Why Chelsea will find it impossible to appoint a top manager while project persists | OneFootball

Enzo Maresca is out at Chelsea, and of course talk has already turned to who might be coming in to replace him.

But there’s an argument that, no matter who it is, they are set up to fail.

Chelsea trapped in bad manager spiral

Enzo Maresca passes on instructions to Wesley Fofana. (Photo by Ryan Pierse/Getty Images)

The club model of buying young players and selling them as they develop means there will always be a lack of experience in the team and a lack of reliable depth. The demands of playing in the Champions League and Premier League mean that rotation is a necessity.

The logical conclusion of that is that the manager simply won’t be able to get the results he needs to keep his job long term. You can’t win two games a week against the best teams in the world and also run a player trading operation at the same time.

So who would take a job where you’re set up to fail, and also have to be the public face of this backwards project? Not a top manager, that’s for sure. They will stick to places where they know they have a chance of succeeding.

That restricts us to up and coming coaches who want to prove themselves. And what will they do once they’ve shown they have something about them? Just what Maresca did: flirt with other big teams and jump ship as soon as they can.

In other news…

Maresca’s departure means Chelsea are looking for a 5th permanent manager in the BlueCo era. The sporting directors have made another bad appointment, and are surely under pressure now.

There were countless issues behind the removal of Maresca, but ultimately it was the bad results which turned the situation critical. Wins can paper over a lot of cracks, dropped points make small issues a lot bigger.