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AVB - Chelsea

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I've just heard AVB has been told that IF Napoli knock Chelsea out of the Champion's League he will be sacked.

Quite why Abramovich employed him is a mystery to me.

All that money to get him in.. obvious re-building job to be done yet he looks to pull the plug before the guy has had a go at making the transition.

I bet he's looking at Benitez also...

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Feel a bit for AVB. Took on a sinking ship with what some may describe as the worst dressing room in football. Chelsea won't win anything until the likes of Terry and Drogba are shipped out and the team play for each other and the manager. There are too many egos and too many players past their prime at present.

In regards to the man himself I wonder if he was ready for such a high profile position. There have been instances where he hasn't looked ready for the pressure, such as the Gary Neville wind up and various post game interviews. I have no doubt he'll go on to be a top manager in the future, and reckon he'll probably walk into a decent job probably in Serie A or La Liga. After all what he achieved in Portugal was remarkable even considering the supposed standard of the game over there.

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I see in the papers today Mourinho is house hunting in London.

Apparently AVB has been told to his face by the powers that be he's out if Chelsea go out of Europe.

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Feel a bit for AVB. Took on a sinking ship with what some may describe as the worst dressing room in football. Chelsea won't win anything until the likes of Terry and Drogba are shipped out and the team play for each other and the manager. There are too many egos and too many players past their prime at present.

Exactly.

The problems at Chelsea are almost exclusively of the players' making. Villas-Boas hasn't helped himself at times but the attitude of the likes of Drogba, (surprise, surprise) Terry and (most disappointingly) Lampard has been wretched towards him from the get-go.

Villas-Boas wants to play a high-line with a focus on pressing the opposition players when they are in possession. Old players simply don't have the energy to do this as well, so his big mistake was not shipping them out in the summer.

The Chelsea fans have played their part in this as well. The ridiculous hero-worship of John Terry has long past the point when it was mildly amusing and is now just sad. The same goes now for their fawning over Lampard and Drogba. Once great players, and still very good players, but they don't have the legs to play every game any more. In fact, they don't fit in with how the manager wants to play the game.

They need to realise that these players are coming towards the end of their careers and that in order for the club to move forward, they need to go through a year-or-two of transition, bringing in younger, more agile players and adapting to the AVB way.

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Roman shouldn't have got rid of Mourinho! I feel for AVB, if you don't win something with Chelsea in your first year then you're out. Who would take that job? I know I wouldn't. It sums it all up when Grant took them to their only ever European Cup final (as well as 2nd in the Prem) and he got sacked.

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Roman shouldn't have got rid of Mourinho! I feel for AVB, if you don't win something with Chelsea in your first year then you're out. Who would take that job? I know I wouldn't. It sums it all up when Grant took them to their only ever European Cup final (as well as 2nd in the Prem) and he got sacked.

what big job you holding out for then?

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Sit in the managers chair for a couple of months, Get the sack with a huge pay-off by a trigger happy owner.

Easiest job in the world.

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Feel sorry for the guy, Drogba, Terry, Lampard, Cole all coming to the end, huge rebuilding job and no time and fairly little funding to do it.

The guy is a born winner, the job he did at Porto was outstanding, if Chelsea sack him he'll do the business eventually somewhere else.

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Feel sorry for the guy, Drogba, Terry, Lampard, Cole all coming to the end, huge rebuilding job and no time and fairly little funding to do it.

The guy is a born winner, the job he did at Porto was outstanding, if Chelsea sack him he'll do the business eventually somewhere else.

You just know he'd go to somewhere like Inter and come back and bite them in the Champions League in the near future.

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You just know he'd go to somewhere like Inter and come back and bite them in the Champions League in the near future.

Have I seen that happen before?

lol

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Lampard and Drogba must go if AVB is going to have any chance of doing well with Chelsea, it's not that I think they are bad players, but it seems obvious that them two are negative influences in the dressing room.

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Have I seen that happen before?

lol

Possibly...

Inter have the same problem at the moment though, they've got a fairly old squad with alot of square pegs and round holes that needs a lot of work.

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Possibly...

Inter have the same problem at the moment though, they've got a fairly old squad with alot of square pegs and round holes that needs a lot of work.

Not to mention Claudio "tinkerman" Ranieri...

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