The Next Manager?

[bushman 2,043]

Today´s Skysport conducted a poll. Over 44 % of readers think Jose is coming back.

I see, the horde of fans are riding the bandwagon. Stay tuned, Jose is coming they say.

[Beirut_Blues 306]

The difference of how Jose left us and left Inter speaks for itself...the dude's got unfinished business here, he has to come back.

[laura90 556]

This managerial situation, together with Torres one, is the main reason why I'm unhappy with the way this club is run, regardless of how many talented players we have signed lately. It has come to the stage when I want long term manager more than I want any trophy or any player respectively.

Within 9 years we've had Jose Mourinho, Avram Grant, Philipe Scolari, Guus Hiddink, Carlo Ancelloti, Andre Villas Boas, Roberto Di Matteo and currently Rafael Benitez. This is a total of 9 managers.

The longest serving of those 9 managers happens to be Jose Mourinho (2004-2007),who won 50% of our 10 trophies. 2 Premier league titles 1 FA Cup , 2 league cups , 5 trophies out of 10 won.

Our longest serving manager , Mourinho, won basically 50% of our trophies in 3 years and 8 other managers cumulatively won 5 trophies from 2007-2012.

And this is supposed to be just fine, we won ten trophys and we are buying real talents at the moment. Managerial longlivity is overrated. We couldn't afford it anyway, we had incapable managers at the helm. True, but we had few capable: Mourinho, Ancelloti maybe even AVB with THIS team .

There is no long term success without consistency and long term manager who has authority in assembling the team in my opinion. I can mention at lest two benefits of consistency over quick fix approach:

- Long term manager and his scouts would know how to put their team together. They wouldn't assemble the team which lacks balance and has so many holes as ours right now. No knowable football man would have so many attacking midfielders/wingers without quality central midfielder. He would have known how wasteful, limited and restrictive that could be. I won't even mention a striker.

- With long term manager there is stable coach who can remain in contact with players on loan to assure them that they are not forgotten orphans and that their parent club actually has a future plan for them and actually cares for their long term career development. I reckon our interim manager has had little or no contact with likes of KDB, Lukaku, Chalobah, Courtois etc. There is a systemic problem with our youth and loan policy due to our managerial situation. This has to be fixed, given the talents we are dealing with these days.

- He knows his players and players want to play for him. That too.

- It will be damn hard to find the right, knowable, quality manager even more to give him time and to have faith in him, but it is still possible. It's a risk we simply have to take for the sake of the future. Well, one can only hope.

[xPetrCechx 13,570]

Today´s Skysport conducted a poll. Over 44 % of readers think Jose is coming back.

I see, the horde of fans are riding the bandwagon. Stay tuned, Jose is coming they say.

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[The only place to be 11,313]

- Long term manager and his scouts would know how to put their team together. They wouldn't assemble the team which lacks balance and has so many holes as ours right now. No knowable football man would have so many attacking midfielders/wingers without quality central midfielder. He would have known how wasteful, limited and restrictive that could be. I won't even mention a striker.

- With long term manager there is stable coach who can remain in contact with players on loan to assure them that they are not forgotten orphans and that their parent club actually has a future plan for them and actually cares for their long term career development. I reckon our interim manager has had little or no contact with likes of KDB, Lukaku, Chalobah, Courtois etc. There is a systemic problem with our youth and loan policy due to our managerial situation. This has to be fixed, given the talents we are dealing with these days.

- He knows his players and players want to play for him. That too.

The first point has some merit. Our midfield should be better without question. We're unfortunate to be without both Romeu and Mikel at the moment though and that has some bearing on what's going wrong at the moment. In terms of strikers, we're still paying the price for signing Torres.

The second point about our players on loan is a little unfair though. The club, Emenalo in particular, will be the point man for dealing with these guys. We've actually done remarkably well to arrange worthwhile loans for many of them, and it was actually AVB who fucked up the progress of Josh and Romelu by keeping them in the squad and then not using them. You may reckon that he's had little contact with them, but I know he looked at bringing Josh back (who asked to stay at Boro) and has also spoken to Chalobah at least twice. Neil Bath and Dermot Drummy are also in contact with these players on a semi-regular basis so I'm not quite sure what you're basing these concerns on.

The final point is fair, but no manager on Earth can manage the entire scouting program of a top football club.

I agree with the overall point that we need stability, but it needs to be with the right person and apart from Jose and maybe Carlo, we haven't sacked anyone unfairly (maybe Robbie, but he was always a goner).

[bushman 2,043]

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sky sport news.

[bushman 2,043]

Excuse me but how are Chelsea doing well with those loans now ?

Has no one thought about Mikel, Moses going to Africa before ?

[The only place to be 11,313]

Excuse me but how are Chelsea doing well with those loans now ?

Has no one thought about Mikel, Moses going to Africa before ?

Because Courtois, Chalobah, McEachran, Van Aanholt, Kalas, Kakuta, Lukaku and Piazon are all young guys in need of regular playing time for them to become good footballers who can serve the club over a long period of time. De Bruyne is probably a bit further along.

Young players need to be developed otherwise there's no point in having an academy or scouting system.

[bushman 2,043]

Because Courtois, Chalobah, McEachran, Van Aanholt, Kalas, Kakuta, Lukaku and Piazon are all young guys in need of regular playing time for them to become good footballers who can serve the club over a long period of time. De Bruyne is probably a bit further along.

Young players need to be developed otherwise there's no point in having an academy or scouting system.

That´s all well said & I agree.

However my question leads to why was there no one to foresee Mikel, Moses going to...& secure an adequate replacement ?

Surely, some of these young kids could be used now. Have you seen 17 year old Luka Shaw yesterday ? How many minutes are these Chelsea kids actually playing elsewhere ?

[The only place to be 11,313]

How many minutes are these Chelsea kids actually playing elsewhere ?

So you're questioning the validity of these loans without knowing what type of playing time they're getting?

[bushman 2,043]

So you're questioning the validity of these loans without knowing what type of playing time they're getting?

Do you watch German football ? I do not. All I read about the kid occasionally.

Yesterday, you were all hoopla about Josh. Could he be not getting on at Chelsea, these days ?

[Corner 456]

Do you watch German football ? I do not. All I read about the kid occasionally.

Yesterday, you were all hoopla about Josh. Could he be not getting on at Chelsea, these days ?

Please, stop trying to stir shit on the forum. That is all.

[bushman 2,043]

Please, stop trying to stir shit on the forum. That is all.

Are you clueless, lately ?

[We Hate Scouse 10,326]

And write your sentences properly...So annoying!!!

[bushman 2,043]

And write your sentences properly...So annoying!!!

Properly ? Do you mean like you Brits ?