What makes you say that Arch? ANYBODY going to Chelsea will be under enormous pressure and I don't think any one wants the job. I don't think a coach anywhere has expressed an interest in it.
I think the roubles will interest many and it never reflects badly on the manager if he is sacked by Chelsea it happens to the best, it's par for the course. Work for a year, get sacked, walk away with a few million more in the bank. I'll take it!
Don't know mate, just feel it in the 'waters', could be way off the mark. (maybe apply for a job with the Mail?) He's a no nonsense type manager that gets his team playing good football. He'll be a free agent after the Euros. The sort of guy Chelsea need to take control of the team back from the players that 'ousted' AVB.
But that's the problem. Those players have ousted more than one manager and they're getting old. Not a good recipe for long term success. People would have to be mad to take that job, but people also have big egos (or they probably wouldn't be in management at all), so someone just might.
What would be interesting is what would happen if they got a real whip-cracker turn up, and the first order of business would be to show Terry and Lampard the door. Either the rest of the squad will fall into line as the main ringleaders have been unceremoniously kicked out of the club, or the players would revolt leading to the manager leaving long before schedule which leaves Roman having to pay off one manager then trawl around for another one.
Looks like Luiz and Cahill are struggling to be fit. So with Terry and Ivanovic out, then it's going to be some team they take to Munich.Shame.
Terry Drogba and Lampard are the problem at Chelsea imo, AVB tried to start using them less and look what happened. Ironically with AVB gone they've put in some performances, Lampards goals have won games and Terry you have to say played out of his skin against us in particular, and have dragged Chelsea to CL final. Abramovich is only capable of seeing whats in front of him, and you can see behind the scenes DD, JT and FL will be giving it the 'told you we were right' baloney. All this does is postpone the inevitable, hopefully to their detriment.
Of the three of them, only Drogba has a positive contribution to the club. True, you can say that Lampard will often appear at the edge of the area and tonk one in from 25 yards, but that's his sole contribution to the game - and if he doesn't score, he doesn't contribute.
Drogbas positive contribution?, I shan't ask in what sense because it doesn't matter, all 3 are are the biggest noises in the dressing room and higher up, which is negative, and my main point, whatever else he may do, doesn't cancel that out. Lampard doesn't contribute as well as he used to, we all agree on that, but again he's raised his game a bit very recently and thats all RA will see, aswell as the 3 of them giving him another chance of his CL dream. Their feet are so well under the table, and if they achieve an FA/CL double no manager will be getting rid of them, it will be their decision alone to retire or transfer at their leisure. Not a bad thing as their performances inevitably worsen, and their availability lessens with injury.
I've got to say, that I have always rated Drogba (his diving antics aside). I was his biggest fan, when Chelsea bought him for £18 million, and most of the Chavs on the old 606 were slagging him off.
Bilic off to Lokomotiv Moskow. Plenty of money in Russian football, don't see him coming back anytime soon.
Given the itchy trigger fingers most Russian Premier League chairmen have (this is last season's list of sackings to give you an idea), and considering the Russian season runs from March to November, there's a few reasons to believe he could be available by Christmas.
