OldBlueLady
Junior Blues Coordinator⭐⭐
:clap: Magnificent!
What was the purspose of the show?!
Chelsea fans will feel crushed today, .
as much as i like your work slipper, i disagree with this comment. I imagine some Chelsea fans will feel crushed today.. however, i feel most of them will probably have forgotton about last night already, and will be thinking about which team they will support instead next season!
Chelsea fans must now prepare themselves for widespread restructuring as they enter their sixth season of Russian ownership. Avram Grant, nice chap though he undoubtedly is, will return upstairs. He can be proud of the way he prevented the much anticipated post-Mourinho apocalypse, but it must be clear now that he is one of life's perpetual runners-up. Second in the league, second at Wembley, second here. Also, sad as it is that we must discuss it, in this global game, Chelsea need a manager who can deal with the media comfortably and who can be the public face of the team. Grant is not that man.
Whilst it is nice to have a charismatic gaffer that goes into press confrences with a huge ego, or cracking jokes etc. like Mourinho, Claudio Ranieri, I don't think it matters a blind bit that Avram Grant is a tad 'boring' to the media. This past week Ashley Cole and a few of the Chelsea players came out and said they didn't understand why the world think Grant should be put upstairs next season. They said he is very shy, but knows exactly what he wants in training and on the pitch. He doesn't say a lot, but the players know exactly what his plan is, and feel much more comfortable around him because he is soft spoken and so forth.
I'd be very interested to see what kind of a team he would build over the next couple of seasons - and hopefully Roman will let him do this IMO.
I wish that were the case, but it just isn't anymore. Managers have to be able to deal with the media because that's where the money comes from. They have to be good in interviews because that's where today's new supporter comes from. It's all about 'branding' and 'image' and, of course, those big sponsorship deals.
Under Mourinho, despite playing very dull football, Chelsea were seen by the rest of the world as less of a team and more of a fashion accessory. They had a gorgeous manager who was in credit card adverts and expensive watch adverts. People latched on to them because they were desirable as an entity. Being a Chelsea fan, ludicrous though it seems, became trendy.
Under Grant, they haven't got that at all and it will hit them in the pocket on a global scale.
Real Madrid have got a simialr problem with Bernd Schuster. The heirachy there want someone distinguished, dignified and intelligent. What they've got is a stroppy German who hates journalists and that's why, even when he was streaking ahead, that they considered sacking him.
It's a horrible, pointless, soulless state of affairs, but that is modern day football. A quiet, racing enthusiast like Bob Paisley wouldn't have got a look-in these days.
Which is why a manager with the record Tilly has is still at SUFC, with barely a sniff from "bigger" clubs.
So some good comes of it! :clap:
Precisely. We get to keep one of the best young managers in the game and Aidy Boothroyd, a tactically stone-age, shouty, David Brent-alike, is touted as the shining white hope of English football.
Funny old game, Saint. Funny old game.
Certainly is Greavsie!
We should get Cricko and that to give us our our own show, OBL. You can provide the sensible analysis, I'll sit there laughing at my own jokes and wishing I could hit the sauce again. It'll be great!
I wish that were the case, but it just isn't anymore. Managers have to be able to deal with the media because that's where the money comes from. They have to be good in interviews because that's where today's new supporter comes from. It's all about 'branding' and 'image' and, of course, those big sponsorship deals.
Under Mourinho, despite playing very dull football, Chelsea were seen by the rest of the world as less of a team and more of a fashion accessory. They had a gorgeous manager who was in credit card adverts and expensive watch adverts. People latched on to them because they were desirable as an entity. Being a Chelsea fan, ludicrous though it seems, became trendy.
Under Grant, they haven't got that at all and it will hit them in the pocket on a global scale.
Real Madrid have got a simialr problem with Bernd Schuster. The heirachy there want someone distinguished, dignified and intelligent. What they've got is a stroppy German who hates journalists and that's why, even when he was streaking ahead, that they considered sacking him.
It's a horrible, pointless, soulless state of affairs, but that is modern day football. A quiet, racing enthusiast like Bob Paisley wouldn't have got a look-in these days.
For me, SAF is the single best manager to grace the game. The way he meticiulously builds and rebuilds his teams is genius and the football they play is admirable... So much so that he's turned the team everybody hated in the 90's into the team that is adored and respected across the globe.
More than deserving winners of both the Premiership and Champions League this season and deserves to be knighted a second time round for sticking two fingers up at Roman and his stolen money.
Still... he hasn't beaten Southend yet has he...