but a lot of players don't like him and the way he handled anelka was embarassing and the other player (who's name escapes me right now) essentially told them both they had no place there anymore and cannot train with the first team.
then there's the senior players who made chelsea so succesful who are wise to the fact that they are being phased out. that's fine but their replacements aren't performing. cole,cech, drogba, essien, lampard, malouda even maybe terry were real forces a couple of seasons ago, now they're bit-part players (terry the possible exclusion) you can't treat players like that. ok they're on big contracts and off an age where they're looking to wind it down a bit but AVB has gone about it the wrong way. he should be listening to those players for advice, he's younger than some of them!
Malouda was never even close to a force, he's always been rubbish, however its clear they want to get rid of certain players, but have realised they can't get rid of a couple of them because they are far to good, like Lampard.
The real issue is AVB's management style, its a failure, he's trying to play Porto football in a completely different league with different players used to a different way of playing.
Wenger is a good comparison, there may not have been a better attacking team than his 4-4-2 setup, but under 4-5-1, his team is a shambles, there is no effective system, movement is wrong, positioning is wrong. Everything Wenger knows...... is based around a 4-4-2 system and trying to make that work with 4-5-1 is not working at all.
He's a basically untested manager in a real league with real competition(even if that competition is pretty weak this year), and he comes across as failing miserably and his small man complex style of picking a few players to just throw away to make a point is, well, that kind of manager never succeeds long term.
He bought the wrong players, he failed to see that slow ass Terry and the particular back four they had would be very poor at holding a stupidly high line and it took him literally months to give up on it, not playing a defensive midfielder tonight was hilariously stupid and left them looking painfully open. They went for an essentially ultra attacking line up, but started Malouda, inept, and didn't start lampard easily their most effective player this year.
Drogba won't ever get back to form if he's dropped every other game to try and force Torres into goal scoring form.
He's got nothing right, and i haven't seen anything even slightly positive about the way he's conducted himself or tactics/players he's bought/anything.
They bought a flavour of the month manager, who was only flavour of the month because people compared him to Mourinho, which is just ridiculous.
