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just said:
I enjoyed them all. None of them were boring to me. IMO Jose was always more positive with his substitutions than Carlo. More willing to take a risk and make a change when it was needed.
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It wasn't boring, that I recalll but in the first season there were so few goals against, the defence was incredible.

 
Wonmin said:
What's the point of sacking poch if we end up with championship manager?
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Maybe egghead and co. have finally realised they'll never dominate the PL with their sh*t decision-making and crap signings so the championship is the place to be for them. They're signing Maresca with designs to dominate the championship where they'll finally get the feeling of winners.

 
Nick05 said:
Maybe egghead and co. have finally realised they'll never dominate the PL with their sh*t decision-making and crap signings so the championship is the place to be for them. They're signing Maresca with designs to dominate the championship where they'll finally get the feeling of winners.
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I don't think Maresca with PL player dominated championship though 

 
It seems the SDs and board got validation and encouragement about their choice from Bayern signing a manager who just got relegated from the PL after winning the championship last season. They must've been like, "Hey, when Bayern can make someone like Kompany head coach, then surely we can sign Maresca who still has some gloss with the championship win. If we don't sign him now maybe Real Madrid will coming calling next season to replace Ancelotti with him". 

 
Scott Harris said:
I found nothing boring about Lampard smacking a ball in from 30 yards. Drogba's power scaring the life out of defenders. Or Robben, Cole, Duff running at defences. Our counter attacks were lethal as well. I even found our park the bus tactics entertaining at times.

In Mourinho's second spell in the charge, he had Hazard, I don't think I need to say anything about how entertaining he was. You also had Fabregas with his variety of passing. Fabregas could play the tiki taka stuff, but if he was just limited to that, you would never see the inch perfect passes over the top of the defence. 

I want us to go back to a type of football that produces moments like this. Moments of flair, quick counters, long range shots, wingers running at defenders instead of passing it into midfield, midfielders spotting good runs from the striker and playing a risky pass into them.

One thing I agree on is Ancelotti's football being better. Even now when I watch his Real Madrid side, I find that team more entertaining than most.
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I  always wondered why did we sack Ancelotti ....it was such a long time prospect !! witnessed some of the best football player under him at Chelsea man !!

 
fun2sh said:
I  always wondered why did we sack Ancelotti ....it was such a long time prospect !! witnessed some of the best football player under him at Chelsea man !!
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I suspect it was mainly centered around him failing in the Champions League in the two seasons he was there.

Roman was desperate to win in Europe and was willing to make ruthless and almost seemingly unfair decisions to get there.

 
fun2sh said:
I  always wondered why did we sack Ancelotti ....it was such a long time prospect !! witnessed some of the best football player under him at Chelsea man !!
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If I had to guess it was one of these reasons.

1. He wanted Torres (Wilkins confirmed) and set a weight around our neck that held us back for years.

2. The poor UCL showings under him.

3. The poor league season.

 
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fun2sh said:
I  always wondered why did we sack Ancelotti ....it was such a long time prospect !! witnessed some of the best football player under him at Chelsea man !!
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Roman waa desperate to win Big Ears and under Ancelotti the manner of our exits from the CL didn't exactly give the impression that he could win it with us and he seemed to be in decline in European football. It's actually surprising how successful a career he's had since leaving us. I think we wouldn't be asking this question if he had declined since and managed teams like Everton but every time he wins trophies our decision to sack him looks even dumber.

 
Enzo Maresca was asked about transfers on the 10th May, his response : 

‘No, no, I’m not asking for more control’

‘Absolutely not. I’m asking just to be able to do my job that I’m being paid for. No more than that” (@XtraLeicester) 

These new owners think that if they find the right manager, they will not need to have these type of discussions with them. Realistically, no manager wants to be handed players and told to get on with it. It doesn’t work like that. 

 
Didn’t these sporting directors say Poch had a dossier on our players and knew them inside out also just like what they are briefing n Enzo Maresca?

These 🤡🤡 really have contempt for us fans, they think we are idiots.

 
Nick05 said:
Roman waa desperate to win Big Ears and under Ancelotti the manner of our exits from the CL didn't exactly give the impression that he could win it with us and he seemed to be in decline in European football. It's actually surprising how successful a career he's had since leaving us. I think we wouldn't be asking this question if he had declined since and managed teams like Everton but every time he wins trophies our decision to sack him looks even dumber.
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Can we get his son....!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/articles/c722wppjdxqo

 
ozboy said:
It wasn't boring, that I recalll but in the first season there were so few goals against, the defence was incredible.
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I still think the JT / Gallas pairing was the best centre-half partnership we ever had. Better than JT /  Carvalho IMO. 

They just complimented each other perfectly.

 
“Chelsea very close to finalising five-year deal for Leicester manager Enzo Maresca to take over. Should all be finalised soon, with compensation due to Leicester.“

 
JM7 said:
“Chelsea very close to finalising five-year deal for Leicester manager Enzo Maresca to take over. Should all be finalised soon, with compensation due to Leicester.“
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5-year deal. These owners and sporting directors are f**king insane.

 
If we are playing Sarri type football, I wonder what that means for Mydryk who doesn’t excel against low blocks. He needs space to run into. 

 
Remodez said:
It was only horrific cause we couldn’t score a goal to save our lives. We generally controlled games and were defensively better overall than we are now under Poch. If we had a Palmer under Potter it might have ended differently.

There’s just no way they buy all those young players and expect to win so the must want to follow that model.
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I don't think it is about Palmer. It is difficult to score if you play very controlled football unless you have crazy good attacker. 

You can see our offense looked far better under Lamp straight away. 

Potter ran defensive 343 with Brighton, very similar to TT.  I thought the transition should be seamless but it was a mess. 

 
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Enzo's rigidity towards style and players our massive squad needs to be seriously trimmed.  

 
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