Chelsea will this summer step up plans to reshape their squad, regardless of the fact they are without a manager or sporting director. Up to five senior players are expected to leave Stamford Bridge and a similar number are to be pursued. The 2009-10 Premier League champions, who sacked Carlo Ancelotti on Sunday after they [...]
Chelsea are to intensify their search for a manager to replace Carlo Ancelotti, with the club’s owner, Roman Abramovich, seriously considering the merits of Guus Hiddink and Porto’s André Villas Boas to replace the Italian at Stamford Bridge. Defeat by Manchester United on Sunday effectively ended Chelsea’s title defence, condemning the club to the third [...]
So now Carlo Ancelotti can fulfil his ambition to manage Roma, the club he captained for eight happy years and to which he has always said he would return one day. The end of his time at Chelsea surely arrived here, in the form of a defeat far more conclusive than the single-goal margin might [...]
Sir Alex Ferguson believes it would constitute “an astonishing decision” if Chelsea chose to relieve Carlo Ancelotti of his duties at the end of the season, with the Italian set to discuss his future at Stamford Bridge in the week after the final round of Premier League fixtures. Ancelotti takes his side to Old Trafford [...]
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
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