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Well, Chelsea are of course now desperately searching for a new manager, after stupidly firing Scolari after only seven months in charge.  And it should come as little surprise to anyone that Gus Hiddink is the front runner for the job, because Abramovich looks to anything involving Russia first when considering who to hire at the club.  I have to say, I understand the aura of legend around Hiddink, he’s just not right for Chelsea, or for the Premiership.

Hiddink is praised for his ability to surpass expectations with any team he is given, the problem with Hiddink managing Chelsea, is that he’s never managed a club of that calibre.  I don’t know that Hiddink has the creativity or the assertiveness to manage Chelsea and the ego’s that come with a collection of high priced players, and I think Abramovich will be making yet another mistake in his bid to bring Chelsea back to their dominant form of the Mourinho years.

Pompey are also back in the manager search, although I think Portsmouth are another club, just like Chelsea, that shouldn’t have fired their manager.  Reportedly leading in the running for the job are Avram Grant, Sven Goran Eriksson and Alan Curbishley.  Hopefully Pompey are smart enough to turn down Avram Grant, because his squad decisions were laughably bad, never highlighting the talents of an extraordinarily talent spoiled squad, put him at Pompey with the same wacky philosophy and they’re dead in the water.

Sven Goran Eriksson is one of the best managers the Premiership had to offer once, but he keeps being disrespected every time he takes a job in England, and they’ve all ended so bitterly, leading me to believe that Eriksson has to be fed up with even trying.  Leaving Alan Curbishley as Pompey’s only real choice, and probably a good bet for being able to turn around the horrid run Portsmouth are on.  After all, he saved West Ham more than once during his stay in London.

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