Bizarrely you’d do well to get Mourinho again. He thrives off a blank chequebook and when given it guarantees success.

comment by Harambe (U22339)
posted 2 minutes ago
Bizarrely you’d do well to get Mourinho again. He thrives off a blank chequebook and when given it guarantees success.
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This isn’t 2005, he had a blank chequebook with us and signed absolute dross.

comment by Jonathan Moore (U11781)
posted 16 minutes ago
comment by Harambe (U22339)
posted 2 minutes ago
Bizarrely you’d do well to get Mourinho again. He thrives off a blank chequebook and when given it guarantees success.
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This isn’t 2005, he had a blank chequebook with us and signed absolute dross.
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Didn’t he win you A treble?

comment by Harambe (U22339)
posted 30 minutes ago
comment by Jonathan Moore (U11781)
posted 16 minutes ago
comment by Harambe (U22339)
posted 2 minutes ago
Bizarrely you’d do well to get Mourinho again. He thrives off a blank chequebook and when given it guarantees success.
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This isn’t 2005, he had a blank chequebook with us and signed absolute dross.
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Didn’t he win you A treble?
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no as he is a utd fan Jose is our most successful manager ever and he loves chelsea and actually lives just around the corner. I think opinion is split on we would have him back. Personally i wouldnt object as he has the passion required to light a fire under these players, plus hed command respect just by being Jose. there are many whod point to at times very defensive football but he did also achieve the first team to score over 100 goals in a season in england. so it could not all have been bad.

comment by chelseadagger64 (U22880)
posted 2 minutes ago
comment by Harambe (U22339)
posted 30 minutes ago
comment by Jonathan Moore (U11781)
posted 16 minutes ago
comment by Harambe (U22339)
posted 2 minutes ago
Bizarrely you’d do well to get Mourinho again. He thrives off a blank chequebook and when given it guarantees success.
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This isn’t 2005, he had a blank chequebook with us and signed absolute dross.
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Didn’t he win you A treble?
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no as he is a utd fan Jose is our most successful manager ever and he loves chelsea and actually lives just around the corner. I think opinion is split on we would have him back. Personally i wouldnt object as he has the passion required to light a fire under these players, plus hed command respect just by being Jose. there are many whod point to at times very defensive football but he did also achieve the first team to score over 100 goals in a season in england. so it could not all have been bad.

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I know, in the 16/17 season he won the Europa, League cup and English super cup with United.

Stranger things have happened but it makes sense

Mourinho?? Give me a break he's finished as an elite manager.

Flick would interest me a lot if we parted ways with Potter.

comment by Harambe (U22339)
posted 2 hours, 32 minutes ago
Bizarrely you’d do well to get Mourinho again. He thrives off a blank chequebook and when given it guarantees success.
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He'd want his own players, meaning they have to sign another 400m in players, whilst having a dozen on 8 year contracts. All they can do now is either hoping Potter will find a way to make a winning team out of them, or replace Potter with a manager who can with the players they have now. I think after spending 600m in one season there isnt much leeway in terms of FFP or money left in the coffers.

Tough tough call for Boehly and board to scrap the project.
Admit he got it wrong and bite the bullet.
It seems he will take the massive flack and back his own judgment least till the summer.
But have no fear even the poorest teams in a league get a goal every so often...

I dunno about Flick. It's more intriguing than it is inspiring. There's a shade of Potter about it in the sense he did very well at one of the most sensible & well run clubs in the world & that's the only point of reference.

If Boehly was to take the bold step of flat out admitting he made a mistake by firing Potter now, he might as well go all the way & throw some of that money he's determined to waste at Tuchel to bring him back. Outside of something extraordinary like Pep or Klopp, that's the only appointment that'll make me feel anything.

Ten Hag has done superbly at United because he's an excellent manager. But also because he has been backed by the club in terms of bringing in players that matched the profile and characteristics he wanted, in the order of priority he set out, and generally going out of its way to reinforce his authority. I have no idea whether Potter is an elite coach or merely a very good one, and whether he could be a successful fit at Chelsea, but it seems clear that the owner hasn't supported him by buying players he needed or by empowering him in the eyes of the players. Maybe hoovering up top talent with little regard to the short term sporting impact proves to be a winning medium-term tactic, but no one should expect a coherent side with maximum buy-in from all the players in the meantime.

comment by Red Russian (U4715)
posted 1 hour, 19 minutes ago
Ten Hag has done superbly at United because he's an excellent manager. But also because he has been backed by the club in terms of bringing in players that matched the profile and characteristics he wanted, in the order of priority he set out, and generally going out of its way to reinforce his authority. I have no idea whether Potter is an elite coach or merely a very good one, and whether he could be a successful fit at Chelsea, but it seems clear that the owner hasn't supported him by buying players he needed or by empowering him in the eyes of the players. Maybe hoovering up top talent with little regard to the short term sporting impact proves to be a winning medium-term tactic, but no one should expect a coherent side with maximum buy-in from all the players in the meantime.
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Potter had input on every one of our January signings according to all reliable sources. He has also had nothing but concrete backing from our board.

They needed to do a better job of shipping out the unwanted players, but again like I said, none of these problems or issues are enough to justify 2 league wins in 15.