Surely the sensible move would be to start in the summer. I can't see any possible merit in him taking over during this season
Mauricio Amadaeus Pochettino | Chelsea sack watch
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Surely the sensible move would be to start in the summer. I can't see any possible merit in him taking over during this season
The only thing that has been reported so far is he would be asked for input on transfers and who in the squad suits his style. He will take over the team after the season ends.
I know you don't but you are wrong.
It would be crazy to start him this season. Have a couple more bad results and people will be talking about replacing next seasons coach before the season even begins. So having said that, I fully expect chelsea to start him now, because they can't seem to do anything right.
They think they have
It would have made more sense to appoint him before the Real game. I have no idea why they didn't pull their finger out and fannied around with Frank. Even if Poch was reluctant to start mid season, get out there, put a contract in front of the fecker and say this is his chance.
It would have been a good chance to learn about the players in that tie. Yes they'd still lose but it could have been valuable information. Now he's going to have shit loads to do in the summer. He won't get to see much of the players before having to do some major rejigs in the market.
It would have been a good chance to learn about the players in that tie. Yes they'd still lose but it could have been valuable information. Now he's going to have shit loads to do in the summer. He won't get to see much of the players before having to do some major rejigs in the market.
Watch now Chelsea go all out for kane in summer now with Poch in. Would he make that move, Kane?
Throw stupid money at spurs for him.
Throw stupid money at spurs for him.
Poch will make them solid, albeit not spectacular. Definitely safer than say, Nagelsmann.
Why hired Lampard though. Poch is available from the get go.
Why hired Lampard though. Poch is available from the get go.
Levy would even prefer to sell to us over Chelsea. Spurs fans would actually riot if he even entertained them
I think he'll do well for them. Good coach, charismatic too.
Wait a minute, you’re not Amadeus?!
I don't exactly rate Pochettino to be a top manager so can't say I'm too happy about this, though obviously I'm going to have to give him a chance to see what he's made of so I'll try to keep an open mind.
At the very least his record of working with young players is decent so the hope is he'll be able to develop some of them a bit further and just generally have a calming effect on the whole club following all the chaos of the last year or so but I don't believe for a second he's going to be a manager to bring us any trophies. Be very happy to be proven wrong though.
At the very least his record of working with young players is decent so the hope is he'll be able to develop some of them a bit further and just generally have a calming effect on the whole club following all the chaos of the last year or so but I don't believe for a second he's going to be a manager to bring us any trophies. Be very happy to be proven wrong though.
Well he waited long enough but is finally getting a big job in London (where his family was/is settled).
Can’t wait to read pages after pages from @Amadaeus about how the Chelsea squad is letting Poch down, etc.
Can’t wait to read pages after pages from @Amadaeus about how the Chelsea squad is letting Poch down, etc.
For all the links with us (I didn't want him), it will be fascinating to see if he can handle a similar job after all.
No poetry corner on the Caf?
I did think that after I posted haha. There's no excuse for any manager to say the squad doesn't have good talents.
Yeah. Modric handed a transfer request in and begged to join us, yet went to Madrid a season later, if I remember correctly, on worse financial terms. Kane could refuse to play and this still would not happen, would be a waste of time even considering any deal.
So basically the PSG job except this team is nowhere near good enough to win the league by default. Sounds lovely...
I'd rather Frank to do well enough job that James becomes the new manager, making Lampard the only OBE who has ever been in the same full time managerial job twice.
With the size of squad they have, it’s really hard to count them out for challenging top 4 again next season. They just need a proper manager, and I think Poch could at least get them to top 5 or 6 next season.To be fair if Boehly went down into the dugout he would probably do better than Lampard
Poch will do okay with them, but I don't think they'll challenge for higher than 3rd or 4th under him.
I doubt Kane would even consider joining another London club. He's smart enough to realise it would ruin the legacy he's built for himself at the club, and Spurs fans would never forgive him. Plus Levy would be lynched if he allowed it.
He'll go up north or abroad if anywhere.
There’s a danger he struggles to control the dressing room. Lots of egos similar to PSG and a batshit owner.
Chelsea is a circus right now that any manager will probably feck up in
Surely Todd is daft enough to put him in charge before the season ends?
Klarna FC will probably split his contract over 15 years.
Oh I have no doubt that they will. The problem is that that’s where I see Poch’s ceiling to be. Challenging top 4. He’s not shown me anything that makes me think he has what it takes to push a team that final step from top 4 to title winners.
I think kane signing for another london club would ruin his legacy at spurs more than if he signed for united.
I think we are a couple of years off anything remotely like a 1st place challenge. As poor as the decision making has been from the club it is all pointed towards long term gain, short term pain. Though it’s clear that the short term pain wasn’t supposed to be this miserable.
Even potentially having Poch as manager would also fit well within this line of thinking since he has a history of working well with young players, especially when he was at Southampton. It’s been reported he has supposedly requested the club focus on local talent rather than global talent if he is appointed.
While I’m not excited by having him as manager, he is at least a safe option. Particularly looking at where we are as a club right now. It’s absolute paramount that we don’t feck up this decision as it could ruin us further.
Don't really see it as laughable as some people do. He might not be able to win top honours but he's capable of getting them challenging for top 4 if the players pull their finger out. I don't see it ending in a Potter-like disaster either, in his previous jobs it's not really like he's been a total disaster in his sacking seasons, just kind of not met the expectations slightly in those years. A reasonable appointment.
I assume this isn’t dissimilar to his last gig. Unaccountable owners, stupid spending on players he doesn’t need who are foisted on him, a collection of egos all thrown together and playing for themselves, a hot mess of a club. I suspect he could bring back some order and discipline and get them back challenging for the top 4 but that’ll be the extent of his achievements.
He’ll be good but not a league winning manager. Should stabilise them a bit in the top 4 race next season.
Yep, that's my fear with Poch too. A decent manager for sure, but simply not good enough to make that final step from challenging for the European spots to a serious league title push.
Though I doubt we'd be in a title race next season no matter who the manager was so maybe in the short term (1-2 years) having Poch working to improve some of our young players before binning him for a proven title winning manager is not such a bad idea after all.
The big squad is the main problem, with the composition it has now. He must be allowed to trim the fat and replace with players that make up a balanced squad, otherwise they will have the same problems as this season. Problem will come when people start lowballing them for players, because they know they will have to sell to buy, and they won't want some of the overpriced chaff that they currently have. It's going to be an extremely tricky window to manage.
If they bring in the necessary 4-5 players to challenge without shifting 10+ players they will end up with a disharmonious, bloated squad that will be a nightmare to manage. Team spirit will be in the toilet before the season even gets going.
If they bring in the necessary 4-5 players to challenge without shifting 10+ players they will end up with a disharmonious, bloated squad that will be a nightmare to manage. Team spirit will be in the toilet before the season even gets going.
It's greatKlarna FC ffs
Nicking thatremember that well. Refused to go on pre season tour too, and gave public interviews demanding to join us.
Bohely really is easily charmed isn’t he?
Unless Pochettino has learned a shit load at PSG and is going to be allowed at least two seasons to sort Chelsea out then this will be pretty shit all round.
Unless Pochettino has learned a shit load at PSG and is going to be allowed at least two seasons to sort Chelsea out then this will be pretty shit all round.
It depends what Pochettino they're getting. The one who took Spurs to 2nd and 3rd in the league was a good manager but he hasn't reproduced that level for a good 4 or 5 years. That's a long time in football.
It still feels strange seeing Chelsea go for these 'nearly' types of managers like Potter and Pochettino. Neither are bad coaches in isolation but it's so far removed from the cut-throat, win at all costs mantra they've perpetuated for the last 20 years during the Abramovich era.
They might as well have stuck with Potter as hire Pochettino. They’ve essentially hired a guy who took a step up that was too much for him and got sacked, which applies to both of them now.
Starting right away seems like a disaster. He could be a failure before the seasons over. What a shitshow chelsea is.
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