34 minutes ago, Amputechture said:

Does he speak English?

Buy!

Sell!

Lira!

Sterling!

Deutschemark!

And hopefully a bit more

20 minutes ago, TheChelseaBlues said:

Yes he does speak English from his banking days

 

 

Matt Law article in the Telegraph states that he has basic English down, but will be taking a couple English sessions per week to increase his ability.

40 minutes ago, enigma said:

To be fair, no coach is perfect. You also need the players to do their thing. Zidane wouldn't have won consecutive CL without Bale and Ronaldo performing well on the big stage. It's a two way street. Last season you guys got 93 points was it? That's enough to win the league most seasons previously. 

Yeah no 1 is perfect. But a coach, in particular a coach without great experience, should be more flexible and available to learn and modify his ideas. He's very stubborn, an example  there are some our players who played for 30+ consecutive matches,hamsik i think also 40. He played them also against very poor team, he played all the 11 every week,also against benevento (worst team of the league) losing few days later with the reserves at Donetsk kicking ourselves out from CL. He played some players very tired and with evident poor phisique condition in lot of games, they played really bad that matches and some of them we didn't win.That's why he can't handle more competitions. We had some players to make some changes but he didn't change till someone was injured,with the conclusion that to not miss any of the matches against the worst team(our bad teams are worse than yours),they missed some key matches. He destroyed our best fullback. Or another important thing,he never adapts the team to the opponent: we played all the matches the same,playing in Bernabeu or playing in Crotone was the same exactly thing,and i think you can afford to make it only if yr name is Real Madrid. He was the main reason why we arrived at that level and fought with juve last year,but he was also one of the reason why we lost. U can't compete with an opponent like juventus if every year you arrive in March with half team destroyed phisically and half team that never started a match. But it's the cost to pay to see one of the best football,that is not only entertainment but improves the quality of the players. There will need time, in particular for the defenders: Maurizio works a lot on the defense,but his team defends in different way. Defenders like with Guardiola stay really far from the box  and they always watch only the ball and not the man,also when defending on corner/free kicks (which cost us a lot of goals),  reparts stay really close to each other and pressing all the match. He's very good to prepare set plays in his favor. He's nice,but he is very mediocre in communication, he loves find excuses. And he knows only the players who played for him/against him he cannot be the traditional manager who choose and buy players,he knows less players than any of you. We bought half team of Empoli, u maybe are going to buy Rugani (years ago was very promising,last year played few matches,i think could be good but not for 40 mln) and Higuain (this is going to be bad for you,60 mln for Higuain now is madness he is pathethic phisically,he's 31 but he runs like he's 36 and only for some months). Technically el Pipita is very strong,better than any of your striker. But he's the worst player of the serie A speaking about phisical condition, on his 2nd year in napoli he already had stopped to run on the field,juventus wanna sell him now cos they know next year his value will be very low. Higuain in 2 years is ready for China

55 minutes ago, naples said:

Yeah no 1 is perfect. But a coach, in particular a coach without great experience, should be more flexible and available to learn and modify his ideas. He's very stubborn, an example  there are some our players who played for 30+ consecutive matches,hamsik i think also 40. He played them also against very poor team, he played all the 11 every week,also against benevento (worst team of the league) losing few days later with the reserves at Donetsk kicking ourselves out from CL. He played some players very tired and with evident poor phisique condition in lot of games, they played really bad that matches and some of them we didn't win.That's why he can't handle more competitions. We had some players to make some changes but he didn't change till someone was injured,with the conclusion that to not miss any of the matches against the worst team(our bad teams are worse than yours),they missed some key matches. He destroyed our best fullback. Or another important thing,he never adapts the team to the opponent: we played all the matches the same,playing in Bernabeu or playing in Crotone was the same exactly thing,and i think you can afford to make it only if yr name is Real Madrid. He was the main reason why we arrived at that level and fought with juve last year,but he was also one of the reason why we lost. U can't compete with an opponent like juventus if every year you arrive in March with half team destroyed phisically and half team that never started a match. But it's the cost to pay to see one of the best football,that is not only entertainment but improves the quality of the players. There will need time, in particular for the defenders: Maurizio works a lot on the defense,but his team defends in different way. Defenders like with Guardiola stay really far from the box  and they always watch only the ball and not the man,also when defending on corner/free kicks (which cost us a lot of goals),  reparts stay really close to each other and pressing all the match. He's very good to prepare set plays in his favor. He's nice,but he is very mediocre in communication, he loves find excuses. And he knows only the players who played for him/against him he cannot be the traditional manager who choose and buy players,he knows less players than any of you. We bought half team of Empoli, u maybe are going to buy Rugani (years ago was very promising,last year played few matches,i think could be good but not for 40 mln) and Higuain (this is going to be bad for you,60 mln for Higuain now is madness he is pathethic phisically,he's 31 but he runs like he's 36 and only for some months). Technically el Pipita is very strong,better than any of your striker. But he's the worst player of the serie A speaking about phisical condition, on his 2nd year in napoli he already had stopped to run on the field,juventus wanna sell him now cos they know next year his value will be very low. Higuain in 2 years is ready for China

Helpful views, thank you for your posts. Are you familiar with Chelsea at all? Any of our current players you think he may find to be a good fit?

As an aside he didn’t seem to play Chalobah much (Europa only?).  Interview here discusses that and Sarri’s methods. 

https://audioboom.com/posts/6857810-nathaniel-chalobah-s-year-in-naples

 

 

 

Someone here said he speaks fluent English. He is going to take classes for it. Doesn't seem fluent to me. However Conte did pretty well with his elementary English. 

Thanks Naples, very interesting to hear the negatives of Sarri. 

I would hope that with bigger resources and better players, he would be able to rotate more and use the full squad. Abit disappointing to hear that he never adapts his tactics and only plays one way - I do think that team have to adjust otherwise they will just never win. You have to be street wise and pick your battles. 

1 hour ago, PedroMendez said:

 

“F*cking hell, what has Conte done to this team?”

5 minutes ago, VG said:

Helpful views, thank you for your posts. Are you familiar with Chelsea at all? Any of our current players you think he may find to be a good fit?

As an aside he didn’t seem to play Chalobah much (Europa only?).  Interview here discusses that and Sarri’s methods. 

https://audioboom.com/posts/6857810-nathaniel-chalobah-s-year-in-naples

 

 

 

Hi, I didn't watch lot of your games last season but I know your team and your players. A good thing about Sarri is he can adapt to the players he has,and he has never had a team strong like your,so your players already fit good for him. Ofc he needs technical midfielders and strong wingers, but maybe every team to be considered good or top needs those kind of players. Would be so good if u can keep Hazard and Willian in the team. He loved our player Hamsik because he's smart to play between the lines ( don't know if it's correct this definition in english),and he could see that kind of player in Fabregas (or maybe Golovin if u buy him). But don't know if Cesc is still good for your level to play as starter. First of all u have to see if he wants to play with 4-3-3,cos before to come with us he was always playing with 4-3-1-2 and he tried it also with us but we didn't have any attacking midfielder,any second striker besides Higuain and we had good wingers so he left after little bit that project. But that could still be his favourite plan,u'll see during the preparation what strategy is in his mind. If u have any central defender not good in passing or not enough technicall (but I don't see),that's not a good fit. In the end he will play basic formation, 2 central defenders who needs to learn the movements (he will train with a drone) one fullback more offensive and the other plays more defensive (but we didn't have 2 fullbacks strong technically  so I'm not sure about this, Hisay is very bad on attacking), jorginho who control the team with 2 thouches ball on the side with a midfielder more defensive (kante i think will start all the matches) and another more offensive, when (few times) we played with 2 offensive midfielders (Hamsik and Zielinski) he never started Jorginho but Diawara who is more phisical,two of your wingers who will need run a lot and partecipate in defense too and a striker who plays with the team,his striker usually scores a lot but i think for sarri play doesn't fit perfectly a pure striker (i.e. Icardi) but a player who has the tecnique to play with the team and partecipate in the game. But the point about sarri is  all about movements and sincronism,the ball will go back and ahead lot of times, he needs to teach to your players to move around the fields all costantly,the position and the playstyle becomes more important than the quality of the player sometimes with him and that's the only thing to check,if your players will be available to change totally their way to play and how long it will need for them to learn it. And that's why he always wants some his old players,they already knows the movements, to make an example Rugani after he joined juventus needed some months of tactical work to get used to defending again like juventus or italian style,Sarri wanna teach his way of football that is just simply different from the others,like the1 of Guardiola is different exc.. I'm the first being curious on how he can do it a bigger team,with more champions and star players exc, but his idea of football works and also the players like it,i'm more skeptical about other parts of his coach ability,as i said he's top about organizing the play of the team

Great insight naples, thank you for taking time out of your day to share it.

I'm a bit sceptical about this appointment if I'm being honest, although I said the same thing when Conte came 2 years ago and that turned out great with us winning the league in his first year.

Ill give him a chance, we've already got Jorginho, if he can somehow convince Hazard to stay then it's a great start.

1 hour ago, JM7 said:

Thanks Naples, very interesting to hear the negatives of Sarri. 

I would hope that with bigger resources and better players, he would be able to rotate more and use the full squad. Abit disappointing to hear that he never adapts his tactics and only plays one way - I do think that team have to adjust otherwise they will just never win. You have to be street wise and pick your battles. 

You're welcome,thanks to u for hospitality on yr forum, ofc that's my opinion and lot of other napoli's fan don't agree with me. Sarri is like a young great talent,he has lot of potential and can makes things that 90% of his collegues can't,but sometimes he makes some stupid errors that could easily  be avoided,due to his inhexperience and sometimes his stubbornnes imho  (the fact he has been treated almost like a god since his first year with us by the local and italian press hasn't helped). He still needs to finish his process to become a top coach,but if he improves some part of his coaching who can easily be improved, he will become for sure. Altough he's 59,he is only training at high level since 3 years, 5 years ago I think he had never coached in serie A

Edited July 14, 20188 yr by naples

One thing I haven't seen mentioned in the Sarri discussion is Azpilicueta. I think he'll be back at RB and I'm excited to see how Sarri will improve him offensively.

1 hour ago, naples said:

You're welcome,thanks to u for hospitality on yr forum, ofc that's my opinion and lot of other napoli's fan don't agree with me. Sarri is like a young great talent,he has lot of potential and can makes things that 90% of his collegues can't,but sometimes he makes some stupid errors that could easily  be avoided,due to his inhexperience and sometimes his stubbornnes imho  (the fact he has been treated almost like a god since his first year with us by the local and italian press hasn't helped). He still needs to finish his process to become a top coach,but if he improves some part of his coaching who can easily be improved, he will become for sure. Altough he's 59,he is only training at high level since 3 years, 5 years ago I think he had never coached in serie A

Question for you - how long did it take for Napoli to really start showing the fruits of Sarri’s methods? 

Was it a slow start with a few poor results here and there?

3 hours ago, evissy said:

Someone here said he speaks fluent English. He is going to take classes for it. Doesn't seem fluent to me. However Conte did pretty well with his elementary English. 

Reckon he speaks decent English considering he worked as a banker in London for a few years.

Maurizio Sarri takes a tour of Blues training ground
https://www.express.co.uk/sport/football/988929/Chelsea-news-Maurizio-Sarri-training-pictures-sportgalleries

He looks funny in his cargo trousers. Haven’t seen people wear them for years. 

Another fresh start for the club. It's happened so many times now, i don't know if i should feel excited or not, it just feels like another day to me 

Good luck to him. Hopefully he lasts a lot longer than usual, before things start to turn sour.

Edited July 14, 20188 yr by Scott Harris

1 hour ago, JM7 said:

Question for you - how long did it take for Napoli to really start showing the fruits of Sarri’s methods? 

Was it a slow start with a few poor results here and there?

Yeah we had a really slow start, in the first month some people were already asking his dismissal and all were criticizing against him,we didn't give the idea to be a strong team in the begin,Maradona publicly attacked De laurentiis for have chosen such an inexpert coach, and that was a little brutal cos in napoli maradona in more important  than everyone and sarri had grown up with his myth, so he was  humiliated. But then we(not only sarri but also the players and the fans pushed to make it) changed our formation (we passed from 4312 that was not good for our players at all to 433), the players started to assimilate the playstyle and we started our good trip, and Maradona publicly asked sorry to Sarri and said he was wrong (not a tipical thing for maradona). Can't really say how long time,our first month was terrible then the team started to make progress every match and we started to see that our way to attack was efficient,different and repeated,i don't know if u ever played to playstation or any football game on consolle,but it was like we could build our attacking play like on playstation,scoring always the same gol with lot of semplicity, so i'd say after a month we won like 5-0 at Milan home (we never used to win in that stadium) and our attack style showed almost every match,but for example we have been terrible and  ridicoulous in defence all the first year (and sometimes the second). so i would say we needed almost a month to show high attacking football level and more than a year to show difensive strenght,but ofc a lot depends on the players. Sarri for months said he was enthusiastic that players like higuain callejon albiol hamsik since the start were available to learn his way of football,the team since the begin believed in the coach and that was important. I'm pretty sure you will need at least 1-2 years to reach the maximum level of that type of football,just because is very important to know perfectly the movement,the players have to play always "memorized". For sure Sarri job is 3 years minimum,than if it works u will play for win CL (and just to finish,I'm not  a master in football to affirm with certainty his football  will work in premier league the same like in italy,I think yes but the way to play and the quality of the 2 leagues are clear different,for some things it could work better because in italy always win the team who suffer less goal and not the team who score more and there's concentration about "defense tactic" everywhere,but your teams run much more than ours and that is not a little difference) 

Edited July 14, 20188 yr by naples

Interesting Naples, thank you!

What is his record with youth? We have some interesting prospects and part of our frustrations with our managers is their refusal to play them. Will Sarri give them a chance?

Edited July 14, 20188 yr by JM7

I see it as a cross between Klopp arriving at Liverpool and Mourinho at Chelsea the first time.  

Klopp at Liverpool... he is going to introduce a new style of football that everyone will need to adapt to.

Jose... a new style of football, but bringing in a significant player (Jorginio) to help adapt the plating style.   (Jose brought in Carvalho and Ferrieria).

“Chelsea next week: Rugani, Higuain, Golovin and goalkeeper Courtois-Allison”

Alfredo Pedulla

Mmh interesting question, to be honest don't really know.. Depends on what  you intend for prospects. From my point of view, he does not make big difference between young or old players. If u have an interesting 18 years old left winger,or a 21,or a 24 who is promising but still not ready,he will never let  him play instead of Hazard for example,maybe last 10 minutes of a won match.If the young player looks to not understand so good his playstyle,he will never play till he has learnt it In our seasons,there have been some players he has never changed,never, when they were on low phisical condition too. As I said,he's not a fan of turn over at all,but this could change with a team like u with more competitive players. He's not feared to play young players if they are good,in empoli he let lot of boys play (but i think he didn't have lot of other chances). We played in Bernabeu with Diawara (he was 18 or 19 that match) and Zielinski as starters,with jorginho and allan on the bench (losing the match before starting it...). Our young 6th midfielder Marko Rog never started a match this season,the season before he just started 2 matches in serie a for an injury of other midfielder (and in both matches,against Roma and Juventus he has been our best man on the field,sounds strange no?)

Question for you - how long did it take for Napoli to really start showing the fruits of Sarri’s methods? 
Was it a slow start with a few poor results here and there?

First season with Napoli was good, especially in Europa League.

2 hours ago, naples said:

Mmh interesting question, to be honest don't really know.. Depends on what  you intend for prospects. From my point of view, he does not make big difference between young or old players. If u have an interesting 18 years old left winger,or a 21,or a 24 who is promising but still not ready,he will never let  him play instead of Hazard for example,maybe last 10 minutes of a won match.If the young player looks to not understand so good his playstyle,he will never play till he has learnt it In our seasons,there have been some players he has never changed,never, when they were on low phisical condition too. As I said,he's not a fan of turn over at all,but this could change with a team like u with more competitive players. He's not feared to play young players if they are good,in empoli he let lot of boys play (but i think he didn't have lot of other chances). We played in Bernabeu with Diawara (he was 18 or 19 that match) and Zielinski as starters,with jorginho and allan on the bench (losing the match before starting it...). Our young 6th midfielder Marko Rog never started a match this season,the season before he just started 2 matches in serie a for an injury of other midfielder (and in both matches,against Roma and Juventus he has been our best man on the field,sounds strange no?)

Thank you! Your posts have been very insightful.

I'm alson interested in your opinion on Jorginho. His passing seems to be top notch, but what about his other attributes? How good is he at keeping the ball, tackling, intercepting, shooting and positional play? How dynamic is he? And since he isn't the most physical player, how do you think he will handle the physicality in England?

Edited July 15, 20188 yr by True Blue23