EPL 2025/26
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Both Maresca and Amorim's outbursts about the respective clubs have been rather damning.
Maresca will come again I feel, unsure if Amorim will however. Amorim just screams AS Roma as his next club or something before sliding down the ladder.
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Darren Fletcher, an ex Man Utd player, an Alex Ferguson favourite (a teetotal Scot) and their Under 18 Head Coach, has been appointed in charge for the Burnley game on Wednesday.
Then they will appoint an interim Manager until the end of the season. Gareth Southgate's allies seem to be touting him for that position, but I suspect it will be Fletcher.
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Seems like the time is now for high profile clubs sacking their managers with Wilfred Nancy been shown the door at Celtic after 33 days.
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Funny how Jason Wilcox is a main player at man united.
Was most known for being a winger at Blackburn in his playing days, never would have picked him to be someone who went into the coaching/admin side of things.
It's funny how the most random of people (in all sports) end up in positions of power. People you would least suspect based in their playing career.
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@nonpartizan said in EPL 2025/26:
Funny how Jason Wilcox is a main player at man united.
Was most known for being a winger at Blackburn in his playing days, never would have picked him to be someone who went into the coaching/admin side of things.
It's funny how the most random of people (in all sports) end up in positions of power. People you would least suspect based in their playing career.
Great players generally don't make great managers or GMs
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Fuck.
Recognised the name, but bever crossed my mind it was one and the same.
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@sparky said in EPL 2025/26:
Liam Rosenior has confirmed at press conference in Strasbourg that he will be Chelsea's next Head Coach and that he will be in charge for their FA Cup game against Charlton on Saturday.
Interesting now that Chelsea always look for up and coming managers as opposed to established managers.
Will we see Man U go down the same road?
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@canefan Former Assistant Manager and Interim Manager at Derby, former Manager at Hull and Strasbourg (which is owned by Chelsea's parent company). He used to play at Hull and Fulham and did some punditry work for the BBC.
I'd never heard of him until a few days ago. He's regarded as a young and upcoming manager, but this is a big leap up for him.
He's never managed in the EPL before and his teams have never won three games in a row before.
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@African-Monkey The speculation is that Manchester United are already in conversation with Ole Gunnar Solskjaer about a return to the club.
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Desperation appointment. Trying to make a Mourinho 2 out of him.
Can't see it working.
Garnacho aside, I actually really like our squad. The problem with it, is that only Reece James is playing even close to his potential. Fernandes is at about 65%, the rest are sub 50%. I didn't agree with selling Madueke and he is thriving at Arsenal.
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The thing I really don't get about the Rosenior appointment is them giving him a six and half year contract.
The last Chelsea manager to last four years was John Neal who left in 1985. The last Chelsea manager to survive six seasons was Dave Sexton in 1974.
All of Chelsea's coaches since 2019 have lasted less than 18 months.
Why set up an expensive payout?
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@sparky said in EPL 2025/26:
The thing I really don't get about the Rosenior appointment is them giving him a six and half year contract.
The last Chelsea manager to last four years was John Neal who left in 1985. The last Chelsea manager to survive six seasons was Dave Sexton in 1974.
All of Chelsea's coaches since 2019 have lasted less than 18 months.
Why set up an expensive payout?
100%.
Iirc they brought Maresca in on a 5 year deal too which was also. idiotic
I think Poch came in on a 2 year deal and that type of contract makes all the sense in the world given that that is normally how long managers stay in the job anyway.
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The dumb thing about these long term appointment, "project coaches" is that football doesn't run on 4-5 year cycles. It is a month by month sport.
Your stock and the entire operation can go from good to toxic and untenable in less than a month. If you look at how this sport plays out a manager can come into November in some good form with everything going in a positive direction and be out of a job by the new year, as has happened here. I mean think of it, winner of that tournament in the summer beating PSG 3-0 in the final no less, then you don't even make it to the end of the next season.
If rosenior struggles he might not make it to the end of the season. That is the reality of how football actually works.
The other problem Chelsea have is that if I am not mistaken three of the firings of the new owners have all boiled down to personality clashes between the owners and the coach. Tuchel, Poch and Maresca all seem to have fallen out with the owners or been at loggerheads with them in terms of what their vision is for the club. Whereas Abramovich got rid of coaches in a ruthless fashion it was almost solely down to results. These owners cannot find a coach that they are able to work with and that they see eye to eye with. There are ego battles going on here
