seestyle: The Internal Conflict of a Chelsea fan

Since Roman Abramovichs takeover of Chelsea Football Club in July 2003, which not only propelled Chelsea into the European force they are nowadays, but also saved the club from potential liquidation, Stamford Bridge has become home for nine managers all of whom could argue that given enough time they could have gone on to achieve great things at the club. The reasoning behind the sacking of Jos Mourinho remains murky; however it was the ruthle s dismi sals of Carlo Ancelotti and Roberto Di Matteo that caused fans to question the decision making of the Chelsea board a group of trigger-happy executives who appear more than happy to take a gamble on interim managers yet dare take the risk of allowing a manager to prove himself when the going gets tough. As a Chelsea fan, and a strong admirer of the work Di Matteo has done for the club as both player and manager, the appointment of Rafael Bentez to replace Di Matteo when Chelsea were only https://www.justprotitans.com/ryan-tannehill-t-shirts four points off top-spot in the league struck me as yet more rash decision making on the boards behalf, and with the side now sixteen points off Manchester United and putting in mediocre displays week-in week-out, I have reached the point where going into certain matches I no longer care whether the team wins or loses.Ideally, I would like Chelsea to win the FA Cup, Europa League and finish comfortably in third place this season. Unfortunately, this succe s could be used in defence for hiring Bentez on a permanent basis a decision I am strongly against, especially with the dearth of potential managers meaning Bentez remains a strong candidate for the job. Instead, I have come to accept that scraping third place and falling out of the remaining cup competitions wouldnt come as much of a disappointment to me. Maybe its simply because I want to feel smug seeing Abramovich admit his mistake in hiring Bentez in the first place, having been one of the forty-thousand fans who booed him during his first game against Manchester City but I know that my smugne s wont change anything. My https://www.justprotitans.com/isaiah-wilson-jerseys desire is for Abramovich to finally realise that a constant cycle of managerial appointments and departures is simply not healthy for the club. It is time that he accepts that short-term succe s simply disguises the mi sed potential for Chelsea Football Club, who by now should have more than three Premier League trophies in their cabinet.As strange as it is, I am at a state where at the beginning of most games I dont care whether Chelsea win, lose or draw. For me, this season has been written off; I am not expecting any succe s come May when the season ends, all I want is for Chelsea to finish third and for Frank Lampard to break Bobby Tamblings goal-scoring record. Seeing Chelsea draw away to Brentford, and require a last minute piece of brilliance to progre s in the Europa League against a team currently third in the Czech league doesnt bother me anymore. All I hope for is that the second-half of this season demonstrates to Abramovich why his policy is flawed. Sure weve had succe s with Hiddink, Di Matteo and potentially Bentez (all during interim periods), however having guided Chelsea to their greatest ever season (at the time) while also bringing through a number of youth players, whos to say that under Ancelotti Chelsea wouldn https://www.justprotitans.com/bradley-mcdougald-jerseys t have won more in the last few years than they have under Villas-Boas, Di Matteo and Bentez?On an additional note, Ancelotti had Fernando Torres thrust upon him during his second season at Chelsea, further draining Chelsea fans confidence in the decision makers at the club. Yes, I appreciate that it has been Abramovichs money that has brought Chelsea to where they are now, but without the fans there would be no club for Abramovich to run. He has to understand that Chelsea is not a canvas for him to build a fantasy team upon, it is a football club that had existed for nearly a century before his arrival, with thousands of supporters who are becoming increasingly disillusioned with the decision-making of the board members. The same can be said for the signing of Shevchenko, a player past his peak who happens to be close friends with Mr. Abramovich. If Chelsea are to finally progre s into the dominant European force that Abramovich desires, he must alter his concepts of being club owner, and instead https://www.justprotitans.com/treylon-burks-t-shirts focus more on creating a long-term plan for the club. The club needs to be figureheaded by one manager who deserves time to implement his ideals upon the club, and allow the team to grow gradually with players he wants and not who the owner wants. Short https://www.justprotitans.com/jamarco-jones-jerseys -term succe s is great, but deep down Roman Abramovich must understand that the occasional Premier League trophy does not cla sify a team as a dominant force.
As a Chelsea fan, I am forever in debt to Mr Abramovich and the wonderful succe s he has brought to the club. In no way am I ungrateful for his running of the club, however as hopefully I have made clear, I along with many other fans, am trapped within a state of hesitancy as to how I want this season to progre s. Succe s this season will probably lead to yet more of the same eight-month managerial reigns, preventing the club from becoming anywhere near the solid forces within European Football that are Manchester United and Barcelona. Failure from Bentez may however finally bring to Roman Abramovichs attention the deficiencies in his logic of immediacy, and provoke him to change the way he and the Chelsea board members make decisions in the future, with the result hopefully being decades of succe s within the Roman Empire of West London.