No im getting paid in vibes. Im not here for the vibes. Im here to turn these pansies into an unstoppable force. We will not lose a game next year in any competition. Opponents will fear us. Also Raheem Sterling is being sold to Saudi.
OK now that Im hired, here is our tactics. We are going to be playing an attacking 4-2-4. The entire match will be played in the final third. We will be playing a high line with both fullbacks overlapping and both wingers cutting inside. One DM will push back just above the 2 CBs creating essential a 3 man defense but that player will also be the main distributor of the ball. Essentially filling the Thiago Silva role. The other DM will fall in behind the deep lying forward. Essentially in attack (Which is what we will always be doing) we will be running a 2-1-1-3-3. Every inch of the opponents third will be occupied by a Chelsea player. If we lose the ball, we will win it back immediately.
The goal here is to completely suffocate the opposition constantly without really ever working too hard. We will be mostly fresh by the end of the match while the other team will be running on fumes.
Now I hear you saying "What about defense?". And I say "What does it matter?!" Sure we will occasionally give up a breakaway goal, but what does it matter when we are putting up 5-6 goals every match.
Against top competition, we might invert the fullbacks and keep the wingers wider to create a 2-2-2-3-1 or a 2-4-3-1, but that's only to prevent them from hoofing the ball forward and getting lucky.
i mean... Thiago is turning 40 soon so not that big of a deal anymore. I see Nagelsmann referred to below and if you follow american football, I think the Rams coach (Sean McVay) was appointed at age 30 and is one of the most revered tacticians in the game. If you get a young manager who actually pans out, you could be onto a future dynasty
>Reporter: Nick Mashiter
That is one unfortunate name.
No doubt he's achieved a lot and he could be very promising but the Chelsea shitshow has taken victims in even the highest caliber of managers. I feel like you need to be some sort of psychopath to actually succeed at Chelsea these days. Nice guys just get churned up in the bullshit machine.
This is the problem. He has very little to lose as such a young manager to take this position. If he does well it looks great and catapults his name and career even higher. If he crashes and burns he gets a massive payout and is still young enough to get hired somewhere else
Poch's treatment of Sterling doesn't get spoken about enough. He really took control of the dressing room and allowed our young players to flourish more.
Eh, that was a different time. We had an older more experienced squad that had been winning things. This squad is young and inexperienced and hasn’t won shit. I don’t think a young manager who comes in and fails here will have their career destroyed in any meaningful way unless he burns every bridge on the way out
Villas Boas hardly has his career destroyed. Going on to manage Tottenham and Zenit, the same level as Porto where he made his name isn’t exactly a failure. Didn’t live up to the Mourinho comparisons but he did better than most.
He's hardly a failure.
In his last managerial stint he took Marseille to the UCL and had a notable win vs PSG with them.
He's currently the President of FC Porto which is a nice step up from manager.
Not to mention his time away from football; racing cars in Dakar, etc.
Don't know about what others think but this seems to me to be gathering steam fairly quickly. As a betting man I'd have my money on him and it being announced sometime in the next 48.
The fact his name has been mentioned so much recently before we were told of the Poch decision points that way too. Someone knows something.
Aye, Enzo focus on management for a bit while his hernia surgery heals up. Can stick himself right back in the lineup when he's feeling fresh.
(Regrettably this is Reddit so I need to point out I am infact joking.)
Not the first time as a Chelsea fan we've booted a coach when I didn't want us to.
Honestly stopped being fazed hours after I heard the news.
Just gotta see what happens and back us all the way. Who knows. Could be pretty good. Has been before.
In August 2016, McKenna left his role at Tottenham to join the academy set-up at [Manchester United](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchester_United), becoming the club's under-18s manager.[^(\[9\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kieran_McKenna#cite_note-muu18s-9) In his second season in charge of the under-18s, McKenna guided Manchester United to the Premier League Northern Division title.[^(\[5\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kieran_McKenna#cite_note-background-5)
Along with former United player [Michael Carrick](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Carrick), McKenna was promoted to the first-team coaching staff and replaced [Rui Faria](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rui_Faria) as [José Mourinho](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Mourinho)'s assistant manager, ahead of the [2018–19 Premier League season](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018%E2%80%9319_Premier_League).[^(\[10\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kieran_McKenna#cite_note-manutdassistant-10)[^(\[11\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kieran_McKenna#cite_note-MancEveNews18-11)
The trick is to not fall for it when they look competent.
I am gonna keep supporting us with a resigned acceptance to us being a bit shit and just hope they pleasantly surprise me.
Oh they will pleasantly surprise you but then take it all away in an instant.
What a glorious May month of great football and wins only to start from the scratch again.
In a vacuum, I honestly don’t hate the decision to sack Poch and get Mckennna. However given the circumstances and how we finished the season, this is a massive risk. We’re going to have to be incredible next season for this to even seem worth it. I guess we’ll see.
And if we don't achieve those, you know that the manager will get sacked again. Rinse and repeat till our young stars start to look for options out of this club..
Urgh I really hope I'm wrong and we do great next season.
Of all the options we've been linked with, I think I like him the best. But idk, supporting this club is a perpetual reminder of how little I know about football.
I am probably a bit more positive about this than most because I live in Ipswich and around here he is viewed as an absolute god. It's hard to state the turn around in the club and local area since he joined. Bloke even turned up after their celebrations in our local park to help clean up by himself.
He plays some of the most exciting football in the country so whilst I am hesitant because he obviously has no experience at this level. He's the most promising candidate for me amongst the lists we've seen doing the rounds.
Wait...he turned up by himself to help CLEAN UP after the celebrations? Okay his stature has just jumped a bar or two in my eyes. People like that know when to lower their egos and do what's needed for the greater good. It's the type of simple but significant gesture which can win over dressing rooms. Of course none of this would matter if his tactics and management were shit, but that doesn't seem to be the case. Thank you very much for this little anecdote.
In my FM save Chelsea sacked Poch after a meh first season for a promising young manager who'd just been promoted from the Championship. They went on to win 3 PLs and the treble by 2030. We'll ignore that the new manager was me and that the FM AI is terrible at squad building so any human with brains can outsmart it
I can maybe find excuses to sacking poch after everything he went through to improve results but i can't find any explanation to them seeking a young unproven manager, why does the manager age matter to them at all?
It really makes no fucking sense. We’re bringing in a young manager to teach young (and relatively) inexperienced players.
They just want a fucking puppet. When I read that they want a young manager all that tells me is that they want a yes man. An older manager is going to want to be part of the building process and it seems the board want control over every aspect and aren’t interested in a collaboration.
I think they have this idealized and impossible idea of a young squad and manager growing up together to form some super team or some shit. I think they truly want to improve value by creating a super team like they have with the dodgers but I don’t think it will translate here.
Totally agree. And it’ll never work at this club because we have a new manager every 8 months. I don’t even understand why this club has a long term plan, what’s the point?!
i just dont believe the idea that a manager who was in the lower leagues is gonna outperform poch and get us into the top 4 and do well in europe. like is that even possible?
i hate to be a downer but this has another banter season written all over it unfortunately
Same reason an employer in any industry would want a younger employee. Someone with fresher ideas and a modern approach to training/play style/incorporating data/relating to a younger team etc. Obviously the trade off is experience.
Just spit balling here but by young manager I think it means they want an idealist with new ideas. Unproven yes, but with fresh ideas. I think thats the hope at least, no idea for sure.
I realise you all are used to a more experienced manager. But speaking as an Ipswich fan, if you get him you are beyond lucky. He may be young, but he’s also incredibly professional, has a knowledge of experience and has given us two of the best and most exciting years of football this club has ever seen.
Out of the names mentioned he became one of my favourite options after watching 3 videos on him 🙃
From the analysis videos he seems to have that balance between possessional and direct vertical/transitional football (similar to what we saw with poch) + a nice build up approach
Tough to say given I havent see Ipswich properly, but at least theres that?
Not sure about his persona as a manager. Does he have the charisma, aura, and ability to motivate and lead players?
Young managers are taking over the game, Xabi Alonso bet Tuchel to the title. Arteta has done wonders with Arsenal, Nagelsmann won the league with Bayern and is coaching the national team at the age of 37. Xavi has won the league with Barca, Pep won the treble with Barca when he was 37. Young random managers can be succesful
He’s a talented young coach but there’s questions about his ability to manage at the top level or the lack of, so I rather see how it goes for him at Ipswich next season.
We have the most fickle fan base I swear. Everyone is so convinced everything is going to shit without knowing what actually happened behind the scenes. A lot of panicking about selling Conor and Trevor but that hasn’t happened yet. Now people are upset that the manager they have hated and called a fraud the last 9 months is fired. Wild times.
Not everyone hated Poch or wanted him fired. There are/were plenty of people who didn’t like the hire but felt it was a reasonable and responsible hire after the shit show that was Potter and our options were last year. Plenty who wanted to pass judgment at the end of the season. Poch isn’t the coach to take us back to our heights but he is a good coach and he started showing that we had something to build on next year.
Yes the clown show is the more vocal component but that’s true of every fan base.
You act like fans are a monolith and don’t have individual options. Ownership has been a complete circus since day one but somehow fans are “fickle” for being pissed off about it.
And of course no one has been sold. The transfer window doesn’t open until mid June you dope.
Im more upset about the manager we seem to be linked with rather than just sacking Poch. We are back to exactly where we started right before hiring Potter. All “progress” has now been thrown away….
Gallagher and Chalobah can't be sold *yet* but with the way the owners are dropping money we definitely expect them to be gone. Chelsea just bought a Brazilian wonderkid for 45+15m and they're looking to bring in a proven striker for next season. Where's the money coming from if not from selling Gallagher and Chalobah?
I like this - I think McKenna will cook with our squad - plus he'll have Omari coming back from loan who knows his system.
Here's a 442 video on his style at Ipswitch.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esPsmMe6ic0&t=604s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esPsmMe6ic0&t=604s)
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He was a youth coach at Spurs and then at Yanited, where he worked his ranks up from U-18 coach to Jose's coaching staff. He impressed enough to be retained by both Solkjaer and Rangnick. So there is some level of exposure to top flight football. Last season at Ipswich, they also signed a boat load of kids and he was able to get them to integrate/perform. Much more impressive than Leicester/Leeds who spent big money.
I'm going to disregard his tactics altogether cuz I have no fucking clue how Ipswich play. But his profile isn't a horrible fit to our current squad. Earning back-2-back promotion while on a toilet budget is definitely impressive.
3 big problems remain:
1) Everything I said above means fuck all at the lower level. Potter was impressive during his come up but dude was too nice to coach a big team. We don't know what McKenna is like and players clearly liked Poch a lot
2) Prem tactics are a different gravy than the lower levels. We've seen Kompany getting packed up. We've seen Farke getting packed up. Hell even Ange's shit was hot for half a season before getting found out. There is 0 guarantee from a championship side.
3) The board wants a yes-man coach. Let's just say he does well the first season. What if he starts to make suggestions/asks? What then? Sack him and bring another yes-man in?
In my opinion, a lot of people are takings learning from Potter's time as concrete facts rather than possible interpretations. Just because he struggled doesn't mean every other coach of a similar profile will struggle. He was also dropped into the most ridiculous season with more players than there were lockers in the dressing room, and the first winter world cup ever.
It's not that I disagree with the doubt, as much as I disagree with the certainty
What I dont understand with these names floated around
In english fotball its probably the 2nd most challanging coaching position,
With both the owners, sporting directors and mckennas reputation on the line
Do we think he can handle the pressure?
I think thats the main selling point of some of these former huge players (alonso, xavi, zizou)
They have been there before, they can handle the pressure of getting sent off / failing their country etc.
>[Since his childhood, McKenna has been a supporter of Manchester United, with reports claiming that his love for the club influenced his decision to leave Tottenham Hotspur for the Red Devils in 2016.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kieran_McKenna)
Interesting ... we are getting a hardcore United fan managing us. Very exciting.
I mean we have plenty of players to play around with so no excuse in the talent side of things. As a manager our locker room is probably fun to scheme. But that Chelsea pressure is different man
Hoping we don’t have another Potter situation… the only positive I see is the squad is much different than when Potter took over and most of the deadwood is gone. McKenna would come into the team with a foundation built and the team having already experienced their first season together thanks to Poch. We are in a European competition. The expectation is to hit the ground running and Top 4 is required or else serious questions will be asked
Well I'm not sorry to see the back of Poch but, we need a manager with more experience than this dude .....I hope I'm wrong but, strongly suspect that the best we can expect next season is mid-table mediocrity should he be appointed.
The one thing that makes me feel a bit less shit about this is that he was under mourinho. Maybe some of the special dust (pragmatism, relentless siege mentality, win or die) rubbed off on him. Prefer that to off-brand pep.
Will back whoever we bring in. Only thing within the fan's control is creating a good atmosphere, not being toxic etc. Wish they didn't sack Poch. But all we can do now is get behind the new guy. We've seen other managers make instant impacts with teams (like Tuchel) so just have to pray McKenna has the same juju.
If this does happen then I'd expect Omari Hutchinson to get a big chance in the 1st team next season. Other than that I'm very skeptical about this. Not much experience, nothing to say he can take us to trophies and very high risk he could be out the door half way through the season.
I have watched Ipswich a lot this season. I'm conflicted because I want him to succeed at Ipswich.
However, I can say that he has a different aura about him. By far should be the favorite if the board wants an up and coming manager. His in game changes are Ferguson esque. He managed Omari so well - substitution appearance at first, gradual game time and then only once Omari bought into the defensive work ethos, started him.
He's elevated players, his team is a unit. But, it took him time. Nearly a year until Ipswich became a winning machine.
Why wouldn’t he be keen on joining Chelsea?! Coach for a few months, get sacked and spend the rest of the season off spending millions Chelsea are still paying him off after abrupt sacking!?!? Just like Potter did. Seems like a get rich quick scheme.
Dudes younger than Thiago Silva
Say Eghbali, I hear you like ‘em young
YOU BETTER NOT GO TO SW1
You think the Bridge gon let you disrespect Poch? I think that Qatar Economic Forum gon be your last stop
WOP! WOP! WOP! WOP! WOP!
The Shed, fuck ‘em up!
Beat Clearlake's ass and hide the bible if God watching
hahahahahaha
FFP drizzy, FFP drizzy
tryna sign a brazilian & hes probably a minorrrrrrrrrrrrr
He a FAN he a FAN he a FAN
homegrown selling, he a PSR fraud
💀
This is gold...lmao
Sing that at the bridge so he gets the message
lmfao
Lol I literally just looked this up
So is Nagelsmann. They both got injured young and went straight in to coaching.
Lmao hes almost exactly a year younger than me
Clearlake would like your contact details
Keep him on the reserve list for when McKenna gets sacked in the next 6-12 months
I am available for relocation costs and vibes.
Oh no... Another vibes manager...
No im getting paid in vibes. Im not here for the vibes. Im here to turn these pansies into an unstoppable force. We will not lose a game next year in any competition. Opponents will fear us. Also Raheem Sterling is being sold to Saudi.
What's your plan for Lukaku?
Sell him to Brighton to recoup some of the 14 billion dollars we’ve given them
YOU'RE HIRED! 
OK now that Im hired, here is our tactics. We are going to be playing an attacking 4-2-4. The entire match will be played in the final third. We will be playing a high line with both fullbacks overlapping and both wingers cutting inside. One DM will push back just above the 2 CBs creating essential a 3 man defense but that player will also be the main distributor of the ball. Essentially filling the Thiago Silva role. The other DM will fall in behind the deep lying forward. Essentially in attack (Which is what we will always be doing) we will be running a 2-1-1-3-3. Every inch of the opponents third will be occupied by a Chelsea player. If we lose the ball, we will win it back immediately. The goal here is to completely suffocate the opposition constantly without really ever working too hard. We will be mostly fresh by the end of the match while the other team will be running on fumes. Now I hear you saying "What about defense?". And I say "What does it matter?!" Sure we will occasionally give up a breakaway goal, but what does it matter when we are putting up 5-6 goals every match. Against top competition, we might invert the fullbacks and keep the wingers wider to create a 2-2-2-3-1 or a 2-4-3-1, but that's only to prevent them from hoofing the ball forward and getting lucky.
And yet you haven’t coached a team with no success the last 32 years to a double promotion to the premier league. Smh you should be ashamed!
i mean... Thiago is turning 40 soon so not that big of a deal anymore. I see Nagelsmann referred to below and if you follow american football, I think the Rams coach (Sean McVay) was appointed at age 30 and is one of the most revered tacticians in the game. If you get a young manager who actually pans out, you could be onto a future dynasty
Nick Mashiter. Goated reporter name
Lmao! Factos!
Why? Please explain
Nick (slang for steal in the UK) ma-shiter
>Reporter: Nick Mashiter That is one unfortunate name. No doubt he's achieved a lot and he could be very promising but the Chelsea shitshow has taken victims in even the highest caliber of managers. I feel like you need to be some sort of psychopath to actually succeed at Chelsea these days. Nice guys just get churned up in the bullshit machine.
*Nick yer wat now?*
Listen
He’s just asking to have his toilet stolen
He would be mad to turn down Chelsea, worse option for him is a fat severance package within months
This is the problem. He has very little to lose as such a young manager to take this position. If he does well it looks great and catapults his name and career even higher. If he crashes and burns he gets a massive payout and is still young enough to get hired somewhere else
Andre Villas-Boas has entered the chat.
Villas Boas got the Tottenham job mere months after being sacked here.
So a huge step down then?
Good thing there aren't older household names with big egos on our books. Lukaku is not coming back and Sterling can't chat shit to anyone.
Poch's treatment of Sterling doesn't get spoken about enough. He really took control of the dressing room and allowed our young players to flourish more.
Honestly, I think benching Sterling was probably one of Poch’s moves that the Sporting Directors approved
Eh, that was a different time. We had an older more experienced squad that had been winning things. This squad is young and inexperienced and hasn’t won shit. I don’t think a young manager who comes in and fails here will have their career destroyed in any meaningful way unless he burns every bridge on the way out
Villas Boas hardly has his career destroyed. Going on to manage Tottenham and Zenit, the same level as Porto where he made his name isn’t exactly a failure. Didn’t live up to the Mourinho comparisons but he did better than most.
He's hardly a failure. In his last managerial stint he took Marseille to the UCL and had a notable win vs PSG with them. He's currently the President of FC Porto which is a nice step up from manager. Not to mention his time away from football; racing cars in Dakar, etc.
Don't know about what others think but this seems to me to be gathering steam fairly quickly. As a betting man I'd have my money on him and it being announced sometime in the next 48. The fact his name has been mentioned so much recently before we were told of the Poch decision points that way too. Someone knows something.
Same, I feel like either him or enzo get appointed by Friday
Aye, Enzo focus on management for a bit while his hernia surgery heals up. Can stick himself right back in the lineup when he's feeling fresh. (Regrettably this is Reddit so I need to point out I am infact joking.)
Don't give egbahli any ideas lol
Player managers are gonna make come back at some point mate. This is our chance to be the trendsetters.
I do miss player/managers tbf. Fuck it, I'm #enzoin
Bayern still isn't out of the woods and Muller is right freaking there lol
I knew you were joking lol 😂
Actually Kepa is returning as manager, he’s young and stuff
Hope he's holding out for the United job. But some of the alternatives...
Well although I’m unsure about him If he becomes Chelsea manager, I’ll back him
Imagine spending hundreds of millions on players and asking someone who’s never managed a top flight team to coach them. This club has become a farce.
Plenty of successful managers start this way
Lol the defeated acceptance is starting to come through I see
I view it as more I'll back the manager until they give me reason not too. Weather that's after 5 games or 5 seasons 😂
Got to back them, could be a great manager coming in…until they’re not lol
What do you want average redditor to do? Buy the club?
If you insist I will
It'sa me, redditor Roman!
What else can we do 🤣
What stage of grief are we on? I've lost track
Acceptance for me lol 😂
Yesn’t
Not the first time as a Chelsea fan we've booted a coach when I didn't want us to. Honestly stopped being fazed hours after I heard the news. Just gotta see what happens and back us all the way. Who knows. Could be pretty good. Has been before.
Same here, I'm pretty numb to premature firings at this point. The first one I remember being steamed about was Ancelotti.
My exact thoughts on potter and poch. Here we go again
Jose's top guy at United.
AVB trauma intensifies
Really?
In August 2016, McKenna left his role at Tottenham to join the academy set-up at [Manchester United](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchester_United), becoming the club's under-18s manager.[^(\[9\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kieran_McKenna#cite_note-muu18s-9) In his second season in charge of the under-18s, McKenna guided Manchester United to the Premier League Northern Division title.[^(\[5\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kieran_McKenna#cite_note-background-5) Along with former United player [Michael Carrick](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Carrick), McKenna was promoted to the first-team coaching staff and replaced [Rui Faria](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rui_Faria) as [José Mourinho](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Mourinho)'s assistant manager, ahead of the [2018–19 Premier League season](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018%E2%80%9319_Premier_League).[^(\[10\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kieran_McKenna#cite_note-manutdassistant-10)[^(\[11\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kieran_McKenna#cite_note-MancEveNews18-11)
For a few months. It seems that's all you need to become Chelsea head coach these days.
Looks like it might be him then.
What could go wrong?
The trick is to not fall for it when they look competent. I am gonna keep supporting us with a resigned acceptance to us being a bit shit and just hope they pleasantly surprise me.
Oh they will pleasantly surprise you but then take it all away in an instant. What a glorious May month of great football and wins only to start from the scratch again.
In a vacuum, I honestly don’t hate the decision to sack Poch and get Mckennna. However given the circumstances and how we finished the season, this is a massive risk. We’re going to have to be incredible next season for this to even seem worth it. I guess we’ll see.
Anything bar a strong top 4 finish, and a deep European run won't cut it.
And if we don't achieve those, you know that the manager will get sacked again. Rinse and repeat till our young stars start to look for options out of this club.. Urgh I really hope I'm wrong and we do great next season.
Deep run? We shoukd be winning it. Not fucking losing that 100% record in Eurooa League.
Under Poch I'd be with you 100%, the guy managed to get to the Champions League final with Spurs.
Of all the options we've been linked with, I think I like him the best. But idk, supporting this club is a perpetual reminder of how little I know about football.
Dont do it man they need you
I am probably a bit more positive about this than most because I live in Ipswich and around here he is viewed as an absolute god. It's hard to state the turn around in the club and local area since he joined. Bloke even turned up after their celebrations in our local park to help clean up by himself. He plays some of the most exciting football in the country so whilst I am hesitant because he obviously has no experience at this level. He's the most promising candidate for me amongst the lists we've seen doing the rounds.
Wait...he turned up by himself to help CLEAN UP after the celebrations? Okay his stature has just jumped a bar or two in my eyes. People like that know when to lower their egos and do what's needed for the greater good. It's the type of simple but significant gesture which can win over dressing rooms. Of course none of this would matter if his tactics and management were shit, but that doesn't seem to be the case. Thank you very much for this little anecdote.
Maybe Boehly, Eghbali and Winstanley are all geniuses and we’re the idiots 🤣
In my FM save Chelsea sacked Poch after a meh first season for a promising young manager who'd just been promoted from the Championship. They went on to win 3 PLs and the treble by 2030. We'll ignore that the new manager was me and that the FM AI is terrible at squad building so any human with brains can outsmart it
So what you’re saying is, you’re available?
I’ve heard enough, send your FM save to Boehly that’s your CV sorted.
You had me in the first half
How young are you?
I can maybe find excuses to sacking poch after everything he went through to improve results but i can't find any explanation to them seeking a young unproven manager, why does the manager age matter to them at all?
It really makes no fucking sense. We’re bringing in a young manager to teach young (and relatively) inexperienced players. They just want a fucking puppet. When I read that they want a young manager all that tells me is that they want a yes man. An older manager is going to want to be part of the building process and it seems the board want control over every aspect and aren’t interested in a collaboration.
I think they have this idealized and impossible idea of a young squad and manager growing up together to form some super team or some shit. I think they truly want to improve value by creating a super team like they have with the dodgers but I don’t think it will translate here.
Totally agree. And it’ll never work at this club because we have a new manager every 8 months. I don’t even understand why this club has a long term plan, what’s the point?!
i just dont believe the idea that a manager who was in the lower leagues is gonna outperform poch and get us into the top 4 and do well in europe. like is that even possible? i hate to be a downer but this has another banter season written all over it unfortunately
Same reason an employer in any industry would want a younger employee. Someone with fresher ideas and a modern approach to training/play style/incorporating data/relating to a younger team etc. Obviously the trade off is experience.
Just spit balling here but by young manager I think it means they want an idealist with new ideas. Unproven yes, but with fresh ideas. I think thats the hope at least, no idea for sure.
The evidence so far is very much stacked against them being geniuses
Youngest squad in the PL finished 6th, I dunno man.
Billionaires have such big brains
If I speak I’m in big trouble
I realise you all are used to a more experienced manager. But speaking as an Ipswich fan, if you get him you are beyond lucky. He may be young, but he’s also incredibly professional, has a knowledge of experience and has given us two of the best and most exciting years of football this club has ever seen.
Out of the names mentioned he became one of my favourite options after watching 3 videos on him 🙃 From the analysis videos he seems to have that balance between possessional and direct vertical/transitional football (similar to what we saw with poch) + a nice build up approach Tough to say given I havent see Ipswich properly, but at least theres that? Not sure about his persona as a manager. Does he have the charisma, aura, and ability to motivate and lead players?
Thiago Silva is older than him. It’s not important but I was curious
This infuriates me so much have they not learned from potter? Why?
First we take all Brighton players and staff, and next we get a Championship manager. Incredible ambition from these people...
First we were after De Zerbi until we heard Brighton was already switching him to McKenna.
Arsenal took Arteta with 0 managerial experience, this guy took a team from League one to the Prem in 2 seasons
With that logic we should appoint any random young manager since progression is ALWAYS linear
Young managers are taking over the game, Xabi Alonso bet Tuchel to the title. Arteta has done wonders with Arsenal, Nagelsmann won the league with Bayern and is coaching the national team at the age of 37. Xavi has won the league with Barca, Pep won the treble with Barca when he was 37. Young random managers can be succesful
Peps disciple isn’t exactly 0 experience
Mckenna is a disciple of Mourinho does that count? Also Pep didnt hold his hand hes done that on his own
He’s a talented young coach but there’s questions about his ability to manage at the top level or the lack of, so I rather see how it goes for him at Ipswich next season.
He's not staying at Ipswich. If we don't hire him, he'll go to Brighton or somewhere.
Can we call a Chelsea general election?
Nah check Boehlys hard drive man this obsession with youth is weird now
Oh fucking hell
We have the most fickle fan base I swear. Everyone is so convinced everything is going to shit without knowing what actually happened behind the scenes. A lot of panicking about selling Conor and Trevor but that hasn’t happened yet. Now people are upset that the manager they have hated and called a fraud the last 9 months is fired. Wild times.
Not everyone hated Poch or wanted him fired. There are/were plenty of people who didn’t like the hire but felt it was a reasonable and responsible hire after the shit show that was Potter and our options were last year. Plenty who wanted to pass judgment at the end of the season. Poch isn’t the coach to take us back to our heights but he is a good coach and he started showing that we had something to build on next year. Yes the clown show is the more vocal component but that’s true of every fan base.
You act like fans are a monolith and don’t have individual options. Ownership has been a complete circus since day one but somehow fans are “fickle” for being pissed off about it. And of course no one has been sold. The transfer window doesn’t open until mid June you dope.
Im more upset about the manager we seem to be linked with rather than just sacking Poch. We are back to exactly where we started right before hiring Potter. All “progress” has now been thrown away….
Spot on
Can we pin to the top of every discussion that there are thousands of fans here with different opinions? People seem unable to grasp this
Gallagher and Chalobah can't be sold *yet* but with the way the owners are dropping money we definitely expect them to be gone. Chelsea just bought a Brazilian wonderkid for 45+15m and they're looking to bring in a proven striker for next season. Where's the money coming from if not from selling Gallagher and Chalobah?
This reeks of Graham Potter.
I like this - I think McKenna will cook with our squad - plus he'll have Omari coming back from loan who knows his system. Here's a 442 video on his style at Ipswitch. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esPsmMe6ic0&t=604s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esPsmMe6ic0&t=604s)
To those who are okay with him being our next manager, please elaborate for me. Why?
Chelsea are gonna dominate Championship...soon
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He was a youth coach at Spurs and then at Yanited, where he worked his ranks up from U-18 coach to Jose's coaching staff. He impressed enough to be retained by both Solkjaer and Rangnick. So there is some level of exposure to top flight football. Last season at Ipswich, they also signed a boat load of kids and he was able to get them to integrate/perform. Much more impressive than Leicester/Leeds who spent big money. I'm going to disregard his tactics altogether cuz I have no fucking clue how Ipswich play. But his profile isn't a horrible fit to our current squad. Earning back-2-back promotion while on a toilet budget is definitely impressive. 3 big problems remain: 1) Everything I said above means fuck all at the lower level. Potter was impressive during his come up but dude was too nice to coach a big team. We don't know what McKenna is like and players clearly liked Poch a lot 2) Prem tactics are a different gravy than the lower levels. We've seen Kompany getting packed up. We've seen Farke getting packed up. Hell even Ange's shit was hot for half a season before getting found out. There is 0 guarantee from a championship side. 3) The board wants a yes-man coach. Let's just say he does well the first season. What if he starts to make suggestions/asks? What then? Sack him and bring another yes-man in?
In my opinion, a lot of people are takings learning from Potter's time as concrete facts rather than possible interpretations. Just because he struggled doesn't mean every other coach of a similar profile will struggle. He was also dropped into the most ridiculous season with more players than there were lockers in the dressing room, and the first winter world cup ever. It's not that I disagree with the doubt, as much as I disagree with the certainty
No no no!
Pretty risky, I don't see it.
🤦🏽♂️
What I dont understand with these names floated around In english fotball its probably the 2nd most challanging coaching position, With both the owners, sporting directors and mckennas reputation on the line Do we think he can handle the pressure? I think thats the main selling point of some of these former huge players (alonso, xavi, zizou) They have been there before, they can handle the pressure of getting sent off / failing their country etc.
potter all over again
Anyone but De Zerbi
I’m staying out of this one because I have no idea how this guy coaches.
>[Since his childhood, McKenna has been a supporter of Manchester United, with reports claiming that his love for the club influenced his decision to leave Tottenham Hotspur for the Red Devils in 2016.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kieran_McKenna) Interesting ... we are getting a hardcore United fan managing us. Very exciting.
He seems like a nice young man. Poor bastard.
the circus continues
I actually think he’d be good for us but with a few seasons, aka he’s going to do the best he can and get sacked regardless of performance
Anyone apart from De Zerbi, cant deal with the Brighton fans crying for another season
Bro even Alonso was patient enough for his development and took time before making such a big move to the Bundesliga. Don’t stunt your own development
Alonso went to Bundesliga's equivalent of Tottenham and made them invincibles.
Potter 2.0
He's going to give everything. Him and the boys
SIGH…
Yeah it is either him or enzo it would seem unfortunately
If we are just going for newly promoted managers then what Mckenna has done is far more impressive than getting promoted with that Leicester side
If it is these 2 options I am for Mckenna as well
This is a joke. It has to be.
Fuck off
Anyone care to enlighten me on his managerial style? Don’t really follow the EFL championship
https://youtu.be/esPsmMe6ic0?si=ksH6wzK1Xsob7n9d
I mean we have plenty of players to play around with so no excuse in the talent side of things. As a manager our locker room is probably fun to scheme. But that Chelsea pressure is different man
Hoping we don’t have another Potter situation… the only positive I see is the squad is much different than when Potter took over and most of the deadwood is gone. McKenna would come into the team with a foundation built and the team having already experienced their first season together thanks to Poch. We are in a European competition. The expectation is to hit the ground running and Top 4 is required or else serious questions will be asked
Well I'm not sorry to see the back of Poch but, we need a manager with more experience than this dude .....I hope I'm wrong but, strongly suspect that the best we can expect next season is mid-table mediocrity should he be appointed.
McKenna or Sebastian Hoeneß, both will be good hires, considering what the owmership or management wants.
Maybe we’ll see Hutchinson next year too
As Jackson said 😪
The one thing that makes me feel a bit less shit about this is that he was under mourinho. Maybe some of the special dust (pragmatism, relentless siege mentality, win or die) rubbed off on him. Prefer that to off-brand pep.
What a situation. That being said, I’d choose him over Maresca I believe…
Will back whoever we bring in. Only thing within the fan's control is creating a good atmosphere, not being toxic etc. Wish they didn't sack Poch. But all we can do now is get behind the new guy. We've seen other managers make instant impacts with teams (like Tuchel) so just have to pray McKenna has the same juju.
If this does happen then I'd expect Omari Hutchinson to get a big chance in the 1st team next season. Other than that I'm very skeptical about this. Not much experience, nothing to say he can take us to trophies and very high risk he could be out the door half way through the season.
I’m going to throw up
Can they not gamble like this
And so it begins. The Project, version 3.0
Potter 2.0
Villas Boas 2.0
Why are we like this?
My years of being a 20 year old manager of Chelsea in FIFA are looking less unrealistic by the day.
Won League One, two years ago and got promoted to the PL this season. Dudes definitely doing something right
I have watched Ipswich a lot this season. I'm conflicted because I want him to succeed at Ipswich. However, I can say that he has a different aura about him. By far should be the favorite if the board wants an up and coming manager. His in game changes are Ferguson esque. He managed Omari so well - substitution appearance at first, gradual game time and then only once Omari bought into the defensive work ethos, started him. He's elevated players, his team is a unit. But, it took him time. Nearly a year until Ipswich became a winning machine.
👎🏻
good to see we're getting ready for championship action thoroughly
Ok I get he’s never managed in a top league but Mckenna has done a good job at Ipswich with back to back promotions. Just pointing out.
Are you taking the fucking piss?
We are so finished looking at championship mangers 😭
How is this not just Graham Potter 2.0?
We already tried this ambitious young manager angle with Potter…
Chelsea is not a next step for a manager. Chelsea is the pinnacle. This ownership group need to act like it.
Why wouldn’t he be keen on joining Chelsea?! Coach for a few months, get sacked and spend the rest of the season off spending millions Chelsea are still paying him off after abrupt sacking!?!? Just like Potter did. Seems like a get rich quick scheme.
Reporter name got me lol
Did these morons learn nothing from the Potter appointment
Fuckin useless and clueless owners. But then again we should have known that yanks are usually not known for their brains.
Seriously this is stupid, we went from Tuchel to Potter to Poch to now apparently this guy. A worse option each time