I haven’t written about Chelsea recently, I know it’s a specialist interest, however the latest news that the club has lost £66m for the year to the end of June 2008 and that Russian owner Roman Abramovich has now invested £710m. Of that £66m loss £23m was down to compensation paid to former coaches and managers, but doesn’t include Scolari.

I don’t see exactly why we saw fit to sack Grant and Scolari, When Grant took over we’d had a poor start and finished second in the Premiership taking it to the last game and lost out on penalties in the Champions League – a pretty good record, but still sacked. Then Scolari after 36 games is fired, mainly over poor results for the last month – you can’t judge a manager in just 6 months; it takes years. If you look at the top clubs in England they don’t change managers often – even Benitez is approaching 5 years at Liverpool – the short term appointment of Hiddink isn’t management stability.

If that’s not bad enough for Chelsea fans then the news that in an attempt to scale back its debt, the club is aiming to pay for any purchases this summer by selling players – doesn’t look good for next season; then again how many players will want to sign for a manager-less club? Then again it doesn’t look particularly good for this season.

The management at Chelsea seem to be clueless about how to achieve success, constantly changing managers and financing player purchases out of player sales won’t achieve success.

Source: BBC.