The Next Manager?

[Special Juan 27,421]

A better manager has just walked away than any of those three

[Clockwork 1,794]

Given those options i would go with Enzo Maresca, rather go with Pep protégée rather than ole gunnar protégée.

[Pizy 18,368]

All the names on this new “shortlist” are depressing. The Ipswich manager, the Leicester manager, and the Brentford manager. For Chelsea Football Clue! Fuck me.

De Zerbi is right fucking there, man. A guy who can get us playing the exact sort of dominant, brilliant to watch attacking football we’ve been desperate for for years. And it appears he out of the running despite being free.

[bluesman2610 1,341]

6 minutes ago, Clockwork said:

Given those options i would go with Enzo Maresca, rather go with Pep protégée rather than ole gunnar protégée.

McKenna

 

[Vytis33 1,144]

If that shortlist is accurate depressing times indeed.  A group that collectively has done nothing at the top level

[Magic Lamps 11,653]

9 minutes ago, Clockwork said:

Given those options i would go with Enzo Maresca, rather go with Pep protégée rather than ole gunnar protégée.

Maresca has worked with Pep for just one year before managing to lose 11 championship  games with a PL squad. But now he at least has massive experience of 53 games as manager.

Seriously, I would consider Lamps tenure at bankrupt Derby in his first season as manager getting them into the playoffs with a washed up squad and a few kids more impressive than what Maresca has done with a 200m squad in a league with a median player market value of 2m. Still, we appointed Lamps after that bc of his standing at the club not his managerial record. Maresca has not even that. But yeah, winning CC with a PL squad probably makes him the best candidate to lead a 1bn+ squad into the Europa Conference League, just try not to lose 11 games

[MoroccanBlue 5,296]

To McKenna's credit, the shit he did is something Jay Cartwright would lie about. 

[Vegetable 830]

Bruno looks like solid manager, given that shortlist.

[Pizy 18,368]

What was Xavi like before he fell out with the Barca president? I haven’t paid any attention whatsoever to La Liga but I know Barca is broke as a joke so that couldn’t have helped him compete against Madrid.

Wonder if he’s the mystery candidate.

[TheHulk 1,855]

8 minutes ago, Pizy said:

What was Xavi like before he fell out with the Barca president? I haven’t paid any attention whatsoever to La Liga but I know Barca is broke as a joke so that couldn’t have helped him compete against Madrid.

Wonder if he’s the mystery candidate.

Majority of the Barca fans wanted him gone for months now, at best he is average.

[TheHulk 1,855]

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[Magic Lamps 11,653]

Just now, TheHulk said:

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Senior Chelsea figures still think it is a jigsaw when they hold the chess pieces in their hands.

[JFKvsNixon 35]

On 22/05/2024 at 12:18, Strike said:

 

Athletic sources: Kieran Mckenna, Enzo Maresca, Thomas Frank, Sebastian Hoeness, in the shortlist.

De Zerbi, Kompany are unlikely candidates. No chance of Tuchel, Conte or Mourinho. 

Sebastian Hoeness wouldn't be the worst choice in the world. He's the big young thing in Germany.

[NikkiCFC 7,942]

Why not Sarri? Available and hates to be involved in transfers. Fits all the boxes. 

[robsblubot 3,502]

2 hours ago, Strike said:

 

 

I’d definitely go with Pep (center).

[Fernando 6,453]

2 hours ago, TheHulk said:

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Wait until November when that guy is fallen out of a favor. 

Clueless bunch. 

Don't expect us to be like City in maintaining anything. Or even for that matter like Arsenal, because they are more senseless with the coach and build on him. 

We just have nothing and will have nothing. 

[Superblue 6,370]

I posted last week that letting Poch go would be a huge backwards step. It's pretty clear that the squad was fully behind him and with the momentum that had been built in the last few weeks, some stability I think would have had us very much in the top 4, if not top 3 (depending on Liverpool next season) hunt. 

Now, it feels once again back to the unknown. The list of candidates is underwhelming but other clubs have taken big chances with inexperienced managers previously to good effect, the most obvious recently being Arteta and Alonso, and more famously Pep and Zidane. The biggest difference being that these had top playing career's, but that's no guarantee of translating into a top managerial career.

Personally, I'd love to continue tracking Fabregas over the next year or two in the possibility of him being someone to take a risk on similar to those above, which again is part of the reason I'd have preferred us keeping Poch to maintain some needed stability to the club for now. The position we're currently in feels very precarious as to which trajectory, and it's a monumental risk.

You just have to hope that they strike gold with who they choose and that risk proves to be a masterstroke in the future. 

For McKenna who seems to be the most linked currently, what he has achieved over the last two years is incredible. If he can translate that on to a bigger stage then he could well be something very special. He seems the biggest risk on the list, the potentially highest boom and lowest bust, which makes me think he'll be the one they may ultimately plump for.

[Pizy 18,368]

United fans on their forum are mostly begging for them to replace ETH with McKenna whilst all of us Chelsea fans are begging our club to stay away. Kinda funny.