Maurizio Sarri's Sack Watch | And Now Our Watch Has Ended

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Many parallels with LvG minus the trophies:

Boring football, inflexible tactics, players out of position (Kante/Di Maria), benching a player for no reason (CHO/Herrera)...And being lucky as feck in continuing to keep his job despite being unpopular with the fans.
 

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Booing your manager but celebrating because the team you support scored or won, is not the same. It is possible to want your team to win, but still dislike your manager
It's also possible to get behind your team when you're behind and stop looking for another manager to get sacked. You don't have to like him being in charge but you support the team. Chanting for him to be sacked at one nill down is pathetic. Chelsea's fan base haven't came off well in the last few years.
 

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he's have gone next week if they hadn't got that late late goal at cardiff
 

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It's also possible to get behind your team when you're behind and stop looking for another manager to get sacked. You don't have to like him being in charge but you support the team. Chanting for him to be sacked at one nill down is pathetic. Chelsea's fan base haven't came off well in the last few years.
We are the fans that sung Mourinho's name while he was buying us a 1 way ticket to The Championship.

We should be the last fans in the world criticised for turning against managers after that.
 

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Jose return to Chelsea possibly? :lol:

He'd have no Costa, no Frabregas and likely no Hazard so fresh start.
 

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We are the fans that sung Mourinho's name while he was buying us a 1 way ticket to The Championship.

We should be the last fans in the world criticised for turning against managers after that.
Yeah the same fans that sung f..k off Mourinho when we played youse at the bridge constantly, it wasn't one or two was it. It was most of your stadium. Your most successful manager always got a hard go by you lot. A member of the Chelsea background staff taunted him when Barkley equalized. Chelsea fans are deserve criticism, it's not only booing managers that Chelsea is associated with.
 

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Yeah the same fans that sung f..k off Mourinho when we played youse at the bridge constantly, it wasn't one or two was it. It was most of your stadium. Your most successful manager always got a hard go by you lot. A member of the Chelsea background staff taunted him when Barkley equalized. Chelsea fans are deserve criticism, it's not only booing managers that Chelsea is associated with.
I believe you reap what you sow, and when Mourinho chose to go to war with Conte (behaving like a child in doing so) he took on the fans as well. He doesn't care, so why would we?

The (currently fashionable) opinion that Chelsea FC and the fans alike should forever be in his debt for the trophies we won together is bizarre. We are no more in his debt that he is in ours (we gave him the perfect platform to build and show the world his Porto success wasn't an AVB esque one off).

The ironic thing is that the Chelsea fans who are now being branded as "classless" stuck by Mourinho when everyone, and I do mean everyone, had turned on him. We were singing his name when we were 16th in the league and looking in a worse state than we had been in for 20 years. Rival fans were loving his demise, the media were loving his demise, and Jose was picking fights with everyone inside the club that you could think of, and had of course lost the dressing room..... but Chelsea fans stuck with him to the bitter end. We had his back and showed blind loyalty.

Can you imagine if Mourinho has United in 16th place; do you think the supporters would be singing his name? A fair portion wanted him sacked when he had you 2nd.

In a nutshell respect is, and always will be, a two way street. Juan Mata is applauded by the "classless" Chelsea fans every time he returns, and again when he's subbed off or on. Zola was given a hero's welcome every time he returned as West Ham Manager, Lampard was applauded when scored to cost us 2 precious points, Cech gets applauded. So there are four examples of former players and Managers, who have joined rivals, and still been given a hero's welcome on their return.
 

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Burnley are a bunch of classless time wasting wankers. Sooner they go down the better.!
 

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Apparently being replaced by Lampard.


 

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Too early for Lampard. What a shame.
With a transfer ban as well. Roman running out of candidates it seems.
 

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With Lampard as their manager we should have a better chance for top 4 if we buy those vital players of course.

It's just too soon for Lampard. He should stay at Derby for a season or two before he is at least a canditate for a top job.
 

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Wow he's getting sacked? They endured the crap period then when they are finishing the season in decent way they sack him.

There must be a reason?

Lampard appointment looks like a disaster in the making.
 

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Wow he's getting sacked? They endured the crap period then when they are finishing the season in decent way they sack him.

There must be a reason?

Lampard appointment looks like a disaster in the making.
Transfer ban and Lampard as manager! Is Chelsea trying to out United United ?!?! Copycats.
 

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Wow he's getting sacked? They endured the crap period then when they are finishing the season in decent way they sack him.

There must be a reason?

Lampard appointment looks like a disaster in the making.
Doesn't sound like he's getting sacked, it's more a he's not too bothered about staying and we're not too bothered about keeping him.

It's a shame as I think he would have been great in his second season but I think Lampard will be a better appointment than people think. His style of football is similar to Sarri's so we will be continuing this transition to a more fluid possession based game, although it is quite ironic that we are turning to Lampard for this process given how much he resisted this type of change as a player under AVB.
 

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Doesn't sound like he's getting sacked, it's more a he's not too bothered about staying and we're not too bothered about keeping him.

It's a shame as I think he would have been great in his second season but I think Lampard will be a better appointment than people think. His style of football is similar to Sarri's so we will be continuing this transition to a more fluid possession based game, although it is quite ironic that we are turning to Lampard for this process given how much he resisted this type of change as a player under AVB.
Well AVB was foolish considering the players you had at the club and how successful they were playing the style they were used to. He should have made tweaks rather than change it all.

Agree that Sarri should have got a second chance, but don’t think Chelsea fans have likened to him for some reason. Surprised if you go for another Italian though.
 

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Well AVB was foolish considering the players you had at the club and how successful they were playing the style they were used to. He should have made tweaks rather than change it all.

Agree that Sarri should have got a second chance, but don’t think Chelsea fans have likened to him for some reason. Surprised if you go for another Italian though.
Many match going fans are very stuck in their ways, for example RLC's substitution against Frankfurt, it was fairly clear he was tanked and needed to go off and i called it 10 minutes earlier that he would be taken off and the crowd would boo it without thinking outside the box. There's other examples like turning against the players for Jose and chanting Torres on his every turnover while booing a young and hungry forward who was 10x better.

While i fully respect a fans belief if they want Sarri out or don't rate Jorginho i can't stand the way some have gone about it, I'm dreading the treatment Pulisic will receive if he doesn't hit the ground running (he's already being scapegoated on some platforms).
 

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Agree that Sarri should have got a second chance, but don’t think Chelsea fans have likened to him for some reason. Surprised if you go for another Italian though.
Would be nice for once Roman and the Chelsea fans both wanted a coach to stay but he wants to get out of there and go to Juve.

Also, I'm reading some posts here saying it's too early for Lampard. If it wasn't early for Zidane and Ole, then why would it be early for Lampard? This might be the perfect time to get him on - transfer ban and Hazard leaving may mean that the board and the fans think of this season as a write off. Lampard might be afforded time while also giving the Chelsea youth a chance.
 

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Transfer ban and Lampard as manager! Is Chelsea trying to out United United ?!?! Copycats.
The way Utd have hired and fired managers since Fergie retired, it's them who are copying Chelsea's ways. You even have fans wanting Ole axed already.
 

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I'd like to think Lampard would just jump ship from Derby at the first opportunity he gets
 

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Sarri was behaving like a dick all season. The way he loses it on the sidelines is funny. I remember a Chelsea poster saying him getting worked up about the injury of Loftus Cheek in that friendly would cost him the job
 

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Disgrace if it's true. Sarri isn't the type of manager you appoint for quick success given how much he was going to have to change our style of play. Will be very disappointed if this is true. Lampard is not an exciting appointment at all bar the fact he used to play for us.
 

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Disgrace if it's true. Sarri isn't the type of manager you appoint for quick success given how much he was going to have to change our style of play. Will be very disappointed if this is true. Lampard is not an exciting appointment at all bar the fact he used to play for us.
It's like when Palace appointed de Boer and sacked him after about three games. A club appoints a manager imbued with a radically different vision of how to play football to his predecessors and then appear shocked and panicked when he attempts to implement that vision. Sarri has admittedly had a full season but he was hardly backed in the transfer market.
 

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It's like when Palace appointed de Boer and sacked him after about three games. A club appoints a manager imbued with a radically different vision of how to play football to his predecessors and then appear shocked and panicked when he attempts to implement that vision. Sarri has admittedly had a full season but he was hardly backed in the transfer market.
It's a little different.

Firstly, it appears we're appointing a similar type of manager and continuing the process whereas Palace went for the ultimate safety first manager. Secondly he was backed, he got given the player who makes his system tick alongside a keeper for a record fee who he wanted at Naples.
 

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It's a little different.

Firstly, it appears we're appointing a similar type of manager and continuing the process whereas Palace went for the ultimate safety first manager. Secondly he was backed, he got given the player who makes his system tick alongside a keeper for a record fee who he wanted at Naples.
He got Jorginho, yeah, but one player does not make a team. It would be like City signing Busquets in Guardiola's first year and no one else of note and saying 'go on, go and replicate what you did at Barcelona then'. Kepa doesn't really count as you sold Courtois so whoever you appointed it was obvious that a big keeper would be signed.