The Official Chelsea Thread [Vol 3]
Discussion
jammy-git said:
Is that approach going to work any more though? You've been lucky with Jose and Conte that they've largely been able to ride a "honeymoon" phase in their first season and win titles with largely what you already had. However it's obvious that Abramovich wants you to be self sufficient now and the quality of your team has been on a slight decline for several seasons now. If you want to keep bringing in different managers every couple of seasons, with different philosophies and requirements from players, it's expensive.
Except that at Chelsea the club set the philosophy and requirements, recruit the players to suit it and hires a manager who fits with that philosophy and will work within an agreed set of parameters - precisely to avoid having to change everything every time a new manager comes in. The manager has input into player recruitment, but not the final say as I understand it.I think that some managers struggle with this concept, despite signing up to it when they arrive. Contes previous whinging about player recruitment smacks of getting his excuses in early to me.
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desolate said:
Chris Stott said:
There's nothing wrong with your squad - you have some fantastic players (as demonstrated with last years title). But there's something wrong with the culture within the team - they stopped playing for Jose, then won the league the next season, and now look like they aren't bothered again.
Conte's clearly at the heart of it - doesn't look from the outside like the players 'like' him... might sound simplistic, but in my 30 odd years of managing people (admittedly not football), I've found people work much harder for managers they like.
There is the old saying "a fish rots from the head" .Conte's clearly at the heart of it - doesn't look from the outside like the players 'like' him... might sound simplistic, but in my 30 odd years of managing people (admittedly not football), I've found people work much harder for managers they like.
To be successful long term a club needs a consistent message coming right from the top, through all levels to the team. The best examples of this are Spurs and Burnley now (Utd until recently) - sticking to the same ethos for years.
Chelsea seem to want a "name" manager but to run everything from the board room. I am sure if they find a manager happy to put up with that they will get back to solid top four and more.
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