Job Title: Chelsea first team manager

Job Description: Win every single trophy without spending to much of the owners money. Must not upset prima-donna superstars and can't lose many games. Very good pay (even better pay offs)

Now that's not a very good way to promote your vacant managerial role, you'd have to be either desperate or love money to take the Chelsea job, that's probably why only Glen Hoddle and Rafa Benitez have placed interest in taking over from caretaker boss Roberto Di Matteo at the end of the season.

When Andre Villas-Boas took over the job, he was tasked with clearing out the older players while bringing in younger talent from either the academy or elsewhere. What happened was neither, only Alex and Anelka left the club, while new signings will not be arriving until January and Josh McEachran was sent on loan to Swansea rather than be given time in the first team.

Senior players such as Frank Lampard and Ashley Cole were left sulking on the bench as Villas-Boas desperately tried to assert some authority on a bunch of highly paid footballers who were used to getting things their own way. This could of work if Villas-Boas was given funds to get replacements or was even given time to turn things around, the job of a football manager is based solely on results and when your at the top like Chelsea are, letting results slips usually means a p45 through the door.

You would have to be desperate to get back into football to take this job, Benitez has a tarnished reputation after his stint at Inter Milan so the Chelsea job would be ideal for him, but the likes of Pep Guardiola or Jose Mourinho would have to knock their head pretty hard if they were to accept any sort of job offer.

How can a manager create his own team in his own style if the club aren't willing to either sell on old players and give the manager funds to bring in some new players? How can a manager change anything if he is only given 8 months in the job?

It's not the manager that needs to keep changing if Chelsea are to be successful again, it's the way the club is run at board level and their unrealistic demands that their manager has to handle. What Roman Abramovich wanted was to make Chelsea the envy of world football, but all he has managed so far, is to make them a laughing stock.

Disagree, feel free to tweet me @deanmears and tell me.

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