21 minutes ago, Sconnie Blue said:

1. Flick

2. Poch

3. Gellardo

 

In that order. I am very open to other options I am not aware of. 

Not Zidane?

 

Just now, Victor90 said:

Not Zidane?

Zero track record in developing younger players. His abysmal league form and great cup form leaves me to believe he is very much a hype man for experienced players vs an actual elite coach. 

I don’t see many viable or decent options unfortunately. My vote would be to give Potter until the start of the summer and make a decision then. We’re not going anywhere.

I know I’m crazy. 

5 minutes ago, JM7 said:

I don’t see many viable or decent options unfortunately. My vote would be to give Potter until the start of the summer and make a decision then. We’re not going anywhere.

I know I’m crazy. 

Past 16 matches we have scored less goals than the bottom three clubs and have worse results close to the bottom 3 clubs. 

We are very much going somewhere. It's towards a relegation scrap. 

1 minute ago, Sconnie Blue said:

Zero track record in developing younger players. His abysmal league form and great cup form leaves me to believe he is very much a hype man for experienced players vs an actual elite coach. 

He is by all means an elite manager. He did give trust and influenced the development of some players like Rodrygo, Vini, Valverde, Ceballos and arguably Kovacic as well. He can manage a big squad and a talented squad, I'm convinced that our best players would play the best under him which is what you want to see, a player like Enzo might be young but he's not going to require so much of instructions as he already got used to the PL in no time and that's just one example.

I'm not against the appointment of Flick either but Zidane is a proven winner that only didn't manage to win anything in his last season when he finished 2nd in La Liga and got knocked out by us in the CL semi-finals which by all means was only a bad season due to his prior record so he's human after all.

Swap with Brighton manager  joke

9 minutes ago, JM7 said:

I don’t see many viable or decent options unfortunately. My vote would be to give Potter until the start of the summer and make a decision then. We’re not going anywhere.

I know I’m crazy. 

Even if you want to wait until the summer to appoint a manager I can't fathom why anyone would let Graham near Cobham for the rest of the season.

We've just been rolled over by 2 managerless teams. Performances, results and moral are rock bottom.

I'd feel a lot better about the season and think moral would definitely improve around the club if Graham goes tonight even without a replacement.

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27 minutes ago, TimesUpPotter said:

Even if you want to wait until the summer to appoint a manager I can't fathom why anyone would let Graham near Cobham for the rest of the season.

We've just been rolled over by 2 managerless teams. Performances, results and moral are rock bottom.

I'd feel a lot better about the season and think moral would definitely improve around the club if Graham goes tonight even without a replacement.

Normally when a club underperforms this badly, it’s because the manager has cheesed off the squad. However the squad seem largely indifferent to Potter!

4 minutes ago, JM7 said:

Normally when a club underperforms this badly, it’s because the manager has cheesed off the squad. However the squad seem largely indifferent to Potter!

In this case, Potter hasn't lost the dressing room because he never won it to begin with. I don't think he's ever had the respect of the players. 

Sort of AVB vibes, we already know from player interviews by the likes of JT and Lampard that AVB was never respected to begin with by the players. A young manager who's never played a game of professional football who wanted fast-paced direct football with an aging squad, it was never going to work. 

Player power is a major problem at this club, but we need to address it properly with a manager who actually deserves it and has earned it. 

40 minutes ago, Gol15 said:

He is by all means an elite manager. He did give trust and influenced the development of some players like Rodrygo, Vini, Valverde, Ceballos and arguably Kovacic as well. He can manage a big squad and a talented squad, I'm convinced that our best players would play the best under him which is what you want to see, a player like Enzo might be young but he's not going to require so much of instructions as he already got used to the PL in no time and that's just one example.

I'm not against the appointment of Flick either but Zidane is a proven winner that only didn't manage to win anything in his last season when he finished 2nd in La Liga and got knocked out by us in the CL semi-finals which by all means was only a bad season due to his prior record so he's human after all.

Honestly with our midfield players (bar Enzo), Zidane could be player-manager and carry our team

I have to admit, whilst I don't rate Zidane highly as a tactician (Tuchel schooled him with worse players), it would be really cool to have an absolute footballing legend like him manage the club. 

Poch is an easy option but he's an awful choice. I hope the club dodges that bullet if Potter is sacked. United for example had the option of going for Poch early but instead decided to wait for Ten Hag and their patience is being rewarded. Getting Poch in now just for the sake of a quick fix would be a bad idea IMO. If the club doesn't want to make the mistake they made with Potter they need to be patient with the next appointment.

Just now, Frankie8Lampard said:

Poch is an easy option but he's an awful choice. I hope the club dodges that bullet if Potter is sacked. United for example had the option of going for Poch early but instead decided to wait for Ten Hag and their patience is being rewarded. Getting Poch in now just for the sake of a quick fix would be a bad idea IMO. If the club doesn't want to make the mistake they made with Potter they need to be patient with the next appointment.

Honestly we should just get a caretaker for the rest of the season. Hiddink nearly won us the Champions League if UEFA hadn't robbed us, even Rafa won us the Europa League. There isn't any benefit to sticking with Potter anymore, we can still salvage the season if he's gone

3 minutes ago, Mod said:

How old is he now? 😂

76, so he probably has handkerchiefs older than Silva! Bless him!

I honestly believe this man really would take this team to another level, especially with new players such as Enzo, Mudryk, Felix etc. We’d be unstoppable, Chilwell and James down the flanks, Mount at his best, Fofana, Silva and Badiashille at back. At last better attackers this time, no more putting up with the likes of Timo and Lukaku.

Just now, dansubrosa said:

I honestly believe this man really would take this team to another level, especially with new players such as Enzo, Mudryk, Felix etc. We’d be unstoppable, Chilwell and James down the flanks, Mount at his best, Fofana, Silva and Badiashille at back. At last better attackers this time, no more putting up with the likes of Timo and Lukaku.

If he was rehired next week, with this set of players, I'd genuinely make us contenders to win the Champions League this year

1 minute ago, dansubrosa said:

I honestly believe this man really would take this team to another level, especially with new players such as Enzo, Mudryk, Felix etc. We’d be unstoppable, Chilwell and James down the flanks, Mount at his best, Fofana, Silva and Badiashille at back. At last better attackers this time, no more putting up with the likes of Timo and Lukaku.

Issue with Tuchel is how he would work with VIvell. 

I'm not going to pretend Tuchel didn't sanction the Lukaku signing and voided going after Tchouameni in favor of Saul. 

5 minutes ago, Drogba1 said:

Honestly we should just get a caretaker for the rest of the season. Hiddink nearly won us the Champions League if UEFA hadn't robbed us, even Rafa won us the Europa League. There isn't any benefit to sticking with Potter anymore, we can still salvage the season if he's gone

I don't disagree but it's going to be very difficult to get a caretaker manager. Hiddink only did it because he was friends with Roman and most caretaker managers these days want an incentive like the option to extend the contract at the end of the season.

Diego Simeone. No messing, no player power. Might not be pretty but neither was Jose after the first season and we have bagged plenty of trophies since..

Hello, everyone, I'm new here. I am a Greek Chelsea fan, and Chelsea is the only team I support (Greek football is rubbish).

 

Anyway, if you want a somewhat different opinion about what is going on and what should be done, I'd say that the first one to leave should be Boehly.

 

I am not mad at Potter at all. Honestly. He is obviously rubbish as a manager, but this is all he can do. If I hold something against him, it's that he should have the decency to resign. Apart from that, he's okay for Brighton I suppose, but he can't go any higher than that.

 

Boehly, on the other hand... Where should I start? The buy has spent a gazillion of money on random players (I can't really judge them, as this thing we are watching is not a team), as if he's playing Football Manager, he (and not Potter, imho) has sidelined players just because they were Tuchel's choices, and, of course, he sacked Tuchel for no other reason than to sign a yes-man. Potter's the symptom. A hideous symptom, true, but the cause is Boehly.

1 minute ago, Frankie8Lampard said:

I don't disagree but it's going to be very difficult to get a caretaker manager. Hiddink only did it because he was friends with Roman and most caretaker managers these days want an incentive like the option to extend the contract at the end of the season.

I'd take the kit man as an interim at this point

1 minute ago, Diamondgeezer said:

Diego Simeone. No messing, no player power. Might not be pretty but neither was Jose after the first season and we have bagged plenty of trophies since..

All of Dortmund's young talent would most likely leave Stamford Bridge on a stretcher if we hired him. Jokes aside, I think we've signed players for an attacking style of football, which probably doesn't fit his vision. Felix in particular would suffer.

See if Anthony Barry can f**k off from Portugal duties and give him the interim role.