The Sarri Thread

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This is the full quote from BBC

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“I didn’t know anything about [signing] Pulisic yesterday," Sarri told the BBC following Chelsea's 0-0 draw with Southampton on Wednesday. 

"They asked my opinion about him one month ago. My opinion was positive and today I knew that the deal is done but I didn’t know anything."

The Italian reiterated that he doesn't involve himself in the club's transfer business much, instead focusing on matters taking place on the pitch. 

“I am not in charge of the market so I have to tend to my matches and play every three days. I can only say my opinion to the club," Sarri said.

 

 

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2 hours ago, manpe said:

Shit, that's not good.

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He was talking about strikers bud

The Italian suggested his preference was to recruit a new striker, but given Chelsea’s board, chiefly director Marina Granovskaia, are responsible for transfers, it is by no means certain Sarri’s wish will be granted.

He added: “The club knows very well my opinion. I think we need something different for characteristics.

“I’m not in charge of the market. I have to try to improve my players, my team, my offensive phase, or better my offensive phase in the last 20 metres.

“The club knows my position, my opinion. It’s up to the board.”

We have heard several times that Sarri isn't interested in the comings and goings in the transfer windows yet he stresses that THE CLUB KNOWS MY OPINION.

3 hours ago, Jason said:

Chelsea and Faith don't go along together.

Nor does the word CAREFREE but we keep singing it.

 

Its not the Sarri system thats at fault its the players we have trying to implement it IMHO of course.

IF we grew some gonads or got a blinkin DOF that knew his job we would have shifted the pile of firewood we have and put the money to good use.

Cause right bow we dont have 1 player we can count on to get near the goal. So when Eden has no influence - for whatever reasons -- nd we come up against these awkward type of gits we just don't have a clue WTF to do,

Its great the club still wants and has the ability to dig deep when SOMEONE who makes the decisions, whoever the fuck it is, wants a player that we will pay up for them/ Its time to start re building us a team who will play together and actually compete and dominate again for years to come.

Apart from contract renewals we need at least 4 upgrades. I pray to whichever god thats real and wants to listen that we get them.

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The circus continues! 

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7 hours ago, xPetrCechx said:

Sarri about pulisic:

‘I don’t know. I’m not in charge of the market so it’s very difficult to speak about the market or the Pulisic deal. The board know my opinion. I think we need something different for characteristics


Wtf?!

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Why did you post a quote without context and a quote combined of two different things?!

Here's his full quotes on Pulisic...

http://global.espn.com/soccer/chelsea/story/3741878/chelseas-sarri-unaware-of-pulisic-deal-i-didnt-know-anything-until-yesterday

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Speaking after Wednesday's goalless draw against Southampton, Sarri said the club asked his opinion of Pulisic a month ago and he signalled his approval of the winger, but he did not ask to be kept updated on negotiations.

"I didn't know anything about [Chelsea signing] Christian Pulisic yesterday," Sarri told BBC Sport after the game. "The club asked my opinion about him one month ago and my opinion was positive and I knew the deal was done [today] but I didn't know anything. I'm not in charge of the market.

"We have to play every three days so I cannot think of next year, I have to think about the next match."

Asked if he would rather have Pulisic now in light of his current squad situation, Sarri replied: "I don't know. I'm not in charge of the market, so for me it's very difficult to speak about the market or the deal of Pulisic. The board knows very well my opinion.

He was talking about our strikers when he said "I think we need something different for characteristics".

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/pa/article-6549955/Chelsea-boss-Maurizio-Sarri-hints-January-striker-move.html

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The Italian suggested his preference was to recruit a new striker, but given Chelsea’s board, chiefly director Marina Granovskaia, are responsible for transfers, it is by no means certain Sarri’s wish will be granted.

He added: “The club knows very well my opinion. I think we need something different for characteristics.

“I’m not in charge of the market. I have to try to improve my players, my team, my offensive phase, or better my offensive phase in the last 20 metres.

“The club knows my position, my opinion. It’s up to the board.”

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42 minutes ago, DDA said:

The circus continues! 

LOL More like The Magic Roundabout  (A Brit kids show - not for kids full of bribery,coruption,sexual innuendos lol Theres this character Ermitrude who was a pink cow who ate poppies!)

 

 

And like Zebedee would say ''Time for bed!'

 

 

 

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41 minutes ago, Mana said:

I know I have slipped when it comes to judging Sarri, but I'm going to remain judging that he's a spineless tippy-tappy, BTEC Pochettino coach until the window closes. If he has any kind of anger on what is happening with the club, he will do stand up to the board and ask for players that can play ball.

No, Pulisic isn't one of the answers as he's not here 'til next season. We need fixes now.

We cannot afford another season in the EL, and any slim chance of Hazard staying will bite the dust if we fail.

Well he kinda just did in his post match press conference. Said that we need a new player in January. "The club knows my position, my opinion...".

We should have won this game, and pretty much all the other small games where we have drawed or lost. Had enough opportunities, but for example Hazard wasted a golden chance.

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The first derision's of 'what I want' and 'what they want' have started, this is the cycle again folks.

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23 minutes ago, Mana said:

But that could also mean we don't need anybody in January. He had hinted many times before about that.

Should've, could've, would've. But we didn't.

We have enough opportunities, but our shite forwards couldn't finish it. Hazard had a poor to average game, but FFS we shouldn't be reliant on him all the time. This really scares me because if Hazard goes, we are suddenly a mid-table side. Real talk.

I agree. What I am trying to say is that the system is not the problem in my opinion. We had goalscoring opportunities, and if we had anyone capable of long shots we would have even more.

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2 hours ago, Special Juan said:

The first derision's of 'what I want' and 'what they want' have started, this is the cycle again folks.

And this is the problem so many times.. I remember Jose saying out and then everyone thought he'd leave because of it. We're not good enough though! Cant expect 4th if the players to get it aren't at the club. 

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Imo, if we have Diego Costa right now instead of Morata we will be talking about completely different team. We have no goal getter in this team beside hazard. Plus we need another creator, I honestly thought Kovacic is going to be that guy, clearly he is not. 

[Vybz Kartel 1,613]

The fan base is starting to slowly turn in on him. I don't remember any recent Chelsea manager being this much hated on early in his turner. Even Scolari and AVB only lost the fan base towards the end

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4 minutes ago, Vybz Kartel said:

The fan base is starting to slowly turn in on him. I don't remember any recent Chelsea manager being this much hated on early in his turner. Even Scolari and AVB only lost the fan base towards the end

Hated where exactly? Most comments I've seen have been about hatred towards Willian and Alonso and the necessity to get new players in January and next summer

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Just now, !Hazard! said:

Hated where exactly? Most comments I've seen have been about hatred towards Willian and Alonso and the necessity to get new players in January and next summer

Go on Twitter right now, people have started questioning him. He was also booed off at full time yesterday 

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7 minutes ago, Vybz Kartel said:

Go on Twitter right now, people have started questioning him. He was also booed off at full time yesterday 

It's Twitter mate, I'd bet half of the whiners over there wanted Sarri sacked after the Community Shield. Also, any top team that fails to score in two consecutive home games deserves to be booed off. It doesn't necessarily mean the fans are turning on him tho after only 6 months.

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The fans turning on him already are a disgrace. They are toxic. It angers me soo much. You want another manager ?? Who?? For how long? It's beyond a joke now. These plastics are on par with Madristas!

[Sideshow Luiz 2,310]

This project can't be judged until at least the end of the season.  We're completely revamping the way we play.  We didn't get much of a pre-season due to the WC and our players making it quite far in the tournament.  We've been playing twice a week since October (about the time our play started to stagnate) unless it was an international break.  Sure, he needs to rotate more, I can agree with that.  But, it's his first season in England too.  

[Tomo 21,751]

The decline in performances is a lot down to one thing, The lack of training pitch time.

He is coming in, trying to teach the squad a totally different brand of football to what the players are accustomed too, he has a broken pre season where most of the key players are on holiday from the world cup then when they come back they are getting upto speed for the first few weeks and by the time they are we end up starting the midweek marathon where we have played in every single midweek since the PAOK away game in September which renders training time as manly warm downs, that is a killer when learning a completely new system and style of play.

Imagine you are doing weekly theory test's for driving (to pluck a random example), the first few weeks you have all the time in the world to revise and perfect things, but after that practice time is cut down significantly, eventually it's going to start to show in your results, won't it?

The chances created and attacking play in the final 3rd isn't anywhere near what it could be, but one thing he has got right is how we are defending and how comfortable we are on the ball. Now i know some may reply with "possession is pointless if you do nothing with it" and all the usual stigma cliche's and as a rule i would agree, but with us/Sarri it's not the end game it's a hopeful building block onto bigger things. I remember a few years ago that video came out on YouTube of Napoli expertly playing the ball out of the back under extreme pressure and people on here were posting about it with the green eyed monster wishing our defenders could do that, well after six months we are doing that, we have been seamlessly playing out of trouble even against Liverpool and City with defenders that were supposedly not capable of it. The 65%-70 possession per match and how comfortable we are in possession is a starting block to where we are trying to go and in fact i think Sarri's done very well to implement that so early, i actually thought that was the part of his tactics that were going to take the longest to implement but it's been done seamlessly.

Also i am very impressed with how good we look defensively, again that's another part i thought was going to take a while and i expected us to be vulnerable at the back for pretty much the duration of season one, the last two against Palace and Southampton both barely got a sniff at a chance, apart from the last ten minutes against Palace i didn't even remotely fear we would concede, that is quite remarkable all things considered, now i may get the usual counter of "it's only Palace and Southampton" well they have smashed a combined four past City recently and we gave neither a sniff. While we are on the subject of City remember how awful Pep and Klopp's defense was in the early stage? For Sarri to have us looking quite solid so early is a massive plus for me.

Now when a manager is not getting it all his own way there's always one thing you need to ask, can you see what he's trying to do? It doesn't matter how well he's currently doing it but just to focus on the question. Moyes would be the greatest example of the answer to that question being no, there was no real blueprint or idea on what he was trying to achieve and it looked like he was making it up as he went along. An example of yes would be Klopp at Liverpool, didn't get it all his own way for the first two years but the blueprint was there, what he was trying to achieve was there. With Sarri i can see what he's trying to do he wants us to play with speed and decisiveness but unfortunately that's beyond some of the current players, it's not even about getting the best players it's about getting players more suited to the style. Willian doesn't fit his desired tactics, neither does Barkley, neither do the forwards, neither does Alonso from an attacking POV, Kante's getting there but still learning the ropes, we can't consistently play the style he wants but we are trying to work towards it, for example Alonso's post hit at the end of the Leicester game would have been a typical Sarri goal.

All things considered Sarri right now i wouldn't say should get a free hit, but there is definitely mitigating circumstances which means he deserves the benefit of the doubt and we should give him a couple of windows to see where he could take us. Now don't get me wrong if we are still performing with such sketchy end product this time next year i will be as skeptical as anyone but what would the options be at the minute? Bottle it and go pragmatic for the end of the season and be back to square one in the summer? The big pro argument for that in the past is it would put us with a chance of the major trophies (2009, 2012) that isn't the case anymore so we have nothing to really lose by seeing the process though unless we bomb badly. With the emergence of what City, Liverpool and to an extent Spurs are doing we need to build something sustainable to keep up, the sticky plaster route was only ever going to work for so long!!

[Fernando 6,585]

Good post, I would like to add to that how David Luiz is playing. 

Clearly the guy is not going to be the best defender in the world, but one thing Sarri said from the beginning is that David Luiz was able to understand his type of football. 

We can see clearly how the improvement in the attacking sense has improve. 

I can only think if this is what Sarri does for a player that can play his type of football, I wonder what he can do with more players that understand and perform this style? 

 

[Vybz Kartel 1,613]

The goal Liverpool scored through their fullback play will never happen at Chelsea because Sarri persists with Alonso and Azpi. Two fullbacks that lack pace and technical ability