Carlo was a decent manager.Yes he made mistakes.Yes he got his tactics absolutely wrong.But he stood by it.He admitted his mistakes,his limitations.Ferguson spent four trophyless years at the beginning of his career.I’m not saying Carlo would’ve become like Sir Alex.But yeah he could’ve atleast made the club stable.He wanted to bring youth players in.He was willing to work through the hostile atmosphere Roman has created.He didn’t rebel when Wilkins was sacked without his knowledge.He handled Press Conferences admirably.He should’ve been given another shot with a bit more freedom with transfers.

Instead,He got the SACK!
Now what are our options?
1.Guus Hiddink.
2.Andre Villas Boas.
3.Marco Van Basten.
4.Frank Riijkaard.
None of them offers a stable long-term managerial solution.
Andre Villas Boas might offer us that chance.But what if he takes his time to adjust to the Premier League?
Van Basten has been out of the managerial job for a long time as I reckon.Again he might need time.
Rijkaard?He failed when Ronaldinho stopped performing in Barcelona.So I don’t rate him as a coach capable of managing beyond Barcelona’s tactics.

Hiddink and Hiddink only can offer us something of a long term solution.But there’s huge doubt as to whether he will come to Chelsea or not.Its like Rifat Bin Mourtuza said:We have no future if Roman keeps up like this.

Get ready for a summer of change in Stamford Bridge.And not good changes.

really sad to hear this.. we should have kept TFO for another season at least.. he dint deserve to go out… now where do we go after this?

:)) I just do not know when I die ;)
See, I told you since Gullit , I predicted the departure of all managers correct ( BUT MOURINHO)…. and I always predict it several months earlier (My record is Scolari, I predicted it the day he signed his contract with Chelsea) …
I just wish we could retreive all messagesI have sent on this blog …
Roman did not even wait for next week meeting….
Next step is hiring a good manager …

@maysam-When have we NOT hired a good manager?(with the exception of Scolari of course).
Good managers.Good players.Good facilities.Zero patience.

As you made a new blog so quickly after the last one I copy and paste my comment

So Roman has thrown one of his toys out of the pram again. He’s a spoilt rich idiot of a man. I actually want him to sell the club, we are much better of without him. Maybe not financially, but I do not want to be a prostitute to his pathetic oil billions. In fact I would rather that Chelsea was a struggling club with integrity and the heart in the right place than being a victim of a rich idiots manic fantasies. All the rubbish his take over has brought is beginning to show and a lot of fans do not like it (check out Twitter f.ex it’s a clear indication of dissatisfaction).
The mentality that you just dispose of anything you don’t like is the symptoms of madman’s neurotic dispositions.
Chelsea was a proud club with true blue support, now it’s a lot of plastic fans and a mentality that you just buy new if what you’ve got isn’t working. There is very little respect for Chelsea outside the club and today’s disgraceful sacking of Ancelotti is not improving our reputation.
Consider who would actually want to be employed by Chelsea in the future after the last decade of boardroom blunders. Not all people are for sale, most people want to be wanted at their work place.

Ahraf,

Since Mourinho’s departure
1.Avram was a huge mistake. I do not know where they found him. Do you think Avram Grant was a good candidate?
2. Scolari. Scolari had no experience in managing professional club. I do not know whose idea was hiring him.
3. Ancelotti: one Serie A in 8 years wtith all starts in the world. I was agianst him from the first day.

DanaBlue,

I would buy these words after Mourinho’s departure, but for Carlo? No. This is one of the smartest decisions that Roman has ever made for Chelsea. I do not give a damn about reputation. I do not mind even if Chelsea change manager every year as long as they get better results. and I should say after Mourniho (roman’s mistake) we are improving.

Guys, just pray that Guss does not succeed with Turkey….
Rijkard and Guordiela do not deserve to be in Chelsea .. they own half of theri success to corrupted UEFA and referees. They just know how to succeed as long as they have gifted players such as Ronaldinho and Messi ….
These are best choices:
1. Guss Hiddink
2. Harry Redknapp (He hopefully brings Madric with himself too): One feeling tells me he already got the job. Harry loves to manage England one day and he has to manage one of big 4 to be considered for England.

I say Frank Rijkaard !….
next … Van basten

guys Guus said time and time again… if he did come back i will be as a director… get it in ur damn heads… the man has recommended… 2 men .. the one i prefer (rijkaard) and Basten,
if we hear of both men in london.. we know whats up …

From a tactical point of view Rijkaard is a vary bad manager. I would prefer Van Basten over Rijkaard any day.

I said it here weeks back that I loved Carlo cos he is such a fine human. Very good manager as well but in my view not the top manager Chelsea craves. In many ways Carlo and Ranieri are so similarly. Great blokes but not at the very top of their game. Give same players to Jose or Hiddink and I bet the results would have been better. Reminds me of the collapse we suffered under Scolari and the magical turn around Guss brought. Cos of his great personality many of us are shocked and hurt by the manner of the dismissal, but I think he had it coming. My first choice would be Guss since I know Jose cannot make it back. But I would not mind have the Porto boss at all since he reminds me so much of Jose.
Thanks a million King Carlo for the time with us but it’s time for us to move on.

Arsenalic_smile_of_Drogba,

are u serious man .. basten failed as a club manager.. rijkaard won a good amount of el clasicos!!!

give the man the respect he deserves

I am not surprised, it was clear that he would be sacked. We all know this, he knew this. Even in winter he himslef surprised that he was still in the job.
So about sacking, it was question of when and what time?

Now, no time for cry! He was not best in the job. We won last season as Manu released two key players. If Ronaldo and Tevez were still in Manu, no damn double trophy last year as well.

Every BIG club have their ambitions, so it is normal. Look at Real, Inter or Bayern.

Carlo is nice man, but we can’t keep every nice man.

All the best Carlo. Thanks for everything !
By now, i want Harry Redknapp to lead us if possible. This guy knows english football well.

Carlo, we bid you farewell… you are and will always be a gentleman of the first order in our hearts and minds ……. we hope you are successful ( except up against Chelsea) ……..

And Roman I hope you been doing some careful thinking/recruiting….

Pity. But it felt inevitable.

Best of luck to Carlo. He’s a good one.

If it works as Guus Hiddink wants, he’ll be in the front office and his boy on the sidelines will be van Basten.

Pity van Basten has never won anything as a manager. But hey, there’s always a first time, right?

Liverpool’s loss to Birmingham City mean they don’t play in the Europa League next season.

England’s Europa representatives will be an odd lot. Spurs, Birmingham City and Stoke City. And probably Blackpool, who get in on the Fair Play rule. Fulham would have won the Fair Play spot but they had a man sent off Sunday! We’ll know for sure on Thursday.

So possibly two second division clubs playing in Europe. I can’t see either lasting long. They won’t want to expend their slender squads on anything but winning promotion.

Torres got two managers fired this season.

Pretty good haul.

I wonder if he’ll shoot for more next season?

Lol wxwax

I expect torres to get atleast one more manager fired, he gives me the creeps, a complete horror show, unless something magical happens this summer.
Another manager fired, another big money disaster, am gonna have a long summer of torture with my pals….sigh..

Just a thought

Why not bring in Ray Wilkins as Full time Manager and Steve Clarke as Assistant Manager

Both of them know the Club and the players well. They would do pretty well according to me.

Wow bc you can blame the manager but say the players were not at fault?
Who goes out to play?? Carlo??

By the way you are wrong there it was hodgson not benitez whom wxwax referred to, your blind blaming is alluding your judgement of these highly paid below average preforming players..

Well finally the prayers of certain individuals on this blog have been answered and Carlo Ancelotti has been fired, he didn’t leave the club, he was fired, there is a big difference between the two. But anyway it happened, it happened within minutes of the defeat at Goodison, it couldn’t even wait till the team arrived back at the bridge, instead it happened in the dressing room of an away team … bravo CFC bravo. Football and football fans alike are a strange bunch, 12 months ago the man who was being hailed as a genious and the guy who had laid a certain “TSO or GOD as some people here like to address him as” ghosts to bed, is now being reffered to as “good riddance”. Instead of an farewell article, for a man, infact THE ONLY MAN who guided us to our first ever double, the ONLY MAN to break and re-write EPL history, the ONLY MAN to defeat the top 4 sides of the previous season home and away. We get a short notice saying thank you and now lets move on, respect, admiration, loyalty, no such thing is left within football clubs and fans alike. When you succeed they fall on their feet and bow day and night to you, when you are defeated they simply want to see the back of you.

Every football pundit, every writer, former coaches and players alike are expressing their disgust at what transpired yesterday. Don’t take my rant as an example, instead look at the views of former players and coached who actually have some experience in the game unlike most of us fans, almost everyone is surprised that Carlo was sacked and sacked in such a disrespectful manner. Roman has bought succes beyond our wildest imagination to this club, but thank god he only has 2 hands, in one of them he’s got his chequebook and in the other an axe. If he’s not loosning his purse strings, then he’s most certainly swinging the axe. Either way this club will never move forward, but hey the club and the management knows best i guess/hope. Lets hope they dont further humilaite us by bringing the likes of Grant / Van Basten to the club who have proved nothing as a manager. If a proven manager like Carlo cannot succed at this club then I don’t know who will, maybe the GOD or TSO will return …. only to leave us for UTD job LOL!!!

chelsea lose……
ancelotti sacked….
my glasses broke this morning……
2010 was a bad year for me from the summer……..and 2011 summer looks to end that way….
carlo ancelotti………..damn……..Sir, You are a fantastic coach who brought in a new fresh methodology that was stagnant for the last 5 years. The methodology known as atack. And your intentions may have been clear, show RA the sort of football that creates lots of goals and build a team. Sadly RA did not understand that building a team means integrating new players who may take up to 3 years to click.
I’m not entirely sure if chelsea will win anything in the next season.
And i hope RA understands that we are going to lose JT,Lamps,Drog,Anelka,Malouda…basically the scoring front of chelsea very soon.
And to replace them takes TIME!!!!!
And PATIENCE!!!!
not ruthlessness…..Ron Gourlay…….man……..bring back Peter Kenyon……………

I just remembered…a certain Louis Van Gaal…is free!!!!
Attractive football…check
Total football….check
Nonsense and sometimes suicidal defending…..check
all the ingredients required for RA to see chelsea win 4-3 in most of their games…..which is what he wants..
No but LVG can really dictate the movement and tempo and he’s not afraid to drop the biggies……….

@Jaz, thank you for balancing this blog. Very wise words.
I hope all the players take JT’s words seriously. He said yesterday that “everyone has to look to themselves to find out why this season went so wrong. Every player should be disappointed with themselves.”
http://www.chelseafc.com/page/LatestNews/0,,10268~2365127,00.html

One journalists description of what happened in the corridors at Goodison yesterday:

“Working with Ancelotti over these two years, a sense of fun has come over that is not always apparent to those who only see him stood, arms-crossed in the technical area. A joker, with a love for life, in players tunnels up and down the country he has always been, among the team, the respected schoolteacher who is at the same time the butt and the focus of the class’ pranks. Loved and doted-on by players, the banter clearly flowed: in English; in Italian; in good old-fashioned slapstick.

But that was all gone as he sat there. He had to undergo the ultimate indignity: performing for the press, toeing the company line. He publicly told people that a meeting was yet to be arranged with HR; but privately knew he had just been given his cards and told the contents his desk drawers would be FedExed to him in coming days.

He did, however, have time for one last joke. Asked by one reporter what he was going to do now, the prospects of a year cultivating the garden with £6m in his back pocket obviously passed though his mind.

He looked up, arched that eyebrow, smiled, and said: “I am on holiday now. For how long, I don’t know.” And then he left.”

The Willy Wonka award for most ridiculous owner
Roman Abramovich (Chelsea)

http://www.goal.com/en-gb/news/2896/premier-league/2011/05/23/2499131/mock-the-weekend-chelseas-roman-abramovich-is-the-most

Some 2010/11 Statistics

2010/11 Top Scorers:
1 – Nicolas Anelka – 16
2 – Florent Malouda – 14
3 – Didier Drogba – 13*
3 – Salomon Kalou – 13
3 – Frank Lampard – 13 (+2 pre-season)
6 – Branislav Ivanovic – 6
7 – Daniel Sturridge – 4 (+1 pre-season)
7 – Michael Essien – 4 (+1 pre-season)
7 – John Terry – 4
10 – Ramires – 2
10 – David Luiz – 2
10 – Alex da Costa – 2
10 – Own Goals – 2 (Ian Evatt, Blackpool & Carlos Edwards, Ipswich)
14 – Fernando Torres – 1
14 – Yossi Benayoun – 1
14 – Patrick van Aanholt – 1
14 – Yury Zhirkov – 1
*Drogba goal against Blackpool credited as own goal

2010/11 Chelsea Golden Gloves:
Petr Cech – 50 games, 20 clean sheets – 38 goals conceded
Henrique Hilario – 1 game, 0 clean sheets – 3 goals conceded
Ross Turnbull – 2 games, 0 clean sheets – 5 goals conceded

2010/11 Assists Table:
1 – Didier Drogba – 19
2 – Nicolas Anelka – 9
3 – Salomon Kalou – 8
4 – Frank Lampard – 7
4 – Florent Malouda – 6
6 – Michael Essien – 5
7 – Yuri Zhirkov – 4
7 – Ashley Cole – 4
7 – Branislav Ivanovic – 4
10 – John Terry – 3
11 – Yossi Benayoun – 2
11 – John Mikel Obi – 2
11 – Paulo Ferreira – 2
11 – Gael Kakuta – 2
11 – Fernando Torres – 2
16 – Daniel Sturridge – 1
16 – Alex da Costa – 1
16 – Patrick van Aanholt – 1
16 – Petr Cech – 1
16 – José Bosingwa – 1
16 – Ryan Bertrand – 1

Appearances
(including Community Shield)
Petr Cech – 50+0 sub – 50
Ross Turnbull – 2+0 sub – 2
Henrique Hilario – 1+0 sub – 1
Ashley Cole – 48+0 sub – 48
Branislav Ivanovic – 46+2 sub – 48
John Terry – 46+0 sub – 46
Paulo Ferreira – 19+10 sub – 29
José Bosingwa – 20+6 sub – 26
Alex – 16+4 sub – 20
David Luiz – 11+1 sub – 12
Jeffrey Bruma – 3+4 sub – 7
Patrick van Aanholt – 3+3 sub – 6
Ryan Bertrand – 0+1 sub – 1
Florent Malouda – 43+7 sub – 50
Michael Essien – 42+2 sub – 44
Ramires – 33+8 sub – 41
John Mikel Obi – 35+2 sub – 37
Frank Lampard – 31+1 sub – 32
Yury Zhirkov – 13+9 sub – 22
Joshua McEachran – 4+13 sub – 17
Gael Kakuta – 4+8 sub – 12
Yossi Benayoun – 3+7 sub – 10
Jacob Mellis – 0+1 sub – 1
Nicolas Anelka – 39+8 sub – 47
Didier Drogba – 38+9 sub – 47
Salomon Kalou – 23+20 sub – 43
Daniel Sturridge – 4+17 sub – 21
Fernando Torres – 11+7 sub – 18

Substitutions 2010/11:
Most substituted-off – Florent Malouda – 19
Most substituted-on – Salomon Kalou – 20

People have their own views. And mine is like, i commented in earlier posts. Carlo should have been given one more chance, but now that management has done the unthinkable, lets stop moaning about it and look for the new candidate. Otherwise burn the Chelsea jersies you´ve bought and fuck off.

The Guardian says Chelsea will attacha condition to his severance. He can’t manage an EPL club for a year.

I hate that non-compete b*llsh*t. You’re not good enough for us, but you’re too good to go to a competitor. What a bizarre, mixed message.

If they snag the Portugeuse the total cost will be 21 million. 6 to pay off Carlo and 15 to buy off Porto.

21 million is a nice player. Maybe an attacking mid.

But hey, why address the real problem, which is weak personnel, when you can just fire another manager instead?

BlueGenes:
People have their own views. And mine is like, i commented in earlier posts. Carlo should have been given one more chance, but now that management has done the unthinkable, lets stop moaning about it and look for the new candidate. Otherwise burn the Chelsea jersies you´ve bought and fuck off.

You know what you can do with your advice.

Right?

@ Wxwax:
Like the popular mathematician John Nash once said, “if you already know the answer of an equation, why make the question complicated.”
btw, he said this to a girl he wanted to bed that night in the university. lol ;D
I know even he ended up getting a slap right at his face, but we all know that he was right.

BlueChampion: Wrong on both accounts. Both Benitez and Carlo fired themselves out. It’s very sad that we’ve started scapegoating the whole squad for one man’s failings.

Comments like these make me look at Carlo’s period much more critically. But then, Roman has made the decision – probably that’s a summation of the Carlo era as summed up nicely by re official website.

Torres played for Inter?

Cool. Didn’t know that.

Love that players can play poorly yet be totally absolved of responsibility.

Both Chelsea newcomers, Luiz and Torres, have been major disappoinments. But it’s not their fault. Oh no, it’s the manager who has somehow sucked the ability out of them.

Never mind what a sober, common sense observer can see on the pitch.

Luiz is not a center back, not yet. And if Torres doesn’t find his passion got the game this summer, he’ll be the next Shevchenko.

That’s on them.

BlueGenes: Otherwise burn the Chelsea jersies you´ve bought and fuck off.

Who are you asking to fuck off? The ones who doesn’t agree with you?

Just to make one thing clear, I’m not trying to polarize this discussion about whether Carlo or players are to blame for this poor season. I fully concede that Carlo has made mistakes and Carlo himself would be the first to admit to that. So blaming one or the other part is completely ridiculous.
Some people here are perceiving the players as robots and Carlo has the remote control. That’s a bit of a simplification. The players are all highly skilled professionals and they know themselves when they under-perform regardless of the managers tactics and instructions.

DanaBlue,

Thank You, a perfect answer to a well streched question as to who’s to blame, for this season’s failure. It was a collective failaur from the CFC board, to Carlo to all the way down to the players. Why Carlo had to take the full responsibility is beyond me. Alongide Carlo maybe they should also fire 6/7 underperforming players, that should balance things out fairly.

I would rather blame the ‘Deadly Mosquito’ that caused malaria to DD, which started our slump :) Lets launch a campaign to catch and kill that Mosquito which cost us EPL title. :D

BlueChampion: The true hero here in Chelsea is not the players, not the fans, not Jose Mourinho, not Carlo Ancelotti – it is Roman Abramovich. I know this is not a popular thought. Like I care . . .

I know you don’t care, but the true hero at Chelsea is Chelsea and the fans, everything else is transient.

BlueChampion:
Carlo didn’t suck Torres’ abilities. Consider this. Here’s a bloke hungry for success, renowned for his goal scoring abilities and desperate to make this a success. Granted, he should have played better but I’d say it loud and clear that Carlo made no efforts to help Torres succeed – apart from randomly starting him and subbing (more like snubbing) him. There was no chemistry among the players. There was no change in the way we played. There was no effort to get the best out of Torres’ abilities.

This is a bizarre analysis devoid of any factual foundation.

Would you like to tally the different combinations of players Ancelotti put around Torres, or should I? He tried everything to get him going short of putting a firecracker up his arse.

The problem wasn’t entirely the surrounding cast, although we know that Chelsea’s midfield was a weak spot this season.

The problem is that Fernando Torres was slow, not sharp and apparently lacked the killer instincts that served him so well at Liverpool and Atletico Madrid.

I think the play that sums up his season happened in the next-to-last game of the season, against Newcastle United. Ashley Cole made a great run down the left side. He slotted a perfect pass to the near post. It’s the kind of pass that young Javier Hernandez, full of hunger and ambition, feasted on with ManU this season. Where was Torres? Loafing at the top of the box. He never even attempted to make a run. So the fantastic pass went to waste.

That one play perfectly illustrates his lack of focus, desire and passion.

I agree completely that Torres is young enough to rebound. I earnestly hope that having just played two full seasons and a summer without break except for injuries, that’s he’s just burned out. And that a few weeks off will restore his appetite.

But if the rest doesn’t cure his head and his heart, then the analogies to Shevchenko are inevitable and appropriate.

This has nothing to do with his manager, whoever that may happen to be.

DanaBlue:
Just to make one thing clear, I’m not trying to polarize this discussion about whether Carlo or players are to blame for this poor season. I fully concede that Carlo has made mistakes and Carlo himself would be the first to admit to that. So blaming one or the other part is completely ridiculous.
Some people here are perceiving the players asrobots and Carlo has the remote control. That’s a bit of a simplification. The players are all highly skilled professionals and they know themselves when they under-perform regardless of the managers tactics and instructions.

I think this is the most rational explanation I’ve seen here.

Nice job.

BlueChampion:
Chelsea will buy new players this summer for sure. In fact, there are rumours that it could be as many as FIVE. So, Roman is indeed working on the squad. He got rid of Carlo because for the kind of squad we currently have, what we did this season was dismal. So, Roman will buy players but will get a manager who can get the best out of his expensive and deep squads.

That’s the good and the bad of Roman Abramovich.

Until the last few years, lots of spending on players. (And a bungled youth policy which cost Frank Arnesen his job.)

Finding a manager who can “get the best out of his expensive and deep (sic) squads” is proving to be a challenge, however.

6 in 8 years. I guess he keeps hiring men not up to the task.

Carlo Ancelotti’s sacking was the right thing to do, but the manner in which it was done was a huge mistake. I think that the reason why the Chelsea players played so well during their first season under CA was because they were playing for pride as professionals and didn’t want a repeat of the previous season. I think that one of the deciding factors as to why we were not successful this season, was because their was no fire in the belly of most of the senior players. The professionalsim that drives a football player was not evident. After the going got tough, you just got the feeling that the senior players were playing to still be a part of the club next season. To recieve future paychecks. The senior players lacked believe and its of no fault of CA. (that most of them if not all of them lack character). Finally CA is not a tactician – there are not tactics on the field of play. So you have to ask yourself a question, if CA was the manager of Arsenal or Man Utd with his lack of tactics would he still be at their clubs. Respectively? I think releasing CA now was the right thing to do, because he could have done more damage to the club. Cheers!

I completely forgot VAN GAAL. He is really good.

I really miss our squad we had under Hiddink in 2008-2009 season… Very effective…Bulletti, Ballack, Deco did some decent job…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uuu-zEC-xM&feature=related
Bring on Golden Guus

BlueChampion: The last we as a whole team went out of form was under Scolari.

Comparing Scolari with Carlo is like comparing G W Bush with Obama. One’s a halfwit the other intelligent. Carlo have had the players support all the way and none of the players have been out stating differently.

BlueChampion: I can’t quite make this positive generalisation with our ‘fans’.

Any football club is absolutely nothing without it’s fans. That’s an indisputable fact.

BlueChampion,

BC, I have been reading your blog for many years :)) This is not first but one of very low moments that we have a lot in common.
Well said about Ancelotti.

I am very surprised the way some people defend Carlo; well maybe not. This is soccer and everyone has different opinion. but come on guys.
he made so many mistakes. I am really happy that he was fired not because he did not win anythnig, because he proved he is not a world class manager. [do not tell me he already proved that in Milan, NO. Ranieri said if you want to rate a manger, rate him based on league games, not CL games, CL is like gamble, you might not be a good gambler but you win because of some external things such as injuries, luck, other tema mental situation, your team mental situation and etc]
1. Carlo said my players are great. so what happened that at the end of season he said my players were not good enough? [do not tell me about injuries, a manager should predict all these things]
2. Carlo did not trust young players. he was scared of big heads. Sturrudge should have got more opportunaties. why drogba was playing while he was suffereing Malaria, why Essien was playing when he was not in form ?why malouda was playing when he was not good?
3. wrong tactics. In how many games chelsea players were warming up after just 20 minutes from starting the game? these say manager read it worng.
4. how many time Cech saved us? [I know goalkeeper is a player too but it also shows our weakness as well]

Roman made a great decision, I just hope he hires a good manager, better one.

for those who criticise chelsea for firing Carlo after double

Possibly the most unlucky manager ever to be sacked, Vicente Del Bosque got the bullet from the Bernabeu 48 hours after winning La Liga with Real Madrid in 2003. Not only that, but in four years at the helm Del Bosque had won two European Cups, another La Liga title, the World Club Cup and European Super Cup. That’s gratitude! After sacking Del Bosque, Real endured their worst trophy drought for 50 years, while he went on to win the World Cup with Spain.

maysam: That’s gratitude! After sacking Del Bosque, Real endured their worst trophy drought for 50 years, while he went on to win the World Cup with Spain.

Wouldn’t it bee ironic if Carlo won the CL with Roma then?

I would highly recommend reading the Guardian blog http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/blog/2011/may/23/roman-abramovich-chelsea?

Here’s some very interesting view points.
-”The early termination of his three-year deal at Stamford Bridge was handled in a manner that will make all future managers wary of Ron Gourlay, the Chelsea chief executive who did his master’s bidding. In wielding the axe so swiftly Gourlay either has no sense of etiquette or is too weak to stand up to Abramovich”
-”One of Abramovich’s failings is to misunderstand the connection between boardroom behaviour and the tone set in and around a football club”
-”From the moment Wilkins was culled he (Carlo) looked a passenger on his own ship.”
-”Managers who are undermined from above are weakened in the eyes of players and start making political calculations about their own future when they would prefer to be planning two or three seasons ahead.”
-”Since Abramovich decided he was a professor of the game he has dispensed with Claudio Ranieri, José Mourinho, Avram Grant, Luiz Felipe Scolari and now Ancelotti”
-”The Bridge is about to welcome its seventh manager in eight years.”
-”This instability is now built into the system.”
-”The brutality and shallowness of Abramovich’s decision-making is now causing serious offence among Chelsea’s supporters, who compare their club with Manchester United (their closest rivals) and ask whether their benefactor understands the nature of football empire building.”
-”United and the Premier League’s other top clubs are the big winners each time Abramovich rips it up and starts again. He is a child of Soviet power, which was always loaned, never given.”

@ DanaBlue: “Who are you asking to fuck off? The ones who doesn’t agree with you?”

It goes to all moaners. Those who complain too much, and those who cannot accept that what has happened cannot be brought back and also to those who said “now i don´t like supporting Chelsea anymore”

BlueGenes: those who cannot accept that what has happened cannot be brought back

I’m a human, therefore I think. I’m a sheep therefore I follow.

@DanaBlue: So what did you think we should do? and plz give us some practical suggestions and plz not any emotionally driven rant. Its not that i don´t respect your views, in fact i come to this site to hear what some of the guys like you have to say. We´ve been through thick and thin together in this blog, and we have seen worse than sacking of Ancelloti. But since yesterday you´ve posted only bullshit, which is not normal you on one side, and on the otherside i hate people who spread pessimism when things are not going the right way.

@BlueGenes, I disrespectfully decline to comment your last post.

True hero is abramovich??
Pretty much sums up our ‘fans’…

Folks, let’s celebrate Ancelotti’s sack. I am making a party and everybody is invited! ;)

Ancelotti’s sacking is a tragedy, when we were looking for stability. But there’s lot more thing behind, like the club ambition. It is all a collective faults, from the boardroom, sacking of Ray, Ancelotti’s inability to pick right players and the below par performing ‘star’!.
- Ancelotti loved to stick with wrong players when he should be picking up hungrier, excited players.
- The players themselves acted like robots, at some times didnt use their head, let say if things were’nt going our way.
- Now, we can’t really push the reset button. Hat off to Carlo for his great work at Chelsea, may he be remembered as one of the legend. We’ve to look forward, and support the Blues, regardless who’ll be in charge of the Manager’s seat.

Cheers!

Kun said he wants to leave A madrid this summer!!!!!!

http://www.goal.com/en-us/news/88/spain/2011/05/23/2500656/sergio-aguero-i-want-to-leave-atletico-madrid

We where here before roman came and will be here long after hes gone if not us then our next generation, THAT is the only constant.

Hey guys ,it’s only a game abeit a passionate one…. RA does what he does : being kooky dark lord and master of da Chelsea Universe………. Carlo …. sacked but a big enough boy to take it without too much of a fuss and a nice extra 6 million quid we’d all love to have …………..the players now on holiday…. bronzing their bones in Dubai………. and we fans bored to death in the interval before the next edition commences……. Down with the ManUre and BarKa but ……KTBFFH !

and BTW ….. Gigsy O…….’ sweet innocent Gigsy…. has been having his way with the skirts too.. eh…. maybe three lunged Park will be found out havin a threesome with some wholesome K-pop teenie-boppers too eh ?
Why aren’t the media having a go at him and ManUre eh ? Like they did with Terry and ” classless” Chelsea ? eh ? M-fucking media !

and as after thought…. RA get Kun !

Chelsea will be a better club in the future, if we get the right world-class players and a manager that believes and supports and most importantly evaluates our players productivity on the field during the season. Cheers!

Alright BC, Carlo is gone. It is always sad to see someone loved by the Club sacked, and by the way, we didn’t sack Hiddink (dont let the red tops fool u guys). Carlo was never a long term man for us. He showed over the course of the season he wasn’t the manager Chelsea needed long term. He was simply too weak. He wanted to please everybody and in life when u do that u fail. You lose who u r and become people’s favourite. He didn’t help himself too with some of his interviews leading to the end of the season. Talking about Roma and even more bizarrely West Ham, of all teams. He said he was surprised he wasn’t sacked in January. Maybe he even forced the Club’s hand. I think we can safely say, the Club was right in getting rid of Grant (weren’t we told by the British press to keep him and was the best manager Big Ears?), who has been shown to be as bad an appointment as anything u can think of. The British media liked Grant, partly because he was sacked by Chelsea. They willed him to succeed just so they can rub it in our face. What does he do? He sends two clubs into relegation. Scolari just wasn’t suited to the premier league. His methods were all out-dated. So once again the Club was right to let him go. Hiddink, had the entire Club begging him to stay. We had banners at the Bridge pleading for him to stay. He had to go and was always welcome back at SW6. Prior to all these the only mistake the Club had made in terms of sacking was Ze. We all know why. So I believe, generally the Club has gotten it mostly right. I am curious about who becomes our next manager. BC, like i said some blogs ago, Chelsea Football Club is at a crossroad. We are now moving gradually from Ze’s era into a new one. I trust the Club hierarchy to get it right. The best way going forward is to get Guus for a season. Then get Villas-Boas the season after next for a long term project. I am hoping for the best for my beloved CFC. I know you all r.

It sounds as if Hiddink will be Chelsea’s next manager… but only if Turkey lose in Belgium a week from Friday.

I’m suddenly very interested in that match!

Things Guus did well:

Defense first
Turned Malouda into a player
Experimented with players in new positions
Very pragmatic, no beautiful game nonsense

He might be the man to turn Luiz into a solid defender. He’ll scare him, that’s for sure.

I know this man will never be a Chelsea manager. But I would seriously consider him above all other candidates. Martin O’ Neil a chance to manage the club. If he suceeds, congrats he suceeds and if he fails well then he fails. I don’t like the man but he should manage a huge club or even the england team. Cheers!

i hope we get a good manager now… hope we get GUUS HIDDINK…

Carlo was still learning more about EPL,i think chelsea was gonna win this league and set some record like last year.but the sacking of ray wilkins was so bad,the firing tactically affected chelsea players even the manager.
ROMAN can be so stupid,i knew carlo wasn’t gonna succeed without WILKINS’s expertise….

A good coach is only good with a great assistant…
Roman needs football lessons maybe…………nxa$$$$$$$$$$$

Carlo’s sacking was perhaps correct according to Roman. If you were to compare Scolari’s short spell at Chelsea to the same spell we had this year, there wasn’t much difference. Had Carlo not won the double, he would have been sacked too.

The one who is responsible for failure this season is Carlo himself. Never ever attempted the hunger to win a game. I didn’t see any hunger in the Chelsea team this season. This reminds me of the Mourinho days. I remember this match, this was the year when we won the FA cup with Mourinho against Man Utd. Was a quarterfinal match against Spurs at home. We trailing 3-1 to Spurs at half-time. What does Mourinho do ? Throws out strikers and midfielders into the box with just 2 defenders at the half way line. Played long balls in the box for 30 mins constantly.It seemed there wasn’t a time for Spurs to even breathe. Result at end of game ? We draw 3-3 and earn a replay.
This is what I am talking about. Never ever saw that kind of hunger from Chelsea this time around. We always failed to recover after conceding goals. Matches like Liverpool,City, Utd, Arsenal. I dont know where has this hunger gone. Carlo could have thrown everything into the match at Old Trafford. Even losing 2-0 at half time, he could have put everyone. Had Mourinho been there, he would have put all 4 of his stirkers I think. There was nothing for him to lose. He had his job hanging on that game.

Anyways, Carlo is history now for Chelsea. I dont like it but have to accept it. Abramovich is harsh, but you cant help it. He is the owner. He decided what to do and what not to.
Thanks Carlo for your 2 years at Chelsea. You will be remembered for the Double we won. We all enjoyed that season. Thanks and Good luck.

As for a new manager,chill out guys. Lots of time left. We would be having a new manager by last week of June.
The team would be good and will play well.Hope for positive things now. Forget about this season. Its history.

Cheers!
KTBFFH !!

DanaBlue,

I do not care. I make decision based on current facts, not possibilities and maybes. The guy screwed up and he was fired. next manager should also know that he is expected to choose a good squad and be able to wake up his players after one week not 2 months.

I do not know why most news are crticizing Chelsea (Roman) for changing 7 managers. the only mistake Roman made was firing Jose Mourinho, and that was not even ‘Firing’, Jose himself departed.
Guss was not sacked. the only managers who were sacked are Avram grant, Scolari an dAncelotti
Who believed Avram and Scolari should have not sacked?
Some say Ancelotti was loved among fans, who said that? never forget Ancelotti is the only manager whom Chelsea fans gathered in front of the club and chanted against, I do not care how many but they did.
anyway, the guy is fired, yesterday has gone. BC post a new article about next manager.

BlueChampion: When we say FANS we are talking about millions, so generalisation is not wise.

Let’s agree on one thing BC, once you first get the Chelsea bug and are hooked on all things Chelsea, then that stays with you until you die. You accept the good things as well as the bad things. You go through times in 2nd division and through CL finals equally involved. This is the case for the majority of True Blues, the rest, ie the plastics fans, the feeble minded, the ones that can be Chelsea in theirs teens and Loserpools in their twenties and Manures in their forties, those people I couldn’t care less about.
You are never ashamed of being Blue, never considering supporting any other team for whatever reason it might be.
So all in all BC I think we are totally in agreement in what it is to be Blue, we are just discussing the way our club is managed as a business and as a football club.

Real Madrid can change managers every season or two and they’re hailed as “one of the greatest clubs in the world” (Recent history suggests otherwise). When Chelsea does that to three (Avram, Scolari and Ancelotti), we’re hailed as moronic ? Is there any sense in that ?

KTBFFH !!

Lampard and the Blues.:
Real Madrid can change managers every season or two and they’re hailed as “one of the greatest clubs in the world” (Recent history suggests otherwise). When Chelsea does that to three (Avram, Scolari and Ancelotti), we’re hailed as moronic ? Is there any sense in that ?

KTBFFH !!

Who says the way Real Madrid do it isn’t moronic?

I think they’re idiots and it led to a prolonged dry spell. (Well, prolonged for a club that gets 12.5 times more league revenue than the lowest club in La Liga.)

They fired Vicente del Bosque after 4 years and the most successful run in modern club history. Two Ligas and two European Cups. Morons!

They fired Fabio Capello after he won the league. Didn’t play attractive football (hello, Jose, you listening?) Morons!

How’s that?

why not we buy jesus navas? he is a good player and would come cheap as compared to the others..

Lampard and blues

Next time a real supporter jumps off a cliff feel free to join him..

I’m not happy about Ancelotti’s sacking. I think the dude deserved at least another season with us. I’m not supporting Roman on this one, all I’m saying is that the media is pretty one-sided when it comes to writing about different clubs on similar issues.

KTBFFH !!

Just to clarify, I don’t consider Ancelotti to be in the same category as Scolari and Grant. One has almost zero coaching-experience at a big club (and no tactical prowess) while the other single-handedly took West Ham down to the Championship (and also has no tactical prowess). King Carlo on the other hand, got us the first and, based on the path we’re on, one of the only Double in our history.

If given the chance, I would welcome Ancelotti back this instant and forget about the whole sacking business like it was a “drunken mistake”. Unfortunately, that’s never gonna happen. Had he failed to inspire this Chelsea team this upcoming season as well, may be I would’ve thought about a change. But Roman didn’t even give him a chance to build his own squad which is sad.

However, I’m not buying this media bullshit about how Roman is the devil and we’re a clumsy football business rather than a club… ultimately, he owns the Chelsea (not me or you) and in it’s simplest sense, can do whatever he wants with it. He has time and again invested millions and shown an interest in our football matters (irrespective of his footballing knowledge). He, on his part, is right to be strict with standards (however, on this case, he might have stepped overboard).

KTBFFH !!

I see more drama ahead.

To me, the most likely scenario is that Chelsea bring in Hiddink as technical director and let him pick his manager, which would be van Basten.

Hiddink formally joins the club whenever his term with Turkey finally ends. Van Basten does what van Basten does, which is alienate people and lose. Then van Basten is fired and Hiddink moves back down to the sidelines.

Clumsy. Ugly. But unless Guus is fired for losing to Belgium a week from Friday and is suddenly available, perhaps the most likely scenario?

wxwaxwxwax,
Why don’t we make it simple and sign Boas?

And it won’t be complicated for getting Boas because he has a 15€ mil clause in his contract. Pay that and he is ours, simple.
http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/story/_/id/923065/porto-president-reveals-andre-villa-boas-€15m-clause?cc=5901

The thing is I like Roman and he is a great owner he is passionate about football and intends the best for the club, but that in no way means that we should all wear blindfolds take a cigar and stand on a railway track.
He might own it but without the fans the club will go bust, he cannot treat chelsea like a toy, but whats done is done..

This is in my opinion the best time to have a massive clear out and get hungry and young players in, I fear thats it for the majority of these players its time to look at long term goals.

If I see this same squad going into next season with another new manager Roman will have to face the fans ire…

BC, a little correction to your Chelsea history knowledge: during Abramovich time Chelsea won 3 FA cups, not 1. With Mourinho 2007, Hiddink 2009 and Ancelotti 2010.

BC, a little correction to your Chelsea history knowledge: during Abramovich time Chelsea won 3 FA cups, not 2. With Mourinho 2007, Hiddink 2009 and Ancelotti 2010.

P.S. In my previous post I made a typo: 1 instead of 2. You wrote 2 FA cups.

BC, another correction: during the Abramovich era Chelsea failed to reach the champions league semi-finals 3 times, not 2. You missed 2005/06 season with Mourinho.

Cheers!

Xerxesk:
wxwaxwxwax,
Why don’t we make it simple and sign Boas?

2 reasons that I can see.

1. He says he wants to stay at Porto one more season… if his players stay.

2. He’s really inexperienced. Another year at Porto would be best for everyone.

But you never know!

My two cents :
First cent
Altho there have been quite few managers at Chelsea in the past few years ( or decade ? ) , I feel that there have been only 3 proper ones :
1. TSO
2. Hiddink
3. Carlo

If the first two could be touted as replacements for Carlo I don’t see why Carlo himself may not be back one day… maybe he needed different circumstances to be successful too.

Second cent
The fact that stability doesn’t meant sticking with one person for the sake of seeming to be stable. Many companies change CEO’s ( sacking failures , uninspirational ones, those who lose the trust of the employees etc ) as needed so that there may be stability in profits/ share prices and employees lives.

Ol’ SAF is a one-off. I don’t see how any club could follow ManUres model of “stability”.

Anyways,let’s see how it goes about after Ol’ red nose SAF retires from ManUre…… will the next manager(s) get the same powers accorded to the ol’ geezer ? Will the Glazers continue to be so classily aloof and hands off then ?
Once ManUre starts getting chunks of 2-3 yeras of titleless non-glory and declining revenues and angry fans , I think te Glazers would sell, not invest like RA.

BlueChampion, the only thing that Mr Roman Abramovich has done is open his check book. No offense, but even Arsenalic_smile_of_Drogba could do such a wonderful thing. Regarding Mr Roman Abramovich, I’m really tired of the hypocricy. Cheers!

BlueChampion, I’m not trying to peev you off! But I would hold Mr Roman Abramovich in the highest regard in the football community, if he turned the club into something unique without splashing out money, make the club something unbelievably different to other clubs across the world. You’re still the number one blog administrator on the internet. Cheers!

BC,
I knew all that stuff without any wiki. I have been supporting Chelsea since 2000 and know everything that happened during the last 11 years. Amazing how you are trying to cover up your lack of knowledge with the assumption that someone who corrected looked up at the internet. But you know what, it doesn’t surprise me! Go on.

Arsenalic_smile_of_Drogba, you are a voyeur. I would love it if yourself and Bluechampion were to have a debate. Cheers!

anyone knows where i can stream the african XI game today hosted by essien.

Arsenalic_Droogba wins!

I remember Hiddink did dropped Lampard out due to his dip in form. So Hiddink is the one who has some guts, and select players by merits. This is kinda out of topic though! LOL

CosaNostra says:

Yep, Hiddink is the man I admire.

I don’t understand the strategy. buying a left winger and two strikers ? – Do we need Both neymar and lukaku and if so do we need one more left winger.

http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/transfers/chelsea-target-five-signings-in-summer-spree-2288492.html

my view is that immediate priority is we need is a playmaker and right winger. Nasri would be available for cheap ..

cfc:
I don’t understand the strategy. buying a left winger and two strikers ? – Do we need Both neymar and lukaku and if so do we need one more left winger.

http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/transfers/chelsea-target-five-signings-in-summer-spree-2288492.html

my view is that immediate priority iswe need is a playmaker and right winger. Nasri would be available for cheap ..

Let Nasri be. If it’s a playmaker we want, we should look no further than Josh McE.

KTBFFH !!

bluefan #1:
anyone knows where i can stream the african XI game today hosted by essien.

again. any answers?

Michael,

Me and BC had many debates on this blog when you didn’t even know about the existence of the blog.

Voeur? Well, it’s better to be a voyeur than an a**-licker like you.

P.S. Your avators say everything about your IQ level.

bluefan #1,

I always look here:

http://bit.ly/mxJEW0

Check here:

http://www.soccertvlive.net/sport/football.html

And here:

http://bit.ly/mxJEW0

And here:

http://www.myp2p.eu/competition.php?competitionid=&part=sports&discipline=football

cfc, I think that we desperately need to buy two quality decent goalkeepers for relatively a few million pounds, namely, Itumeleng Khune GBP 3m (8/10) and Kasper Schmiechel GBP 2m (7/10). I would also bid on Siphiwe Tshabalala (left-wing mid) GBP 3m (8.5/10), as a replacement for Flourent Malouda GBP 3m (6/10). These are my ratings up to this date-in-time.

Now to our squad, which atleast has experience, but lacks pace and creativity. Remember a good manager always strengthens his squad at every available transfer period. I have alot of respect for the following football players, but if Chelseafc wants to move millions of miles ahead of our rival clubs (Barca, Man Utd and Real Madird) I think that these players should depart from the club, namely, Paulo Ferreira, Jose Bosingwa, Ashely Cole, Michael Essien, Frank Lampard, Soloman Kalou, Didier Drogba, Nicholas Anelka and Daniel Sturidge. I’m not drinking crazy juice, but we could be streaks, literally miles ahead, if the Chelseafc had the right manager, starting XI and squad who could have a “ruthless streak about them” so that we could have a realistic chance winning the everything. Cheers!

One of the worst things that can happen:

http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11661_6951730,00.html

So once again we rebuild from the ground up. Brilliant first season, started moulding the team and bam, out the door. At Christmas I’d of been happy to finish 4th, look at how close we got despite all that. At the end of the day, its not entirely down to the manager. Ancelotti wasn’t my favourite but I had a lot of respect for him. He got the team playing better than we’d ever seen. Under him we broke some good records, notably in goals. We didn’t need to tweak much in the summer and I’m sure of all people, he knew what he needed in the summer.
Pep Guardiola? See what happens, feasible. Im pretty sure that gaining him would not turn us into Barcelona. He may well find a formation that works for us but as far as Im concerned, 8-0 vs wigan = Carlo, 3 league wins vs man utd = Carlo, 100 team goals scored a season = Carlo. That was his ethos, Pep’s will be different and after the last two seasons, not the transition we need to strain ourselves with too. They talk about the pressure on Torres, what about the pressure on his manager?!
Over the summer Id like to see a couple faces brought in. Pace is something we tend not to open the game up with. A pacey winger with a good cross should be bought to play on the right. Lennon could be a good buy but his crossing would need to get better. A young playmaker for the middle of the pitch, we have no silk in central midfield. Ramires makes his runs and could turn out to be a great provider of assists but we need someone with a deft touch. I rate Ivanovic highly but the truth is I’m always biting nails when he has to mark players like Nani, Bosingwa used to be good in this sense but Im not entirely sure he’ll recapture from, van der wiel or david santon sort of player would be good. Leftback would be good, Bertrand made a good appearance for us, should get more minutes.

Valdano sacked. Perez was smart. It always came down at the end of season to decide who to sack. Manager or General Director. Well all Perez had to do was like at what Roman was struggling with and what happened after Del Bosque got sacked to realise why he should have kept Mourinho. I used to think Roman was smarter than Perez. Jose is a 2 time UCL winner. Has not gone a calender season without winning something since forever. His unbeaten streak was only broken due to a poorly motivated side but not entirely his fault. Why should they play football when Barcelona have guaranteed it already? That problem has been solved given their last game of the season 8-1 thrashing of Almeria.

Again…

Claudio Ranieri and José Mourinho built Chelsea and it was never changed since hence needing the same philosophies to get the best out of it. Avram Grant, Luiz Felipe Scolari took the team and used their own philosophies with the team and failed. Guus Hiddink came in and instilled the same philosophy into the team at in the space of 3 months transformed a shit team into one that took 34 points from 39 points, won the FA Cup and would have most likely been the winners of the UCL in 2009 had it not been for UEFA politics. Carlo Ancelotti came in and tried to use his own philosophies just like José Mourinho tried in his first couple of matches before switching to the preferred 4-3-3. Ray Wilkins informed him of this and helped him get the best out of Chelsea. We won the double that year and were cut short of the UCL thanks to the co-creator of Chelsea destroying his same Chelsea side using his same tactics. Chelsea next season were performing fine, dangerous, instilling fear into opponents just from the opponents seeing Chelsea’s name on their fixture list. We were ripped open thanks to lost of form from 60% of our goals and lost of a player who delivers the other 40% and proper tactical approaches by Manchester City and Liverpool. Sunderland also tore apart a makeshift midfield and defence.

To sum up. Either build your own Chelsea with your own philosophies or use the philosophies of the creators. Simple as that…

Going off topic here but I got the new Chelsea home top and it looks pretty good, at first I thought it looked really weird with the white and stipes running across the shirt but once you put it on, it looks pretty good. Add a number 8 on the back and it looks world class !!!! KTBFFH

cfc,

chelsea offering DD a new contract…

Now that he’s had Valdano fired, who will Jose battle with at Real Madrid? He needs enemies and it can’t always be the refs.

Florentino Perez, his boss, may be in for a shock. I can’t see Jose winning that fight any more than he won his power struggle at Stamford Bridge. It would seem as if Mourinho is on schedule to quit/be ousted at the end of next season.

Does anyone heard rumours that Harry has been seen at cobham today?

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