The Scolari aftermath at Chelsea in quotes -Part 3

In the aftermath of Big Phil Scolari´s departure from Chelsea there have been plenty of people with plenty to say. Players and ex-players are in part 1, managers, journalists and Scolari himself in part 2 and lastly but just as importantly, the fans themselves in part 3. (Part 3 here):

The fans

Scolari brought almost all of chelsea's current probl;ems on himself by a series of inept ungrounded uninformed and stubborn decisions.

He alienated people who could have helped him most crucial steve clarke .
HIs tactics ans idea of man management not to mention fitness were out of date and ill suited to a league that he had no idea of nor apparent interest in understanding.

Good bloody riddance.

 A Chelsea fan

What clear direction from the board does Scolari need when it comes to managing the players we have?

Everybody is failing, that’s true...but Scolari is taking this team backwards. I don’t think he’s been given what was promised him but he should still be able to do a FAR better job with the squad he has.

A Chelsea fan

It doesn’t really matter who we appoint as manager (as long as it isn’t Grant, of course) The problems facing this club aren’t going to be solved overnight by a new coach.

We have created a squad which is too old, too slow, not hungry enough for success, and not fired up with the same team spirit it was three years ago. We have failed to replace great players adequately, we have failed to buy the sort of players we needed when we needed them, we have wasted mountains of cash on players who who were either over the hill, crocked, or just not good enough.

It’s left us with no decent wingers, an over-abundance of 30-plus central midfielders, no attackers we can rely on - and we STILL haven’t found a right-back we can trust.

For the last three years we have actively diminished the quality of our squad while wasting millions of pounds in the process. Our transfer policy is faaarked. It has been for 3 years now. The last five transfer windows have been handled incompetently. And having a new manager isn’t going to change that.

What we need is for the board to set a clear, long-term agenda out, that allows for the odd short-term hiccup (like suddenly finding we need a new centre-back in January because three of our defenders are injured - remember, Roman?) and to stick to it.

This continual chopping and changing about how we handle the squad has been totally destructive, and we are now paying the penalty.

A Chelsea fan

So if we got our way and Jose were to come back in the summer, under what terms with RA? Does RA say to him “OK Jose, you were right, I was wrong, let’s do it your way, you’re the boss”? Because I’m sure JM wouldn’t come back unless RA did say something like that. Not very likely IMO

A Chelsea fan

Serious question: Even to those of you who wanted Scolari out and are feeling very pleased at the moment (fair enough - I can understand that), does anyone feel at least slightly concerned about decisions of this importance being taken so radically and above the head of Kenyon with such disregard? 

For better or worse, planning was made with Scolari and will be presumably with any future manager (of whom some of you will be in favour of and some of you against). But Abramovich is capable of cutting off any medium/long term development at the drop of the hat. We could be 4th or lower with the next one-or the one after that (this happens to the best of teams) and he could get the chop. We are turning into a circus at the moment.

I respect those who were against Scolari but I still find it all rather worrying that a manager can be given such an important task, given little support and then sacked so quickly.

Theres something VERY wrong at Chelsea.

A Chelsea fan

Those of you who still love Scolari...not my words, but the reports from the bridge over recent weeks that have come out;  He turned up LATE on numerous occasions for training, after the players were already there waiting...The players BEGGED to play 4-4-2 but he doesnt listen to his players, unlike taggert and other big managers.

He had numberous falling outs with a number of key players; Carvalho - Over the the zonal marking, Drogba, in general, Anelka who he told just before the Man U game “If you dont play on the left wing you’ll never play in this team again.”

The training was barely training at all, aparently boring and not intensive, if the players arent looking forward to training they certainly arnt going to be rareing to go in the games are they?

I for one cant blame the players for being tired and disillusioned with life there. at first i felt a bit sorry for him, then i heard that, imo best thing we could of done, maybe a chance of getting someone in who can save our season and set us up for the next...

A Chelsea fan

Lots of businesses employ interim managers to conduct their dirty work at times of uncertainty / restructuring.

Benefits are that IM doesn’t become emotionally attached, wants to achieve best result they can (in order to gain future employment), not bothered if the upset a few precious individuals who aren’t pulling their weight and can bring a fresh outlook on performance.

Unless it’s Joe Kinnear, then you’re farked but I can only see it as a good thing. Club should be in healthier state to hand over to new manager in the summer who can then concentrate on rebuilding the team and create a vision for the future success of Chelsea.

A Chelsea fan

 We'll never know if scolari was genuinely the problem here because he never had his own team. Neither did Grant.

Both inherited Mourinho's players and the style Mourinho played was very different to the style Scolari was supposed to play.

He had a midfield full of powerful midfielders and wingers that weren't very tricky, in that they were crap at beating other players, but they all were fairly effective at doing the sort of job Mourinho wanted. Scolari wanted flair, speed and trickery - and was only allowed to buy Deco because Kenyon was so good at his job getting Robinho.

A Chelsea fan