The Next Manager?

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FRANK LAMPARD TO BECOME NEW Chelsea MANAGER? | Chelsea'S NEXT MANAGER
George Benson Football Chelsea

Chelsea news today see's us break down the latest Chelsea news headlines regarding who will become the next permanent Chelsea manager. Cesc Fabregas, Andoni Iraola and Frank Lampard are currently rumored favorites to become next Chelsea manager! Who would you want to be the next Chelsea manager?

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I pray that Lamps isn’t actually on the list for consideration. He’s one of my favorite ever players but I just don’t think he is Chelsea manager level still. He’s at the perfect sort of club right now. We’ve tried the experiment a couple of times now and it hasn’t worked out. 
 

 

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1 minute ago, Pizy said:

I pray that Lamps isn’t actually on the list for consideration. He’s one of my favorite ever players but I just don’t think he is Chelsea manager level still. He’s at the perfect sort of club right now. We’ve tried the experiment a couple of times now and it hasn’t worked out. 
 

 

Yes, Benson said Lamps would be mad as ass to come back here to this utter shitshow that BlueCo have erected.

Of all the big Chels social media pundits, Benson is the most relentlessly (in a logical fashion and manner) 'BlueCo OUT!', plus I just like his intelligence, presentations, and demeanour.

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great show from

Tifo Football by The Athletic

Chelsea sack Rosenior (w/ The Times economics editor, and long time Chelsea supporter, Mehreen Khan), plus why America fears relegation & Bodø/Glimt Sporting Director interview.

 

 

 

Epiphenomenal refers to a secondary phenomenon, specifically a mental state, that occurs alongside a physical process but has no causal influence on it. Often considered a byproduct of brain activity, this view argues that while neural events cause thoughts or feelings, those thoughts cannot affect the physical body or world, similar to a locomotive’s steam whistle not driving the engine.

 

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Mehreen Khan shreds BlueCo and the utter arrogance of American BlueCo billionaires, especially when talking about José E. Feliciano saying that managers are simply not important at all to footballing sucess (which is hyper-madness, ignorance and of course, typical American-centric private equaity-driven arrogance).

She should do a once a month or so footie podcast of her own. I would subscribe to it in a heartbeat.

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❌️🔵Francesco Farioli, on the other hand, is not considering a move from Porto to Chelsea.

The Portuguese newspaper A Bola reports that the coach has no interest in trading the Estádio do Dragão for Stamford Bridge.

This stance is described as unequivocal.

The project he is building in Portugal remains his priority.

Farioli only arrived in July 2025 and has already signed a contract through 2028. His contract includes a release clause of 20 million euros (17.4 million pounds), which, however, is reduced to 15 million euros (13 million pounds) during the transfer window.

Even then, any move would ultimately depend on his willingness to leave and that willingness simply isn’t there at this point.

Off the field, he is said to have settled in completely.

His family life in Porto is harmonious; the Italian, his wife, and their two children feel at home and valued in the city.

This stability is another factor reinforcing his current stance.

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21 minutes ago, mkh said:

❌️🔵Francesco Farioli, on the other hand, is not considering a move from Porto to Chelsea.

The Portuguese newspaper A Bola reports that the coach has no interest in trading the Estádio do Dragão for Stamford Bridge.

This stance is described as unequivocal.

The project he is building in Portugal remains his priority.

Farioli only arrived in July 2025 and has already signed a contract through 2028. His contract includes a release clause of 20 million euros (17.4 million pounds), which, however, is reduced to 15 million euros (13 million pounds) during the transfer window.

Even then, any move would ultimately depend on his willingness to leave and that willingness simply isn’t there at this point.

Off the field, he is said to have settled in completely.

His family life in Porto is harmonious; the Italian, his wife, and their two children feel at home and valued in the city.

This stability is another factor reinforcing his current stance.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesco_Farioli

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Ajax

On 23 May 2024, Farioli was appointed head coach of Dutch club Ajax, signing a three-year contract and becoming the club's first Italian manager.[20] His appointment also marked the first time Ajax had hired a foreign manager since Morten Olsen in the 1997–98 season.

Taking charge following a disappointing 2023–24 campaign, Farioli sought to stabilise the squad by implementing a disciplined defensive structure similar to that of his previous tenure at Nice. His emphasis on organisation, tactical flexibility, and youth development contributed to Ajax holding the best defensive record in the league and reaching first place in the 2024–25 Eredivisie by March 2025.

A pivotal moment in the season came with a 2–0 away victory over title rivals PSV, which drew praise for Farioli's tailored tactical approach. Analysts highlighted Ajax's pressing schemes and rehearsed player movements aimed at exploiting PSV's defensive shape, as well as his in-game shift to a 5–4–1 formation to protect the lead.

Despite holding a nine-point lead with five matches remaining, Ajax suffered a dramatic collapse and were overtaken by PSV, who secured the title on the final day. Farioli, visibly emotional after the final match, stated he had "no regrets" despite the outcome. Reports of internal disagreements over tactics, transfer policy, and budget constraints followed, culminating in Farioli's departure by mutual consent on 19 May 2025.

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Bodø/Glimt’s Sporting Director Håvard Sakariassen (a native Norwegian at a Norwegian club) is massively impressive in that interview. Surely he is snapped up by some far larger club soon (or a big club tries to pull him, whether he leaves or not is not a given, he seems to genuinely love it at Bodø/Glimt).

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Who Should Replace Liam Rosenior? 🤔

Rory Jennings and MAH

 

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12 hours ago, DDA said:

Marco Silva

Howe

McKenna

 

^ Thats the true list. 

I will likely walk if we appoint Howe or even worse, Kieran McKenna

Silva is almost at that level of shite.

SO depressing!

I hate hate hate BlueCo.

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Lot of stories on the players and the manager. No doubt the players are a petulant bunch for a group that hasn’t performed consistently even for a season.

But I wonder if these journalists can do a similar critical piece reporting on the owners and what went behind their decision making ?

From top to down, this club needs a massive reset. 

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26 minutes ago, Vesper said:

I will likely walk if we appoint Howe or even worse, Kieran McKenna

Silva is almost at that level of shite.

SO depressing!

I hate hate hate BlueCo.

If Ornstein on NBC is right, it would be between these managers and Iraola/Fabregas 

Since he seemed to suggest it’s a manager currently in a job but could be available in the summer 

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29 minutes ago, Strike said:

Lot of stories on the players and the manager. No doubt the players are a petulant bunch for a group that hasn’t performed consistently even for a season.

But I wonder if these journalists can do a similar critical piece reporting on the owners and what went behind their decision making ?

From top to down, this club needs a massive reset. 

 

Chelsea’s players are a bunch of cry babies

Stamford Bridge rife with out-of-touch prima donnas oblivious to their standing as the most dislikable crop supporters can remember

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2026/04/25/chelseas-players-are-a-bunch-of-cry-babies/

https://archive.li/bk7Pb

By Matt Law

There is always an Antonio Conte quote. And it is amusing to consider what Chelsea’s last FA Cup-winning manager would have made of the club’s current crop of cry babies.

 

A few months before Chelsea last lifted the Cup in 2018, Conte was asked whether Eden Hazard, the club’s brightest spark at the time, was happy with being substituted so regularly in games.

 

“Only here [in England] is there this situation,” Conte said. “You are very worried about whether a player is happy or not. This is not important. My first task is to do the best for the team and the club. Not to make every player happy. Otherwise we’d risk finishing 20th in the table.

 

“Every press conference there is always this question about whether I’m worried about making my players happy. No. I’m worried to win.”

 

Hazard might not have fancied Conte much, but he scored the winning goal in the Cup final against Manchester United that season for a Chelsea team that included Cesc Fàbregas, N’Golo Kanté, César Azpilicueta and Gary Cahill.

 

If Conte thought he had some prima donnas to deal with, then he should consider himself lucky he was not dumped with the present-day Chelsea cry babies who supporters are worried could suffer another meltdown in Sunday’s FA Cup semi-final against Leeds United.

 

One can only imagine how Conte might have reacted to Marc Cucurella’s barber apparently leaking team news, as he did before the embarrassing defeat to Brighton, or his players smirking at one another as they huddled around a referee before losing a game at home to Newcastle United. It would not have been pretty.

What would Antonio Conte have made of the Chelsea players’ antics on the halfway line before their defeat by Newcastle? Credit: Darren Walsh/Getty Images

 

Sure, there are some exceptions. Reece James, Moisés Caicedo and Trevoh Chalobah – who was a substitute in the 2018 final – have all taken responsibility in different ways. It is also fair to assume that, on past evidence, Levi Colwill would have stepped up had he been fit.

 

But, looking at the majority of the rest, Conte might have really worried that they could have led Chelsea to relegation. Some at the club may believe that is unfair, but if Cucurella and Co have an image problem then that is on them – and the Spaniard’s barber.

Clear pattern of underperformance and misbehaviour

Liam Rosenior, in what proved to be his final pre-match press conference as head coach, said that he was trying to help change perceptions of his players. Their reaction was to throw him under the bus with one of the worst Chelsea performances in living memory against Brighton.

 

In his role as a television analyst, Cahill, who was part of the Conte school of hard knocks, accused the players of giving up at the Amex Stadium – but it was Rosenior who paid the price for their no-show.

 

Chelsea may well try to push some of their cry babies out behind Rosenior this summer, with Alejandro Garnacho likely to be one of many the club would welcome bids for.

 

But, on this season’s evidence, who in their right mind would try to sign Garnacho, Wesley Fofana or Robert Sánchez, or offer Chelsea the kind of money they would want for performative vice-captain Enzo Fernández?

 

Under two different permanent managers, this collection of Chelsea cry babies – at least one of whom believes he is good enough to play for Real Madrid – have twice won just once in nine games in a single season. They managed the feat before Rosenior was sacked, as well as before he officially took charge.

 

Fofana has more points on his driving licence (50) than Chelsea do in the league (48). Add in the fact that the team’s on-the-pitch disciplinary problems followed them from Enzo Maresca, the former head coach, to Rosenior and there is a clear pattern of underperformance and misbehaviour amongst the players.

 

No wonder they are so happy to hide behind Rosenior, the owners and the sporting directors when the s--- hits the fan. Those responsible for signing them need to take their share of the blame, but the players seem oblivious to the fact that supporters see many of them as being the most dislikable bunch they can remember.

 

A victory against Leeds would only confirm the belief of some that the Chelsea cry babies can only turn it on when they get their own way. A defeat would further prove how out of touch with reality they are when it comes to their own talent.

 

Either way, and just as Conte was not, nobody at Chelsea should be worried about whether the players are happy. They are yet to earn anybody’s concern.