Liverpool fan in peace. Your owner hasn't got a clue. He won the double in the first season in English football. Yes, he's had a poor season but has your owner ever heard of stability?! Ancelotti is top quality manager and there aren't many better managers in the world.
I agree, I'm more worried about them stealing OUR manager. Radio 5 Live are reporting that Redknapp left WHL straight after the game, and has been seen with Chelsea representatives apparently
He didn't leave, he was sacked, and I'm also concerned about the amount of time, or lack of time, one manager gets at a club to be successful. The problem is, he is already successful by having a league and cup double the season before! Strange times...
Good point, would be the same principle if we now sacked redknapp for not getting Cl again. Look at Fergie, all that time, all that silverware. Ancelotti had a great season last season, so what if he had 1 bad seaosn. He didn't even spend massive amounts of money, Abramhovic did it. Torres was definitely his signing, not the manager's
Coming second to Manchester United is hardly a bad season, is it? This is madness and surely every club can't expect to be Champions every year. And I used to think that our lot had the monopoly on idiot owners.
I'm glad Carlo has gone. He was not very good in all honesty. Last season we were very lucky to win a poor Prem league with the help of some terrible reffing against Utd making the difference. This covered up the fact Carlo was clueless. This season we have finished 9 points behind Utd in an even poorer Prem league. The truth is he is tactically useless. With the exact same squad Jose would have pissed all over the Prem both last season and this season. Good luck in the future Carlo but don't come back.
I wouldn't go that far ZA but he did struggle with plan 'b' when it was needed I thought he did well to coax a Chelsea side over the line last season especially as they had never done under pressure like that before. So credit to Carlo for that
I think we are in for a big shake up in the summer The new boss will be installed soon enough, the money is on Van Basten & Hiddink as oversee-er (that's probably not a word) One or two names will be leaving & at least three big names will be arriving I just hope we don't try to change too much in one go & lose our way...
Have a feeling Hiddink will come in as DOF but not until Turkey job has finished. He's already advising in some capacity anyway so can't see a major problem with waiting. He wont be manager though, that seems pretty clear. We can't afford to wait for him and he doesn't seem to want to go back into club management. Van basten though...really?!?! What exactly has he acheived?? He's not even an exciting prospect like the guy at Porto (who has actually won stuff as well). That for me would be just getting a name in. Surely David Moyes or Owen Coyle etc would be better than him. If we cant get Hiddink or Jose, lets try something different and appoint an up and coming British manager and give them a bit of time. Not a great ex footballer with no managerial pedigree. What next, Maradona? I heard on the radio yesterday that a source at the club said we were going to bring in around 5 new names this summer with the oldest being 26. Wether we need that level of new new blood remains to be seen (especially given the younger players coming through) but interesting none the less. Wonder if Ageuro could be back on as well. He now want to leave AM could he be the man to reshape our attack and bring the best from Torres I wonder?
And I thought our fans, at NUFC, were deluded! RA behaves just like expects from a Russian oligarch. He reminds me of one the Bond villians, who summons his henchman before him and says "You know the price of failure", before pressing a button for the floor to open, and the unfortunate henchman to fall into a pool of sharks. He undermined Jose by imposing Shevenko on him, then did the same to Ancellotti, by sacking Butch Wilkins, at a time when Chelsea were going along quite nicely. He then compounded it by imposing Torres on him, in January. Changing managers every season is not the recipe for success. It's the opposite, in fact. Think about it. The most successful period you have had was the 5 years that Mourinho was in charge. Unfortunately, RA can do what he likes, whatever the fans may think. "Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely"
You're forgetting the fact Ancelotti doesn't have a track record of winning league titles, he finished second twice with a great Juventus side that included Zidane, Del Piero, Van der Sar, Inzaghi, Trezeguet, Zambrotta, Davids etc. He then went onto Milan were he only won league title in 8 years, considering the players he had there, you'd have to consider that to be a pretty poor record, even if he did win 2 champions league trophies in that time. His record as a manager is respectable enough, and his champions league one at Milan is certainly better than most, but overall he wasn't and never will be the right manager to oversee a huge change of personnel at the club, he's good at keeping teams ticking over, but he'll never be one who would be able to change a team's style and overhaul the playing squad succesfully. That's why he got sacked, because he's unsuitable for the task Chelsea are trying to accomplish.
Fair enough. But who hired him? And Mourinho? And Scollari? And Avram Grant? Who next? Van Basten? I don't think he's the answer. And whoever is appointed, how can that person hope to succeed, with RA and his henchmen lurking in the shadows, interfering with things?
Interesting article in the Independent today on that same subject: http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/...et-five-signings-in-summer-spree-2288492.html I know it's only gossip, but apparently Ron Gourlay is making the transfer decisions whilst you choose the new manager?! So you could potentially hire a manager who gets a load of new players that don't fit the system he wants to use, and that he can't replace cos the club have already made all their transfer moves! Sounds like a recipe for disaster to me...
