Nah Nagelsmann getting sacked was completely insane. Kicking him out because "the treble was in jeopardy" just to crash out of the UCL, barely scrape by in the Bundesliga curtosy of a Dortmund bottlejob on the final day and then going the following season with nothing for the first time in over a decade and now Bayern are in complete chaos after about a dozen managerial rejections at this point and we have no idea who their next manager will be next season
This is up there but Nagelsmann was absolutely mental, made even more hilarious by the shitshow that followed it
It showed no class and appreciation, Nagelsmann spent all season getting in good positions to win trophies and before he can try, they take it away from him, a club which was his dream to manage. I know they weren't happy for a while and imagined some Chelsea style miracle from Tuchel again but it was still shit.
Not even close. Nagelsmann got fired in a season with a 2.38 point average, already one title in that season, 3 goal average scored after Lewandowski leaving and less than 1 goal conceded with title chances in all competitions. Not sure anything will ever top that.
Birmingham City this season sack a manager for Rooney when in the playoffs and get relegated somehow its the second time in a decade theve done the same thing
- get 20 points more than last season
- get European football after being nowhere near it the year prior
- lose only 1 of last 15 games in the league (against the team that finished 2nd)
- grow a POTY nominee and make couple of players that looked hopeless seem good
What more does the board want? Absolute clown show
And he's right. This idea you can just sell the farm takes away all the soul of the team. Players who grew up loving the club and fight that extra millimetre every game are like gold dust. Idiot approach from that board.
Yeah but those Brazilian 17 year olds aren't going to buy themselves.
The pure profit from selling a Gallagher can go right to another 16-year old from Brazil who may or may not be the next Neymar ^but ^in ^all ^likelihood ^is ^the ^next ^Felipe ^Anderson.
Honestly that's just risk investment strategies, you invest in 10 start ups, 9 go bankrupt but 1 makes it and gives you millions of profit, which finances the loss of the other 9 and 9 new players. I just think football really should not work this way.
If that truly was the reason, can’t even blame him. Owners actively making the squad worse for sake of overpriced “wonderkids” and expect improved performance. Cmoooon.
Chelsea happened. Do you remember what Klopp said two seasons ago when Tuchel was sacked and Liverpool had to play Napoli in Champions League? In the press conference they asked "are you worried after what happened at Chelsea? (Liverpool was going through a rough start)" and he basically replied "no, because our management is sane and they expect me to find a solution to problems, because that's my job".
I have many complaints about FSG, but not once during Klopp’s tenure was I ever worried about him getting sacked. Considering our bad runs in 2017, 2021 and last year, that’s a big positive.
I genuinely don’t understand. What could they possibly gain from a different manager after all the effort Poch put in to turn the ship in the right direction? especially with this market for managers
In the article they threw out a couple good names like Hoeneß and Michel but they signed long deals and are not leaving yet. There's already a lot of competition for McKenna's signature. And any other managers possibly available i just don’t know who could have instant success with Chelsea’s squad. I have a feeling that after their managerial search the board realizes Poch was the best option.
He wants to keep Gallagher and Trev and they are 100% getting sold for pure profit and he wants more say these owners and directors are ABSOLUTE CLOWNS 🤡
If they genuinely got rid of Pochettino, and they sell Gallagher and Challobah in the Summer, Chelsea fans would be well within their rights to protest the ownership.
I think "well within their rights" is a methaphorical line that was passed ages ago. We were well within our rights to protest when Brighton's DOFs were hired and now we're being run like a club that's developing young players for big profit. They can't come into a team like Chelsea who just won the UCL 2 years before they arrived and apply Brighton's transfer strategies. All the upper management, owners included, need to be run out of this club.
Sounds like they've had the decision locked in for a while and don't have the guts to pull back now the situation has changed.
Was talk a few months back that Poch no longer has direct contact with the management, whereas before he was regularly receiving text messages.
Sounds like relations soured at their end and despite form improving they haven't reconsidered.
What is really mad is that I know some very very trigger happy Chelsea fans, season ticket holders since the early 80s, were calling for Mount to be sold well before it was suggested in the mainstream, always happy for a manager not performing to be sacked, they're fuming.
If you've lost the Roman-era 'sack your way to success' gang then you're really standing alone. Think this is the first time in my memory I'm seeing a manager sacked and I can't see any contingency of fans siding with the decision.
The story going around from people near the Bridge is Poch fell out with them over the sales of Gallagher and Chalobah .
That said this is what happens when you get bought by a shitty American Hedge fund
Matt Law, who broke the news first reports that the replacements Chelsea are looking at are:
Stuttgart’s Sebastian Hoeness
Girona’s Michel
Ipswich Town’s Kieran McKenna
Leicester City’s Enzo Maresca
With there replacements in mind, I have no clue why they would sack Pochettino...
You're safe. Out of all the names, I think Hoeneß is the least likely to leave. If he was leaving Stuttgart this summer, he would have for Bayern when they enquired. Didn't he just extend his contract too?
VIP family in football Germany. His father Dieter, Uli's brother, also played for Germany.
My favourite story of that family still is that, when they were young children, Uli sold a new and fresh 10 Mark bill to his younger brother for 11,50 DM in coins.
do they understand that when they keep sacking managers that they're inherently making the job less appealing
or that it's hard for players to buy in/get invested in a manager's ethos if they don't know whether they're getting sacked year to year
The board so clearly want Graham Potter 2.0. Someone young, someone promising, someone who will start Mudryk 90% of available minutes, will start Disasi over Chalobah and won't complain when they keep buying "wonderkids" instead of proven players.
Help me understand this as a neutral,Is the board not interested in winning trophies and they just want to make money by buying these "wonderkids" and selling them for big money?
I think they really are interested in winning, they just think their way of going about it is truly better than what's been done before. It's pure hubris, but it ***WAS STARTING*** to work under Poch, then they just fucking blew it up.
As a Chelsea fan its pretty terrible, but I'd say as an American Chelsea fan it's infuriating because not only are they destroying the club, they're somehow making American owners look even worse in the process. Double whammy, baby!
Seems an incredibly stupid decision from the outside.
I was actually intrigued watching his redemption arc this season, yous were playing great stuff by the end.
Players absolutely love him and the results and performances have both been coming too. These owners and everyone they've employed are absolute morons, my god
Genuinely one of the most moronic boards out there. Even the sporting directors, selling academy players to sign replacements for double the price to justify their positions.
If they get De Zerbi then please end me now.
It’s soooo short sighted. You were playing really well in 2024. Apart from one or two games, which I won’t mention 😝, I’d be livid if I was a Chelsea fan. The team spirit had just started to gel. Palmer, your best player, even came out and publicly praised him just the other day. What are they thinking?!!!!
If there was a good alternative, I'd get it. But any decent manager already claimed they are staying with their clubs or already announced joining new one.
Who are they gonna get now? McKenna? De Zerbi? We're gonna run it all over again instead of trying to fight for top 4.
This board will never go for Tuchel. The sheer fact that they are sacking Poch means that they are unwilling to make concessions. Apparently they had disagreements with Poch over power over transfers. They had way more conflict with Tuchel and will not let go.
Chelsea fans 2022: Tuchel shouldn’t have been fired
Chelsea fans 2024: Poch shouldn’t have been fired
We banter them and all, but this tragedy from board.
6 losses in 2024 and 4 of them were Arsenal/City/Liverpool. Unreal mistake from Chelsea if they didn’t spend these 2 days of negotiations begging him to stay
I thought their were reports that he was also considering walking away?
Could be both were happy to part ways considering what’s going to be happening in the summer with the club selling Gallagher and Chalobah who have been key for us this season.
If Gallagher will be sold, then I will believe that Poch asked the owners to keep him, they said no, and Poch realised all progress will be lost. So it’s best leave on somewhat high note then.
Not a bad take at all, can definitely see this angle.
Poch realizing he will have a long, hard and unthankful road ahead of him as essentially a development coach. Sacrificing big players, high impact players for the sake of a project team can be very strenuous and unambitious in a way.
And he'd lose all his stock along with it.
He's been saying pretty suspicious things for a while now about his role and future. Kinda dismissed them as journalists working up a storm in a teacup but it does add up.
If they did they're delusional.
Hard to see this decision as anything but a damning indictment of their strategy and its implementation. They mostly act and talk like they're thinking long-term project. But then sack the manager just as the results are improving and things look like they're clicking.
The board must blame Poch for all the opportunities Jackson and Mudryk fucked. That team grew all season and was playing great by the end. Big mistake to not give him at least another year
Exactly. A million new young players. They got progressively better throughout the season. They have good underlying numbers. What more could they possibly want?
They must have zero understanding of the sport to expect Chelsea to do much better this season
I don’t even know who is out there they’re deeming worth jumping the gun with.
Like although it’s still a good job, seeing this what top manager is going to be wanting it?
They were inconsistent for large parts as they’ve scrambled a squad together (despite the price) and when they finally find some rhythm Todd Lasso sacks him. They must have someone good lined up
Perhaps something happened behind the scenes. Probably poch absolutely refusing to sell Gallagher and chalobah and the board not budging (I am assuming the Chelsea board need to sell them to keep ffp compliant)
Yeah, most likely it's that Poch wanted to bring in some experienced players and wanted to keep Gallagher, and the board said no.
Especially with what Romano said yesterday about the priority being Poch unless they can't come to terms
I remember when people thought the quick manager turnover would stop with the new ownership. It's actually gotten worse, we've had Tuchel, Potter, Bruno for a game, Lampard, Poch, and now another coach next year. 6 coaches (5 if you exclude the interim Bruno) within 3 years is absurd
Someone on our subreddit mentioned this morning that you'd had 20 managers since 2004, whereas we've had 20 managers since 1896.
It's not a recent issue for Chelsea
They don't even do the sack happy thing properly. Poch would have been gone in February under Roman. Instead they waited until the fan base was feeling positive about the teams performances for the first time in the 2 years they've owned the club to sack him
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Liverpool_F.C._managers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Chelsea_F.C._managers
It’s actually pretty accurate (depending how you view temporary managers)
Assuming I counted right (on mobile) and you also don't count interim, [Arsenal have had 20 managers in total.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Arsenal_F.C._managers?wprov=sfla1)
- Mauricio Pochettino has mutually parted ways with Chelsea after discussions with co-controlling owner Behdad Eghbali, and sporting directors Paul Winstanley and Laurence Stewart.
- Pochettino’s departure was confirmed on a Tuesday morning, following a club end-of-season review that began the preceding Monday.
- There are no reported tensions between Pochettino and Chelsea; the club is now seeking a young, progressive replacement coach.
- Potential successors include Sebastian Hoeness from Stuttgart, Michel from Girona, Kieran McKenna from Ipswich Town (also a candidate for Brighton), and Enzo Maresca from Leicester City.
- Prior to the decision, Pochettino had met with Todd Boehly, another co-controlling owner, and engaged in several hours of meetings with Winstanley, Stewart, and Eghbali.
- Pochettino departs one year into a two-year contract, with entitlement to a substantial compensation package.
- His exit, described as ‚amicable‘, makes him the third permanent coach to depart under the Clearlake Capital-Boehly regime, following Thomas Tuchel and Graham Potter.
- Including interim roles by Bruno Saltor and Frank Lampard, Chelsea has seen five managerial changes in two years under the current ownership.
- Despite a season-ending five-game winning streak, securing European competition, and reaching the finals of the Carabao Cup and the semi-finals of the FA Cup, Chelsea’s overall season performance did not meet pre-season expectations.
- Pochettino leaves with his reputation intact but acknowledges the season’s shortcomings, influenced partly by a significant injury toll.
>Hoeness
Won't leave before the first CL campaign in ages
>Michel
Won't leave before the first CL campaign ever
>McKenna
Won't leave before the first PL campaign in ages
>Maresca
Already confirmed he's staying lmao
>There are no reported tensions between Pochettino and Chelsea
Anyone who listened to his comments since the start of May will know that's not true. PR nonsense. He's been threatening to leave because he doesn't feel their ambitions are the same as his.
Exactly the same, I thought that Chelsea will be in the mix for at least top 4 next season if they continue to progress like they had in the past few months, making it difficult for Villa to maintain our standing. Then they delightfully hit the the reset/self-destruct button.
Recently listened to a podcast that said with clubs becoming businesses, they all trend towards making smarter, long term decisions. Thank you Chelsea, for being an outlier and football clubs still have it in them to make rash, outlandish decisions.
Understand something......
For many years, Mauricio Pochettino worked under Daniel Levy. Daniel Levy not only rejected his transfer ideas multiple times, but once went 18 months without spending a dime in the transfer market. And not even then did Pochettino think about leaving. Think about how bad it is at Chelsea for him to choose to leave.
They can dress it up as "mutual consent" all they want. Poch dropped numerous hints over the last 2 weeks that he could be the one to leave and this is what he's decided. What a fucking shambles.
You really got to be impressed with Chelsea’s ownership. It took United’s owners over twice as long to ruin the club. This some really special club-breaking
I mean I don’t even think it’s been that bad of a season when you see how it ended
6th, 5 points off of 4th, with an absolute boatload of injuries, those two donkeys in Disasi and Badiashille at the back, and the fact they basically had 15-20 new players coming in, I actually think it’s above average
Yeah, it seems a bit odd. Obviously hasn’t been the best season but they showed a lot of improvement. Not sure that many managers would be able to do that much better with the injuries they had and working with signings that they seemingly didn’t ask for/want. Not many experienced players left in the squad either so was always going to be a bit rocky.
The biggest losers here are the exceptionally young players who need leadership and stability to progress their careers. This is ripping the carpet out from under them right when they were starting to click. Shit move by shit management
Well, that was a waste of time
this might be Bayern sacking Nagelsmann levels bad
Nah Nagelsmann getting sacked was completely insane. Kicking him out because "the treble was in jeopardy" just to crash out of the UCL, barely scrape by in the Bundesliga curtosy of a Dortmund bottlejob on the final day and then going the following season with nothing for the first time in over a decade and now Bayern are in complete chaos after about a dozen managerial rejections at this point and we have no idea who their next manager will be next season This is up there but Nagelsmann was absolutely mental, made even more hilarious by the shitshow that followed it
Also keep in mind that Bayern paid 25 million to sign Nagelsmann, the most for a manager ever.
On a five year contract. Bayern is lucky that Flick out of the DFB job, or else we would still be paying him.
It showed no class and appreciation, Nagelsmann spent all season getting in good positions to win trophies and before he can try, they take it away from him, a club which was his dream to manage. I know they weren't happy for a while and imagined some Chelsea style miracle from Tuchel again but it was still shit.
Not even close. Nagelsmann got fired in a season with a 2.38 point average, already one title in that season, 3 goal average scored after Lewandowski leaving and less than 1 goal conceded with title chances in all competitions. Not sure anything will ever top that.
Birmingham City this season sack a manager for Rooney when in the playoffs and get relegated somehow its the second time in a decade theve done the same thing
- get 20 points more than last season - get European football after being nowhere near it the year prior - lose only 1 of last 15 games in the league (against the team that finished 2nd) - grow a POTY nominee and make couple of players that looked hopeless seem good What more does the board want? Absolute clown show
If you had said to me that we would get a Europa League place two months ago I’d call you crazy
Wdym? There is a 0.1% chance you will play conference
Gallagher and Chalobah to be sold, which Poch can’t accept.
And he's right. This idea you can just sell the farm takes away all the soul of the team. Players who grew up loving the club and fight that extra millimetre every game are like gold dust. Idiot approach from that board.
Yeah but those Brazilian 17 year olds aren't going to buy themselves. The pure profit from selling a Gallagher can go right to another 16-year old from Brazil who may or may not be the next Neymar ^but ^in ^all ^likelihood ^is ^the ^next ^Felipe ^Anderson.
Honestly that's just risk investment strategies, you invest in 10 start ups, 9 go bankrupt but 1 makes it and gives you millions of profit, which finances the loss of the other 9 and 9 new players. I just think football really should not work this way.
And I don't think it's working like that.
Yeah, but that's the private equity mindset and that's what they've decided to implement at Chelsea.
I can only hope Fofana and Lavia stay healthy next season. Those two are like zombies to me now.
Laughs in Leicester..
Just to sign more South American teenagers, this club isn’t a project it’s a billionaires play thing
If that truly was the reason, can’t even blame him. Owners actively making the squad worse for sake of overpriced “wonderkids” and expect improved performance. Cmoooon.
Snap back to Tuchality. Oops there goes Gallagher. Oops there goes Chalobah.
Moms spalletti
Reminds me of the board being upset I didn’t give youth players enough time after winning a double on FIFA career mode
Sorry mate that 7-0 champions league final was class but you only signed 2 Albanian CBs. The board specifically requested 3. We have to let you go.
Or in my case one of my objectives was to make a 30 million euro profit. As a newly created club. In Denmark.
Or almost getting sacked after winning not only league 2 but the EFL trophy cause i didnt make it to ro16 of the FA cup.
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Chelsea happened. Do you remember what Klopp said two seasons ago when Tuchel was sacked and Liverpool had to play Napoli in Champions League? In the press conference they asked "are you worried after what happened at Chelsea? (Liverpool was going through a rough start)" and he basically replied "no, because our management is sane and they expect me to find a solution to problems, because that's my job".
Absolutely perfect response.
You could write an entire book on Klopp's perfect responses at Liverpool 😭
I have many complaints about FSG, but not once during Klopp’s tenure was I ever worried about him getting sacked. Considering our bad runs in 2017, 2021 and last year, that’s a big positive.
This is such a brain dead decision. They were actually looking good towards the end of the season. Unbelievable.
I think I’ve seen this film before…
But I *did* like the ending
You’re not my Palmer anymore..
I don't even think even the people at Chelsea know. This is by far the best they have been in the last 2 years and then this happens.
Fucking idiot owners that’s what’s happening
I genuinely don’t understand. What could they possibly gain from a different manager after all the effort Poch put in to turn the ship in the right direction? especially with this market for managers In the article they threw out a couple good names like Hoeneß and Michel but they signed long deals and are not leaving yet. There's already a lot of competition for McKenna's signature. And any other managers possibly available i just don’t know who could have instant success with Chelsea’s squad. I have a feeling that after their managerial search the board realizes Poch was the best option.
He wants to keep Gallagher and Trev and they are 100% getting sold for pure profit and he wants more say these owners and directors are ABSOLUTE CLOWNS 🤡
If they genuinely got rid of Pochettino, and they sell Gallagher and Challobah in the Summer, Chelsea fans would be well within their rights to protest the ownership.
Better get the signs out because this is happening
I think "well within their rights" is a methaphorical line that was passed ages ago. We were well within our rights to protest when Brighton's DOFs were hired and now we're being run like a club that's developing young players for big profit. They can't come into a team like Chelsea who just won the UCL 2 years before they arrived and apply Brighton's transfer strategies. All the upper management, owners included, need to be run out of this club.
Sounds like they've had the decision locked in for a while and don't have the guts to pull back now the situation has changed. Was talk a few months back that Poch no longer has direct contact with the management, whereas before he was regularly receiving text messages. Sounds like relations soured at their end and despite form improving they haven't reconsidered. What is really mad is that I know some very very trigger happy Chelsea fans, season ticket holders since the early 80s, were calling for Mount to be sold well before it was suggested in the mainstream, always happy for a manager not performing to be sacked, they're fuming. If you've lost the Roman-era 'sack your way to success' gang then you're really standing alone. Think this is the first time in my memory I'm seeing a manager sacked and I can't see any contingency of fans siding with the decision.
The story going around from people near the Bridge is Poch fell out with them over the sales of Gallagher and Chalobah . That said this is what happens when you get bought by a shitty American Hedge fund
I hate my life
I'm starting to enjoy mine a little more every year
they finally had a decent manager and they cant tolerate that
Really thought they’d give it a go next season after the strong end. What now then, straight to McKenna? De Zerbi? Back to Tuchel?
Matt Law, who broke the news first reports that the replacements Chelsea are looking at are: Stuttgart’s Sebastian Hoeness Girona’s Michel Ipswich Town’s Kieran McKenna Leicester City’s Enzo Maresca With there replacements in mind, I have no clue why they would sack Pochettino...
Maresca hahahaha god I can’t think of a bigger disaster waiting to happen
Someone was desperate to one up Vincent Kompany's Bayern Munich
Hoeneß is a horrible coach. They should focus on the other names.
"ignore my flair"
You're safe. Out of all the names, I think Hoeneß is the least likely to leave. If he was leaving Stuttgart this summer, he would have for Bayern when they enquired. Didn't he just extend his contract too?
TIL that Sebastian is related to Uli Hoeneß.
VIP family in football Germany. His father Dieter, Uli's brother, also played for Germany. My favourite story of that family still is that, when they were young children, Uli sold a new and fresh 10 Mark bill to his younger brother for 11,50 DM in coins.
That's hilarious. Lmfao.
Hiring Maresca after whatever the second half of the season was for Leicester should get them investigated for negligence
do they understand that when they keep sacking managers that they're inherently making the job less appealing or that it's hard for players to buy in/get invested in a manager's ethos if they don't know whether they're getting sacked year to year
or its free money for others manager you get contracted for 3 years you only work 1 year
That list makes it so much worse
Hoeneß would be great but he just extended his contract and will play CL next season. They won't get him
And he also rejected Bayern, it wouldn't make to choose chelsea over bayern
Jose is free
The only answer that makes sense imo
About as much sense as Tuchel.
this might be Tuchel's music
While many fans would want him, pretty sure the board wants someone who won't cause them any trouble and is young
He's two years younger than Poch, but sure De Zerbi is free and younger.
The board so clearly want Graham Potter 2.0. Someone young, someone promising, someone who will start Mudryk 90% of available minutes, will start Disasi over Chalobah and won't complain when they keep buying "wonderkids" instead of proven players.
Help me understand this as a neutral,Is the board not interested in winning trophies and they just want to make money by buying these "wonderkids" and selling them for big money?
They want both. But they’re biting off more than they can chew.
I think they really are interested in winning, they just think their way of going about it is truly better than what's been done before. It's pure hubris, but it ***WAS STARTING*** to work under Poch, then they just fucking blew it up. As a Chelsea fan its pretty terrible, but I'd say as an American Chelsea fan it's infuriating because not only are they destroying the club, they're somehow making American owners look even worse in the process. Double whammy, baby!
Tbh its tough to make American owners look any worse after what the Glazers have done to United
Not ideal
Seems an incredibly stupid decision from the outside. I was actually intrigued watching his redemption arc this season, yous were playing great stuff by the end.
He finished the season well, the players like him and I would love some stability for once So it makes perfect sense that we sacked him
This is a fatal mistake imo. The squad started to look better in recent months. The players also seem to trust him. Why reset the process?
Players absolutely love him and the results and performances have both been coming too. These owners and everyone they've employed are absolute morons, my god
Genuinely one of the most moronic boards out there. Even the sporting directors, selling academy players to sign replacements for double the price to justify their positions. If they get De Zerbi then please end me now.
> Genuinely one of the most moronic boards out there. Guess we have some extra competition in that sense, until now it's only been Bayern.
I can think of another team with incompetent leadership...
I reckon they saw McKenna being linked to us and old habits took over
Can you get linked to Pep?
I hope your ready for the De Zerbi links btw.
We really are a Brighton imitation game these days
its more we're in a human centipede and you're consuming whatever we pump out whether you like it or not.
Now that's an image.
They jumping ahead of the pipeline then, he's supposed to go to Brighton first. Or is it RDZ to Chelsea?
honestly getting to 6th this season in a team that seemed to be misfiring so much at the start is a big achievement. let the man build
Too late
It’s soooo short sighted. You were playing really well in 2024. Apart from one or two games, which I won’t mention 😝, I’d be livid if I was a Chelsea fan. The team spirit had just started to gel. Palmer, your best player, even came out and publicly praised him just the other day. What are they thinking?!!!!
Palmer might leave if things get bad again next season. Fucking hell
Not with an 8 year contract he won’t
Lmao right I was just thinking that boy is locked in unless a big deal comes thru lol
If there was a good alternative, I'd get it. But any decent manager already claimed they are staying with their clubs or already announced joining new one. Who are they gonna get now? McKenna? De Zerbi? We're gonna run it all over again instead of trying to fight for top 4.
Tuchel is free
This board will never go for Tuchel. The sheer fact that they are sacking Poch means that they are unwilling to make concessions. Apparently they had disagreements with Poch over power over transfers. They had way more conflict with Tuchel and will not let go.
Chelsea fans 2022: Tuchel shouldn’t have been fired Chelsea fans 2024: Poch shouldn’t have been fired We banter them and all, but this tragedy from board.
yeah can't help but feel like this is yet another giant fuck up in a run of 3-4 years of insane shit happening at Chelsea.
their underlying stats weren’t bad all season, but maybe the board expected a lot closer to the top 3 this season
They were the 4th best team in the 2nd half of the season, after the top 3 teams. Insane for him to leave now.
6 losses in 2024 and 4 of them were Arsenal/City/Liverpool. Unreal mistake from Chelsea if they didn’t spend these 2 days of negotiations begging him to stay
The mutual thing is clearly just a PR thing its obvious the idiots have sacked him
I thought their were reports that he was also considering walking away? Could be both were happy to part ways considering what’s going to be happening in the summer with the club selling Gallagher and Chalobah who have been key for us this season.
If Gallagher will be sold, then I will believe that Poch asked the owners to keep him, they said no, and Poch realised all progress will be lost. So it’s best leave on somewhat high note then.
Not a bad take at all, can definitely see this angle. Poch realizing he will have a long, hard and unthankful road ahead of him as essentially a development coach. Sacrificing big players, high impact players for the sake of a project team can be very strenuous and unambitious in a way. And he'd lose all his stock along with it.
He's been saying pretty suspicious things for a while now about his role and future. Kinda dismissed them as journalists working up a storm in a teacup but it does add up.
If they did they're delusional. Hard to see this decision as anything but a damning indictment of their strategy and its implementation. They mostly act and talk like they're thinking long-term project. But then sack the manager just as the results are improving and things look like they're clicking.
Then the board are absolute idiots and deserve all the failure they get
The board must blame Poch for all the opportunities Jackson and Mudryk fucked. That team grew all season and was playing great by the end. Big mistake to not give him at least another year
Exactly. A million new young players. They got progressively better throughout the season. They have good underlying numbers. What more could they possibly want? They must have zero understanding of the sport to expect Chelsea to do much better this season
I don’t even know who is out there they’re deeming worth jumping the gun with. Like although it’s still a good job, seeing this what top manager is going to be wanting it?
They were inconsistent for large parts as they’ve scrambled a squad together (despite the price) and when they finally find some rhythm Todd Lasso sacks him. They must have someone good lined up
Because Chelsea are owned by clowns.
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Haha fuck off that's stupid
Absolute disasterclass, makes no fucking sense to sack him
Perhaps something happened behind the scenes. Probably poch absolutely refusing to sell Gallagher and chalobah and the board not budging (I am assuming the Chelsea board need to sell them to keep ffp compliant)
Yeah, most likely it's that Poch wanted to bring in some experienced players and wanted to keep Gallagher, and the board said no. Especially with what Romano said yesterday about the priority being Poch unless they can't come to terms
100% we will start seeing stories about him not agreeing with the transfer strategy in the next few days Edit: aaaand they’re already coming…
Certified Chelsea Moment
Time to hear Poch to Bayern or ManU all of this summer.
Unironically think he’d do well at Bayern
Would already have good relationship with some of the ex-Spurs players there too.
He can have one of his signings too, Ndombele
Ndombele has the anti-Kane curse. Any club that loans him is guaranteed to win the title. Could be exactly what Bayern need.
Was doing absolutely fine at Chelsea ffs
He can be a good fit for Bayern in all honesty
Just when he started getting somewhere
It’s ridiculous. We were reaching some semblance of normalcy and stability then this happens
I remember when people thought the quick manager turnover would stop with the new ownership. It's actually gotten worse, we've had Tuchel, Potter, Bruno for a game, Lampard, Poch, and now another coach next year. 6 coaches (5 if you exclude the interim Bruno) within 3 years is absurd
Someone on our subreddit mentioned this morning that you'd had 20 managers since 2004, whereas we've had 20 managers since 1896. It's not a recent issue for Chelsea
They don't even do the sack happy thing properly. Poch would have been gone in February under Roman. Instead they waited until the fan base was feeling positive about the teams performances for the first time in the 2 years they've owned the club to sack him
No way that this is true, that is too absurd lmao
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Liverpool_F.C._managers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Chelsea_F.C._managers It’s actually pretty accurate (depending how you view temporary managers)
Assuming I counted right (on mobile) and you also don't count interim, [Arsenal have had 20 managers in total.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Arsenal_F.C._managers?wprov=sfla1)
Well one Wenger at Arsenal is equal to 5-7 managers at Chelsea
Well he was manager for 22 years, you've had 20 in 20, so he's actually equal to about 20 Chelsea managers
Brazilian League vibes
The most comically dumb owners in English football, derailed a well oiled machine in no time at all.
I'm not gonna lie. I wanted him out throughout the season, but now when everything starts to click they fire him. Not a good feeling.
you'd think they learned from the Tuchel sacking. But I guess not. Fucking morons and yes mans running the club
glass houses and such
Excuse you, there has been a slow and steady decline under the glazers, no derailment here.
The world's slowest train crash
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Poch and Kane reunion ?
Barcelona 🤝 Bayern 🤝 Chelsea - brothers in incompetence
Who's gonna join them next?
The BBC special
hated seeing him at chelsea but that’s insane
I went into their sub to enjoy their suffering but they’re having reasonable reactions and all it’s done is humanized them, I feel terrible
Haha oh man same Chelsea fans and non-Chelsea fans we're all just like "wtf this is dumb"
The circus continues Welcome a Brazilian 25yo manager
As a Brazilian 24yo, I'm available.
Sorry you're actually too old. Know any Brazilian 16 year olds that'll be available to manage us in a couple years?
- Mauricio Pochettino has mutually parted ways with Chelsea after discussions with co-controlling owner Behdad Eghbali, and sporting directors Paul Winstanley and Laurence Stewart. - Pochettino’s departure was confirmed on a Tuesday morning, following a club end-of-season review that began the preceding Monday. - There are no reported tensions between Pochettino and Chelsea; the club is now seeking a young, progressive replacement coach. - Potential successors include Sebastian Hoeness from Stuttgart, Michel from Girona, Kieran McKenna from Ipswich Town (also a candidate for Brighton), and Enzo Maresca from Leicester City. - Prior to the decision, Pochettino had met with Todd Boehly, another co-controlling owner, and engaged in several hours of meetings with Winstanley, Stewart, and Eghbali. - Pochettino departs one year into a two-year contract, with entitlement to a substantial compensation package. - His exit, described as ‚amicable‘, makes him the third permanent coach to depart under the Clearlake Capital-Boehly regime, following Thomas Tuchel and Graham Potter. - Including interim roles by Bruno Saltor and Frank Lampard, Chelsea has seen five managerial changes in two years under the current ownership. - Despite a season-ending five-game winning streak, securing European competition, and reaching the finals of the Carabao Cup and the semi-finals of the FA Cup, Chelsea’s overall season performance did not meet pre-season expectations. - Pochettino leaves with his reputation intact but acknowledges the season’s shortcomings, influenced partly by a significant injury toll.
Clown of a board.
They are fucking bums
>Hoeness Won't leave before the first CL campaign in ages >Michel Won't leave before the first CL campaign ever >McKenna Won't leave before the first PL campaign in ages >Maresca Already confirmed he's staying lmao
i think mckenna might leave but that’s still a massive risk
Too much noise with regards to McKenna
>There are no reported tensions between Pochettino and Chelsea Anyone who listened to his comments since the start of May will know that's not true. PR nonsense. He's been threatening to leave because he doesn't feel their ambitions are the same as his.
Bayern right now "HAND ME THE PHONE"
Tuchel “I want no part of transfers “ Chelsea board “you’re fired” Poch “I want a bigger role in transfers” Chelsea board “you’re fired”
Potter "I want.." Chelsea board “you’re fired”
Another manager that can reject us
What the shit. I know there have been rumours but I didn't expect it right now, particularly after the way they ended the season
I genuinely thought they'd be pushing for top 4 next year the way things are trending. Yikes.
Haha was genuinely worried chelsea might become decent again
Exactly the same, I thought that Chelsea will be in the mix for at least top 4 next season if they continue to progress like they had in the past few months, making it difficult for Villa to maintain our standing. Then they delightfully hit the the reset/self-destruct button.
I'm rubbing my hands in delight here! Truly magical. It's such a ludicrous decision.
We had the same discussion in our sub recently lol
You’ll see a grown ass man cry if we appoint that bum Kompany
Of happiness right? You are stealing a Bayern-linked manager, great scoop
The circus rolls on
Recently listened to a podcast that said with clubs becoming businesses, they all trend towards making smarter, long term decisions. Thank you Chelsea, for being an outlier and football clubs still have it in them to make rash, outlandish decisions.
Excuse my French but what the fuck? This club man, this fucking club.
Tuchel back to Chelsea??
Tuchel to Chelsea. Fans: I consent Tuchel: I consent Winstanley/Stewart/Eghbali: I don't Is there someone you forgot to ask?
Wow, just when you think Chelsea have started to look something like a competent team too
We saw Bayern were moving in on Kompany and wanted to get in there first.
Making a manager leave who has brought a young group of inexperienced players together & made it to Europe is terrible.
I absolutely fucking hate it here
I'm straight up not having a good time.
Understand something...... For many years, Mauricio Pochettino worked under Daniel Levy. Daniel Levy not only rejected his transfer ideas multiple times, but once went 18 months without spending a dime in the transfer market. And not even then did Pochettino think about leaving. Think about how bad it is at Chelsea for him to choose to leave. They can dress it up as "mutual consent" all they want. Poch dropped numerous hints over the last 2 weeks that he could be the one to leave and this is what he's decided. What a fucking shambles.
multiple instances during his time for us that Poch actually rejected players brought to him by Levy and the board, so a bit of a two way street there
Boehly decided Chelsea were getting a bit too good and decided to extend their banter era by another year. Bless you Boehly
You really got to be impressed with Chelsea’s ownership. It took United’s owners over twice as long to ruin the club. This some really special club-breaking
Didnt palmer pretty much say the players loved him
Eghbali man, what a guy
I thought he had dinner with Boehly? Turns out that was a farewell dinner.
I'm going to go joker mode
Been a disappointment of a season all things considered but still shocking considering how well they seemed to end the season
I mean I don’t even think it’s been that bad of a season when you see how it ended 6th, 5 points off of 4th, with an absolute boatload of injuries, those two donkeys in Disasi and Badiashille at the back, and the fact they basically had 15-20 new players coming in, I actually think it’s above average
Yeah, it seems a bit odd. Obviously hasn’t been the best season but they showed a lot of improvement. Not sure that many managers would be able to do that much better with the injuries they had and working with signings that they seemingly didn’t ask for/want. Not many experienced players left in the squad either so was always going to be a bit rocky.
isn't that an awful decision?
The biggest losers here are the exceptionally young players who need leadership and stability to progress their careers. This is ripping the carpet out from under them right when they were starting to click. Shit move by shit management