Building the perfect Chelsea manager with key elements – opinion

[James 5,387]

Obviously all the chatter around Enzo Maresca lately has us all thinking. Who would we even bring in…

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[Vesper 30,586]

10 hours ago, James said:

Obviously all the chatter around Enzo Maresca lately has us all thinking. Who would we even bring in…

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checking all those boxes narrows it down to one candidate (ZZ is NOT going to come here, that is a pipe dream, he will be the next French national team mamanger after WC 2026, nor is Pep going to come here, nor will King Carlo, who soon retires I assume, nor will Enrique)

that leaves the last of the current 'Big 5 Giants', all who are CL winners of course, out there...............

Klopp

good luck with that 🤣

 

Hansi Flick, IF he wins the CL with Barca (or some other side) will make it a 'Big 6', which will go back to a Big 5 when Carlo retires (or it will be a Big 4 IF Flick doesnt win it again) I cannot, in good faith, count Mou as a cuurent member of the top managers, the game has sadly passed him by at CL-winning level.

Btw since Moscow 2008 and Fergie (arrrrf), the only other CL-winning managers at all who are NOT listed in my 'Big 5' above have been: Mou (the Inter Treble team of 2009/10 and Porto in 2003/04), then 2 Bayern managers: Jupp Heynckes and Hansi Flick, plus 2 Chels managers: Tuchel and Roberto Di Matteo.

The only 2 of the current 'Big 5' who have not won the CL with multiple teams are Klopp and ZZ, the other 3 have won it with 2 different clubs (which Mou of course has done as well, as have the criminally underrated (all 3) Jupp Heynckes, Ernst Happel, and Ottmar Hitzfeld).