Ancelotti: I'm not in full control at Chelsea
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/212829/-Carlo-Ancelotti-Chelsea-manager-feeling-the-strain
Yuh start tuh lose matches and all of a sudden yuh not in full control ? ...not saying that he's not telling the truth but that sounds like passing the buck. When yuh on top, we eh hearing nothing about the system and yuh not giving all the praise to whom ever is in control, now yuh struggling, yuh not in charge and it's someone else's fault.
Maybe the control was all his until recently. What if the powers-that-be only recently started meddlin' in the man business. It's poosible that that might be the case. I dunno, but it seems like Jose mighta went thru the same thing because wasn't the word out that it was Abramovic that was pushing for Shevchenko and that was one of the major issues that led to Jose's departure?
All dis talk about loss of control etc is sh!t. Italian managers are used to operating alongside technical directors who run the business side of things. At the end of the day, we are missing key players which is why we're losing, nothing to do with Abramovic, Ancelotti or anyone off the pitch.
We scored 6 in our first 2 games this season - guess what, those were the last two games Lampard played in. Since then we have been pretty damn average, even when we've won. The only other times that we scored more than 2 were against Blackpool, Zilina away and Spartak...none of them were top opposition and we didnt play particularly well in any of those matches anyway. The media often get lazy and praise our football, cuz we usually find a way to win, but we have been playing poorly since the Stoke game (way back in August). We have been grinding out results in situations where we were obliterating teams last year. And now with the recent spate of injuries/suspensions, our lack of depth is exposed.
Give us back Essien and Lampard and we are good to go