After Sunday’s woeful performance against Wolverhampton Wanderers, the Chelsea fan base is losing patience with Mauricio Pochettino and especially the hierarchy, but is it right to sack him?
Barring the performances at home to Preston North End and Middlesbrough, Chelsea’s form has been so appalling that not only is the manager being questioned, but also the players and their mentality.
However, the Blues Boss is urging the fans to stick by the team.
“The fans need to trust in us,” “We need to provide the calm for the players to feel free to play. “We need to create a good connection with the fans. The fans need to understand when they go to Stamford Bridge it’s a different Chelsea, a different project, a different everything. It’s the responsibility of the players and the staff to create a connection, something in between they appreciate.
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But given that Chelsea’s history does not evolve around patience, it isn’t easy to see how this new regime under Todd Boehly and Behdad Eghbali, will succeed.
On Sunday, the fans understandably gave the club a huge indication of the situation and also demanded Mauricio Pochettino be replaced by the club’s favourite, Jose Mourinho.
Embed from Getty ImagesNow, as much as I’m a huge fan of the ‘Special One’, here’s my issue with it. A, Mourinho isn’t a long-term manager, B, the style of football that is played nowadays in the Premier League is far more attacking, and C, if this experiment that the fans are urging the Club to try fails, then what?
We will all look like emotional idiots for suggesting this.
Let’s also not forget, that it took Jurgen Klopp four years to win Liverpool the Champions League, followed by the Premier League in the following season, so who knows what might happen if the club remain patient with Mauricio Pochettino?
Embed from Getty ImagesOf course, if things get even worse, then dismissing Pochettino sounds like a reasonable thing to do.
However, when Chelsea announced Pochettino as the new manager, I was in two minds in the sense that it was nice to see the ownership try another project manager as they did with Graham Potter, but there was always the scenario that the fans would get impatient, especially if things do not go well in terms of results and performances.
Embed from Getty ImagesAnd given the fact that Thomas Tuchel and Graham Potter weren’t given enough time to prove themselves, why should they do the same to Pochettino?
Not only do the owners want to give Pochettino time, but they are also worried that axing him from Stamford Bridge would affect FFP (Financial Fair Play).
Embed from Getty ImagesAccording to Mail Online, Pochettino has 18 months left on his contract and dismissing him and his large back-room team would cost Chelsea over £10million.
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Any pay-off agreed before June would count towards the Premier League’s profit and sustainability rules this season.
Should this happen, there is the case that the club will be relegated to the Championship, which will be much worse, especially after the fact that the club have spent over £ 1 billion on new players since the Todd Boehly/Clearlake Capital takeover.
This is why it’s probably best to see this season out and reset in the summer and have a massive clear-out, which includes new directors who want to make this team flourish.
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