Chelsea

[Jordzibob]

I think Ancelotti is the right man for the job. Its highly unpredictable, thats the nature of Chelsea these days, but I think that looking at it straight off, he is a better man for the job than Scolari. Chelsea wont have to adapt their style of play much, being in Italy he's a defensive minded coach, and being that Chelsea are boring (=] I hate them so fucking much I wish they would simply burn, haha Iniesta haha) Ancelotti's experience in that kindof tactic should bring their performance up considerably. Scolari had the previous experience of managing two very attacking, international teams, Portugal and Brazil. That for me is a completely different side of the coin to managing a club like Chelsea, the style of play, the management, almost everything apart from the ego's....

I dont think Grant should have been sacked. It was a disgusting move, and using a very good Arsene Wenger quote, "If John Terry had scored that penalty Avram Grant would be the same manager, he'd just have a job". Grant did brilliantly in all but the League Cup final against Spurs, and Imo he should still be manager of the scum. I''m not even going to apologise, your one of the most hated clubs in the world, and its not suprising considering the way almost all of your players act. This was not an attempt to wind up any Chelsea fans, =] merely expressing the views of someone who loaths Chelsea...to the core. Essien should be playing for a better club....like Barcelona, =].

[VivaBarca]

Agree Grant should never have been sacked he was doing well I thought. Never given a chance. As simple as that.

[Red Devil]

Agree Grant should never have been sacked he was doing well I thought. Never given a chance. As simple as that.

The guy was a fucking wet he was a joke of a human Chelsea didnt need a manager that season there team was a Jose Mourinho team then they would of done well without guidance .

[AnfieldEd]

Grant lacked the killer instinct and cutting edge to be a manager of a club wanting to win the top prizes.

Chelsea under every other manager would have beaten Spurs too in the carling cup.

[Jordzibob]

But this is the problem with Chelsea, ever since Mourinho has gone, nobody has been good enough. That doesnt suprise me, he did a bloody brilliant job there. But Liverpool, Man Utd, Arsenal have all shown....you have to stick with a manager if your looking for results, Chelsea fire someone if they lost like two games on the trot, they are horrendously fickle, and Abramovic is awful. Chelsea in the last few years has always reminded me of Russia. Trotsky-Mourinho, Stalin-Abrahmovic, Scolari and Grant-Kaminev and Zinoviev....like it or lump it Mr Abrahmovic loves a good purge...

[FCBNOF]

How long do you think Carlos will last? i give him 2 seasons tops.

But he has potentional because he's the right person to lead what mourinho left off.

[diegomessi]

2 seasons? i give him 8 months

[FCBNOF]

He is a world-class manager, he was used to working with stars and overdue ones as well.

He can handle the dressing room and he garantees resaults, with the squad chelsea have i don't see why he'd be sacked in 8 months time.

[BarcafaninIllinois]

Probably longer than Scolari, but who knows with Abramovich.

[antonnn]

I've told you all the deal with Grant, Scolari and Ancelotti. Grant was Roman's man to do the job for that point in time, but then after the CL final the board had a majority vote to oust Grant, which Roman did not want to do, he wanted to keep Grant on for another season. People are fooled by how well Grant did, it was a Mourinho team through and through, the way they played, the way they acted, Grant just put the team on the field and let them do their job. So in the end I think it was the right choice to sack him.

The mistake made here was to hire Scolari, which was the board's decision once again, not Roman's personal one. Once Roman realised Scolari was a muppet he sacked him(while Kenyon, the key man in hiring Scolari, was on holiday) and brought in Guus, his own man. Needless to say we know how that turned out, very well when taking into consideration how poor a position we were in when Scolari was sacked, in the league, and the players fitness.

So now Ancelotti is in the job, another Roman man, and I think unless we are out of the top 3 and do TERRIBLY everywhere else, Ancelotti will get more than 1 season cause he's Roman's man and Roman will have faith in him. Roman isn't as bad as people make him out to be, but cause bad shit goes on at Chelsea and he's the big rich Russian owner he cops all the flak.

[Jordzibob]

I've told you all the deal with Grant, Scolari and Ancelotti. Grant was Roman's man to do the job for that point in time, but then after the CL final the board had a majority vote to oust Grant, which Roman did not want to do, he wanted to keep Grant on for another season. People are fooled by how well Grant did, it was a Mourinho team through and through, the way they played, the way they acted, Grant just put the team on the field and let them do their job. So in the end I think it was the right choice to sack him.

The mistake made here was to hire Scolari, which was the board's decision once again, not Roman's personal one. Once Roman realised Scolari was a muppet he sacked him(while Kenyon, the key man in hiring Scolari, was on holiday) and brought in Guus, his own man. Needless to say we know how that turned out, very well when taking into consideration how poor a position we were in when Scolari was sacked, in the league, and the players fitness.

So now Ancelotti is in the job, another Roman man, and I think unless we are out of the top 3 and do TERRIBLY everywhere else, Ancelotti will get more than 1 season cause he's Roman's man and Roman will have faith in him. Roman isn't as bad as people make him out to be, but cause bad shit goes on at Chelsea and he's the big rich Russian owner he cops all the flak.

If that is the truth then thankyou, you've changed my opinion on Abrahmovic. Obviously I will trust you as a Chelsea fan and take your word for it that thats all true, but yes, I didnt know all of that and have changed my opinion on him, =] cheers. Still hate Chelsea in general though, lol.

[antonnn]

I read Chelsea articles every day so I've pieced together what seems to be the truth from a lot of the stuff I've read. The players love Abramovich, he watches matches, he goes to see them afterwards in the dressing room, goes to attend training and everything.

He's nothing like the media seem to make him out to be, he'll miss one game and they make this big deal out of it that he's lost interest in football and the club(they always seem to forget he's a busy man, Chelsea isn't he only thing he has an interest in), but in reality he really loves his football and wants to be involved in it as much as he possibly can, and I really don't think he picks the teams and such like some articles have said(though Frank has admitted he's spoken to players about tactics, but he never said it in a negative way, he just said that's how much he loves football). Sure he's made mistakes like buying Sheva and such, but nobody is perfect.

A sign of how much he loves the club is when he went to America and one of Chelsea's games were on, so he went to a local bar to watch a game with all regular American Chelsea fans, how many owners do that? Most would rather watch the match from their plush hotel on cable TV, but Roman watched it with regular people and took photos with them. He's a good guy IMO, it's just nobody knows that about him because he never speaks to the media or anything, so they just think he's some tyrannical owner of a football club.

[VivaBarca]

Ancelotti will be there for atleast 3 years and he'll have won virtually everything you can, you heard it hear first.

[antonnn]

That would be brilliant really. Either way, hopefully Zola will be the man to succeed Ancelotti, unless Ancelotti leaves too soon for Zola to be ready for Chelsea. Zola is a legend, he's been offered a job at Chelsea many, many times but he's always declined because he loves the club so much that he said he doesn't want to come when he isn't ready to do the best he can do. You can't put a price on true gentlemen like him.

[Beast]

Inter are joke because Milan own their ass in every way. AC Milan are superior to Inter in every aspect of football. It is also a joke to see Inter in europe when they are the kings of choking. I do not class Inter as an elite club at all. They are classless and when there is a level playing field are owned by Milan and Juve in Italy.

They had to cheat to win the european cup. Gio and Interscum will disagree of course but there is clear evidence Inter are cheats. Brian Glanville, an anti Liverpool person as you can get because he used to tear into us in our heyday, did a thorough investigation with help from some italian authorities. Of course it was all blown under the carpet but everyone knows the truth about that club.

So basically Inter are a joke, apart from a few years in the 60's they have always underperformed in europe and they cannot accept the fact AC Milan are a club who are superior in every single way.