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Maybe Roman is being proactive. Arsenal won't be keeping Arteta for long and will need a replacement too
Bouhafsi corrected himself.Apparently Tuchel is set to be given a 4.5 year contract. Bit weird given Mourinho from 2004-2007 is the only manager to stay in a job at Chelsea for more than 2 years since Abramovich bought the club.
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I guess he has “earned“ to be ruthless after having spent so much of his own money in the club.Roman is ruthless - it’s why they are so successful and don’t usually go longer than 3 years without wining a title since he’s been in charge. But it also why imo they are a hollow club.
"Frank, need picking up in the morning, pal?"Question is where does one go after this?
Ole has, in one way or another, showed continuous growth and improvement as time has gone by, even if there have been some stumbling blocks, by and large it’s been a general forward direction. Lampard, after last season, has been going backwards, and Arteta similarly, barring the FA cup win and a somewhat promising start last season has also been going backwards.If anything I’d have thought our recent form would have made Chelsea more likely to give Lampard time, same with Arteta. I was hopeful anyway.
Makes a bit more sense.Bouhafsi corrected himself.
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It would finally be 3 and a half years, one of which is optional.
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Lineker disagrees. There's something to say for it, but unfortunately I think Chelsea doesn't have the luxury to wait on it whilst missing the CL and stuff like that, & there's also no guarantee that Lampard is the right person to turn it around either.
Why does all this "stabily" stuff always have to relate to the managers? We've had stability with our ownership and core of players, there's more than one way to skin a cat.Roman is ruthless - it’s why they are so successful and don’t usually go longer than 3 years without wining a title since he’s been in charge. But it also why imo they are a hollow club.
While I agree somewhat, getting 6 new players into a team at once is a near impossible task, especially when you have so many players in those positions already. Per the athletic article , many of them werent even his targets.Going into this season, £250m spent and they have actually gotten even worse. No plan for how to integrate these players. They all look like vanity hipster signings. Did they really extensively scout Werner, Chilwell and Havertz or did they just think “these lads will do”?
Let’s be under no illusions. Frank did a poor job and has been deservedly been sacked
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Lineker disagrees. There's something to say for it, but unfortunately I think Chelsea doesn't have the luxury to wait on it whilst missing the CL and stuff like that, & there's also no guarantee that Lampard is the right person to turn it around either.
What made you say that from the game yesterday?Watching the game yesterday it was obvious we have major problems behind the scenes in the dressing room... Guess our ownership was watching as well...
Their squad problem is far deeper than just manager. They assembled random 'good' players without thinking best 15/16. Lampard is not a good manager, but this mess going to be a tough task for any manager to unravel.Seeing as it's Chelsea I'm actually surprised it took this long.
I hope that they don't get the classic new manager bounce.
Whatever gets Chelsea difficulties im all for it.The media are going to give Tuchel an extremely hard time. You can see it coming from a mile away. Woe be to the successor of a manager that was a well liked English player.
No idea why they signed Thiago Silva when they had someone like Tomori developing. Spent a lot of money on Ben Chilwell when it wasn't actually the first area of improvement they needed. They signed Havertz but don't seem to figure out where to play him. Think Werner has done ok. Pulisic and Ziyech have been in and out and the GK situation has been a fiasco. No idea why he has the obsession with Mason Mount as well.To be fair the signings he made were not bad at all. If it was us making those signings i'd be expecting a Copa America trophy.
No Frank was just a crap manager and was lucky to get the job in the first place. He had a go.. but it was always going to end this way. Let him go earn his stripes rightfully or he could always go back in the BT studio. Up to him.How anyone is going to implement their playing style if they get sacked the moment results don't go their way? Roman is most trigger happy owner out there.
Players were deliberately not passing to Mount at times when he was in the best position IMO, posted in the match thread yesterday. Could see the look on the face of Ziyech when he came off, like at a funeral. Havertz has been like that for weeks, playing is like funeral for him.What made you say that from the game yesterday?
It still feels really harsh to me, but I also said in the summer that if there is even a slight danger of missing out on top 4, Chelsea wouldn't just stand by and do nothing.Yeah even I thought Lampard will get plenty of time.
With no world class stars I think he will be alright in implementing his style. Will be interesting as his football for PSG was trash compared to that at Dortmund. So we will really see what he is about.Is Tuchel that good a coach? He wasn't a success at Dortmund and the PSG job was like shooting fish in a barrel with a rocket launcher. I can see this going the way of Emery at Arsenal - with any luck of course.
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I didn’t watch the game but the point you raise re: Mount - do you see him at Chelsea long term now Lampard has gone?Players were deliberately not passing to Mount at times when he was in the best position IMO, posted in the match thread yesterday. Could see the look on the face of Ziyech when he came off, like at a funeral. Havertz has been like that for weeks, playing is like funeral for him.
Lampard lost most of the dressing room because it wasn't seen as a meritocracy by a lot of the players.
That is why he's been sacked imo. No way back from that.