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Has i said in the avb topic, chelsea doesn't need a specific manager. first, chelsea need somebody with full power to confront the players, a kind of "active-president". Sure abramovic is important to the club, but he needs a figure on behalf of him to put some respect on the players, to be all the time with them and judge them when necessary, giving the manager the freedom to worry only about the game and the opponent. Perhaps this is the experience that we have here in portugal with south american players, who arrive here being nobody and wanting to be stars from on day to another. we created an organization in porto that avoids those problems between coach and players. if you do that, you can hire again even avb, and you'll win the premier league soon...

to make that clearout you have to buy to many good players at the same time. and that's not a question of money (not a problem in Chelsea), that's a question of those players wanting to come... You cannot do that in 2 mounths. AVB knew that. And he knew e needed 1 year to build a team. but the results weren't the best...

As a Porto fan, my opinion is that you lost (or wasted) a great manager. He needed to build a team as he wish, but that is not possible in 8 mounths. He won in Porto because that was an associatian of a great organization with a great manager. The work was all done, the team was barely the same (he just hired a left defender to be substitute of Alvaro), a centre-back to compensate the exit of Bruno Alves to Zenit, and a miedfielder (João Moutinho) to substitute Meireles. Plus, he worked James Rodriguez to a point that you can see this season (and you will hear a lot of him in the future). The rest was there, great young players with the will to win everything, you the spirit to beat every teams! AVB brought to Porto the young blood of irreverence. If you look at Porto's squad, the old players are a few, and without vicious of being absolutely incontestable. They know that they need to word hard if they want to play. And that was the problem in Chelsea, when some of the players stayed in the bench, it provoked the first negative reactions. In Porto, if that happened, the Presidente Pinto da Costa would have talked to those players and they would have been punished, for sure! That gives the manager the confidence he needs to do his work without having to answer every week the press about issues with players A or B in the squad. What Chelsea needed was a person like Pinto da Costa to control the players. When the manager has to give the face to protect himself and the players from press questions, the problem will never be solved! I think he shouldn't have gone to Chelsea so early, because he should predict that the relationship with the players could be problematic when you bring new ideas. I give this example: 4 matches ago, Porto lost with Gil Vicente in an away game, where the referee allowed 2 irregular goal do Gil (the first from a freekick that wasn't foul, the second was offside), and didn't pointed 2 penaltys for Porto. In the end of the game, Porto was 5 points behind benfica. Pinto da Costa went to the closet in the end of the game, call down the players and demanded the players to work harder! 4 matches later, Porto is in the first place, won 8 points to benfica, and won the away game with benfica when we were tied up with them. There was no time to the press question the manager, the players, etc. The president solves thoses problems before they went wrong. In Chelsea, that hasn't happened. Chelsea should hire now a coach with strong spirit and firm in his decisions, and assure him the minimum of 3 years contract. Plus, hire a man to control the closet, to be always upon the players, so the manager can only work on the opponent and on the tactics. That manager should be AVB, but the owner doesn0t think so...