Chelsea are on the verge of offering Mauricio Pochettino a deal to become Chelsea’s new manager, according to a story in the Daily Mail today.
It’s been a week since he moved clear at the front of the pack, and if anything it’s been a surprisingly long process to get from that to a formal offer. According to this report, senior figures at Chelsea are meeting in LA in the next 24 hours to make a final decision on whether he is the man to go with.
Pochettino has been out of working since being sacked by PSG last summer, and looks like he’s happy to accept a good offer from the Blues.
Paul Winstanley and Laurence Stewart were appointed as Chelsea’s sporting directors after Graham Potter’s appointment, so this is their first chance to choose a manager. It seems they’ve plumped for Poch, and now it’s just down the owners to approve their decision.
There doesn’t seem to be any other name in the frame so what is the delay,the sooner Lampard is gone the better Chelsea will become.Its a no brainier to me,still I am a nobody at the bottom of their list not one of these rich owners that seem to know it all.
I agree that Lampard needs to be axed before he does any further damage, but don’t confuse “these rich owners” (as you put it) with the Sporting Directors who have been put in charge of the manager search. Everyone seems so intent on blaming the “American” owners (the implication being that failures follow anytime an American gets involved in football—a patently false trope) that they forget that, unlike the end of last summer when the UK govt had belatedly approved the club’s sale and Boehly had no choice but to make every decision, the club is now fully staffed to make educated/calculated player and manager decisions. Their biggest challenge, frankly, is that supporters seem to have collectively lost their minds over the course of the season.
Although Potter’s position had become untenable and a new manager was going to be in the cards for next season, the timing of his sacking was based mainly on supporter sentiment (i.e., outrage) and, absent an immediate long-term replacement waiting in the wings (which there obviously wasn’t), was an objectively bad decision in terms of footballing results. Does anyone truly believe that results these past few weeks would have been as bad under Potter as Lampard? Anyone who says “yes” is either stupid or crazy (or both), lol! Potter had us solidly in the middle of the table, which isn’t good enough, but Lampard had just been sacked because he couldn’t even achieve that!
My point is, every supporter (and most pundits) think they know best how to run a football club and will readily opine on why this decision or that one was a bad one (in retrospect), but they rarely have a clear vision (prospectively) on how to make the many, many decisions that go into successfully running an organization as complex as a sporting franchise. And for that reason, listening to them (let alone caving to their demands for a manager’s head) is, more often than not, a fool’s errand (as it was when Boehly & Co. sacked Potter with Europe pretty well out of reach but with no real fear of relegation). Things could have been worse than under Potter, and now they most certainly are!
El idóneo en éste momento es Mourinho, se necesita de alguien experimentado, astuto, ganador y de élite, el se a codeado con pep guardiola. No pierdan el tiempo con Pochetino