In that case we would have to pay his 7m release clause before he can become our manager. I suppose we could keep Antonio under contract the same way that Napoli did, but we would have to continue paying wages to him and his staff for another year. So I suspect he will be paid out the 9m.

4 minutes ago, Norwegian Dude said:

Not sure how it works to be honest, but I think they can keep him as long as they honour their part of the contract and decides he don't have to honour his part. Anyways, he seems to still be under contract and he hasn't been officially been sacked yet. The official home page of Napoli only mention that the president thanks him, which many people believe it his goodbye to Sarri. And it most likely is, but again he hasn't been sacked. It seems like Napoli want some sort of compensation from us.

We could probably do the same with Conte and force any new club to pay us compensation, if he is hired in the next year. I doubt we will though. We always seem to take the expensive option.

1 minute ago, forbzy said:

We could probably do the same with Conte and force any new club to pay us compensation, if he is hired in the next year. I doubt we will though. We always seem to take the expensive option.

Maybe, not really sure. But since Conte is only considering top jobs he may just as well see out the final year of his contract instead. And also Napoli/Ancelotti have reached an agreement for him to manage three seasons starting with the 2018/19-season. So that raises the question of when does that season start? Does pre-season count or is it the first official match? I am pretty sure it is specified in the contract between the parts, media suggests he will officially start June 1st since that when his Bayern-contract ends, but it seems like Napoli have not breached the contract between them and Sarri yet.

But i am on bit of thin ice here, so don't trust me 100% on this. It is only how i think it works, don't know for certain.

10 minutes ago, forbzy said:

In that case we would have to pay his 7m release clause before he can become our manager. I suppose we could keep Antonio under contract the same way that Napoli did, but we would have to continue paying wages to him and his staff for another year. So I suspect he will be paid out the 9m.

It will end up with Chelsea paying Napoli £7m for Sarri and £9m to Conte for sacking him, not including any of his staff that will leave as well. This is why Ancelotti didn't care to get a new club for a whole year after getting sacked from Bayern as well, they were bound to pay him just like Roman will end up doing to Conte that will just take a 1 year free vacation.

For those asking, Chelsea still have to pay a fee for Sarri. Yes he’s been removed as head coach by the club, but he’s still under contract with them. It’s the final piece left.

Chelsea will likely agree on €4m compensation fee with Napoli for Sarri.”

Edited May 25, 20188 yr by JM7

4 hours ago, chiefBlueCFC said:

If Sarri does become the new Chelsea manager, how long do we think it will take him to implement his style of play into the team? Do we think he starts with the same style he used at Napoli day one? Or does he slowly integrate his style over the first year? 

 

whem he joined us he started immediatly with his style, took 3 games beforethe team started to roll.

13 minutes ago, umb said:

whem he joined us he started immediatly with his style, took 3 games beforethe team started to roll.

Do you think with good signings in the transfer market Sarri has a high chance of competing with Pep Guardiola? Man City are really strong right now but the only team to beat them more than once this year was Liverpool who play with a high press and are great in attack. I think Sarri has the potential to do the same. 

On 24/05/2018 at 04:41, yorkleyblue said:

OR, 8 finalists in 14 years.  (9 if you count us and the Mancs separately in 2008)

Statistics ALWAYS depend on how you select your criteria range.

You're right. But that was a different era, hence the separation. If we're going that far back, then we might as well go as far back as 2000 and if we do, that makes Serie A perhaps the strongest league in the world. But we all know that was a different era. When we won in 2012, it was pretty much the last push of not just that era of Chelsea players, but that era of PL dominance that had lasted since 2003 or so.

Edited May 25, 20188 yr by Barrettinator

45 minutes ago, JM7 said:

For those asking, Chelsea still have to pay a fee for Sarri. Yes he’s been removed as head coach by the club, but he’s still under contract with them. It’s the final piece left.

Chelsea will likely agree on €4m compensation fee with Napoli for Sarri.”

That from Phillips?

According to Gazzetta it's a done deal. Maurizio Sarri is our new manager.

21 hours ago, the special one said:

Sarri wants Napoli trio at Chelsea

If Maurizio Sarri takes over at Chelsea, they’ll also go for Raul Albiol, Elseid Hysaj and Piotr Zielinski, all with release clauses at Napoli.

According to Sportitalia, the tactician’s entourage held a seven-hour meeting with Chelsea today, working out the basics of a two-year deal.

This would include paying the €8m release clause in Sarri’s contract, which is still necessary, despite Napoli firing him yesterday to make way for Carlo Ancelotti.

Sportitalia again added this evening that Sarri has requested three members of the Napoli squad who all have release clauses in their Napoli deals.

They are defender Albiol, full-back Hysaj and Poland international midfielder Zielinski.

Of the three, it’s believed the only one Ancelotti is eager to keep hold of is Zielinski, who has also been a target for Liverpool in recent months.

Kalidou Koulibaly and Jorginho would also be wanted by Sarri, but they do not have release clauses and the Senegalese defender is not for sale.

Jorginho, meanwhile, is in talks for a potential move to Manchester City, as confirmed by his agent.

https://www.football-italia.net/121874/sarri-wants-napoli-trio-chelsea

Hysaj could be a good signing but if Jorginho is on the way to City, that’s a shame, sounds like we could use him.  Maybe Sarri would want to bring Insigne?  Would probably be expensive but definitely an upgrade on Pedro.

49 minutes ago, zes said:

Do you think with good signings in the transfer market Sarri has a high chance of competing with Pep Guardiola? Man City are really strong right now but the only team to beat them more than once this year was Liverpool who play with a high press and are great in attack. I think Sarri has the potential to do the same. 

i already posted about before. i saw the manchester city game against us.

the style is prettymuch the same. We actually were playing better but the difference quality of the players came out in the end. 

If your players will not be humble and blindly follow him, it's gonna be a disaster. if they do follow him you are gonna have so much fun.

he's a maniac, he takes care of every details. he has dozen of schemes on corner cick and throws in. 

they only flaws the mister has is that he's not very good in managing a large group of players and in reading the game.

His substitutions are almost the same every game, you will notice he's gonna start at 60'. 

we napolis fan are gonna support you from here! Forza Sarri and Forza Chelsea!

Edited May 25, 20188 yr by umb

We dont want to pay the clause say Sky Sport Italy, so time to reach a compromise. After May 31st ADL can ask for whatever amount he wants. 6 days to get him "cheap"

49 minutes ago, umb said:

i already posted about before. i saw the manchester city game against us.

the style is prettymuch the same. We actually were playing better but the difference quality of the players came out in the end. 

If your players will not be humble and blindly follow him, it's gonna be a disaster. if they do follow him you are gonna have so much fun.

he's a maniac, he takes care of every details. he has dozen of schemes on corner cick and throws in. 

they only flaws the mister has is that he's not very good in managing a large group of players and in reading the game.

His substitutions are almost the same every game, you will notice he's gonna start at 60'. 

we napolis fan are gonna support you from here! Forza Sarri and Forza Chelsea!

Thanks for sharing this. Funny that you mention the subs and the managing groups of players. Same things people have been griping at Conte about all year.

Then we have the issue of certain members of our squad falling out with successive managers over our approach. Hardly the humble squad you suggest we require.

Makes me think we need a total squad rebuild to make this work. The one touch passing, positional play is missing in our midfield in particular. The player most capable of that is Fabregas and largely his lack of legs means he should really be a peripheral figure rather than at the centre. 

As for the players mentioned in the press over recent days. I'm not sure they are the ones we need, Hysaj has been with Sarri everywhere and he is a good player but he plays a similar position and role to Dave. We probably don't need him. If he is put in the team over Dave that will probably cause a bigger riot than when AVB started picking Meireles over Lampard.

Albiol is 31 and a right sided centre back, I do like Zielinski but he has hardly been at the centre of Napoli's approach.

Not sure of your view umb, but from what I've watched of Napoli over the past couple of seasons, what makes the team tick is the left side, Koulibaly, Ghoulam, Hamsik, Insigne plus Jorginho/Diawara conducting in the middle. If we were looking for players to follow Sarri they should be on the list rather than those linked. 

 

5 hours ago, Total-Football said:

Your man is talking crap. Positional awareness is one of the biggest factors a manager can alter. Our technical ability is above Napoli's and we have one of the most tireless and hard working teams in the league (Azpilicueta, Kante, Rudiger, Willian, Pedro etc.). He is wrong about everything here.

Erm. Actually i thought it was a fascinating read and as uncomfortable as it may be, many of the points made regarding our failings really did resonate with me.

Whilst i was originally cool on the idea of Sarri, simply because it feels part of the same old, same old, if he can bring in and develop players to play this style of football it would be fantastic to watch and i think the likes of our true ball players, Hazard and Kante will really enjoy playing in that structure.

1 hour ago, umb said:

His substitutions are almost the same every game, you will notice he's gonna start at 60'.

That's when I always make substitutions in Championship Manager. Sarri is clearly a genius. ;)

As long as the players don't riot against Sarri and just work hard the results will come, maybe not silverware at first but at least he's not like Mourinho he will give enough freedom to our attacking players that already under Conte have shown that they are more than capable of playing a fast one-touch game that would result in a goal, so attacking football should be a motivation to keep their heads down and listen to what the new boss says.

However If rumors are true that Sarri wants to bring with him 3 Napoli players, that worries me and makes me question his opinion about Chelsea.
He should be able to do a good job with our players that are already in the club and bring one player from Napoli at most, adding also with maybe some new players from elsewhere and not just Napoli.
Why? Because it makes it look as if he doesn't trust the current Chelsea squad and really needs 3 Napoli players to help him run the training sessions where they would show others around how he wants the team to play, that for me is just not good enough if he wants to be a top manager. If he can't make the dressing room to listen to him without his own little Napoli unit it's going to be problems very fast.

1 minute ago, Gol15 said:

As long as the players don't riot against Sarri and just work hard the results will come, maybe not silverware at first but at least he's not like Mourinho he will give enough freedom to our attacking players that already under Conte have shown that they are more than capable of playing a fast one-touch game that would result in a goal, so attacking football should be a motivation to keep their heads down and listen to what the new boss says.

However If rumors are true that Sarri wants to bring with him 3 Napoli players, that worries me and makes me question his opinion about Chelsea.
He should be able to do a good job with our players that are already in the club and bring one player from Napoli at most, adding also with maybe some new players from elsewhere and not just Napoli.
Why? Because it makes it look as if he doesn't trust the current Chelsea squad and really needs 3 Napoli players to help him run the training sessions where they would show others around how he wants the team to play, that for me is just not good enough if he wants to be a top manager. If he can't make the dressing room to listen to him without his own little Napoli unit it's going to be problems very fast.

Managers always want to bring a few favorites along. It almost never actually materializes though, I wouldn’t worry.

Matt Law

Sarri to Chelsea is not over the line yet but he certainly has reason to feel hopeful (assuming of course that Conte goes) #CFC

 

Taking it’s time isn’t it. 

8 hours ago, Gol15 said:

As long as the players don't riot against Sarri and just work hard the results will come, maybe not silverware at first but at least he's not like Mourinho he will give enough freedom to our attacking players that already under Conte have shown that they are more than capable of playing a fast one-touch game that would result in a goal, so attacking football should be a motivation to keep their heads down and listen to what the new boss says.

However If rumors are true that Sarri wants to bring with him 3 Napoli players, that worries me and makes me question his opinion about Chelsea.
He should be able to do a good job with our players that are already in the club and bring one player from Napoli at most, adding also with maybe some new players from elsewhere and not just Napoli.
Why? Because it makes it look as if he doesn't trust the current Chelsea squad and really needs 3 Napoli players to help him run the training sessions where they would show others around how he wants the team to play, that for me is just not good enough if he wants to be a top manager. If he can't make the dressing room to listen to him without his own little Napoli unit it's going to be problems very fast.

New managers quite often bring players with them when joining a new club, because they know what to expect from them, probably also because they will help bring the new ideas across easier, as for trusting the Chelsea squad? I wouldn't trust them!!

Given that the Napoli president has publicly said his goodbyes, and announced that he will be being replaced by ancelotti...Sarri could probably threaten action against constructive dismissal

10 hours ago, Kentonio said:

That's when I always make substitutions in Championship Manager. Sarri is clearly a genius. ;)

Me too. I think I read Benitez did that as well and thought it made sense. It's much better then the 80 minute subs that Conte always makes.

10 hours ago, Spiller86 said:

Thanks for sharing this. Funny that you mention the subs and the managing groups of players. Same things people have been griping at Conte about all year.

Then we have the issue of certain members of our squad falling out with successive managers over our approach. Hardly the humble squad you suggest we require.

Makes me think we need a total squad rebuild to make this work. The one touch passing, positional play is missing in our midfield in particular. The player most capable of that is Fabregas and largely his lack of legs means he should really be a peripheral figure rather than at the centre. 

As for the players mentioned in the press over recent days. I'm not sure they are the ones we need, Hysaj has been with Sarri everywhere and he is a good player but he plays a similar position and role to Dave. We probably don't need him. If he is put in the team over Dave that will probably cause a bigger riot than when AVB started picking Meireles over Lampard.

Albiol is 31 and a right sided centre back, I do like Zielinski but he has hardly been at the centre of Napoli's approach.

Not sure of your view umb, but from what I've watched of Napoli over the past couple of seasons, what makes the team tick is the left side, Koulibaly, Ghoulam, Hamsik, Insigne plus Jorginho/Diawara conducting in the middle. If we were looking for players to follow Sarri they should be on the list rather than those linked. 

 

Our left side is pretty ridiculous to be fair. Emerson is one of the best left backs in Serie A, Hazard is better then Insigne and Rudiger is by far our best Centre Back. We only really need a left sided midfielder which is why we are linked to Zielinski. Hamsik actually lost his place to Zielinski this season. 

Kante is a better version of Allan, Willian and Pedro over good variety on the right, Azpilicueta is great wherever he goes and whatever he is told to do and Christensen has similar attributes to Albiol.

The two main areas that are lacking is the holding midfielder position where Jorginho plays and the left CM position. This is assuming he tries to replicate his Napoli side at Chelsea.

1 hour ago, Total-Football said:

Our left side is pretty ridiculous to be fair. Emerson is one of the best left backs in Serie A, Hazard is better then Insigne and Rudiger is by far our best Centre Back. We only really need a left sided midfielder which is why we are linked to Zielinski. Hamsik actually lost his place to Zielinski this season. 

Kante is a better version of Allan, Willian and Pedro over good variety on the right, Azpilicueta is great wherever he goes and whatever he is told to do and Christensen has similar attributes to Albiol.

The two main areas that are lacking is the holding midfielder position where Jorginho plays and the left CM position. This is assuming he tries to replicate his Napoli side at Chelsea.

Assuming he tries to replicate his Napoli side I wouldn't mind seeing what Hazard/Mount can do as the left sided midfielder with Kenedy at inside left. Although I agree Christensen has similar attributes, he doesn't have the 10 years experience that Albiol does which could be a key factor if we're playing with a back 4 next season. As it stands I think Azpi may be the more reliable option at RCB.

Edited May 26, 20188 yr by the special one

Maurizio Sarri is on the verge of signing for Chelsea, but his coaching staff will remain at Napoli with Carlo Ancelotti.

Multiple Italian sources claim the club has agreed to bring in Sarri as a replacement for Antonio Conte, with an announcement expected over the next 48 hours.

La Gazzetta dello Sport suggest Eden Hazard, encouraged by the praise from his Belgium teammate Dries Mertens, is pushing particularly hard for this arrival.

However, while Sarri is taking his ‘Sarriball’ style of football to the Premier League, he won’t be accompanied by his coaching staff.

Assistant manager Francesco Calzona, collaborator Simone Bonomi and fitness coach Sinatti are remaining at Napoli and will work with new boss Ancelotti.

According to Tuttosport, the staff became increasingly irritated with Sarri after he signed a four-year contract with Napoli, whereas they were only given short-term deals.

Instead, Sarri could attempt a reunion with his old Empoli assistant manager Giovanni Martusciello, who is currently working for Inter.

He could also be joined on the Chelsea bench by club legend Gianfranco Zola.

https://www.football-italia.net/121928/sarri-wont-take-staff-chelsea