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Wins the Champions League and the FA cup and gets sacked :eek: They're mental.
 
Usual overreaction on here I see. Winning the Champions League was down to the players, and had little to do with him. He just came in and, because he wasn't a 'big' name or looking to stamp his authority on the team, the players were allowed to get on with it and run things themselves. That's why Chelsea have their greatest successes under interim managers.

As soon as he goes permanent and tries to do things his own way, he's in trouble. This will remain the case until the likes of Terry, Lampard, Cole and Cech are no longer at the club.
 
Usual overreaction on here I see. Winning the Champions League was down to the players, and had little to do with him. He just came in and, because he wasn't a 'big' name or looking to stamp his authority on the team, the players were allowed to get on with it and run things themselves. That's why Chelsea have their greatest successes under interim managers.

As soon as he goes permanent and tries to do things his own way, he's in trouble. This will remain the case until the likes of Terry, Lampard, Cole and Cech are no longer at the club.

Its not an over-reaction to a manager who had a flying start to the league and its not even December and he has lost his job :lol:
 
Usual overreaction on here I see. Winning the Champions League was down to the players, and had little to do with him. He just came in and, because he wasn't a 'big' name or looking to stamp his authority on the team, the players were allowed to get on with it and run things themselves. That's why Chelsea have their greatest successes under interim managers.

As soon as he goes permanent and tries to do things his own way, he's in trouble. This will remain the case until the likes of Terry, Lampard, Cole and Cech are no longer at the club.

Name me a manager that has achieved what he has in the same amount of time!
 
Usual overreaction on here I see. Winning the Champions League was down to the players, and had little to do with him. He just came in and, because he wasn't a 'big' name or looking to stamp his authority on the team, the players were allowed to get on with it and run things themselves. That's why Chelsea have their greatest successes under interim managers.

As soon as he goes permanent and tries to do things his own way, he's in trouble. This will remain the case until the likes of Terry, Lampard, Cole and Cech are no longer at the club.

How come the majority of the players had failed to win it before?

Rubbish, they won the league twice in a row under Mourinho (permanent manager) and their only ever double under Ancelotti (permanent manager)
 
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Don't get me wrong, I don't think Benitez is perfect. The Alonso scenario was madness (as was his decision to get rid of Arbeloa for relatively cheap, only to replace him with a vastly overpriced Glenn Johnson). Still a much better manager than Di Matteo with a proper managerial pedigree.

Benitez's track record with Valencia certainly out trumps Di Matteo's CV, and I doubt Champion's League success is ever a 'fluke', but the rest of his tenure at LFC was generally mediocre.

It may well be that Di Matteo last season was simply the right man at the right time and long term he would have been a disaster, but with Abramovich's trigger finger, no one will ever know.

If the owner continues in a similar vein, I'm not sure that there is a manager out there that could succeed long term at Chelsea.

When I say long term, I mean longer than a season.
 
How come the majority of the players had failed to win it before?

Rubbish, they won the league twice in a row under Mourinho (permanent manager) and their only ever double under Ancelotti (permanent manager)

Because they had manager's with pedigree who were trying to stamp their own authority on the team, whereas DI Matteo just let the players who were really running things get on with it. He was a puppet.

Post-Mourinho, Rocky. I assumed that went without saying.

Some of you really need to start reading between the lines.

Name me a manager that has achieved what he has in the same amount of time!

The amount of time doesn't give you a clue in all this? He'd only been there a couple of months when they lifted the trophies.

Its not an over-reaction to a manager who had a flying start to the league and its not even December and he has lost his job :lol:

Flying start?

They've done just about what is expected in the league (7 wins from 12) and done poorly in the Champions League.
 
Wins the Champions League and the FA cup and gets sacked :eek: They're mental.

IMO, he had fuck all to do with winning the CL. Battered in both the semi and the Final and they appear to be conceding a lot now.

Winning the CL wasn't down to his organisational skills, more a case of the players having a mate as manager (after AVB_ and hanging on for grim death.

If Terry had scored his pen v Man Utd should they have kept Avram Grant? No, he was shit and great players nearly won it on that occasion. Great players and outrageous fortune won it this time.

Right decision IMO.
 
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