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We didn't last summer, manager and players sorted quickly.

Which could be 45 before the points deduction

Good point, we can live in hope. Maybe the points deduction will unite us😂

Whoever we appoint, and whatever tactical approach they favour we need to get behind the manager because it's going to be a real dog fight to stay in the PL this season. It wouldn't be realistic for fans to start demanding we sack them if we're still bottom in January either, because if we survive it will be a bigger achievement than the great escape.

A bullshit idea that most of the PL top clubs have employed at some point this season🤔

Sacked by Hull for playing boring football, so no thanks.

The worst think about Enzo leaving is Rudkin will definitely remain as DOF. What this club needs more than anything is a new strong DOF that can implement a longterm blueprint, a style of play, player recruitment, tactical philosophy starting from the academy upto the first team Rudkin allowed Rodgers to sabotage everything good about the club at the time, meaning Enzo had to start again. We can't afford to waste money on good players that don't fit the next manager's system, who are either loaned, don't play or sold at a loss. Managers are short term, the DOF is the most important person at the club and we're stuck with Rudkin for the foreseeable future.

He established West Ham as a top half team and won a European trophy in 2023

I agree but we're talking about Chelsea so they might just decide to waste another £50 mil on another centre mid 😂

The target is obviously to stay in the PL but we have to be realistic this could be an impossible task, so we need to appoint a young long term manager that will manage in the championship. Corberan gets my vote. As an absolute minimum the club has to sort out it's finances this season so if we go down we're not facing points deductions in the championship to give us the best chance of going straight back again without more points deductions once PSR is replaced at then end the 24/25 season.

I hate Chelsea for poaching the manager of a newly promoted team, it's hard enough to stay in the PL without this happening. I for one thought we stood more chance staying in the league with the current manager than having to rebuild from scratch again. I guess we'll find out the state of the clubs finance's pretty soon, i.e can we pay compensation for our new manager or will we be employing an out of work manager.

Yes but we had the best championship squad in the history of the game and if Enzo was any good and tactically knew what he was doing we would have won every game 3-0 without conceding all season.😂😂😂 My unborn child could have got that squad promoted, he's a ****ing fraud.

Vile club with absolutely no class

At least we'll have time to appoint a new manager who can decide on the the futures of Vestergaard, Ndidi and Vardy etc. before their contracts expire. It would have been a disaster if we re-sign the above on Enzo's instructions, only for him to piss off to Chelsea in July and for them all to be surplus to the new manager's requirements.

Usual insane reactions on here, Chelsea have approached Enzo not the other way round. He's done what 99% of young ambitions people would do in their career if they've been headhunted by a leading company. He's had an interview, so what. It's not like we're a stable option at the moment with so many unknowns regarding FFP, transfer funds etc.... a fanbase that doesn't appreciate your efforts, tactics calling for your head when your top of the table.

Graham Potter, Thomas Tuncel and Mauricio Pochettino must also be part of the few that thought it was unbelievable opportunity.

With the exception of Dean Smith, our board have done well with all our recent managerial appoints, so I don't under the pessimism.

Not heard any direct quotes from Enzo, but It's just they way of the world, name a manager from a smaller club who's turned down Chelsea. It Never happens, they have more to offer than us plus it's London.

If he wants proper direction then Chelsea isn't the club for Enzo. Boehly and Eghbali are ****ing clueless, their solution is to just chuck money at the team and buy youth without a thought for team structure, squad size, harmony, what the manager needs etc. It took a manager of Pochettino's quality nearly a year to sort out the mess they created. I pity whoever gets the job, it's an impossible task because the owners just keep adding to the size of the problem.

Totally agree with you, hopefully Enzo and Kieran both turn down Chelsea. These clown owners have ruined football, spending £750 million on transfers fees in a failed attempt to play football manager for real. Just flashing the cash buying who they want without a ****ing clue, or long term plan. How are they fit and proper owners, the PL are a joke.

Not sure why any young manager would want to work for a billionaire owner playing real life football manager who's spent a billion to make his team worse.

Not sure if any of those managers are ready to manage, or deserve, the soap opera that's Chelsea.

Maybe, but they're a similar size to us and haven't won anything so not that great IMO.

Remind me what Brighton have won with their level of competence.

This whole thread is becoming pointless