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Just seen that Sebastian Hoeness is the son of Bayern legend and director Uli Hoeness. He has already said no to Bayern, why on earth would he leave Stuttgard and Champions League football for this Chelsea circus. Looks like a complete non starter imo. 

Maresca and Mckenna would be shocking. No top flight experience as a head coach. Really worrying. 

 
Does it even matter? Someone young and inexperienced at this level, who will find the job too difficult and leaves at the end of the season at the latest. 
Still, keep RDZ away from the club and I’ll be moderatly content. Besides the fact he’s extremely overrated, he’s just the ultimate symbol of the Brighton fetish which has been a hallmark of our delightful new ownership

 
big blue said:
Just seen that Sebastian Hoeness is the son of Bayern legend and director Uli Hoeness. He has already said no to Bayern, why on earth would he leave Stuttgard and Champions League football for this Chelsea circus. Looks like a complete non starter imo. 

Maresca and Mckenna would be shocking. No top flight experience as a head coach. Really worrying. 
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And yet fully expected

 
JM7 said:
We always said if Poch is sacked, we’d be going for average managers. Poch was the best we could have got. 
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Which is why they probably should've done more to ensure he was happy to stick with us next season.

My position on Poch was always that I liked him, and that he was the best we could do considering the wider context. Keeping him in place until a) the squad was ready to take the next step, and b) a top candidate was available to help us take that step, was crucial.

The list of candidates doesn't fill me with hope, it's a lot of "can they step up and manage a big club" and "will they get time to implement their style", two questions I don't think anyone can confidently answer.

Tactically Poch kept things pretty vanilla, the focus was on getting our young, hastily assembled squad to play like a team. Honestly I think we'd be best served with someone who will do more of the same, and slowly introduce tactical tweaks/wrinkles as the team grows in confidence, trust, and ability. Who that candidate is I couldn't say though.

 
Bob stark said:
Let's say we hire manager A. He want to play a style. He said I don't think Enzo, mudryk and Caicedo can play my football. 

What next? 
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It’s a relationship Bob. Both partners respect each other and work together and respect what each brings to the relationship. . Otherwise you don’t have the relationship

 
I think it’s likely  management already know who the new manager is. It’s clear this is all planned, it’s not a knee jerk, it’s an end of season review. 

 
JM7 said:
Chelsea have identified a shortlist of candidates to become their next head coach and hope to make an appointment in a matter of days. The Athletic list: 

🔷 Kieran McKenna
🔷 Enzo Maresca
🔷 Thomas Frank
🔷 Sebastian Hoeness (challenging)
🔷 Vincent Kompany (unlikely)
🔷 De Zerbi (unlikely, but not ruled out)

Thomas Tuchel, Antonio Conte or Jose Mourinho - no chance. 

(via @liam_twomey / @SJohnsonSport)

Surely McKenna won’t leave after just getting Ipswich promoted. Same with Enzo. Not exactly Stella names. 
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AndyDowsleftflank said:
Does it even matter? Someone young and inexperienced at this level, who will find the job too difficult and leaves at the end of the season at the latest. 
Still, keep RDZ away from the club and I’ll be moderatly content. Besides the fact he’s extremely overrated, he’s just the ultimate symbol of the Brighton fetish which has been a hallmark of our delightful new ownership
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All boiled down, RDZ left Brighton for the same reason Poch has gone. Unhappy with the "model". The two "models" aren't miles apart. Would be bizarre if RDZ signed on to have even less input than he did at Brighton. What's more, Clearlake want a yes man. RDZ is borderline megalomaniac.

Still, we'll see.

 
JM7 said:
Chelsea have identified a shortlist of candidates to become their next head coach and hope to make an appointment in a matter of days. The Athletic list: 

🔷 Kieran McKenna
🔷 Enzo Maresca
🔷 Thomas Frank
🔷 Sebastian Hoeness (challenging)
🔷 Vincent Kompany (unlikely)
🔷 De Zerbi (unlikely, but not ruled out)

Thomas Tuchel, Antonio Conte or Jose Mourinho - no chance. 

(via @liam_twomey / @SJohnsonSport)

Surely McKenna won’t leave after just getting Ipswich promoted. Same with Enzo. Not exactly Stella names. 
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A collection of leaked names designed to make us say "oh sh*t please be RDZ"

 
Think as someone mentioned yesterday there is a massive lack of what would be deemed 'elite' managers. If you look at all of the top teams in world football how many of them have an elite manager? 

Man City - Yes

Juventus - Going to appoint a manager with little experience

Liverpool - Just appointed Arne Slot, not what I would call (at the moment) an elite manager 

Barcelona - A manager there only because of his past there as a player

Real Madrid - Yes, has been our manager before and was the worst sacking in our history. Probably in his last season before retirement.

Atletico Madrid - Arguably yes but so boring to watch

Man Utd - Ten Hag probably about to be sacked and have the same shortlist we do

Inter - Arguably an elite manager

AC Milan - Pioli leaving, shortlist worse than ours with Fonseca currently favourite

Bayern - Turned down 6 times including managers like Rangnick, current favourite is Vincent

PSG - Luis Enrique, he's alright but I wouldn't personally call him an elite manager

 
Sexyfootball said:
I don't think Clearlake had anything to do with the Dodgers. That was Boehly and Mark Walter.

I also don't see the hand of Boehly in this latest decision at all. He's fast being sidelined. Eghbali (and Feliciano) calling the shots, with their lackeys Winstanley and Stewart doing their bidding ... 

BlueCo is the consortium that has bought Chelsea. 13% each (using their own money) from Boehly, Walter and Hans Joerg Wyss, and 61% from Clearlake (Eghbali & Feliciano) using other people's money.

I don't see Boehly as the bad guy here. Unfair to lump him in with these Clearlake blokes on this occasion ... 
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Bang on, this is. Boehly is cheap lazy journalism, as is the £1bn spent and the £400m under Pochettino's watch apparently. I am struggling to remember who the £400m Poch signings were tbh.

 
Jezz said:
All very dull candidates. No one stands out.

Given our position and how far back we were coming from with the horror Tuchel/Potter/Lampard season that got us 44 points, Pochettino was the best we could have had at that point in time.

I don't think Pochettino would have taken us right to the top, but he was almost the perfect gateway to us getting there. Now, I'm apathetic to it all and I think we're miles away from ever re-living the glory days again.

Roman was ruthless, but at least he backed it up. These owners are all style and no substance.
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You sound like me Jezz - more disillusioned with the club than ever, and that's down to the board / hierarchy who are proving to be just as bad as we feared when they were appointed.

Their way is the right way, no matter how many times they f**k up to prove they don't know what they're doing. Honestly thought they had looked at City & Liverpool and thought we needed stability. Boehly even went on about patience being needed and yet they make one bad decision after another. Not sure it matters who gets the coach role - I have little faith that it will be the right appointment and they won't last anyway. Depressing times.

 
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Didn't he play for West Brom?

 
I'm just wondering that, on the basis that we f**k the manager off every six months, is there any scope for us appointing Berhad Egbhali as our next manager. 

At least come January we can start clearing our heads after being rid of the tw@t

 
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