Chelsea are back on the hunt for a new manager after parting ways with Mauricio Pochettino.
The Argentine leaves Chelsea after just 11 months in charge, having led the team back to European football and won over a large number of his critics. Just one normal day of Chelsea, that’s all we’re asking for.
While Chelsea fans wait for Cesc Fabregas to complete his coaching badges and become Mikel Arteta 2.0, here are eight potential targets to replace Mauricio Pochettino.
Bayer Leverkusen’s dominance of the Bundesliga overshadowed the ridiculous job done by Sebastian Hoeness at Stuttgart this season.
The 42-year-old, in his first full season with the club, led Stuttgart from the relegation play-off up to second in the standings, ahead of Bayern Munich and behind only the unstoppable force that was Xabi Alonso. If you can lead a team above Bayern, you’ve done something right.
He’s just four years into his management career and has caught the eye with a mixture of three-man and four-man defences, with this season’s tactics yielding 28 goals for Serhou Guirassy and 18 for Deniz Undav.
Hoeness has publicly insisted he does not want to leave Stuttgart in the face of interest from Bayern Munich, but a project outside Germany may draw a different response.
Kieran McKenna, the man a number of Manchester United players felt was more hinderance than help during his time at the club, has just completed one of the most ridiculous feats in English football.
Having led Ipswich Town to promotion from League One in 2022/23, McKenna inspired yet another promotion 12 months later and has led the Tractor Boys to the Premier League, snatching the final automatic promotion spot away from heavy-hitters like Southampton and Leeds United.
McKenna has been linked with a return to United, where he worked under Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, but Chelsea are known to have been impressed with his accomplishments as well – and rightly so.
There’s already a connection with Chelsea through loanee Omari Hutchinson, who returned to Cobham this week after bagging ten goals to aid Ipswich’s promotion quest.
Yes, Vincent Kompany just got relegated with Burnley. We know that. However, just look past that for one second.
Kompany made Chelsea’s final shortlist before Pochettino was hired after his dazzling season in the Championship…
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