As opposed to mess he left at Milan?
They are doing rather well without him and with Piatek.

Mr positive strikes again

https://dailym.ai/2Eq4349

comment by Randomer (U5245)
posted about an hour ago
Mr positive strikes again
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A big plus

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Was it consensual

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lol

comment by Chelseamf™®© (U1677)
posted 4 hours ago
I'm not sure the club or Higuain would want to extend his stay here if Sarri is no longer the manager.
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Where does he go after leaving us? I think he's done in Italy.

CHELSEA

comment by ＴＬＬＬ (U4640)
posted 28 minutes ago
comment by Chelseamf™®© (U1677)
posted 4 hours ago
I'm not sure the club or Higuain would want to extend his stay here if Sarri is no longer the manager.
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Where does he go after leaving us? I think he's done in Italy.
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Scotland, the retirement league.

That’s the MLS m8t

Oh that's right. There's no money in Scotland.

I would add Kante to Hazard, but otherwise an excellent post

comment by CurrentlyInChina (U11181)




posted 6 hours, 49 minutes ago





The issue seems to be that the players can't keep up the momentum, coupled with shifting styles (managerial changes) and bad investments (Drinkwater, Giroud, Morata, etc.), it's now come to the fore.

The players are themselves an issue. You only have Hazard as a player at his peak (and he's world class), the others are either past their best, average, or yet to hit their potential.

You also have to see the drop off after winning the league under Jose (2nd stint) and with Conte. It makes it seem that they only turn up when they feel like it. If they aren't getting their way, they just go through the motions until a new guy comes in.

Unlike previous teams you no longer have a strong core. That core is important for two things. They helped keep the levels up (even if they instigated the sackings, which I don't think happened in all cases) and they were much better than what you have now.

This comes to the other two points. Shifting styles and poor investment. Sarri is very different in style and what he wants in his team to Conte and Jose. He's also more dogmatic in it. Hiring him, not getting a preseason and not investing correctly (also poorly) was always going to cause issues.

It's not like Sarri came in, had two years and signed players of his choice who didn't suit his system and then fall out with everyone. He's hardly had time to reshape the side or bring in quality players.

When you buy players as randomly as we do it's always going to come back to bite you eventually. Especially when you keep changing football philosophies via different managers as much as we do.

Basically we have a total mish mash of players and we're expecting them to keep switching philosophy under different managers.

It's utter chaos and a result of non footballing people at the club making footballing decisions.

There's a reason that Sporting Directors exist at other clubs. To avoid the sort of scenario we too often find ourselves in and to provide an actual footballing direction. We just don't have that.

Sooner or later the club hierarchy/board are going to have to wake up and smell the coffee. Surely.

City could also be investigated by FIFA for similar issues we had according to Mail

Sarri on whether a manager should be judged by trophies: "No. It depends on the club...I think it is easier to win Champions League with Real Madrid than with Borussia Dortmund." #CFC
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I agree on that, but I guess football has always been lke that, a shallow appreciation of ‘you have to win trophies/score goals/win’ without looking at the context behind those who don’t do that. Sarri got 90+ points in a 38 game season ..trophy or no trophy seriously impressive

comment by Kunta Kante (U1641)
posted 3 minutes ago
Sarri on whether a manager should be judged by trophies: "No. It depends on the club...I think it is easier to win Champions League with Real Madrid than with Borussia Dortmund." #CFC
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I agree on that, but I guess football has always been lke that, a shallow appreciation of ‘you have to win trophies/score goals/win’ without looking at the context behind those who don’t do that. Sarri got 90+ points in a 38 game season ..trophy or no trophy seriously impressive
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I have no idea how strong a league Serie A these days..............I am, fairly confident is saying that the French League is of substantially lower quality than the PL but I just don't know about Italy these days

Biggish maybe I'm slightly biased with my old man being Italian but I think that Serie A ranks only behind the PL and La Liga. And not that far behind La Liga either. Let's face it without giants Real and Barca playing I'm not sure that La Liga garners that much interest. Serie A has the likes of Juve, Inter, AC Milan, Napoli, Roma etc so arguably has a wider spread of bigger clubs than La Liga.

Jorginho, Kovacic, Kepa, Higuan were never players Sarri requested and desired.
Two of which he catagorically claimed are fundamental to his system but they were all random signings, and club didn't back Sarri.

Sarri after the first three signings most certainly never said he "considered his squad complete" and never said "My job is to improve players".

His whole mantra and strong point was supposed to be his ability improve players, not much evidence of that in 7 months (hasn't delivered).

Also Sarri claiming to not care about the transfer market and saying the "Transfer Market is the refuge of the weak. It is for those who can't train their players. I'm a coach. Give me a group of players and I will coach them." was deceitful.

He's of course now gone onto contradict himself and is relying on the transfer market in future.

https://www.wigantoday.net/sport/football/latics/reece-james-on-wigan-athletic-s-final-straight-and-his-hopes-for-the-future-1-9610584/amp

Higuain has a contract with Juventus until 2021, he'll go back and stay there if Juventus can't find a buyer for him TLLL.