Roman’s had enough. Time for a new manager.
Journos are working overtime. Don’t be surprised if you see a headline “BlueChampion linked with Chelsea job”. Luckily, there are more capable people. There are more than a dozen names doing rounds now. There are some very very capable managers in this list. Some of them are available and some of them have to be relieved by their current employers. For take the job of a Chelsea manager, I think this is the perfect time. You’re preceded only by a Scolari. That’s an easy benchmark to start with. The new manager will have just about 3 months to resurrect Chelsea’s season and can settle well before he starts the next season. I’m sure that the team will play better and pick up some useful results. A change was very much needed and it would arrive soon.
I have some expectations for the new manager.
(a) The new manager must be young. By young, I mean less than 50 years of age.
(b) He must be a very good communicator. If someone’s unable to communicate, he cannot motivate.
(c) He must be a very good tactician and a real smart-ass.
(d) He must be hungry for success. The winning mentality should be back.
(e) He must have the full support and respect of the key long term Chelsea players.
I hope we get someone who ticks all these boxes.
Go ahead, cast your vote and voice your opinion. Please note that you can make upto THREE choices!!!
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Add Michael Laudrup and Phill Brown to that list
Finally, Scolari has departed. Perhaps now we can start winning matches again…
Mourinho won’t happen, grow up. At least pick someone who has a chance.
Quoting Jasix
Thanks. Just did it!
If memory serves me right,even JM was denied the funds to get a RB that would serve chelsea or any other player by the way.Thats when he signed Ballack as a free transfer.
Its more of the same: The Club bring a new manager but he has to do with what there is,not JM,Avram Gram or Scolari managed to sign the players they wanted.Scolari tried but Kenyon messed up Robinho transfer.You are asked to change the way the club plays,and in doing so you have to win (and in a beautiful way) but you have to do with what you have,very few if none, managers could pull it off…Scolari has its own faults but some else has to share the blame: Kenyon,Abramovich,Arnesen (for failing to provide the yougnsters needed to rejuvenate the squad) and the board for letting Clarke go.
Oh yes, I voted for Bilic, Zola and Martin O Neill.
Guys! Please note that you can make upto THREE choices in the opinion poll!
Replying to Tony Glover: Hey Tony! Who would your three choices? Who did you vote for?
I think that Phill Brown will be a quite interesting choice, don’t ya think? I know he has got a little experience but what he achieved with Hull this season is quite impressive. He definitely has balls, which Scolari apparently didn’t have.
I would like to see Martin O’neill or David Moyes but I doubt this would happen, theyre doing very well and there jobs are very secure so i doubt that they would risk going to Chelsea and loosing all they had built up only to be sacked 12 months down the line. Frank Rijkaard would be a good choice since he knows how to handle big names, won many things with barca and is a free agent so isnt risking anything by becoming Chelsea manager, Guus Hiddink probably aswell but he’s another international manager like scolari so whether he can cut it or not.
Beside the game were we came from behind to beat Stoke City, this got to be the best thing that have happened 2009=)
Frank Rijkaard is ma obvious coach, But I would really like the fact if Steve Clarke could somehow join us, cause I know he is well respected by the club and he did a superb job while he was as an as coach
Slaven Bilic and Michael Laudrup are coaches’ wit fire and knowledge of the game. They have played at the highest level to. I like what Michael did for Getafe last year and slaven, well dude got passion for the game.
Either way things can’t get worst, or can it? It’s funny that some ppl wants Grant=)
/let’s go blues
Just want to bring to the attention the incredible CV of Michael Laudrup as player. During his stay as manager in Getafe the club reached the final in Copa del Rey, but lost to Valencia, and the quarter finals in the UEFA Cup (lost in extra time to Bayern Munich). With that kind of experience, he knows what it takes. That’s why I have voted for Laudrup
* League championships
o Serie A 1985-86 with Juventus
o La Liga 1990-91, 1991-92, 1992-93, 1993-94 with Barcelona; 1994-95 with Real Madrid
o Eredivisie 1997-98 with Ajax
* Domestic cups
o Spanish Cup 1990 with Barcelona
o Spanish Super Cup 1991 and 1992 with Barcelona
o Dutch Cup 1998 with Ajax
* European cups
o Intercontinental Cup 1985 with Juventus
o European Cup 1992 with Barcelona
o European Supercup 1992 with Barcelona
* Individual awards
o Danish Player of the Year 1982 and 1985
o La Liga Player of the year 1992 and 1993
o Best Foreign Player in Spanish Football the last 25 years (1974-1999)
o Denmarks Best Player Ever (2006)
o Confederations Cup Champions: 1995 with Denmark
JOSE MOURINHO
FRANK RAJKARD
Avram Grand , ten cat.
the best thing would be mourinho and clarke:D i just dont want any fast, poor change again. dont look for big names look for success. we need a stayer. i hope who ever come hiddink laudrup zola di matteo, Steve Clarke should be at chelsea. i would love to se zola and clarke.
Here is a few quotes on Laudrup from some very prominent players:
# Romário: “The best player I have ever played with and the 4th best in the history of the game together with Zidane.”
# Raúl: “The best I have ever played with.”
# Zamorano: “Un genio!”, “The reason why I make so many goals, is Laudrup.”
# Cruyff(After Real Madrid with Laudrup had won 5-0 over Cruyff’s Barcelona):”When Michael plays like a dream, a magic illusion, determined to show his new team his extreme abilities, no one in the world comes anywhere near his level.”
# Maradona: “One of the greatest ever.”
# Platini: “One of the biggest talents ever. The best in the world on the training pitch, but never used his talent to its full during matches.
# Platini: “Michael had everything except for one thing: he wasn’t selfish enough.”
# Guardiola: “The best player in the world, I can’t believe he hasn’t won the title as best player.”
# Beckenbauer: “Pelé was the best in the 60′s, Cruyff in the 70′s, Maradona in the 80′s and Laudrup in the 90′s.”
# Roberto Galia:”I have played against Maradona, Platini and Baggio. But the player I saw do the most indescribable things was Michael Laudrup”
# Clemente:”To me, Michael Laudrup is the most genius player the world has ever seen. He will always be my numero uno. Always.”
# Bakero:”No one has given the club [Barcelona] as much inspiration as Michael. We all look up to him. It is a privilege to have your day enriched by a genius.”
f*ck rijkard he sucks big time, im telling u. no right man. i dont want a nother fvckin samba danser at chelsea. he couldnt even beat chelsea with the barca he had back then. only when chelsea had 10 players. no dissrespect but i dont like when fans that only been a chelsea fan for 4 years come and bring up names like rijkard and sh*t. u want this team to be like real madrid, only in england? i want a stayer, dont give a fvck about your personal likes.
obviously, mourinho is the top choice of everyone, but it would take roman’s grovelling to get him back here
that is an unlikely scenario in my opinion as roman tends not to care much for kneeling
so my next choice is rijkaard, long term, he seems like the way foward, if we hire him, i want to see him at the helm for 3 seasons
thirdly is clarke but im not sure he would be happy to accept a role as an assistant if we promoted him to manager so i think we should leave him be
i dont want martin o’neil or david moyes because i like what they are doing with their teams and want them to stay where they are
fergie launched a comment today. Fergie had 4 trophyless seasons, but he gave the board in manchester a reason to trust him, grant and scolari have not done that
voted for Mourinho first just to show him honour, feel really sad that he can´t make it this year atleast.
my second choice is definitely Mancini, but i´m not sure if he can live up to the levels of Premier League.
my third vote was for Rijkaard, but he was sacked by Barcelona for failing. So is it good to sign someone who was sacked by out european rivals? There could be ego problems in signing him.
my fourth choice is Steve Clarke (with Zola?), well this guy is a Chelsea material in terms of manager. I still feel he was the man behind our success in JM era and AG. Coz it was when he left we started to look suddenly so vulnerable and shaky. I tell you, get Steve back, and let him work for half a year, after that we could get Jose in the next season!!! With both of them together imagine what chelsea can achieve! I´m he Steve would happily do that. ( and ofcourse RA would have to sack that ARsene (or whatever his name was ) as well.
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1st Choice : Jose Mourinho – 2ed : None – 3rd : None.
yes. maybe it’s not possible to have him but it’s same for some other for instance : Zola/Clarke (already rejected by Hammers) Guus Hiddink busy. O’Niell busy. Jurgen Klinsmann busy. Ruud Gullitt busy. Mark Hughes busy and others…… !
Keep Hope Alive.
Jose Mourinho was not my first or any choice. No matter how much I’d like to see it, I know it won’t happen. I’m for Steve Clarke as a matter of principle. He is a Chelsea man and has seen first hand how to manage a champion team as he has helped coach champions. Whomever winds up at the helm should be someone who is a solid tactitian that can motivate a team to win. Even in losing, there should be a sense that the players were striving hard for the 3 points. If the next manager doesn’t win anything his first season but leads the team within a hair of something, keep him. If he proves that he knows what he is doing but the club is the victim of too many injuries or bad calls, let him stay for longer than one season. If he puts trophies in the case, one empty year should not be the end of his career at the club.
just reading what blue fan wrote, if barca is so poor from rijkaard, why is the team he built doing so well right now? the only thing guardiola did is sell ronaldinho and buy seydou keita
rijkaard is dutch, he turned barca around, chelsea was a very strong team when we faced them, yes we may have had 10 men at one stage, but our defence was still solid then
by making the statement you have, you not only say rijkaard is poor, you say liverpool is the best team in the world, i think very from that
scolari really did do it for the money!! i heard he just smiled when he was told he will not continue as manager
i think Frank Rijkaard is not a suitable for the job the reason is Condition (b).
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/football/premier_league/chelsea/article5697905.ece?token=null&offset=12&page=2
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/football/premier_league/chelsea/article5697982.ece
good reading
Well, The news of Scolari sacking is not a suprising to me at all. For a person, who couldn’t even try one different combination, who can’t even motivate the team, I don’t have much sympathy after he said ‘if they give me the sack they can pay me up’.
After reading what is said bbc and goal.com , Roman personally sacked Scolari , it is brings out the point that Roman is still interested in Chelsea.
Now coming to who next at Chelsea, I like most of the candidates in the pooling list. Martin O neil , Phil Brown and David Moyes – very good candidates, but I don’t think they will be able to manage the egos of Didier drogba, Nicolas Anelka , Deco , Florent Maluoda , Joe Cole . They are good at managing the team they have build .
I don’t like Ruud Gullit as a manager . He couldn’t manage LA Galaxy , so not worth the gamble. Also wouldn’t go for Sven Erickkson. Have played Scolari team three times but still couldn’t read his tactics
.. Many like Mancini, but he has never done well in Europe.
If Roman had the patience to wait till end of the month to select a manager, I would unanimously vote for Laurdup because then he will be under no pressure this season. I think he is wild card, remember roman allowed his russian club ( not sure which one ) to train at cobham.
Coming to the people , I would vote for ( although they are more than three), not in any order.
a) Jose Mourinho – Only he can meet the expectations he set up . Will he be available , definitely not, because he has a point to prove at Italy may be available at the end of the season.
b) Frank Rijkaard – I like him very much .If it was at the beginning of this season, I always said the only thing roman had to do was remove Grant and put in Rijkaard along with Ten Cate and Clarke. There are questions also if he can manage the egos considering what happened at Barca with Ronnie and Deco. Quarasema would be another player who does not go well with him. But in the given scenario, he is the front runner.
c) Zola/ Steve Clarke – It is good combination, favourite with the supporters and players. Should not expect a trophy immediately. Doubt West ham will leave them.
d) Rafa Benitez – Love him or Hate Him , he is indeed a master tactician. Worth a try with the crisis at Anfield board room.
e) Hen Ten Cate – I did not find him in BC polling list, but to me he is a good , honest and a no nonsense coach capable of taming our wild egos.
Surprising that I did not find any Italian coaches in the polling list – Carlo Ancelloti, Spalleti ( Roma moved from relegation to the just one point f top 4 and 6 points of top 2) .
this is my message for all of you,
I am finding this news everywhere in newspaper that what Chelsea has done is a disgrace. Chelsea is no more than a billionaire´s indulgance and playground blaa blaa. I tell you RA and guys DON`T BOTHER!!!
There is a strange rivalry between Press and Chelsea. THis could be because (what i concluded after reading so many posts) most football reporters are Manure and Arse-anal fans and thus they hate their rival club CHelsea!! They don´t want us to succeed. they had always had problems with Chelsea. They had problem when JM was winning, they´re happy when JM left, they had problem under AG`s rule, and when
they found that he wasn´t good enough for this job, they had problem as he left. then came scolari, and they had problem with him when he was failing and AND AFTER HE HAD PROVED HIS INCOMPETENCE THEY HAVE PROBLEM HIM BEING SACKED!!!! So what i concluded that all press wants from us is instability. They want to create panic in our club and create such a negative and sadistic environment that no big managers would be willing to take charge of our club.
and i have problem with all those bastards who call others glory hunters. Chelsea is no more that mid-tabelled club. It has evolved and has become the world´s top seeded club. So there are higher expectations from this club. You guys need to understand this. The aim of new chelsea is to attrackt fans from all over the world and thus make it great. It now aims at winning every game. I am afraid to tell that the way some “loyal fans” talk, i feel they´ve become the friction for our own evolution. Tell me you loyal guys that you don´t want to see Chelsea top table every year and i´ll faithfully never watch football ever in my life. There is a glory hunter in every one of us and that is good, because that keeps us focused and interested. we give more gas to achieve it. And this glory hunter feeling will one day make us European and finally world champions.
I ready to hear all sorts of comments.
I pick Roman A.,men let a coach stay at least till the end when TSO(JM) is available.
My top choice is Louis van Gaal, he’s got the tactics and the balls for chelsea.
Completely support the sacking. On the pitch, we’ve been disinterested at best for the better part of two months… I chose Clarke, Bilic, and O’Neill. My question: Why doesn’t anyone think Steve Clarke can be a top-flight manager? Does he speak strangely? Does he have a lazy eye? Bad teeth? Not get on well with the press? The man is Chelsea through-and-through. He was Mourinho’s deputy, the players all have an existing relationship with him, and right now he’s as close as we’re going to get to The Special One.
Sorry. All the players know Clarke, save Quaresma. And what will happen to him?
I voted for JM, Riijkard and Zola, coincidentally which are the top 3 in votes right now.
JM because of obvious reasons, Riijkard for his attacking football and occasional promotion of youngsters and Zola for respect in Chelsea dressing room. And whoever they pick, I hope Roman picks someone with guts and daring, and allows 2 years to show results. In a tough league, it is not easy to show immediate results.
Quoting IwasMissingJose
Press reporters want to blabber because that is the only way they make money.. They talked too much about chelsea playing a boring game lot of 1-0 draws. Here is a comparision, in the 2006-7 season, when chelsea were runners up they won 9 games in 1-0 margin. Guess what Man U has already won 9 games in a 1-0 margin , including last two . How-ever you see, they happen to the world championship winning side best in europe.
In the last 5 year, chelsea may have spend more than any club , but you look at the last 2 years, Man U have spend much much more than chelsea and guess what they did not buy success by money , their list of home grown players Ronaldo , Rooney, Rio , Berbatov, Carrick, Vidic, Evra, may be another 30 MM for Tevez and not name Park, Nani, Anderson. Rooney, Rio, Berbatov all around 30 MM pounds and we keep banging about a poor Sheva
So don’t care much about the press. All I say, when Real Madrid, Inter can replace their championship winning boss, when Barca can part ways with probably their best coach after cryuff Chelsea has every right to remove Scolari .
Why is Peter Kenyon Spared here….
He is also the one to be sacked. He failed in selecting Scolari and signing Robinho.
Should he be the one to select our next manager… No way?
Sack him as well…
Replying to Blue Devil: Great point…
Hiddink, he is a tactical genius!
as a supporter i am starting to feel shame for chelsea. They have sacked how many managers in the last 5 years and many of them have had very little bad experiences.
Also mourinho didnt want ballack, that was an avram grant signing(when grant was tech director). Avram grant also wanted dani alves but wasnt prepared to shell out 30 mill euros for a player untested in england.
Scolari started off strongly but his biggest problem was his inability to adapt to the opponent. Against a top 4 side you want a strong mid, get 2 DM’s playing so they can break up play and force the play out wide. Ask your FB’s to attack alot less and use a counter attacking strategy, play your the relegation fodder not the favourites. Thats why he has lost every major game against top sides, its due to his inability to go hey maybe i should be slightly more defensive. Its easy when you manage brazil or portugal, they both can steamroll opponents with no fuss. And even with portugal as soon as he gets a strong midfield to try and break his team usually falls on its face, it happened against greece and germany in the euro’s both times. Scolari shouldnt have been fired but i can see why he was, he had the unfortunate fate of heavy expectations, RA wanted barce style football, winning pretty but that isnt and against the big teams it cost scolari badly.
Well the scolari era didnt even last a full season and now we back to where we were 5 years ago, a decent squad underperforming with very little money to spend and average players in positions where we need world class players. Hopefully chelsea gets it right this time.
Who is voting for Avram Grant?? Can someone tell me the reasoning behind that? That is ridiculous.
Replying to TruePlatinum: Calm down!..although i didnt vote for frank but you just cant go around bulshiting and not giving respect to other ppl opinion…as for u, no 1 gives a fcuk to what you had to say abt chelsea fans..as if you were born with a chelsea shirt on U..just think before u speak..ur opinion sucks
PLS…no avram grant!!!!!!!!!!!!!we can get back mourinho but it will nt be easy…i will nt mind hiddink,carlo,mancini,rijkaard as long as players like him…i wonder wat will happen to quaresma…just loaned nt long ago and the manager is sacked…hope quaresma will stay man….the reason he came to chelsea was course of scolari…seems like mourinho will be nt coming chelsea afterall…if he come…quaresma will suffer LOL….
drogba need to improve man…he totally sux nw…hope the new manager can help motivate everyone
one point no one has brought out yet is how the feck will most of the chelsea team react to this…most of them brazilian and protugese..lol..
its sucha joke….wonder if they might go on a strike or something….their father like figure is gone…just a thought
give me clarkey anytime… ex understudy of the special one should be able to push us thru to end of season, well at least if not the top 2, perhaps the top 4… he has the special bond with the lads, the tactics from his era with jose, well loved and respected by the fans. .. chels do not need big signings nor massive names… clarkey has been with the blues from young and whatever he needs to know about the team or english football, he has it at the back of his palm… franco without clarkey was nothin till the latter arrived… and he doesnt need to be paid big bucks by scroogeski… that’s my 2 cents there
Martin O’neal…ha ha
What makes Chelsea fans think they could even have any chance of luring MON..ha ha…It’s so laughable how the fans think Chelsea can lure anyone! Most of you were not even fans a few years ago. Boom and bust has gone. Steady building of quality teams are on the rise. Good luck to all the fans of the Evertons, Villa’s etc. Real support and now with real managers. Chelsea will get another glory bling manager that can do bugger all without the banking of big money. The only way Chelsea have ‘had’ success is becuase on money..Nothing to do with management.
Where’s your manager gone?….where’s your manager gone?
Far, far away…
Where’s your money goin?…Where’s your money goin?
Far, far away
Looks like your fans ar’all goin the same way…Shooop-i-dooop…dooop-i-dooop-i-dooop-dooop
Quoting cfc
thats exactly the heart and soul of my point. thanks for presenting in a better way!
I believe we screwed up when we sacked JM. Seriously a bit of patience with the man and he could have delivered great things. Even Avram Grant was good. He got us to the final of the Champions League and we still sack him. It’s ridiculous. Theres no stability for the players and we wonder why we’re shit at the moment. Hopefully we perform in the Champions League. Do you guys still think theres even a slight chance of winning the Premiership? I want to here some other opinions
So , Scolari is gone. I posted about a week ago that i thought something was bound to give. I thought it would have been honourable if he had resigned. However, let’s put this recent happenings at the Bridge in perspective. Scolari was found out by almost every football pundit in the world. His team had one way of playing. Let the full backs attack and attack. When crosses were not meeting their targets cos that didn’t suit Anelka , our leading striker, most opposing defenders just had little to worry about. Scolari had no other alternative. Most times he just looked hapless on the touch line. Personally , from what i saw of the team, he had lost it and was just on auto-pilot, hoping some miracle would happen. In that regard i side with the board. Scolari failed to show he could turn things around and in the end even if he had problems with some players, the board could not fire players, he could. His physical trainer was also no help at all. when a team lose concentration at the tail ends of each half , then u question their conditioning.
@25 th media will always look to unsettle Chelsea. They were the same media who got on his back and now that he has gone ,they tell us it’s wrong move. Like i have said several times here, to majority of the media Chelsea shouldn’t be here. It’s not it’s place. We r the aberation, the little guy that is ruffling the feathers of the so-called traditional english clubs. They have always told us we have bought our success yet fail to see Manure and looserpool all spent more than us in the last two seasons. even the Spuds.
The referees are no different. They will always err on the side of Manure and Looserpool cos they were teams they were supporting when they were little.
Some players should also take a good hard look at themselves. Whenever a new manager comes in , i hope he culls the group and re-assemble his legion. I am not going to name players to be brought in. i’ll leave that to the new manager. Chelsea needs to build a tradition. A tradition that places premium on gifted players. Our scouting and recruitment people should have this as their core objective in their search for players.
Players like Ballack ,Deco and Drogba should leave among others . They’ve helped us but now their egos are not helping the team. John Terry should also really improve. He is only 26 yet Phil Jagielka looks more like a prime terry that Terry himself.
The best is yet to come from Chelsea, our detractors are always in wings , it’s time for all Blues all over the world stand together and hope we do turn a corner for the best. Carefree forever!!
@45 | MatBlue – You simply dont resign mid-season.Thats like giving up on you and your team and to be honest a new manager coming mid-seasson would hardly do any better than Scolari,and after all Scolari lost 5 games in the past 7 months.The Club should have waited till the end of seasson and then quietly and steadily bring a new manager and try to build things his way with time and patience.It just seems another hasty and careless decision by Abramovich,and we have seen plenty og them before to know its deemed to end in tears.
Scolari has faults.Sure.But it seems that every manager will have compared to JM.Lets face it:Abramovich tought that a even a trained monkey could win using his money but it turns out it isnt so and the money is not there anymore.
Fergusson didnt win EPL or CL two years in a row,did he get the boot?Did anyone tought we would get the boot?If you can have stability on top,how on earth you want to have stable,dedicated players?And how will new managers be respected by the players if most of them see any new manager as transitory?
Would Ronaldo,Nani and others would have developed that well in MU if the manager would have been rotated this often?Dont think so…
#Mieonblues is dead right. Clarke would come back to Chelsea for almost nothing (provided that West Ham would be fool enough to let him go). I personally thought he would have been Grant’s replacement. But, we need someone the fans can get behind and can energize the players.
philco, a nice bloke, a man for rio not a man or the russian front,and yes i agree terry looks like a man on a dope or drunken binge, and the strikers well , the scoring rate speaks for them, i back the bear, but he needs to motivate the players or sack them.
kiani you read far too much into it, I simply challenege the logic of blue m behind his statement, idea being so I can understand his veiwpoint, no-one is or should be calling anyone a bullshitter nor an idiot, take my liverpool comment as jest, not insult
Thanks for you support cfc24 to Michael Laudrup. He is young, he is hungry for managerial success, but first of all he is footballing genius. I’m sure he will be able make all our existing players feel it’s fun to play football again. Keep voting Laudrup, and forget JM, he will not return.
one thing i will always say about chelsea, is it should epitomise class
i always like to think of our team having a moral highground for not being dirty or dishonest nor unprofessional, when you see carvahlo shirtpulling, ballack pushing, drogba slapping, it does anger me
rijkaard is not a personal like of mine, he was a dirty midfielder, caught spitting on other players and what not, I just think that the majority of criteria will be answered by him, the question is can he manager the big personalities, he did for a while at barca but it ultimately caused him to walk out with a year left on contract
I am quite open to the idea of clarke, he has been a major influence on our success, the problem is, bringing him in knowing there is a possibility of axing him at the end of the season is going to cause more damage than good, which is another reason I don’t want to see zola in the chair right now
bluefanforever
fair point i thought of, i think the only people who will bemoan this are belletti and deco
quaresma knows if he plays well, he will get chances, carvahlo appeared to fall out with scolari before he left, ferreira……well………
bosingwa, should be fine also
i personally think carvahlo, terry, lampard, anelka, drogba and cech clubbed together to get scolari out because none of them, regardless of how public it became were happy with scolari come october
@45 And about changing managers mid season, just take a look at West ham and perhaps Real Madrid mate
The press can go FOOK itself !
JM JM JM JM JM JM JM JM JM JM JM JM JM JM JM JM plus Clarke of course !
Quoting MatBlue
yea yea, whatever, but the last thing any chelsea fan would like to see now is chelsea contending for Uefa cup and not the champions league next year. And by the way losing to Juventus this champions league may even cause an irreparaible damage to chelsea, both in terms of reputation and moral of our players. Sacking of scolari was a right move.
Rijkaard says he would love to manage chelsea, but only if would be allowed to stay here for a longer time. I think we should get him, regardless of his background. He is young, competitive, tactically strong and a proven one. He can definitely bring strong good changes in chelsea. And i don´t mind him having problem with deco. what abt you guys?
http://www.goal.com/en/news/1711/chelsea/2009/02/10/1102673/breaking-news-guus-hiddink-states-he-is-in-talks-with-chelsea-to
Guus Hiddink
i see some blue mates says zola & clark! for god sake think better! he (zola) must been our best player & all of us respect him we named him one of our legends but the point is he is new to management world & should obtain more experience and west ham is best place for him right now. we need an expert just know what to do to get the results immediately. no time for testing this and that if we wanted that we must kept Scholari. in simple word we need a proven skill to come & do the job.
I am extremely delighted with this news.I want Steve Clarke as our manager if Zola doesnt come.I do not see jose mourinho coming back at this point of time but would love to have him.Steve Clarke really deserved the job after Avram Grant.
But have all of you guys noticed that Scolari was our MOST EXPENSIVE SIGNING of the season.
He is going to get a 15 million pounds compensation.
Guus Hiddinks may take over Chelsea for the short term till the end of the season, In a way it is a good move because right now we have strenght and quality within the squad, we just need someone that can mastermind his way to success and Hiddinks is certainly the man to steady the Chelsea ship till the end of the season.
it looks like we are going to have hiddink for a few months before he goes back to russia
Now it seems Hiddink will take over the club on interim basis till the end of the season:
http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/story?id=617729&sec=england&cc=5739
Quoting trueblue
Probably we should sue him and get the money back . He doesn’t deserve more than 1 million. Remember we were paid the same amount for Steve Clarke.
Guus Hiddink seems to be on way for next three months and may be Rijkaard or Ancelloti or even Mourinho in summer.
yupee, i´ve a very good feeling now guys. I think we can win both FA and champions league with Guus HIddink. And for the new season, get mourinho by all costs!!!
Replying to IwasMissingJose:
i dont think so , not another national team coach!!! plus let him finish the Russian job, what about rijkaard, who would be interested, also mancini they bot have good CL experience!!
http://www.chelseafc.com/page/LatestNews/0,,10268~1552160,00.html
yeah good news but it could be better !! lol . but i think good move for the rest of the season & after that Jose definitely can be here!
1. JOSE MOURINHO
2. STEVE CLARKE
3. DAVID MOYES
I tell you rijkaard is our man!! if not its mancini. We should just start building on how this new coach wants to play, take the rest of the season for practice !! I tell you we are going wrong again, just get a young talented manager from now!
Quoting denver
you need to get your infos right buddy. Guus Hiddink is a proven coach with intensive club and international expierience. He has worked with Real Madrid and PSV eindhoven and as a coach of south korea , netherlands, australia and now Russia. Believe me you´´ll never find such an expierienced and talented and a master tactician for serving a short term period for chelsea. Its almost like you found gold when looking for stones. He is willing to rule chelsea for 3 months, and you´ll see he´ll rock. after that he´ll go back to russia and i wish chelsea will try to bring back JM. But as the reports suggest ancelloti would be the choice for next season. But i wish it were Rijkaard or JM for the next season.
“Chelsea Football Club can confirm we have officially approached the Russian Football Union (RFU) for permission to speak to Guus Hiddink to become the club’s temporary coach until the end of the season while continuing to be in charge of the Russian national team.
That permission has been granted and Chelsea would like to thank the RFU for their co-operation.”
What a stupid idea… our board is insane I have to tell…
Hiddink will become Chelsea’s new manager, it’s offical!
rijkaard says he wants the job but not on a short term !!! remember this is the man that brought good football with titles!!!! and he is saying come get me for the long haul and we go for Guss on short term, which mean a few months down the line we will need to get someone else, why not just get him now! unless they plan to go after JOSE…
let rijkaard settle from now so that when the new season starts he has an advantage
I believe Hiddink is much better than Rijkaard!
Quoting IwasMissingJose
after the scolari issue i dont trust any of those national team coaches (maybe it was just our luck) but that was the same thing we said about scolari. I too would like rijkaard, but he said he would come now, what if he has to choose between AC and us, AC would win out. i would like to see JOSE back as well but its not for sure he would think about it.
I dont want to get a washed up tired ancelotti at the start of the new season. If we get Rijkaard now we would know what to expect and how to improve and he would be under less pressure
What a Joke … Next Home match every body should go dressed as clowns … Because thats what we are …
This is absolutely Bonkers. Mr. Peter Kenyon (Leeds) announced that they are appointing someone temporary until the end of the season. Is he piss???
The last four managers were on temporary appointment. What is he talking about. Are we going to have the next four on a temporary basis. Can Alex and Arsene please tell us how they manage to stay so long in their club so that Mr. Kenyon can take heed.Scholari have to take some blame for using his Brazilian mafia coaching team and ease out Steve Clarke. The Statistic showed two weeks after he left us, we went on a free fall and West Ham went on the Climb. We have too many pensioners in the team who feels they are still the Miss World of Football, I really wished I never went there to see Hull torture us. I wished I stayed with my Asahi Beer at Chelsea Bar.
I think Abrammovich will bring Guss in from Russia as they don’t have much programmes until the summer and test him out whether he is suited for Premier league football.
I think he should start getting some proper advisor for him to see some sense and bring some stability to the Club. We cannot live on the knife edge.
I like Guus Hiddink and I think if anyone he can step up to any challange. That man can do magic. Then if its ideal to have a coach who also coachs a nationalside ..I dont know about that but he have done it before so if its done-able.
I actually think its a good idea, the club saves money and gets the best shortterm coachs on the planet. cause you think anyone else would take a 3-4 month job? wit the right CV?
but in the summer I hope we go for a young coach. Michael L would be a good one. We need a coachs who can lead this type of group wit some of the biggest ego in the planet. and at the same time a man who is looking for the bigger picture..the future.
P K got a alots of things to get straight this time….
/k
this way we would give him a bit more time to mold the team, and mold it alot better; and know who goes and who leaves in the summer
Jose Mourinho would be the idle choice for chelsea right now and our habbit of winning will be back under his regime.
Vijay Anil
so its offical now????
Quoting denver
And there you´ve got your infos wrong again!
Rijkaard has clearly said “he doesn´t want to take over chelsea in the middle of this season, but would gladly be our new successor for the next season! He doesn´t want to manage any club for the remaining 3 months.”
and as i said Hiddink is not simply a national coach. He was also coach of Real Madrid, PSV Einhoven, Getafe, Fenerbanche. Although his spell at Real Madrid and Valencia were not good, simply because at that time these clubs were going through financial turmoil, his return to PSV Eindhoven was classic. he won 3 dutch titles with that club and the then CHampions league called European cup at 1988, and missed the champions league trophy in 2005-2006 with AC MIlan. Remember he had that fcuking dutch side. So he is more like Mourinho. the next year PSV was eliminated from the group stage of CL because the club sold 5 of their startin 11 to Manure, spurs, aston vila and Ac milan!!!
and now he has brought russia to new heights. Otherwise i never new russia could even play a football. Look what he created from AShravin and Pavulychenko, he made them worth 15 million pounds.
I feel chelsea yongsters like Stoch, kakutta, Sahar, Sinclair, Fabio pam etc. are going to be very busy for the next 3 months. Chelsea´s Golden period is re.arriving.
For all the facts above, he is very unlike Scolari, who made champions out of underdogs.
if Guus gets the nod it might see Ivanovic getting a more important role in the team, and this will show just how good he is
sorry re writin the last statement,
or all the facts above, he is very unlike Scolari, who made dogs out of champions.
i´m so excited guys!!!
im with denver (surprise surprise)
its silly to bring in hiddink to hold the fort when rijkaard is available and wants a lifetime at the helm
at least bring him in as assistant and then promote him when hiddink leaves, he needs to get his knowledge base and premiership experience, if we just give him the pre-season, you cannot expect instant results
i don’t know why are u choosing mourinho he can’t be the manager it’s a finish deal…STOP DREAMING..!! we would be very stupid if we don’t take Frank Rajkard as a manager, besides this he does not have any job currently, and also i thing he would take back where we was at least we would win the CHL…
I’m 219% sure you’re all wrong.
Official: Chelsea Granted Permission By Russian Football Union To Talk To Guus Hiddink
Looks like Guus is the front liner at this point. I voted for Frank Rijkaard but we looks like RA may well preferred Guss. All I hope for is we return to stability and we may not necessary have any titles to show or lift any cups in return but a minimum 4th place finish and have a squad ready to challenge next seasons at all front would be the only wish I have. KTBFFH!!!
http://www.chelseafc.com/page/LatestNews/0,,10268~1552160,00.html Hiddnik is Chelsea new manager
addon: Guus will caretake Chelsea until the end of the season while still in-charge of the Russian FC…. there goes the stability part….
Seems like Hiddink will be the next Chelsea manager untill end of the season. He is a very special manager with an extensive experience in European football. His records indicate that he is a super tactician, too. That is what we need after all the holes Scolari left at Chelsea. I think Scolari had big problems with some of our senior players. Whoever steps in the office should identify those who let us down and get rid of them. The players certainly need a motivation. We need someone who can bring back our winning mentality. We need someone who is able to outthink and outsmart their main rivals. Our squad is no longer the best in the world. To those who are saying here in this blog that we have the No 1 squad in Europe, I would say “No Way”. Our squad is nowhere near the likes of Manchester United, Barcelona or even Inter Milan. We had the best and biggest squad last year. That is why we went so close to three main trophies.
dont compare last year we had maka and essien playing regularlywe were strong
jose aint comin bac guys…
Good riddance to portuzilain rubbish.
Rijkaard doesn’t want to come nw. At least try to read the previous posts b4 you start banging at your keyboard.
Jm will not come. He’s having it good in Italy and Roman will have to stoop, I dnt see him doing that. I dnt wnt rijk, no sexy footie for me, I want function nt fashion, i wnt fucking pragmatism. I dnt mind Moyes at all.
I dnt want Mancini, nt so sure abt his man management. Plus, he never did well with Inter in Champions League, even though he had a sweet squad.
Like Hiddink though and the temporary thing is perfect for all concerned, we gt experience and tactical ingenuity, he gets away from boredom. Actuall, I think all National teams should follow this model, it saves money
Over the years, Chels should have eased young Academy players into the first team, players like Mancienne, Sahar, Sinclair etc, even as subs, or in so called “lesser” Cups, like the League Cup etc. This ensures continuity, team building, safeguards against the consequences of funds drying up (as now), & gives hope & encouragment to talented young lads—JT came up thus, & he’s not been too bad, has he?
Carlo Ancelotti is a very good choice (Especially if he can bring with him the best players). I’m not talking about the relics – young guys like Pato who on current form is bound to be the next best striker in the world. That dude is making an old geezer like Beckam look good. Of course Kaka will stay of course but (and I’m dreaming here) how funny would it be if he left w/ CA in the summer to come to the Bridge.
Oooooh those City Boys would truly be hopping ass mad.
Anyways back to reality – This is good news all around that GH is takign over as temp coach. He is known for not taking any Sh!t. If anyone can throw the hairdryers in the dressing room and get our pampered players back in the right mind set it is GH.
I mean come on… just LOOK at the man. Does he cry out to you.. “Hey I just want to be your friend”???
I think this guy is coming to the Bridge with a bottle of lube and a cattle prod.
and that is EXACTLY what our player’s need right now.
baba olowo…go carry frank rikaard come oooh
Replying to TruePlatinum:
okej then u look up what guardiola has changed (allot of players). and also his system is very diffrent. he brought back eto and henry to their top form to. just look at the team this year and last year.
I can see all you passionate loyal fans are concern about where do we go from here and who will lead us there… so do I. Just would like to make a point that all managers possesses different characteristics in their management… some are good at picking the right combination of players available in the market (JM, Wenger, Fergie) and some do more with what they’ve got and motivate them into better players (Martin O’Neil, Moyes, P Brown, and of course Guus H). We obviously needs a motivator as the window is closed… but I’ll be damn if we need to go through this pain again of seeking another “LONG” term manager at the end of the season…
p.s : “We currently owns the record of having the most short-lived managers out of the BIG FOUR. It is something that CFC need to fix if were to go to the next level but having said this, it is nobody’s fault that we are in this position, it just means that “The RIGHT One” has not turn up yet”.
I can’t believe so many people voted for Rijkaard. He is one of the most hated people ever at the Bridge, even more than Grant. I think he would be a divisive force when what we need is someone who can pull all the different camps together. I notice Ancelotti isn’t on the poll, and it could well be him. We’ll never see Mourinho again as manager at Chelsea I’m afraid. I agree he’ll probably wind up at ManUre, alas. Whoever takes over the Chelsea helm is in for a rollercoaster ride. Anyway Scolari is gone and maybe now, things will buck up a little.
Replying to TruePlatinum: Brother Im so sorry!..this comment was not meant for you.It was for the comment before you. I have no issues with ur comment..let me get back to the 1 i was intending to comment on..cheerZ
Replying to BlueFan #1: Calm down!..although i didnt vote for frank but you just cant go around bulshiting and not giving respect to other ppl opinion…as for u, no 1 gives a fcuk to what you had to say abt chelsea fans..as if you were born with a chelsea shirt on U..just think before u speak..ur opinion sucks
Jose Mourinho has said he will return to Chelsea one day but is not saying when. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/7890621.stm
I voted for Slaven Bilic, Frank Rijkaard and Martin O’Neil.
Slaven Bilic has had some success with the Croatian national team and he could of easily got them to the final of EURO 2008, it was all down to luck really when he lost to Turkey. He has had some Premier League experience when he was playing for Everton and West Ham and he is a very good tactition. He is good at communicating with players and has a lot of charisma like Jose Mournho! I really think he can succeed at Chelsea and if he was put in charge, I hope he is given time.
Frank Rijkaard had some great years with Barcelona but he was extremely laid back. In his final season with Barcelona, he seemed to had lost control over the whole squad and there was a lot of speculation that he wasn’t getting on with key players i.e … Ronaldinho, Deco, Eto’o ect … so I do have my doubts about him.
And Martin O’Neil has built something great with Aston Villa! He is calm and a good tactition and also good at getting his message across. However I doubt he would consider Chelsea especially the fact that he would have to work under Roman Abramovich and Peter Kenyon and could even face the sack within 6 months if things were not looking good.
I don’t want Ancelotti – he hasn’t been very successful with AC Milan
I don’t want Mancini – His record is terrible in Europe
I don’t want Zola YET – I would love to have him in the future but for now he needs some more experience with West Ham
I deffo don’t want Avram Grant Back – He was a useless berkshire arse!