Live Match Discussion 2018/19

[Pablowolf]

Chelsea have a transfer ban so can't replace Kepa as easily as they could replace Sarri.

 

[Lupo]

Chelsea have a transfer ban so can't replace Kepa as easily as they could replace Sarri.

Doesn't kick in immediately as they are appealing it so may be ok this summer

I was willing the arrogant twat to mess up in the shoot out. Sarri should chin him then resign. Disgraceful behaviour

 

[Tredman]

Kepa's fucked himself anyway, he'll never play for a top club again (not that he is good enough anyway). Chelsea will cut their losses eventually and no manager will want him in their team.

 

[t3ch]

the music they're playing during the trophy ceremony has been very odd

Kepa's fucked himself anyway, he'll never play for a top club again (not that he is good enough anyway). Chelsea will cut their losses eventually and no manager will want him in their team.

I think that's a bit of a naive position to take.

 

[Tredman]

the music they're playing during the trophy ceremony has been very odd



I think that's a bit of a naive position to take.

Nah, he's not good enough anyway.

Ultimately if there's a choice between two ok-ish goalkeepers (which there will be, cos they are 10 a penny), you're not going to pick Kepa are you?

 

[MARKakaJIM]

the music they're playing during the trophy ceremony has been very odd



I think that's a bit of a naive position to take.

I agree, if Kepa develops into the next De Gea then no one would give a fuck if he once ignored a relative nobody of a manager.

 

[Tredman]

Anyway. Bielsa would be a great choice for the next Chelsea manager

 

[Alan]

Personally think Chelsea would be silly to sack Sarri now. They knew exactly what they were getting with him, for better or worse. You can't expect a manager with his kind of ideas to make it happen in less than a year. Especially at a club with as rampant egotism among its players as Chelsea.

 

[White Wolf]

People said similar things about AVB. It's far easier to sack a manager than punish players, he won't last and probably doesn't want to now.

 

[Tredman]

I'd keep him, difficult with the transfer ban though if he needs wholesale player changes to make it work though.

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

He has been utterly undermined by his player there. He might walk tonight.

 

[jd1981]

What an absolute anti climatic day of football.

 

[Alan]

I felt the same when AVB was there, it's true.

Difference here is that Sarri is proven in a top league. For as much as I like Villas-Boas, he couldn't say the same.

 

[Alan]

He has been utterly undermined by his player there. He might walk tonight.

I said it at the time but he nearly walked off the pitch during the incident. They had the doors to the dressing room opened for him and everything.

 

[MARKakaJIM]

I felt the same when AVB was there, it's true.

Difference here is that Sarri is proven in a top league. For as much as I like Villas-Boas, he couldn't say the same.

Has Sarri got much, or any, more success than AVB behind him? Some good football at Napoli as about as much as he's ever achieved I think in a long career, he's hardly the Italian Alex Ferguson.

 

[Alan]

Has Sarri got much, or any, more success than AVB behind him? Some good football at Napoli as about as much as he's ever achieved I think in a long career, he's hardly the Italian Alex Ferguson.

I don't think the job he did at Napoli, especially after Higuaín was sold, can be overvalued.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

I agree, if Kepa develops into the next De Gea then no one would give a fuck if he once ignored a relative nobody of a manager.

He won't though as he's deeply average, he's worth nearer £7.2m than £72m. Chelsea got spooked somehow when Courtois decided he wanted out despite that being on the cards for a couple of years. They're a very badly run club.

Sarri doesn't deserve to keep his job regardless in the long run, his teams are very easy to play against and Chelsea are going to drift away from being a main player the longer he stays. But I did feel sorry for him today.

 

[Lupo]

Sarri saying (publically) that he thought Kepa had cramp and should come off but the doctors said he was ok so it was right he stayed on but his conduct was wrong, a 'misunderstanding'.

I call bollocks

 

[MARKakaJIM]

I don't think the job he did at Napoli, especially after Higuaín was sold, can be overvalued.

The job he did at Napoli? They played nice football but they achieved nothing, the two Milan sides both disfunctional through his tenure and Roma largely average in recent years.

Sometimes things just click between certain managers/clubs/players at times but doesn't always mean they're genuinely that good. Lambert hasn't got anywhere near what he did with Norwich since leaving, Ranieri got a title out of nowhere with Leicester after several failures with far greater resources, even Holloway got some decent football out of Blackpool with largely average players. Napoli looks far more like the exception than the rule in his career.

 

[MARKakaJIM]

He won't though as he's deeply average, he's worth nearer £7.2m than £72m. Chelsea got spooked somehow when Courtois decided he wanted out despite that being on the cards for a couple of years. They're a very badly run club.

Sarri doesn't deserve to keep his job regardless in the long run, his teams are very easy to play against and Chelsea are going to drift away from being a main player the longer he stays. But I did feel sorry for him today.

It wasn't so much an expectation that will happen, more just pencilling a scenario where that nonsense from today becomes meaningless. I doubt anyone that every might be interested in buying him will have that incident playing on their minds.