Robbie Fowler: "I was sat next to Blues' legend Frank Lampard at the League Managers’ Association awards dinner on Tuesday night – and when the news broke that Poch had been sacked a look of utter disbelief spread across his face. Frank wasn’t the only one in the room who was shocked."

No thanks to Roberto de Zerbi.

5 hours ago, dkw said:

I'm bored saying this now but STOP BELIEVING BELLENDS ON TWITTER....

Ah come on now, can you ever truly get bored of saying that? ;)

43 minutes ago, JM7 said:

Breaking : Roberto DeZerbi is already in London finalizing details of backroom staff with #Chelsea . Announcement is immine

Our Sporting Directors must have done a whole bunch of coke with Roberto at some point?

 

 

 

I know Guardiola often praises rival managers, but Brighton isn't a rival, he doesn't have any reason to say this unless he actually means it.

Sad part is pool are going to struggle .. Utd have ten haag ( so far) Aston Villa and Newcastle aren’t built to compete at that level..so if we had stability top 4 was a gurantee

12 minutes ago, Drogba1 said:

 

I know Guardiola often praises rival managers, but Brighton isn't a rival, he doesn't have any reason to say this unless he actually means it.

He praises them before a game and then proceeds to put 5 past them.

Sometimes I think he just does it for fun.

Just now, Sheva said:

He praises them before a game and then proceeds to put 5 past them.

Sometimes I think he just does it for fun.

Said the same about sarri and then pumped us if I remember correctly

18 minutes ago, Drogba1 said:

 

I know Guardiola often praises rival managers, but Brighton isn't a rival, he doesn't have any reason to say this unless he actually means it.

He usually says this about managers who plays a worse version of Peps football, he loves them because he knows he’ll beat them with ease

28 minutes ago, Drogba1 said:

 

I know Guardiola often praises rival managers, but Brighton isn't a rival, he doesn't have any reason to say this unless he actually means it.

He once praised me for the way I set up my team on FIFA.

Before he left Brighton by mutual consent 😅 his buyout clause was 50 million 💶 currently it’s less than 10 million . So he comes as a bargain 😂 if he does in fact replace Poch  

 

2 hours ago, El regreso said:

Taking us for mugs about secret 4 choice when everyone knew it RDZ. He’s most likely already signed.

Only Eghbali, Stewart and Winstanley could "seek a manager with Premier League experience" and have a shortlist on which two of the four names have never managed in the PL ... 

Pep is usually respectful towards managers in the media given his repertoire of 'humbling' remarks. It's typical along the lines of how said manager is great and that they need time like any other manager. 

There are only a few instances though where Pep genuinely gets a hard on talking about a manager and their footballing principles. Pep is Marcelo Bielsa's biggest fan boy. There's also Sarri and now unsurprisingly, De Zerbi. These are footballing purists with a Jekyll/Hyde philosophy on how the game should be played. 

13 minutes ago, Sexyfootball said:

Only Eghbali, Stewart and Winstanley could "seek a manager with Premier League experience" and have a shortlist on which two of the four names have never managed in the PL ... 

Russell Martin just got Southampton promoted guess he’s now on the list.

RDZ win rate apparently.

 

 

4 minutes ago, El regreso said:

RDZ win rate apparently.

 

 

 

FFS !!! Please not this bloke, it will be the end 

20 minutes ago, El regreso said:

RDZ win rate apparently.

 

 

The one club that would be expected to have a high win rate he got 66% with, which is higher than every single permanent Chelsea manager except for Mourinho's first stint (67%).

 

30 games is a small sample size but I wouldn't expect the likes of Sassuolo and Brighton to have a high win rate regardless of who's in charge.

What competition does Shaktar even have? 

2 hours ago, Sconnie Blue said:

Pep is usually respectful towards managers in the media given his repertoire of 'humbling' remarks. It's typical along the lines of how said manager is great and that they need time like any other manager. 

There are only a few instances though where Pep genuinely gets a hard on talking about a manager and their footballing principles. Pep is Marcelo Bielsa's biggest fan boy. There's also Sarri and now unsurprisingly, De Zerbi. These are footballing purists with a Jekyll/Hyde philosophy on how the game should be played. 

Pep talked a lot about Tuchel ahead of the CL final that we won. 

With the exception of Ranieri, we always win something with an Italian manager.  The Europa conference it is.  Don't want RDZ....

Mentioning Ranieri, it's crazy that he is our longest serving manager since, I reckon, John Neal (4 years...).

8 minutes ago, Sconnie Blue said:

What competition does Shaktar even have? 

Not much I'd imagine, but it's the only club that would be expected to win their games like us.

 

It's pointless looking at his win rates at mid table clubs and thinking that it makes him a bad manager. Ancelotti had a 46% win rate with Everton.

Kinda mad to think that Ancelotti was managing Everton. 

20 hours ago, yaz said:

Hope Brighton don't put a big release clause on their next manager cause we'll be paying that in December.

We will always know who will become a Chelsea manager.

Todd if you're reading this (I'm sure you are!)

Please go after Ruben Amorim.

De Zerbi now 1/2 with Skybet ... lowest odds we've seen so far ...