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After yesterday’s Premier League results it would take a lucky man or a fool to bet on the next Premier League manager to lose his job.
Avram Grant, Carlo Ancelotti and Roy Hodgson’s days are surely numbered after Blackburn Rovers thrashed Liverpool 3-1, West Ham was humiliated by Newcastle United 5-0 and Chelsea were embarrassed at Wolves whose 1-0 victory lifts them out of the relegation zone.
I think Roy Hodgson’s time was already up before the kick-off but this latest defeat may have the Liverpool owners turning to Kenny Dalglish as a caretaker manager until they can get a big name to take up the reins at Anfield.
Carlo Ancelotti and Chelsea’s poor run continued last night at Molineux. It’s still amazing what has happened at Stamford Bridge since the sacking of Ray Wilkins. They started the season scoring for fun only to stumble and fall at the first serious challenge against Manchester City, and since then have never looked that confident. If ever an English Premiership team could be compared to David Haye at the beginning of the season, only to fall from grace and turn into Audley Harrison midway through the season, Carlo Ancelotti’s Chelsea are that team!
Of the three managers things were looking brightest for Avram Grant this time yesterday afternoon. I assume owners David Sullivan and David Gold may have been content with a draw against Newcastle at St. James Park until it was confirmed their first and second choice strikers, Andy Carroll and Shola Ameobi, were both injured. They must have expected West Ham to grab all three points, not get absolutely hammered 5-0 with some of the poorest defending I had seen on Match of the Day since the Liverpool game, thirty minutes earlier!
Chelsea, West Ham and Liverpool to sack their managers in January, what are the odds on that?
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According to word in this morning’s Currant Bun, the majority of the Chelsea squad are fearing for Carlo Ancelotti‘s future at the club after watching their manager become increasingly disillusioned with life at Stamford Bridge.
Ancelotti is rumoured to be in a state of flux ever since watching his erstwhile assistant Ray Wilkins getting shunted from his post, a callous move that has left the Italian despairing over the ruthless nature of Chelsea’s internal politics, the club’s knotted web of power and the various schisms that are opening up within the squad itself.
The rag have also been able to call upon one of their fleet of well-placed ‘insiders’ to shed a little light on the subject:
“The atmosphere isn’t good at the moment. Everyone is convinced Carlo has had enough, though absolutely everyone is desperate for him to stay.
“He’s very, very popular with the players, who believe that he is an excellent manager. But there’s no doubt the squad itself is unsettled and cliques are starting to form.
“I understand resentment is starting to surround the French-speaking players, who are allegedly blaming other team-mates for the club’s indifferent Premier League form.”
Weapons-grade tabloid bum rubbish? Or, given Chelsea’s doleful slump over the past month, a heady cocktail of rumour-juice and truth-nuggets?
Has Ancelotti lost-the-plotti?
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Having been a near-constant fixture on the radars of Europe’s elite since the age of 13, Santos’ wünderkind Neymar has found himself linked with big-money moves to all and sundry on a consistent basis for at least the last couple of years.
Neymar, now aged 18, reportedly came to within a gnat’s knacker of joining Chelsea over the summer and after super agent (and Chelsea rep) Pin Zahavi was spotted chatting to the player’s agent Wagner Ribeiro in Brazil rumours have been flying that a deal may have been struck to take the prodigious Brazilian forward to Stamford Bridge in January.
However, Ribeiro insists that no such deal has been struck and that his client will not be leaving Santos until 2012 at the earliest – telling a Brazilian website:
“Zahavi is a personal friend and only travelled to Brazil to escape from the European winter. The chance that Neymar will leave Santos for Chelsea in this season (2010/2011) are zero per cent.
“Neymar wants to play the Copa Libertadores with Santos. If we wanted go abroad, he wouldn’t have even been here, I speak every day with Santos’ chairman and I can say that Neymar won’t go anywhere until the 2012 Olympics.”
He’s still a bit pap when it comes to cocky penalties mind…
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It’s fair to say that everything in the Chelsea garden isn’t exactly ‘coming up roses’ at the moment, with the tangled tubers of power and influence seemingly beginning to undermine authority at Stamford Bridge once again, a pattern we’ve seen repeated several times during the club’s recent history.
Coupled with the inescapable fact that the playing staff have been going about their business half-cocked for the last few weeks, a healthy dose of staff upheaval has seen relations become ever-so-slightly frayed betwixt the administration and the ownership of late – with manager Carlo Ancelotti cutting a bemused figure throughout before finally admitting that he’d ‘be the last to know’ should any major changes be brought about by his Russian proprietor.
However, after watching helplessly as his assistant Ray Wilkins was unceremoniously replaced by a semi-qualified scout a fortnight ago, Ancelotti has reportedly been informed by his immediate superiors that he will be allowed a say in the process of attempting to find a successor to sporting director Frank Arnesen – who, earlier in the week, announced that he will be leaving Chelsea for pastures new come the end of the current season.
One of the possible like-for-like candidates already being mooted to ease into Arnesen’s imminent void is former Barcelona technical director Txiki Begiristain – though there are rumblings that owner Roman Abramovich may choose to scrap the position (or at least ‘down-grade’ it, thus syphoning away any executive power) which would, in essence, allow the Russian to become even more directly influential in terms of the day-to-day running of the club.
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