Every game feels like a mission to score one goal.

5 minutes ago, Ballack & Blu said:

Zola hovers in the wings

God No but then you think Solskjaer.

2 minutes ago, jack_super_class said:

Every game feels like a mission to score one goal.

It’s bloody painful to watch. The quality of players we have in attack, really shouldn’t be struggling for goals.

Just now, ducavis said:

God No but then you think Solskjaer.

But Solskjaer just counter attacks, do we want to go back to that?

Just now, dansubrosa said:

It’s bloody painful to watch. The quality of players we have in attack, really shouldn’t be struggling for goals.

What players though? I can see past Hazard, and he seems a bit stroppy now

8 minutes ago, dansubrosa said:

Despite tonight our season is going well.

Do you feel that there is a significant (or any) improvement on last season?

Conte had a fractured relationship with the board and a lot of the playing staff. Finished 5th and won an FA Cup.

That was with a squad including some of the worst signings of the Roman era most of which have now been moved on or exiled from the team.

 

7 minutes ago, Ballack & Blu said:

Zola hovers in the wings

I'm starting to think that our players are similar to the Real Madrid players before Zidane came in, total disrespect to the managers until a legend that they respect came in and that they can connect with.

Maybe the only solution is this, Zola or Frankie. 

1 minute ago, Frankie8Lampard said:

Sacking Sarri is the last thing we need to do. That will just be a kneejerk decision that will do more harm than good and continue the firing and hiring cycle. While Sarri has his flaws, I feel this performance falls more on the players than the manager. It's as if they didn't care about the match.

I don't think anyone wants him sacking but seriously he is looking like a one trick pony unable to tweek tactics once the initial plan is failing. The worst part about tonight is, as poor as we've played we could all name the side for Saturday, our formation and how the match will pan out. Maybe we will catch a break but if we don't it will be another frustrating afternoon. I expect more from a top class coach.

Just now, ForeverCarefree said:

Do you feel that there is a significant (or any) improvement on last season?

Conte had a fractured relationship with the board and a lot of the playing staff. Finished 5th and won an FA Cup.

That was with a squad including some of the worst signings of the Roman era most of which have now been moved on or exiled from the team.

 

Good point. Well, Sarri has taken us on the first step to attractive attacking football, I know it’s bloody awful to watch at the minute, but still we are getting there. Just need to change the wingers, and a midfielder or two. 

But yeah, not much improvement at this moment.

If you cannot sort the team out so they at least fight for the shirt please quit Mr. Sarri. 

You call the players out but change little. That team to a man did not give a sh*t.

I know we are all furious including myself at the moment. BUT, we can't lose faith in Sarri so fast because that will only make things worse..

There's more to this mess than just Sarri's tactics.

4 minutes ago, ducavis said:

What players though? I can see past Hazard, and he seems a bit stroppy now

Pedro is a very good finisher too. Possibly Higuain.

Thing that annoys me is that Hazard and Pedro seem so insistent on playing off each other, it always goes to waste! How about trying something else, maybe a shot outside the box? Maybe look out for Higuain runs? Maybe play more direct?

I wish they’d f*ck off with the little fancy flicks around the box. What is the point?

It`s so good to see people eat their word and turn the paincakes arround. At the end of the season - sack Conte, he isn`t good enough, it`s all his fault. Then sign Sarri he is great manager, he play attacking and beautiful football and we have the player for that. Also he is one of the best managers in the world and a lot better then Conte. Yeah, yeah it`s shows.

Right now exactly the same people - sack Sarri, hes football is ugly and not working in England.  

When i was saying the facts and destroying this "fans" with arguments, they was hitting them in the chest how much they know about football, and how much i don`t know.

Right now it`s shows, who knows football and see where the real problems are.

As i said in the summer, Sarri is not a bad manager, but he is not a manager to bring you big titles.

But times and times it`s proven how spoiled Chelsea fans are.  What exactly you was expecting from Sarri ? Does he have proper pre-season with the players  - No of course? Who`s fault is it ?

Also amaze me how brainless some of our fans are, and how they give it to the emotion so fast and want to sack the manager and hire not someone else but Jose Mourinho. A guy who was sacked, because hes team was 7 or 8, with better team then ours and team that spend a lot more money on the players and they was a manager choice.

As i said it before, because of Marina and our beloved board, this club will suffer, unless the tumor is cut out.

Another manager sacking whether is now or in the end of the season will probably have another catastrophic effect.  While i don`t believe Sarri is the right man, to bring titles, yet we don`t have the players for it, we don`t have the motivation for it, we don`t have the right people in the club for it.

Most of the players are so washed out, not small part of them just don`t have the motivation anymore to play for this team, no matter what the manager name is.

But it`s still fun to see how people are bashing players like Emerson and David Luiz, the same people that was swearing at Conte last season why don`t he play this 2.

For the team to start climbs up slowly it`s need to have the right owner and board for it. To have the right plans for it. I`m not saying to spend 200+mln. every season, but to have good plans how the thing should be running and definetely not change manager every year or so.

Our transfer politics, oh dear our potilcs as a whole just sucks. We don`t have such thing, it`s a mess. One season try with this, next season with that. And this is the right way to destroy a football club.

You need to have the right politics to run the club and to follow it.

All the best and i realy hope better times get for my beloved Chelsea club.

 

On 29/01/2019 at 04:42, ForeverCarefree said:

Barkley would be awful in the regista, he's often indecisive on the ball. 

But between Ampadu, Kante, Kovacic Sarri's got options. 

Sarri needs to adapt too to the expectations at Chelsea. It's one thing to want a ready made Jorginho replacement just sitting in reserve but there's plenty of talent already at the club, even if it means adjusting our playing style slightly in the games when Jorginho isn't available. 

We've already wrote off Drinkwater, a £35m signing because Sarri has outright said he can't play in any of the positions in his 3 man midfield. To go out and spend a further £35m just because Sarri wants to rigidly stick to a particular game plan isn't sensible. 

I think we'll be fine with the options we've got and if anything it might help develop the players who will deputise for Jorginho. 

I cant figure out why. Drinkwater would offer more than Jorginho. He can pass forward, track back AND pass sideways. 

9 minutes ago, loshlosh said:

It`s so good to see people eat their word and turn the paincakes arround. At the end of the season - sack Conte, he isn`t good enough, it`s all his fault. Then sign Sarri he is great manager, he play attacking and beautiful football and we have the player for that. Also he is one of the best managers in the world and a lot better then Conte. Yeah, yeah it`s shows.

Right now exactly the same people - sack Sarri, hes football is ugly and not working in England.  

When i was saying the facts and destroying this "fans" with arguments, they was hitting them in the chest how much they know about football, and how much i don`t know.

Right now it`s shows, who knows football and see where the real problems are.

As i said in the summer, Sarri is not a bad manager, but he is not a manager to bring you big titles.

But times and times it`s proven how spoiled Chelsea fans are.  What exactly you was expecting from Sarri ? Does he have proper pre-season with the players  - No of course? Who`s fault is it ?

Also amaze me how brainless some of our fans are, and how they give it to the emotion so fast and want to sack the manager and hire not someone else but Jose Mourinho. A guy who was sacked, because hes team was 7 or 8, with better team then ours and team that spend a lot more money on the players and they was a manager choice.

As i said it before, because of Marina and our beloved board, this club will suffer, unless the tumor is cut out.

Another manager sacking whether is now or in the end of the season will probably have another catastrophic effect.  While i don`t believe Sarri is the right man, to bring titles, yet we don`t have the players for it, we don`t have the motivation for it, we don`t have the right people in the club for it.

Most of the players are so washed out, not small part of them just don`t have the motivation anymore to play for this team, no matter what the manager name is.

But it`s still fun to see how people are bashing players like Emerson and David Luiz, the same people that was swearing at Conte last season why don`t he play this 2.

For the team to start climbs up slowly it`s need to have the right owner and board for it. To have the right plans for it. I`m not saying to spend 200+mln. every season, but to have good plans how the thing should be running and definetely not change manager every year or so.

Our transfer politics, oh dear our potilcs as a whole just sucks. We don`t have such thing, it`s a mess. One season try with this, next season with that. And this is the right way to destroy a football club.

You need to have the right politics to run the club and to follow it.

All the best and i realy hope better times get for my beloved Chelsea club.

 

Welcome back @brakeit

The same gutless display. What's it gonna take for Sarri to put Kante as a 6? At least we'll stop shipping in goals galore. 

The other worry is Hazard. He looks like he doesn't want to be here anymore. 

Sarri is starting to resemble Scolari. All these dinosaur tactics are outdated and been sussed out.  Either we change the system or top 4 is about gone for good. 

 

God No but then you think Solskjaer.

Lampard!

1 minute ago, wallosh said:

55 minutes ago, ducavis said:

God No but then you think Solskjaer.

Lampard!

A lot of the same fans would be screaming for him to get the sack as soon as we run into a bad patch.

But Solskjaer just counter attacks, do we want to go back to that?

I don't think he just counter attacks. Watch United carefully next time, they play the same way Sarri wants us to play. But I don't know why its easier for United to score many goals while playing one touch. Maybe they are still having there honey moon period like we also had in the first half of the season though.

25 minutes ago, Sing the Blues said:

The same gutless display. What's it gonna take for Sarri to put Kante as a 6? At least we'll stop shipping in goals galore. 

Kante played 6 games as a '6' under Conte and we conceded 9 times.

Good point. Well, Sarri has taken us on the first step to attractive attacking football, I know it’s bloody awful to watch at the minute, but still we are getting there. Just need to change the wingers, and a midfielder or two. 
But yeah, not much improvement at this moment.

Am never a fan of Sarri, but I agree with you in the sense that, if the boars can back him to sign the players he wants in the midfield and in the attack, his plan might eventually work because I watched Liverpool carefully since Klopp took over, I think they really struggled in Klopp's first season, but with the board's backing, the fans are now seeing the result.

5 minutes ago, Argo said:

Kante played 6 games as a '6' under Conte and we conceded 9 times.

Yes. He is not a 6. Most of the decent pundits have confirmed this. So we either scrap the existing system and go back to something like we had with Conte, or we accept that Kante has to play a different role. If we go down the first route then we are definitely looking at a different manager.

A lot of the same fans would be screaming for him to get the sack as soon as we run into a bad patch.

True though. But whatever the case may be, I will always stand by Conte!

@wallosh Why do you only turn up when Chelsea have a bad game? Weird.

43 minutes ago, wallosh said:

56 minutes ago, forbzy said:

A lot of the same fans would be screaming for him to get the sack as soon as we run into a bad patch.

True though. But whatever the case may be, I will always stand by Conte!

Me too. The club should have backed him but chose to create a rift that could never be healed. Di Matteo and Carlo should never have been fired either. Firing Sarri may satisfy a few people in the short term but it will just set us back where we started. No strategy and no footballing identity. Something bigger than the manager needs to change.