Chelsea Thread

If Mourinho really needs to catch up and fix his coaching career, he has to :

1- admit that he is outdated, and his tactics are sterile and he needs to learn something new.
2- then, take a lesser team, re-explore himself there, do experiments with no hype and pressure, learn football again, think again about his principles, football coaching is a continuous learning process.

Mourinho problem is exactly like Real Madrid, he thinks he's the TOP and special so he doesn't need knowledge and building, that way he won't accept teams "smaller" than him (same way RM under Perez think they are the TOP and only the best proven players should come).

look at Guardiola, he's experimenting and trying something new with Bayern, despite him also taking TOP teams, at least he's learning and exploring, OK his players are superstars which really helps his tactics, but he's doing something.

Mourinho is stubborn, he won't admit that he's wrong, instead he blames referees, his players, Eva, weather, etc ...



all that said, I admit that his years with Madrid were successful, and his policies were mainly good, with him, no big transfers, only the right players in the right place, that way we've seen the rise of Ozil, Khedira, Di Maria, Callejon, etc ... the sum of their transfers is less than Bale.
he also was very good in discipline, that's why some players conspired against him with the media.
 
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This experience could be great for Jose. I'm sure he'll become more ruthless with his players in the sense Ferguson was whilst at his best, if he notices your attitude/hunger/level begin to dip only slightly you're out the door. This would make him a more longer term manager than a 3 year cycle manager. Having witnessed the catastrophic collapse of his Chelsea players he will now know the signs.

It's also given him a much needed dose of humble pie. Something I think hee has realised in the last month. His post match interviews have been much more dignified and, of course, less fictional.

If I was Roman I would not even be discussing Jose's future. I would be discussing with Jose which players need binning. The first out would be Costa
 
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Godotelli said:
This experience could be great for Jose. I'm sure he'll become more ruthless with his players in the sense Ferguson was whilst at his best, if he notices your attitude/hunger/level begin to dip only slightly you're out the door. This would make him a more longer term manager than a 3 year cycle manager. Having witnessed the catastrophic collapse of his Chelsea players he will now know the signs.

It's also given him a much needed dose of humble pie. Something I think hee has realised in the last month. His post match interviews have been much more dignified and, of course, less fictional.

If I was Roman I would not even be discussing Jose's future. I would be discussing with Jose which players need binning. The first out would be Costa
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first maybe Chelsea should not buy every talented young player just to prevent their rivals to get them...like Salah etc...

their sold many players who never got real chance in their club, like KDB, van Ginkel...maybe on loan, Schurle etc...
 
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Mou to Mutd or Swansea,

This might be Chelsea's turn around like when, Sp*rs did to Juande Ramos . Chelsea will start banging goals for fun and climb the table.
 
He won't be in the dugout anymore but still has legal issues and a court 'date' with Eva! lol

That was the beginning of his downfall. Blamed everything and everyone from the referees, to the physio, to weather, to eventually players but his own coaching and weaknesses!

He'll be better off for it in the long run and will have learned a few very important lessons from this stint! He had gotten so arrogant that he was going around picking fights with some managers just to wind them up like calling Wenger a 'specialist in failure'. Got too big for his own shoes and had to fall hard to realize his wrong ways.
 
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He won't be in the dugout anymore but still has legal issues and a court 'date' with Eva! lol

That was the beginning of his downfall. Blamed everything and everyone from the referees, to the physio, to weather, to eventually players but his own coaching and weaknesses!

He'll be better off for it in the long run and will have learned a few very important lessons from this stint! He had gotten so arrogant that he was going around picking fights with some managers just to wind them up like calling Wenger a 'specialist in failure'. Got too big for his own shoes and had to fall hard to realize his wrong ways.
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The main problem of him is that he can't deal with losing matches. He kinda had been lucky before and when things didn't go on his way, he didn't know how to deal with it. It was the best for him to leave Chelsea and wish him best of luck.
 
Mourinho has been a dead man walking since the summer. If you trace these blogs back you'll see that I've referred to that on more than one occasion. The players got him out. Simple. Not all of them, but enough of them.

I really don't think he cares either. In fact, I'd go so far as to say he's been trying to talk himself out of Chelsea for quite some time. He knew he'd lost some big players. He knew it was time to go.

Never mind that there was the 4-year contract signed after last season's title win. It was only ever worth 6 months compensation. Again, as I mentioned recently, these contracts aren't worth the paper they're written on. Football clubs, like big companies, will fire someone, then let the attack dogs loose. They won't pay what your deal is worth, they bully and frighten an individual into a settlement. They'll often just pay until the manager/coach gets a new job, 'mitigating' his loss. The last time Chelsea had Mourinho out of work for 9 months. I don't believe they'll stop him returning to work like that again.

Monday evening was generally regarded as 'breaking point'. I've always said of Mourinho's post match interviews, don't listen to what he's saying, work out what he's trying to say. Monday was different. He had the scalpel out. It was an honest assessment of what he believed was happening and in delivering it, he cut more than one or two of his players to pieces. He had been betrayed, he said. What we didn't know until Belgian journalist Kristof Terreur told me and Andy on beIN Sports, was that Mourinho had accused his players of this crime BEFORE the game. (Kristof is close to a couple of Chelsea's starting X1. You work it out!) Perhaps that's why Eden Hazard didn't fancy the game too much and left it as quickly as he could? Anyway, Mourinho knew it was the end and he clinically put, what he saw as the guilty parties, to the knife.

That's not to say that the fall out between manager and players was a one-way street. We can only imagine what it's been like at the Cobham training base this season - or hazard a guess by piecing things together quietly asking those who've been there! Mourinho changed this season. He saw demons where there weren't any. He wanted fights that were unnecessary - no change there you might think, but I can't help recalling one incident in particular. It was after the Liverpool defeat, when he took his entire coaching staff onto the pitch. Why I wondered? I'll tell you. It turned out that Mourinho thought his office was bugged! He also thought the training ground was bugged. He wanted to discuss things with his staff and he believed the centre of the pitch was the only place to go that was safe. I suspect he knew we'd wonder why. I also suspect he wasn't too bothered about us finding out! So does that make him paranoid? Or did he have a case? I can't answer the second of those questions yet.

So what next? He'll have success all over again somewhere else. Ramon Calderon the X- President of Real Madrid, told us at beIN Sports months ago that he was destined for The Bernabeau again. I'm told Jorge Mendes, 'super-agent' has been working on a deal for some time. Does that make Mourinho as duplicitous as his players? Let's wait and see what happens, but there were previously three stumbling blocks as to why it couldn't happen - Iker Casillas who's gone. Ronaldo, who will go at the end of the season and Sergio Ramos, who was supposed to go last summer - to United. Interesting eh?

And what of Mourinho's replacement at Chelsea? Guus Hiddink is most likely (not confirmed as I write), but I'm not convinced he's a good choice. I'll tell you a story that might worry Chelsea fans. Hiddink is a laid back fire fighter - in, fix, move on. He doesn't want permanency. Last time at The Bridge he had a squad that could look after itself - and he let it. Lampard, Terry, Drogba, Cole, big characters. HIddink could afford to be relaxed. He was one Saturday morning before a home game, sitting on his hotel balcony in the sunshine, when he was called by a member of staff. 'What's the team today Guus?' Was the question. 'Who are we playing?' Was the reply. When he was told he followed up with this 'It doesn't matter. We're better than them. We'll win'. Confident or arrogant? Neither really, he just knew he could rely on the big boys to get a result. I don't believe he can now. He's going to have to work at it.

Perhaps that's why the first call this week was to Juande Ramos. His agent was in London Thursday and Friday trying to thrash out a deal. The stumbling block was that Ramos wanted a year on the short term deal Chelsea were offering. Why Ramos? Simple. Michael Emenalo, Abramovic's trusted lieutenant, knows him well.

Ramos tried to take Emenalo to Spurs when he was there. He played for Ramos at Lleida. They go back a long way. Emenalo would've preferred Ramos, so how will he get on who Hiddink this time? Perhaps it won't matter. Perhaps Emanalo won't be around for much longer?

It's now nine coaches/managers at Stamford Bridge in the last decade. During that time they've won everything, so who says stability matters?

A constant during most of that time has been Emanalo. The feeling is he and Mourinho didn't see eye to eye. What I do know is this - Emanalo was bang out of order referring to Mourinho, the most successful manager in Chelsea's history, as 'the individual' when he spoke to Chelsea tv about him. How dare he? That, for me, summed it all up. The 'individual' is better off out of it.

One last thing. We've now lost three of last season's top eight coaches - Mourinho, Rodgers and Monk. Amazing. Who could've imagined that in July? The current favourite to go next is LVG. Pellegrini will go next summer. This season football really has been turned on its head.
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From Richard Keys, who seems to have got quite a few things right recently
 
Mehtab said:
That was so horrible to watch as a Chelsea fan. How did we became so shit?
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I hope Chelsea can start taking points off the clubs near the top. I was hoping Chelsea get relegated ,but had a change of heart :))
 
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