Scouting For Abramovich: 3 Managers Who Can Effectively Replace Hiddink For A Permanent Role At The Bridge

In the world where patience is on a high-time low, especially in the game of football, managers become the easy prey and one crucial error leads to sacking. Chelsea Football club under Roman era and Real Madrid under Perez are two of the worst clubs when it comes to stability of a manager’s reign.

In one of most recent happenings, Jose Mourinho left the blue army of London by mutual consent. Immediately within the next two weeks Chelsea roped in an ex-manager Guus Hiddink who is in-charge as the interim boss.

In the era where Chelsea have constantly fired several managers and has had a managerial change for every 2-3 seasons, we look at 3 options who can bring immense stability to the club and who may as well turn out to be permanent options for the club.

1) Pep Guardiola

Linked with every top club in England, Pep Guardiola is the manager which no club can resist. After Guardiola announced that he will depart from Bayern Munchen, he is highly expected to arrive in England and take up the managerial role in a certain top club.

There are several Chelsea fans who’ll be happy with this appointment. Guardiola is one such manager reputed for his building up of a team and implementing his own philosophy and is a well known manager for the amount of success he’s achieved in Spain as well as Germany with Barcelona and Bayern.

Considering every team he has coached, Guardiola has a 74.3% win percentage out of all his total matches and only 10.5% losses. A manager who is tactically sound as well as sincere in his approach when it comes to big matches.

Guardiola’s era with Barcelona yielded a massive total of 14 trophies which included two champions leagues, FIFA club world cup, La Liga title and the Spanish super cup and in Germany he’s won the German cup, Bundesliga title and UEFA super cup.  With his massive hunger that can instill optimism, who doesn’t want to have Guardiola and make him a long term manager?

2) Diego Simeone

A man shaped with passion, determinations, optimism, desire and hunger. Diego Simeone is one of my personal favourites. The only man who has shaped this Atletico side from mid table finishers to league challengers every season. That hunger for achievement and breaking the domination of Barcelona and Real Madrid was clearly witnessed when Atletico won their La Liga title after so many years.

The Atletico Madrid boss would definitely be in demand if he decided it was time for a new challenge after four-and-a-half years in charge at the Vicente Calderon. Simeone won the La Liga title in 2014, breaking Real Madrid and Barcelona’s duopoly in Spain.

He reached the Champions League final in the same season, with only an injury-time Sergio Ramos header denying his team a famous win. Atletico didn’t win anything last season, but Simeone kept them relevant, guiding them to third in La Liga and a respectable quarter-final berth in the Champions League.

However, with no disrespect to Atletico, it’s reasonable to assume he has aspirations of managing one of Europe’s elite clubs. Simeone has a no nonsense style and would take no prisoners at Stamford Bridge.

3) Antonio Conte

Conte burst onto the management scene in Italy when he guided Bari to the Serie B title in 2009 and almost did the same with Siena two years later. The manager of the Italian national team and one of the most decorated managers in the past 5 years would be convinced of joining Chelsea. Taking the reins in 2011, the Italian has won successive titles at Juventus and age is on his side.

Antonio Conte is one of the most prolific figures at Juventus and has been a winner both as a player and manager. The Italian who is currently the manager of his national team has a lot of desirable traits that can help Chelsea in both Europe and England. The specialist of the 3-5-2 and unorthodox 4-4-2 (where it was a modified 4-2-4) has shown many a times that he is tactically versatile and can infuse different styles of football.

All in all let’s see why Conte would fit in at Chelsea

1) Conte would want to get players that fit his tactics, but so does every other manager. Chelsea have the budget for that.
2) Conte is tactically astute as I’ve mentioned above.
3) Conte is a winner and the hunger doesn’t die. A club with the same passion for winning seems to be the perfect match.