so 1.5 million,  then.  Cheaper than the 7-8 that's being bandied around

 

51 minutes ago, fitz said:

You were just waiting for a bite weren't you Davey?

It is ironic that the one quality everyone wants and demands from The Club is patience - yet so little gets shown when Transfer time comes around.

Ha ha, fantastic post, and so true.

Edited May 30, 20188 yr by dkw

Chelsea hopeful of having managerial situation settled next week after pausing transfer deals until Antonio Conte is dismissed and replaced. #CFC (Mail)

Martial, 22, is one of a host of targets that Chelsea have kept informed about Conte’s future and the Blues have told the Frenchman that a decision will be made this week, according to the Daily Mail.

A hell of a lot of quotes from the Mail. What is wrong with this world?

I just spread my Tarot, and there are very strong indications that our next manager has S and A at the start of his name,  is not averse to copping cash pay-offs and is tactically very different to our current manager.

Yep, the Tarot is NEVER wrong  - it's Fat Sam to be confirmed at the weekend, once we can get him out of Nando's

2 minutes ago, yorkleyblue said:

A hell of a lot of quotes from the Mail. What is wrong with this world?

I just spread my Tarot, and there are very strong indications that our next manager has S and A at the start of his name,  is not averse to copping cash pay-offs and is tactically very different to our current manager.

Yep, the Tarot is NEVER wrong  - it's Fat Sam to be confirmed at the weekend, once we can get him out of Nando's

You will also note that both have contrasting weeks

52 minutes ago, yorkleyblue said:

OR, after tomorrow, Sarri can just hand in his notice and walk away.  If what someone has posted above about him earning 1.5 million a year, then give the bloke a 3 million signing on fee.  Sweet.  (If you really want him, that is)

I would be very surprised if he could. Napoli would have clauses in the contract to make sure that doesn't happen without them accepting it.

Anyone can hand in their notice and either work it out or pay it off.  We no longer have slavery, these days.

 

 

By friday noon we will have the press snapping pics of Sarri with a big cuban in his mouth smiling, next to him Mauro will be holding our new shirt with his name on it with one hand while tapping a booty cheek of Marina with the other.

Close this thread now, no further info needed.

6 minutes ago, yorkleyblue said:

Anyone can hand in their notice and either work it out or pay it off.  We no longer have slavery, these days.

Not in reality. The clubs protect themselves, Ronaldo couldn't just pay his way out of his two remaining years with United when he wanted to join Real Madrid and get the money back from RM.

 

 

Quote

 

It is no coincidence that the Manchester City head coach has been effusive in his praise of the football being played by Sarri's Napoli side.

I like to watch football and I like to watch Napoli when I am sat in my home. I love many, many things about a Sarri team.

Pep Guardiola

"I am a manager, a professional but a spectator as well," Guardiola said ahead of City's Champions League game against Napoli in the autumn. "I like to watch football and I like to watch Napoli when I am sat in my home. I love many, many things about a Sarri team. For me, they are one of the three best teams right now in Europe at playing football."

And yet, it is ironic that Guardiola is such an admirer given that Sarri is seen by some as the antidote to Pep's particular poison. "Every 20 years there is an innovation in football," Fabio Capello said recently. "After Ajax there was Arrigo Sacchi's Milan, then Pep Guardiola, who rather sent football to sleep. Fortunately now we have got Sarri to wake football up again."

It is the comparison with Sacchi, who incidentally has described Sarri as "a genius" and, like him, also did not play the game professionally, that many feel is the most appropriate. Napoli's extraordinarily high defensive line is reminiscent of that great Milan team. "Napoli play 40 metres in front," marvelled Guardiola. "A bit like Sacchi did once."

 

http://www.skysports.com/football/news/11668/11389137/maurizio-sarri-to-chelsea-italian-offers-prospect-of-exciting-football

2 hours ago, WhiteWall said:

I was around when we were really sh*t and whilst your point is correct, Shaggy is also correct in saying that we truly have little room for our sense of entitlement as everything that we currently have has come directly through the funds provided by RA. Even when we got close to moving up to the next level we only got the players to help us get there off the back of the hope that Matthew Harding would change our fortunes. RA took us to another level and if, a generation later, we are now finding that there are bigger fish out there than us, we should still be happy with the quality that we do have within our squad. That is the point I think Shaggy was making.

Liverpool and Spurs are not bigger fish than us. We should be finishing above them.

23 minutes ago, Sindre said:

Not in reality. The clubs protect themselves, Ronaldo couldn't just pay his way out of his two remaining years with United when he wanted to join Real Madrid and get the money back from RM.

 

 

Yes, in reality. There is no way that any employer can force a person to stay employed by them.  The employer might be entitled to compensation, but they can't force anyone to stay employed by them.  You mention Ronaldo, and I don't know the internal workings of his pay  packet or employment contract, but he still ended up at Madrid.

9 minutes ago, RIP Mourinho said:

Liverpool and Spurs are not bigger fish than us. We should be finishing above them.

The BIB encompasses everything wrong with modern fans. The sense of entitlement in some of the posts in this thread is diabolical. We have no divine right to finish above any of the clubs competing with us! Tottenham and Liverpool have both employed managers who have improved them massively from where they were. They both finished above us in the Champions League places and rightly deserved to be there. We on the other hand had a poor transfer window last season and for whatever reason managed a massive drop in form from Christmas onward. 

27 minutes ago, Sindre said:

Not in reality. The clubs protect themselves, Ronaldo couldn't just pay his way out of his two remaining years with United when he wanted to join Real Madrid and get the money back from RM.

 

 

I think in reality he could walk away from any contract, the problem would come when any club then tries to register him with their FA, their old club would still have ownership of that contract I believe. 

1 minute ago, yorkleyblue said:

Yes, in reality. There is no way that any employer can force a person to stay employed by them.  The employer might be entitled to compensation, but they can't force anyone to stay employed by them.  You mention Ronaldo, and I don't know the internal workings of his pay  packet or employment contract, but he still ended up at Madrid.

Yes, the compensation is the £7 million we don't want to pay.
Ronaldo was sold to Real Madrid when they offered Manchester United enough money to let him go.
The summer United refused to let him go Sepp Blatter made a comment calling it "modern slavery" which Ronaldo himself agreed with but it still didn't matter in the end.
 

21 minutes ago, Old Shaggy said:

The BIB encompasses everything wrong with modern fans. The sense of entitlement in some of the posts in this thread is diabolical. We have no divine right to finish above any of the clubs competing with us! Tottenham and Liverpool have both employed managers who have improved them massively from where they were. They both finished above us in the Champions League places and rightly deserved to be there. We on the other hand had a poor transfer window last season and for whatever reason managed a massive drop in form from Christmas onward. 

We are above them in almost every regard yet finished below them. Explain to me how that isn't mediocre. Conte failed us.

I guess it is a case of firstly how much does Roman crave "beautiful" football? Enough to accept it comes with risk of no trophies,  like pep got last year? Enough to pay up for sarri and to fire conte?

And how much does he believe in sarri? Enough to spend big on his transfer targets as well?

5 minutes ago, RIP Mourinho said:

We are above them in almost every regard yet finished below them. Explain to me how that isn't mediocre. Conte failed us.

We finished below them because they were better than us last season. It's as simple as that! We don't know what happened behind closed doors between Conte and The Board. And we have no idea what's happening now with regards to Conte/Sarri and The Board. 

P.S. Explain to me what you mean by "We are above them in almost every regard".

https://mobile.twitter.com/AlfredoPedulla/status/1001835510921342977

10 minutes ago, Old Shaggy said:

We finished below them because they were better than us last season. It's as simple as that! We don't know what happened behind closed doors between Conte and The Board. And we have no idea what's happening now with regards to Conte/Sarri and The Board. 

P.S. Explain to me what you mean by "We are above them in almost every regard".

A better manager (apparently) as he has won massive trophies throughout his career, Poch and Klopp not as much.

We've arguably got the best player in the league (Hazard 2x POTY), best defender in the league (Azpi), best goal scoring defender (Alonso), Best CM (Kante), one of the best GK's (Tbo). I'd say our strongest first 11 is better than both.

More money to spend. 

Better academy. 

More attraction to players (Massive London club).

4 minutes ago, RIP Mourinho said:

A better manager (apparently) as he has won massive trophies throughout his career, Poch and Klopp not as much.

We've arguably got the best player in the league (Hazard 2x POTY), best defender in the league (Azpi), best goal scoring defender (Alonso), Best CM (Kante), one of the best GK's (Tbo). I'd say our strongest first 11 is better than both.

More money to spend. 

Better academy. 

More attraction to players (Massive London club).

Well unfortunately the game of football is not played on paper. And as they were above us where it mattered, I'd say judging by this season just gone, they were better than us. So now we start again next season and we'll see who is better all over again.

20 minutes ago, Costa19 said:

https://mobile.twitter.com/AlfredoPedulla/status/1001835510921342977

I have no idea what he said.

2 minutes ago, Old Shaggy said:

Well unfortunately the game of football is not played on paper. And as they were above us where it mattered, I'd say judging by this season just gone, they were better than us. So now we start again next season and we'll see who is better all over again.

When we win the league.

And in any case we were the better team this season, 1 Fa Cup trophy to Chelsea, 1 runners up medal for Liverpool and the 4th place trophy, Tottenham the Jemaine Jenas award for the team that deserves better aka thr didn' turn up when it mattered award.

7 minutes ago, Kentonio said:

I have no idea what he said.

Me neither  hope someone here can decrypt