kc_blue 265 Posted January 9, 2019 Share Posted January 9, 2019 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. Vesper, Johnnyeye and Fernando 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomo 21,751 Posted January 9, 2019 Share Posted January 9, 2019 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. communicate and manpe 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xPetrCechx 13,570 Posted January 10, 2019 Share Posted January 10, 2019 Happy birthday! Sent from my SM-G950F using Tapatalk communicate, kellzfresh and Sideshow Luiz 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mccg 1,528 Posted January 11, 2019 Share Posted January 11, 2019 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Milan 17,956 Posted January 12, 2019 Share Posted January 12, 2019 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, xPetrCechx and Laylabelle 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alabama 1,992 Posted January 12, 2019 Share Posted January 12, 2019 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... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laylabelle 9,534 Posted January 12, 2019 Share Posted January 12, 2019 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Mikel OBE 4,920 Posted January 12, 2019 Share Posted January 12, 2019 He's living off that win vs Manchester City right now. Surely nobody is happy with the brand of football we are playing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post! Jase 43,479 Posted January 12, 2019 Popular Post! Share Posted January 12, 2019 Having a manager like Sarri is making me crave for the 16/17 Conte or pre-2015 Mourinho. Tautvix, Strike, Vesper and 3 others 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChelseaFanUK 1,014 Posted January 12, 2019 Share Posted January 12, 2019 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 xPetrCechx 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jase 43,479 Posted January 12, 2019 Share Posted January 12, 2019 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. Sir Mikel OBE and Vesper 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post! Magic Lamps 11,692 Posted January 12, 2019 Popular Post! Share Posted January 12, 2019 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. Jase, OneMoSalah, Vesper and 3 others 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bosnian Blue 2,471 Posted January 12, 2019 Share Posted January 12, 2019 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. Vesper 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yeboii 1,844 Posted January 12, 2019 Share Posted January 12, 2019 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? Antonio8 and Fernando 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dreamcfc 182 Posted January 12, 2019 Share Posted January 12, 2019 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue Armour 4,439 Posted January 12, 2019 Share Posted January 12, 2019 Hey Sarri, if you're reading this, I think Alonso can use some rest. At least a little. Please. kc_blue 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue Armour 4,439 Posted January 12, 2019 Share Posted January 12, 2019 3 minutes ago, dreamcfc said: 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. Interesting that a shift in our attitude happens always after a meeting with Spurs. Happened with Mourinho too. The poultry has been slowly taking revenge in form or another, ever since we knocked them out of various cup competitions. And agree with your post. Our players slow down when they reach the final third. Dribbling around the box. The problem is when we face a defense like Newcastle in the PL. You can't expect a diminutive winger like Hazard to slug it out against 3 CBs. Same goes for Pedro and Willian. Their best bet is to break out of the lines, like Pedro did for his goal. In the beginning matches we were playing with a recognized striker and it helped. Now both strikers are shot of confidence and Sarri doesn't have faith in either. We need a new CF Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dreamcfc 182 Posted January 12, 2019 Share Posted January 12, 2019 10 minutes ago, Blue Armour said: Interesting that a shift in our attitude happens always after a meeting with Spurs. Happened with Mourinho too. The poultry has been slowly taking revenge in form or another, ever since we knocked them out of various cup competitions. And agree with your post. Our players slow down when they reach the final third. Dribbling around the box. The problem is when we face a defense like Newcastle in the PL. You can't expect a diminutive winger like Hazard to slug it out against 3 CBs. Same goes for Pedro and Willian. Their best bet is to break out of the lines, like Pedro did for his goal. In the beginning matches we were playing with a recognized striker and it helped. Now both strikers are shot of confidence and Sarri doesn't have faith in either. We need a new CF Yes it is certainly the first thing we need a new ST, even City have problems with teams that sit back but the difference is they have Aguero andmore creativity from their midfielders... ours just want to keep the ball just lately, I’m not Sarri so I can’t give you the reason why , wether it’s the lack of movement from the front or just the tempo that needs to change but something needs to change that’s for sure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fernando 6,585 Posted January 13, 2019 Share Posted January 13, 2019 Asked when he expects a Fabregas replacement -- reportedly a straight choice between Zenit St Petersburg midfielder Leandro Paredes and Cagliari star Nicolo Barella -- to arrive, Sarri replied: "I have no idea. "It's not too much [of a worry for me]. [If] the club is worried, I don't know. The club knows very well my opinion. I need the player there [in that position]. It depends on the club decision, I think. I cannot do anything more." http://www.espn.com/soccer/chelsea/story/3749916/chelseas-sarri-jorginho-trouble-proof-club-need-fabregas-replacement Another manager having to beg the club to do something. Why do we keep blaming managers, when managers after managers continue to have the same problem with the board? The reason why City and Liverpool are doing well is because they have a board that works with them. Antonio8, Supermonkey92, Laylabelle and 1 other 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adnane 1,101 Posted January 13, 2019 Share Posted January 13, 2019 The guy litterally has the best CDM in world football and still whines about how we don't have a replacement for Jorginho.I don't care if the system will be altered, not being flexible enough has been every sacked Chelsea manager's undoing, he almost cost us 2 points with his stubbornness and predictability yesterday.I'm all for Champagne football and title contenders in 2 years time, if Sarri is not flexible today he will never get that sort of time, this is Chelsea, not 2015 Liverpool who had been outside of Champions League spots for years bar 2 seasons hence could afford giving Klopp time. Sent from my INE-LX1 using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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