realistic new manager

Ancelotti knows how to organise a team and knows what it takes to win a league on a tight budget. In his first season for Chelsea he won the double and got that dysfunctional bunch of egos working as a team and it didn't take millions to do it. Just training and character. We have a modest budget to work with in the Champs League and we need someone that players will instant respect for and is able to organise the team with fresh ideas. He gets my vote.

You can't shit on a manager that has won the Champs league twice along with domestic titles. Plus he's worked for very powerful people. Berlusconi is the Italian PM and corrupt at that. Who isn't going to take orders from him? Abramovich is something else and no manager has survived with him so you can't hold that against his record.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Niall_Quinn

There's only one guy who could do the job and might be available and that's Mourinho. It would be a short term deal, maybe a year or two, but he'd turn this team into winners again and bitch slap that fucked up anti-football board of ours and shake their wallets out. Hiddink is a good shout too but I don't think he'd turn things around as fast as Maureen could. Plus we'd be mega-controversial again, hated and Fergie would be all over our case on a daily basis - sure signs of success. Final plus, players would be queuing up to come here - granted for all the wrong reasons but haven't we had enough of this boring building for a future that never comes shit? Time to live a little, put some fun back into the football lark. Oh and the Chelski mob would be blue with rage, let's get it done in the summer.

---

You see, that's where we hit that metaphorical brick wall straight away. In what Universe would Arsenal's board take on a manager who wants to spend lavish amounts of money on players?

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Ernesto

You see, that's where we hit that metaphorical brick wall straight away. In what Universe would Arsenal's board take on a manager who wants to spend lavish amounts of money on players?

---

Mourinho did spent a lot of money for Chelsea, but not with Inter & Real Madrid. His net spending for Madrid is still low for mega rich club. :coffee:

Mourinho will never come if the board don't want to spend on at least 5 great players like, say, Schweinsteiger and M'Vila in midfield, a great CB and LB and a forward who scores all the time.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by milla

Mourinho did spent a lot of money for Chelsea, but not with Inter & Real Madrid. His net spending for Madrid is still low for mega rich club. :coffee:

---

well at Inter he brought Quaresma for £24m, Mancini for 14 and then Milito and Motta from Genoa for a combined 44. Then when we sold Ibra we got Eto'o.

at madrid he signed oezil, khedira, coentrao, sahin for huge amounts....

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by She Wore A Yellow Ribbon

there's plenty of managers around the world who could manage us.

who'd heard of AVB before he went to chelsea? not many. and he looks like a decent manager thus far. done a great job at porto too.

although i have no faith whatsoever in the current mob on our board instilling a competent successor to wenger.

---

Erm, everyone knew of AVB. It was hard not to considering the year he had at Porto.

Ok he did with Inter but with Madrid the fee were fair tbh. Oezil 15 mil, Khedira and Sahin (each was near 10 mil), all in euro. Good business imo. :coffee:

And Moronho won treble with Inter which justified his spending, all jolly good for Inter imo. :good:

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by tpyo

Benitez? Are you guys kidding me? That guy is a joke.
Out of all the names so far the only one that has me anywhere near interested would be O'Neill. He's proven to be a very capable manager over the years. I think you have to look at who would make the team worse, before better. Benitez has the potentially to royally fuck up the team for years to come.

To me Ancelotti is just a "yes man" so I don't think he'd be a safe pair of hands, he's used to his bosses calling the shots and I think we'd all agree that we're not massive fans of the board.

---

Wenger has already done the part of making the team worse.

You'd rather have O'Neill than Rafa?

Ok then...

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Marc Overmars

Wenger has already done the part of making the team worse.

You'd rather have O'Neill than Rafa?

Ok then...

---

I wont have neither. Mods bring back CK's altar, lets remind GW of Fat Rafa shitness. :coffee:

The name a manager game is silly because I doubt many on here can name the top 3 coaches in Italy, Spain, France and Germany without checking on Google. I know I can't. That is why we've got all these ex Chelsea manager names popping up or guys that have coached lower teams who I personally think would be a step down.

I don't want a Prem manager taking over this club. The standard here is pretty poor and I can't respect them because most of them have poor records in the Europa Cup and can't even win an FA cup or Carling Cup.