I would be amazed if they get Pep. Why would he go to a club that fires managers for fun and who has little control compared to the owner of the club. I'm not sure he would love not being in the CL as well if they get kicked for FFP violations.
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I would be amazed if they get Pep. Why would he go to a club that fires managers for fun and who has little control compared to the owner of the club. I'm not sure he would love not being in the CL as well if they get kicked for FFP violations.
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I think Montpellier would probably accept a cash plus player deal for Giroud, thing is I haven't watched him play a single match and the things I've read about him just make him out to be Chamakh Mk.II.
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I'm not going to get my hopes up until I see it on the Utd website!
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Identify a stupid managerial appointment of the Abramovich era.
Grant? AVB?
Identify a stupid managerial appointment of the Abramovich era
All of them if he intends on sacking them after not getting what he wants in the first 3months-1 year
Identify a stupid managerial appointment of the Abramovich era
I get the impression that anyone with half a brain might worry about their job security if they took the Chelsea job.
"Build me the next generation Chelsea team but make sure that you challenge for the league at the same time. There might be some characters in the dressing room that have no interest in helping you and will actively try and scupper you. Oh, and I might meddle in quite a lot of your business as well because, you know, I'm crazy rich"
Very few managerial appointments are stupid. Its pretty hard to say that someone is a bad fit for a club unless you have them manage for a while. If you can't see why a lot of top managers wouldn't want the Chelsea job then there is little we can say to change your mind.
There comes a point where a faint pattern becomes a definite trend though and I think that is what has happened in the past 2-3 years. You managed to get AVB because Chelsea are a much larger side than Porto and they offered him a lot of money. Had he done well it would have put his career into overdrive.
Pep has literally achieved more in a few years with Barca than 99% of managers achieve in a lifetime so why would he go somewhere that there is every chance he will be given an impossible task that will tarnish his record. He doesn't need the money and he would want to have complete control over all aspects of the team which Abramovich never gives.
Based on the Hazard sage though, he will probably be your new manager.
imo this is exactly why Pep wouldnt go to Chelsea
Chelsea can release all the press statements about how they usually do business, but it will hardly come as a surprise once they do say Hazard has signed. Would Pep go somewhere that allowed this to happen in the first place?
The above is just a passing thought really - imo he wants and will take 12 months + off as he originally intended.
For right or wrong there is as much (if not more) pressure on the Manager of Chelsea (from the constant swaps that have occured) as there is in the Barca job - would it show the right respect to quit Barca saying he needs time away, only to step right back into the fire within a few weeks? I dont believe Pep is that kind of person
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I never thought Grant was a bad hire, most people disagree, Grant did what RDM did, and got less lucky(while also not throwing away league form), but generally most people have decided he's ****, and if that was known to start with then its a bad hire. He's a good indication of how peoples idea's of a manager change dramatically. Everyone thought it was a joke he was hired, then a joke when he was fired, then a joke of a manager at West ham/Pompie, etc, etc.
As for AVB, he was "rated" by the media, who jump on any loose connection to anything to say whatever they want. If AVB had done the same in any other one team league, and hadn't done it at the club Mourinho came out of, no one would have given a flying shag.
he won a league you have to be incompetant not to win, and won the Europa league which half the teams don't both with and half the teams are simply rubbish... look how Athletico/Athletic have done in their league, and he did it with one of the best striker combinations in Europe. Falcao had more to do with Porto's success than AVB.
Outside of media hype, he was a rookie manager who won a chumps league with a striker who has continued that form in a much stronger league.
There was nothing to suggest he could cope in a top league, there was nothing to suggest he could cope under pressure, turn a team around, buy the right players. He wasn't Mourinho and he didn't win the champs league, and previous to that he didn't train or come up the same way Mourinho did.
Hiring a rookie, one real team manager is just a bad idea every which way you think about it.
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Chelsea 5 man Midfield of - hulk, hazard, Marin, Mata and then any of the holding players... Scary prospect
I think Hulk would do well in the PL, but you never know. He's certainly a decent player. Chelsea could have a pretty fearsome team next season!
As Tom mentioned earlier, the BBC have picked up on the Kagawa story now: http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/18262878
Which likely means the reports from Germany were accurate, and a deal is close to being done. Hope so!
As Tom mentioned earlier, the BBC have picked up on the Kagawa story now: http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/18262878
Which likely means the reports from Germany were accurate, and a deal is close to being done. Hope so!
Which likely means the reports from Germany were accurate, and a deal is close to being done. Hope so!
Too many reports to ignore now. Hope you get him.
Its not easy assimilating a lot of new players into the same team - especially if those all have to play relatively closely / communicate a lot on the field
Im not saying any one of those mentoned (excluding Mata as he is obviousely used to Chelsea by now) will find it difficult but its worthy of consideration
The fact that they are also getting used to the pace of the EPL as well might also be a contributing factor.
(All Im saying is that it would be different if it was for instance LB, RB and a striker, but given they are all midfielders - although Hulk could play right upfront - it might prove difficult)
Of course if the new manager wants to use all the new players at the same time (he may be forced to by RA to begin with)
Chelsea made a loss of 62 million last season, they should get about 50 million extra from the Champions League win (probably not that high as last year will have included some CL money, just not as much as winning it). So, how are they going to meet the FFP regulations if they are spending 32m on Hazard and 40m on Hulk? Aren't the rules now that from last season until 2014 a club can only have a net loss of 45m total?
Strong rumours of Bale to City.
We have been given "a week to respond on another wing target we have enquired about."
All things point to it being Bale as it has been mentioned quite a few times. Hopefully we can do a deal involving Ade as it will save us a lot of trouble trying to get rid of him
Strong suggestions of a big transfer also involving someone like Higuian or Falcao etc. Especially with everyone around us strengthening Mancini wants to add players!
We have been given "a week to respond on another wing target we have enquired about."
All things point to it being Bale as it has been mentioned quite a few times. Hopefully we can do a deal involving Ade as it will save us a lot of trouble trying to get rid of him
Strong suggestions of a big transfer also involving someone like Higuian or Falcao etc. Especially with everyone around us strengthening Mancini wants to add players!
I think Falcao would be absolutely devastating in the PL, I hope you don't get him!
Well Mancini today said he is happy with our strikers, 'But I already have four very strong strikers."
Of course that all changes if both Bayern come through for Dzeko and AC for Tevez. So we could indeed see another striker who simply has to be a Falcao etc.
We rarely do our deals early so a long way to go still.
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