Sounds like Benitez on a 6 month deal until Guardiola. Dos cerveza por favor!

Chelsea board should be ashamed, they've turned that club into a joke. Di Matteo should have been given more time, and if I were benitez, I wouldn't take a 6 month deal, but whatever.

I think Guardiola might get exposed at a team like Chelsea. in the Spanish league, he really had only one other team to worry about, and he had Messi. In England, there are no easy games, and everyone's out to get you. I don't think Pep would have the same success at Chelsea.

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I'm inclined to agree about Guardiola. The way I understand it the Spanish teams are all under instructions to play a similar style to each other with a focus on the Spanish pressing and passing. I wonder if Barcelona would have enjoyed the same success in the Premier League. Playing midfielders in defense doesn't seem like a tactic that would work in England, as Chelsea are finding out with Luiz.

Yeah, pretty much. Not that I mind the Spanish football style, but I don't think it would work in England. Much faster and more physical game. Guardiola would be found out of his depth just like AVB was.

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This is very poor business by Chelsea.... as you have both said the team is not set up for success (at the level they expect) and in reality no manager is going to mask the fortune that saw them take the Champs league last year (or conveesely change the misfortune that saw them drop points recently).

Chelsea are flawed, as are Arsenal, City, Spurs (Liverpool if I dare put them in that group) and they failures this season are about players (Torres and Sturridge are your striking options? Whol are your cms?) Than managers.

Rafa may be tapped up to steady the sinking ship, but major repairs are needed.

Benitez to Chelsea? I feel gross. Either he patches a few holes in the ship and they become title contenders in the league and get blank checks for a few players or the repairs are too many and Roman continues to disgrace plastic FC.

Okay, so Chelsea apparently fired Di Matteo so they could accomplish their objectives. So the FA Cup and Champions League apparently weren't their objectives, they've won 3 EPL titles since Abromovich became owner. So that begs the question, what in God's name is their "objectives" then?!

Not get bounced in the group stages of the UCL.

Well Mark Hughes has joined Di Matteo on the unemployment line and Harry Redknapp looks like the odds on favourite to take the vacancy.

Think we all saw this coming. Arry will do what he always does. Take the job, get the team playing well, plateau out then leave.

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DiMatteo did a great job of turning West Brom around. He laid the foundation in turning us into a perennial Premier League club, and not one that gets relegated every other year. He deserves another shot somewhere else.

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Honestly the only surprising thing is that it Di Matteo was fired first. I feel Hughes' time was up a month ago, and it was a fools game to keep him around until now.

Please tell me this is a joke that Stuart Downing is linked with Arsenal.

He's perfect for Arsenal... he doesn't score either

(On a side note, none of these "linked" reports are anything more than bs drummed up by media a.d club officials trying to persuade them to talk about thir team)

A scoreless draw and suddenly people think Arsenal can't score again? Funny how you say that and Arsenal has scored more goals than over half the other teams in the Premier League. I'd rather not even hear links to players that are jokes like Downing.

Just heard the sickening news about West Ham fans mocking the Spurs fans who were stabbed in Rome this past week.

Daily Mail has reached a whole new level of stupidity. They now believe if a player isn't on his team's calender, they will be leaving their club.

COYS

Go eat a penis.

I'll pass, thanks mate!