Julien Laurent

I mean, the guy could not even win more than three games in a row.

And that only happened twice, by the way, in 14 months.

It was embarrassing.

He was just not good enough.

So he had to go.

And I think they would have sacked him at the end of the season regardless.

But now, because he asked for it, they got rid of him now.

I guess, I mean, this is a great question.

This is a great debate to have as well, whether you're ready or not to make that step up and everything.

He's still so young.

He's only 41 years old.

The one I would say, maybe, because I do think that he's going to be a bit more pragmatic and not too dogmatic, not like Amorim, and just going in with the same system that he had at Strasbourg where they played with a back three, which this current Chelsea team doesn't and hasn't probably played like that since...

the first few games of Thomas Tuchel, for example.

But what I would say, maybe it's probably easier to convince those young players of Strasbourg to go all in in terms of running and intensity and pressing and counter pressing, because that's what they did.

They were one of the teams that ran the most in Ligue 1.

They were man v man everywhere on the pitch.

They chased that ball forever and they were so intense, so intense all the time.

And it's probably easier to do that in Ligue 1 with Strasbourg than to ask Enzo, hey, can you man-mark Declan Rice for the whole game, please?

To say to Cole Palmer, can you follow Zubi Mendy for the whole game, please?

To ask Joel Pedro, hey, what about you stay with Virgil van Dijk the whole game or you come and help with... This is very different.