13 minutes ago, TomCFC85 said:

Look at him, Roma fans don't rate him.
He accomplished what he did with perhaps the greatest attacking trio to have ever played together.
 

Duff, Drogba and Robben??

2 hours ago, RIP Mourinho said:

Duff, Drogba and Robben??

You know it. 

His only achievements have come with a quality Barca team. I see another AVB in him tbh but I hope I’m wrong if he does comes. In my opinion we should be going all out to get Carlo back.

4 hours ago, timetowaste said:

His only achievements have come with a quality Barca team. I see another AVB in him tbh but I hope I’m wrong if he does comes. In my opinion we should be going all out to get Carlo back.

Totally agree, Carlo has the right experience. 

9 hours ago, TomCFC85 said:

He accomplished what he did with perhaps the greatest attacking trio to have ever played together.
 

I'd rather have someone that's never managed Chelsea before. Taking it even further, someone that's never managed in the premier league period. Luis is that man. We need something fresh.

Ancelotti is the past. The only Manager in the world I'll make an exception for is Jose Mourinho. He can go and come back as many times as he wants. He's earned that privilege.

Wait a minute i take that back. Replace Jose with Di Matteo. Now we're good lol.

Who of the big names would really want to come to manage CFC with the current squad?

They would have to demand a clear out prior to, or early part of, the summer and have guarantees of who they could buy. 

Unless something changes, we cannot compete against the buying power of Citeh and United. Even Liverpool must have a decent pot to spend in the summer. 

 

14 hours ago, timetowaste said:

His only achievements have come with a quality Barca team. I see another AVB in him tbh but I hope I’m wrong if he does comes. In my opinion we should be going all out to get Carlo back.

That's the same thing you could say about Pep too though. He had henry, messi (arguably at his near best) and eto'o as the front 3 in the first season, and a prime xavi and iniesta in midfield.

You could also argue that the seasons lhis enrique was in charge of barcelona was when real madrid were much better and so were atletico madrid. 

Carlo had us playing the best attacking football we've ever played, I'd much prefer him to any of the other options should Antonio leave. And he's also just such a likeable character.

Carlo had us playing the best attacking football we've ever played, I'd much prefer him to any of the other options should Antonio leave. And he's also just such a likeable character.

In some sense yes, for a sustained period, but that's not saying much. Carlo was still fairly pragmatic. The best I've seen is the first 4-6 months of Jose's return.

Hi.

I'm Barca fan. A few things for your information. 

1.) Luis Enrique did not flop at Roma. He instilled a recognizable style pretty quickly in a league that isn't used to it and he didn't exactly fight for relegation either like someone who is truly clueless (G. Neville at Valencia). For a very young manager in his first job in a foreign league culturally than the one he grew up in he did quite well. Roma scored the 2nd most goals in the league after Juventus and finished 6 points short off of top 4, a team where Bojan was the big summer reinforcement. That's the supposed flop of Luis Enrique's career. 

2.) Luis Enrique did not flop in his last season at Barca. What happened is that Messi refused to do what he was instructed to do. With Messi, Suarez and Neymar you can only arrange their positions in a single way: Neymar left wing, Suarez center, Messi right wing. Anything else doesn't make sense. But Messi doesn' t defend at all. He ballwatches players 2 meters away from him until Barca goes through a bad phase and Ronaldo racks up the awards. Then Messi bothers moving again (like this season after Madrid won back-to-back Champions Leagues). What happens when Messi doesn't defend on the right wing is that Rakitic (right central midfield) has to do it for him. But when the central midfielder is pulled apart to defend the wings he can't do his actual job of a midfielder. That's where the perception came from that "Enrique bypasses the midfield". But there is no other way to make that front 3 work. Now what also happened was that Dani Alves left Barca in the 3rd season and that made the right flank even worse. Alves, offensively, in my opinion is the best rightback of all time. You could play him as a central midfielder no problem. A rightback with endless stamina and the technique of a world class midfielder helped a lot to mask the flaws of Messi on the right wing and his lack of positional discipline (always coming inside and leaving the flank empty).

Despite all that, Luis Enrique lost the league on the last day of the season. 90 points. But again, this is supposed to be a FLOP. Okay.

3.) The Barca fan base is the most embarrassing in the world. Truly. Apart from Pep Guardiola and Messi, I think I've seen them abuse every single coach or player that BROKE RECORDS like the late Tito Vilanova (RIP) or Luis Suarez if they were once in a dip of form or "only" won but didn't win in Globetrotters style etc. Embarrassing fanbase. At the beginning of this season Valverde was also called Fraudverde and they wished that Messi left Barca for Man. City so he could win Ballon d'Ors. Now it's February and Barca is still unbeaten in CL and La Liga and has pretty much already secured the domestic double.

4.) Luis Enrique is far from a bad coach but he is also not the second coming of Jesus. Manchester City and Manchester United can spend absurd money which Chelsea cannot. So naturally 3rd is the realistic aim. If you lose Hazard and/or Courtois to Real Madrid things won't get better either.

5.) Looking forward to our CL games. Maybe you are not because of your current form but it wouldn't be the first time where you look bad and then somehow overcome Barca.

Here is how Roma looked under Enrique:

 

 

 

On 2/8/2018 at 13:37, timetowaste said:

His only achievements have come with a quality Barca team. I see another AVB in him tbh but I hope I’m wrong if he does comes. In my opinion we should be going all out to get Carlo back.

People seem to forget the Carlo years. We played great under him but we had to depend on winning on the very last day to win the league, something which should have been wrapped ages ago.

Also, he just doesn't know to change when things aren't going well. The RB substitutions in every game and 'bad moments' really went on my nerves. 

Conte has already proved he can time and time again at Chelsea. Our current blip is more attributed to players completely being drained rather than anything IMO. Carlo might bring the initial upswing then it will be back to where we are now. At least with Conte, I have hope he can turn it around.

I think we are in for a big disappointment if we hire him this summer to replace Antonio. Conte is top 3 coach in the world.

39 minutes ago, evissy said:

I think we are in for a big disappointment if we hire him this summer to replace Antonio. Conte is top 3 coach in the world.

But we will have to find a replacement. Conte has no intention of staying, i think he believes that the club lacks ambition. When we are being linked with the likes of Aaron Ramsey (!) can you really blame him.

41 minutes ago, evissy said:

I think we are in for a big disappointment if we hire him this summer to replace Antonio. Conte is top 3 coach in the world.

BIB: What has he won to suggest that?

4 hours ago, WhiteWall said:

But we will have to find a replacement. Conte has no intention of staying, i think he believes that the club lacks ambition. When we are being linked with the likes of Aaron Ramsey (!) can you really blame him.

Considering we bought Ross Barkley, I think Ramsey will be a step up.

The daily crap star reckons Enrique wants arsenal,won't be unhappy if he does,we're probably struggle to get someone half decent when we let conte go.

1 hour ago, brownindian said:

Considering we bought Ross Barkley, I think Ramsey will be a step up.

Fair point sadly!

 

A couple of nice videos talking about his Barca side:

 

 

Yep, it is everyone's dream to coach Barkley and Moses instead of Neymar and Mbappe.

6 hours ago, JoseBlues said:

Yep, it is everyone's dream to coach Barkley and Moses instead of Neymar and Mbappe.

Indeed what manager wouldn't want to coach <best players in x team> when they could coach <worst players in y team>

8 hours ago, JoseBlues said:

On 3/24/2018 at 22:03, Fatty_Speeding said:

 

Yep, it is everyone's dream to coach Barkley and Moses instead of Neymar and Mbappe.

Or coach Kante and Hazard instead of Rabiot and Draxler. Daft comparison. 

We will need a complete new midfield though if we want him to come here. Only Kante could function for him.

Also, Alonso is too slow.