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All the quotes and stories I’m seeing on social media about Iraola make it sound like he’s one of those maniacal coaches who works his players into the ground in terms of training and prep. Which is something these players could do with but also something where you can see some serious issues since so many of our players are divas which huge egos. He sounds very much like other super micromanager type Spanish coaches like Pep and Arteta.

Emery, Simeone. Shit, even Klopp. There’s likely a 1% chance these guys say yes but you should at least offer them a massive bag of cash and decision making power. Kompany is in the ultimate dream spot for a manager currently where he can sleepwalk to league titles and make deep UCL runs most seasons. Exactly like Enrique. I think the only job he’d leave Bayern for is to succeed Pep at City.

Here in American sports when some massive job opens up there’s a common sentiment that you should call around to coaches of other massive teams and “force them to tell you no.” Even if it’s a completely pie in the sky, totally unrealistic, never in a million years sort of target you should still make the call and try. I feel like we should do this with a couple of big name managers. Even if they laugh and don’t even take our call.

Yep, true. But unless Man United decide they want him we’ll probably be by far the biggest club interested in him. I really just don’t know how I’d feel about him at all. We saw Potter do a super impressive job at small English club and look what happened. The question you’ll always get with this type of candidate is whether they can get the big personalities and egos of players at a massive club to fully buy in like the players at their previous small club did. If Iraola is the guy I’m not in the least bit excited. An upgrade on Rosenior for sure but not someone who gets the pulse racing.

Available, no. But it used to be when Chelsea needed a manager we could go to someone who was currently employed at another big club and convince them to come here. As in the mud as we are currently I would hope that these guys at least make some top level managers laugh in their faces and tell them no. If they offer enough money and control you never know if one might actually say yes. But it’s seeming more and more like Iraola will be the guy.

Some of these names are depressing. Not a single one that would give any Chelsea supporters genuine excitement or belief that things can definitely be turned around. The fact that a guy who hasn’t even managed 2 years in Terzić is even a name linked is insane. And if memory serves he didn’t exactly leave Dortmund on great terms. Whilst I think the current 4 PL managers that are being named (Iraola, Howe, Marco Silva, and Glasner) may be able to steady things and get us competitive again, would I be at all confident that any of these guys could take us to the level that we aspire to return to? Nope. There really doesn’t seem to be any manager out there that could make the Chelsea fanbase stop and think “oh, wow, maybe BlueCo really are serious now.” These are all yet more “hope and pray they work out” level candidates.

“Champions League push” lmao…bit late for that you idiots. All the reliable guys are saying no new manager is being lined up yet which makes sense I guess. Never know who could unexpectedly be obtainable after the season. As with player recruitment, this will all come down to whether these clowns change their model. They’ve put out PR for the past couple of weeks about how they’re going to change the model with player signings. They need to do the same with the manager. No more Rosenior/Maresca/Potter “learning on the job” guys. We should also be sacking whoever the fuck decided to push so hard for Gittens and Garnacho.

If you ask yourself “would any other big side in the PL even consider this manager if there was an opening at their club” and the answer is no chance, we shouldn’t be going anywhere near them. Enough with the “project” managers or the “young and promising coach who can grow with the young team over the years.” We need a PROVEN, respected manager whose priority first and foremost is to WIN NOW, not in 3 years.

Terzić would be another clown appointment akin to Rosenior or even Maresca before he arrived and proved himself. A massive risk we’d be fucking insane to take after this current appointment. Iraola or Marco Silva who have shown excellent flashes in the PL already might be the best we could hope for in our current state. I love Fabregas but even he would be a massive risk I don’t think we can afford at this moment in time.

Iraola is probably the safest or most sensible of the early names we’re seeing. Did fantastically with limited resources at a tiny club and punched far above his weight. Plays attractive football whilst also getting his teams to do the hard running. From his perspective though we’d be a bit of a weird choice. He’ll probably have numerous offers from much more stable, well run clubs.

Only way things turn around for us is if these owners make a serious managerial appointment and take a completely hands off approach in football decisions. Let the manager and football people do the work.

We know we won’t be getting a top class, big name manager. That goes without saying in the situation this club is in. But we should still at least be targeting someone who instantly commands respect from both the players and the fanbase. If we once again pluck somebody from a small club with zero big club or high level experience then there will rightly be a fan revolt and this club may never play UCL football again.

Shocked I haven’t woken up to a Comunicado Oficial. Imagine how fucking toxic shit will get if Rosenior is in charge at Wembley and loses to Leeds of all clubs.

I don’t see how he can be in the dugout for Leeds.

I legit feel bad for the guy. Came here with a humble attitude, seems like a genuinely nice person, never bigged himself up and acted like he was here on merit or acted arrogant. I’m sure for a certain profile of club he’d be a solid manager still. His issue is that he was/is woefully unqualified for this job and 100% of the blame needs to be placed in the owners. They’ve killed this club and now that they’re going to HAVE to sack their handpicked puppet Rosenior, it’s going to make convincing any new manager worth a damn even tougher.

I’m saying will THEY be looking at these kinds of guys. I personally wouldn’t want Stones here but would I be shocked if our directors are thinking to themselves “hey, they asked us for more PL proven and experienced players!”

Bernardo Silva & John Stones both confirmed leaving on free’s this summer. Both only 31 I believe. With our directors straight up coming out and saying that they’ll target proven, experienced players with PL experience it’d be weird if we don’t at least call these two, right? Even if they’re just super short term deals to bridge the gap until our current young guys are properly ready.

Said this a week or two ago, but I think they’re desperately hoping that results don’t continue like this the rest of the way because they want to keep him badly. They don’t want the embarrassment of having to sack their hand picked puppet who they had planned to become Chelsea manager ages ago. Probably before they even appointed Maresca they were eyeing Rosenior for this job. So if we win just a couple of the remaining PL matches and beat Leeds to reach the FA Cup final they’ll almost 100% keep him even with no UCL football. But if we get smoked by Brighton I think it’s 50/50 whether he stays or goes. That many horrific losses on the bounce SHOULD cost anyone their job at a club like this.

Really don’t see how he survives if we lose to Brighton. It’s a dead, meaningless game anyways because UCL qualification is done, but if we get beaten without scoring yet again I think his position will be untenable. If the players aren’t responding to you for like 5-6 straight games where you get beaten easily then why is he in the job? It’s pointless sacking him so close to the end of the season but it’s simultaneously pointless keeping him.

Oh, I’m sure he 100% has ambitions to manage us in the future. I’m saying he’s probably smart enough to stay away for the time being and build his CV more. He won’t want to jump in to a hopeless situation where he’s set up to fail.

Could you even imagine either of these two trying to work with the shit show upstairs? 😂😂😂 Much as I’d love Conte back he’d literally murder these guys if they tried some of the stuff they pull.

Cesc strikes me as someone smart enough to have watched some of the managers we’ve burned through and realize that jumping straight from a small club to the Chelsea hot seat is a terrible idea. I think he’ll take a stepping stone sort of job at a decent sized club first and if he continues to look good he’ll then be looking at the top ones.

Exactly. Club is dead. They’ve taken a golden ticket cleared of debts and coming off of a UCL win and smothered it to death. No plan to improve or move stadiums, no permanent shirt sponsor after 4 fucking years, filled our squad with a shit load of bang average players who are nowhere near traditional Chelsea level having spent BILLIONS, churned through unqualified manager after unqualified manager. Immediately fell out with the one world class coach who was employed during their time here. And now saddled us with massive financial worries entering the summer when we need yet another big overhaul. This is one of the biggest destructions of a massive sports club/franchise ever. It’s criminal.

It used to be we may be able to go to some other big club and entice their top class manager to come manage Chelsea. Who the fuck could we even entice this summer? What top level manager would dare come to Chelsea under this ownership? When Rosenior goes they’ll have churned through hand picked puppet after hand picked puppet who were all supposedly chosen because they were “ideal fits” in their structure. If even these guys couldn’t work under this lot, why would an established world class coach want to? This is the most depressing thing about our outlook. There is no real optimism that next season will be any different. Short of the owners calling up Klopp and offering him £20m per season salary + full control over transfers, there is no fix for this. And Klopp would probably still not even entertain that offer with these clowns.

He’s extremely lucky that sacking him now would be totally pointless because out season is effectively over.