Has Sarri been asked by a reporter why in the hell he started walking towards the tunnel right after Kepa’s Tantrum?  Because there is absolutely no excuse for doing that.

9 minutes ago, Phillip said:

Has Sarri been asked by a reporter why in the hell he started walking towards the tunnel right after Kepa’s Tantrum?  Because there is absolutely no excuse for doing that.

I heard his explanation, and i think it was sheer f**king frustration, but he quickly realised he needed to return, and get things sorted

12 minutes ago, Valerie said:

You really are determined to stay gloomy and negative, aren't you 

 

What happened was another black mark against us and our amazing support deserved better, as they did against Arsenal, Bournemouth, City (twice) United etc.

Although the match going fans who boo jorginho and chant f sarriball absolutely deserve this type of thing, so some justice in that sense. So there is the silver lining  :)

I just hope people can now realise how hard of a job Sarri has got. 

At Chelsea we make it harder than it has to be, it's evident, we get all these great managers around the world at this club and it's always the same outcome... God knows how much sh*t he has to put up with behind closed doors from these prima-donnas. If they can't be bothered playing well they won't, there'll be no consequences, the player is more valuable than the manager. 

Even if Sarri isn't the right man for the job, I still think he shouldn't have to put up with a lot of this nonsense, both can be true at once. Out of the top 6 which is the hardest club to manage? I would seriously say Chelsea, our track record proves it. 

10 hours ago, Andy North said:

I'm very near the end of my patience with Sarri and for me he doesn't get off scott free on the Kepa incident. He has a Captain on the pitch who can go over to see what the problem was. He also could have had a word with the 4th official to send somebody else, a trainer or Cuddicini, to either get him off or find out what was going on. He didn't do anything other than throw a hissy fit and run off half way down the tunnel. He lost his composure rather than take affirmative action. He needs to be bigger than that if he is going to win anything. It was a final and he came up wanting.

The Kepa thing is indicative of the respect the players have for him.

I'm not letting Kepa off either. From what I can make out he was saying he wasn't injured and was OK to play on. If that was the case why did he go down and get treatment on two occasions just before the incident? Cramp? Nobody has ever heard of a goalkeeper getting cramp. That's nonsense. I think he was time wasting. What else could it have been? I think he was feeling the pressure and wanted to slow the game down. I have to say I felt at that time in the game Chelsea were creating chances and getting forward. At the very time we had a chance to win Kepa was time wasting. The old team wouldn't have done this. The Lampard/Terry era team would have gone for the kill.

You ever had a cramp before?  They are recurring and treated by stretching and hydration, both of which he received on each occasion.  The only nonsense I see is you thinking that a player's position determines whether or not he can get a cramp.

I do agree that Sarri should not get off scot free from the incident, but at the same time, I truly believe it is quite overblown.  I'm more upset about Jorginho's stupid ass penalty than anything regarding the Kepa substitution non-substitution.

6 minutes ago, axman2526 said:

What happened was another black mark against us and our amazing support deserved better, as they did against Arsenal, Bournemouth, City (twice) United etc.

I was completely fine with it at the game, it was winding the city fans up a treat!

18 minutes ago, Ballack & Blu said:

I heard his explanation, and i think it was sheer f**king frustration, but he quickly realised he needed to return, and get things sorted

That really is a piss-poor explanation.  At the top level, an action totally uncalled for.

38 minutes ago, Munkworth said:

I was completely fine with it at the game, it was winding the city fans up a treat!

Odd why was it winding them up? 

5 minutes ago, axman2526 said:

Odd why was it winding them up? 

To be fair, ever seen a player waste so much time without getting a yellow? lol

I'm so tired of the media blowing everything up and then piggybacking on that story they've created and create a whole new crisis. During the match, after the match, the day after the match, it doesn't stop.

'Sarri has lost control, who is in charge at Chelsea? It's clearly the players'-----> 'Kepa incident sinks Chelsea in Carabao Final'----> 'Sarri 1 loss or dressing room split away from sack'

A player thinks he's being taken off because he's injured so he stays and says he's ok has now turned into Sarri one game away from getting fired. It's a self-fulfilling prophecy they've got going on. The same thing happened to Conte the first month of his first season no? Media calling for him to be sacked after the Arsenal match. 

Edited February 25, 20197 yr by TheChelseaBlues

Sarri's management record really isn't anything spectacular. None of his teams have won anything and Napoli look as good without as they did with him. I'm still unconvinced - looks like his appointment was a massive punt by the club.  

Team	Nat	From	To	Record
				G	W	D	L	Win %	Ref.
Antella		1996	1998	60	26	18	16	43.33
Valdema		1998	1999	17	5	6	6	29.41
Tegoleto		1999	2000	26	8	9	9	30.77
Sansovino		2000	2003	120	62	33	25	51.67
Sangiovannese		2003	18 June 2005	82	34	29	19	41.46
Pescara		9 July 2005	30 June 2006	43	14	12	17	32.56
Arezzo		31 October 2006	13 March 2007	22	6	8	8	27.27
Avellino		18 July 2007	23 August 2007	1	0	0	1	0.00
Hellas Verona		31 December 2007	28 February 2008	6	0	1	5	0.00
Perugia		23 September 2008	15 February 2009	22	6	11	5	27.27
Grosseto		24 March 2010	24 June 2010	11	2	7	2	18.18
Alessandria		6 July 2010	24 June 2011	36	15	13	8	41.67
Sorrento		6 July 2011	13 December 2011	19	8	6	5	42.11
Empoli		12 August 2012	31 May 2015	132	52	45	35	39.39	[70]
Napoli		12 June 2015	23 May 2018	147	97	25	25	65.99	[70]
Chelsea		14 July 2018	present	44	28	7	9	63.64	[71]
Total				791	363	231	197	45.89	—

56 minutes ago, axman2526 said:

Odd why was it winding them up? 

Kepa has been running down the clock every chance he got so they were already pissed off at his time wasting. 

26 minutes ago, Munkworth said:

Kepa has been running down the clock every chance he got so they were already pissed off at his time wasting. 

Ah I see. Guy has a personality to him...

I like the guy, he strikes me as a real thinker, a guy who studies football down to a finite level in an attempt to make his players perform to their best.

I suspect that approach comes from being the coach of mostly average sides in Italy.

For a chap new to England our football culture and language, he fronts up to press interviews even though those b*stards try to set him up because of his lack of English skills.

He did the same on Sunday even though Kepa made him look like a mug.

That takes character and they way he dealt with the situation I feel is a mark of the man himself.

Truth is, there is to few goals and to little clean sheets in this team to win much at the level we live at.

We are not going to out spend everyone else and we can't offer Champions League football either.

If there is player power going on at Chelsea, Sarris approach may be the perfect long time answer.

I couldn't imaging Jose/Antonio putting up with what happened at Wembley without blowing a gasket.

Agreed, for him to succeed long term, he does need to be more flexible in his tactics and team selection as the games require but remember he's only been here five minutes.

Give him to the end of the season, see where we are and what has changed and then think about it some more before making a decision.

 

 

4 hours ago, carrickblue said:

Sarri's management record really isn't anything spectacular. None of his teams have won anything and Napoli look as good without as they did with him. I'm still unconvinced - looks like his appointment was a massive punt by the club.  

Team	Nat	From	To	Record
				G	W	D	L	Win %	Ref.
Empoli		12 August 2012	31 May 2015	132	52	45	35	39.39	[70]
Napoli		12 June 2015	23 May 2018	147	97	25	25	65.99	[70]
Chelsea		14 July 2018	present	44	28	7	9	63.64	[71]
Total				791	363	231	197	45.89	—

Empoli was 18th in the Serie B the year before he got there, top 5 his first year, and promoted his second year. 8 W 18 D 12 L in the Serie A with a newly promoted team isn't that bad.  Napoli set their club point records in the Serie A with him at the helm every year he was there - they may have won the league with Maradona... but Sarri had their best results in league 28 / 7 / 3.

 

 

Many Chelsea fans are starting to want sarri to step down from her position as a Chelsea coach who do you think is suitable to replace Sarri's position if she is really fired from Chelsea?

9 hours ago, TheChelseaBlues said:

I'm so tired of the media blowing everything up and then piggybacking on that story they've created and create a whole new crisis. During the match, after the match, the day after the match, it doesn't stop.

'Sarri has lost control, who is in charge at Chelsea? It's clearly the players'-----> 'Kepa incident sinks Chelsea in Carabao Final'----> 'Sarri 1 loss or dressing room split away from sack'

A player thinks he's being taken off because he's injured so he stays and says he's ok has now turned into Sarri one game away from getting fired. It's a self-fulfilling prophecy they've got going on. The same thing happened to Conte the first month of his first season no? Media calling for him to be sacked after the Arsenal match. 

Just do what I do, stop listening and reading about it. I tend to stay away from football completely unless I am on here or watching a game. In between, I don't listen to any radio, read any newspaper headlines or articles. I don't even go on any other forum I am on and talk about football either. I don't want to hear opinions from people that don't really have any clue about my team, they just talk sh*te.

I used to listen to Talksport, BBC 5Live and read all of the rubbish in the papers, but I stopped because I couldn't stand listening to the bollocks these people came out with. Every single good thing we have achieved in the last 15 years has had a "but" in there with the media and any time the club gets into even the most tiny problem, they blow it up to be worse than it actually is. It's unbearable, so I just avoid it now.

Edited February 26, 20197 yr by Scott Harris

I didn't know Sarri was a woman 

We've been through this as part of the discussion in the thread Sarri in or out. No need for new thread.

Edited February 26, 20197 yr by Valerie

6 hours ago, Wearyourblue said:

Empoli was 18th in the Serie B the year before he got there, top 5 his first year, and promoted his second year. 8 W 18 D 12 L in the Serie A with a newly promoted team isn't that bad.  Napoli set their club point records in the Serie A with him at the helm every year he was there - they may have won the league with Maradona... but Sarri had their best results in league 28 / 7 / 3.

 

 

Id prefer to listen to the scouting report of the guy who looked up Sarri on Wikipedia thanks 

11 hours ago, Phillip said:

That really is a piss-poor explanation.  At the top level, an action totally uncalled for.

Oh come on, it’s not like he’s done anything disgraceful. Kepa has undermined his authority and absolutely humiliated him while the world was watching. No doubt Sarri felt like he was about to explode.

What do you expect, Sarri to have no emotions like a robot?

I’d like to see how Conte or Mourinho would have reacted. Probably a lot worse than Sarri.

Much, much better yesterday. Think he got the line-up right and the subs were exactly as I was calling them.

More of that and I will be happy for him to stay and try and build something. Day was tarnished not so much by losing on penalties but by the Kepa fiasco. Don't really blame Sarri for that but think it will have taught him he needs a stronger captain.

Now lets go and do Sp*rs............................ 

It's nice to see that some of us including[mention=16832]Strider6003[/mention] now want him to be giving some time[emoji122][emoji122][emoji122][emoji122]

I also think he got the starting lineup right though at first I was disappointed to see we were playing the false 9 again. But after the game, I thought the pace and work rate of Wiilian, Hazard and Pedro was crucial for the system we played against City. The fact that Sarri even brought CHO in ahead of his favourite striker speaks volume about Sarri's plan for that game.

 

Atm Sarri is choosing the right team and the likes of CHO and Loftus Cheek are getting minutes. I even see them breaking into the team if Sarri stays. 

He needs help though. The Kepa fiasco has shown that Sarri is not getting any help. As much as i love Zola, he is too nice and was doing nothing when Sarri was going crazy. I wish we had Terry or Wise besides Sarri. You dont want to mess with those two because clearly our players need a backside kicking at times. 

It is always better to hold on to your managers mid-season, the main previous gripes was he didn't have a plan B, midfield balance was wrong and the youngsters were not being a chance.

Now one match doesn't necessarily change that yet it is a good start.

Hopefully these changes continue otherwise the clamour for change will reappear again.

On 26/02/2019 at 07:02, Valerie said:

We've been through this as part of the discussion in the thread Sarri in or out. No need for new thread.

Vote Val for moderator