Spurlock, face it, he's a ****e man manager and doesn't have a clue how to handle egos. He created the divide himself by distancing certain players away from the group and acting like an arrogant ball bag (a lot of the stuff he actually did was mentioned in this thread). Tactically he is spot on and really knows his stuff but there are also questions whether his style would work in the Premier League and his immaturity is shocking.
I actually can't believe how so many fans on here are that thick they can't see why this would be a huge mistake and I don't meant to be insulting anyone but have you not learnt from the santini, ramos and whole dof affair? Do people realise how important a manager is to the club? without the right man in charge nothing works, it doesnât matter how good our players are, how great our fans are or how great coaches are, having the wrong man in charge will destroy the team, break up this squad and cause real issues when now more then ever we need stability, not some idiot with an ego that is highly immature and has a chip on his shoulder. You all try and predict how good a manager is by listing points from their "success" abroad, who gives a **** how successful they were abroad? its irrelevant to if they can settle in this league and manage an english team to success, it doesn't matter if they are great tacticans, whats more important is being able to build a team, create unity and understand the english game. This is why we will regret getting rid of redknapp as while he had his faults tactically,he was superb at getting players on his side and creating an atmosphere were people wanted to play for him and that is the best quality any manager can have. You can just predict whats going to happen, its going to be ramos/santini all over again and some dof, in this great new "project" and all the important people will have written down all these great bullet points on why it will work......but in the end what happens? we need someone like jol or arry to come in and save the day.
How is thinking it can work any different to just blanketly assuming it won't work? As far as i'm concerned that is equally as "thick" as thinking it could work. There are numerous examples of foreign managers coming in and doing well. Similarly there are numerous examples of british managers doing very badly.
Listen, i'm not generlising foriegn managers, some of the best managers in this country have been from abroad, thats not my point. My point is in regards to a specific personality, a specific type of foreign manager, unless you understand how to read a situation fully and see someones personality you won't get it. You can tell people like Ramos, AVB just can't settle in this league, there is something in their nature, the way they deal with the english games that shows they can't be a success. Of course thats my opinion but the way some of you are suggesting avb could be a success is all about his success abroad and you failing to grasp why he got the sack at chelsea.
Nope, i'm not failing to grasp anything and i do get it. That still doesn't mean i agree with you though. Any judgements on how he may do are just guesses. You can say he WILL fail til you are blue in the face, you may be proven right, but until then its just your opinion the same as others are allowed to have the opinion that it might work. I don't think its fair to start calling people thick because their opinion is different to yours when neither can be proven or disproven.
No that was wrong on my part, to be calling anyone thick, so I can take that! I guess its down to the fact many seem to be excited by the fact we have got rid of arry and are then showing excitement at hiring certain managers, that this frustrates me to see. This seems to sum up this club, constant changes, going for the wrong man, the break up of good squads and then needing someone to come and save the day. Personally I don't want to be proven right on AVB, i would rather you thought i was thick for suggesting it and we hired the right man, as that is more important!
Ok, no worries. Lets brush this under the table. That comment did get my back up a little bit as i have said that i believe it _could_ work. Sorry, for stirring it up. Out of choice i probably would have stuck with Harry although i was definitely not a big fan of his big ol' gob. BUT, that is done now so we might as well debate who is coming in. Out of the "contenders" (which i'm classing as AVB, Moyes and Martinez) AVB would probably be my 3rd choice. I actually think it might be someone out of the blue. Someone mentioned Garcia earlier. He was linked earlier in the season when Hazard started mentioning us and there were thoughts of a double swoop. I wonder if those rumours were maybe half true?
spurfectionist, ive sure all of us at some point have ranted and insulted people without intending to be personal, unfortunately I can be rather hot headed and this is one of my !qualities! ha Anyhow, going back to your points there, who knows about Garcia, in reality who knows what Levy is thinking? he could well have learnt from the Ramos, Santini and DOF...BUT I actually believe he favours the continental approach and has this vision of a dof, working with a fresh exciting young manager like they do abroad. I can't stress enough how important it is to have a man manager, someone that can relate to the players and get them on their side and the danger is by going abroad for one of these "names" we don't fully understand how they will settle in the english game so why take such a huge risk when we have one of the best squads of the last 30 years? Some may say, if the risk pays off then it will be worth it, yet for the risk to pay off we need to find the new mourinho or dare i say it wenger as otherwise whats going to happen? we hire some coach to doesn't do as well as arry but works with a dof? is it all worth it?
I'm just guessing here, but this is exactly what I think Levy is going for. He's got enough practice and manager hiring and firing over the years and i think he's been learning what works and what doesn't. He's picked 2 good'uns (Jol and Redknapp) recently, lets all forget Ramos, which is a better strike rate than what we usually have over the last 20 years. Martinez with a DoF could work nicely, but reports say he rejected Liverpool because he didn't want to work in their "system"
Cmon Spurlock......You could see that Unity Chelsea had when we won the CL and when we won the double in 2010 under Carlo. Yes we have a total Dick for a captain! And Drogba could go to ground more often than he should have, but the reason you are saying chelsea have no unity and are dicks is because you hate them and nothing more. If anything, the dressing room unity being too strong is what killed AVB's chances of successfully managing us. He tried to break that unity buy leaving out certain players and player power won over! (which isnt exactly great either I know, I think our senior players sometimes exert too much influence over the running of things)
No he's not! Though I really need to find out more about AVB, I like the idea. He tried and failed to make Chelsea play more attractively. I don't see that as points against him. Before that he won a cup at Porto without much to work with. He'll be dying to repair his reputation. Why not? The only people I'd want more aren't available: Bilic and Bielsa. I just don't like Moyes.
Sorry for the double post--thought my first one got lost, so I rephrased it... I like the idea of AVB. I'm worried about his man managements skills or lack of them (not to mention his stupid stunts at Chelsea), but the fact that he was very successful playing the right way at Porto with limited resources, and will be desperate to repair his reputation, outweighs that. The two choices I'd like more aren't available: Bilic and Bielsa. I'm not in favor of Moyes, and would like to see someone young, as part of a long term plan for the future.
possibly.....truthfully Drogs..i havent got a clue as to who will be good for us..either someone is too young and arrogant(AVB)...too rigid and cant handle a club with big players(Moyes)...too old(Capello)...already employed(Ancelotti) just too hyped up (Martinez) so i havent got any idea how people are deciding that one is better than the other for a fact.......your club got great success with a man who was not good enough for bloody WBA...now you tell me if there is any logic in that...because there isnt when you analyse it...however what was to follow threw all logic out of the window..so im just trying to give everyone some kind of positive slant..ibefore AVB came up i was comfortable with the idea of Moyes....someone today mentioned Bilic again even though he already has a new job..and i said a few things about Bilic according to me..so im clueless but all im doing is trying to be positive because one thing is for sure no matter who we get..im not going to vilify them before a ball has been kicked and i will back them because i know it wont be easy for them.
Yep I know what you're saying, you can never truthfully tell who is going to succeed and who isn't, I mean if you told me Robbie was going to take over and we'd win the Champs League and FA Cup back in January I'd have pissed myself, but to be fair Robbie was only meant to be temporary so the pressure was off, I think the pressure will be on AVB if he were to join due to his last term in charge and the fact that he has to better Harry. Moyes would be brilliant for you lot, it'd be very interesting to see what he could do with a bit of cash at his fingertips!
What always got me about Villas-Boas is the way he clearly choreographed his entire routine down on the touchline. I know that, more and more, managers are judged by showing "they care" with their utterly ludicrous balletics on the touchline, but it looks so utterly ridiculous and implies he;s thinking of himself instead of the eleven players who are playing a game of football in front of him.
All he had to do was MANAGE the older players for one season and then sell the ones he didn't want once they'd cleared off on holiday around about now. Instead he went in there and told them they were all ****s, wearing his "Roman Loves Me" badge as proof of his assertions, and it backfired massively as they didn't believe in him and didn't play for him...results go bad, Roman hits the button. He will hopefully have learnt from it given that he is young, and he does have a good vision for the style of football he wants to play which may well suit you tbh, but to walk into a team full of seasoned players as the bloke who used to hand out the dvd's before the opposition analysis sessions, and behave like that is just plain ****ing stupid.
AVB was told to rebuild the squad and when he tried to do that Terry, Lampard and Drogba threw their toys out of the pram They were out of order but got their way because it's always easier to get rid of the manager even when he's only done what you asked Luke do you really think that any of the managers you mentioned would get away with wanting to manage their national team while throwing away a 10 point lead (and none of them criticise fans/players/the board as much as Harry)
Give it a rest already. You state the last paragraph like it's a fact. It isn't. Just because several people state it on the net doesn't make it so. The contrary arguments have been stated several times here but you're clearly not interested so I won't bother restating them.
Mourinho got sacked for mouthing off, and didn't seem to be a massive loss to Chelsea - they didn't exactly tumble down the league and stop winning things, did they? Similarly, Derby won the league a couple of years after Clough left, and that relationship was strained due to his habit of mouthing off to the press and undermining the chairman at regular intervals.
IF Boas is our next coach I'm just wondering who wouldn't fit in with his plans for the team. Not Ade for one.
