Chelsea might have to wait some time to land their new permanent first team manager going forward.
A report from The Guardian late last night suggests that a new manager appointment is not imminent at Chelsea, and there first choice target to replace Graham Potter is reluctant to take a new role until the summer.
Sources: Four candidates club are looking at to replace Graham Potter!
Potter was sacked by Chelsea late on Sunday after a quick decision was made in the afternoon. Sources have told The Guardian that there was nothing to suggest that Chelsea were about to sack Potter and it came suddenly.
But Julian Nagelsmann, who is liked by Chelsea and seen as a favourite, is reluctant to take a new role yet after only being sacked by Bayern Munich just last week.
The report says Chelsea have drawn up a shortlist of candidates, including Mauricio Pochettino, and would like someone in place before pre-season. Nagelsmann is the early favourite but Luis Enrique could come under consideration. Chelsea have been linked with the Eintracht Frankfurt manager, Oliver Glasner, while Rúben Amorim is building a strong reputation at Sporting Lisbon.
So, a question for supporters who wanted Potter’s head: Are we going to finish the season in better shape under an interim manager than if we’d allowed things to play out under Potter and made a change in summer?
Nagelsmann’s specific circumstances aside, Chelsea’s (ongoing) propensity for constant managerial turmoil/turnover CAN’T help when it comes to recruiting top candidates. It’s one thing to know you’ll be at a big club with high expectations, but it’s quite another to look at the LONG and accomplished list of former Chelsea managers whose tenure was measured in months rather than years and realize that there’s almost no way you’ll survive even a modest “bump in the road.” It’s been more than half a century since CFC kept a manager as long as either Pep or Klopp have been at their respective clubs and this sad trend of impatience and over-reaction to perceived managerial failure has everything to do with how we’ve arrived at now—a bloated, if talented, squad that struggles for cohesion on the field and a lack of overarching direction/identity.
It’s going to be Negelsmann and nobody else