind of attacking football at the very least. But nope, the only major trait we've seen here from Sarri's Napoli side is us dominating possession but very little penetration. There have been times when it felt like Mourinho or Conte was still in charge because the football wasn't very much different at all.

Also, Sarri is so rigid with his formation and player selection for certain position. It's 4-3-3 or nothing. It's Jorginho or Fabregas as the deepest midfielder, it's Kovacic or Barkley or Loftus-Cheek as the left center-midfielder. Hell, Sarri has even thrown Loftus-Cheek out wide just to accommodate Kovacic or Barkley in that midfield role. Even Guardiola - arguably the best manager right now at possession/attacking football - is flexible and adaptable enough to change formation from time to time and switch players around within the formation. With Sarri, it's so rigid that it's becoming probably predictable and easy for opponents to deal with us. 

And oh, Sarri said after today's game that he doesn't understand why we keep on reacting badly to conceding goals. He's been saying that a lot recently and it's a concern when you keep on hearing your manager say that and no closer to finding out the exact problem...

Honestly, I think the players we have just don't give a fuck.

They sleepwalk through matches. 

There is no pride or passion. Absolutely fuck all from any of them. You get glipses from Azpi, Eden and sometiems Luiz. The rest are a bunch of mercenaries. 

Sarri is not helping the situation mind. Starting Alonso week in, week out is mind boggling but to start Willian over CHO is a fucking disgrace. I don't give a flying fuck if Willian defends better, his first and foremost purpose it to attack which he is hopeless at doing. 

He is making best of the striker situation. We simply don't have one so he can't be blamed for that.