What's wrong with Chelsea?

Some nice insights: by Simon Barnes in Times, 10-Feb-2009

So Chelsea fired Luiz Felipe Scolari. You may be good enough for Brazil, but if you think you're good enough for Chelsea, you've got another think coming. You come here with your fancy talk about winning the World Cup, but what about the Carling Cup, eh? How many times have you won that?

So let us pause for a moment. Chelsea sacked Scolari because they thought there's something wrong with him. But all the evidence points the other way. Scolari is a good manager. Could it be - could it actually be, perchance - that there is something wrong with Chelsea?

So what should you do when the manager of a big club can finish only eleventh in the league? Say you stick by him and a couple of seasons later you're eleventh again. And then things get even worse, a run of six defeats and two draws in eight games. That's it! We've been patient long enough! Had Manchester United done that, they'd have sacked Sir Alex Ferguson.

Think long term. Aim for stability. Devolve power to the manager. Back him. Stick with him through the rough patches. How extraordinary that five of the top six clubs in the Premier League follow this policy; how bizarre that it's the one that doesn't that's in crisis.

But it pays to look a bit beyond the weekly routine of elation and despair. That's the way of smart supporters, smart owners and smart managers. They look for bigger patterns, for enduring trends, for lasting value.

When a man presents you to his fifth wife, you don't wonder what was wrong with the previous four; you wonder what's wrong with the bloke. And when a football club get rid of four top managers in half a dozen seasons - well, you don't wonder what's wrong with the managers, do you?
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Well the fact is the guy who made 'easy money' during the Russian liberalization will not understand the meaning of hard-work, team-building or work-ethic. He thinks everything is plastic. Pay the money & buy it!!!

But there are few things in life which one can't buy - time, team-building, love etc.,

Good luck Chelsea. Mourinho is going to be the next Manchester United Manager once Sir Alex retires!!! Lol! And then Manchester United will rule for another 20 years!!!

Pradeep Kabra