Some things never change. That was simply pathetic and predictable.
AVB looks like he is falling into the same trap as his predecessors with regards to his team selections and substitutions. I am by no means ready to cut him lose, but I am confused. We are seeing the proverbial history repeating itself as each new manager continues to try and fit the square peg into the round hole. Each manager is tasked with the same goals (most coveted being the CL) each season, yet each of them eventually slip into a sense of amnesia as they use the same worn pieces that have been disproven to work time and again.
What changed since he arrived with his stern approach that no player is an untouchable? He exercised that approach at the beginning. Is he afraid now? Is the pressure to play the same clowns too much to overcome? Is there something deeper - ties between players and the administration that each new manager is unable to cut? I don't mean to sound like a conspiracy theorist, because I am not one, but we see top quality managers coming in and going out of our club like a revolving door yet the players never change and neither do the results. The common denominator is obvious here...
AVB is either a bonehead, afraid, or there is something deeper going on that AVB cannot touch. Earlier this season, I was resigned to another "transitional" season. My hope is that we are still in one, rather than a downward spiral. We have to make some big moves this January, and even bigger moves next year. If AVB does not get HIS players in, then he will be out and the same crew will continue to do what they do best...put themselves above the club
Same old, same old...
posted on 23/11/11
It wasn't a pathetic performance
posted on 23/11/11
I wrote something similar to this earlier. Yes that is the pink elephant in the room. Managers are promised new players, but the same ones keep getting picked. I am apathetic with tonight's result. If we need to keep losing to shake up the dross that we are watching then so be it. The younger, hungrier, more energetic players are sitting on the bench, loaned out, in the reserves quite frankly wasting(chelsea point of view) away playing somewhere else. The need to be integrated with the first team.
posted on 23/11/11
Exactly!
posted on 23/11/11
Said this more than once under Carlo, and it is now tiresome to see it happening again. Rather see Josh and Oriol and a few others play and see us lose than to see the old familiars disappoint.