Roman wields axe on AVB

[Raiders]

I doubt Guardiola will go to Chelsea no matter how much Chelsea pays him. He could have all the money he wanted at Barca by commiting to long term contracts but he chose to stay on short contracts. Money is no motivation to people who are already loaded with them. Personal satisfaction is. At Barca, he had the support of the board. he runs the team the way SAF runs Man Utd. Look at Ibrahinovic. That guy tried to fuck around with him and he had him frozen, made him felt like a loser and had him shipped out of Barca without anyone in the board or team protesting. That is pure SAF style. He would be smart not to go to Chelsea whereby the owner has a short patience and there is a a first team full of politicians waiting with their guns.

I would say that Guardiola will go to Man City or Man Utd should he chose to leave Barca. Dont be surprise to see "The Special One" returning at the end of the season.

 

[David Luiz]

Chelsea's problems won't go away until football's most influential dressing room is disbanded

The Blues will never return to the top of English football as long as their owner fails to challenge the unhealthy level of influence senior players wield in the dressing room

Mar 4, 2012 5:46:00 PM

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By Wayne Veysey | Chief Correspondent

The default response of Roman Abramovich to an indifferent series of results is always to reach for the red button and eject another manager.

Like a Bond villain, his fingers get itchy and he can’t help himself from removing the most obvious obstacle to improved circumstances for Chelsea, his fiefdom for the last nine years.

While Andre Villas-Boas has not received the same tidal wave of sympathy that followed the dismissal of his double-winning predecessor Carlo Ancelotti on the final day of last season, there is no shame for the Portuguese in becoming, after Claudio Ranieri, Jose Mourinho, Avram Grant, Luiz Felipe Scolari and Ancelotti, the sixth casualty of Roman’s empire.

The Portuguese has made mistakes and his dictatorial approach has not gone down well with players used to being more influential than is healthy for any group of players at a marquee club.

But his time will come again. He is too young, ambitious and analytical not to be a managerial success at another club. For now, we will miss his exotic football terminology, mangling of adjectives and touchline gymnastics, if not his strangely sterile team.

Frankly, the side he put together was not up to much. To be languishing three points behind fourth place after more than two-thirds of the season and teetering on the brink of elimination from the Champions League borders on a dereliction of duty.

For Abramovich, the hoy grail has always been the Champions League. And not just participation, either. That is the minimum objective. Abramovich wants a Barcelona-style dynasty - season after season of rubbing shoulders with the high rollers in the last four of Europe's elite competition.

Getting knocked out in the first round while holding down a Europa League place was always likely to lead to Villas-Boas' life support machine being switched off, despite the noises from the top of the club that it was different this time and that the owner was in for the long haul.

Yet that does not take into account the unique circumstances at Chelsea, where Villas-Boas was charged with simultaneously introducing a more expansive playing style and keeping Chelsea in the hunt for honours while the spine of the team that has won three league titles in the Abramovich era aged before his eyes.

The problem of the Stamford Bridge managerial merry-go-round is that the players are so used to surviving the senior coaching staff that they regard the manager’s authority as forever compromised.

How can they give the man in the dugout absolute respect when they know he is always a patchy run of results away from the boot?

At Chelsea, more than any other big club, the senior players hold sway. They saw off Scolari and Grant, certainly, and have now done the same to the man hired at the cost of £28m last summer.

The dilemma of easing out the old guard is not eased by axing Villas-Boas. It is actually more difficult.
John Terry, Frank Lampard, Didier Drogba, Petr Cech, Ashley Cole and Michael Essien are loved by the fans. They are regarded as legends, permanent fixtures whoever picks the team.

Yet the manager, the public face of the club, is a diluted, albeit extravagantly rewarded, figure who is a sticking plaster for the team’s ills, not the permanent medicine he should be.

Perhaps Abramovich would be better off allowing the old guard to pick the team and choose their own personal retirement dates.

Or even better, dispense with the idea of a manager altogether and select the team himself from his luxury yacht.

While the owner continues to change manager more often than most of us buy a new pair of socks, Chelsea will always be operating with one hand tied behind their backs.

 

[no_faith]

future managers should be kept well informed of the politics in Chelsea squad.

dunno who gt the balls to come and leave? LOL

 

[red amoeba]

Aiyah, fuck Chelsea, Man U, Arsenal and Liverpool lah. Lets all support QPR

hearing this from you? LOL...ur beloved van pussy is getting better. maybe fergie should sign him...partner Hernandez with rooney playing behind...wow....

 

[Alamaking]

hearing this from you? LOL...ur beloved van pussy is getting better. maybe fergie should sign him...partner Hernandez with rooney playing behind...wow....

Never a fan of RVP, he's a flop in Dutch team, someone please hack off his leg.

 

[SpeedoRIP]

Hahah, RVP not really a flop lah -- he just wasn't fit every time Dutch make it to international tournaments PLUS you've the likes of Huntelaar etc..

Anyway, I feel for AVB lah..he quite poor thing to be sacked. Player power ruled once again. Abramovich also short sighted bugger...doesn't he realize that AVB can build an empire over time while the senior players all don't have much time left at Stamford Bridge

 

[bushtucker]

call Mourinho back to stamford bridge. he is not happy at real madrid.

 

[singveld]

the chelsea owner has very little patience.

 

[Alamaking]

the chelsea owner has very little patience.

When you rich, is like that 1 lah......

 

[singveld]

When you rich, is like that 1 lah......

very sad, russian peasants should demand he give back his money to the state.

 

[singveld]

No surprise there. AVB was a terrible choice. Dalglish should go too unless Liverpool happy with winning League Cups.

he was just suppose to be the supporting manager, but his backside itchy, want to be the main man, now kena boot out.

 

[Alamaking]

very sad, russian peasants should demand he give back his money to the state.

Think Roman gained his money either by oil or illegal businesses

 

[singveld]

Think Roman gained his money either by oil or illegal businesses

after collapse of communist party, new gov give out shares of country wealth to all citizens, left starving, they sold their shares to rich people like him. Basically he bought the country assets for peanuts and thus become super rich after the financial crisis die down.

 

[David Luiz]

'It will be hell' for whoever succeeds Villas-Boas at Chelsea - Luiz Felipe Scolari

Former Blues manager is not surprised by the Portuguese's sacking so soon into his reign at Stamford Bridge believing he didn't replace players that needed ousting from the team

Mar 5, 2012 9:35:00 AM

By Simon Sinclair

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Former Chelsea boss Luiz Felipe Scolari claims it will be "hell" for whoever succeeds Andre Villas-Boas as manager of the Blues.

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Scolari, now manager of Brazilian side Palmeiras, is not surprised the Portuguese was sacked so soon into his reign at Stamford Bridge because he thinks Chelsea are different to other English clubs.

​The former World Cup winner also feels the 34-year-old failed to adequately replace players that needed ousting from the team even during his time with the club but is confident Villas-Boas will go on to succeed elsewhere.

Scolari told reporters: "England has clubs like Arsenal, where Arsene Wenger has been for several years, yet has won only two or three championships.

"But Chelsea's culture is very different, but this move is strange - although it's not so strange to me because of what I went through there.

"Some things are known, like the relations with the chairman, who has the relationship with some players before the coach.

"Villas-Boas was a champion and he will continue to be. He needed to replace at least seven or eight players, even since I was there, but he failed.

"It will be hell for whoever succeeds him."

 

[laksaboy]

call Mourinho back to stamford bridge. he is not happy at real madrid.

If Real Madrid wins the treble this year (Copa Del Rey, La Liga, Champions League), he will leave and go back to England, possibly Chelsea.

However, the bad blood between Roman and him needs to be resolved.

 

[freedalas]

If Real Madrid wins the treble this year (Copa Del Rey, La Liga, Champions League), he will leave and go back to England, possibly Chelsea.

However, the bad blood between Roman and him needs to be resolved.

Actually if Chelsea is to be saved, it should be the owner that has to be changed. With an attitude that everything can be bought with money including instant success, even Sir Alex won't last. The root of Chelsea's woes is Roman himself.

 

[no_faith]

The root of Chelsea's woes is Roman himself.

if he leaves, Chelsea will go kaput.

 

[erection2015]

unless bosSam takes over the club.

if he leaves, Chelsea will go kaput.

 

[no_faith]

unless bosSam takes over the club.

ah sam can take over Tampines Rovers.

 

[mollusk]

ah sam can take over Tampines Rovers.

Ah sam prefer cricket