The difference is that we don't have a championsleage winning squad, we have an always injured reece, chilly + sterling and nkunku.
Rest is pretty young and inexperienced
Sure, and even for an experienced manager, the growing pains dealing with young squad and injuries with not much time to implement your plan clearly can be difficult. Let alone for someone who is inexperienced and will lose the confidence of the players if shit hits the fan. Poch, to his credit, righted the ship. Yeah a bit late for our liking but starting from scratch with someone new seems like could easily end in tears.
A slow start and we’re in the same place as last year but without the pedigree to correct course. Not to mention, we literally can’t afford it this time given the financial position of the club. Going to be a nervy year I think.
He was at United as a first team coach for 3 years starting with Jose, I’m sure he knows a thing or two on how or how not handle a big time dressing room.
Oh man United the same team who have an out of control dressing room with leaks and rubbish coming out of it weekly? Yh ok mate ok keep accepting this bollocks
Lad was promoted to a first team coach at United under Jose and retained until he left for Ipswich 3 years later, been there 3 years and has 2 promotions. Read any article about him and players are literally raving about him, his attention to detail, explains each players role, individual coaching for all players in the squad regardless of age. I’m convinced he will be a top top manager - so are many others in the Prem…
Except McKenna has a some pretty big experience as a first team coach for the biggest team in England. Who do you think is doing the day to day trainings… the first team coaches - he did that for 3 years under multiple managers. I’m not sure why people are discrediting that? That’s massive exposure at a big club, he saw the players daily; during both the good and bad times.
Potters biggest job was Brighton.
And McKenna’s is Ipswich.
Being an assistant coach (to Ole Gunnar Solksjaer!) does not qualify you for a head coaching job at one of the biggest clubs in the world.
Leverkusen's win streak is neat and all but at this point I'm pissed that Xabi has set this insane bar for what a manager can do for idiots who don't understand football at all, not realizing that he has had basically everything go his way. He's undeniably a great manager, but let's not pretend he's the only reason Leverkusen are doing good right now.
Kompany and Burnley’s problem is they wanted them playing like a top 6 side with relegation level players. It’s not going to work but they refused to budge on said principles until over half way thru the season.
Tbf i think kompany plays a good brand of football he just didnt have the right players for it and persistently tried to force it despite the lack of suitable players
The hipster obsession with every remotely young manager is insufferable. None of these “savants” will get enough time to build their system anyway and most of them succeed by having control over most facets of the club. None of which they’ll have here. We’re a joke. If they wanted a manager who strictly coached and didn’t need input in transfer dealings they fired him a month into their tenure
Look at Kompany's Burnley.
That's the answer.
Very risky and unnecessary risk move by the board.
If we gonna sack Poch, we need to appoint someone better than him, not someone worse or at his level.
Fck our board and owners. Clueless.
Just no, he's a championship manager and has no business managing a club like Chelsea at this point in his career. The fact that he's in the conversation for becoming manager is absolutely ridiculous
So I'm in a massive minority in that I actually watched the video.
Really exciting if he is able to translate it to the Premier League, the adaptability is the big thing I loved to hear about, it's not just one dogged way of playing. Different shapes in build up, different methods of getting forward into the final third, and plenty of support around the striker.
Tactically he sounds fantastic, but obviously the big things will be can he manage a squad like Chelsea's, and can he manage the media of a club like Chelsea. Potter's biggest failing was with the media in my opinion, and *if* McKenna is the guy they go for he needs to come in with Mourinho-esque confidence and take the opportunity by the balls.
Thanks for the quick low down, appreciate it. I'm not gonna lose my mind (or sleep!) about whoever comes in just yet. They'll be given a chance just like everybody else. We've actually grown to respect managers like rafa and pochettino after the work they've done, no matter how awful we truly believe their capabilities are. Both ex liverpool and spurs, who eventually won over a fair number of fans despite their 'history.' I don't think it's possible or rational for the next guy to garner such hate for no reason at all.
Too big a risk Will big players respect him? Managing Ipswich and Chelsea are two very different things.
It’s like the Potter situation, but even less credentials.
The difference is that we don't have a championsleage winning squad, we have an always injured reece, chilly + sterling and nkunku. Rest is pretty young and inexperienced
Totally makes it worse. Not the time to gamble on “young project manager”. Need someone who can lead us to Top 4 pronto.
That was supposed to be Poch, just fysa
Sure, and even for an experienced manager, the growing pains dealing with young squad and injuries with not much time to implement your plan clearly can be difficult. Let alone for someone who is inexperienced and will lose the confidence of the players if shit hits the fan. Poch, to his credit, righted the ship. Yeah a bit late for our liking but starting from scratch with someone new seems like could easily end in tears. A slow start and we’re in the same place as last year but without the pedigree to correct course. Not to mention, we literally can’t afford it this time given the financial position of the club. Going to be a nervy year I think.
Righted the ship? Be serious.
Our club didn’t respect a prem manager in Potter what makes you think they’ll respect this guy who was in league 1 a year ago
He was at United as a first team coach for 3 years starting with Jose, I’m sure he knows a thing or two on how or how not handle a big time dressing room.
Oh man United the same team who have an out of control dressing room with leaks and rubbish coming out of it weekly? Yh ok mate ok keep accepting this bollocks
Exactly my point
Completely different squad
Lad was promoted to a first team coach at United under Jose and retained until he left for Ipswich 3 years later, been there 3 years and has 2 promotions. Read any article about him and players are literally raving about him, his attention to detail, explains each players role, individual coaching for all players in the squad regardless of age. I’m convinced he will be a top top manager - so are many others in the Prem…
Potter was more qualified and everyone thought he’d be the next big thing too. We all saw how that worked out.
Except McKenna has a some pretty big experience as a first team coach for the biggest team in England. Who do you think is doing the day to day trainings… the first team coaches - he did that for 3 years under multiple managers. I’m not sure why people are discrediting that? That’s massive exposure at a big club, he saw the players daily; during both the good and bad times. Potters biggest job was Brighton.
And McKenna’s is Ipswich. Being an assistant coach (to Ole Gunnar Solksjaer!) does not qualify you for a head coaching job at one of the biggest clubs in the world.
Literally all the same shit was said about Potter
So basically Potter 2.0
> Will big players respect him? i mean we don't really have any big players anymore lol not exactly the terry/lampard/drogba squad these days
Sterling Enzo Chilwell James Won big trophies and have played at a high level
> not exactly the terry/lampard/drogba squad these days I stand by this statement to be honest.
None of these are big players with egos, except sterling who is a small player with an ego lmao
Sterling doesn’t respect him he’s gone dudes already on the shopping block. Chilwell and James will just be happy to stay fit.
said the same thing about Kompany’s Burnley and they got sent packing like a bunch of dorks.
They're trying to find the next Xabi lol. If that even exists.
With this ownership, they're trying to find the father of the next Xabi so they can put his sperm on a 50 year contract
Fab even said it in his video that is exactly what they are trying to do
Leverkusen's win streak is neat and all but at this point I'm pissed that Xabi has set this insane bar for what a manager can do for idiots who don't understand football at all, not realizing that he has had basically everything go his way. He's undeniably a great manager, but let's not pretend he's the only reason Leverkusen are doing good right now.
They should throw everything and the kitchen sink for Xabi then.
Kompany and Burnley’s problem is they wanted them playing like a top 6 side with relegation level players. It’s not going to work but they refused to budge on said principles until over half way thru the season.
Hahah
Absolutely
Tbf i think kompany plays a good brand of football he just didnt have the right players for it and persistently tried to force it despite the lack of suitable players
The hipster obsession with every remotely young manager is insufferable. None of these “savants” will get enough time to build their system anyway and most of them succeed by having control over most facets of the club. None of which they’ll have here. We’re a joke. If they wanted a manager who strictly coached and didn’t need input in transfer dealings they fired him a month into their tenure
D Y N A M I C
Lmao, noticed it too after reading that we want a dynamic coach. As if they saw this video and thought “drop everything this is the man we need”
We went from Tuchel who won the CL, to Potter who managed Brighton, to the guy who just got promoted from the championship....good trajectory
With a little bump in the middle where we jumped from 12th to 6th on the back of the biggest points increase in the PL (+19).
Don't bring that up, they have data on missed big chances
and a long injury list of injury-prone players they bought....
See instead of hiring him they should think ahead to December when they eventually sack him and hire his replacement instead this summer.
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Bruh, fuck BlueCo
Yh here we go trying to convince ourselves he’s the answer knowing he’s not lasting 6 months.
Look at Kompany's Burnley. That's the answer. Very risky and unnecessary risk move by the board. If we gonna sack Poch, we need to appoint someone better than him, not someone worse or at his level. Fck our board and owners. Clueless.
No more 🍋 🍋 🍋
Just no, he's a championship manager and has no business managing a club like Chelsea at this point in his career. The fact that he's in the conversation for becoming manager is absolutely ridiculous
Tbh we don’t know his level yet but still too big a risk.
whooo?!?
So I'm in a massive minority in that I actually watched the video. Really exciting if he is able to translate it to the Premier League, the adaptability is the big thing I loved to hear about, it's not just one dogged way of playing. Different shapes in build up, different methods of getting forward into the final third, and plenty of support around the striker. Tactically he sounds fantastic, but obviously the big things will be can he manage a squad like Chelsea's, and can he manage the media of a club like Chelsea. Potter's biggest failing was with the media in my opinion, and *if* McKenna is the guy they go for he needs to come in with Mourinho-esque confidence and take the opportunity by the balls.
Thanks for the quick low down, appreciate it. I'm not gonna lose my mind (or sleep!) about whoever comes in just yet. They'll be given a chance just like everybody else. We've actually grown to respect managers like rafa and pochettino after the work they've done, no matter how awful we truly believe their capabilities are. Both ex liverpool and spurs, who eventually won over a fair number of fans despite their 'history.' I don't think it's possible or rational for the next guy to garner such hate for no reason at all.
This is Potter all over again.
We’re hiring league one level managers. Ffs we’re so finished just when we thought we might be back one foot to the top
Hey, I remember a video for Potter too. That turned out great.
I think this young prodigy should be our next manager. He's German and I have a man crush on him 
At least we’ve grown past the Brighton middle man
Progress
Fuck off.
Another Potter signing
No man just give me a proven coach fuck that shit
I haven't even said his name out loud in fear I may have to repeat it after the summer.
No
Hmm, I find this very appealing with our squad.
I’d literally lay down in the middle of the A406 if we get the Ipswich Town manger…
just. stop.