I would like to know what everyones favourite top 5 Chelsea managers are ?

Use whatever criteria you like, success at the club, personallity, length of service, certain matches theyv'e managed or any other reasons.

My personal fav 5.....

1. Jose Mourinho.

2. Gianluca Vialli.

3. John Neal.

4. Claudio Ranieri.

5. Ruud Gullit.

If I restrict it to the managers that have managed the club whilst I have been alive then I would go with

1. Ruud Gullit

2. Eddie Mac (although I was too young to actually follow Chelsea so I am basing it on knowledge attained retrospectively

3. John Neal

4. Luca Vialli

5. Jose Mourinho

1. Jose Mourinho.

2. Ted Drake

3. Ruud Gullit

4. Luca Vialli

5. Eddie McCreadie

Chelsea hasn't even had five managers while I've been a fan, but here they are in order of preference:

1) Mourinho

2) Vialli

3) Ranieri

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5) Grant

I wanted to put Steve Clarke on my list, can we put him down for best manager we never had ? Beating Brian Clough into 2nd place.

1. Mourinho

2.Gullit

3.Vialli

4.Hoddle

5.Neal

= Last

Hurst

Blanchflower

Porterfield

Grant

Hollins

I'm having trouble even thinking of 5 managers. Shame on me

1. Mourinho

2. Gullit

3. Vialli

4. Ranieri (not great but I liked him)

5. ???

Last place: Grant

1. Gullit

2. Jose

3. Neal

4. Vialli

5. McCreadie/Hoddle

1. Ruud Gullit

2. Eddie Macreadie

3. John Neal

4. Jose Mourinho

5. Vialli/Hoddle

Left a space between Eddie and John in case Avi Excels himself and wins something big this season, that would be a feat after whats happened here and purely on his quiet dignified demeanour he would jump up my Favourites list

Gullit because I just liked his style, would love to have him back one day,

Eddie because he could have made us great even back then,

JN because he brought in some great players and was just really good,

Jose because he helped really put us on the map as one of the best in Europe,

Vialli because I really liked the bloke, Hoddle because he started a change in our style that kicked it all off this time around,

21. Dave Sexton made some horrible decisions but won us the F.A. Cup which has always been one of my best Chelsea memories,

If we win the CL i will put Avram top of the list, Holy Grail n all that !

In no particular order:

Eddie Mac - put together a great bunch of youngsters

Jose - claimed two premiership titles when I was firmly of the belief I would never even see one in my lifetime

Ruud - for the ultimate sexy football

Luca - for continuing an element of that sexy football

Tommy Doc - for winning our first 'major' trophy in my lifetime and bringing together the foundations of the great team of the 70's

1. The SPECIAL ONE

And then waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay off in the distance:

2. Luca

3. Claudio

4. Hoddle

5. Gullit

Jose

McCredie

Vialli

Rudd

Hoddle

Dave Sexton would be bubbling under just because he won us the FA Cup and ECWC but he can piss off because he sold Ossgood and Hudson.

Only ever seen 6 managers aat Chelsea, and one of them was Grant.

so the 5 i have seen, in chronological order:

Hoddle, Ruud, Vialli, Ranieri, Jose

Top of that list would have to be Jose, then Ruud for bringing us the first silverware I ever saw Chelsea lift....could have been different in 94. Then Vialli for bringing us European success. Then a coin flip between the other two. Hoddle for bringing Ruud, and Vialli for almost winning us the CL but getting us there consistantly and being a great bloke. but his tinkering drove me mad!

If we are talking solely favourite managers then .....

Jose (the bizz)

Ranieri (a true gent)

Vialli (Success)

Sexton (too young to understand the politics)

The Doc (my first manager)

1. Ranieri

2. Mourinho

3. Vialli

4. Hoddle

5. Gullit/Grant

Steve Clarke would probably come in first or second, if he could <3

I have only seen five managers managing Chelsea so here they are in order:

Jose Mourinho

Gianluca Vialli

Ruud Gullit

Claudio Ranieri

Avram Grant.

In my eyes:

1. The Doc

2. Eddie Mac

3. Ruud

4. Luca

5. JM

1. Avram Grant

2. Avram Grant

3. Avram Grant

4. Avram Grant

5. Jose Mourinho

just kidding......