Chelsea

[redmike65]

A pity all thing considered the only good news is that they probably left it too late for a serious chance of a top 4 finish. They need 2.5 PPG to get 70 points.

[Shaggy]

It's Hiddink

[badpiggy]

Juande Ramos?

[Venton]

I'm pleased with this. Don't think a lot of the way that Mourhino goes about things.

[Robbie-9-Fowler]

Selfish manager, no club can or will ever be ran by him with a long term plan.

Plus he's a massive tit, granted he won the title last year but I think it should be considered back to back failures now for Mourinho he does so little in terms of progression for a club his success has to be huge just to balance it out.

[Fredo]

I'll miss him. We need Latin lovers in that league and he was the most intense.

[badpiggy]

I still think he's more of a cult leader than a football coach. All that horse**** about betrayal etc that he goes on about when things start going tits up for him.

[redmike65]

This is also bad news for Man Utd in particular - right now the smart money is for Guardiola to go to City but Chelsea could make him an eye watering offer while if that fails Diego Simeone is the obvious target. Who could Utd get if they miss both of them? Laurent Blanc? Tuchel?

[Shaggy]

I reckon:

Hiddink short term - Simeone in the summer

Pep to City

Carlo to Bayern

Mourinho to Utd

[Assassin]

I reckon:

Hiddink short term - Simeone in the summer

Pep to City

Carlo to Bayern

Hodgson to Utd

Fixed

[Assassin]

Eva's just luvvin it

[Fredo]

Not sure how it went bad for him. They won the league last year ffs, and by a country mile.

[badpiggy]

Not sure how it went bad for him. They won the league last year ffs, and by a country mile.

All cunts just wear people out after a while. And Mourinho is a proven cunt.

[Darkon]

[Yozza]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-3364031/Brendan-Rodgers-perfect-short-term-solution-Chelsea-rid-Jose-Mourinho.html

Brendan Rodgers is the perfect short-term solution for Chelsea after Jose Mourinho is shown the door

Where Jose Mourinho goes next and how much of a pay-off he'll receive from Chelsea will be sorted out in due course but the pressing matter at Stamford Bridge is the search for someone to step into his shoes.

The great and the good of management have been linked with the west Londoners since before the axe finally fell on Mourinho as Monday night's defeat at Leicester was his ninth of a miserable campaign

Bookies have two former bosses, Guus Hiddink and Carlo Ancelotti, high in the betting but while it won't please Chelsea fans to hear it, the best man for that job is Brendan Rodgers.

Rodgers may have struggled this season with Liverpool, and his constant 'management-speak' soundbites made him a figure of fun, but he fits the bill perfectly.
As a former coach at Stamford Bridge, who spent four years working for Chelsea, he knows the club.

He has worked with many of the players, who he will need on his side, and understands the standards that are expected at the club.

With Ancelotti set for a move to Bayern Munich, and Pep Guardiola seeming certain to join Manchester City, the options for the Premier League's fallen champions are thin on the ground.

If you look at the other names mentioned - Juande Ramos and Fabio Capello among them - none of them really know what it's like to lead a top Premier League side, with the possible exception of Hiddink.

And while Hiddink is clearly an option, you have to ask how much he would be motivated to do a job with the current players.

The Premier League title is gone. Champions League qualification is pretty much impossible through the league table. The players, as Mourinho noted this week, are not able to motivate themselves. What is the benefit to Hiddink in such a situation?

Sure, the Dutchman has his professional pride to think of, alongside, you imagine, a hefty pay-packet. But this is not the same squad he picked up back in 2009 - is he going to want the throw everything into a six-month job with nothing to play for?

On the other hand, Rodgers needs this. The last job he was linked with was a return to Swansea, a team he must have thought he had out-grown when he left in 2012.

Here is a man who thinks of himself as a top-four manager, who is most likely to return to football with a club battling relegation.

A six-month spell at a club packed with genuine quality is a chance - perhaps it is too early to call it a final chance, but at the very least a vital one - to prove he can make it at the highest level.

That will get Rodgers fired up, and that, in turn, might be enough to get the Chelsea players fired up.

And it is important to remember that, while Rodgers' final months in charge of Liverpool were more embarrassing than enthralling, when he had a top quality squad, he produced some of the best football the Premier League has seen in recent years.

You would think that Eden Hazard would look at what Luis Suarez achieved under Rodgers' free-flowing system and say - "I want a bit of that". The same goes for Oscar, Willian and Cesc Fabregas, who all look somewhat frustrated by the limited style that Mourinho has imposed on Chelsea.

Rodgers has a recent history of turning an under-performing squad into title challengers - just what Chlesea need right now.

And, despite the Dutch manager's superb spell in charge of Chelsea in 2009, it is important to remember that Rodgers has come closer to winning a Premier League title than Hiddink ever did.

Throw in the fact that Hiddink's most recent role was a shocking spell in charge of Holland - taking a team Louis van Gaal managed to the World Cup semi-finals and starting them on the path to qualification failure - and that he has barely managed in club football in the last decade, and Chelsea's only real alternative looks like an accident waiting to happen.

Neither Hiddink, nor Rodgers, are long-term solutions. Come the summer, expect Chelsea to break the bank to bring in a talented, proven manager like Diego Simeone.
But, in the interim, what they need is a hungry manager, with recent Premier League pedigree, and the desire to really motivate a squad in desperate need of inspiration.

And for that, Rodgers is the best candidate.