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Here is my list to choose from, but please take into consideration the player resources available to each respective manager:
Dave Sexton - Back to back trophies with FA Cup Final win over Leeds followed by ECW Fnal over Real Madrid.
Vialli - In his debut season winning the League Cup , the next season we were genuine title challengers, and the season after that won the FA Cup, followed by European Cup Winners Cup and Super Cup.
Jose Mourinho - Back to back PL titles and arguably changed the mindset of the club to become serial winners for many seasons after he left Chelsea.
Carlo Ancellotti - PL and FA Cup Double in his first season
Roberto Di Matteo - Took over from the dysfunctional AVB and oversaw an FA Cup Final victory agst Liverpool and a CL Final victory over Bayern in their own back yard. With the added bonus of seeing lederhosen dressed Spurs fans in tears.
Antonio Conte - Winning the PL in his debut season by changing the system to a back 3 and then winning thirteen PL games on the bounce. Also won the FA Cup in his second season.
Thomas Tuchel - Taking over from Lamps and having an instant impact in his debut season, ensuring a top 4 finish and overseeing a dominant CL campaign resulting in a deserved victory in the final against City.
Best achievement by a Chelsea boss since
posted on 8/1/24
Jose's achievement was undoubtedly very good but he inherited an already good and very expensive team that had been largely put together by Ranieri. The likes of JT and Lamps had been taught and developed under Ranieri and they ended up being Jose's two most important players, especially in his first season.
Jose had also been backed with as much money as he needed to spend under a very ambitious new owner who was only too happy to get his chequebook out to sign any attainable player in world football, well before the constraints of FFP. Jose walked into a near perfect scenario at Chelsea so I can't rank his achievement as the highest.
Jose's reign is also overshadowed by the fact that he had everything at his disposal that any manager could dream of yet he wasn't able to maintain the success of his Chelsea team beyond three years.
posted on 8/1/24
Yeah you could look at it like that, but!
Come on, Jose brought in Cavhalio & Ferrara sorted the defence right out.
Dogba found his feet.
But when you look at the squads between 03/4 > 04/5 > 05>6 there was a mass overhaul on the scale of the one currently being carried out by our new ownership.
The squad had about 12 players who were as good as you could get in their positions, but the rest were distinctly average journey men pros.
Over Jose's time there was a lot going on but he gelled them into a cohesive fighting force, a spine which was still driving the club a decade later.
His time was not solely about the back to back winning seasons , it was about the culture of club legacy he installed.Which other managers continued to benefit from.
Today, personally i have no real affection for Mourinho , due to his abysmal behaviour during his second stint.
posted on 8/1/24
comment by ifarka, (B-C- out) (U8182)
posted 3 hours, 48 minutes ago
Yeah you could look at it like that, but!
Come on, Jose brought in Cavhalio & Ferrara sorted the defence right out.
Dogba found his feet.
But when you look at the squads between 03/4 > 04/5 > 05>6 there was a mass overhaul on the scale of the one currently being carried out by our new ownership.
The squad had about 12 players who were as good as you could get in their positions, but the rest were distinctly average journey men pros.
Over Jose's time there was a lot going on but he gelled them into a cohesive fighting force, a spine which was still driving the club a decade later.
His time was not solely about the back to back winning seasons , it was about the culture of club legacy he installed.Which other managers continued to benefit from.
Today, personally i have no real affection for Mourinho , due to his abysmal behaviour during his second stint.
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Agree on all that...we still hold a couple of records from that era too...like 15 goals conceded ( I think)
posted on 8/1/24
comment by Superb (U6486)
posted 4 hours, 24 minutes ago
Jose's achievement was undoubtedly very good but he inherited an already good and very expensive team that had been largely put together by Ranieri. The likes of JT and Lamps had been taught and developed under Ranieri and they ended up being Jose's two most important players, especially in his first season.
Jose had also been backed with as much money as he needed to spend under a very ambitious new owner who was only too happy to get his chequebook out to sign any attainable player in world football, well before the constraints of FFP. Jose walked into a near perfect scenario at Chelsea so I can't rank his achievement as the highest.
Jose's reign is also overshadowed by the fact that he had everything at his disposal that any manager could dream of yet he wasn't able to maintain the success of his Chelsea team beyond three years.
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Sorry superb m8, but this is massively indigenous to Jose - he walked into a good team and made it into the best in the world - could Raniera have done it, maybe but not to the level Jose did, and he's legacy lasted a decade. Other managers had what he had too and couldn't keep anywhere near to the success.
Titles after were won by Jose team, including the 2012 CL. It doesn't excusebhis later behaviour, but that is massively down playing what Jose instilled in the club.
posted on 8/1/24
*disingenuous
Stupid autocorrect
posted on 8/1/24
Have tbh, even though its my article,I can't decide
posted on 8/1/24
Looking purely at achievement and given the circumstances of an ageing team and AVB beforehand I think winning an FA Cup and CL double is the most extraordinary achievement from the list.
Tuchel also extraordinary in my mind. His impact was 8nstant.
But I thinkit is true that Jose changed the mindset of the club and shd take some credit for trophies we won when he wasn't with us.
posted on 8/1/24
Objectively Jose
Conte still has a place for me subjectively. I feel like it can’t be understated how much he squeezed out of that squad. It’s in part because I really didn’t rate our squad too at that time and he turned them into such dominant title winners. The only time I’ve seen a routine PL win be seen as a classic game because of how utterly dominant we were (4-0 vs Everton). Although he still has a decent legacy here it’s a shame he didn’t do well in Europe to have further cemented his time with us.
posted on 8/1/24
comment by Simon West (U1830)
posted 4 hours, 17 minutes ago
comment by Superb (U6486)
posted 4 hours, 24 minutes ago
Jose's achievement was undoubtedly very good but he inherited an already good and very expensive team that had been largely put together by Ranieri. The likes of JT and Lamps had been taught and developed under Ranieri and they ended up being Jose's two most important players, especially in his first season.
Jose had also been backed with as much money as he needed to spend under a very ambitious new owner who was only too happy to get his chequebook out to sign any attainable player in world football, well before the constraints of FFP. Jose walked into a near perfect scenario at Chelsea so I can't rank his achievement as the highest.
Jose's reign is also overshadowed by the fact that he had everything at his disposal that any manager could dream of yet he wasn't able to maintain the success of his Chelsea team beyond three years.
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Sorry superb m8, but this is massively indigenous to Jose - he walked into a good team and made it into the best in the world - could Raniera have done it, maybe but not to the level Jose did, and he's legacy lasted a decade. Other managers had what he had too and couldn't keep anywhere near to the success.
Titles after were won by Jose team, including the 2012 CL. It doesn't excusebhis later behaviour, but that is massively down playing what Jose instilled in the club.
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I'm definitely not playing it down, in my first sentence I acknowledged that his achievement was very good. Just not the best on the list imo and I gave my reasons why.
And Jose fell short in the CL with us. We can debate why but if we were the best team in the world we should have had a CL to show for it from that three year era. History doesn't remember the semifinalists.
And I agree that Ranieri wouldn't have taken us to the heights that Jose did but Ranieri isn't/wasn't a truly elite manager like Jose was at that time.
posted on 8/1/24
comment by Vorsprung durch Poch (U1641)
posted 1 hour, 31 minutes ago
Objectively Jose
Conte still has a place for me subjectively. I feel like it can’t be understated how much he squeezed out of that squad. It’s in part because I really didn’t rate our squad too at that time and he turned them into such dominant title winners. The only time I’ve seen a routine PL win be seen as a classic game because of how utterly dominant we were (4-0 vs Everton). Although he still has a decent legacy here it’s a shame he didn’t do well in Europe to have further cemented his time with us.
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He turned Mosesi to a title winner.Says it all about squeezing the best out of a squad 😂