Official - Carlo sacked

[steve5221 91]

But he is the head-coach! He is supposed to implement these things with or without Wilkins.

The thing with Luiz was a concern aswell yesterday......that could be the final nail in his coffin. Don't get me wrong I am 50-50 with ancellotti. I think Roman will be carful this time though and only sack him if Hiddink or Jose is available.

[spuz 143]

Spot on Styles.

I did ask months ago "What the hell do we do in training?" Not alot appears to be the answer. The number of times we were switched off from their free kicks yesterday was a real worry.

Not many people on here seem to rate motivation as an important factor in a manager, Fergie proves otherwise.

[Tortilla9 390]

Not many people on here seem to rate motivation as an important factor in a manager, Fergie proves otherwise.

Motivation, fear.... work for Fergie. No matter who the player if they're not performing up to Fergie's standards, they're sitting. The opposite seems to be true at Chelsea. If you're certain players no matter how underperforming you are, you'll play and play and play.

[eldo 868]

But who would play instead of Lampard for example? Few months ago Ramires-Mikel-Essien wasn't good solution.

[dodojojo 510]

Motivation, fear.... work for Fergie. No matter who the player if they're not performing up to Fergie's standards, they're sitting.

A hair dryer comes in handy too.

[termninja 5,290]

But who would play instead of Lampard for example? Few months ago Ramires-Mikel-Essien wasn't good solution.

It's not about "Who would you play", but showing those players they are not special individuals, but a part of one big machine. If you give a player who doesn't play much a chance he'll get out there and try to do his best. Check it with Sturridge. He looked like a bomb ready to explode, and that's exactly what he did at Bolton.

[GodZola 630]

The players are as much to blame for yesterdays performance because they shouldn't of needed motivating for a title decider, although a good talk before kick off wouldn't go amiss!

For me though, there were several questions that I think need answering from yesterdays game.

Why start with 2 holding midfielders when we have to win the game?

Why didn't we start with Ramires who has been in better form than Mikel, Essien & Lampard?

Why start with Kalou when everyone knows he only seems to play well coming off the bench?

Why waste a substitution by taking off a defender for another one when we are 2 - 0 down?

Giggs was the difference in the CL ties, why didn't any of are players get tight to him & stop him playing?

I'm not sure why we sit deep defensively instead of pushing 15 or 20 yards further up the pitch, we are like statues upfront compared to Utd & indeed our team last season, can't really put my finger on why we have gone backwards in that department other than the players are a year older?

Ancelotti shouldn't take all the flak as the players didn't play anywhere near their potential & it was sad to watch us give up all the hard work they had put in to get back in the title hunt, the defeat hurts more because we never turned up, Utd were up for it & the result should of been a lot worse. If Ancelotti stays then he definitely needs a top quality coach to work alongside him, a lot has been said about the Wilkins departure & I'm not sure our bad run was down to him going but we have definitely lacked belief amongst other things since he left.

[eldo 868]

It's not about "Who would you play", but showing those players they are not special individuals, but a part of one big machine. If you give a player who doesn't play much a chance he'll get out there and try to do his best. Check it with Sturridge. He looked like a bomb ready to explode, and that's exactly what he did at Bolton.

Sturridge isn't a bomb that exploded.

I agree with your concept, but my point was just that we don't have an exclusive attacking midfielder. When we played Ramires- Mikel-Essien it was too defensive for someone's liking. Yossi, I don't know...

I don't rate Nani as a great footballer, but this season he was better than any our left sided winger. Valencia is good too. Fast, knows what he's doing, better than Kalou or Nico.

People wanted to see Zhirkov instead of Malouda and we know how that ended.

[Henrique 9,133]

Lots of rumors saying he is set to leave. I can't see him staying.

[Shane 2,275]

Lots of rumors saying he is set to leave. I can't see him staying.

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[SinineUltra 1,170]

Ancelotti must stay. I'm not buying all this ''We'll finish on 73/74 points - this equals 4th or 5th spot'' bs. The reality is that this season has been a tight one, no real favourites till the very end. The top 4 quality might have dropped a little bit but on the account that the lower table teams have got stronger, I mean many teams out of top4 own superstars ( Sunderland - Muntari, Sessegnon, Gyan ; West Ham - Keane, Bridge, Ba ; Tottenham - VDS, Bale, Modric ; Birmingham - Zigic, Hleb). Like one commentator brought out , the team that faced Utd was mostly the old core of Mourinho, I'm sure Carlo will do a great job over the summer and will not hesitate nor over-use the transfer window. Im thankful Ancelotti got us out of the 5th spot that we were shortly after the new year, now we are second, have not won a title for one year and suddenly there are calls for Carlos head. Feels strange to me. Backing him till the very end , he deserves it.

In the end , Rome was not built in a day.

[ZanSnake 1,211]

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[Henrique 9,133]

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It seems that in two weeks it will be made official.

[eldo 868]

It seems that in two weeks it will be made official.

Who's comming in? Guradiola?

[neel 257]

Who's comming in? Guradiola?