Since 2012 the CL has been won by a manager in his first season of his tenure in 2012, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2020, 2021 & 2022. In 2012, 2016, 2020 & 2021 it was won by managers who took over mid season.
You can never convince me sacking Mourinho in 2007 was the right decision.
Maybe if ETH got Chupo Moting in January things would be different.
Correct, it is so depressing watching us give up on seasons and slowly descend to the inevitable, while fans blindly hope the manager turns into Fergie if given "enough time" and a full squad of "his own players". Nonsense, the sides that are most successful are the most ruthless and have the highest standards that must be met.
Agreed, the only real way to keep high standards is to be ruthless, we’re just toothless.
Precisely this. Players who underperform are quickly shown the door, likewise the manager. Contrast that to us who dither on any meaningful decisions and proceed to reward occasional good performances with the highest salaries going.
Exactly. Tried explaining this to some on here but got responses like "we should never aspire to be like them, look how toxic they are. Who would wanna play in front of a crowd like that".
There's something in that. The away fans applauded after being shellacked 4-0 by Palace and it was deemed "classy."
Fair enough, you know better than I do. I thought he had fallen out with Abramovich / Kenyon and thus his position was untenable at that point. Regardless, even then, Chelsea managed to turn around a poor start and came extremely close to a league / CL double!
Tbf Perez is a lucky git at times. He just couldn’t be bothered and went for a cheap option and like a lot of things it just worked out for us
Never mind booing, players would have had a hard time leaving the stadium.
Pretty much.
They would have burned the stadium down.
You guys aren’t the only ones who have lost that. And it can’t just come from the Managers. You have to sometimes be ruthless with players as well. You have to have a squad that will outcast people that don’t take the standards seriously.
Correct, in fact I'd go one step further and say the high standards have to be engrained throughout the organization, from top to bottom, front office and back, on and off the pitch.
He was the hottest manager prospect in football. We had been incredibly successful with him and he went on be incredibly successful elsewhere. Whatever their disagreement was, you keep him and make it work. They rehired him anyway 5-6 years later. We faffed around with Avram Grant and Scolari, wasted 18 months until we hired Ancelotti.
Constant sackings don't guarantee anything. Plenty of midtable sides do it.
Yet all top clubs does it, at most even the most successful manager lastes 2-3 years and moved on.
reported.
I usually say to others it's something that can't be explained, but the closest I can explain to it in my brain is exactly what you said.
Real have a better starting 11 than Munich
Except for Liverpool and City. Besides our managers only last 2-3 years anyway. We sack our managers at the same rate. Our problem is appointing the wrong ones and having terrible recruitment.
They're quick to sack though. Most 2 3 years managers were actually good manager but not good enough. We gave them 3 years regardless of whatever shit on a stick football they've shown
Nailed it
