Which coach out there is prepared to walk into this minefield?

Adoni Iraola, Cesc Fabregas, Filipe Luis and Marco Silva appear to be the early contenders.

We'd be lucky to have any one of them. I'm expecting another yeas man.

Alonso is imo the most interesting pick.

Glasner is a big no. I don't think hiring a manager who spent his last season complaining about how his board deal with transfer is a good fit for us.

Iraola is quite similar to poch, a lot of fan complained about how we play under Poch.

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The old saying is don’t sh*t where you eat but based off his performancE…At this point, let Joe shields go eat where he sh*ts… and he can see out the season as “coach”

4 hours ago, Scott said:

We'd be lucky to have any one of them. I'm expecting another yeas man.

Gary O'Neil? We hire from within.

@Zeta or we riot.

Iraola for me. I think we need a reset with playing style. I’m sick to death of the playing out from the back borefest so as you say similar to Poch, we need a manager to get as scoring again and be entertaining.

Yep, Iraola gets my vote too.

John Terry with the players having remote controlled electrodes surgically inserted into their b*llocks.

Does it matter, while the imbeciles in charge continue to make the decisions the "coach" is on a hiding to nothing.

If both Avram Grant & Rafa are unavailable I’d settle for AVB.

Wayne Rooney. Third time lucky. Or fourth, whatever it is.

All would be pretty interesting bar Silva. That would be another depressing appointment.

A competent coach would have this team sitting 3rd or at the very worst 5th. Seems a big ask however to get a competent coach willing to work with his superiors for the minimum 2-3 years required to get back competing.

Next coach is irrelevant as long as the Sporting Directors and the medical department interfere with his day to day plans. If after four years of failure BlueCo does not understand how football works and stick to their dumb plan, then we are f**ked.

who?

Chelsea lay ‘groundwork’ for shock Saudi appointment as ‘contact’ made with ‘leading candidate’

Chelsea have laid the ‘groundwork’ for the shock appointment of Al-Ahli boss Matthias Jaissle as ‘contact’ is made with their ‘leading candidate’ after Liam Rosenior was sacked on Wednesday.

BETTING FOR NEXT CHELSEA MANAGER

4/5 - SOOTY

2/1 - BASIL BRUSH

3/1 - PINOCCHIO

5/1 - KERMIT THE FROG

10/1 - ROLAND RAT

May as well.

Filipe Luis interests me.

I fear what these owners will do to him though.

10 minutes ago, GarnachoCheese said:

Filipe Luis interests me.

I fear what these owners will do to him though.

He could bring his good mate Diego Costa in as Assistant Coach/Mentality Coach. LOL

CaughtOffside

Chelsea have 38-year-old manager on their radar as they l...

Chelsea have a surprise name on their managerial shortlist as they look to appoint a manager who can bring them out of crisis.

6 minutes ago, Caps_Lock_King said:

CaughtOffside

Chelsea have 38-year-old manager on their radar as they l...

Chelsea have a surprise name on their managerial shortlist as they look to appoint a manager who can bring them out of crisis.

Never heard of him, so sounds about right

4 minutes ago, Caps_Lock_King said:

CaughtOffside

Chelsea have 38-year-old manager on their radar as they l...

Chelsea have a surprise name on their managerial shortlist as they look to appoint a manager who can bring them out of crisis.

Never heard of him. Might as well skip the agony, pay him £4 million now and organise a sweepstake for every match where a supporter gets to coach the team.

Keep seeing names like Ireola or even Marco Silva.

How many managers have made the step up from midtable to a big team and actually won the league? I cant think of any excluding Ranieri.

If you want to won the league or even challaenge for it, you bring in a manager that has won elsewhere in another big league.

Maybe Arteta wins this year, and that is possibly proof of developing a young coach being able to develop and then challenge, but its took him 6 years, and complete control.

Xabi Alonso clear 1st choice.

Nagelsmann

Simeone

Xavi

Deschamps

Zidane

If we dont hire a winner, it will be more of the same, and yes i know we arent that club anymore, but we should be with the amount we have spent.

35 minutes ago, big blue said:

Keep seeing names like Ireola or even Marco Silva.

How many managers have made the step up from midtable to a big team and actually won the league? I cant think of any excluding Ranieri.

If you want to won the league or even challaenge for it, you bring in a manager that has won elsewhere in another big league.

Maybe Arteta wins this year, and that is possibly proof of developing a young coach being able to develop and then challenge, but its took him 6 years, and complete control.

Xabi Alonso clear 1st choice.

Nagelsmann

Simeone

Xavi

Deschamps

Zidane

If we dont hire a winner, it will be more of the same, and yes i know we arent that club anymore, but we should be with the amount we have spent.

Does that extend to Matthias Jaissle or Felipe Luis?

I agree with you though, I dont want Iraola. I dont see why anyone wants him. Bournemouth is the easiest club in the PL to manage alongside Brighton.

7 minutes ago, bisright1 said:

Does that extend to Matthias Jaissle or Felipe Luis?

I agree with you though, I dont want Iraola. I dont see why anyone wants him. Bournemouth is the easiest club in the PL to manage alongside Brighton.

I think Felipe Luis would be a gamble, but at least he has already built a winning side, and as we saw in the summer, his team were impressive, and the South American opponents certainly were very capable themselves. Also knows his way around elite european football and the club and premier league too. So yes id extend that to Felipe Luis.

Jaissle i'm less convinced about, Austrian and Saudi football, is not the same level. Its good he has worked with some big names, but still too much of a roll of the dice for me.