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🗯🔵There is a feeling inside Chelsea that Xabi Alonso’s style of play would make him suited to their young squad. His standing within the game would help him control the dressing room and could also help with attracting players to the club. Chelsea have also MET with Iraola. Something that has been acknowledged by the recruitment department is the need for the team to become more physical. That heightens the appeal of Iraola. There is a sense he is capable of scaling up to a bigger job. (@guardian_sport)

Perhaps yes but I don’t think you can have 5 or 6 strong candidates. Like what other club do you hear of having 6 strong candidates for their next manager 😂? The fact that names like Marco Silva, Oliver Glasner are also prominent & won’t go away is worrying. These mystery candidates whose name aren’t in public domain is very very worrying too because they’ll be absolutely ridiculous. But they’ll end up closer to the job than some of these bigger names no doubt. I know they are saying they will take time & want to reflect on things bla bla bla but it’s all a smokescreen. They haven’t got a clue as to what they’re doing and just trying to buy themselves time before continuing to do what they were always going to do. They had this long term plan in place for 2030. You don’t start ramping up and basically deciding Alonso is ideal/prime candidate then put noises out that you have 5 other very strong candidates. Its just not done. I reckon these mystery candidates/no known names will who we see more likely than not. Cannot fucking wait to see how retarded the next move is. I’ll be sticking some money on it being Calum.

Exactly, and suddenly theyre saying, 'but we had to make a difficult choice - and we believe Gary O neil/Christain Gross/Pinnochio is the candidate to take Chelsea Franchise Cowboys to the next level'

Between Xabi and Iraola.with club probably leaning towards Xabi, but weary of publicly commiting too much to him incase it falls through,which is a realistic possibility.They used to chasing coaches nobody else would want so this is new ground for them..

Thats not going to happen with these sporting directors or owners though regardless of noise or eternal optimism. How many managers have we appointed since Tuchel and how many have gotten to handpick 1 player yet alone 3 or 4 players? It won’t change, they are fucking idiots. Nobody else concerned about all the noise about the club having other candidates in the running outside of Alonso (who wants this control we keep talking about)? Like we were optimistic about a deal with Alonso then all off a sudden, he’s not the obvious front runner & there are other “strong” candidates? I mean the fact Alonso is even considering working here, is crazy enough, so why aren’t we putting out a big recruitment drive for him? He is probably the best coach out there in terms of the names linked to the club. I have no doubt, if he has asked for more control, they will be widening the net specifically to ask other candidates if they’d be willing to continue working within the current structure. Then find one, appoint them and rise and repeat.

Please be true.

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Yes in some ways true. Thursday night football is also the worst possible schedule and Europa is just about hard enough that we can't send out a literal B team all the time either. That said I imagine most managers (of the calibre we're targeting) also want a shot at winning a Europa league and would fancy themselves favourite to win it with us if we get in which could be a nice pull too (plus it is a very convenient backdoor to CL if you bottle the league)

True. And using five Sporting Directors to spy on each other and report back to the owners is a typical divide and rule tactic. 5 Sporting Directors, 8 managers, 55 players....Blueco model One Step Beyond...

Villas Boas was hot for a minute as well, including going undefeated in the league and winning a treble. He was fucking shit though and Xabi might be as well. But I'm happy to give it a go. I'd rather hang my hat on someone who's done a bit more over more seasons (e.g. Emery) but we are where we are. I have no idea what happened with him & Real as don't follow it but on blind faith willing to assume mad house situation that wasn't his fault.

I’m hanging my hat on Alonso.. but do not for a second think we will actually get him. Surely he ends up at the bindippers.

People are forgetting the guy nearly won the treble with Bayer. 50+ games unbeaten in a season too while playing attacking football.

He has hired a new agent.

Emery is an also an example of a coach that controls things, you can clearly see that, but he also worked closely and had a great relationship with Monchi who has departed for Espanyol. It is massively important for a coach to work alongside the directors not against them or as individuals and this is exactly where we lay. The gap in relationships between our coach, SD' and owners is massive, and manager/coach given players to work with rather than having a solid round table discussion and identifying a plan and identifying who should be bought. I really do not think things will change anytime soon.

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As we’re speaking right now the Chelsea job is probably at its lowest ever point in terms of attractiveness to any TOP manager. But I actually think that ironically if we miss out on Europe altogether it becomes VERY attractive. You almost get to ease into the job at a super high pressure club with much more training time to get your ideas across to your new squad and you can fully focus strictly on the PL. If the new man can get 3-4 of his handpicked signings I think theres every chance we pull a Man United and go from abysmal to a UCL place in the span of a season. As horrendous as we’ve been this season the “bones” are still something we have. Any prospective manager looking at the Chelsea job will be excited seeing that the likes of Caicedo, James, Palmer, João Pedro, Estevão, etc are here already and have the ability to perform at a world class level if coached properly.

Exactly

The job at Stamford Bridge is not nearly as tempting as it used to be, and has pretty much lost its appeal to the very top coaches. The squad isn’t ready to compete at the top, and those coaches won’t get the control they want to change that.

We used to own Wembley, now Wembley owns us

Yeah he would do, sort these soft cunts out both players and board

You're underwhelmed by Xabi? Who do you want? SAF?

All of them and Emery come from the industrial Guipuzcoa province https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/4904302/2023/09/28/arteta-emery-iraola-premier-league-guipuzcoa-managers/

Is abit mad how Xabi,Iraola and Arteta all grew up drinking the same water so to speak at the same time..