Exit Scolari from Chelsea FC.
Posted by Gringo Maclure in Champions League, Chelsea, Dunga, FA Cup, Filipe Scolari, Premiership | 9 February 2009
Back in June last year I wrote about my serious misgivings that Scolari would survive the Premiership, let alone as manager of a club like Chelsea. Even so, I don't think anyone was expecting he'd be out within 8 months without a chance to have a go at the latter stages of any of the major cup competitions. Chelsea are, after all, in the last 16 of both the FA Cup and the Champions League and Scolari's speciality has been rallying teams for the final push in a knock out. But things had obviously got that bad that Scolari had to go before he could even sink his teeth into the final quarter of the season.
A few short observations:
1) The ghost of Mourinho hangs around Stamford Bridge now. Who is brave (or stupid) enough to come to a pressure cooker of a club with an aging squad and expect to match the achievements of the special one?
2) Chelsea have been flat recently. Ballack has been off, Anelka's goals have dried up and even the steadfast Cech has been a bit wobbly (witness Torres' first at Anfield). But, maybe it was the loss of Essien above all which cost Scolari the essential segment of a starting XI spine.
3) Working for a football club is a rollercoaster of a ride. My sister-in-law was an English teacher to some of Scolari's coaching staff. Now, she's out of a job.
4) Question is: will the Brazilians and Portuguese who congregated around Felipão also hand in their transfer requests by this summer...?
5) You heard it here first: Scolari to move back to Brazil and replace Dunga as manager of the national XI in time for World Cup 2010.
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