Chelsea Thread - 2022/23 | Pochettino confirmed as new manager

[Cellarite]

Chelsea will always attract top managers. We have been chopping and changing managers for 20 years. This isn't new. Managers still fall over themselves for a chance to manage Chelsea, unless his name is Pep.

It's obviously not Chelsea because there's something uniquely special about Chelsea that is the reason for this - it's because we are apart of a small group of a clubs at the top of European football who can offer talented players, spending money in the window and a reasonable chance to win trophies plus they get a huge pay off if it doesn't work out.

As long as that remains true, most top managers will be interested in coming to Chelsea. Nagelsmann for example, would be in high demand if he waits until the summer when the PSG and Real Madrid jobs become available, but he's currently putting a lot of effort into convincing Chelsea to pick him.

I completely agree with everything you have typed.

 

[aguero93:20]

Chelsea will always attract top managers. We have been chopping and changing managers for 20 years. This isn't new. Managers still fall over themselves for a chance to manage Chelsea,

3 months work and a paid holiday for the rest of their multi year contract, who wouldn't?

 

[Vialli98]

3 months work and a paid holiday for the rest of their multi year contract, who wouldn't?

Pep wouldn't. He was interested in coming here, was in touch with Marina and Abramovich during his sabbatical year but then saw how we gave a 4 year deal to RDM after winning the CL and then sacked him 4 months later and changed his mind and joined Bayern instead.

 

[aguero93:20]

Pep wouldn't. He was interested in coming here, was in touch with Marina and Abramovich during his sabbatical year but then saw how we gave a 4 year deal to RDM after winning the CL and then sacked him 4 months later and changed his mind and joined Bayern instead.

Bar Guardiola. Firstly he's insane and secondly he quite literally had and has his pick of world clubs.

 

[Machiavelli]

Pep wouldn't. He was interested in coming here, was in touch with Marina and Abramovich during his sabbatical year but then saw how we gave a 4 year deal to RDM after winning the CL and then sacked him 4 months later and changed his mind and joined Bayern instead.

Really? Any proof of this?

 

[Vialli98]

Really? Any proof of this?

When Chelsea courted Guardiola and what would have happened had he joined?

Roman Abramovich courted Pep Guardiola for years. He didn't ever get his man, but what might Chelsea under him have looked like?

theathletic.com

Pep Guardiola will keep Chelsea waiting and may not come at all | Sid Lowe

Sid Lowe: Far from drawing the former Barcelona manager closer to Stamford Bridge, Roberto Di Matteo's sacking may have pushed Roman Abramovich's first choice further away

www.theguardian.com

 

[halfcenturyup]

Really? Any proof of this?

That's what I was thinking. My feeling is that he was lined up for City after Mancini but didn't want to come in after the 2012/3 shitshow so gave everyone 3 years to sort it out and off to Bayern he went. He wasn't learning English in America for fun. Of course, he could have been talking to Chelsea, why not? He was talking to Ferguson too, but he was only going to one club when the time was right imo.

 

[blueinsa]

Pep wouldn't. He was interested in coming here, was in touch with Marina and Abramovich during his sabbatical year but then saw how we gave a 4 year deal to RDM after winning the CL and then sacked him 4 months later and changed his mind and joined Bayern instead.

Mate the day Soriano and Txiki arrived was the day Pep coming to City was sealed.

Anything else is rumour and paper talk.

 

[Machiavelli]

Mate the day Soriano and Txiki arrived was the day Pep coming to City was sealed.

Anything else is rumour and paper talk.

This.

 

[Vialli98]

Mate the day Soriano and Txiki arrived was the day Pep coming to City was sealed.

Anything else is rumour and paper talk.

Maybe but Chelsea had been talking to him for years before that. We tried to get him to replace Ancelotti too. It’s clear the hiring and firing culture at Chelsea didn’t appeal to him.