BlueLion. 21,491 Posted May 24, 2008 Share Posted May 24, 2008 Thanks for everything, Avram. I suppose his job was on the line whether or not he won a trophy. He didn't do bad, but following an act like Mourinho is one hell of a tough thing to do. Good luck to the bloke. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
warnie_666 1,081 Posted May 24, 2008 Share Posted May 24, 2008 Come to see of it, if you leave out the Man Utd game since he wasappointed just 2 daysbfore the game,he has suffered only 1 loss and that is to arsenal. Unlucky in the Finals. Carling Cup: Cech punchs the ball away and the ball goes in the net rebounding off woodgate's head. UCL: Drogba gets sent off for slapping. Anelka says he doesnt want to take the 5th kick.(not a team player)...finally terry takes it, he slips. Very unclucky i would say. BTW, does anybody know whether he is still the director of football, or has he left CFC completely? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gianfranco_Z 202 Posted May 24, 2008 Share Posted May 24, 2008 People say he has messed up in vital games, but so did mourinho... remember ferreira on the right of midfield against liverpool fa cup semi? had we all our players fit we would have cruised the league this season. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elliott 7 Posted May 24, 2008 Share Posted May 24, 2008 Yeah but GZ Mourinho got it right in big games too. Mourinho won us trophies. That's the basic difference. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kbchel 2 Posted May 24, 2008 Share Posted May 24, 2008 anyone but ten cate, erikson or mancini erikson was thrash by a headless Chelsea while mancini's record in champions league sux Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
warnie_666 1,081 Posted May 24, 2008 Share Posted May 24, 2008 Get Michael Laudrup.!!!....end off the matter.!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kbchel 2 Posted May 24, 2008 Share Posted May 24, 2008 (edited) what makes you think a getafe coach can handle the Chelsea superstars?????? bring attacking football??? and trophies such as champions league in his first try????? btw here are some stats for laudrap and getafe w11 d13 L6 goals scored 37 goals conceded 39 goal difference -2 Edited May 24, 2008 by kbchel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
warnie_666 1,081 Posted May 24, 2008 Share Posted May 24, 2008 Did you seriously think, Mourinho would win us the League title the first year? I dont want to see Rijkaard year. Hes success was based on Ronaldinho reaching his peak. Once ronaldinho lost his peak, Barca went trophyless. Mancini, to me is pretty much similar to Joe Mourinho. He plays defensive football and his UCL record with Inter is simlar to Jose's at Chelsea. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kbchel 2 Posted May 24, 2008 Share Posted May 24, 2008 (edited) jose had a uefa cup and a champions league, he is also the champions of the portugest league....when he come to Chelsea...everybody expect great things from him getafe on the other hand did not even make the uefa cup this year..... they survived relegation by only 5 points the next coach must stay long...long enough to bring Chelsea to the next level Edited May 24, 2008 by kbchel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sunburn 0 Posted May 24, 2008 Share Posted May 24, 2008 random thoughts on the matter... knew it was coming as he was there as a temp only... the bloke grew on me a bit, seemed nice enough, enjoyed that he stayed under the radar for the most part, but was out of his element at this level... didnt like the way he got the job so what goes around comes around... kenyon is certainly a tit, lied about jose staying, lied about grant staying....switching managers fine - but saying one thing and doing another makes us a look like a joke... wouldnt mind hiddink coming in... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulHopkins 1 Posted May 24, 2008 Share Posted May 24, 2008 I hope we get Laudrup or Mourinho. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
warnie_666 1,081 Posted May 24, 2008 Share Posted May 24, 2008 How about Dick Advocaat?...dark horse? very experienced manager. Too Old though. No expeience of managing big clubs but has done well with small clubs. Helped Zenit an unknown team win the UEFA Cup. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stamford 3 Posted May 24, 2008 Share Posted May 24, 2008 I hope we get Laudrup or Mourinho. I am not sure about Laudrup at all. His record isn't that impresive and I don't really know his style of football. Obviously, I'd love Jose back, but don't realistically think that will happen. I think it will be a Rijkaard/ Cate partnership, although I am not convinced that that will work either. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Milan 17,956 Posted May 24, 2008 Share Posted May 24, 2008 I hope we get Laudrup or Mourinho. I hope we get Mark Hughes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pluto 0 Posted May 24, 2008 Share Posted May 24, 2008 (edited) Thank god the nightmare is finally over. His appointment should never have happened. Yeah things went better than I had imagined with him in charge but his appointment was one of the biggest farces in football. Lets move on. Seconded. It wasn't quite the nightmare his official unveiling suggested but it was blatently obvious to me that he was riding the wagon of what Mourinho left behind and benefitting accordingly, he lacked the respect of many of the players, the media riduculed him and even the board never really gave him unequivocal support - the four year contract was just a sop to make what was a stop gap panic measure look a measured decision. He was promoted way over his head and for all those fans on Five Live no saying how disgusting and disgraceful it is that Chelsea ditched him I ask them this "would they get rid of their current manager for Avram?" I sense the answer would be no which says it all. The bottom line is he didn't win anything despite having the kind of squad this is perfectly capable of doing so, if Mourinho was given short shrift after winning two trophies last season then Grant had not a snowball in hell's chance of clinging on after our fourth failure of the season. I'm glad he's gone, I can't say I disliked him he was just "meh" to me. I couldn't bare his constant comments about how wonderful our football was when it wasn't generally, how he continued to belittle Mourinho's achievements and tried to give the impression he was actually doing something proactive with the team when clearly it was the players or the back room staff doing most of the work. Lets move on indeed, hire a coach that is worthy of the name, who will be a clean break with the messy Mourinho/Grant take over, will have the respect of the players, is tactically generally sound and will be able to control the media better (it is important despite what some suggest) and give me an idea they actually have a clear vision of their own. This was always a given really, Grant was following someone who was massively successful, beloved by most fans and also very charismatic so the media loved him and that's a lethal combination for any one to follow and worse because of Grant's apparent lack of media friendly soundbites and aura. If he had won us things then none of the rest would really matter but he didn't and now it does. Edited May 24, 2008 by pluto Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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