I want someone to come in and pull this squad together and win some a lot of games. I dont want to see the team being selected by committee- an inexperienced committee at that.

We are embarrassing ourselves week in week out.

Diego Simeone could do it.

35 minutes ago, nonotnowjim said:

I want Simeone. But I cant see it happening.

I don't want Alonso. Not in any circumstances. Liverpool Scumbag.

I dont want Ireola (mediocre), Silva (mediocre), Fabregas (let him develop), Filipe Luis (no relevant experience), Lamps (let him get his reward with coventry) some chancer from the saudi league.

I would settle for Jose mk 3, Hernan Crespo, JT, Drogba,

35 minutes ago, nonotnowjim said:

I want Simeone. But I cant see it happening.

I don't want Alonso. Not in any circumstances. Liverpool Scumbag.

I dont want Ireola (mediocre), Silva (mediocre), Fabregas (let him develop), Filipe Luis (no relevant experience), Lamps (let him get his reward with coventry) some chancer from the saudi league.

I would settle for Jose mk 3, Hernan Crespo, JT, Drogba,

3 minutes ago, OTL said:

I want someone to come in and pull this squad together and win some a lot of games. I dont want to see the team being selected by committee- an inexperienced committee at that.

We are embarrassing ourselves week in week out.

Diego Simeone could do it.

Is Simeone not the highest paid in Europe?

Can't see this crowd paying big wages to match....... they'll follow the standard player signings formula....young 30 y o inexperienced manager on 6yr contract........ Oh wait....think they've tried that..

Maybe it's time for both formulas to be binned & experience on both be brought in.......Callum could do with some help too for rest of season..... there's one down with the academy!!..😲

Edited April 23Apr 23 by saran75

Beggars can’t be choosers!!!

We are in no position or have no right to a top quality manager when the clowns are still in charge.

I give zero f**ks who is the manager because those interfering twats are still there.

14 minutes ago, bisright1 said:

People who complain about "boring football" don't mean defensive football. They mean sideways possession based passing.

Simeone doesn't play this. His football isn't boring.

Jim is always a performance over results kind of guy so I find it funny that he wants a manager that is a results over performance manager. 😂

2 hours ago, C3blue said:

If we get some bloke from Saudi we are a laughing stock.

On the other hand, I can see him jumping at the chance to coach in the PL, seeing as a stepping stone to a bigger club after the inevitable sacking. Don't see that many coaches eagerly sitting by the phone right now.

1 hour ago, nonotnowjim said:

he was sh*t, and had us playing sh*t, boring football.

How's it been since he's gone? 🙃

2 hours ago, BordeauxBlue said:

For the record, Maresca is a better coach than most of the candidates linked.

Not even better than Mcfarlane

7 minutes ago, GarnachoCheese said:

Not even better than Mcfarlane

Won two trophies and made top 4 in his first season. I beg you keep the same energy for the next few managers cause with how it's looking right now we aren't doing that for a while.

Asked for a CB and got given Garnacho.

How did Liam do? How will we end the season?

We're back to where we were when Poch left.

These sporting directors have blood on their hands, it's as simple as that.

Maresca was sh*t, the fact we managed to downgrade him with LR was staggering.

Where we go from here god knows.

It depends what job is on offer as everyone has said, under the right conditions it’s a top job for any manager. Under these conditions nobody worth it will go near it.

Not holding my breath they get it right. I mean the owners. Get rid of SD’s and get in a real manager it’s the only way we move forward.

1 hour ago, BordeauxBlue said:

We're back to where we were when Poch left.

We're actually worse than when Poch left

Cannot believe I am saying this, but I can see Gary O'Neil in our future. Really hope not but I wouldn't put it past this board...

If we had anything about us, we'd go all in for Enrique this summer. They will not do that, and we'll end up with some nobody with a "point to prove" again.

This Austrian/Saudi fella sounds like a classic "clever" move from our sporting directors, ...nip in under the radar, get him on the cheap, no brainer.....and surprise surprise .........he will turn out to be totally useless. 😂

Midas' brown touch will strike again !

Edited April 23Apr 23 by OTL
Matthias Jaissle

I’m not convinced by any of the names currently being suggested to be honest. They all seem abit meh or unproven.

And whoever gets the job is going to have to work miracles with this squad. There’s some good players but not enough to challenge the elite teams on a consistent basis.

Edited April 23Apr 23 by Caps_Lock_King

13 hours ago, Caps_Lock_King said:

BETTING FOR NEXT CHELSEA MANAGER

4/5 - SOOTY

2/1 - BASIL BRUSH

3/1 - PINOCCHIO

5/1 - KERMIT THE FROG

10/1 - ROLAND RAT

I’m going for basil brush.

Klopp brought heavy metal football.

Basil brings boom boom football.

1 hour ago, AlienX said:

Cannot believe I am saying this, but I can see Gary O'Neil in our future. Really hope not but I wouldn't put it past this board...

If we had anything about us, we'd go all in for Enrique this summer. They will not do that, and we'll end up with some nobody with a "point to prove" again.

Enrique would be amazing and once he’s put Arsenal to bed in the CL final he might think this is his time to go to the PL.

The thing is we won’t be the most appealing destination for him. Utd, possibly City and Liverpool might all be looking for managers. Maybe Arsenal too if they win nothing.

Just give the keys to Mcfarlane, he seems to know his stuff.. ‘checks notes’…. Mourinho & Tuchel are not elite. Duly noted.

38 minutes ago, 19seventyone said:

Enrique would be amazing and once he’s put Arsenal to bed in the CL final he might think this is his time to go to the PL.

The thing is we won’t be the most appealing destination for him. Utd, possibly City and Liverpool might all be looking for managers. Maybe Arsenal too if they win nothing.

The most appealing thing about Enrique is that he is so determined to succeed outside Guardiola's shadow, he's become the anti-Pep. If Guardiola and Xavi are the elder and younger siblings, Enrique is the middle child. Enrique is very much the forgotten son of Barcelona and even to this day there are many Barcelona fans who completely underrate the impact he had during his time there, instead ascribing more credit to Messi/Suarez/Neymar than they deserve and forgetting who built that platform. Guardiola's Barcelona faced some of the weakest Real Madrid teams and even though Mourinho raised the level considerably towards the end, it merely the foundation for Ancelotti/Zidane creating unquestionably the best Real Madrid team in history. Enrique beat that team to the league twice, and only missed out by 3 points in his last year, and not mention he had considerably harder opponents to deal with in the Champions League - peak Bayern, Dortmund, Real Madrid, PSG as well Atletico, City and ourselves not that far behind - whereas Pep's only real challenge was...us.

On the flipside, he's also a massive prick, as evidenced by what happened after the CWC final with Joao Pedro. Although arguably we could use a bit of that fight right now. A bit like Conte, it's a matter of time before he burns out and clashes with the hierarchy. Again, not necessarily a bad thing given who the 'hierarchy' is in this place.

5 hours ago, BordeauxBlue said:

We're back to where we were when Poch left.

losing 5 games in a row is very different to winning 5 games in a row

8 hours ago, bisright1 said:

People who complain about "boring football" don't mean defensive football. They mean sideways possession based passing.

Simeone doesn't play this. His football isn't boring.

exactly

8 hours ago, Sconnie Blue said:

You say Maresca is boring then at the same time say you want the king of haram ball 💀

8 hours ago, Sconnie Blue said:

Jim is always a performance over results kind of guy so I find it funny that he wants a manager that is a results over performance manager. 😂

I think I am misunderstood

I have no problem with defensive football. Jose Mk1 was regularly called out as being defensive. I am fine with that if it suits the players we have. What I do not want is for us to play possession football, at walking pace, knocking it around lazily between our cb's - particularly when it has been proven time and again that it doesnt suit our team or players.

I am not historically a performance over results person - but I have been clear, that I am willing to take short term pain on results, if we see clear evidence of an evolution (for the better) of how we play football. I have said this since Potter. Take this last run of 5 games. If we had of been really having a go, moving the ball fast, hustling and harrying at pace, industrious, creating and scoring, but happened to lose all 5 because of the lads making a mistake, or overcomitting going forward - then I would have been fine with both the loss and with Liam staying. But we were not. We have been going backwards - all season since the CWC. There was no positive evolution of how we play under Maresca or Liam (or poch before him).

Potter showed glimpses towards the end (Dortmund, Milan, Villa), Maresca showed a couple of glipses (PSG, Barca), and Liam had 1 game where we looked good (Villa). But these are too inconsistent to be called progress.

I think it is clear what is needed to galvanise the group if, indeed, that is the goal.

Saying that an experienced, respected coach is wanted by the club to manage the dressing room egos, is just meaningless soundbites from the clubs hierarchy.

The strategy implemented by our SDs is so miscalculated and error strewn that we have flown through 5 manages in four years, seen results and performances plummet and caused a virtual mutiny in the dressing room. Yet no accountability.

We do need a name that commands respect but that can only happen in an environment that the individual would be willing to work.

Xabi Alonso, for example, has been mentioned and regardless of the Liverpool links, could be a good appointment. But for that to have any real prospect of occurring the club need to bomb the current SDs, poach Simon Rolfes, set clear rules of etiquette regarding dressing room access, input and collaboration regarding player health and fitness schedules and let the managing work closely with the single SD and to complete managerial control of footballing matters.

I think that could be successful and could help to retain to nucleus of a decent side from this group of players. They then need to be coached to run, relentlessly and inject passion and intensity.

We have more chance of locating Hitler's other ball than this occurring, unfortunately

17 hours ago, loz said:

Simeone all day for me. None of the names mentioned above are ones I would be confident would drag our bang average squad into a team that at least looks cohesive albeit short on technical ability

I want Simeone just so he can come in and be an absolute c**t to every single little sh*thouse player we have, treat them like the pathetic little children they are and scare the living sh*t out of them.

13 hours ago, BordeauxBlue said:

For the record, Maresca is a better coach than most of the candidates linked.

Absolute bo**ocks.

7 minutes ago, dkw said:

I want Simeone just so he can come in and be an absolute c**t to every single little sh*thouse player we have, treat them like the pathetic little children they are and scare the living sh*t out of them.

We are dreaming of simeone and Enrique, I think we should all be prepared to be underwhelmed at best, at worse f**king fuming.

Some of the names being mentioned hardly say ‘watch out city’ do they.

If they try and be clever again we are screwed, they could easily afford a top manager without all the pay offs of bad ones.