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Liam Rosenior - Chelsea Head Coach *Now Sacked*

axman2526
in General Chelsea FC

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27 minutes ago, The Rising Sun said:

Right, I know I'm one of the culprits, but let's knock it on the head everyone . please..

Agreed?

This is offensive to masturbators (masturbaters?) everywhere.

I think we should have a mass debate on the subject.

    2 hours ago, The Rising Sun said:

    Right, I know I'm one of the culprits, but let's knock it on the head everyone . please..

    Agreed?

    Ooo ooo let me get the last word in then everyone agree to stop!! 🤣🤣 could have just not replied if you actually thought that.

    I’ll be the bigger person though, don’t worry 👍

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    21 hours ago, The Rising Sun said:

    We should acknowledge however, that Christian Europe should have allowed Jews to live in safety and peace instead of centuries of anti Semitism, expulsions, pogroms, and the Holocaust.

    British soldiers, officers, diplomats were murdered by Zionist terror gangs in Palestine prior to the creation of Israel.

    WE used to sing about Hitler, Auschwitz and people being gassed.

    Atrocities didn't start on October 7th.

    Try 1948 .

    That's it , over and out 👍

    I read a book about the Baltics starting from pre WW2 and they switched to the Nazis and then the Soviets took them over.

    What happened was they had a lot of poor Jewish people that had come in during previous times yet sided with the socialists at election time resulting in moderate or nationalist parties being unable to win which fed into the Nazi propaganda.

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    30 minutes ago, GarnachoCheese said:

    Ooo ooo let me get the last word in then everyone agree to stop!! 🤣🤣 could have just not replied if you actually thought that.

    I’ll be the bigger person though, don’t worry 👍

    You spotted my ploy ! 😂😂 Sorry about that.

    2 hours ago, DarkMata said:

    Reading this thread you can tell we won at the weekend. Lots of positive opinions. Let's see how things go after Arsenal.

    We’ve been the better team than Arsenal the last few times we’ve played them, I’m confident without Maresca’s shackles we should rise to the occasion

    1 hour ago, JM7 said:

    Vs Hull away in the FA Cup. Gotta be fixed.

    I do wonder sometimes, especially when you see the amount of lower league and home ties Arsenal & Man City get.

    They’ll probably meet in the final lol.

    Edited by 2211

    2 hours ago, SydneyChelsea said:

    Went to Real Madrid way too soon with zero man-management ability. Has Andre Villas-Boas written all over it.

    I remember reading many tacticos thread saying that Ancelotti doesn't understand tactic.🤣🤣🤣

    3 hours ago, SydneyChelsea said:

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    1 hour ago, Bob stark said:

    I remember reading many tacticos thread saying that Ancelotti doesn't understand tactic.🤣🤣🤣

    He understands that the best tactic is to get your best players on the pitch. I've watched some of his videos where he speaks about managing Zidane and Kaka, and by his own admission, he never would have had the success he had if he had dogmatically stuck to his tactical ideas. He was a devotee of 4-4-2 coming through under Sacchi, refusing to sign Baggio and selling Zola as he thought the #10's days were numbered. Then he gets to Juve, realises Zidane was head-and-shoulders the best footballer the team had, and rebuilt the team around him with the 4-4-2 diamond. 5 years later at Milan, he's reinvented his tactics twice to accomodate Kaka who was not a traditional #10, and Pirlo, who was not athletic enough to play as a traditional #10.

    It does have its issues, though. It didn't work at Bayern, where after it was sacked it became clear that he never really had the trust of the senior players who were still pining over Guardiola. Guardiola's obsessive detail takes the thinking out of playing, whereas Ancelotti wants his players to solve problems themselves. Not an easy transition.

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    Why Real Madrid sacked Xabi Alonso

    While many around the club were all too keen to point to Kylian Mbappe allegedly stopping his teammates giving Barcelona a Super Cup guard of honour, as appeared to have been suggested, some went back much further. They went back to Alonso’s first assignment, and a fixture against Al Hilal at the Club World Cup.

    Although Florentino Perez actively wanted the club to constantly proclaim the historic significance of this new competition, in keeping with his own ambitions for modern football, Alonso couldn’t really hide the fact that he didn’t attribute any sporting importance to it. Sources maintain this immediately created an issue for Perez with his vaunted new appointment. There was barely any public support for Alonso after that, and not even a mention in the president’s annual Christmas message.

    That’s quite a bookend to a brief coaching tenure, that only symbolises the way every Madrid coach always gets squeezed out by the stars and the president.

    One dressing room insider puts it blankly: “Nobody liked him.” While that is a view certainly expressed with considerable strength from one side of the dressing room, it is certainly true that Alonso struggled to click with the team from the off. His ideas weren’t setting in.

    He is said to have “lost the dressing room” very early on; as if not suited to certain personalities. But, typically in such a dressing room, that also worked both ways.

    The Bernabeu hierarchy have been concerned with how, for all Alonso’s tactical pretensions, the team has had two modes. That is either sit with five at the back in a way Madrid never should, or step out into a shapeless mess that is almost completely dependent on Thibaut Courtois stopping goals at one end and Mbappe scoring at the other - with players like Vinicius then just linking it together with some running.

    There have also been echoes of Enzo Maresca’s Chelsea in how much of the reporting in Spain has made mention of the physical conditioning and how many injuries they’ve suffered.

    FROM THE INDEPENDENT

    SO ONE COACH WHO FOLLOWED ORDERS TO TRY AND WIN IT (MARESCA), AND ANOTHER WHO REFUSED TO FOLLOW ORDERS AND COULDNT CARELESS (ALONSO) WERE BOTH GONE WITHIN 12 DAYS, INTERESTING THAT SOME IDIOTS BELIEVE MARESCA COULD END UP AS MANAGER AT REAL MADRID

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