Let's All Laugh At... Let's all laugh at Chelsea thread
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Oh Teddy Teddy
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Baffling approach from their new owners. Would it really appeal to managers looking to put their stamp on things? Am I clutching at straws?
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thebenjamin
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That's Nagelsmann off the list then
Oh Teddy Teddy
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Get your own shortlist ffs
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Chelsea will without a doubt approach Nagelsman that's why they've acted now, they may even have spoken to him already.
Not a given he'll go there though.
Not a given he'll go there though.
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Poch goes to Chelsea I will experience heartbreak on a whole new level.
Bluto Blutarsky
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Why is it baffling?
Potter is not a good fit for a club like Chelsea, which carries immense expectations. As an owner with huge pockets - you don't need to wait around when the obvious is staring you in the face.
You thought he was a good fit, so you hired him. Once you determine he is not a good fit, you don't double down on the mistake, you move on.
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It would ring alarm bells for me that the new ownership has gone through two managers in less than a year. Even by Chelsea’s standards that extraordinary.
Pochemon94
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but at the end of the day money talks. To get to the highest level you have to have true self belief and a little bit of smugness about you. With that being said, they will be able to bring in whoever because A)Money will be top notch B) the next incoming manager will think, that won't happen to me, ill succeed, no way they fire me after 8 months. Even if they did, cool i get 5 years of pay for doing 8 months of work
Bluto Blutarsky
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If I were a manager - this would not be a worry to me.
First - you have an ownership group committed to winning. That is a HUGE plus.
Second - you will be paid well. So, even if you get sacked in a year, the financial incentive is still there, and its not a mark on your reputation.
Third - a manager who has the gravitas to take on a Chelsea job will always think they can make it work better than the previous guy.
Oh Teddy Teddy
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Personally find spending a small fortune replace Tuchel with Potter, only to fire him after six months... baffling. It was obvious he was going to need time to adjust, after being given 1,000,000 new players.
Sure, fire him if you don't think he's a good fit, but the approach in the first place is ridiculous.
Bluto Blutarsky
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I guess I don't see it that way. I have never been a fan of Potter - particularly at this level of club - but Potter had plenty of people championing him as the next great manager to breakthrough at a top team. So, I can see why an owner would want to give him a chance.
But, once you have seen enough, and your goal is winning, then you admit the mistake, and move on.
EQP
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It will be Nagelsmann, it just makes sense for Chelsea.
And fourth being sacked as Chelsea manager makes you likely to get hired at Spurs
Oh wait was this a list of good things?
Oh Teddy Teddy
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Just all very... strange
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Agreed, it was almost certainly too much too soon - somewhere like United might've been a better fit as Chelsea is... well, it's just nuts, really. If he was a bigger name, perhaps more experience and a bit more pull, and I expect any manager with that sort of leverage, would've come in and just emptied the squad out, told Todd that's not how "soccer" works, and been given the time to say their piece but Potter was just kind of dumped into the middle of a circus and told to dance, "Dance, like we saw you dance at that other place, manager-man!"
He had a bit more stability and a bit more weight at Brighton but, lets be honest, the expectations of the club and it's fans at Stamford Bridge are still in the Abramovich mindset, where money = success, but while they still have money they've gone from specific, huge name signings to this sort of scatter gun approach and it's so confusing. No sane man, woman or anything in between could possibly walk in there and sort out that squad without the freedom to do a wholesale cull and funnel the money into actual quality rather than trusting the law of averages.
