Matt Law Special: Chelsea's New Manager, Pochettino Exit  

I thought I was too demoralised to be interested in this episode, but this was brilliant stuff.

Chelsea next project : developing the Artificial Intelligence Coach Project

I wonder if the Sporting Directors and Owners will ever make themselves accountable and explain their project to the fans. I can't see them roaming amongst the crowd.

new matt law special yessirrrr hopefully new info

This is the first intelligent discussion I have seen on Poch's departure. Thank you.

Kompany played in World Cup and UCL semi-finals for Belgium and City. He won the PL four times. Bayern is run by-ex-players and they would be impressed by his playing resume. Potter was inexperienced which is why Chelsea fired him. At big clubs, you have to win trophies. This inexperienced head coach won't get a lot of support but will be expected to reach top 4. This could be a disaster.

The same style of candidates means they are honing in upon the similar coach/manager like many European clubs run under including Barca. Following a method of play and ideals, with hints of their own. Poch was not reaching the merits they expect with their reasoning. They backed him to the end of season where they did not reach a good enough conclusion in the end of season review they agreed to follow. The fans wanted a manager to be stuck with till the end of the season, something they kept, but just like in the early years under Roman they let a coach go who they didn't see eye to eye. I don't believe the club want a puppet coach, but there are things they want to see or have implemented. If the club has declare x player is to be sold, love it or hate it the coach has to manage around the fact. What I don't understand is why did Poch join if they would have told him their remit, but after finishing below the starting target, believes he needs more control under a 2 year contract or an extension. It was clear as day he's the stop gap coach where they would seek an improvement on the coaching side. I don't doubt the club want to back a coach/manager, but they are running the club as they see fit with the standards they believe need to be withheld. If the players don't like the parting, well it is what it is, they are players and will need to get used to the movement of coaches like they most likely would have seen in clubs they came for- for reasons understood or not.

Great show. I'd go for Maresca as well. After poch of course who should still be there

As a black man this podcast has helped me understand racism much better. 😂😂 Listening to a guy with an American accent talking about football is so hard. 😂😂 And these guys are so passionate and erudite once you get over the accent and some linguistic variations (shut out instead of clean sheet etc) this is probably the best Chelsea focused podcast out there. Better than Straight Out of Cobham which feels like the guys are bored and do it to fulfill their contracts.

I’m not sure a puppet manager has ever won anything at least in the UK but that’s what the ownership want. It’s bizarre and clearly Poch was relieved to go when the ownership told him he would have very little say on players etc in and out. The club needs stability and that’s not going to happen. Let’s hope we don’t do a Watford.

I was not crazy about hiring Poch. While he mad mistakes, he had to deal with a lot of meddling from ownership and was ultimately not given a fair go of it. I do think Poch is obviously a really good dude

Brilliant show. Thanks so much.🙏

I think the mystery candidate is Xavi. He is parting ways with Barcelona and is going to be available.

I cant help but feel diconnected to these idiotic stubborn owners! We need a proven manager, there is no time too roll the dice anymore.

Sad but here

They don't know what their doing?

If I were them I did not give a damn about public opinion. Public is the one that hated Poch from the first day and now they question the club for getting rid of them. Public opinion changes in matter of weeks so I would not give a damn about public opinion. I would bring Maresca or Amorim. I am going toward Maresca IF anybody pay over 50 for Conor, sell immediately. Conor is more suitable for clubs that have less possession and they want their AM to press rather than be creative.

Most coaches will come in probably knowing they’ll be sacked but they’ll earn a decent payout $$$

Four has to be De Zebri, given that the Sporting Directors put him in at Brighton. Some talk about Mourinho but that is very unlikely.

I want De zerbi

The Board have not addressed how they are going to replace the more experienced players such as Gallagher Chalobah if they sell them. Are they hellbent on signing iyoung inexperienced players hoping they come good. This is really worrying.

It's a shocking decision especially that he got things right at the end and got to a position nobody thought was possible a couple of months ago ?! Really don't understand why was he not given a chance to continue and why are we going after less experienced managers?!

I'd take Ten Haag over Mckenna

This saga feels like the ownership is trying to bring in an American style metric system based decision making to football. They are hoping that it will revolutionize English football the way it was implemented in Major American sports. It explains the club’s decision to hire a set piece coach and dedicate an entire department for it. These metric based calculations won’t take us too far if the calibre and mentality of both players and management are not up to Chelsea’s standards. The ownership’s prediction system has ignored the intangibles of professional sports in entirety. Pochettino picked up our mess from last season and made sure we finished in a strong position while never throwing the players under the bus. That shows character and dedication towards the squad and the club. It feels like the club is taking decisions based on analytical predictions for the future and not with the situation that’s in front of them. The American sporting model where there are no continental competitions or possibility of relegation allows teams to just stick to their projects and hope to win at point in the future with a rebuild. That model does not work in English football where both domestic and European competitions pose tremendous challenges. The ownership has handicapped the club to compete based on statistics and just hope to win in the future rather than focus on winning today. That level of complacency will turn the club from a top 4 competitor to just another team counting their stars for making it to the conference league once or twice in a few seasons.

The other Coach is Fabregas

Board knows what they are doing, ruining our club! We want stability more than anything... Poch could have provided that in next season after what we did in the 2nd half of last season. Mad decision and now new manager means new style of play, more adjusting to do, more matches to lose... Their "PROJECT" is gonna be the shitstorm which makes our days bad. Remember the feeling when we won 4-3 with ManU, 4-4 with City and that JOY was so surreal. Bad games from Chelsea makes my day, whole week go to shit afterwards. 🙄

I don't agree with Matt that "Football has turned on its head" by appointing up and coming managers into big jobs. Wenger to Arsenal sticks out. But consider Barca's appointments if Rijkaard and Guardiola. Luis Enrique was seen as a failed Roma manager. What had Houlier won when Liverpool entrusted them with their revival?

Matt back in the sauna , must be serious

Time for a Sporting Director song? We have songs for the club, the players, the manager. If Sporting Directors are to take over more responsibility, then...

Mid November next season sitting in the bottom 3 what will the owners do then?????

I want Amorim

They are going to pay Brighton again for De Zerbi

The crazy thing is these guys hired poch!!! Its as if he just appeared there out of thin air and they knew nothing about him or had anything to do with his arrival!!! Bizzare to say te least ClownlakeFC

It can never BE a "mutual agreement", I mean come on. If Chelsea said "we feel like we should part ways" and Poch said "I don't want to", it's not as if Chelsea would say "ok, you can stay then"

10:29 sounds like a bad version of Craig David 7 days 😂

Todd attended his kids graduation

Jimmy Kimmel & Elvis Costello podcast. 😂

Trust me, none of the above

They don’t want a manager… they want a YES man 🤦🏾‍♂️🤦🏾‍♂️ we are finished

Can't help but think we are officially a treadmill team now. No direction and a scattergun approach to growth... Very disappointing.

Unnamed/unknown de zerbi...🤷🏿‍♂️

😂5 coaches later. Trust the process.Does anyone believe this.Having lunch,everything is happy, parting way. I think poch basically walked. All this shifting of the furniture. This club is not in a stable place. Chelsea fans need to be worried. And now they want more inexperience. This has glaziers written all over it

Why does this ownership and sporting directors loathe the fans ? Does matt ever ask his " contacts " this question? Do they care that conor is loved ? And if they sell him then lots of fans will never accept this" project "or that these current owners care for chelsea. If they can't read the room here then they are glazier mark 2

We are a joke. Need top 4 for next season, I know let’s fire an experienced manger and pick an inexperienced one 🤬🤬

Enzo Moresca much better

I’m sorry but the crocodile tears from chelsea online fanbase and creators is really getting on my nerves. Conservatively, 75% of chelsea RU-vidrs and podcasters were if not poch out then poch skeptics for most of the season - and that started early. Then we get some consistency and the club do what all these guys have wanted all season and suddenly they are bereft at the lack of direction from the club. At no point was I poch out and I’m upset he’s gone. Although I disagree with him I retain respect for carefreelewis because at least he is happy now having wanted poch gone. However, the vast majority of the poch out/poch skeptic crowd are suddenly upset with the decision too! This fanbase has to come to grips with what it wants before it turns it’s attentions to the powers that be. I’ve heard talk of demonstrations and strikes! What exactly would the strike be about? Against the decision to sack the manager? Against the new manager appointment (though there isn’t one yet so that’s ludicrous on its face)? A strike in favour of the guy that never got better than a lukewarm response from the fans. Amazing. I’m almost certain that if you polled the fanbase right now, the only idea for what we want that would be universal is “trophies and success”. Well that’s useful. We all want that - literally goes without saying. Ultimately though, that’s a result, not a process. You can’t control the result - not the fans, not the players, not the manager, not the owners, not the club. All you can do is make decisions and take actions that you think will give you the best chance to achieve those results. So what actions and process do we want as fans? I’ve heard everything from “the only way the board get us back on board is bringing tuchel back”, mourinho back, should’ve kept poch, Ruben Amorim, McKenna… I hear “we want style of play” but in the next breath “but the results is what matters” - well which is it? There is zero point lamenting the owners when a very vocal and visible part of the fanbase was calling for poch’s head in September. You don’t think this stuff seeps through to some degree? Even the London is blue guys on yesterdays pod were completely divided as to whether the new manager will be given any patience by the fans. Can’t remember who said what but one said “this is on the board and the fans won’t blame the manager - it’s a free hit” whilst the other said that given poch’s upturn in results and that it will be a less experienced replacement, the fans will expect our performances to be better immediately or it was a failure. There will be no stability from the owners unless there is stability amongst the fanbase. They will sack the next guy too if the fanbase kicks off and wants him gone because he plays colwill at leftback for a while (a criticism of poch I still hear trotted out even today)

go to riot like super league man !!

The owners talk; nobody is giving their opinions. They can do what they like. If you are not happy, go to Arsenal or West Ham. End of story. All we can do is watch and enjoy the beers. Nothing new under the sun, as the Bible says

I wonder who remains at the club that hasnt been fired already that continues to call him with the inside scoops .. talk about having no self respect.. smh.. i mean in terms of having sources its just business i guess, but id have thunk between the groundsman, chef, physio's and doctors they'd have plugged the mole by now..

I have zero trust or faith in the American ownership (and their lackeys Winstanley and Stewart). They come from a no relegation, no consequences, salary-capped, consistent revenue model of sports. Football just doesn't work the same way.

Commenting but this is lame. I am sick and tired of Eghbali at this point. At least Boehly learned with time.

The Americans have ruined the Prem. This US style of ownership is taking away the character of our game, not only at CFC, but other clubs..