Back on the subject of Sarri, an awful lot of news reports about it, I think it might actually be true, Sarri might be on his way out. 

1 minute ago, Slojo said:

Back on the subject of Sarri, an awful lot of news reports about it, I think it might actually be true, Sarri might be on his way out. 

I just pray we appoint a similar manager in terms of how they see the game.

Going back to safety first a year after trying to change the style (not to mention the fact our three big signings aren't remotely suited to pragmatic tactics) would be depressing.

Just now, Argo said:

I just pray we appoint a similar manager in terms of how they see the game.

Going back to safety first a year after trying to change the style (not to mention the fact our three big signings aren't remotely suited to pragmatic tactics) would be depressing.

If we get Allegri that will be depressing, all that effort of going through a transition season completely wasted. 

I think it's time the club became more possession and attacking based. Even if Sarri isn't the man to do it, that doesn't mean we should go back to counter-attacking football. 

nothing on SS, where i expect to see something imminently

I don't really know or care whether he should stay or go. He's not irreplaceable, but replacing him doesn't have to be a priority. He's a good manager, he has a style of football he wants to play, but he's inflexible, and I think the quality of players he has will tell more than anything he does. 

One thing that bothers me, and probably bothers the board, is that he was presented as a "super coach" who "works with players" and doesn't need any say in the transfer market. 

What a load of bollocks that was. 

He is more inflexible than any manager we've had here since AVB. If we want to play "his way" we're going to have to sell half the team, and if we don't do that, he's going to go with it anyway and let us get exposed. If the answer is selling Azpilicueta, Kante and so on, then the question is wrong. 

And for all the talk of it, "Sarriball" is the exact same carrot on a stick possession football with fast breaks that AVB tried to implement nearly a decade ago with players far less suited to it. 

I don't want to criticise him too much, he is what he is, and a good manager, but he came here under false pretences, and a whole load of people bought the bullsh*t. New shiny things are exciting, but they lose their lustre under close examination. It helps if we understand that we are just looking more closely at what we have, not that what we have is worse than the exciting looking thing that someone else has in the highlights programmes. And I include Sarri in that. There is no point replacing him because someone else is selling us a different brand of bullsh*t (a criticism i could make of manager hires since Carlo telling Roman that the team "lacked personality" and Roman lapping it up like a mark). 

3 hours ago, Argo said:

I just pray we appoint a similar manager in terms of how they see the game.

Going back to safety first a year after trying to change the style (not to mention the fact our three big signings aren't remotely suited to pragmatic tactics) would be depressing.

Yep!  Got to go forward with this style. Bringing in someone like Allegri would be a backward step and have zero chance of competing with a top two with such firepower.

Still only being reported by the sh*t-rags as far as I can see. Remember when Bayern signed CHO from us?

8 hours ago, Ewell CFC said:

I read Jimmy Greaves book recently- even on the 50s when he swapped us for AC Milan Italian football was very defensive, and not a lots changed in 50 years which doesn’t make for much of a spectacle.

Maybe crowds would increase if the product was more gung ho. 

 

They desperately need new stadiums, but they just dont have the money to build them. Seeing those big, decrepid old stadiums half full is enough to put fans off from going. Juve did the right thing by not only building a new stadium, but a much smaller one too. Much better in every  way to play in a smaller, packed stadium than a big, half empty one.

8 hours ago, Ewell CFC said:

I read Jimmy Greaves book recently- even on the 50s when he swapped us for AC Milan Italian football was very defensive, and not a lots changed in 50 years which doesn’t make for much of a spectacle.

Maybe crowds would increase if the product was more gung ho. 

 

They desperately need new stadiums, but they just dont have the money to build them. Seeing those big, decrepid old stadiums half full is enough to put fans off from going. Juve did the right thing by not only building a new stadium, but a much smaller one too. Much better in every  way to play in a smaller, packed stadium than a big, half empty one.

On 21/05/2019 at 11:49, RIP Mourinho said:

Says nothing about Sarri's managerial ability, just his charisma because he doesn't run down the touchline like a child when we win a game so the fans haven't warmed to him.

 

This post caught my interest. I have a serious question for you, what does Sarri actually do on the touchline, I mean what purpose does he actually serve? He's our leader, right? Surely he should provide leadership and strength to his side, otherwise what is he doing there? Would he be best served watching games from the stands? I think so. I think we would play better, without the anxiety that he transmits, without him pacing up and down chewing on a cigarette butt. Does he do anything during the 90 minutes to help the team? Serious question.

 

He moans a lot, to his bench, to the fourth official, he flaps his arms in the air, he takes notes, but have you ever seen him give a player an instruction, have you ever seen him do anything to change a game? What is he doing there? If you're not helping, if you're hindering, go somewhere else, surely? Show some f**king leadership from the touchline, please. That might just mean standing there looking strong, emitting strength, conveying calm. You don't have to do much, but pacing up and down chewing on a cigarette butt and moaning to your bench isn't it, in my opinion.

 

Consider many games resemble each other. We pass the ball. A lot. We fail to create. Always. We look vulnerable to the counter. Always. What does he do to change things? I'd like to know, genuinely. You see it going the same way, you see what's happening, what do you do? I'll tell you what you do, you sit down you take notes, you stand up you flap your arms a lot, you moan to the fourth official about something, you chew on your cigarette butt. Meanwhile the players are still struggling.

 

Now I'm not saying Sarri's a bad manager. He's not. I think he's a good manager. The wheels could have come off and he kept things together, unlike one or two previous managers. There are reasons to be optimistic, there are reasons to dislike the guy. I dislike the guy while conceding he's good. How good? I'm not sure. Could he turn us into a great side? Possibly. Has he made ridiculously poor decisions in his first term? Definitely. What were they? I'm glad you asked me that.

 

Firstly there was the debacle at Wembley. What was he doing subbing Kepa? It was possibly the worst substitution decision ever made. Our keeper was fit, so why take him off? The game had stopped, so why panic? Just wait and see if he can carry on, and when he tells you he can carry on, be happy, don't throw your toys out of the f**king pram, and then, when it goes to penalties, don't try and assault the player, Jesus Christ, what are you, a moron? Before anyone says it was tactical and he wanted Willy to face penalties, well he clearly hadn't conveyed that to his first choice keeper, so that makes him even more of an idiot, and even if he had, what a way to destroy your first choice keeper's confidence.

 

Truth is, he lost his nerve. He's never won a trophy, he got nervous. We played well, we were close, penalties were looming. He needed to be strong, emit calm, emit confidence, emit control. He failed on all counts. He needed to think of only one thing and that was winning. Instead retribution against his keeper became more important. He needs to become a winner. Hopefully he's learned his lesson. Hopefully we reap the reward on Wednesday. A winning manager would never have behaved the way he did.

 

Some of the things he's said to the media have been truly idiotic. When he said he hadn't watched CHO's game for England. When he criticised Ampadu after our victory against Sheffield Wednesday. He said he would never play the position again. Ampadu is 18. It was a criminal thing to say. I could go on and on with the idiotic things he's said. I mean, he said Alonso was the best LB in Europe. Alonso isn't even the best LB at Chelsea. In fact, Alonso isn't even a LB. Period.

 

Then we have Higuain. This is the man he wanted to lead our line. Let's say no more. Then there's his continual denials that he has anything to do with transfer policy, despite the fact we paid big for a keeper that can play with his feet, paid big for Jorginho, and paid big for Higuain. Please, stop with the denials already. I'll leave it there but I could go on. Nothing he says inspires tons of confidence.

 

Suffice to say he's made himself unpopular, with his public pronouncements and with his refusal to change anything when things are going poorly too. He played Marcos Alonso for 7 months before giving Emerson a chance. Emerson may not be the long-term answer but for goodness sake, everyone could see a change had to be made. Then there's his reluctance to play youth, even when we were in horrible form, and then there was the football, which was tedious. You'd watch a game, we'd dominate possession or we'd start off abysmally, either way we'd go behind and that was it, we had absolutely no idea how to get back into it, and worst of all, instead of blaming tactics, formations or selections, it was all the players' fault, they couldn't be motivated or their mentality was poor. The criticism has been valid.

 

His obsession with Kovacic over a more progressive midfielder like Barkley or RLC, playing Hazard up top, and denying us all the spectacle of watching Kante do what he does better than anyone else in the world. One thing I'll say in his favour, he doesn't court popularity. He sticks to his guns, rightly, after all, he didn't get the Chelsea job by doing it somebody else's way.

 

There we are, third spot. Tottenham, Utd, Arsenal all fell by the wayside. Sure, we were lucky, but we didn't fall by the wayside, and that's to his credit. He was under pressure, he was unpopular, but he stuck in there, and I respect that. We were still sh*t in many games, not least Cardiff away and Frankfurt at home, but we scraped through. We lose either of those two games and he's toast. If he's a lucky manager, I'll have some of that.

 

Sometimes at Chelsea you need that little bit of luck, just to survive another week.

 

Would I be upset if he were here next season? No. Would I be ecstatic? No. Juve apparently want him so he's obviously highly regarded in Italy, we know that. He must be a good manager. Will he ever adapt to the English game, will we ever go toe-to-toe under him away from home or against our main rivals? None of us know the answer to that one. Will he ever win anything, anywhere? Again, we don't know. Is he committed to Chelsea? I doubt it, somehow. I'd be happy if he stayed because there's sufficient evidence that he can improve however I'd be happier still if Lampard arrived. Why? I'm glad you asked me that. You're asking some very good questions today.

 

Lampard's a winner. Lampard just has something about him. He's very determined. He's very bright. He's very ambitious. He can handle pressure. He can defy the odds. I mean he wasn't even that talented as a player. It was all about his mentality. He's a pretty unique character, and he loves Chelsea.

 

We're in a bit of trouble I think. There's a total disconnect between club and fans, between the team and fans. If Lampard comes, with Jody of course, Ampadu, Callum and Ruben immediately feel better, I guarantee that. They put pen to new contracts. There's a buzz about the place, a buzz we all need, a buzz amongst the players and the fans.

 

Roman has given up coming to games, understandably. He loves Chelsea, I have no doubt about that. He wanted to build his legacy in the form of a new stadium. He can't get a visa that would allow him to live here. That must piss him off, severely, after the amount of money he's ploughed in. Our board comprise of idiots who don't give a f**k about the fans and spend half of their time pandering to the media and trying to get them banned rather than redressing any injustices, and of course we have a transfer ban looming due to their incompetence. We're just in a whole lot of trouble, as a club, in my opinion. Something has been lost, the buzz has gone. Lampard comes and all that changes.

 

Yes, you could say he's inexperienced. Sure. He needs to learn the ropes at Derby. Sure. He's up against Klopp and Guardiola, two great managers. Sure. It could go wrong he could get sacked it will all be a bit painful. Sure. Let's wait.

 

Well I'll ask you this. What are we waiting for? There's never any guarantee with a manager. Lampard could do well at Derby, he could take them up he could keep them up, does that guarantee you anything? What if he does well and somebody else takes him, another big club, what if the time's right for him to move on and we have somebody else at the helm, as happened with Klopp. A lot of this is about timing. Sure, Lampard doesn't have a track record, he's young, it's a punt, but it's an informed punt because we know him, and if we're willing to take a punt on anyone it's him, and if we're willing to give anybody time it's him, because he'd bring with him an enormous amount of goodwill.

 

What if it all goes pear-shaped? What if he isn't very good? We part ways, simples. We'd give him time, we'd give him resources but he would have to deliver, obviously, and if he can't, we say goodbye, he says goodbye, we still love each other. It's okay. It's a risk but it's nothing like the risk Utd have taken with Solskjaer. That won't work out. No way. Lampard might, it just might. The time is ripe. It's all about timing.

 

With Conte, with Mourinho, with Benitez, with Carlo, we knew they weren't here for the long haul. Sarri isn't here for the long haul, we know that. These guys are guns for hire. Why let Lampard prove himself at another club, why let him develop a deeper connection with another club? Sure, he's a Chelsea legend but that doesn't mean he won't manage one of our rivals as a manager. That doesn't mean that at all. He'll put himself first and rightly so. When the right offer comes along he'll take it, because if I know Lampard, he'll want to manage at the top level. How many of you think he'll do it? Get that far? Think about him as a person, not as a player, as a person, think about what marks him out. He's got a chance.

 

I say we give him the opportunity to develop into a top manager at our club, because given what we know and what we've seen, he might just be the man, possibly, and if we let him grow into the role and give him that space, we might just reap the rewards for a very long time, because he's a Chelsea man and he won't want to go anywhere else.

 

I'm telling you right now, he comes and everybody is lifted, and our club needs a lift. Will he be given time? He might, because of who he is and what he represents to the club, and because we'll know he's not the finished article, not by a long shot, but just as he did as a player, wouldn't it be great to see him grow at Chelsea? We also know about his temperament, he's not a Conte or Mourinho, he'll always bear in mind the club's best interests, he'll always stick up for us, and he won't cause problems unnecessarily.

 

He'll be a breath of fresh air in other words. I say bring him back.

11 hours ago, JM7 said:

#Done! Juventus and Sarri have found an agreement: Maurizio Sarri is the new Juventus manager! The deal was reached in the past days, and it should bond the bianconeri and Sarri for the next three years, at net wages worth €7. (Tancredi) #CFC

The contract will be officially signed as soon as Sarri is released from his contract with Chelsea, but talks of a pre-contract agreement are possible in the meantime, something like an option for the future. (Tancredi) #CFC

let me help you with that bro

Remember our fans are fickle these days and could even turn on a Lampard or Terry if we put in a number of bad performances.

That old saying about be careful who you wish for might still come true.

It could turn out well and yet more probably won't in the short term anyway.

6 hours ago, Strider6003 said:

Remember our fans are fickle these days and could even turn on a Lampard or Terry if we put in a number of bad performances.

That old saying about be careful who you wish for might still come true.

It could turn out well and yet more probably won't in the short term anyway.

There's a serious chance we turn on lampard. He will be coming in to a divided fan base. Despite some reports, not every Chelsea fan "who attends games" wants lampard to replace Sarri. I attend games, I think it would be the worst decision we've made for years. 

Lampard will have a huge amount of pressure. If we don't play good football and finish 4th, if we feel like we are going backwards - personally I think there's a high chance we finish 7th next year if we change manager - then the fans will turn on him. I genuinely expect if we change, to anyone, we will finish lower and the football will be worse to watch than if Sarri got given his second season. 

United fans are turning on OGS, we will turn on lampard. We have some of the worst, most miserable, fickle fans in the country going to our games. So yeah, they will get pretty nasty.

9 minutes ago, bisright1 said:

There's a serious chance we turn on lampard. He will be coming in to a divided fan base. Despite some reports, not every Chelsea fan "who attends games" wants lampard to replace Sarri. I attend games, I think it would be the worst decision we've made for years. 

Lampard will have a huge amount of pressure. If we don't play good football and finish 4th, if we feel like we are going backwards - personally I think there's a high chance we finish 7th next year if we change manager - then the fans will turn on him. I genuinely expect if we change, to anyone, we will finish lower and the football will be worse to watch than if Sarri got given his second season. 

United fans are turning on OGS, we will turn on lampard. We have some of the worst, most miserable, fickle fans in the country going to our games. So yeah, they will get pretty nasty.

My fear as well, mostly caused by the fact that Lampard has only one year experience in the Championship. Far too little.

Frank could be a future manager, but not now, why ruin that potential? Throwing him in the deep end won't help his career, let Lampard build it up first. 

I think we would be doing him and us a massive disservice. 

Don’t think there would ever be a public display of turning on Lampard, he’ll never get booed on the terraces. 

If things are going wrong Lampard I believe would walk away if he thought it was best for the club.

If Sarri stays, fair enough it would be better for Frank to get another years experience. However should he go I say bring in Lampard if he’s happy to take it. He’ll definitely get more time than anyone else and give the fans and club the lift it needs.

I’d bring in Jody with him but leave Terry where he is. They worked well together as captain and vice when playing, but roles would be reversed and maybe they are too strong of individual characters to form a good partnership.

No way the fans turn on Lampard.

Sarri is the only permanent manager in my time supporting Chelsea that has had such little good will with the fans.

Assuming Derby win today, why would Frank walk away from what he’s built there? Many would say it’s because it’s chelsea but will surely want to see what he can do in PL with Derby, even if it’s just for one season before moving to Chelsea. 

And assuming he loses today, why would the Chelsea board appoint a manager who couldn’t  get a team up from the championship?

47 minutes ago, goose said:

Don’t think there would ever be a public display of turning on Lampard, he’ll never get booed on the terraces. 

If things are going wrong Lampard I believe would walk away if he thought it was best for the club.

If Sarri stays, fair enough it would be better for Frank to get another years experience. However should he go I say bring in Lampard if he’s happy to take it. He’ll definitely get more time than anyone else and give the fans and club the lift it needs.

I’d bring in Jody with him but leave Terry where he is. They worked well together as captain and vice when playing, but roles would be reversed and maybe they are too strong of individual characters to form a good partnership.

Deluded. 

Frank will take the payout like every other manager. 

 

This is actually an example of how the fans can turn. When some fans think he's such a saint and fan of Chelsea he would resign if things went bad. 

He wouldn't, and those fans who think that would be quick to turn on him when they realise they were wrong. 

Edited May 27, 20197 yr by bisright1

15 minutes ago, ForeverCarefree said:

No way the fans turn on Lampard.

 

Has that ever been a credential used by the club when employing Chelsea managers ? The relationship between the fans and the manager is the least significant compared to that between the manager and players, or manager and club, but the fans ? When in the Roman era has this ever been a consideration ? 

44 minutes ago, goose said:

Don’t think there would ever be a public display of turning on Lampard, he’ll never get booed on the terraces. 

If things are going wrong Lampard I believe would walk away if he thought it was best for the club.

If Sarri stays, fair enough it would be better for Frank to get another years experience. However should he go I say bring in Lampard if he’s happy to take it. He’ll definitely get more time than anyone else and give the fans and club the lift it needs.

I’d bring in Jody with him but leave Terry where he is. They worked well together as captain and vice when playing, but roles would be reversed and maybe they are too strong of individual characters to form a good partnership.

Deluded, part 2. If the results don't go our way and top 4 is not within our reach, you bet some fans will turn on him.

Good point about the dynamic between Lampard and JT though.

12 hours ago, Davey Baby said:

 

This post caught my interest. I have a serious question for you, what does Sarri actually do on the touchline, I mean what purpose does he actually serve? He's our leader, right? Surely he should provide leadership and strength to his side, otherwise what is he doing there? Would he be best served watching games from the stands? I think so. I think we would play better, without the anxiety that he transmits, without him pacing up and down chewing on a cigarette butt. Does he do anything during the 90 minutes to help the team? Serious question.

 

He moans a lot, to his bench, to the fourth official, he flaps his arms in the air, he takes notes, but have you ever seen him give a player an instruction, have you ever seen him do anything to change a game? What is he doing there? If you're not helping, if you're hindering, go somewhere else, surely? Show some f**king leadership from the touchline, please. That might just mean standing there looking strong, emitting strength, conveying calm. You don't have to do much, but pacing up and down chewing on a cigarette butt and moaning to your bench isn't it, in my opinion.

 

Consider many games resemble each other. We pass the ball. A lot. We fail to create. Always. We look vulnerable to the counter. Always. What does he do to change things? I'd like to know, genuinely. You see it going the same way, you see what's happening, what do you do? I'll tell you what you do, you sit down you take notes, you stand up you flap your arms a lot, you moan to the fourth official about something, you chew on your cigarette butt. Meanwhile the players are still struggling.

 

Now I'm not saying Sarri's a bad manager. He's not. I think he's a good manager. The wheels could have come off and he kept things together, unlike one or two previous managers. There are reasons to be optimistic, there are reasons to dislike the guy. I dislike the guy while conceding he's good. How good? I'm not sure. Could he turn us into a great side? Possibly. Has he made ridiculously poor decisions in his first term? Definitely. What were they? I'm glad you asked me that.

 

Firstly there was the debacle at Wembley. What was he doing subbing Kepa? It was possibly the worst substitution decision ever made. Our keeper was fit, so why take him off? The game had stopped, so why panic? Just wait and see if he can carry on, and when he tells you he can carry on, be happy, don't throw your toys out of the f**king pram, and then, when it goes to penalties, don't try and assault the player, Jesus Christ, what are you, a moron? Before anyone says it was tactical and he wanted Willy to face penalties, well he clearly hadn't conveyed that to his first choice keeper, so that makes him even more of an idiot, and even if he had, what a way to destroy your first choice keeper's confidence.

 

Truth is, he lost his nerve. He's never won a trophy, he got nervous. We played well, we were close, penalties were looming. He needed to be strong, emit calm, emit confidence, emit control. He failed on all counts. He needed to think of only one thing and that was winning. Instead retribution against his keeper became more important. He needs to become a winner. Hopefully he's learned his lesson. Hopefully we reap the reward on Wednesday. A winning manager would never have behaved the way he did.

 

Some of the things he's said to the media have been truly idiotic. When he said he hadn't watched CHO's game for England. When he criticised Ampadu after our victory against Sheffield Wednesday. He said he would never play the position again. Ampadu is 18. It was a criminal thing to say. I could go on and on with the idiotic things he's said. I mean, he said Alonso was the best LB in Europe. Alonso isn't even the best LB at Chelsea. In fact, Alonso isn't even a LB. Period.

 

Then we have Higuain. This is the man he wanted to lead our line. Let's say no more. Then there's his continual denials that he has anything to do with transfer policy, despite the fact we paid big for a keeper that can play with his feet, paid big for Jorginho, and paid big for Higuain. Please, stop with the denials already. I'll leave it there but I could go on. Nothing he says inspires tons of confidence.

 

Suffice to say he's made himself unpopular, with his public pronouncements and with his refusal to change anything when things are going poorly too. He played Marcos Alonso for 7 months before giving Emerson a chance. Emerson may not be the long-term answer but for goodness sake, everyone could see a change had to be made. Then there's his reluctance to play youth, even when we were in horrible form, and then there was the football, which was tedious. You'd watch a game, we'd dominate possession or we'd start off abysmally, either way we'd go behind and that was it, we had absolutely no idea how to get back into it, and worst of all, instead of blaming tactics, formations or selections, it was all the players' fault, they couldn't be motivated or their mentality was poor. The criticism has been valid.

 

His obsession with Kovacic over a more progressive midfielder like Barkley or RLC, playing Hazard up top, and denying us all the spectacle of watching Kante do what he does better than anyone else in the world. One thing I'll say in his favour, he doesn't court popularity. He sticks to his guns, rightly, after all, he didn't get the Chelsea job by doing it somebody else's way.

 

There we are, third spot. Tottenham, Utd, Arsenal all fell by the wayside. Sure, we were lucky, but we didn't fall by the wayside, and that's to his credit. He was under pressure, he was unpopular, but he stuck in there, and I respect that. We were still sh*t in many games, not least Cardiff away and Frankfurt at home, but we scraped through. We lose either of those two games and he's toast. If he's a lucky manager, I'll have some of that.

 

Sometimes at Chelsea you need that little bit of luck, just to survive another week.

 

Would I be upset if he were here next season? No. Would I be ecstatic? No. Juve apparently want him so he's obviously highly regarded in Italy, we know that. He must be a good manager. Will he ever adapt to the English game, will we ever go toe-to-toe under him away from home or against our main rivals? None of us know the answer to that one. Will he ever win anything, anywhere? Again, we don't know. Is he committed to Chelsea? I doubt it, somehow. I'd be happy if he stayed because there's sufficient evidence that he can improve however I'd be happier still if Lampard arrived. Why? I'm glad you asked me that. You're asking some very good questions today.

 

Lampard's a winner. Lampard just has something about him. He's very determined. He's very bright. He's very ambitious. He can handle pressure. He can defy the odds. I mean he wasn't even that talented as a player. It was all about his mentality. He's a pretty unique character, and he loves Chelsea.

 

We're in a bit of trouble I think. There's a total disconnect between club and fans, between the team and fans. If Lampard comes, with Jody of course, Ampadu, Callum and Ruben immediately feel better, I guarantee that. They put pen to new contracts. There's a buzz about the place, a buzz we all need, a buzz amongst the players and the fans.

 

Roman has given up coming to games, understandably. He loves Chelsea, I have no doubt about that. He wanted to build his legacy in the form of a new stadium. He can't get a visa that would allow him to live here. That must piss him off, severely, after the amount of money he's ploughed in. Our board comprise of idiots who don't give a f**k about the fans and spend half of their time pandering to the media and trying to get them banned rather than redressing any injustices, and of course we have a transfer ban looming due to their incompetence. We're just in a whole lot of trouble, as a club, in my opinion. Something has been lost, the buzz has gone. Lampard comes and all that changes.

 

Yes, you could say he's inexperienced. Sure. He needs to learn the ropes at Derby. Sure. He's up against Klopp and Guardiola, two great managers. Sure. It could go wrong he could get sacked it will all be a bit painful. Sure. Let's wait.

 

Well I'll ask you this. What are we waiting for? There's never any guarantee with a manager. Lampard could do well at Derby, he could take them up he could keep them up, does that guarantee you anything? What if he does well and somebody else takes him, another big club, what if the time's right for him to move on and we have somebody else at the helm, as happened with Klopp. A lot of this is about timing. Sure, Lampard doesn't have a track record, he's young, it's a punt, but it's an informed punt because we know him, and if we're willing to take a punt on anyone it's him, and if we're willing to give anybody time it's him, because he'd bring with him an enormous amount of goodwill.

 

What if it all goes pear-shaped? What if he isn't very good? We part ways, simples. We'd give him time, we'd give him resources but he would have to deliver, obviously, and if he can't, we say goodbye, he says goodbye, we still love each other. It's okay. It's a risk but it's nothing like the risk Utd have taken with Solskjaer. That won't work out. No way. Lampard might, it just might. The time is ripe. It's all about timing.

 

With Conte, with Mourinho, with Benitez, with Carlo, we knew they weren't here for the long haul. Sarri isn't here for the long haul, we know that. These guys are guns for hire. Why let Lampard prove himself at another club, why let him develop a deeper connection with another club? Sure, he's a Chelsea legend but that doesn't mean he won't manage one of our rivals as a manager. That doesn't mean that at all. He'll put himself first and rightly so. When the right offer comes along he'll take it, because if I know Lampard, he'll want to manage at the top level. How many of you think he'll do it? Get that far? Think about him as a person, not as a player, as a person, think about what marks him out. He's got a chance.

 

I say we give him the opportunity to develop into a top manager at our club, because given what we know and what we've seen, he might just be the man, possibly, and if we let him grow into the role and give him that space, we might just reap the rewards for a very long time, because he's a Chelsea man and he won't want to go anywhere else.

 

I'm telling you right now, he comes and everybody is lifted, and our club needs a lift. Will he be given time? He might, because of who he is and what he represents to the club, and because we'll know he's not the finished article, not by a long shot, but just as he did as a player, wouldn't it be great to see him grow at Chelsea? We also know about his temperament, he's not a Conte or Mourinho, he'll always bear in mind the club's best interests, he'll always stick up for us, and he won't cause problems unnecessarily.

 

He'll be a breath of fresh air in other words. I say bring him back.

Best 5 minute read I've had on this forum for ages, and agree with everything, us fans need a lift through the summer and something to look forward for August, the thought of Sarri still here for the first game of season is a depressing thought.

I’m not a betting man but am going to stick a few quid on Frank being manager next season.

Sari has done nothing to dispel the rumours of his departure. Reckon he’d peeved at the treatment he’s received from fans and realises his football is better suited to Italy.

FL still has houses in Cobham and Chelsea, and I’m guessing would rather live down here than the poxy East Midlands.

Then again Sari’s silence might be a bargaining tool for a better contract.

( Remember about 8 years ago when the High God JT was being linked with Man City. He could have opened that thing between his nose and his chin and squashed the story at source, but he went  all Harpo Marx and got a hefty pay rise)

My money’s on Sari out off his own back

 

Edited May 27, 20197 yr by Ewell CFC

Even the turin based media are going with Sarri being favourite, or getting the job now

No matter how far off the pace we are with this current squad, Lampard would get 2 seasons max to win the title.