Chelsea Banter Archive December 08 2017

08 Dec 2017 14:46:11
Hi ed001 can your opinion on Maria Grazovakia the director at Chelsea. Do you think she done well in conducting transfers in Chelsea. Botched transfer deals last
the summer window and letting some cracking players leave the club without efforts to convince them to stay seems to be a failure on her part.

{Ed001's Note - I would suggest her biggest mistake was the dreadful handling of the Eva Carneiro matter. She made a right pig's ear of that and has yet to recover from the mess. Imo she was lucky that Roman trusts her, because that was the kind of mishandling that should have led to a dismissal. For me the same mistakes she made with that, she is making with transfers. She is trying to be strong and stick to her guns, not paying more than she thinks is enough and letting players go as it might seem weak to try and persuade them to stay.

The problem is that, as Spurs have found, you can't be inflexible in any walk of life as eventually you just break. She needs to start treating every case as an individual one, sometimes you have to accept that you pay a little more than you would like for something you really need. As for the ones leaving, that is fine, that is not really her job to integrate players in the team or pick and choose who stays and goes, so I would not hold her responsible.}

08 Dec 2017 15:31:20
Thank you ed001. I have been very uncomfortable with her having everything her own way knowing that she does not have any footballing background. She might bring Chelsea to its knees if she allowed to go on like that unchecked in the long run. I do appreciate your reply. Could do me a favour, occasional responses to question concerning Chelsea transfer rumours in the of absence of ed002.Enjoy your weekend.

{Ed001's Note - I don't think any one person should ever have everything their own way, personally. We all need checks and balances to stop us making a mess of things. If the right person replaces Emenalo, someone she trusts and listens to, then I am sure it will help a lot. We all need to be told we are wrong occasionally. She needs that strong right hand, who will be there to argue the other side of every situation, so she has perspective.}

09 Dec 2017 00:55:41
Ed01 are u married? Have u ever tried to tell your wife she is wrong occasionally? . Who could be a strong right hand to a determined woman, who she would listen to, I wonder if her mother or father are Chelsea supporters.

{Ed001's Note - not married mate, but I get your point, it is difficult to make any strong, determined person listen but it is possible. She is not stupid and she must understand that the best leaders, in all forms of life, prospered only when they had a strong right hand who they listened to and trusted. Whether it is football (Brian Clough with Peter Taylor, Alex Ferguson with any of his number 2s or any of the Liverpool managers during the 70s and 80s), business or warfare, the great leaders have always had that voice in their ear saying 'no'.

If she still does not get it, someone should explain the concept of a naysayer to her, I mean what they actually were invented to do. It was simply a man employed by a ruler to say no to everything the ruler wanted to do and his job was to come up with reasons why those things should not be done. It didn't mean the ruler always changed their mind, but it did mean they at least had all the reasons why they shouldn't presented to them before they made their decisions.}