Chelsea kicks off search for manager after dismissing Carlo Ancelotti – Premier League news
Chelsea did not wait too long to start looking for a new manager after parting company with Italian Carlo Ancelotti an hour after losing their final game of the season against http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Everton-c13019, 1-0.
The former Premier League champions will start the new season with another new manager in August. This will be their seventh new manager in charge in the last eight years. Guus Hiddink, the former Russian manager and personal friend of Chelsea owner Roman
Abramovich, had a brief spell at Chelsea as a caretaker manager and is one of the favourites for the job. Andre Villas-Boas, the Porto manager who led his team to Europa League win recently, is also among the names thrown in the hat currently.
However, despite the financial pull of Chelsea and personal contacts of Abramovich, it will not be an easy task for the Blues to get a hold of any of those two men. Hiddink is currently working as National coach for http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Turkey-c3026 and is not ready to step back into
club management full-time. Villas-Boas the Porto manager has a very strong contract with Porto which will make it difficult for him to find a release clause.
That means that other candidates may have a chance at one of the most high profile jobs, not just in http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Chelsea-c38786 he will have his hands full and will have to make some big decisions.
The first big decision will be to decide how many changes would have to be made to reshape the aging Chelsea squad which ended the season trophy-less and pretty much bent out of shape. Chelsea spent 50 million pounds in the January transfer window on a man
who is yet to justify the amount of money spent on him. http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Fernando-Torres-c13707 has scored just one goal since moving to Stamford Bridge and the new manager would have to build his attacking side of the team around the Spaniard.
There would have to an emphasis on buying players that can complement the World Cup winning striker and can work with him in creating and scoring goals. The likes of http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Didier-Drogba-c11044 have been the mainstay of the team for a while
now, but age has started to catch up with all of them and there is a need to find able replacements for long term plans.
Rebuilding a team like Chelsea will not be easy, considering that Roman Abramovich, the owner of the club, is impatient when it comes to winning silverware and letting a manager stay long without success. The case of Carlo Ancelotti is a brutal example of
how, the policy of ‘you don’t win, you don’t stay’ works at Stamford Bridge.
There are a couple of months for Chelsea to look around for a man who will fit the bill. Money should not be an object for them but even cash at times does not guarantee success, a fact that dawned upon them in the season that just finished.
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