Chelsea is not a club of stability; it should be a club of chaos and the coach appointments should reflect that.
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Chelsea culture is chaos and that gets results
So happy that Graham Potter got sacked. The poor bloke shouldn’t even have been hired! He was destined to be a Tottenham coach after Brighton (which may now happen anyways).
From the outset of purchasing Chelsea from Roman, current owners have been keen to stress on a collaborative approach, no walls between functional units, review of the club every few days/weeks/months, use of world-class infrastructure – data being the primary driver etc.
Look, I’m all in for this, but the owners have to understand that they’re not purchased a relegation-battling team, or a Chelsea team in 2003 that was a top 4/cup team. This is a team that has won everything, and a couple of years ago, won one of the most dominant Champion Leagues (just look at all our knockout games, and the xGD). This is already a blue-chip stock if I use equity jargon! You have a winner.
While I really like the ideas of new owners, you can’t just simply take rule-by-rule from Baseball or other business and apply it here hoping it would work. Borrow the good principles from other successful ventures, but don’t borrow the rules! Let me explain:
You are in a new domain – football. A new continent, a new culture. While the owners have been keen to change the culture at Chelsea, they have totally ignored the good things about the existing culture of Chelsea.
Chelsea is the closest to Real Madrid or Bayern Munich in England. It is a club of chaos, a club where managers/coaches are disposed of 18 months to 24 months, and the trophies keep rolling. I am all in for stability – but that stability must come at the “management” level (something I’ve been stressing in this mailbox for a long time).
I don’t give a damn about a manager – quoting the great Bela Guttman, a manager’s shelf life is 3 years. In England, and PL, SAF (and to a reasonable degree Wenger) have made everyone think that a long term coach/manager is the best thing and is the rule. No! Man United just like Chelsea is a special club with its own identity – that club in its entire history has been successful greatly in two spells, both times with a coach for long term. And United is an outlier!
So Todd, if you are reading this…
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