roberto de matteo sacked

[gordondaviesmoustache]

Should I take it from this you think Roman's done the wrong thing in sacking RDM now ?

Probably not, but isn't the point that his haphazard and ill considered approach to running his football club lead to Di Matteo's appointment in the first place?

I don't find his approach ill considered at all. It's very simple. He wants to win, and a manager who doesn't deliver gets the arse. Contrary to the prevailing discourse, Chelsea's trophy haul since Roman bought the club is second to none. So sacking managers has done him no harm on the field so far.

On the face of it your argument certainly holds water and I'm certainly not of the view that managers should be 'given more' time as a matter of course, as many so called experts seem to believe, but I think Chelsea had an opportunity to build a force within the English game which could have cast a shadow over the rest of the league for a decade and beyond, especially with united's current financial restrictions. They have certainly failed in that regard, as their league performance in the last few seasons bears out.

It remains to be seen what the state of play will be in a few years, but I suspect you may change your view when it is us, not Chelsea, that have built an enduring legacy based on a long term vision rather than a series of reactive and short term impulses.

 

[cleavers]

Re: sacked

10 mangers in 7 years

But how many titles did they win since Roman take over ?

Clearly not enough.

 

[Goo]

TS reporting that a journalist called Jason Burke reckons Abramovic is personally talking to Guardiola.

He's been trying to talk him down since he left Barca

It's so obvious that the only reason Di Matteo got the job is because they couldn't secure Guardiola in the summer. The decision whether they were going to appoint RDM took so long it was getting embarrassing and their hand was forced to say yes, I suspect against what they would have ideally wanted.

I have been wondering for a while now that the search for a new manager has continued even after they appointed RDM, and it sounds like they've had an unofficial "yes" from someone and taken this recent run of losses as an excuse to ditch a club legend.

Once again a terrible decision by Roman in my opinion. I wonder how many more trophies they would have won if they'd just stuck with one of the top managers they had in the past. It would be a lot more than now I can tell you that for sure. Just hope that our owners are looking over and using this as a "what not to do" guide to winning long term success!

 

[Andouble]

I'd love for them to appoint 'Arry

 

[Pearcey]

The King Is Dead!

Long Live The King!

The only reason I can think anyone still even thinks about taking the Chelsea job it's a guaranteed mega bucks payout when the sack hammer eventually comes down.

Crazy. Although I did think RDM was totally out of his depth.

 

[levets]

Be thankful for Sheikh Mansour lads, if Roman was our owner we probably wouldn't of won the title last year simply because he would have sacked Mancini after Arsenal Away

Yeah Chelsea haven't won anything since he brought them

Brought them what/where?

 

[andyblue87]

Former Liverpool manager Rafael Benitez responds to Roberto Di Matteo's Chelsea exit, and tells Sport 360 website: "I have just found out (about Di Matteo). Obviously Chelsea is a top side and they can compete for trophies so it goes in this category."

The former Liverpool boss is currently in Abu Dhabi where he works as a pundit. The website says he is due to fly to the UK tonight.

Bentitez adds: "In football a lot of people are talking so we will see what happens in the next few days. I am looking for a club that can challenge for trophies and Chelsea is one of these clubs."

A good mate of mine did that interview with Rafa. He's a former Everton journo who wrote a less than complimentary piece on City for Everton's website last year.

 

[TCIB]

I'd love for them to appoint 'Arry

They will never av ad it so good.

 

[troadie]

Should I take it from this you think Roman's done the wrong thing in sacking RDM now ?

Probably not, but isn't the point that his haphazard and ill considered approach to running his football club lead to Di Matteo's appointment in the first place?

I don't find his approach ill considered at all. It's very simple. He wants to win, and a manager who doesn't deliver gets the arse. Contrary to the prevailing discourse, Chelsea's trophy haul since Roman bought the club is second to none. So sacking managers has done him no harm on the field so far.

It seems managers who do deliver get the chop as well, Di Matteo delivered him his holy grail and didn't Ancelotti win the double before getting the chop? The guy seems such a megalomaniac that he doesn't just want to win but he wants them to win by playing a certain style of football as well.

There has been a who's who of the worlds best managers gone through the revolving door at Chelsea, whats's he going to do when he's been through them all, or none of them want to come and work for a fucking lunatic.

 

[taconinja]

Re: sacked

10 mangers in 7 years

But how many titles did they win since Roman take over ?

Let's be fair. He hired Mourinho who completed a wonderful squad and drilled them in both a winning mentality and winning ways. Ever since Mourinho, they've relied on that squad more than the managers making the managers somewhat disposable. Now that squad is mostly gone or shadows of themselves, so it's a different situation. Thing is that if the owner had left Mourinho alone they likely would have won more trophies than they did. Too many fans think everything is an action film where there's one decisive moment that makes everything happen when over a decade, it's death by a million cuts. Chelsea is where it is because of the owner's decisions. They have a lot of trophies, but they also have a porous back line with a hideously unbalanced midfield incapable of protecting that back line and one of the biggest busts in transfer history leading their attack. They have a lot of good building blocks but they're all concentrated in the attacking midfield at the moment.