Agreed. With the in flux of money, the league will be even tighter next year. Got to get it right. Unfortunately we don't have a lot of options.

If we are willing to pay we have options, they are just (mostly) not big name options.

Forget Europe, marquee signings, prima donnas.

 

It wasn't marquees signings that won us our only back to back league titles.

 

Think about it, 1 or 2 seasons of concentrating on league and domestic cups, bring through youngsters, home grown and others.

 

Champion our league, retain it and then command it.

 

Then Europe.

Forget Europe, marquee signings, prima donnas.

It wasn't marquees signings that won us our only back to back league titles.

Think about it, 1 or 2 seasons of concentrating on league and domestic cups, bring through youngsters, home grown and others.

Champion our league, retain it and then command it.

Then Europe.

Nice idea. Seems the club really care about balancing the books though. Without Europe, re champions league cash, that becomes harder and may play a part as to why we don't give jt another 1 year mega deal.

You also have to wonder if the club look at very high earners like hazard, Costa and cesc and think it may help the books to offload them as well.

Edited February 3, 201610 yr by axman2526

Nice idea. Seems the club really care about balancing the books though. Without Europe, re champions league cash, that becomes harder and may play a part as to why we don't give jt another 1 year mega deal.

You also have to wonder if the club look at very high earners like hazard, Costa and cesc and think it may help the books to offload them as well.

 

I think the likes of Pedro, Cuadrado and possibly Oscar are the ones who could go so you're talking about maybe £60 million to spend if we continue the trend of not spending more than we bring in.

 

That's not much in the modern game so it immediately rules out someone like Pogba.

 

I think we need to be realistic about our expectations as a club. A good season for the next few years might be top four and a Cup run. If United get Jose and back him in the market then the league is between the Manchester clubs and we're scrapping with Arsenal, Spurs and maybe Liverpool, West Ham and even a few other teams.

I've said it before and I'll say it again. I hope when the new long-term coach is appointed that he insists he wants a say in all transfer comings & goings and is allowed to select his backroom team. That should mean no position for Emanalo so we can say thanks and so long. No-one really knows what he does but one thing is pretty certain, he won't be missed.

Good luck with that. Unless you manage to find a tine machine lying around this is never going to happen

we're apparently talking to Pellegrini...

 

http://sportwitness.ning.com/forum/topics/from-chile-pellegrini-in-chelsea-talks-abramovich-already-offered

Edited February 3, 201610 yr by enigma

wouldnt be surprised if we ended up with Pellegrini. Rather hin then some of the suggestions in this thread

Edited February 3, 201610 yr by Xfaxtor

Ryan Giggs anyone when Jose signs for Man U he will be available ;)

I think we'll go all out for Someone, but he'll stay at Atleti.

We'll move onto someone like Conte, but he'll already have agreed to go elsewhere why we were talking to Someone.

We'll end up with Pellegrini or another out of work manager.

I hope I'm not right though...

Pellergrini wouldn't be a bad short term manager. He's good with handling players, playing an attacking style of football, and I think he has a point to prove after being let go by City. I don't think tactically he's that great, but Hiddink it's hardly a genius either at moment. We aren't going to get Simemon right now, he's doing well over there and has little motivation to join us without CL football. Someone like Mark Hugues would be a good shout, but judging by our history under Roman, we aren't keen of British managers.

I said it a while back and nothing I saw last night has changed my mind. After seeing what a good footballing side Watford have become, I wouldn't be against Sanchez Flores as our next coach. I know it's a massive difference between a club like Watford with low expectations and us where the pressure is on ALL the time, but I love how he is getting his side to play good football and I also like his calmness and the fact he has a lot of class about him.

Reports say we've agreed a 4yr deal with Allegri worth 5.3mil/yr. Source's Calciomercato via the daily express ( taking that with a massive grain of salt).

Reports say we've agreed a 4yr deal with Allegri worth 5.3mil/yr. Source's Calciomercato via the daily express ( taking that with a massive grain of salt).

Also here:

http://www.90min.com/posts/2927654-juventus-boss-massimiliano-allegri-reportedly-agrees-4-year-deal-to-become-chelsea-manager

I can certainly think of worse options than Flores - he has experience of managing big clubs (Valencia, Atletico), he has won the Europa League, and now has experience of the Premier League. His Watford side are incredibly well-organised and disciplined. Certainly the pressure will be off next season; with Guardiola at City and perhaps José at Man Utd we won't be expected to amount a serious challenge, and we won't have as many fixtures due to the lack of Champions League football. This could be the perfect opportunity for him to make a step up. I have been feeling for a while that our best bet might be to go for someone a little out-of-the-box considering all the major players are either unavailable, unobtainable, or have already had the misfortune of managing us. Flores could be that man.

 

I suppose I should delete my 'Guardiola' vote now...

Still waiting for the more reputable sites to cover the story. If true, don't know if to feel elated or disappointed.

allegri has balls to take over at chelsea considering the position he has at juve. however, maybe he knows pogba and another one or two key players will be leaving in the summer and knows this is as far as he can take juve. to be honest, any one of conte, allegri or pellegrini i would be happy with. after pep and ancellotti, those coaches are the next options. 

Edited February 4, 201610 yr by enigma

Allegri would be good. Done very well with Juventus. Conte did lay a lot of the groundwork there though but Allegri have taken them a step or two further.

Every time I see the name Allegri mentioned I can't help but think of this......

 

 

 

 

 

Kinda puts me off him having a name like possibly the worst British car of all time.

I wonder how much Allegri's willingness to work under a Technical Director/DoF plays into this? Simeone was reported to want total control over transfers which is something we don't allow, whereas Allegri would probably be happy working within the current structure.

 

As a coach he's decent but I don't think he's the person we need who can implement the changes we need. He's just the next guy, a top coach but ultimately disposable after a couple of years and when he does go we'll probably find someone else with different ideas who will want to implement them and there's ultimately zero consistency for the club which makes it that much harder for the youngsters to come through.

 

And so the cycle continues.

Every club has a fu*king DoF/Technical director. Every!

Every club has a fu*king DoF/Technical director. Every!

 

Do they? I honestly didn't know that. 

 

Who is it at Man United and Arsenal?

Was Allegri at Milan when Pato was there?

 

 

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Kinda puts me off him having a name like possibly the worst British car of all time.

 

 

Maxi Rodriguez

How soon can he start?

 

'At the beginning of the 2012–13 season, Milan had only collected 8 points from their first 7 games, putting Allegri in danger of getting fired early on. Despite all the criticism from the critics, Milan stuck with Allegri and he managed to get the best out of some younger players... Allegri managed to steer the Rossoneri from 16th place to finishing 3rd at the end of the season, with an epic 2–1 comeback victory away to Siena. That gave Milan the spot to play in the playoff round for the 2013–14 Champions League campaign'.

Was Allegri at Milan when Pato was there?

 

Yes, but more pertinent is that he's currently the manager of Paul Pogba.

 

Maybe this is one of the club's hopes.