The Next Manager?

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59 minutes ago, Iggy Doonican said:

I'm always a bit bewildered that some posters if we went for a geezer who was managing in Iceland would know who he was and what type of football he plays. I'm prepared to give Blanc a chance because I know nothing about him as a manager as I don't follow any other football apart from Chelsea and England although interest is on the wane with that lot.

I agree with you on the geezer part. Made me chuckle too. 

 

1 hour ago, Pizy said:

I just can't shake the fact that if he's a quality coach he wouldn't have been out of work for so long. You would think his door would have been beaten down after he let PSG. I don't know. Maybe he just refused everything until a top club came calling.

I also don't remember people being surprised or up in arms when he was sacked which tells me he maxed out his effectiveness.

 

He did reject a lot of clubs, especially in La Liga tbf. Also, he was favourite to take over from LvG after his last season at United, until we sacked Mourinho.

 

I have only watched UCL games from his time and read complex tactical articles (mostly cause I'm a tactical nerd). I remember he took PSG to the next level, for sure. When we faced PSG, it always felt like we are the underdogs instead, although we had a much greater squad strength. He also introduced Rabiot and Marquinhos, who are now key players for them. 

 

He doesn't come out as a revolutionary like Sarri, but he has exactly the same CV (maybe even better) as Conte, when the Italian joined us. 3 consecutive league titles in a league where it seemed like it was a one horse race. Not very good performances in Europe. Although he does have an edge in Knockout competitions over Conte in his UCL achievements and domestic cups. Also, his season at Bordeaux where he won the title quite astonishingly and went unbeaten with them in a group which had Juve and Bayern Munich in UCL.

 

I'm not saying this cause he's linked to us. If we went on to get Sarri, even then I'd rate Blanc, wherever he goes. 

 

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2 hours ago, Unionjack said:

story so far..............

I got a BSOD about 2am on tuesday AM and it fucked up my windows AND start up software. So ever since Ive been trying to sort it 24/7!!

Ive only had Sky news for any sort of footy yalk and theres not been 1 soddin bit of news or even gossip about us!!!

Guys. You can imagine how Ive been. Its very similar to coming off gear I tell ya!!

So --- could someone PLEASE in a paragraph or 2 give me a rundown on the last 5 or 7 pages and fill me in whats been happening!!!

You can guess i lost 310GB of data - mostly music but all the pictures of my Mrs so thats not helped much.

Cheers

Glad to be home!

In a nutshell:

Everyone is so on edge that every piece of twitter this or that is brought up, analyzed, then debated.  Cabin fever has taken hold.  Lack of news is leading to in-fighting.  

Conte is still our manager.

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I'm living in Paris and looked every psg game and trust me Blanc is shit.
When he was there, he gives all the power to the big guys who fall into comfort and lack of intensity. And I thinks that why DL want him, to win back his influence in the team.

He's a very inmaginative manager who wants to do Pep philosphy but understands nothing about it.
When journalist asked him "what your philosophy, he answered: my philosophy is possession" Or guy like Pep, Sarri Smapaoli always say possession is a mean not the end.

For example he used to put Cavani as left winrger, and of course the guy was bad because he wanted him to play like Leroy Sane...

And when Motta or Verratti was injured, the team used to lose control of the ball because the way the team play was based on individual quality and not strong pattern.

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43 minutes ago, Etoo fils said:

I'm living in Paris and looked every psg game and trust me Blanc is shit.
When he was there, he gives all the power to the big guys who fall into comfort and lack of intensity. And I thinks that why DL want him, to win back his influence in the team.

He's a very inmaginative manager who wants to do Pep philosphy but understands nothing about it.
When journalist asked him "what your philosophy, he answered: my philosophy is possession" Or guy like Pep, Sarri Smapaoli always say possession is a mean not the end.

For example he used to put Cavani as left winrger, and of course the guy was bad because he wanted him to play like Leroy Sane...

And when Motta or Verratti was injured, the team used to lose control of the ball because the way the team play was based on individual quality and not strong pattern.

Ouch.

That is the impression I got from the spielverlagerung.com article.

 

 

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7 hours ago, Iggy Doonican said:

Nothing to apologise for it just made ne laugh. This isn't the Shed End forum where some old biddy ex schoolteacher pulls up everyone on spelling and grammar it's so painfully middle class.

I signed up to see what that place was all about and wow, just wow. You can get the ban hammer for having an opinion that isn't liked by the majority. You can't beat TalkChels.

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10 hours ago, Tomo said:

Can someone explain why Blanc is so so bad? Now don't get me wrong he is far from my first choice but some of the stuff being said about him here is quite frankly pathetic and screams moaning for the sake of it, just by reading comments on here you'd think he's the French Sammy Lee

If we inexplicably cock up Sarri's deal, we could do a lot worse than a serial title winner.

With you on this. I still want and hopeful for Sarri and i think we may actually get him. Blanc seems not to care about being second best , plays more attacking football than Conte and plays youth - which is what us fans have wanted for years now.

Only slight worry is his statue, not sure he'll have the pull power on top players as others 

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With Abramovichs visa problems, and the UK and US hostility to Russia - I hope Abramovich isn't churlish and  take it out on his English club -by neglecting immediate remedial work -manager, players. I think/hope he is a bigger man than that. Again with regard to the visa thing, it is known there are many high up in the Home Office, that are gooners, who hide for a living, and will be enjoying the Chelsea upheaval, if not instrumental in it.

With regard to the manager, I don't think Conte is the man for next season, the board have fucked him off -so Laurent Blanc (Larry White) maybe the solution, though with our boardprobably end up with Dave Bassett.

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Il Mattino: Sarri and his entourage are willing to consider two options: resign or tender a complaint to UEFA about the conduct of Napoli. #Sarri #Chelsea

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2 hours ago, gadget said:

With you on this. I still want and hopeful for Sarri and i think we may actually get him. Blanc seems not to care about being second best , plays more attacking football than Conte and plays youth - which is what us fans have wanted for years now.

Only slight worry is his statue, not sure he'll have the pull power on top players as others 

I dont know it matters about which new manager comes in with bringing in  new players unless its one of the ZZ/Pep/Mou standard. When Conte came I know many of us was thinking/hoping he would be bringing half of Italy with him after all the things his ex players said about him. but they didn't lol

18 minutes ago, Fulham Broadway said:

With Abramovichs visa problems, and the UK and US hostility to Russia - I hope Abramovich isn't churlish and  take it out on his English club -by neglecting immediate remedial work -manager, players. I think/hope he is a bigger man than that. Again with regard to the visa thing, it is known there are many high up in the Home Office, that are gooners, who hide for a living, and will be enjoying the Chelsea upheaval, if not instrumental in it.

With regard to the manager, I don't think Conte is the man for next season, the board have fucked him off -so Laurent Blanc (Larry White) maybe the solution, though with our boardprobably end up with Dave Bassett.

Theres been a tsunami of water bone under The Bridge where Conte is concerned I'm sad to say.

I watched an old interview Mou gave towards his last sacking with us and he said that when the media starts with all the headines like  "When is such n such manager getting sacked" and "When is manager X coming taking over' it loses that current manager the respect of the changing room. and Conte got those headlines from a couple of games into him coming to us. and with our history of player power it was an uphill battle for him specially as not once did any of the board show any guts and come out stating he was our manager and the club was behind him. Nothing new there tho. Cunts.

I keep reading that we still have full backing of Roman and he wants a more hands on roll but i cant see any signs of it at all.

In a way I wish i could say sod it and be content playing mid table football but I'm like a spoiled kid right now being bollocked by my parents and just feel like telling them to fuck off!!

16 minutes ago, blues.bridge said:

 

Think this is the 3rd or 4th posting of this lol It never changes   

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6 minutes ago, Unionjack said:

Think this is the 3rd or 4th posting of this lol It never changes   

ahah LOL!
Sorry! i hadn't seen!

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8 minutes ago, Unionjack said:

I dont know it matters about which new manager comes in with bringing in  new players unless its one of the ZZ/Pep/Mou standard. When Conte came I know many of us was thinking/hoping he would be bringing half of Italy with him after all the things his ex players said about him. but they didn't lol

Theres been a tsunami of water bone under The Bridge where Conte is concerned I'm sad to say.

I watched an old interview Mou gave towards his last sacking with us and he said that when the media starts with all the headines like  "When is such n such manager getting sacked" and "When is manager X coming taking over' it loses that current manager the respect of the changing room. and Conte got those headlines from a couple of games into him coming to us. and with our history of player power it was an uphill battle for him specially as not once did any of the board show any guts and come out stating he was our manager and the club was behind him. Nothing new there tho. Cunts.

I keep reading that we still have full backing of Roman and he wants a more hands on roll but i cant see any signs of it at all.

In a way I wish i could say sod it and be content playing mid table football but I'm like a spoiled kid right now being bollocked by my parents and just feel like telling them to fuck off!!

Think this is the 3rd or 4th posting of this lol It never changes   

Could we stop with this nonsense of player power being the reason for Conte failing ? Conte brought this on himself by acting like a freaking 5 year old throwing a fit because he didn't get what he wanted in January. 

What exactly did he expect would happen when he was constantly bitching about the board and saying stuff like "i've gotten the maximum out of this group of players" while we were in the middle of fighting for a top 4 spot.

For a supposed winner he was quite eager and happy to throw in the towel this season. So can we stop with the pity for Conte crap ? It's driving my nuts. 

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14 minutes ago, Belgiannutt said:

Could we stop with this nonsense of player power being the reason for Conte failing ? Conte brought this on himself by acting like a freaking 5 year old throwing a fit because he didn't get what he wanted in January. 

What exactly did he expect would happen when he was constantly bitching about the board and saying stuff like "i've gotten the maximum out of this group of players" while we were in the middle of fighting for a top 4 spot.

For a supposed winner he was quite eager and happy to throw in the towel this season. So can we stop with the pity for Conte crap ? It's driving my nuts. 

You would hope that the board /supporters/players would understand why he was throwing a fit more than a player coming out in the press basically stating the players he was with wasn't worth him playing with.

I would rather have a manager fighting his corner trying to strengthen the team than some yesman kissing the boards arses thanking them for being useless.

I think/HOPE we manage to get someone in the middle ground!!

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34 minutes ago, blues.bridge said:

ahah LOL!
Sorry! i hadn't seen!

Nah dont be. Its hard to go back on a thread like this and read all the pages.

And it is a good vid. I wish there were more like it. 

Its very easy to get carried away by Youtubes as they can manage to make any player look good!! And sadly you dont get them showing the weaknesses of players/managers. So these are more interesting.

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Just now, Unionjack said:

You would hope that the board /supporters/players would understand why he was throwing a fit more than a player coming out in the press basically stating the players he was with wasn't worth him playing with.

I would rather have a manager fighting his corner trying to strengthen the team than some yesman kissing the boards arses thanking them for being useless.

I think/HOPE we manage to get someone in the middle ground!!

 A player making a single comment at the very end of the season stating we need to strenghten the squad vs a manager constantly complaining about the squad in the middle of the season while we were fighting for a top 4 spot.

The timing and the amount of times makes a big difference. If Conte had just said it once it would have been fine but he just kept saying the same shit over and over again. After the 4-5th time it was "okay we get it, now get on with it".

I'd rather have a manager ,being paid millions to do his fucking job, not act like a 5 year old.