Originally Posted by fourtimes
i would, he arses about too much. and he spent money in the previous years. you could see lampard was going to be good at west ham dont forget. ok he has reached his potential at chelsea, but then he should with a move up in class of players he is with?
i wont blame him for spending 120 mil, as i am not sure all that was totally him!!! but they werent the best buys in any way if it was him where they?
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But you could see that Cheyrou was goimg to be good when we signed him. Same with Traore, Diouff et al.
Without a quality coach they'll never fulfill potential.
Ranieri clearly has a very good record of allowing youngsters to fulfill their true potential. It's a very difficult thing and a rare skill to have.
The like of O'Neill certainly don't have it. If MON did have it he'd be one of the best managers on earth.
I think Ranieri would have had more succes this year if he HADN'T had all that money to spend. I think he's better at developing players than buying teams. The best players at Chelsea this year have all been the ones that were already there, the ones that Ranieri has developed.
His tinkering isn't ideal, but he'll learn the hard way. He probably already has. And anyway, with a squad the size of Chelsea's with the amount of big names and ego's it's practically impossible for him to NOT be "The Tinkerman" isn't it?
How else can you keeo them all happy?
He probably doesn't even want half of them!!
We'll agree to disagree on this one, Cheeks, but I just think the man deserves a bit more credit than he gets at times.