It seems so. Morata is desperate to leave.
Maurizio Sarri - Chelsea coach
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Seems like Chelsea is struggling for a CF again. It's been a recurring theme for them since Shevchenko days.
I'm Sarri to hear that.
I'm Sarri to hear that.
Think Sarri is trying to replicate what he did at Napoli with Insigne, Mertens and Callejon, but it just doesn't have the players.
Your incredibly dumb and as most people have pointed out incorrect. Maybe speak less about things you don’t know
No you didn’t. You won matches but it was brutal.
Chelsea like Utd, have played shite football for years. Chelsea have played shite football for as long as I can remember.
Horrible side to watch.
Don't think it's something that was planned. Juve signed Higuain and Milik was injured and out for the season, so it was more forced. Maybe wrong but if given choice I think Sarri would play with proper striker than false 9s.
It's less to do with stylistic preference and more to do with quality of the player imho
But yeah, Mertens as a false 9 wasn't planned. But once it worked, it became his first choice. Not because Sarri preferred a false 9, but because it worked
Fair point. Would love to see tim with a proper CF, then.
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I think his argument is you have to do with certain players as there is no transfer window. Secondly perhaps he feels you dont get enough time to coach them. Then as well they are coming from a club team with a certain style to a national team that may have a completely different style.
He's a weird bloke.
Seems like a someone who doesn’t breath football.
Definitely. I mean, the World Cup is hugely entertaining even for casual football fans. Seems very strange that he didn’t watch any of it.
I don't think Sarri's stance is that controversial. Distribution of coaching talent between club and international football speaks volumes in my opinion.
Is that a joke on him smoking 80 cigs a day?
Not really that weird of an opinion. You don't learn anything about a player from international duty that you won't already know.
I watch around 80 hours of football a week for work and I've stopped watching 'mainstream' football anywhere near as much as I did before. I still watched all the World Cup but my interest in La Liga/Prem/Serie A has wained as it still feels a bit like work. World Cup is different but would imagine theres a lot of people involved in football who don't watch that much of it in their free time now. Is a bit odd he didn't watch the latter stages, especially with some Chelsea players being involved.
I believe he had some other quotes hinting at what you said. While true, it still does seem strange that a football coach didn't watch any of it.
I could get a disgruntled player that wanted to be there not watching it or a player that doesn't truly care about football, but a head coach not watching anything? Even just for a bit of entertainment or to see how one of his players does? Seems strange
I would love to take credit now that you said it, but this wasn’t intentionalIs that a joke on him smoking 80 cigs a day?
Wouldn't they have gone for a proper replacement, then? I mean, if he really had wanted to play with a proper striker, Napoli would have had two to three players of that kind under contract instead of only the (albeit talented) fairly young, relatively unproven and especially quite injury-prone Milik.
I think it is much more likely that Sarri has a different understanding of "proper strikers" than we have. I guess in his definition, Mertens is a proper striker because he brings everything to the table he needs. Qualities such as defending the ball with the back to the opponent's goal, keeping the CBs busy or converting high crosses are probably minor criteria. Runs, combination play, agility, finishing and dribbling as well are probably the skills he's looking for and Morata and Giroud don't fit that description while Higuain, Mertens, Milik, Insigne etc. do for at least large parts although some of them are "proper 9s" and some aren't.
If that's the case they wouldn't have signed Milik for big money as a replacement for Higuain. He started regularly in 2016-17 season and then was injured in October and missed few months. Mertens was played as CF and he never looked back, it was a huge success. There was no point in signing anyone when Mertens was scoring for fun.
My point is that if you are adament to play with a proper 9 you plan your squad accordingly. And that doesn't mean signing a talented but still unproven striker as a replacement for Higuain. Even when Higuain was still there, their squad was extremely thin in that position. If Sarri would clearly prefer playing with a classic striker then Napoli would have signed striker prospects or at least substitute players that could step in when the main guy is rested or injured just like every other club in the world. Yet they didn't.
Sarri wanted Higuain to sign for Chelsea, Higuain himself confirmed it. So sort of confirms what Sarri wants isn't it?
Higuain is only 31 wow.
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Not really sure what the discussion is about anymore. My initial point was Sarri might prefer playing with proper 9 (like Higuain) and playing Mertens as CF wasn't something by plan/design, it was forced because of Milik's injury.
Not really sure what the discussion is about anymore. My initial point was Sarri might prefer playing with proper 9 (like Higuain) and playing Mertens as CF wasn't something by plan/design, it was forced because of Milik's injury.
They totally did actually
He'd bang them in for us
I think Sarri and unai emery are great addition to the premiere league.They should be given time and budget like Klopp before being rightfully judged.
Not long before the Russian axe falls on his neck now..
Would be idiotic to get rid, it was obvious he'd need time. But it's Chelsea, so...
What happened?
Reminds me of us under Van Gaal. Lots of possession and passing without making much headway. Granted i have only seen them about five or six times this season.
They lost 4 nil away to Bournemouth. The shiny new toy that was supposed to solve all problems was subbed.
4-0
Love seeing these managers fail, those who apparently have no place in their team for good players "because of the system"
Nothing, mediocre manager and that's about it. Always baffled me how people rated him so highly even though he never won anything and never even was close to winning anything apart from 1 season or so.
Wow, so no more Sarriball then.
Even Van Gaal made it two seasons and a trophy before he got booted for having us play pass the parcel.
Wonder if they will take a page out of our book and appoint their former Norwegian striker. What is Tore André Flo up to these days?
Flo works in som capacity at Chelsea. Think it's at youth level.
No idea, and I have to admit I am puzzled by it all. They started really well under him but it has all just dropped off a cliff. They should be doing better not worse.