Di Matteo sacked
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I can understand how people are saying it's a great job from a financial point of view, but if you actually want to be a football manager then the Chelsea job is a terrible one. You're not allowed to build your own team, given no time to mould what you have into a decent team, and then sacked as if it was all your fault.
If you look at it from that point of view it resembles a nut house rather than a football club.
If you look at it from that point of view it resembles a nut house rather than a football club.
I'd take the job and I actually want to be a football manager.
Trouble is we are missing Kaboul, Dembele, BAE, Parker and havnt had Ade either. Redknapp didnt have that sort of injury list. Also he had King who was fantastic, although not at the end when his knee finally went pop for good
The Liverpool thing I will overlook as that is comical
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Liverpool fans around the world will not know how to feel if Benitez does go there, it'll be like he's ripped out their still beating hearts and handed them a Chelsea shirt to stem the blood loss. 
Thats not even comparable though, the core of the team Redknapp had isnt there anymore, since then we've been without (through transfer or injury): King (retired), Kaboul(injured), BAE, Parker, Modric, VDV, Dembele (who will probably need an op if he's got a long term hip injury), Ade (until very recently).
Once we get our team back and hopefully Levy stops playing this brinksmanship (aye right..) he loves so much we might be able to get a couple of additions to strengthen further.
Aaanyway, back on topic, I kinda feel sorry for RDM due to how quickly it seems to have happened, but he must have known he was a stop gap appointment. If Chelsea hadn't have won the CL, he wouldnt have been in the job anyway.
I actually think Redknapp could be quite a good temporary appointment for Chelsea, he does get teams playing quick, attacking football which is pretty much the way Chelsea are setup at the moment. He'd also have no problem with the old boys club, something that someone like Benitez for one, might.
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Liverpool fans around the world will not know how to feel if Benitez does go there, it'll be like he's ripped out their still beating hearts and handed them a Chelsea shirt to stem the blood loss.
Not quite but it wouldn't be right. It'll **** Chelsea fans off far more.
There is one possible appointment that every supporter around the world, no matter who they support, will be happy with. Captain, Legend, Leader, Manager - John the lion heart Terry as player manager.
Liverpool fans around the world will not know how to feel if Benitez does go there, it'll be like he's ripped out their still beating hearts and handed them a Chelsea shirt to stem the blood loss.
If he won the league and then sold all their players to buy top top british players over summer and then left/got sacked I'd be happy
And as BaZ said above, in the 6 years he was here he screwed over Chelsea countless times ;D
So would anyone here I would imagine. It's not the stuff that great managers/clubs are made of though is it?
Trouble is we are missing Kaboul, Dembele, BAE, Parker and havnt had Ade either. Redknapp didnt have that sort of injury list. Also he had King who was fantastic, although not at the end when his knee finally went pop for good
The Liverpool thing I will overlook as that is comical
I'll concede Spurs not having Dembele has been massive but AVB's still done made some iffy decisions such as not playing Adebayor (AFAIK he hasn't been injured this season), bringing in Lloris and dropping Friedel for no reason (if he wanted to replace the latter because of his age then do it dont rotate the two aimlessly for no reason though), persisting with Dempsey up front instead of playing 2 out and out strikers, you've got players like Bale being criticized for shirking defensive responsibility (when did that type of thing happen under Redknapp?), just seems to me that AVB really doesn't have a clue what he's doing.
I wasn't trying to be comical about Liverpool either, they're only 2 points off Spurs and due to Suarez seem to be in good form at the moment the same cant be said of Tottenham.
Redknapp would, although I suppose you said great managers.
so you honestly think RDM would be worse than a temp holding on until the summer, in just for a quick pay day?
Not a chance
If they appoint a decent manager then I'd fully expect them to be better off. Just like they were when Hiddink replaced Scolari.
Exactly, RDM took Chelsea fom 4th to 6th when he took over and this season he doesn't look like being any better. Even though they have spent the best part of 100 mill again.
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The Lloris thing, I agree on, should have just started him and be done with it.
Since september Liverpool have played Chelsea out of the "top 4/5" Spurs have played Chelsea, City, Utd and Arsenal. I think it is a little off to say they are on form. I wont judge AVB fully until he has a full squad. And anyone doing so before that is hard on him. We just dont have the squad at the moment.
I'm pretty sure Liverpool have played against more of the top clubs than just Chelsea since September.
Our first few games under Rodgers were also very tough and some huge decisions going against us, but do continue to laugh at us being near you.
Also since the start of september haven't we played Arsenal,United,Everton and Newcastle?
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Wins cl but is unlikely to be in the knockout round this season. Its not as if rdm built this team or has real sentiment towards it. He took over for half a season and did well. Above expectation.
Arguably fergie should have been sacked last season for worse tbh. But they must have given him the benefit of the doubt due to long term perseverance as I can't see any other reason they would have kept him on after that.
