The Next Manager?

[The Chels 2,502]

Pep please. No more managers similar to Mourinho.

That username

[iseah100 5,612]

Simeone: “The intelligent supporter is the one who does not obsess over whether the team plays well, but rather that the team wants to win.”

http://www.worldsoccer.com/features/diego-simeone-the-secret-of-his-success-363820

Sounds like something Mou would say.

[Fernando 6,455]

Warming to the thought of Simeone more and more myself. He's looking like the only "top" manager that's a possibility.

Don't want to go into the matches against Pep, Mourinho, or Klopp next season thinking we're immedietly at a disadvantage due to them having far superior managers. Simeone would go toe to toe against that lot.

I could be wrong, but it seems like he's got all of the good traits of Mourinho but none of the nasty ones. He's fiery, arrogant, and demonstrative but doesn't seem to pick fights with everyone and isn't hugely outspoken in the press.

Totally agree.

This is the mourinho version we all dream of.

But pity he doesn't know English and to be fair he has it good at a. Madrid.

Yet if the board don't care about good Fútbol but be competitive he is the guy to have if he's willing to come.

[bluephoenix 1,126]

Whoever the next manager is, his life span at Chelsea will not be more than 2 years unless we get someone like Fergie who the players fear and bring in that culture that wearing the Chelsea shirt means something totally different.

We need someone who would do anything for the fans and manager.

By the way David Moyes/Brendan Rogers ? you gotta be kidding me. I know we are having a bad run of form and champions league seems far fetched but still by any stretch of imagination I can't see those 2 succeeding at Chelsea.

[KevinAshburner 1,270]

i am one of those people who don't like managers/peoples/humans who are not chelsea fans.

you cannot be manager/apart of the staff management or medical department at chelsea fc unless you are and can prove that you are a chelsea fan.

if a player needs a manager to know how to play the game and he can't think or do it on his own on the field without needing to be babysitted/babysat by a manager.

if you want to be a professional footballer. you need to know how to play the game without being taught how to play or needing a manger to teach you how to play and what strategies to use during gameplay and the players should know how to play without a manager. if a human cannot think on his own and can't see how to play better and improve and study his own playing style and learn how to play better and how to teach himself how to play the game without the strategies and tactics from manager and that means he doesn't know how to play the game properly.

i don't like footballers or people joining the club chelsea if they are not chelsea fans and only want the best for chelsea and just joining chelsea for the money/paychecks or having a job in professional football and even though i know how life works and how is right now.

i just have a strict values of what i want and see in a professional organization/club i support and love and what i want in a team i care about.

chelsea fc should be the first club in history to play without a manager. just use a goalkeeper's coach/defender's coach/midfielder's coach/striker's coach to manage the players that training and the coaches talk together and pick the best starting eleven players at training and current form of the team from previous games.

this is the best i can describe or explain my views on how i see things and how i would run chelsea if i was in charge or the only way i feel like explaining my views on this situation.

[11Drogba 2,000]

I like Simeone and for me when a team outsmarts its opponents that is beautiful football, but his defensive approach might make some of our players unhappy and unmotivated again.

[Ossie the King 634]

Honestly, no one thought Mourinho would fall into this pitch hole. No one!

Also, its not like I think Simeone will fail or anyhting. He is a great manager. However, he is VERY similar to Jose Mourinho (in his good old days) and I dont think that's what we need right now. We need someone who focus more on the training aspects of the game and isnt as tough. Carlo would be ideal imo, but if not him I would go for someone with a lesser pedigree yet proven to some degree, like San Paoli or Bielsa.

This is what I don't quite understand when people call for Pep or say we don't need someone like Simeone.....why? What about this club makes you think we need someone less tough? Because when I look at what this club's identity is, I don't see it.

[Thendo 1,088]

This is quite interesting:

[DYC. 7,542]

Ancelotti has a beautiful list of clubs on his name.

Juventus

Milan

Chelsea

PSG

Real

Bayern

So he's out. Good luck to him.

[bababoom 4,478]

Would love Pep to manage Chelsea but looks like he's off to City. We'll probably get Simone, not really against it but his football can be very negative...

[Special Juan 27,424]

I don't think Roman will just stand with his hands in his pockets knowing Pep is leaving.

[Ossie the King 634]

I don't think Roman will just stand with his hands in his pockets knowing Pep is leaving.

Unfortunately we are not an attractive proposition for Pep when the City job is waiting for him. They are a far better run club who show much more ambition than us and they are perfectly set up for him.

[Jase 43,479]

Now that Ancelotti has been confirmed as Bayern boss, I've removed him from the poll...

[Pizy 18,368]

Unfortunately we are not an attractive proposition for Pep when the City job is waiting for him. They are a far better run club who show much more ambition than us and they are perfectly set up for him.

Exactly this. I think Roman will indeed put a blank check in front of Pep and try to sell to him that he'll have total control over everything, that we have great young flare players like Hazard, Willian, Oscar(?) and that we have a great academy to build from. He'll show him our ambitious new stadium plans and all that.

I just think Chelsea is too big of a "project" for Pep. Even if we offer him double what City/United offer we have a whole lot more work that needs to be done than either of them.

If Simeone refuses to leave Atleti we're a bit fucked. We'd have to appoint a massive gamble of a manager and are looking at yet more years of uncertainty.

[J.F. 1,484]

If Pep goes to City or United and Hiddink change this season from nightmare to great, maybe isn't bad to stick with Hiddink for another year or two? Drogba/Terry/Lampard to be assistant manager and to learn from Hiddink, not bad at all in my opinion.

[Despiadado.Maleante 1,046]

Pep is a massive bitch. He always goes for the easiest job where he is guaranteed success.

[Fernando 6,455]

Unfortunately we are not an attractive proposition for Pep when the City job is waiting for him. They are a far better run club who show much more ambition than us and they are perfectly set up for him.

And you know how city done this?

With two not big name managers.

Mancini and pellegrini.

I was often saying last season that Mourinho has done nothing great that pellegrini did in his first two seasons.

Mourinho did exactly the same.

But with pellegrini there was progress and he was a gentleman, Mourinho was like a man without control.

Anyhow pellegrini did put in the knife under Mourinho by saying this:

"To win two titles in three years would be quite an achievement, I think, and we were runners-up last season too. That was not our best season, I admit, but at least it was not a disaster."

And he is right if you don't win anything then at least don't be a disaster like Mourinho.

[ZOS 580]

It is heart breaking to see Chelsea in such a mess while man city is going from strength to strength in how it they're run :-(