Chelsea spent almost £30 million to replace Carlo Ancelotti with Andre Villas-Boas

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We should really have appointed Steve Clark as manager when Jose left (lets be honest he was manager in all but name when Avram was "incharge") what's to say he couldn't have done a Guardiola with us?

I thought about it yesterday why didn't we hold on to Clarke and promote Rodgers at some point. They would be people who know the club through and through from the academy to first team. Instead we opt for clueless people like Grant and Scolari who have zero knowledge of the club's roots and personnel outside first team.

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I have sympathy for AVB. Mourinho once alluded to the fact that the squad he had wasn't as good as it should have been, AVB is working with the remnants of that same squad only now the key players in it have either left (Carvalho, Ballack ect.), retired (Makelele) or are past their best (Drogba, Lampard, Essien) and the replacements still aren't as good as those who are past their best (Torres, Meireles). AVB has been fighting an uphill battle since he arrived. I still think he is the right man for the job in the long term because somebody has to clean out the squad once and for all and AVB looks like the right man to do that. Im willing to write this season off as a necessary evil so that we can flourish in the future, hopefully Roman feels the same.

first class post