Debates, Manager, Top Stories - Written by BlueChampion on Saturday, May 31, 2008 5:10 | 1,934 Views | 65 Comments | Add Comment
Is Roman Enlightened Now?
Is Roman just being simply ruthless due to his trophyless performance or he has realised his mistakes? Roman has just disposed off Grant and Ten Cate in the space of a week. Didn’t Roman have a plan when he brought Grant and Ten Cate? Weren’t they supposed to bring something new to Chelsea? What do these dismissals tell me? I think Roman is slowly but surely getting to know the people around him.
The good thing about Grant’s sacking is that Roman may not seek advices from Grant in football matters anymore. Won’t look very nice, right? Especially when Grant has even rejected the football director post? That’s what I realised when I saw some news about Roman consulting Ancelotti. That’s a very good healthy sign from Roman. He is now going to his experts and not to his friends or the set of yes men.
When Ten Cate arrived, I saw it as a good news. That was a few days after Grant was appointed. May be that’s what made Ten Cate appointment look like an oasis in a desert. Steve Clarke was also rumoured to be leaving then. We had known that Ten Cate was the ‘iron man’. His strictness and toughness with the players were very popular and effective. But he had to be complemented with a manager who can keep him under control and ensure that his relationship with the players was cooperative. In Grant he had someone who was already struggling to stay in friendly terms with the players.
Forget about Grant and Ten Cate losing the dressing room, they never seemed to have been part of it. The quarrel between Terry and Ten Cate in the training ground under the watchful eyes of Grant summed up all their roles and relationships. Terry wants to boss around knowing Grant does not help much. Ten Cate continues being his own self at a new club who have a settled bunch of champions. Grant watches these two subordinates of him quarreling with each other but does nothing about the situation. Since JM left, the power struggle is quite evident to see in Chelsea.
The big plus about this nasty quarrel is that Roman was supposed to have seen this too. Roman must have felt utterly disappointed looking at this nonsense. May be that’s when Roman must have thought that the big scheme that was sold to him was simply a scandal. Roman must have felt betrayed. With further events at the club, Roman must have realised at that moment that he was taken for a ride. It was around this period Roman gifted the 2 million pound four-seater Ferrari to JM. May be he felt bad that he sacked JM based on the advices from his close circle, who later on failed, leaving all to the players themselves. I don’t think it was a coincidence that the frequency of interaction between Roman and JM increased in the last few months.
So now, an enlightened Roman is on a rampage. He has started hunting down those who were all involved in that scheme, directly or indirectly. Grant gets a sack despite what was seen as an over-achievement by him. The cold statement by Bruce Buck that ‘being second is not what we want’ said it all. Without Roman’s concurrence, I don’t see Bruce Buck uttering these words to the owner’s pal who surprised himself. Okay now, will the enlightened Roman bring back Jose Mourinho as the Chelsea manager?
I’d love to see that happen. Of course I bought all the media stories about JM returning to Chelsea. But this does not seem realistic now. By all probabilities JM will join Inter. Earlier I had said that JM should not return to Chelsea so soon as it would make Roman’s decision making look ridiculous and he would make himself a joke, despite being a big man to admit his mistakes. But now, by sacking Grant, he has already admitted that he made a mistake with that appointment. So, JM joining Chelsea will be quite good. But that seems very remote now. What do we do?
Well, Chelsea need not rush their decision. Anyway, most of the transfers would happen only after the conclusion of Euro 2008. Of course, we can still look for non-Euro 2008 players which includes English players too. To wait for the Euro to finish might widen the net with coaches like BIlic becoming probables. At present there are about dozen names linked including Rijkaard, Hughes, Lippi, Mancini etc.
I have a feeling that the new Chelsea manager would not be someone you’d call old. Something tells me he would be less than 50, for sure. While I can’t wait for the announcement, I can understand that Chelsea need time to appoint the next one. After sacking the third manager in 5 years, there must be some weightage for the stability factor. We can’t afford another experiment as another sacking would make us look even more ridiculous than we are now. If the board and Roman think that the new manager should be in charge for at least three seasons, they might naturally take their time on the selection. Three seasons might look like a long period when you realise that one of the most successful managers in club football lasted only three seasons at Chelsea.
Chelsea has been in the news for all wrong reasons. It is not due to an outspoken manager or a big headed striker. Much of the bad media publicity that Chelsea has received of late, is due to the club. It is now, more than ever, the ‘billionaire’s plaything’ propaganda by the Press is very strong. Look at this sequence - a successful manager wins trophies, creates history, gets sacked due to his failed relationship with the owner, owner appoints his friend who is little known and qualified, gets a 4 year contract when we think he is a stop gap, a new assistant manager is hired, this buddy surprises everyone this season, the old man still gets sacked within eight months, and now the newly appointed assistant manager also gets sacked with little apparent reasons though we can make our guesses. All this has happened in 8 months. It is this unpredictable roller coaster ride in the management staff that has put us in poor light than the occasional ramblings of an loud mouthed manager, who at least was successful. When I read Grant saying that his objective was to improve the image of Chelsea, I thought it was laughable.
I don’t mind if Roman and the board take another 6 weeks to appoint the new manager but we simply can’t get it wrong one more time. Roman needs to find someone trustworthy and should set out his targets and belief in the manager’s footballing philosophy that could meet his targets sooner or later. We cannot adopt this ‘you lost so you’re fired’ anymore. I don’t mean that our expectations should change. For all the millions invested, it is within Roman’s right to set stiff targets but we should keep at least one side as fixed and keep the others variable. The composition of the team can vary but he should work with the coach, instead of looking for a new coach every time the current ‘fails’, by his standards.
Okay, if I’ve given you any impression like Grant has been rendered injustice by Roman, please erase it. Grant deserved a sack, undoubtedly. Not because he gave us a trophyless season but I don’t see him as our future. He won’t lead us anywhere. I fully support that he was given the boot but the mistake was hiring him in the first place. I hope I’ve made myself clear here.
If this piece looks like one of those ‘News of the World’ reports, I can’t help it. I just grouped my thoughts, not facts, together. Feel free to disagree.
65 Comments
1. EssienTheGOD
2. Maysam
too late for this topic.
3. joeblue
i really hope and pray its not Mancini, hate that guy, i think he aint even a top coach, he is a failure in the CL, and won the league only cuz Juve and AC were on a downhill road, Hughes, Zola, Rijkard, Ancelotti, Hiddink or even Scolari would suit me fine…..
4. Ramji
Great post BC! Summed everything up beautifully. Actually if you look at what we have done in the past since Roman took over, all the decisions have been very good ones except the sacking of Mourinho. I mean they sacked Ranieri knowing they had an incredibly better manager lined up in Mourinho. Most of our transfers have been exceptional. Just count the number of failed transfers versus the number of successful ones. Thats why we were such a strong team last season irrespective of Grant being the manager. I feel its only last season that too much influence has been exerted in footballing matters by Roman’s so-called buddies. This time I have a quiet confidence about the new manager. Because they are doing it the right way. Not rushing into a decision, biding their time and consulting people involved with the game. I don’t know if our new manager will be young but they I think Roman has a very good idea of how the new guy should be. Thats good enough for me.
Most of the people linked with the job don’t impress me much probably because I don’t know much about them. But here’s a list of who I would NOT like to see as manager next term.
1. Mancini - I don’t support any Italian for that matter. Boring football. And a big game bottler. Especially since I strongly feel we have the best squad in Europe right now.
2. Erikkson - He’s an italian coach who just happened to be born in Sweden. Same reasons as above.
3. Rijkaard - Not suited to the English game. His comments after the semi-finals vs ManU are good proof that he doesnt like the English game. He would probably try to implement his own philosophy which won’t work here.
One guy I would like to look at is Marco Van Basten. I know he’s agreed to take over at Ajax but worth a try. Has lot of respect all over the world and Netherlands play beautiful football under him. Even Hughes would be good provided we give him time(atleast 2 full seasons)
5. mike
What about laudrop? I have heard he suits the role.
6. lefthog
Roman like all of us has pretty much no idea how to build and maintain a very successful football club that also plays halfway attractive (and by “build” i don’t mean shelling out 500.000.000€ for superstar players).
in Mourinho he had a manager who knew how to play very successful but Roman could not stand that TSO got all the credit for Chelsea’s success so he fired him when a good reason arose (a poor start to the season)
what Roman should do is:
- finance the club
- find good and smart people to run the show
- not let his ego get in the way
to the manager canidates i say this:
i have no idea how they turn out. Hughes and Laudrup might wilt under big club pressure. Rijkaard might clash with Roman and Kenyon like he did the last two years at Barcelona.
I just truly hope that Mancini does NOT get hired. There is almost zero chance Chelsea will play attractive attacking football with an Italian at the helm.
7. henry
Lets go for Luis Philip Scholari.
8. Ron
Arsene Wenger - Why doesn’t Roman get him itself. Arsenal play the beautiful game and Arsene Wenger is a great manager. With Roman’s millions, it can do wonders.
9. pandayumyum
great article and i agree w/ much that is said there
but whoever comes in, and i hesitate to say this, must help us forget about JM and move on. He must be able to come in and be just as brash and strong-willed and confident as TSO himself. I hate to say this but so many at Stamford Bridge are still so connected to him and it is essential that players, staff, and fans move on before we can power through all engines roaring to the top again.
10. heyjose
i also agree manchini is not good choice.get scholari after euros
11. Geof
Management and Scounting style of chelsea fc
The whole process of identifying and recruiting of a new coach is rather slow considering the immediate need to buy players of good quality and character whose our delay may make others to buy them.
For the current uncertainity and confusion in our club the blamed should be put on the board. Utmost their decision making is poor in terms of both recruitment of players and managers. For instance,the chairman fully acknowledged the fact that Avra Grant success to the day leading to the CL was undoubtful, how come they offered him a four years contract instead of two to evaluate his competence to manage chelsea.
I even wonder if at all channels of communication really exist at chelsea(i.e the board taking views from supporters).Our scouting system is really undesirable becuase we seem to recommend better players for recruitment but to no avail. The likes of Tevez,Quarezima were mentioned the whole of last year but our rivals came unhestantily and bought. Quality players while we started to worry and sack the coaches for poor conclusion of the season.
This year we have mentioned the likes of Vaadar Vart, Klaasar,Eto& Di Santos(Baca)but Chelsea board hope will not consider them.We need players that can attack and change the game for us and a manager that can read the game and make tactical substutions not any how.
Concerned chelsea supporter
12. SH.IBRAHIMI
i watched Germany-Serbia today and Ballack scored a great goal from free kick .. Ivanovic also played for Serbia ..
13. Denver
@12. SH.IBRAHIMI how did Ivanovic look…???!!!!
did he read the game well, was he good on the ground and in the air??
14. SH.IBRAHIMI
@13.Denver Serbia defend very well till the Germany equaliser and particularly Vidic was outstanding in the first half he cleared a Ballack header off the line and save a 100%goal .. Ivanovic also had a good game as i said they’re defence was brilliant till 74min and kept Gomez/Kuranyi quiet but it was Ivanovic foul just outside the box that lead to Ballack winner form free-kick also watched Portugal-Georgia and Bosingwa had a good game in 1st half almost all the actions start from him from the right side ..
15. Ringo
Oi ,Roman ,bring back Ruud.
Let him finish what he started!
16. GermanFan
Scollari I believe ruled himself out to join Chelsea.
C Ronaldo is almost certain to join Real Madrid, watch this window, with the money ManU will buy Quaresma, a similar type of player, though Inter is after Quaresma too.
Though I think Scollari is a brilliant manager I do not know how he would behave with the english press, I can see a few fists going around, lol.
I too watched Germany-Serbia and to be honest I was not impressed with Ivanovic, not the guy to replace R Carvalho, well but still young so can progress.
I do not understand why so many do not like Mancini, we all know that the last 3 scuddettos were won with Juve and Milan in chaos, but Mancini is much better than the clown that Chelsea had. I think when Chelsea gave a contract of 4 years to Avram Grant was on the orders of Roman, he already knew he wouldnt be the manager to take Chelsea forward, at least as his friend and “advisor” he could leave with a golden goodbye.
17. Denver
guys I now hear that Rijkaard is leading the race to take over chelsea…. I cant understand you guys…. when rijkaard was at Barca all of us wanted him at chelsea and now he is free….its like no one wants to support a move for him. Big phil wont come because he wont leave Portugal…. plus if we were to wait on him that would through off our transfer plans, meaning all the good player would have been sold already and we would miss out. I believe he can bring attractive, winning football to the bridge, plus he is a pretty calm guy so he would not be in the media too much, well unless Roman feels like fiddling with the squad again…. that would piss off any coach!
18. Den
the solution is Laudrup, end of story
19. trueplatinum
just to point out, ivanovic is a right wingback, not a true centreback
as for a manager, id love to have scolari but english is a necessity and since only about 4 players speak portuguese, rijkaard looks like the suspect
as for the actual article, the way i understood the situation, is grant asked abramovich for the chance to prove his mettle, regardless of being unqualified to coach at this level, he held the ship temporarily, ten cate came in to help becasue grant couldn’t cope.
this is evident in the oubursts of drogba and the players showing disrespect for grant on top of many outburts and reports of dressing room altercations. ten cate left because he didn’t want to stay, no sacking invloved
20. heyjose
no big clubs will be involved in transfers during euros so we can wait till after europe
21. heyjose
no big clubs will be involved in transfers during euros so we can wait till after euros to appoint new manager
22. Jang
How did Ivanovic fair individually yesterday? Thought he was alittle sluggish.
23. mike
I thought that ivanovic was talented, if inexperienced. In a few years, he will be great
24. JoseHoliday
Well of all the candidates for the Chelsea job I think I’d go for Scolari !
First of all he is a strict discplinarian and would put all those egos in the team in place
Cos he doesn’t know English,he wouldn’t give give a fook about what’s in the press or pay the darnest of attention to what we fans and critics or the Owner think or write in little blogs like this .
He looks like a man who would stand up tall against Roman and say “nyet” when the nyetting is warranted.
He’s Brazilian so that should do something positive to the style of play problem.
He’s much more -good looking ( than you know who … ) and should win Chelsea a lot more lady fans.
He is a a big-game manager and looks like he’s got balls….
And finally he wouldn’t stay forever… even if he won 4 premierships and 2 CL’s in a row… therefore JM could come back after a while with his Ferrari and the kids could continue their education in London.
Kaka and half the Brazilizn team might be tempted to head for SB cos of him… making us the Samba team and that would be real cool….
25. Den
jose holiday are you gay
26. owonatty
If Ancelotti can be snatched from AC milan that will be great, after him I will go for Scolari. Before thinking of Rikard . Those are the three shortlisted managers by me in the pecking order.
Robinho and Giovanni Dos Santos most likely to join us, but the management is waiting for the new coach i think.
27. mike ayad
AC Milan vice president (Galliani) said this:
“Him and another Italian coach were on top of Chelsea’s wish list and the fact our coach is sought after and well seen gives me great pleasure. But Carlo Ancelotti is and will stay Milan’s coach.”
this means that ancelotti and mancini were on top of chelseas wanted managers list!!!!!
because mancini is italian and so is ancelotti…mancini is probably gonna be chelseas next manager!!!
so is this good or bad news to u guys????
28. mike
Mancini : bad ancellotti :good
29. Chelsea Iran
Dos santos agree a deal with spurs.Cluas huntlair will go to MU.Villa will stay at Valencia.Quaresma will join milan.It seem we will have a bad season next years.Maybe the worst season in chelsea history.with manccini as a manager and the chelsea out list
This team will be really weak.Juande ramos get good players for his team.I think they will reach champions league stage next season and chelsea will finish under fourth.
The gunners wish will be truth next season
30. z one and only
Nice fantasy BlueChampion
Why are Chelsea fans desperate to avoid any criticism of Roman. The gist of the rubbish we peddle to ourselves is that Roman is some sort of naive faux Forrest Gump type manipulated by the nasties he surrounds himself with. If only! He chooses his friends and in many cases employs them. It is much easier to blame Kenyon for being a grasping little shit and Buck for being the consummate professional i.e. yesman and Greenberg for being the anti-PR guru, but ultimately RA surrounded himself with these people and for the most part they are too weak to ignore his wishes.
31. trueplatinum
is anyone else growing restless with our managerial situation, im frustrated to see that dos santos is going with his first offer, despite the fact we set a fee much higher for him with barca
maybe we should look into non-european players like messi, but with ronaldo about to go, we may not need to worry about it
32. Henry
Chelsea on top of the UEFA club team rankings followed by Milan and Liverpool
This is on basis of the last 5 years performance.
http://www.xs4all.nl/~kassiesa/bert/uefa/data/method3/trank2008.html
Bayern Munich, Roma will be a Pot 2 team and Juventus a Pot 3 team .
so we can have a group of death next year in CL Qualification .
33. MU World
Manchester United Will be more stronger next season.Ronaldo Will go to Real.FUCK HIM.but
Karim Ben Zeman/Daniel Alves/Klus Huntlair/Luis Fabiano will Come to Fergie Team to get all Cups Next season.You blus fans must ready your self for a painful season without a manager.I think most of chelsea players will join Inter Milan and your John Terry will be alone next season.Maybe he will be chelsea manager next season.
Stamford Bridge”””Manchester United 3:0 Chelsea
Ben zema/Huntlair/Nani
34. Ars Gunners
If anceloty will be your next manager we will beat you double.If MANCINI Come we will beat you double to Only jose can save your team.but he will not retur to chelsea.he will be the champions of euro with inter .You fool chelsea fans boo him in the Rosenborg game.His face was unbelivable.
35. Denver
Give Steve Clarke the post and if not him, Then give him “director of football”!!! I am backing him for the role of “Director of Football” !!!!!!!!!!!!!
36. mike
Hey arse gunner, what did arsenal win , nothing! They stuffed up their chance to win the premiership AND didn’t even come second ! Arsenal are a disgrace! Wenger is an (ancient) idiot who hasn’t won anything lately! Oh and where did Arse-anal come in the champions league?
37. xerxesk
how about steve clark for manager?
38. Denver
guys it seems we have lost out in the race to sing Dos Santos. I we loose out on him we MUST sign Quaresma for sure!!
39. Denver
Jm seems set to bid for essien guys!!!
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/football/article1233656.ece
we cannot allow this to happen at any cost!!! this guy is the heart of our Mid field even though grant used for the better half of the season at RB (but when he comes back to MF he really makes a difference with his runs through the middle)
40. mike ayad
mourinho to be annnounced s inter coach today
41. JoseHoliday
Well said @30
42. TBF
@BC
On a lighter note,
drop your cv and blog link for guardian job,duncan is getting old……….lol
on a serious note,
i still believe avram was never meant to replace jose[i will talk facts instead of my thoughts]
1.We went for Klinsmann immeediately in the summer with Avram as a delegate along with Roman and other board members[confirmed by klinsmann]
why will roman be goin for klinsmann when he has avram to play the back-stabber.
2.i think it was jose’s last year at the club……..tension was at it’s peak…..maybe avram was appointed for just bridging the gap in order to survive the season and remain as a back-up in case things go awry.
jose came up with poor results and add to that came up with the brilliant “no eggs no omellettes theory”
any owner with any form of self-respect wouldd have sacked him for that statement alone irrespective of whether of he was 6 or 600 trophies.
[on a side note the squad was not good enough for jose but yet good enough to desrve the cl,came up with a whisker of winning the league and cc final.]BC, i remember you were mocking some time back with “cement sacks” dig…….lol
3.if avram knew he was going to become manager,odds are 99% in favour of the board or avram having a staff back up ready but apparently it wasn’t the case.[big fact not thoughts.........think about it].
now we come to 4 year theory
let’s say avram is announced as caretaker
chances are
1.he is not going to try enough knowing his future.
2.squad is neither going to respond to him or his staff.
3.media circus starts unsettling the players and linking us with every manager available.
now if roman offers him 4 year contract
1.avram gets disillusioned that impossible may occur and works his arse off to get full trust.
2.squad starts responding knowing that he is the future
3.media circus is avoided.
side-effects of the process:fan,blogs circus starts………………lol
apparently avram’s compensation was too small if you notice that he has 4 years contract.[that further solidifies my views]
will look for a responce
43. BlueChampion
TBF
The facts that you think as facts are mostly your opinions or wishful thinking or theories. While I admit, you don’t. That’s the difference.
1. Immediately after JM was sacked, Chelsea FC announced that Grant would be the full time manager and Kenyon said it in the press conference that he is NOT a stop gap. On the very same day, if I’m right. Two months later, Grant was given a 4-year contract!
2. JM could have avoided that comment but he was not talking about the squad. If you’re little less biased, you can see JM’s repeated comments at the start of the season that he has the best squad in Europe. When he made that omlette quote, he was only referring that he was missing some key players so early in the season. I have no doubts that if JM had stayed, he would have won the champions league, FA Cup and League Cup and may be, may be the premier league. Being one of those ‘fans’ to use the ‘cement sack’ insult on ‘our own’ players, I wonder how you could even make a reference to that without a hint of guilt! Anyway, I’ve seen worse . . .
3. There were no facts there. Bad logic. I’m asking why Steve Clarke is not made the caretaker manager now, if you honestly believe that Grant was appointed as the caretaker manager after JM left? Steve Clarke can be a better caretaker manager than Avram Grant for any club except the ones in Israel. And compensations cannot be found by simple multiplication. There could be many clauses in there that will stop us from doing the simple math to arrive at the amount.
Your logic might work in a video game but where we are dealing with real humans, it might fail. Even if you give a 100-year contract to Avram Grant, no way players are going to think he is the future. If an (rightfully) egoistic billionaire like RA is renenwing his friendship with JM, with whom his relationship broke beyond repair (as quoted by Kenyon), that too within 6 months after he sacked JM, has RA not learnt something. Who is realising the mistakes? JM or RA. Even now, if JM is a ‘yes man’ like AG (or a power broker playing politics in football), JM could very well take the Chelsea job in RA’s terms. But he won’t. My only theory is that RA realised that he made a mistake and he is slowly coming to terms with reality.
Of late, we have been having nice constructive discussions on football and Chelsea. I was so relieved that we are moving from the JM debate. I’m not planning to get back into that boring debate. I’m ending this discussion with this.
44. Jose
I think chelsea must pray that to wouldnt face inter next year.If we face inter jose do any thing to beat chelsea hardly for example 4:0 .He want to prove himself against Roman. Essien/Carvalhio/Lampard/Mikel Maybe go to inter.
45. IwasMissingJose
yea, i heard Essien would be his first signing today.
46. IwasMissingJose
I think chelsea is making a big misake by not signing in a new manager quickly. That makes players insecure. Well then it means all chlesea living legends except JT and Joe Cole will be leaving. It doesn´t sound a good news to me at all.
47. serbin
@Denver I can tell you that in 3 matches we played Rajkovic was much better than Ivanovic. I was impressed. In the match against Ireland he was the best player on the pitch. He would be excellent in the pair with Vidic. As for Ivanovic it is obvious that he has not played for a long time. Lacks confidence he had before.But you can never lose quality and he has it. And Rajkovic is very mature.More similar to Vidic than Ivanovic.
48. ish
Who know i realized, if you watch chelsea’s games from lets say grant taking over and the CL finals, we see a definite improvement in quality of football, still barca or arsenal level but an improvement. I think grant was taking it very slowly so the players didnt feel overwhelmed. I still dont think he was the right man for the job because his man management was poor and he tactics were nothing special but on average his teams played no worse then man.u and outperformed most teams they played against for majority of matches.
Now the new coach i dont know who it will be but im hoping its someone respected and liked, because chelsea’s big problem is roman. He thinks he can buy success and admiration. Success is easy to get but admiration is harder. Get a coach stick to him, make him liked, get a former player turned coach(hey zola whats up) to bring in fans again. Next dont mess up the team too much, RB is bosingwa, i think we could lose drogba, lampard and carvalho as well as get rid of dead weight like ben haim, sidwell, belletti, wright-phillips and pizarro and still have a decent squad. Chelsea has a massive squad with no need for it. If all those players leave we probably only need a back up striker to make it to at least 2nd.
Give sheva his time, same for malouda and anelka and if they dont perform still then get rid of them in january. Buying is not always the answer.
49. blueindian
Rajkovic is Chelsea’s player parked at PSV.
50. mike ayad
new inter coach,jose mourinho
A statement on the club’s official website reads:
“Jose Mourinho is no
If Roman wants to start a new project for Chelsea domination then he needs to bring in someone who is young,has a pedigree as a player or coach, and most importantly he must be hungry for success at high level.Moreover his vision must coincide with Roman’s of beautiful football or else it will be again same story even if he wins trophies.But Roman must give time to new manager to built up a tradition at Chelsea even if it costs us trophies.
| Quote This Comment | Add Comment | Go To Top | Back To Home | Gravatar | BC Shout | BBC Radio | Refresh |I think Michael Laudrup is a fantastic candidate for the post.Hailed as best player of 90’s era, he is young,looking for success and has already shown acumen at Getafe.