I think your manager is already sorted (i hope it is RDM for what he has achieved), if not someone at your club is buying some good players willy nilly with the hope that some as yet un-determined person can form a cohesive team out of them.
Its my guess that managers have had,and will continue to have , only a very small say in who comes and goes at Chelsea! If Guardiola does end up at Chelsea I imagine it will be only on a condition that he has input into these matters! I'm sure this is why the Special One had to pack his bags!
I would like to point out that at the moment a European championship is about to kick off. Usually when a team has signed a player or has made a deal with a manager going to such a summer competition the form is to stay schtoom until it is over. This is so as not to disturb the delicate equilibrium of the national team. Teams are often built around a cult of personality and in some cases this is the manager. For example the continually erupting volcanoes of international football, other wise known as France and Holland, have been quelled recently by Raymond Blanc and Bert van Marwijk. Both seem to be currently playing for the manager and you wouldn't want to think he wasn't going to be there for the World Cup qualifiers. My guess is this is why Chelsea are silent over the next manager. My other guess is that it could well be Blanc. He has been linked to Chelsea before and played and been successful in France, Spain, Italy and the UK. If not him then one of those at Poland and the Ukraine this summer.
RB knew who will be te next Chelsea manager ages and has more than likely been disscussing who to sign and who to give the hat rack imo
Isn't it great? All this gossip and speculation! As Oscar Wilde once remarked " The suspense is terrific! I do hope it will last!"
Rumour has it that Guardiola is on with one proviso.... he wants a matched set of Prada luggage and 2 first class tickets to the Maldives, valid for a year, as part of his deal.
No offence Bob but the artical says **** all , full of all "look set to's" and "it's understood"......it's nothing more than hoping.