Friday, January 11th, 2013 « Untold Arsenal: Arsenal News, supporting the club, the players and the manager
It is even possible Abramovich may have heard some of the Chelsea crowd and think of changing managers again this season – certainly if Chelsea don’t make it to the champions league next year he could do anything – like stop putting money in, bring back Roberto Di Matteo or hire Billy the Dog McGraw.
Maybe there ought to be a transfer window for managers just as there is for players. But the one thing overall that is on Abramovich’s mind, and which will probably stop another change at the club before the end of the season is the amount of money he has to pay out each time he changes managers.
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We used to say that Chelsea couldn’t fit into the FFP regulations because of the players they have bought. Now we know it is more to do with the money paid to get rid of managers.
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And where does all this leave Arsenal, the club that invented booing your own team? Who would we bring in if Mr Wenger went?
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José Mourinho, Villas-Boas, Redknapp, Benitez, Di Matteo, Pep Guardiola? I suppose the last name is the one that gets the knee jerk reaction except he did manage to get Barce to a poor second in a two horse race. And anyway, would he want to come to Arsenal or Chelsea with their record of undermining their own manager? Probably not.
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And that in a nutshell is what fans have created. A line of commentary in blogs and newspapers which is so virulent against their own team and their own manager and board, that the top managers wouldn’t want to be subject to it for all the money in Man City. So Benitez it is.
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