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Pochettino | Agrees to be US National Team Coach
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Hearing it's a done deal with De Zerbi.
Almost every manager in the world.
I wouldn't be so sure.
Third time lucky Lampard
I am sure. People have been saying "what manager would want to go there" since about 1997 and it's never really been an issue.
Prospective candidates know they'll get paid a shitload and if it goes tits up, they get paid off and nobody really thinks any worse of them because it's such a madhouse of a job.
You have a nervous breakdown it seems. Think again when you come back to your senses.
He'll have seen how much wonga Potter made from the same move for a-few months work.
Palace better make their move for Steve Cooper asap.
Just Terry alone will do, at least there is some mystery as to how it goes. He could be an Ole or a Pep and could get the whole club believing again. If he stinks the place out then you will have it out of your system in a season where there is nothing worse that could happen and little to fight for. It's an open cheque
It’s a good job Aberdeen have practically got the Neill Warnock deal done.
How can Chelsea afford to fire him? They'd have to pay him and his staff for the rest of their contracts. No Prem team is going to buy their players off them before the end of June, as they know it's better to knock Chelsea out of European contention for next year, which will happen with a 10 point fine. It will cost a hell of a lot of money to fire him and the best they could expect from a new coach is about 8th next season. Poch is a perfectly decent coach, they might as well let him coach their mid table club, as opposed to anyone else. You could have a management team of SAF, Wenger, Klopp and Guardiola and Chelsea are still finishing nowhere of consequence this or next season.
Get Dennis Wise in please.
Sage decision
Where’s our forum legend Amedeus during this
Potter had valid excuses for why things were difficult. Taking over with the season started and having no input in how the squad and recruitment was being done. He really should have been given more time
As for Pochetino, he frankly has none. Unlike Potter he was allowed to shape the squad as he saw fit all summer. The claim his squad is inexperienced isn't a good enough excuse for how poor they haver been. Especially defensively where most of their experience is.
When you get to the stage where you start to feel nothing when you lose something is seriously wrong. I'm surprised he hasn't got much stick from our fans yet, as bad as it got under Potter it was still better than this.
Its probably a similar case than it is with us. After a while you realise chasing and changing the manager is a sticking plaster over the real problem of ownership and cluelessness over the running of the club,
I quite like Rory Jennings but he isn't half prone to hyperbole.
Has he done his pressers yet or what?
I am so glad we don't have him as our manager.
What makes them think he's worth £50M then?
After United & Arsenal both got their fingers burnt on Chelsea shite, who's going to give them decent money for anyone now?
That 50m valuation was insane.
Exactly
Where's Amadeus these days?
Don't care about him one way or the other, but I feel he's peaked since that UCL Season with Spurs and has just coasted in the PSG job and this. Nothing about this Chelsea team screams Poch's Soton/early Spurs teams. Never a good sign when a manager is not able to bring their 'philosophy' to a football club. I think he's become less and less the impressive tactical manager many thought he would be and more an Ancelloti-type man manager, unfortunately (for them) a shit one too.
Don't care about him one way or the other, but I feel he's peaked since that UCL Season with Spurs and has just coasted in the PSG job and this. Nothing about this Chelsea team screams Poch's Soton/early Spurs teams. Never a good sign when a manager is not able to bring their 'philosophy' to a football club. I think he's become less and less the impressive tactical manager many thought he would be and more an Ancelloti-type man manager, unfortunately (for them) a shit one too.
Xavi to Chelsea would be a fun one. We could have Xavi, Arteta, Pep, and Xabi Alonso next season.
Bloody hell, I didn't vote for Brexit for this! Can't we clone Allardyce 3 times instead?
We've got sporting directors and a private equity business strategy deciding our signings. Little if anything to do with the manager.
Poch isn't the problem, really poor signings and a lack of experience in the squad are. Will be a long road back given ffp and probable lack of Europe money.
Poch isn't the problem, really poor signings and a lack of experience in the squad are. Will be a long road back given ffp and probable lack of Europe money.
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I swear a week ago he didn’t have that facial hair. He’s gone Ian Beale.
"I've got nothing left"
He's desperately trying to get internet signal from a mountain range in India.
Correct, it’s incredible how much has been spent and yet, the squad is so unbelievably average. I don’t see how they improve from here.
agreed. i don’t want are top teams all playing tiki tapas football. lymp it up to the big man and feed off the scraps.
Because they were delusional? Certainly it's obvious that he was never worth that given the types of offers that came in and what ultimately was accepted.
Poch insisting on playing a 4-3-3 that is dependent on the fullbacks to get into attack thus leaving 80 year old Thiago Silva exposed is criminal management - especially since the only reason for doing so is seemingly to get Gallagher into the side.
The fact that Maatsen got no minutes at his actual position and instead was used at RW whilst the likes of Badiashile and Disasi were used as attacking fullbacks is mind-bogglingly idiotic. And on top of it Maatsen has of course been excellent at Dortmund instantaneously when utilised properly.
Obviously this isn't 100% on Poch but his approach has been extremely fecking stupid, to say the least.