I was trolling on Chelsea reddit & I found someone had posted a video from Today's MNF with Don Claudio on the set. He spoke briefly about the time before Roman Abramovich & afterwards. Shame this guy never won anything with CFC. I absolutely loved this guy as the Gaffer. He also spoke about how Don Antonio changed coming to the EPL.

 

 

Good guy Claudio!

I liked Claudio, that CL semi was heart breaking. Still not sure how we lost that tie and what surely would have been a CL trophy with the players we had.

 

Il be honest. I never really liked ranieri when he was here. We were winning trophies under gullit and vialli, looking like we may even win a title, then we sack luca which I was gutted about.  

We were really inconsistent under him finished 6th 6th 4th, before roman came in, and even with massive investment we didn't win any silverware. 

Really nice guy, and signed players that would turn out be fantastic signings, if not under ranieri himself. 

I think the fondness he is remembered with is more down to the dignity he held during that last season despite his job being under constant scrutiny in every press conference, which was only made worse by the sven Goran Ericsson debacle.

Really pleased for him last season, but at the time I wasn't sad on a sporting level to see him go.

To be fair to Claudio had far less money to spend than Luca and Vialli, before Roman came along. I think the season we finished fourth our only signing was Quique de Lucas? Yes he was hugely erratic and the "Tinkerman" cost us vs Monaco (collapsed vs 10 men, sending on a half fit Veron and moving Parker to RB and JFH to right midfield!). On the other hand though he really did set the foundations for our great team of the mid 00s when you think that:

-Gallas, Lamps, Joe Cole, Duff, Makelele all signed by Claudio. Cech and Robben were arranged while Ranieri was still boss

-He nurtured JT and helped with the transition of captaincy from Desailly in 2003/04

He was also a little unfortunate that he came up against an excellent Arsenal side in the League. Overall we made the right decision to switch to José, but I'll always be thankful for what Claudio did for the club.

3 hours ago, gojo_ed said:

To be fair to Claudio had far less money to spend than Luca and Vialli, before Roman came along. I think the season we finished fourth our only signing was Quique de Lucas? Yes he was hugely erratic and the "Tinkerman" cost us vs Monaco (collapsed vs 10 men, sending on a half fit Veron and moving Parker to RB and JFH to right midfield!). On the other hand though he really did set the foundations for our great team of the mid 00s when you think that:

-Gallas, Lamps, Joe Cole, Duff, Makelele all signed by Claudio. Cech and Robben were arranged while Ranieri was still boss

-He nurtured JT and helped with the transition of captaincy from Desailly in 2003/04

He was also a little unfortunate that he came up against an excellent Arsenal side in the League. Overall we made the right decision to switch to José, but I'll always be thankful for what Claudio did for the club.

He had loads to spend. He took over a month after we had spent big on hasselbaink, gudjohnson, stanic and gronkjaer. Then the following summer we spent big on lamps, zenden, gallas, and petit.

It was only following those 2 big windows and consecutive 6th place finishes, and no champions league, that we couldn't back him. 

 

Edited April 11, 20179 yr by big blue

i dunno.

wasn't a big fan of him back then albeit i was a lot younger.

looking back at is now as an adult, still don't really rate him. cant say anything bad about him as a person though. talking simply as a manager i just couldnt wrap my head around his rotational policy even though we had that going at chelsea before he even came around because to me at the very least...we were heading in an upward trajectory....that is up until he came around....... i just felt like we stagnated under him. 

obviously looking at it objectively i should take into account a lot of the older guard that he had to replace and he did bring in a lot of good young players which laid the foundations for the future but if im to give a yes or no answer to whether or not he succeeded at chelsea, then its a big no.

On 4/11/2017 at 07:29, robdog said:

I was trolling on Chelsea reddit & I found someone had posted a video from Today's MNF with Don Claudio on the set. He spoke briefly about the time before Roman Abramovich & afterwards. Shame this guy never won anything with CFC. I absolutely loved this guy as the Gaffer. He also spoke about how Don Antonio changed coming to the EPL.

 

Out of interest, what is wrong / right with Chelsea reddit, I never go on it as reddit is too confusing for me.

They did complete the impressive task of getting the Chelsea badge on their April Fools pixel thing...which I liked 

On 4/11/2017 at 11:33, big blue said:

Il be honest. I never really liked ranieri when he was here. We were winning trophies under gullit and vialli, looking like we may even win a title, then we sack luca which I was gutted about.  

We were really inconsistent under him finished 6th 6th 4th, before roman came in, and even with massive investment we didn't win any silverware. 

Really nice guy, and signed players that would turn out be fantastic signings, if not under ranieri himself. 

I think the fondness he is remembered with is more down to the dignity he held during that last season despite his job being under constant scrutiny in every press conference, which was only made worse by the sven Goran Ericsson debacle.

Really pleased for him last season, but at the time I wasn't sad on a sporting level to see him go.

 

At the time my biggest problem was he was every other clubs favorite manager, in general that tends to be a sure fire sign that the trophy cabinet is empty because we certainly aren't anybody's second team. 

I never believed he had what it took to get us over the line and the transformation in consistency and atmosphere when Jose came in was clear for everyone to see. 

What he achieved last season was nothing short of amazing but even with that, it's now looking less like Claudio's influence, with reports claiming he spent long periods of time in Italy with his mother, Leicester where playing a consistent line up with consistent tactics, not something he is famed for, and this year seemed to revert to his crazy tinkering. You don't earn the nickname the tinker man for no reason 

58 minutes ago, benjsross said:

Out of interest, what is wrong / right with Chelsea reddit, I never go on it as reddit is too confusing for me.

They did complete the impressive task of getting the Chelsea badge on their April Fools pixel thing...which I liked 

I tried to deface the Liverpool one, but there were too many people fixing it.

On 4/11/2017 at 09:17, Chelsbear said:

I liked Claudio, that CL semi was heart breaking. Still not sure how we lost that tie and what surely would have been a CL trophy with the players we had.

 

Its a tough one ins't it ? What was it Veron at right back and Huth up from for half the second half ? It lost him all credibility, of course if it had worked he would have been a tactical genius

Like a few have said, there would have been no Roman if it wasn't for Claudio (or Forest Gump getting that goal against the dippers)    

5 minutes ago, andy said:

Its a tough one ins't it ? What was it Veron at right back and Huth up from for half the second half ? It lost him all credibility, of course if it had worked he would have been a tactical genius

Like a few have said, there would have been no Roman if it wasn't for Claudio (or Forest Gump getting that goal against the dippers)    

Yeah the tactics in that game were bizarre, I admit myself to be raging and calling for his head after it but that was more because I knew the final would be very winnable.

Claudio is a guy you can't help but like and admire, like a grandpa figure who's just a genuine nice person. He took us as far as he could as we were ready for the next big thing in Jose at the time to handle the huge personalities we were about to bring in.

43 minutes ago, Chelsbear said:

Yeah the tactics in that game were bizarre, I admit myself to be raging and calling for his head after it but that was more because I knew the final would be very winnable.

Claudio is a guy you can't help but like and admire, like a grandpa figure who's just a genuine nice person. He took us as far as he could as we were ready for the next big thing in Jose at the time to handle the huge personalities we were about to bring in.

I felt your pain - Chelsea were the strongest team left in the competition at the time - IMHO I thought getting by Monaco would be a formality - in the end we got Porto's gaffer & the rest was history - it was whacked out, but in the end everything turned out roses for CFC

Upset too many of the older pros before Roman took over. 

On 11/04/2017 at 09:33, big blue said:

Il be honest. I never really liked ranieri when he was here. We were winning trophies under gullit and vialli, looking like we may even win a title, then we sack luca which I was gutted about.  

We were really inconsistent under him finished 6th 6th 4th, before roman came in, and even with massive investment we didn't win any silverware. 

Really nice guy, and signed players that would turn out be fantastic signings, if not under ranieri himself. 

I think the fondness he is remembered with is more down to the dignity he held during that last season despite his job being under constant scrutiny in every press conference, which was only made worse by the sven Goran Ericsson debacle.

Really pleased for him last season, but at the time I wasn't sad on a sporting level to see him go.

Fully agree BB. I also wasn't completely enamoured with Ancelotti either. Good manager but not in the top tier for me. Too cautious, too reactive for my liking. Saw that again the other night against Real . 

Like Claudio a bloody nice bloke though.