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Obviously the correct decision from a Chelsea point of view, but in all fairness, any normal manager would have resigned before it came to this after such a shocking run of form. Not even Rodgers was as bad as that.

However, he's a stubborn cunt, so he was never going to resign.
 
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A pound to a penny says he's Citeh-bound anyway. They've been working up to it for years by appointing Beguiristain etc.(and poaching Borrell from us). Pellegrini's just been keeping the seat warm all this time.
 
Juve, Inter, PSG, Monaco (as his mate Mendes seems to run everything there), Madrid are all options for him.

I don't think the current Manc administration will be in favor of him. But if they don't win anything in the next 3-4 years I can see them going after him.
 
Mourinho could very well go back to Madrid in the summer when Rafa gets his marching orders (if not before). He wont be short of a job offer, BUT, I think his options are now very limited.

England - Possibly burnt his bridges. The scum as an outside shot?
Spain - Madrid or nothing.
Italy - Really go back there? Shit league
Germany - Bayern with the money or nothing
France - PSG or nothing

Maybe take a national team?
 
There were some stories the other day that Zidane will get the Real job when Rafa eventually is let go.
 
He could get a gig as a translator, I believe he has some experience in that field.

Although, who would trust him to translate what they're saying?
 
nealmac said:
Obviously the correct decision from a Chelsea point of view, but in all fairness, any normal manager would have resigned before it came to this after such a shocking run of form. Not even Rodgers was as bad as that.

However, he's a stubborn cunt, so he was never going to resign.
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Yeah, but unlike Rodgers, he's actually won a trophy. Over 20, actually, so he was possibly confident he could turn it around
 
I wish someone would finally do a FIFA on Abramovich and arrest the fecker for the crook he is. That's the only way this tiresome saga will ever end, because I gather he's even established a legal arrangement so that even if he gets assassinated by any of his many enemies Chelski will get a huge amount of his wealth, so the only hope is that the justice system stops its seemingly endless obsession with trying elderly celebs who once looked at someone's tits in 1973 and actually goes after stupendously crooked shitarses like him.
 
Markeh said:
I was hoping it'd last longer, I hate Jose and enjoyed seeing him struggle.
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Agreed. I'd have loved that too. But, with 2 home games coming up which they should win, I'm happy that the last opportunity to turn things around has been taken away and he ends on such a terrible run.
 
Has game-changer Pep Guardiola ended Jose Mourinho’s run at the top of the game?
By Miguel Delaney

Last update 6 hours ago - Published on 17/12/2015 at 14:15
Pep Guardiola has changed the way football is played to the extent that his great rival Jose Mourinho is struggling to adapt, writes Miguel Delaney.

For a midweek without any big matches across Europe, it was certainly filled with a lot of incident - and an awful lot of tension.
Pep Guardiola kept everyone waiting about his future, especially current employers Bayern Munich, as he thought about a final decision on what to do next. Chelsea then kept Jose Mourinho waiting as to whether they would resign him to club history, before eventually taking the decision to sack him..
All of this will mean clear change at the top level of European football, but also shows how much change there has been in what was once among the most intense managerial rivalries in the game.


Mourinho and Guardiola instantly found themselves at opposite ends of the philosophical spectrum over how football should be played, and it is no exaggeration to say that contrast between those two men - as well as a host of other personal differences - has defined so much of the game over the past decade.
Those differences have now resulted in a stark contrast in their situations too.
Whereas Guardiola is again wanted by virtually all of the super-clubs - especially those two in Manchester - this Chelsea sacking could feasibly end Mourinho’s time at that level of the game..
Dismissal does terminal damage to the Portuguese’s reputation, and brings a scarcely believable collapse to a drastic conclusion that even he would struggle to spin. Mourinho has certainly found it hard to solve the first great crisis of his career, and only succeeded in feeding the doubts that have put off many of the big clubs in appointing him in the past.
The wonder is who will take the risk on him now. It all indicates that Guardiola now stands alone as the greatest manager in the game, where once he had the most fitting of rivals and opposites in Mourinho.
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Bayern Munich's coach Josep Guardiola is soaked in beer as he celebrates with the German soccer trophy following their final German first division Bundesliga soccer match of the season, against VfB Stuttgart, in Munich May 10, 2014. Bayern Munich secured - Reuters
The great irony of that is the two have always been subjected to the same single big criticism. One persistent argument about both is that they need to be at big clubs with either huge money or ready-made squads to succeed. It has always been unfair and inaccurate. Most obviously, that criticism overlooks the fact that both started low down and had good results and did work that had key football figures taking note. From there, they didn’t just have success at bigger jobs. They had sensational success, pulling off doubles, trebles and a series of historic firsts in European football.
The way they did so, however, feeds into why we find ourselves at this week’s juncture.
In that regard, Barcelona’s decision to overlook Mourinho for Guardiola in the summer of 2008 could yet come to be seen as one of the game’s great historical junctures too. It conditioned and foreshadowed so much.
At that point, Mourinho was on his own as the finest coach in the game.
His meticulous tactical mind and muscular style of football trampled over most in a period when Champions League goal averages were lower, at 2.5 per game. This was the era of “control”, as his other great rival Rafa Benitez put it; of tensely tight European semi-finals such as those between Liverpool and Chelsea. It was a more defence-oriented era, and one that Mourinho dictated.
Then, Barcelona took a calculated risk on Guardiola, and the Spaniard’s riskier brand of football blew the game open. The sport began to open up again, specifically because the effect of the Catalan’s passing-pressing game.
Goal averages instantly shot up, and now stand at close to three a game in the Champions League. The caution of Chelsea-Liverpool has been replaced by exhibitions of attacking excellence like Barcelona-Bayern Munich.
It is no exaggeration to say Guardiola is the most influential manager since Arrigo Sacchi, as the Italian himself argued.
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Real Madrid's manager Rafael Benitez and Cristiano Ronaldo during training - Reuters
It is no coincidence that managers like Benitez and Mourinho have started to struggle in this, even if the Portuguese’s other qualities have allowed him to experience temporary success - but it is telling he is not sustaining it like between 2003 and 2010. It is now as if they are trying to apply old methods on a new game, still believing it to be the same.
Representatives of some players also feel that the new generation - “the millennial generation” - aren’t as receptive to certain abrasive managerial techniques in the way that figures like Didier Drogba and Ricardo Carvalho were.
That has meant Mourinho hasn’t been able to build the same connection with current players as he did in the past. The modern stars are more in tune with the approach of Guardiola.
He is the one the stars want to most work with now, in the way that used to be the case with Mourinho back in 2008.
It is why so many clubs now want to appoint Guardiola. It is part of the reason why Mourinho is currently suffering such tension.
 
That article is a load of bollocks. Mourinho now suddenly a slightly lower-tier manager? Real would have him back. Ditto Inter. More United fans want Mourinho than LVG. 80% of Chelsea fans wanted him to stay.

And fuck Guardiola. He picks clubs more carefully than Mourinho is accused of doing. Leaves Barcelona and joins Bayern. The richest and best-supported club in Germany. He's done nothing there that any decent manager couldn't replicate,and the one thing he was supposed to do, win the European Cup, he got fucking battered by Real and then Barcelona.

And where's he going next? Man City, the club with the richest owners in the world, where even Manuel Pellegrini can win a title.

Fuck him
 
Skullflower said:
Those fucking presenters though. It was like watching Foucault talking to a labrador.
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– Abramovich is indisputably a corrupt ruthless villain who is cynically using an English football club to advance his nefarious political goals.
– But... but... he said he loves us... Surely, he won't lie to us, right? Right?

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