New Chelsea Manager

So who's next for a mega multi million pound compensation package for being sacked by Chelsea?

Have a feeling they will want Villa Boas because of Portos fantastic season and His comparisons to Mourinho But I think Hiddink is also a strong possibilty

Grant.

Hodgson

I guessed Deschamps earlier in season, so I'll stick with that.

Whoever it is will have a few tricky decisions to make on who to get rid of to make that side work again.

Well actually it isn't really tricky at all but good luck finding someone else willing to pay The Flump £130k per week

arry

Villas Boas or Hiddink.

Dalglish?

It won't be Hoodwink.

He took over when they were 4th so (at that time) they were in the lowest position they could possibly finish (before the pogress of Spurs and City).

He would have no excuse for failure if he took over at the start of the season, had loads of money spent on players and was up against a United without VDS and with ana geing Scholes and Giggs, a City side who are only CL for the 1st time and will lose Tevez, a dismal Arsenal, a Spurs side who have reached their peak and Liverpool who won't be anything like as good when playing under pressure.

He will publicly distance himself from the job but rather than admit to being a man who can only achieve as a perceived underdog he will say its because he has a contract with Turkey (manager/player contracts really mean a lot nowadays) thereby presenting himself as a man of honour - his adoring press will lap it up and, should the new Chelsea manager disappoint, they will all speculate as to how good Chelsea would have been had the great Guus taken over.

Which ever wins the race to see who can bend over for Roman fastest wins the spot.

There have been rumours for a while about Harry Redknapp being in talks with Chelsea.
Don't rule it out ..

rosenthal wrote:
There have been rumours for a while about Harry Redknapp being in talks with Chelsea.
Don't rule it out ..

I almost want this to happen, the way he's dissed the Lilly-white faithful lately.

All of last week Hiddink was in talks to join the Ajax staff (lol), but I just read this morning he cancelled all talks now...

I'd say the likelihood of him returning to Stamford bridge just got bigger.

I just can't see Mourinho, Hiddink, Deschamps because they have a contract to respect. Rijkaard, why not he is free. Benitez could be an option and he is free too. Villas Boas could be tempted to be paid huge, but does he really want to take his chance now or would he rather stay a bit with Porto and continue the adventure in the C.L. Redknapp could be the best option, he did pretty well this year and who knows what he could do with a team like Chelsea?
Zola and Sven would not be good for Chelsea, well good for other teams for sure.

Hiddink with Zola as his assistant.

There is only one man who can revive a team built around Frank Lampard who is comfortable and has a proven track record of spending lots of money to achieve success, and that man is Sven.

I'd be amused to see what Benitez could do with the job. He could waste even more money on strikers than he did at Liverpool.

Talking of Hiddink, has anyone been to the 'Guuseum'?

There's also cocktail named after him in Korea

Pinky und der Brain wrote:There is only one man who can revive a team built around Frank Lampard who is comfortable and has a proven track record of spending lots of money to achieve success, and that man is Sven.

I'd be amused to see what Benitez could do with the job. He could waste even more money on strikers than he did at Liverpool.

Liverpool more than doubled what was paid for Torres, made a £4mil profit on Crouch, broke even on Bellamy & Garcia, Kuyt is a £10mil player in this day and age, N'gog at £1.5mil they probably won't lose anything on him. Morientes he realised wouldn't adapt pretty quickly and he lost £3mil on him. Keane wasn't really his signing but for the sake of this agenda I'll allow you the £5mil loss. Babel was the one true busted flush, bought for £13mil, sold for £5mil. Cisse wasn't his signing, but again, for the sake of agendas, I'll let you have the £8mil loss on him. Baros he gained £3mil on.

So with all that he's actually made, by my reckoning, a £9mil p[rofit on strikers.

Wasted Cash

Deluded F*ck wrote:

Pinky und der Brain wrote:There is only one man who can revive a team built around Frank Lampard who is comfortable and has a proven track record of spending lots of money to achieve success, and that man is Sven.

I'd be amused to see what Benitez could do with the job. He could waste even more money on strikers than he did at Liverpool.

Liverpool more than doubled what was paid for Torres, made a £4mil profit on Crouch, broke even on Bellamy & Garcia, Kuyt is a £10mil player in this day and age, N'gog at £1.5mil they probably won't lose anything on him. Morientes he realised wouldn't adapt pretty quickly and he lost £3mil on him. Keane wasn't really his signing but for the sake of this agenda I'll allow you the £5mil loss. Babel was the one true busted flush, bought for £13mil, sold for £5mil. Cisse wasn't his signing, but again, for the sake of agendas, I'll let you have the £8mil loss on him. Baros he gained £3mil on.

So with all that he's actually made, by my reckoning, a £9mil p[rofit on strikers.

Wasted Cash

Massive inflation in transfer fees doesn't excuse the fact that of maybe a dozen strikers signed that only one (or maybe two if you include Torres) were successes. 'arry sold Lassana Diara for a massive profit. Does that mean he is some kind of midfielder transfer genius?

Abramovich doing a bit of dick wagging and buying an unfit, out of form striker who has had one great season in his entire career for a ludicrous 50 million adds no credit to Benitez whatsoever. Particularly if you include the fact that Torres fee and wages were such that Liverpool couldn't afford to also buy/employ meaningful backup. And the fact that Torres was at best inconsistent, moody and relatively frequently injured and therefore required meaningful backup.

Benitez signed an amazing goalkeeper, some very good defenders who when he coached them became an outstanding defensive unit, some excellent midfielders who combined to form a diverse and balanced group, but that's where it stops. Wide players - signed a lot, aside from Kuyt literally none of them worked out. Strikers - signed a lot, and maybe didn't lose shocking amounts of money on any of them, but again aside from Kuyt few if any worked out.

Ferguson has signed maybe 10 players to try and find the right partner for Rooney and maybe ManYoo haven't lost (to them) significant amounts of money on any of them, but it hasn't been a successful process by any meaningful standard. He has wasted money. Take Tosic, for example. Man Utd signed him, bigged him up, didn't sign the other lad they had agreed to sign alongside him, played Tosic in a handful of meaningless appearances, invested in his wages and his training and in finding a club to loan him out to, loaned him out, he did alright and then they sold him for a small profit. That is not a successful signing of a player, because Championship Manager is not reality. It is wasted time, and it is wasted money. If Fergie deserves criticism, which he does, then Benitez deserves criticism, which he does.

I know you have something of a flake cornetto in your pants when it comes to Benitez, but there's giving him due credit, then there's refusing to accept justified criticism.

Keane was a horrible signing. Babel was an expensive mistake, the rest we got what we paid for. I don't think Benitez made bad signings, he bought what he could afford. He just doesn't have an overachieving bargain striker signing like so many other managers in his position have. 'Justified criticism' would be better off focusing on the wingers and fullbacks.

Rafa didn't want Babel, he wanted Malouda but Parry messed about and we lost out in the end. Babel was an alternative that we only wanted to pay around 8 million for, again Parry messed that one up.

The Keane transfer again was not what Rafa had in mind. He made it explicit to Parry, Hicks and Gillett that he only wanted Keane if he could buy Barry as well. Parry told him we had to buy Keane first but not to worry because we would definitely be signing Barry. After we signed Keane Parry came back and told him the owners were unwilling to spend money on a player of Barry's age despite Keane being the same age as him and around 8 million more. Keane couldn't fit into a system devoid of Barry and effectively Rafa was left with a player he didn't want for 20 million, I don't blame him at all for that, I blame the clowns running the club at the time.

Luis wrote:Rafa didn't want Babel, he wanted Malouda but Parry messed about and we lost out in the end. Babel was an alternative that we only wanted to pay around 8 million for, again Parry messed that one up.

The Keane transfer again was not what Rafa had in mind. He made it explicit to Parry, Hicks and Gillett that he only wanted Keane if he could buy Barry as well. Parry told him we had to buy Keane first but not to worry because we would definitely be signing Barry. After we signed Keane Parry came back and told him the owners were unwilling to spend money on a player of Barry's age despite Keane being the same age as him and around 8 million more. Keane couldn't fit into a system devoid of Barry and effectively Rafa was left with a player he didn't want for 20 million, I don't blame him at all for that, I blame the clowns running the club at the time.

I'm not sure how true all that is. I'm sure the board wouldn't spend 30m+ on players Rafa didn't want. I do believe that they weren't his first choice - he wanted Malouda and Villa. He wanted Dani Alves, he got Kromkamp, he wanted Simao, he got Pennant. But the Barry/Keane nonsense is just silly, Keane was/is shit and there's not much Gareth Barry could do about that.

Well that's according to Brian Reade in his new book which sums up the Hicks and Gillett fiasco basically. I'm not saying Rafa didn't make mistakes, all managers do but on this particular occasion I believe he genuinely had a formation in mind that Keane and Barry would play an important role in.

Apparently, Ancelotti doesn't want to return to Italy and intends to stay in England. I wonder what club he could manage (or rather can afford him).

blutgraetsche wrote:Apparently, Ancelotti doesn't want to return to Italy and intends to stay in England. I wonder what club he could manage (or rather can afford him).

Spurs swap?

Don't think that Abramovich is seriously interested in 'arry. But Ancelotti could do well for Spurs indeed.

blutgraetsche wrote:Apparently, Ancelotti doesn't want to return to Italy and intends to stay in England. I wonder what club he could manage (or rather can afford him).

If that is the case he will probably just hang around like Rafa Benitez and wait for Mancini or Dalglish to get the sack.

he should hang around casinos looking for Mike Ashley