The Next Manager?

[Fernando 6,455]

54 minutes ago, Blue_Fox_ said:

Whoever it is, is going to get the sack around this time next year. That or at the end of the season.

We should just hire 4 or 5 managers and rotate them.

I doubt anyone would get sack for anything less then what Mourinho was.

If we finish top 4 the board would be okay.

What is not okay is to be 1 point above relegation in December.

 

[petre.ispirescu 4,928]

2 hours ago, Pizy said:

We need someone who is highly experienced in Europe and has managed (at a high level) in a top league. Someone who will immedietly command our star players' respect and someone who can attract top recruits.

The Chelsea job is too big for Sampaoli I think. He's the kind of manager that needs to take over at all club first and earn his way to a big club like us. Could see him getting sacked in a single season here.

 

We've had one and look in what mess he's left us in. Maybe it's time for a change, a complete turnover in our club's mentality. Someone creative, spontaneous, romantic, with new ideas, new tactics, new approach. I for one I'm bored of this 4-2-3-1 tactics and all the shitty, old cliches such as "wingers have to come back in defence at all cost", "we need to make sure we're rock solid at the back before we go forward." etc. 

 

Sampaoli is clever and imaginative, I'm sure the players will love him. He challenges the players and plays them at their strenghts, total football, attacking football, lots of intensity. Players do not accept you or start to doubt your ability once you bring nothing new to the game, except for the usual things. They all know the basics, you just have to bring something new. That's the difference between Mourinho and Guardiola - one guarantees you instant success, but you get bored of him in two or three seasons once he can't bring nothing new to the game, the other brings both success and entertainment and no matter how long he's been in a club, you simply want more and more of him. And Sampaoli is in the mould of Guardiola/Bielsa, mad tacticians always looking for new ways on how to keep the ball for most of the time, how quick to recover it, how many players to bring in attack.

 

That's football nowadays, total football belongs to the big teams, counter attacking football to the smaller ones. Chelsea FC one of the biggest brands in world football must play the right way.

[the wes 7,212]

5 hours ago, Pizy said:

We need someone who is highly experienced in Europe and has managed (at a high level) in a top league. Someone who will immedietly command our star players' respect and someone who can attract top recruits.

The Chelsea job is too big for Sampaoli I think. He's the kind of manager that needs to take over at all club first and earn his way to a big club like us. Could see him getting sacked in a single season here.

that sound like a manager we had before big Phil and that didnt end to well ffs

[Spike 12,049]

6 hours ago, Fernando said:

 

Pep, Simeone Mourinho and such was never big shots when they started.

We need to gamble. And Sampoli sounds like an interesting gamble.

The last gamble wanted to make me gouge my eyes out. Damn Portuguese red haired bastard.

[Kieran. 6,317]

I want Guardiola, think it'll be Simeone, wouldn't mind Sampaoli at all. Been following his work at Chile for a while and he's an amazing coach.

[kellzfresh 7,229]

2 hours ago, Kieran. said:

I want Guardiola, think it'll be Simeone, wouldn't mind Sampaoli at all. Been following his work at Chile for a while and he's an amazing coach.

I would be happy with Sampaoli too, but I'm not sure of his credentials with club football. 

The way Chile play is fantastic though, team football. 

[azinopik 10]

I'd love to see Brendan's fluid system at Chelsea

[kellzfresh 7,229]

27 minutes ago, azinopik said:

I'd love to see Brendan's fluid system at Chelsea

Scouser  

[Tomo 21,733]

15 hours ago, petre.ispirescu said:

In Chile they say Sampaoli will be a free agent starting tomorrow and he admited today that he sees EPL as his next destination.

We should be all over this, Sampaoli is a genius, probably the closest thing to Guardiola right now (together with Paco Jemez IMHO).

If Chelsea is in for a change than the best thing to look into is somebody like Sampaoli (assuming Guardiola is off the market)- he's not unidimensional, likes to challenge his players, favours attacking football (obsessed with it should I say), likes to rotate a lot, he's flexible with his tactics.

Hopefully this turns into something more than just a rumour. 

Is he quite stubborn in his ways of attacking? Like for example will he tone it down a bit against teams better equipped to play attacking football than us? Ie Arsenal, Barcelona, City? What is his Chile team like from a defensive POV?

Last thing I ever want to see is a repeat of that 5-3 against Arsenal.

[Tomo 21,733]

43 minutes ago, azinopik said:

I'd love to see Brendan's fluid system at Chelsea

I personally am not up for going gun ho in games a draw is ok and 50 league goals in a season.

[Fernando 6,455]

11 hours ago, Spike said:

The last gamble wanted to make me gouge my eyes out. Damn Portuguese red haired bastard.

Yeah I know, AVB came too early. We pulled the trigger too fast on that, especially after only one season. 

There's a lot of one season wonder managers, we should have waited to see how they do in the next season and just kept Carlo. That was an appointment too early as we wasn't ready for that, but today I will favor such an approach. 

2 hours ago, Tomo said:

Is he quite stubborn in his ways of attacking? Like for example will he tone it down a bit against teams better equipped to play attacking football than us? Ie Arsenal, Barcelona, City? What is his Chile team like from a defensive POV?

Last thing I ever want to see is a repeat of that 5-3 against Arsenal.

True this is a valid point. 

I don't watch much of Chile game to give you a good breakdown of all this. But if I'm not mistaken at times when they played against Brazil and Argentina they took a more counter attacking approach. Can't be sure about this but that's the way it seemed to me....

[azinopik 10]

Brendan: former Chelsea Reserve manager, Championship play-off final winner

I hope we end up with him  

[Parky 739]

3 hours ago, azinopik said:

I'd love to see Brendan's fluid system at Chelsea

Yea but then leak 3 goals for every 1 goal scored. His a cheap Pep imitation full of holes..

 

 

[Fernando 6,455]

Juande Ramos almost became Chelsea manager - Marcos Alvarez http://espnfc.com/chelsea/story/2786018/juande-ramos-almost-became-chelsea-manager-marcos-alvarez
 -via ESPN FC http://es.pn/fcapp

[petre.ispirescu 4,928]

8 hours ago, Tomo said:

Is he quite stubborn in his ways of attacking? Like for example will he tone it down a bit against teams better equipped to play attacking football than us? Ie Arsenal, Barcelona, City? What is his Chile team like from a defensive POV?

Last thing I ever want to see is a repeat of that 5-3 against Arsenal.

Nah, he is not a "gung ho all out attack" manager. He's clever, knows how to find balance between attack and defence. Favours a three at the back formation as he's a Bielsa/Guardiola adept, obsessed with having the ball most of the time, wing backs bombing forward and players occupy attacking positions to recover the ball quickly. 

Best example would be the Copa America Final where naturally you'd think he'd revert to a four at the back formation knowing he's going to face the likes Messi, Aguero, Di Maria, Lavezzi, Pastore, but he didn't. Went for three at the back, but guess what?! None of them was a natural central defender. All of them defensive midfielders - Gary Medel (1.70m), Marcelo Diaz (1.65m) and Francisco Silva (1.78m). Clever move if you ask me because Argentina did not possess that big of a hight advantage, but Sampaoli had to deal with other thing and that was Argentina's pace upfront. That's why he brought small, but quick defensive midfielders to play at the back. It was not the most entertaining final, but you could see how solid Chile looked and how they limited Argentina to only two shots on goal, both in the 1st half.

So yeah, you could say he goes into a more pragmatic approach when facing dangerous opponents, but does not derail that much from his own philosophy. Sampaoli is flexible, as I said, favours a three at the back formation that easily switches to 5-3-2 when having to defend, or a 3-1-3-3 when going forward. His tactical knowledge is infinite, likes to experiment a lot while keeping a balance in his team.

Today he arrived in Chile and a number of fans insulted him after Sampaoli said he does not want to work, nor live in Chile anymore because of the scandal that Chilean Federation involved him in after the Copa America (some documents leaked that show Sampaoli depositing money in British Virgin Island accounts etc). He will be a free agent in the next days and I also read in Chilean media (although they quoted a Spanish outlet) that he is keen to take over at Chelsea and the negociations have begun. Sampaoli and Abramovich had a chat and he asked Roman, in the eventuality of him becoming the next Chelsea manager, to do everything to sign Alexis Sanchez. He sees him as the catalyst for a new Chelsea and wants to build the team around him. 

[xPetrCechx 13,563]

48 minutes ago, Fernando said:

Juande Ramos almost became Chelsea manager - Marcos Alvarez http://espnfc.com/chelsea/story/2786018/juande-ramos-almost-became-chelsea-manager-marcos-alvarez
 -via ESPN FC http://es.pn/fcapp

with a club where there are no guarantees of continuing even if you do a good job."  

[Jase 43,479]

It's only half a season but Maurizio Sarri is one to watch. Doing wonders at Napoli.

[Special Juan 27,424]

Maybe go for Benitez, I mean looks like we maybe close to signing Pato, we already have Papi and Falcao looks like he's staying.

Good times.