It should be the players who are gone, hazard, kepa, and azpilucu
Not a Chelsea fan, but yes, he will walk, or just not give a shit and get a decent payoff
Sarri being publicly humiliated by Arrizabalaga | Sarri benches Kepa
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Who's sarri now?
Who's sarri now?
Who's sarri now?
And even after their manager (Pellegrini or Mancini?) stated that he’d never play for the club again.
Anyone else think this looks sussed? As in match fixing?
Crazy stuff, shows there's no leader in that Chelsea team either as one of the senior players should have pulled Kepa to the side and told him to get his ass off.
All kepa did there was show managers everywhere that’s he’s cnut who cares more about himself than the club and that he won’t respect any of them. Sarri needs to send the kid down to the youth team. He needs to learn he’s not in charge, and that he’s in a team and sometimes that means sitting out.
I don’t think you can sub players after extra time. Remember Ferguson bringing Anderson on for Brown in the CL final?
Yeah, I agree to an extent. Clearly he was fine to complete the game and take part in the penalties and those are the moments players want to take part in. It was poor management and I suspect that it's indicative of why Sarri doesn't have loyalty or the support of his players. He was put in a poor situation by Sarri, and although he responded immaturely, I do get it.
That said, when your number's up you gotta go.
The other players should have dragged him out of the pitch themselves
The confusion quickly turned to [out]rage from Sarri, which is understandable. His head must be well out of joint right now. What he should have been able to talk about regarding the team and the effort they put in over the duration of the final has now been completely overshadowed.
Given their player ban predicament, Kepa isn't going anywhere, either, so Sarri has to wait for the club to sack him to get his pay off, or walk away with whatever remnants of dignity he has left.
Unbelievable, Jeff!
Think that if the board with Willy sub was up and Kepa refused to walk off, he could've been sent off and they'd be without a goalkeeper for the shootout then.
Shit would've been cash mind you.
After this, either Sarri fecks off or Kepa is banned from first team football. Something will have to give
I think this is being pretty overblown by the media to be honest. It's not like it was a tactical change that the players didn't agree on. Sarri made the decision based on his injury. He was arguing with Sarri because he wasn't injured. He probably should have still went off, because the manager makes the final decision and he may have thought Kepa wasn't fully 100%, but the media is making an undue spectacle out of this.
Les Sealey refused to be subbed in 91 league cup final, had a standup row with Jim MaGregor on the pitch. It was my first United game live. His injury was so bad that if he had got the flight back with the rest of the team the Doctor said he could have lost his leg!
The fact he went down like he was dead twice in the 5 minutes before hand and called on the physios and he was clearly injured might be why Sarri made the decision? He listened to him the first time and left him on, when he went down again, Sarri made the call and it was the right one.
Caballero with a great peno record, knows City inside out and fully fit vs Keeper who is clearly injured is a justified decision.
You sound like a proper team player. Wish we had a guy like you in our office
Doesn't matter what the player wants to take part in. To defy the manager like that is inexcusable.
If any player ever dared to do that under SAF they'd never play for the club again.
It was a tactical change and could have won them the cup. That's the managers job - to make them calls.
You can’t bring a sub on when the game is over.
Arrizabalaga player/manager till the end of the season
There’s no way a club will terminate the contract of a sellable asset. At the high end of football anyway.
Referee can't send him off for that. It just would have played out as it did.
I really feel for Sarri. In all of that I was wondering where the Chelsea captain was and why he wasn't he telling Kepa to get off. Absolute shambles.
What a mess, Kepa should be fired with immediate effect.
It’s brilliant. So funny. Everyone involved loses face. Glad city won for once I actually hate Chelsea more than them. Hahahahahhah
Nope?
Absolutely disgraceful behaviour from Kepa. If Chelsea back the player over the manager in this situation he will have more than grounds for constructive dismissal.
I have to question what the feck the referee was doing as well? The board had gone up so why the hell is he allowing a petulant little tit dictate the rules of the game to him? Board goes up with your number on it - you leave the field and that's it. He should've told him he's either off the field in the next ten seconds so he can be replaced or he's off it with a red card and no replacement for the shootout.
I have to question what the feck the referee was doing as well? The board had gone up so why the hell is he allowing a petulant little tit dictate the rules of the game to him? Board goes up with your number on it - you leave the field and that's it. He should've told him he's either off the field in the next ten seconds so he can be replaced or he's off it with a red card and no replacement for the shootout.
Specially considering how much they paid for him initially. It would be madness, this is why I think Sarri will be gone very soon.
Yep. He looked like he had more important things to worry about, this was totally unexpected and unwarranted.
Sarri can’t even do it when it isn’t either
Surely this was Sarri's fault for not forcing the player off, Kepa was allowed to create a situation that would never have happened if the manager had just shown authority.
Funny thing is one of them might have to go and I don't see their £70m keeper being thrown out.
Might actually cost Sarri his job.
Might actually cost Sarri his job.
He’ll have to kepa saying sarri to his manager if he wants to play for Chelsea again.
The players took Kepas side and you could see Sarri feeling powerless.
even if hes 100% fit and it's purely tactical he has to go off.
Do you know what's sad? That bellend of a keeper will continue to pick up his wage and continue to play for Chelsea. The manager who he humiliated will be slung out the door. Football has got it all wrong, player power is out of control
Not the rule. Referee can't do anything.
Can't imagine this ever happening at United.
To be fair to Kepa he's taken the limelight away from City's cup win. Respect to him for that.