The Next Manager?

[Henrique 9,133]

Mourinho is not a good long term guy, as soon as the team is not winning anymore., he creates a bad atmosphere, blaming the board for not buying more players, blaming the referees, blaming the players...

[bushman 2,043]

That's the thing, it's going to scare every manager and probably always has. But managers still took the job and other managers still will. Why? Ambition, ego, determindation... most likely money.

MONEY is the name & Chelsea is the game, I feel.

Even though, Pep or Jose both are loaded with money but still too young to pack it in.

Pep just might be scared stiff to get fired by uncle Roman & Jose is of dubious reputation he just might come in providing Roman hires him.

[bushman 2,043]

7 people want Benitez. The sad thing is that some of them are good posters.

What´s wrong with Rafa ? Perhaps, the good posters know something the rest of you don´t ?

[MADEZ 9]

Frankly speaking i don't want to see pep at cobham and many people think he's gonna conjure magic like how he did at barca,it is two different stories, ''barca academy and desperate to achieve chelsea''

[FriendlyMailman 15]

Simple question. At the end of this season, who do you want to be the next guy in charge?

My preference is Guardiola and he seems to be the club's first choice too. Looking at where we are and where we're looking to go, he seems to be the best choice and he's available......kinda.

Guardiola aint coming.

[The only place to be 11,313]

Guardiola aint coming.

And you're basing that on what exactly? (I have very low expectations of the reply, so even the tiniest insight will impress me).

[MetsajCFC 1,255]

7 people want Benitez. The sad thing is that some of them are good posters.

For me Benitez comes across as an intelligent person. I know he has said things in the past but who cares, if anything then it shows he cares for the club he is managing and sticking up for it, mind games-banter, whatever you call it comes with the job. If he continues doing the job he has done so far, keep in mind the reception he got from the fans and the pressure put on him. It isn't an easy period either with club legends having contract problems, coming in mid-season when we were out of the CL more or less, busy busy schedule coming and so on. From that list, I'd of course pick Mourinho but I'll stick to the reality and face the fact that he won't leave Madrid (unless sacked) and if he did, perhaps some other jobs would be more suitable. Never rated Guardiola that much either, great coach of course but he also had the best squad in history of football to play for him, can't really judge his managerial skills before he took up some other post at another club. Other names are just next AVBs, doubtful they'd get the control from the board Mourinho or Guardiola would. Benitez is just my choice because it seems the most realistic one.

[The only place to be 11,313]

So Guardiola had the 'best squad in the history of football', so gets little credit whereas Mourinho inherited a team with Cech, Terry, Lampard, Makelele, Robben, Cole, Duff, Gudjohnson and Gallas and he gets a lot?

Despite being one of the architects of arguably the greatest team to ever play the game, it's amazing how underrated Guardiola is still.

[FriendlyMailman 15]

And you're basing that on what exactly? (I have very low expectations of the reply, so even the tiniest insight will impress me).

It would be a slap in the face to his lifelong club Barcelona. Chelsea and Barcelona have had the most heated of relationships for many years anad even more so after they somehow managed to progress past them last season. He wants a stable club, not one essentially run by Abramovich sacking managers left and right.

The philosiphy is so different at Chelsea to what is engrained into his mentality, youth systems, supporters club etc....

Chelsea just buy all of their talent

I think he will go to United.

[MetsajCFC 1,255]

So Guardiola had the 'best squad in the history of football', so gets little credit whereas Mourinho inherited a team with Cech, Terry, Lampard, Makelele, Robben, Cole, Duff, Gudjohnson and Gallas and he gets a lot?

Despite being one of the architects of arguably the greatest team to ever play the game, it's amazing how underrated Guardiola is still.

All I'm saying is that he isn't as good in my eyes than Mourinho for example. Porto, Chelsea, Internazionale, Real Madrid - he brought success to everywhere, he didn't just inherit great squad, he also adapted to the new squads, environment, leagues. He has more experience, more to show for. Guardiola has only managed Barcelona B and Barcelona, doesn't change my point, still he had advantage with the squad he had. Following your logic let's get Vilanova, they're having their best start to the season at the moment, he must be a great coach, right?

This Barcelona squad was also built by Rijkaard, mostly by him

[The only place to be 11,313]

It would be a slap in the face to his lifelong club Barcelona. Chelsea and Barcelona have had the most heated of relationships for many years anad even more so after they somehow managed to progress past them last season. He wants a stable club, not one essentially run by Abramovich sacking managers left and right.

The philosiphy is so different at Chelsea to what is engrained into his mentality, youth systems, supporters club etc....

Chelsea just buy all of their talent

I think he will go to United.

Our relationship isn't ideal but I doubt they'd begrudge him going there any more than they would if he went to United or City. Grown-ups understand that people need to go elsewhere to work sometimes. Personally, I've found there's a grudging respect between our fans and Barca fans although I try to avoid nincompoops in my life.

Our club is actually quite stable in almost every position except manager. Abramovich simply fires underperforming managers because he pays them a lot of money to do a good job. If that's going to scare off Guardiola then I'd totally agree he's the wrong man, but nothing that I've read or heard about him suggests he's that type of man.

As for your final point, I think you're dead wrong and I think it highlights EXACTLY why Guardiola is the right man. We've bought expensive ready-made players in the past, but the rules simply don't allow for that going forward (with FFP and homegrown rules). We essentially had to do that to catch-up to the top teams in the past, but now we've got one of the best academy set-ups in the world and it's finally starting to bear fruit. We NEED a manager who will institute an ideology of football from the first-team through every age-group and if you look at the way our youngsters already play and the type of kids we have, it's not far off trying to emulate what they have at Barca.

It's what makes him the ideal choice in my opinion. Klopp would be a good alternative because he ticks many of the boxes, except I think there's zero chance of us getting him after recent comments.

All I'm saying is that he isn't as good in my eyes than Mourinho for example. Porto, Chelsea, Internazionale, Real Madrid - he brought success to everywhere, he didn't just inherit great squad, he also adapted to the new squads, environment, leagues. He has more experience, more to show for. Guardiola has only managed Barcelona B and Barcelona, doesn't change my point, still he had advantage with the squad he had. Following your logic let's get Vilanova, they're having their best start to the season at the moment, he must be a great coach, right?

This Barcelona squad was also built by Rijkaard, mostly by him

Well Vilanova's team is 16 points ahead of Mourinho's. In fact Mourinho is starting to look like the Mourinho just before we sacked him (because it wasn't all roses was it?).

I think there's always going to be fans who want to go back to something familiar, so much so that they're prepared to ignore the shit that went down. Sure Guardiola inherited a talented team but he took them to another level - we have a lot of talent in our team too, but we just need someone who can come in and unify them. Mourinho could do that, except there's a ton of baggage with him and Roman so why not go for a fresh start with a new guy?

[Hamilton 2,120]

Guardiola apparently gave a pc today, where he confirmed that he wants to go back to work next season..