Next season will either be a monumental success or a car crash.
 

No in between. 

51 minutes ago, SydneyChelsea said:

This sort of manager search would have been embarassing enough in Ken Bates' days, but Clearlake have spent about 2 billion pounds to return the club to its 90s era

 

Maybe David Webb can come out of retirement?

13 minutes ago, TheCeleryKing said:

 

Maybe David Webb can come out of retirement?

As a comparison, if this were 2000-01 our managerial shortlist to replace Vialli would be Jean Tigana, Graeme Souness or Glenn Hoddle instead of Claudio Ranieri, who at least had taken unfancied teams to domestic Cup success

3 hours ago, Sconnie Blue said:

Anyone know anything of Maresca?

A has a very much possession base style where the ball is knocked around with the idea that the opposition will lose their shape & and an opening will arise. He plays a back four with one of them stepping into midfield when the club has possession. He uses a single striker with wingers and two tens. His biggest failing for me is that he is very slow to make substitutions. His style of football was not overly popular with the  Leicester fan base who really didn't care for tippy tippy football.

21 minutes ago, gurru991 said:

A has a very much possession base style where the ball is knocked around with the idea that the opposition will lose their shape & and an opening will arise. He plays a back four with one of them stepping into midfield when the club has possession. He uses a single striker with wingers and two tens. His biggest failing for me is that he is very slow to make substitutions. His style of football was not overly popular with the  Leicester fan base who really didn't care for tippy tippy football.

Nor do I. I really dislike that kind of football. Boring to watch. 

Back and forth and back and forth. Left to right, right to left. Back too the goalie. New build up. 

All the pace out of the counter attack. Everyone back in position of the opposing team. 

I guess that all works when your team is way better than the opposition and you have some killers. 

But when you have a team with no ideas and efficiency,...

3 minutes ago, Night-T said:

Nor do I. I really dislike that kind of football. Boring to watch. 

Back and forth and back and forth. Left to right, right to left. Back too the goalie. New build up. 

All the pace out of the counter attack. Everyone back in position of the opposing team. 

I guess that all works when your team is way better than the opposition and you have some killers. 

But when you have a team with no ideas and efficiency,...

I don't really care for the whole play it out from the back possession based strategy. As the season wore on at Leicester the opposition just got wise to things & let Leicester knock it around knowing that there was no real danger. It might work ok at Chelsea because you have higher quality players who can play this system . For me personally I'm happy to see him move on as I think with the players we have we will get murdered playing that style in the Premier . Shades of Burnley !!!!

10 hours ago, El regreso said:

RDZ win rate apparently.

 

 

My win % playing Subbuteo was twice as good....If the Clearlake circus is indeed supposedly putting this project together based on stats, we are truly screwed with this bloke.  

It's been RDZ all along. Rest is owners/directors using the media as a smoke screen. Like they did with Kompany and Big Ange last summer to soften the reaction to Poch.

Tell me if you get past 6 minutes. He didn't manage to motivate me to watch the entire thing.

 

19 minutes ago, evissy said:

Tell me if you get past 6 minutes. He didn't manage to motivate me to watch the entire thing.

 

6 seconds.

11 hours ago, BS66 said:

Were we wonderful 30-50 years ago? I’d take this any day over the season we were challenging for relegation to the 3rd division. 

NO, there were times when we were absolutely useless, but Its not about just the "UPS" of supporting Chelsea. The downs were bloody hard, but I kept going because the hope and expectation were always there to sustain me. Now at 67 years of age, spoiled no doubt, by 20 years of almost consistent success, I just do not have the energy or the money to spend close to £200 per game to watch the Club, which has become a rudderless ship, meander from one crisis to another under the collection of idiots currently running it.

21 hours ago, El regreso said:

RDZ it will be !!

RDZ it always was.

18 hours ago, loz said:

I can't really see it being anyone other than De Zerbi which, being blunt, excites me as much as reruns of Last of the Summer Wine.

I wasn't fussed about Poch leaving but see it as pointless if De Zerbi replaces him.

I'm actually more interested in who our manager will be in 2025, i.e. de Zerbi's replacement at Brighton this season.

6 minutes ago, WhiteWall said:

I'm actually more interested in who our manager will be in 2025, i.e. de Zerbi's replacement at Brighton this season.

Potter!

18 hours ago, coombsie said:

WE bloody well should be, but these Clowns wouldn't know a good Head Coach, if he punched them both on the nose

Wish someone would.

4 hours ago, gurru991 said:

A has a very much possession base style where the ball is knocked around with the idea that the opposition will lose their shape & and an opening will arise. He plays a back four with one of them stepping into midfield when the club has possession. He uses a single striker with wingers and two tens. His biggest failing for me is that he is very slow to make substitutions. His style of football was not overly popular with the  Leicester fan base who really didn't care for tippy tippy football.

Exactly as expected. Poor man's Pep. City arent exactly great to watch either, but at least they win trophies, I think we will get all the tedium with none of the glory. 

15 hours ago, dan_cfc said:

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

Yep. Bielsa was his mentor. Remember that one.

15 hours ago, General said:

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  

 

I read it was 15m before reduced to 5m as an incentive for the underhand dealing.

“Sporting directors have chosen Enzo Maresca, Clearlake not yet convinced and still keen on De Zerbi, is what I know. Heard nothing at all about Thomas Frank. Ruben Amorim was also heavily considered this weekend. All points towards Maresca atm.“

 

Lotsof rumours but I still think RDZ will be in. 

Orinstein saying only Frank and Maeresca are the 2 options now:

https://t.co/XDrrNDuIyh

1 hour ago, evissy said:

Tell me if you get past 6 minutes. He didn't manage to motivate me to watch the entire thing.

 

The video did run all the way through when I watched it in bed this morning, but I don't know at what point I fell asleep LOL

7 hours ago, Sconnie Blue said:

Next season will either be a monumental success or a car crash.
 

No in between. 

Monumental success would be at max top 4 though, while the potential crashing and burning... Nobody knows!

I mean sure we have the squad but if a lot get injured and if the new manager is completely out of his depth... You never know.

Maybe we wanted to see how McKenna would do at Brighton… So I guess we’ll sack De Zerbi after one season and get McKenna from Brighton! I’m sure we will be keeping an eye on his replacement.

13 hours ago, Luca Vialli said:

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

Please go after Ruben Amorim.

Too late mate.

I'd have preferred McKenna. Probably been wrong but i've always been one to back youth, and a guy thats studied for it all his life. Maresca gets negative comments on his style has already been sacked once, has only won with Leicester and many say because of their wages bill and hasn't even been managing all that long. Just doesn't come across as my cup of tea in the general reading but to be honest I have no f****** idea about him. Because there is an aussie playing at Ipswich and becoz McKenna has brought them up through two promotions in a row I did watch them a bit and I like the style. ah well.