Chelsea- The Dislocated Arm

I'll try to make this as short and as un-repetitve as most of the other posts. I've been a bit quiet while reading the general opinions on the board since the weekend. The board is definitely divided between the Pro AVB, the Anti-AVB, the undecided, the annoyed and Mr Capello. Kinda like our dressing room and I'm guessing Mikel is the Mr Capello in there.

ON AVB
He's a brilliant manager. Very intelligent and tactically sound, willing to take risks, great speaker(this has swayed a few fans) and reasonably good in the transfer market. He has been very naive thus far in a few areas;
Trusting Lampard at the start of the season and after media pressure.
Replying the media, should totally give them nothing to work with whenever possible.
Handling Alex and Anelka(should have just let them go in Jan without publicizing the transfer request).

These are understandable mistakes though. I can't fault his team selection most times. I felt Essien would have been better against Napoli rather than Raul and he should have stuck with his guts and not played Lampard at all. Essien on for Malouda at the start of the 2nd half with Rami moving to the right and Studge moving to the left leaving Mata in the hole.

I really doubt his abilities in rebuilding a squad of this magnitude though especially with his 'experimental' backroom staff. No member of his team has significant rebuilding experience so it could be quite difficult but more on this after I talk about the players.

ON PLAYER POWER
Unacceptable at any club and should be destroyed quickly. Management should always have all the power ala City and Tevez. Lampard has relentlessly said that their(the old guard's) past performances for this club means they should play the majority of the games. This mentality brings failure in any system and if Frank can't accept fighting for his place, he should be out(in the reserves or out) ASAP, legend or not.

CONCLUSION
If AVB had experience in rebuilding, it would have been a no brainer but he doesn't. Look at it this way, If you have a dislocated arm, you can;
1. choose the easy option and leave it untouched but suffer long term(fire AVB and get in Benitez or Capello short term),
2. choose the difficult and painful option ie force the arm back into place and enjoy long term but suffer short term.(sack players , fail to qualify for CL short term but come back bigger and better)
Warning: if the physiotherapist isn't too good, you could break the arm in the process.Ours (AVB) has shown great potential but is still unproven.


Chelsea in my opinion cannot give more power to these players by firing another manager(albeit one not really assured to do a good job). The players in question have very little left in the tank making the decision easier. We have to risk breaking our arm to relocate our shoulder with a potentially fantastic physiotherapist(AVB) and even though we could leave the arm and let it serve us to the best of it's now limited abilities, that is unadvisable.