Chapter 43: The Departed and the Departed

Two hours after the end of the 37th round of the 2010-11 Premier League season, Chelsea, who had just drawn 2-2 with Blackburn, made a shocking personnel change, Chelsea Football Club announced through its official website the official dismissal of coach Manuel Pellegrini, and the Italian, who failed to win the Premier League and Champions League this season, finally ended his two-year coaching career at Chelsea. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Chelsea wrote on their official website: 'Chelsea FC has confirmed that the club and Manuel Pellegrini have officially parted ways today. The owners and all of the Board of Directors thanked Pellegrini for his achievements and contributions since taking office in July 2009. ”

'However, the team's performance this season has been disappointing and the club believes that changing managers now is the right decision and can start preparing for next season. Manuel Pellegrini will always be welcome at Stamford Bridge, he will be respected with us and the club's history will always remember him. ”

Chelsea announced Manuel Pellegrini's sacking without revealing who would take over from the boss. 'Chelsea's football goals and ambitions will never change and we will now focus on identifying a new manager. We will have no further comments until a new manager is appointed. ”

Manuel Pellegrini was unable to retain his position in the run, and with his early departure, Chelsea ended a suspense and concocted other doubts.

Who is the successor?

What other well-known coach in Europe would dare to be the manager of the Blues?

What are Chelsea's plans for next season?

What's going on in Abu's head?

Objectively speaking, no matter how unbearable Pellegrini is, his work in the Blues is still worthy of recognition. Van Gaal and Scolari are considered to be the world's top coaches, although Pellegrini is not as famous as the previous two, but the results are not bad, this season in the Premier League 21 wins, 8 draws and 9 losses, domestic cup 3 wins, 2 draws and 2 losses, Champions League 6 wins, 1 draw and 3 losses are far from being as unbearable as the club's top management believes.

Admittedly, Pellegrini should bear some responsibility for the failure to hit the Premier League and the Champions League for two consecutive years, but then again, if there is no super team like Blackburn Rovers in front of him, and if Ray Wilkins, the meritorious assistant coach in the middle of the season, has not been sacked early, who dares to say that Pellegrini will not be able to lead the team forward?

The good-natured Chilean has never lacked talent, and in fact even Alex Ferguson, Carlo Ancelotti, Arsene Wenger and others have to admit: "Pellegrini's ability is absolutely unquestionable. ”

However, such a first-class coach who is by no means lacking in ability, has now been sacked by Chelsea after just one season. It's hard to imagine that when Rijkaard, Jurgen Klinsmann, Gianfranco Zola, Rafa Benitez and Lippi saw Pellegrini's ordeal, they would have the courage to head to Stamford Bridge to sit in the crater.

Yes, it may be said here that Abou has already thought about what to do, and Porto's top coach Villas-Boas, known as 'Jose Mourinho II', may indeed come to coach at Chelsea.

However, is there really an equivalence between Boas's takeover of Chelsea and next season's ironclad better record and even winning the Champions League?

Since it remains to be seen whether Villas-Boas will become Chelsea's new manager, and his managerial achievements are unknown, it must be mentioned here that, in many cases, Chelsea's problems may not be with the coaches.

Abu is passionate and willing to put in the work of the club, and it is true that this season, for example, when he found out that there was a £70 million deficit in the club's financial statements, he didn't even think about it, and at the same time spent £75 million on Torres and David: Luis. However, I wonder if the richest man who is currently ranked 53rd in the world has seen that if it wasn't for the poor reinforcements last summer, how could the team have been forced to buy heavily in the winter?

After spending so much money but not getting what he wanted, Abu was of course very aggrieved, and it was quite normal to be angry, but the reason why all this happened, he also had to reflect on himself. Around him, he does not have a functioning think tank, and it can even be said that Stamford Bridge is simply a vanity fair of power struggles, and the forces of Gurray, Arneson, Zahavi, Dweezer and others are constantly playing with each other and generating a lot of internal friction, and often many times, the manager becomes a victim of the power struggle.

For example, in the winter of 2006, Van Gaal wanted to buy a stand-in for Terry, who was injured, Dweezer recommended Alex, Zahavi recommended Ben Haim, the former is Dweezer's player, the latter is Zahavi's player, but these two are not the people Van Gaal wants, but what makes the Dutch coach very helpless is that he has to accept it, because whether it is Dweezer or Zahavi, these football super brokers are Abu's guests, and the Russians can be described as obedient to these people. Because Zahavi helped Abou buy Chelsea from Ken Bates, Dweezer brought Alex, Mikel, Kalou and others to Chelsea.

For Abou, who has not been involved in football for a long time, Zahavi and Dweezer are almost synonymous with authority and expertism, and it is under this premise that the power and existence of the Chelsea manager have become clouds.

What happened to Chelsea is very reminiscent of Real Madrid, where the situation at the best club of the last century was also a mess. Florentino is indeed in power, but the long-sleeved and good president of Real Madrid cannot resolve the conflict between general manager Baldano and Mourinho, and on many key matters, such as recruitment, the disagreement between the madman and the club's top management The final direct impact is that Real Madrid's performance has been up and down, and the Madrid media even believes that if Mourinho does not put part of his energy into the battle with the top, Real Madrid will not fail in the league and the Champions League this season.

Looking at Chelsea, many scenes are similar to Real Madrid, Pellegrini did not complain to the club's hierarchy, but he also vaguely pointed out: "The summer should have been brought in, and Wilkins should not have been sacked." ”

It is precisely because the club has always ignored the demands of the manager, who is the one who knows best what the team needs, that when Chelsea fail to deal with this aspect, the chaos suddenly becomes unsolvable, and when it comes time to find a scapegoat for all this, the "Pellegrini" will naturally become the object of the club's sacrifice.

Looking at Blackburn on the other hand, although Arthur has delegated power, he is arbitrary in many ways, and the head coach only needs to be responsible to him alone, and Arthur has absolute trust in the head coach. And the experience of his previous life has allowed him to make decisions that are hardly too much of a mistake, which is why Blackburn has been able to grow so quickly.

However, Blackburn Rovers can't take care of Chelsea's business right now, as their only current league title contender, Manchester United have made another move.

Two days before the final round of fixtures, Manchester United's official website confirmed that Paul Scholes will officially retire after this game. With this, the "ginger head" of Manchester United's 92-year golden generation ended a 19-season history with the Red Devils' first team. However, Scholes will remain at Manchester United next season, albeit as a coach.

At last week's farewell match for Gary Neville, Paul Scholes reunited with friends such as Ryan Giggs, David Beckham and Bart at Old Trafford, who would have thought that after losing the Champions League final a few days later, Scholes became the second man to retire from United's 92 golden generation.

In fact, Scholes's retirement has already shown signs, but Red Devils fans don't want to believe it. Scholes has been marginalised at United this season, and while Ryan Giggs, who was a year older, was still alive, his role was less evident than in previous years. Ginger made just 29 appearances all season, the vast majority of them as substitutes, and his goal of one goal and three assists was also the lowest of his Premier League career.

Scholes was born on 16 November 1974 in Salford, a short and frail city from Manchester. However, until the age of 16, Scholes was still thin and suffering from asthma, but Scholes showed superhuman talent and was subsequently spotted by discerning Manchester United scouts. As the leader of Manchester United's 92 FA Youth Cup generation, Scholes, who plays as an attacking striker, has a variety of attacking methods, both attacking with the ball and waiting for opportunities to pass lethal good balls, and is also good at shooting from a distance.

Former England boss Keegan described Scholes' ability to plug in the attack, calling him simply "world number one" in this regard.

In the 1995/96 season, Paul Scholes perfectly filled the void left by Cantona's ban and became the team's second-highest scorer behind the Frenchman with 14 goals, a season in which United were crowned Double.

In 1999, the season when United won the treble, Paul Scholes made a big difference, the only regret was that he was suspended for the Champions League final.

In 2005/06, Paul Scholes missed most of the season due to an eye ailment, which fans feared would affect the career of the "Ginger Prince", but in 2006/07 Scholes made a strong comeback and played a crucial role in Manchester United's title victory.

He opened the scoring in a win over Liverpool in October 2006 and two months later, in a 3-0 win over Aston Villa, he scored a volley that was also voted the best goal of the season.

In the 2007/08 season, Paul Scholes remained an integral part of the Manchester United squad.

Speaking to the media in 2009/10 when Blackburn beat Manchester United to win the league title, Paul Scholes said: "I'm nearing the end of my playing career and I'm only going to play for another year. I've started to get my coaching certificate in England and hopefully one day I'll be able to coach kids or lead a team somewhere. ”

A year on, Scholes made good on his promise: officially retired. Of course, Manchester United fans will still see Ginger Head next season, but his identity has been changed to that of a member of the Manchester United coaching staff.

Manchester United chose to announce the news of Scholes' retirement at this time, apparently to further promote the blood of Manchester United's final decisive game.

For Scholes in his last career, for Blackburn, for the long-lost league title, Manchester United is bound to play 100 percent, or even 120 percent, in this game, can Blackburn really be able to parry?