Carlo Ancelotti

[LDN Blue 7,903]

Off course We need new players to be in next CL, and We cant fire him because We cant waste more money every time We fire a coach, and who will be crazy to accept this job If We fire another one before the end of the contract...but lets look for a new manager for 2012, please.

Spot on. We made Scolari one of the highest paid managers when we fired him and had to pay him that huge compensation fee. Carlo plans to go back to Italy in 2012 anyway (so I've read), like the England national team are doing now, all we can do is prepare someone for then. I don't mind seeing someone like Van Gaal (who's got the credentials) or even Quique Flores.

And hopefully by 2012 we'll have a refreshed squad full of player who are near/below the 26year mark.

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And hopefully by 2012 we'll have a refreshed squad full of player who are near/below the 26year mark.

We have to overcome the huge challenge of replacing at least Lampard and Drogba when our board failed to replace our bench warmers.

Where did people get the idea that Abramovich isn't willing to spend?

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We have to overcome the huge challenge of replacing at least Lampard and Drogba when our board failed to replace our bench warmers.

Where did people get the idea that Abramovich isn't willing to spend?

Definitely. Most hopes are being pinned on Lukaku to fill the Drogba role, but we must find others to compete with him if we're to see this or if Lukaku fails to impress. Lampard is one of the hardest players we'll find to replace, there's simply no-one like him. Maybe Connor Clifford would've shown some fresh light by then for our squad..

And probably people who read the Daily Mail

[Rambo 1,729]

excellent post TX...KTBFF

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Maybe Connor Clifford would've shown some fresh light by then for our squad..

I thought you'd know better by now

When a youngster of Kakuta's talent isn't given a proper chance to replace Joey fricking Cole C.Clifford has not chance of replacing Lampard.

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I thought you'd know better by now

When a youngster of Kakuta's talent isn't given a proper chance to replace Joey fricking Cole C.Clifford has not chance of replacing Lampard.

Eugh I know.. But seeing Josh on the bench, coming off when he can, does give me a tiny glimmer of hope for some of these academy players. If Clifford is sold, it wouldn't surprise me, but like I said, Josh is a small beacon of light of hope.

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Eugh I know.. But seeing Josh on the bench, coming off when he can, does give me a tiny glimmer of hope for some of these academy players. If Clifford is sold, it wouldn't surprise me, but like I said, Josh is a small beacon of light of hope.

Sadly I agree.

But when a 17-year-old kid is our only hope, our bench players aren't replaced and a CL place is the best we can do we're in danger of turning into fucking Arsenal.

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We've got some relatively good fixtures from now till February. A chance for Carlo to get us securing 4th.

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i dont think we should get rid of carlo.when you think he won the double last season without his own backroom staff and not buying anyone of his

own,{i dont think yossi and ramires were his signings}i think he did well.give him his choice of backroom staff money to buy players that he wants,and at least one whole season,then lets judge him,not before be cause i for one was more than pleased at his appointment.

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Ancelotti has to stay. We're going through a transitional period and to sack the manager now, as we did with Scolari, would be a mistake. It would simply mean we'd go through this again.

The last two months will hopefully show why Abramovich should pull his finger out and buy us someone.

Absolutely!! Plus a fact I don't see a better replacement than Carlo Ancelotti if I'm truthfully honest. Benitez is nowhere near as disciplined as Carlo is, regardless of what he achieved at Liverpool. We need to buy "a majority" of players, not just ONE! There are a few positions that need to be filled. A centre half, a right winger, and a striker are absolute musts for us.

If Roman really cared about Chelsea, if he really had some sense, regardless of how much he has lost since taking over in 2003 (what is it £500m or something?), he would give us the funds to go out and buy someone... otherwise he would make things ten times worse and leave us with a huge debt over our heads.

Chelsea are going to see themselves tackling a newspaper headline "THE FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE" unless they start pulling their fingers out!!

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Although one has to wonder if keeping a man at such an important position just for the sake of keeping him is a healthy way of thinking :unsure:

I expected someone to tackle this..

Should we have kept Grant or even Scolari in the name of stability?*

*I realize it's an extreme example as everybody here (ok Henrique excluded ) rates Ancelotti much much more than those two.

[Rambo 1,729]

I expected someone to tackle this..

Should we have kept Grant or even Scolari in the name of stability?*

*I realize it's an extreme example as everybody here (ok Henrique excluded ) rates Ancelotti much much more than those two.

If either of them helped manage a side that won the double, yes.

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I expected someone to tackle this..

Should we have kept Grant or even Scolari in the name of stability?*

*I realize it's an extreme example as everybody here (ok Henrique excluded ) rates Ancelotti much much more than those two.

It's a good point. But remember, we did keep Grant until the end of the season so that was okay, Scolari had the team in dismay, we didn't play well, but more importantly he'd lost the dressing room & Drogba which was the crucial part. In came Hiddink who just about got us some silver-wear.

Carlo hasn't lot the dressing room yet, they're still united as one. His calmness helps the players, mentally, not tactically, which is why keeping him on is the best option for the sake of stability. Perhaps, if Wilkins wasn't sacked it would be easier to "sack" Carlo right now, but we saw the impact of Wilkin's departure and he was just the assistant, the sacking of the coach would be disaster for morale.

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Absolutely!! Plus a fact I don't see a better replacement than Carlo Ancelotti if I'm truthfully honest. Benitez is nowhere near as disciplined as Carlo is, regardless of what he achieved at Liverpool. We need to buy "a majority" of players, not just ONE! There are a few positions that need to be filled. A centre half, a right winger, and a striker are absolute musts for us.

Hahaha if we got Rafa I'd just sit and cry,,,he fucked Milian up no chance getting near us.Mean things are bad at the mo but with him god knows

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Just looking at Blues News - It showed a clip of CA doing an interview and a few players come up behind him, (Terry, Cole and Drogba I Think) and hugged him and said "were still behind you"!! kinda funny but obviously from that he hasn't lost the dressing room"!