Ten Cate signs a three year contract at Chelsea

Henk ten Cate naar Chelsea

Verwacht wordt dat Henk ten Cate volgende week een driejarig contract tekent bij Chelsea. Gesprekken tussen de trainer van Ajax en de leiding van de Engelse topclub zouden in de afrondende fase zijn.

Ten Cate moet de spelersgroep van Chelsea weer op scherp krijgen. Dit na het vertrek van trainer José Mourinho twee weken geleden. Avram Grant zal aanblijven als manager. Ten Cate zal de trainingen leiden. Dit deed de Amsterdammer ook al in Barcelona onder Frank Rijkaard.

Als opvolger van Ten Cate bij de Amsterdammers wordt Martin Jol genoemd. De Hagenaar staat onder druk bij Tottenham Hotspur.


Confounded says I...Ten Cate to Chelsea, next week Jol to Ajax. Phew, I always thought the Jews would go for Adriaanse..

Has he been signed as an assistant manager or as head coach?

Assistant manager, but the main reason that Chelsea wants him is that he and Ronaldinho are some sort of gaylovers.

Hence Dinho will move to Chelsea soon.

Its a well known fact that Dinho will go there soon enough. By this time next year Dinho will certainly be a chelsea player

Kaka is also supposed to be being courted by Chelsea, but I'm not so sure that he'd want to go. Also going on the evidence of the Brazil national team, Dinho and Kaka do not work as a partnership.

I think it's amazing how much Dinho's reputation has fallen in the last 12-18 months, when I say that out of Barcelona's 4 'star' forwards, he's the one I'd least want to see at the Bridge. I still think he would be a good signing (as long as the price is reasonable) would he deserve a place over Malouda or Joe Cole if both are playing well (which they are at the moment)?

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Confounded says I...Ten Cate to Chelsea, next week Jol to Ajax. Phew, I always thought the Jews would go for Adriaanse..

Jaakke and Van Geel don't want Co, they're afraid he'd actually get Ajax to play decent again

This is disturbing Ten Cate manager of Ajax , former assistant manager of Barcelona gets a no 2 job under Grant (who?).

Why is everyone suddenly so certain Ronaldinho will sign for Chelsea. Mark my words, if he leaves us next summer, Milan will still be in pole position.

Dark Savante wrote:This is disturbing Ten Cate manager of Ajax , former assistant manager of Barcelona gets a no 2 job under Grant (who?).

The talk is that Ten Cate will be the Director of Football, so he'll technically be above Grant.

kas wrote:

Dark Savante wrote:This is disturbing Ten Cate manager of Ajax , former assistant manager of Barcelona gets a no 2 job under Grant (who?).

The talk is that Ten Cate will be the Director of Football, so he'll technically be above Grant.

Better if it was as assistant manager then really it would be stupid.

Ten Cate.... I do not know much about this guy is he any good?

he was the right hand man to rijkaard during ecl win and was said by many to be the tactician of the 2

S4P wrote:I think it's amazing how much Dinho's reputation has fallen in the last 12-18 months, when I say that out of Barcelona's 4 'star' forwards, he's the one I'd least want to see at the Bridge. I still think he would be a good signing (as long as the price is reasonable) would he deserve a place over Malouda or Joe Cole if both are playing well (which they are at the moment)?

Bloogy hell Swarpy, if you're going to quote me, at least get it right:

The warrior/colussous that is John Terry was very slow to react to the ricochet for Villa's goal, but he was very good in the 2nd half, and not for the 1st time Joaquin had A.Cole's number. Mikel or Makalele w/Essien - not together, nor all 3.

Can become:

The warrior/colussous that is John Terry... was very good... and not for the 1st time.

Otherwise I'll be forced to sue you for defamation of character.

The-Frank-Tavern wrote:he was the right hand man to rijkaard during ecl win and was said by many to be the tactician of the 2

Interesting Chelsea could be moving attractively forward aggressively...

and not for the 1st time Joaquin had A.Cole's number.

in fairness in the 1st half he had no protection and got isoltaed 2 on 1 on 3 or 4 occasions, so its no wonder he looked bad

Brian2468 wrote:Ten Cate.... I do not know much about this guy is he any good?

Nope.

raifael, as a numero 2 he is Ok just don't thnk he's any good as a no. 1

The-Frank-Tavern wrote:raifael, as a numero 2 he is Ok just don't thnk he's any good as a no. 1

Your right , hes better as a assistant. I cant see him being head coach at Chelsea.

Raifael wrote:

Brian2468 wrote:Ten Cate.... I do not know much about this guy is he any good?

Nope.

im not barcas biggest fan, but he was the brains behind rijkaard at points! so i think he'd be good for us!

He's like Quieroz - excellent assistant manager, $h!t full manager.

Queiroz wasnt that bad his short squad got tired in the 2nd half of the season.

He was partly at fault for not managing it well, even though the board (supposedly) didn't buy more players when he requested them.

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Raifael wrote:

Brian2468 wrote:Ten Cate.... I do not know much about this guy is he any good?

Nope.

im not barcas biggest fan, but he was the brains behind rijkaard at points! so i think he'd be good for us!

I think he's a very good acquistion. And its undeniable that he has some infleunce over some Barca players. Maybe Chelsea will make a triple swoop for dinho, messi and Iniesta in the summer

Ibracadabra wrote:

S4P wrote:I think it's amazing how much Dinho's reputation has fallen in the last 12-18 months, when I say that out of Barcelona's 4 'star' forwards, he's the one I'd least want to see at the Bridge. I still think he would be a good signing (as long as the price is reasonable) would he deserve a place over Malouda or Joe Cole if both are playing well (which they are at the moment)?

Bloogy hell Swarpy, if you're going to quote me, at least get it right:

The warrior/colussous that is John Terry was very slow to react to the ricochet for Villa's goal, but he was very good in the 2nd half, and not for the 1st time Joaquin had A.Cole's number. Mikel or Makalele w/Essien - not together, nor all 3.

Can become:

The warrior/colussous that is John Terry... was very good... and not for the 1st time.

Otherwise I'll be forced to sue you for defamation of character.

I accidentally erased a few words

I'll remove it

Happy now TS?

Dark Savante wrote:Queiroz wasnt that bad his short squad got tired in the 2nd half of the season.

I agree that he should have had a stronger squad in terms of substitutes and we did play amazing football in the first round. But after we lost the Spanish Cup final he completely lost control of the dressing room. We lost 5 games in a row at the end of the season (a club record) and he simply couldn't motivate the players. The way he failed to get a rise out of the team during bad times proved to me that he wasn't coaching material, at least not for a big team.

S4P wrote:

Ibracadabra wrote:

S4P wrote:I think it's amazing how much Dinho's reputation has fallen in the last 12-18 months, when I say that out of Barcelona's 4 'star' forwards, he's the one I'd least want to see at the Bridge. I still think he would be a good signing (as long as the price is reasonable) would he deserve a place over Malouda or Joe Cole if both are playing well (which they are at the moment)?

Bloogy hell Swarpy, if you're going to quote me, at least get it right:

The warrior/colussous that is John Terry was very slow to react to the ricochet for Villa's goal, but he was very good in the 2nd half, and not for the 1st time Joaquin had A.Cole's number. Mikel or Makalele w/Essien - not together, nor all 3.

Can become:

The warrior/colussous that is John Terry... was very good... and not for the 1st time.

Otherwise I'll be forced to sue you for defamation of character.

I accidentally erased a few words

I'll remove it

Nah, you can keep it just on the wind up - great pic of Droggy though

I know but it was never my intention to keep it (well at least to keep it until you'd seen/commented on it

Drogba > God

kas wrote:He's like Quieroz - excellent assistant manager, $h!t full manager.

Bull

Ten Cate isn't a great head coach but not an abmysal one either. True, he had/is having a very bad spell at Ajax, I think that's mostly because the quality isnt there and that's also sporting directors fault.

His lower profile jobs though he did great. He was the best Sparta coach of the last 20 years and did great in all his other head coach jobs also.

Wow, that's my mistake then. I honestly didn't know he's been head coach before, always thought he was an assistant manager or first team coach.