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Can anyone name a (Chelsea) player whom Sarri has improved? If I'm stretching it, Rudiger and Luiz have had good season's but neither have done what we didn't already know they were capable of.

Whose more dead, Conte at this stage last season or Sarri at this stage this season?

Unless we really click and blow teams away 3-4 games in a row, I think he's gone at the end of the year regardless of Champions League qualification.

Dammit, beat me to it.... :P

Taking a step back, looking at our squad, man for man, against our competitors. I'd say Man City, Liverpool definitely have stronger squads Man Utd are a little stronger than us but have a great deal more depth Tottenham are probably a little stronger than us now Arsenal we probably edge it Everyone else (Everton, etc), we are stronger than That would realistically put us around 5th (3rd in a good year, 6th in a not great year) Losing 6-0 isn't acceptable, but on the whole, we are not far off our realistic level.

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If an overpriced Callum Wilson or over 30 on huge wages Higuain are our only options, then we really are missing Emenalo or some other scouting/planning support. I'll say it again, after the Torres debacle and up to Mourinho version 2, we made better decisions in the transfer market. Not perfect, but better. We bought in the likes of Lukaku, De Bryne, Salah, Oscar, etc. Players that weren't known about at the time and while we screwed up developing them at Chelsea, they all went on to either give a transfer profit or embarrass us by turning out really really good at other clubs. We need to go back to that system. The one that scouts and buys players before they reach potential. It won't always work out, but bang for buck we were doing better before Mourinho and Conte came in and made generally horrible decisions in the transfer market that is responsible for the mess we are in now. I know this view still probably isn't very popular, but the director of football model where the manager wasn't making so many decisions in the market worked for us (for the most part). But anyways, in the meantime, Higuain might be a decent stop gap.

I was about to say the same. He's having a shocker

Pure speculation on my part, but I have a feeling that the club are trying to find a new home for Conte (Real Madrid?) to avoid paying out his contract. Before signing a new manager.

Look at https://www.transfermarkt.com/fc-chelsea/alletransfers/verein/631 See the period before off-season 2011 (before Emenalo became technical director). Then the period off-season 2011 till off-season 2013 (the time Emenalo was technical director till the period Mourinho joined and Emenalo offered/asked to resign). Then the period from off-season 2013 till now (off-season 2018). Like actually look at it. I'm serious. Go through line by line and look at every single transfer (in and out) and how it worked out for the club long term. Taking into account transfer fee paid/wages paid/performances/transfer fee received/etc with an eye to value for money. Then come back if you still believe what you posted above. If your mind hasn't changed, you either didn't really look or you really do look at....reality differently to me. And if you actually do have a perspective different to mine having done your homework properly then great. But at the moment your post betrays that you haven't really looked into this properly.

If you look back at our transfer history there's a definite trend where the more power the manager/head coach has over transfers, the generally worse decisions we've made in the transfer market*. While it goes against my usual instinct of "back the manager and let him decide", at this point, the data shows that we are better off bringing in a head coach who is tactically flexible, gets along well with the players and is happy to work with what's available. Rather than push the club to spend hundreds of millions of pounds building a squad that suits his whims. Especially when it looks as if we never stick with a manager more than 3 seasons in a row. The identity of that manager?...i don't know. * most posters here won't agree with this, but if you actually go back and look at the data. It's clear after Emanelo was promoted to technical director till Mourinho joined (and Emanelo offered to resign), we did better in the market. And then under Mourinho and Conte we've been really poor in the market (Costa, De Bryne, Lukaku, Matic, Salah)

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