The Next Manager?

[Superblue 6,372]

Klopp would be a great fit having proven himself already in one of the top European leagues and in Europe with an exciting brand of football played by a predominantly young team.

However the most important thing over everything is the club starting to show a long term plan and vision which has so far been lacking.

A short term 'must win' mentality is fine when we're winning trophies, but eventually it catches up with you and now we are starting to see the damage of sacking endless managers and letting a team grow old together before trying to rebuild it over a summer.

[Yeboii 1,844]

Well. It aint gonna be Guardiola. He is going to Bayern Munich

[22mek22 133]

I would love Klopp - gets 110% from players, good tactics and good football.

However, hearing Simeone is same kind of manager.

Can someone fill me in a bit more about Simeone and what he is like?

[Beepu 1,714]

Tancredi Palmeri ‏@tancredipalmeri

Chelsea contacted repeatedly Borussia Dortmund manager Jurgen Kloepp, according to Sky Italy

Klopp to bring hummels and gotze with him????? probably not, probably klopp himself wont come either but what the hey

[bababoom 4,478]

Well. It aint gonna be Guardiola. He is going to Bayern Munich

You're fast

[diskoviolente 425]

I don´t think Klopp will come. No way. He will stay at Dortmund and keep on building. I just read an interview today that he loves nothing more than to watch his team of 19 years olds (exegerated by himself) to win the double.

Of all the managers that are stated up there I think only Mourinho would be a real step forward for us at the moment. All the others are fairly settled with what they have now.

[OneMoSalah 8,785]

Guardiola is impossible to get now, hes waiting for United, why do you think he went to Bayern?

We blew our chance sacking AVB despite saying he had 3 years to do what he wanted, mould the squad into something similar to Barcelona/AVB's Porto (which was a good model tbh, good philosophy and similar to Barca in a way). Pep is Pep yes, Barca's most successful manager but what happens when he hits a stumbling block because the current squad wasn't as good/suited for that philosophy. You remember that with Peps genius, he also had a fine set of tools, which were all trained to be used the way Cruyff wanted, who was Peps biggest influence on his playing career and probably his managerial career. I'm not saying Pep had it easy, no, he had to sell big players which was a risk, Ronaldinho, Deco, Eto'o, Henry, Beletti, etc were all CL winners and replaced them with young talented but still risky players as they were inexperienced and largely untested at CL and La Liga level. Would he have gotten such a chance to do that at Chelsea? NO. So he never will I imagine.

[Yeboii 1,844]

You're fast

Hahaha, blame the media in my country for that.

[communicate 2,703]

Hence why I'd like Roberto Martinez, 6 enjoyable months and let's move on

I really want to see how Martinez perform with better team. I was hoping he got Liverpool job, before BR got it.

[FriendlyMailman 15]

Hence why I'd like Roberto Martinez, 6 enjoyable months and let's move on

So you think Martinez would leave his full time job at wigan where he has done a magnificent job only to become interim coach and be left unemployed at the end of the season

[Jase 43,479]

Guillem Balague - Pep Guardiola's decision to choose Bayern Munich over Chelsea was based on romanticism for the club's past

Pep had been concerned by the decisions taken by Chelsea in the past 12 months – it implied to him there was no clear vision. They also lack the club structure that Bayern have, with clear roles throughout and former players as pillars of it, an idea that previous Chelsea managers have suggested to Roman Abramovich for the London club.

Chelsea tried their hardest to get Pep. Two summers ago the Russian owner even offered to collect Pep with a helicopter to take him to his yacht, in Monaco at the time, but Guardiola declined it, as he had done previously, very politely. Days before Rafael Benítez was named as the club’s interim manager, Abramovich tried again. He received another ‘no’. Chelsea felt then that they were not going to get him.

[Jase 43,479]

Weren't Sky Italia the first to report that Pep was in talks with Bayern?

Yeah, apparently so.

[BlueSunshine 672]

Guillem Balague - Pep Guardiola's decision to choose Bayern Munich over Chelsea was based on romanticism for the club's past

It's good to see that sometimes even in football money isn't everything.

[teignman 441]

Guillem Balague - Pep Guardiola's decision to choose Bayern Munich over Chelsea was based on romanticism for the club's past

If Pep loves "romanticism" of a club's past, he should have gone to the Scousers. They wallow in that shit.

[Slam Dunk 1,442]

Maybe Pep turning down the job here will make Roman wake up and realise he needs to start giving managers more time...

...Didn't think so either.

[TorontoChelsea 4,064]

If Pep loves "romanticism" of a club's past, he should have gone to the Scousers. They wallow in that shit.

That's not why he chose Bayern, that's just the hook the Telegraph wants to sell us on. The funniest thing is that the quote in their own article undermines their own narrative and says that he had other reasons. "Guardiola wanted a number of things from his next club: challenging for titles straight away, a quality squad he can mould to his image, enough money to buy few top players, good infrastructure, a club philosophy. He believes Bayern offers him all of that. Chelsea do not – not all of it."

Nowhere does it mention his romanticism. That's exactly what I think all of us knew anyway. Bayern just makes more sense.

[KonohasOrangeFlash 2,607]

Mourinho it is.

[teignman 441]

That's not why he chose Bayern, that's just the hook the Telegraph wants to sell us on. The funniest thing is that the quote in their own article undermines their own narrative and says that he had other reasons. "Guardiola wanted a number of things from his next club: challenging for titles straight away, a quality squad he can mould to his image, enough money to buy few top players, good infrastructure, a club philosophy. He believes Bayern offers him all of that. Chelsea do not – not all of it."

Nowhere does it mention his romanticism. That's exactly what I think all of us knew anyway. Bayern just makes more sense.

I agree with your reasoning. TBH, I didn't even read the article. I just saw the romanticism bit and took it as an opportunity to deride the dippers.