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Originally Posted by ZAIDS
2) aim to bring through younger players
again his short termism, his win at all costs attitude, doesn't allow for this. The thing is, barring any disasters (like this season), I think his job was safe if there was progress without the trophies / league titles in the short term. I think after losing out on the league in 13-14, which if you ignore the little horse troll he would have been absolutely confident chelsea could win it, caused the sale of lukaku (and previously de bruyne) to buy ready made high level talent. Where maybe working with lukaku (and others) a year off being ready (de bruyne was ready and regrettable loss - fwiw I think mata was a good sell) and maybe finishing 2nd to city would still be fine for Roman. But it doesn't seem he can adapt to that and his attitude after losing out in 13-14 was "I must win league next season". Which is fine and winning the league last year can't really be a reason for being 16th this time round (that is likely a combination of 1. and 3. ) but maybe not optimal for long term development.
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Lets not also forget the sale of Shirly. Leaving Mata aside, the biggest black mark against his tenure, aside from just the pure naked lol of season 2015/16, is looking at the players that have left and the players that have come in. Yes we have had some good signings but a lot of one season flops. The good signings we could have funded without loosing Luk and KDB, but we spent monies on Cudrado and Salah et al.