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How do you say â..thank youâ.. in Russian? How do you sack a man who has won a World Cup before the paint has even dried around his parking space? Were Chelsea really incapable of turning around a bad month under Big Phil?
There is only one man who could honestly claim to know the answer to all of those questions and that is everybodyâ..s favourite billionaire Roman Abramovich.
Two years ago there was a growing concern that we would need to build a new type of supercomputer to process the number of records Chelsea were breaking. Most goals scored, biggest League winning margin, most handsome manager, Lampard playing 2,982 consecutive games.
Now when we look at them statistically they are starting to resemble another big club in decline. Newcastle. Three managerâ..s sacked in 18 months, two mid-season, and an ever tetchier home crowd reminds me distinctly of the period directly after Bobby Robson was so hideously P45â..d on Tyneside.
Perhaps Roman has been conference calling Freddy Shepheard on how to completely balls up the fortunes of a prosperous club. If you know any Chelsea fans I doubt your heart is bleeding too much for them but they are in real trouble here. The money just ainâ..t flowing the way it was and they do not have any kind of stability or foundation to survive tough times.
Perhaps they should just put John Terry in charge (he seems to be bossing things around Shearer-like anyway) and be done with it. A small step for Phil, and a giant leap towards the dreadful if you ask me.
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Posted by Fabian Anetor on 02/10/2009
Chelsea needs more time to attain the tradition and pedigree that exists in Liverpool and Man Utd. It's not acquired with money.
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Posted by nyasha on 02/10/2009
chelsea have actually ignored the real problem which is big headed washed up players who are just not pulling their weight. they still have useful players like essein, mikel, bosingwa, lampard. czech, terry , carvalho around which to rebuild but abramovic is going to have to reach for his wallet again if they have any hope of challenging for anything next season
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Posted by MUnangFC on 02/11/2009
Core, vital & important aspect in building a very good (current & future) team, are to give more time and space for the managers and by sacking them for just a lousy few defeat or draw games is lame! Common, look at Ferguson & Arsene for example.
Glory Glory Man Utd!
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Posted by Srinivasan Kasyap on 02/11/2009
Chelsea, they are a good team, but all they need is patience! just spending money and buying players is not going to be good! patience and choosingthe right men is all they need to do.
Which team doesnot have a bad patch?
Every team have their own problems, A good manager is one who helps their club get out from the patch, a good owner is one who believes his manager 100%. So this speaks.
They have to build up the team well and plan well, so that they can win titles in atleast 2 seasons.
There is only one United! and its MANCHESTER UNITED
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Posted by n/a on 02/11/2009
chelsea need to try and be as good as man utd,but i dont think that's going to happen for a long long long time.
GLORY GLORY MAN UTD
GLORY GLORY MAN UTD
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Posted by Troy Mann on 02/11/2009
Sir Alex didn't build Rome overnight, he worked hard with what he had and has created a creed at Old Trafford that cannot be matched. Stability builds clubs, not money. Stability wins cups, not money. Do I feel sorry for Chelsea? Not an ounce. Money was thrown around like confetti when Roman entered and it won them a few cups, but have failed to do what a club should aim for, a treble of cups or a quad of cups. To win the EPL now is good, but not good enough. You have to win either the FA/Carling/CL to get respect in these days. Thats why Chelsea will always fail at the last hurdle, players too worried about being put to the sword by Roman if they fail instead of putting their minds to winning.
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Posted by MARGARET on 02/11/2009
Sacking Big Phil is the best thing to do at the moment. He doesn't know what he is doing. He should go and look for national team coaching job. Roman should get a better club coach for Chelsea.
UP CHELSEA, UP BLUES, THE BLUES FOR REAL
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Posted by Liam Sloane on 02/12/2009
Sacking Big Phil, at this stage of the year, has effectivly meant that Chelsea have thrown in the towel. Chelsea have become a big squad with big players but have been left direction-less. Managers roles have become too easily substituted. Most managers will need time to adapt, and subsequently fix teams that have traditionaly not been theirs. Chelseas squad was predominantly formed under Raneiri, and was made absolute under Morihno, however when grant came into the picture he was only given one signing (anelka) and a few months to change the team around. Big Phil by comparisson was given 7 months and a few extra players, but no time to really make the team adjust. In reality, a coach of Big Phils stature, should in reality be given a min of 2-3 years to build and chop and change a club to make it work. Dare i say that in actual fact, Big Phil is not actually fielding or playing his squad, just like Grant, but actually Morihno's squad. This is where the problems lie.
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Posted by Seth Taylor on 02/12/2009
I think we all know, time and patience are more important than money..I still think and believe they never should have let Claudio Ranieri go. If they kept him, he really could have built something to rival the records, stature and pedigree of Liverpool and Man UTD.
However, I have no sympathy for a man that throws money around like confetti, and then throws his toys out of the pram when he doesnt get a trophy mid season... WAKE UP ABRAMOVICH... THIS IS FOOTBALL... NOT A UTILITY COMPANY!
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Posted by cHARLES on 02/12/2009
chelsea is a failure.......UP MANCHESTER UNITED!!!!!!!!!
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Posted by cent on 02/12/2009
chealse should lean 4rom man utd if they want to be a great team in future.bcos it take a long long yrs to build man utd.nothing goog come easy.
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Posted by colin on 02/13/2009
Football has gone crazy, Newcastle and now Chelsea, next will be Liverpool then Man City, managers with quality track records being sacked because of impatience from owners, success does not happen overnight especially when you make too many changes, I remember the media stories prior to Sir Alex winning the first League Cup trophy at Old Trafford which then relieved the pressure that was on, Iv'e been a united red all my life with fond memories of the famous team of the sixties, NOBBY-GEORGE-BOBBY-DENIS-BRIAN ETC, and so many fantastic teams since, you can buy a team and win a trophy once maybe(Blackburn) but clubs of substance are built over time and tradition not immediate "pay-back" on investment, they would be better putting there money on deposit??? UNITED FOR-EVER, THIS SEASON WILL BE A CLEAN SWEEP LET'S GO FOR IT...
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Posted by Ray Tanzania Man u forever supporter on 02/13/2009
Buying players just because u have money doesnt meaning u have the best/ winning team but buying the right player to fill the missing gap and for the right price well done Sir Alex F.
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Posted by Dustin Harry on 02/13/2009
Poor, Poor Scolari. Not only does he resemble Gene Hackman, but he also loses his job to a guy who only wants to work it part time. What is Roman thinking. He should have some pull over in the motherland to get this guy full time.
But as others have said stability is key to success. Jose had it while he was there, until the roomer machine started. Then it up and vanishes.
How about poor Avram Grant? Gets to the Champions League final, loses TIGHT game, and gets canned.
But I'm out of sympathy for Chelsea managers. They take the job, knowing they aren't going to be respected by the owner. Then when the team struggles, because they are old as dirt. The manager takes the fall.
But the win now or lose your job philosophy is typical of a world where we get things instantly. Hopefully Utd will not have this same problem when SAF retires. Lets learn from the past Chelsea mistakes and not let Roman's ego driven decisions go to waste.
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Posted by Varun Arora on 02/13/2009
I do not care a damn what Chelsea does at present or in the future....what i know as a Manchester United Fan since 12 years now is that we have a good chance in all the four competitions....so lets start talking about that and let Roman Abramovich have night mares because what he wants for his club is something even he does not know.
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Posted by BinKoresh on 02/13/2009
Chelsea is business and not a football team like Manchester United..
In football we have to be patience, but Chelsea with his billionaire owner who knows nothing in football, will keep on changing coaches every year..
Remember! when Sir Alex took over Man utd in 1986...
it took him years to build a team and has since won everything as a manager and has kept all the fans happy for more than a decade..Imagine if Sir Alex was sacked a year or 2 after, what would have happened?? as a man utd fan i dont imagine so much success..may b we would have changed 10 coaches without any trophy.. but thanks to the man utd board who has always shown stability, professionalism in their decision..
Hats off man..
Hats down Chelsea.. keep on changing and in the meantime MAN UTD keeps on winning trophies...
May be Peter Kenyon would regret changing team!!!
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Posted by Phoebe O. on 02/14/2009
I think Mr. Abramovich should have show more patient towards Big Phil. What Phil Scolari needs is more time and the chance to shift the team around.
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Posted by Olasunkanmi Darlington on 02/14/2009
Only GOD can deliver Chelsea,the Club is at whim and caprices of its millionaire owner who only taught about what he wants ad not waht is good fot the club.However as we say in Nigeria,A hunch back Cow is the happiness of the butcher because he is guranteed of more gains.There is more than enough membrship forms for any of chelsea fans that is interested in joining the World Champion and that parades the best of the best MANCHESTER UNITED
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Posted by Dave oliver on 02/14/2009
Yes, Dynamo Chelski are imploding, yes they have an extremely impatient billionaire owner, yes they are losing massive amounts in compensation for ex managers, yes they are out of the hunt this season, yes there are signs of division at Stamfordski Bridge......long may it continue!Tis a sign of the recent times though.
SAF belongs,thankfully, to a different era. Principled, dignified,assured. Everything that Coco the Clown Kenyon wasnt when he departed OT for a "massive club", quite probably the BEST thing ever to happen as it allowed Gill in, another person who belongs to the old school of thinking. An era before the billions of TV money washed into our game allowed for managers to have longer to build, in Murdoch's money crazed Premiership the rewards are so big for success that a short termist mind set seems to have overtaken almost every boardroom in the country. CFC and MCFC beware, mid table obscurity beckons as money does not guarantee success.
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Posted by umeobi alexander on 03/20/2009
i think alexferguson is a great manager and knows how to handle pressure.i think the problem we are having is Alex trying to copy rafael benitez rotational policy which is not helping us.he shld remember benitez tried this for so long b4 he started earning some positive result,but i dont think now is the right time which we need such experiments.i thought more playing time gives room for development.for me i will suggest alex ferguson shld who shld always play the attack.i even believe a person like giggs can come in place for bebartov.i dont think bebartov is delivery.some pundits says he understands tottenham more than manunited.Fiall i believe United has all i takes to win all five trophies.but as rightfully said we need some bit of luck and the right players to get there.GLORY GLORY UNITED.
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