Moneyball won't win the Premiership 2012-13

He's out.

No time for standing still in this game

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Telegraph leading heavily with di Matteo to be sacked this week ... He's still 33/1 to be first manager to be axed

― Ismael Klata, Monday, November 19, 2012 10:22 AM (2 days ago)

Tony Fernandes must have bet big on that.

agent hughes return to base, over

i like how its always benitez getting in contact and never the other way round

obv he was only a stop gap last season but then he only went and won the european cup and they thought it was bad form to sack him in the summer but they should've really just sacked him in the summer. poor reptilian bugger.

don't know how much di Matteo is responsible for them having no effective strike force but if not him who? there's the bones of a really excellent team in this Chelsea squad but it needs somebody more savvy to put missing pieces in place and teach them some guile

Yeah I mean it's pretty obvious Abramovich didn't really want Di Matteo in the first place and was waiting for the first excuse to get rid of him but hey there'll be another naive sap/cynical mega-manager awaiting the payoff along in a minute.

They were completely appalling last night, it was amazing. But then they were the same against Atletico - that they have mostly been sweeping teams away until the last three or four weeks is a bit strange.

They looked pretty great for the first few games of the season but the same was probably true of the first few games of the AVB and Scolari seasons.

Scolari yes, AVB not really. Chelsea are masters of imperiously sweeping away all before them and then grinding to a halt after a few weeks, they did the same in Ancelotti's last season.

My pal thinks he saw Scolari in central London last week. Start the rumour mill.

i like how its always benitez getting in contact and never the other way round

maybe in ilf myth it is. this morning all the reports are the other way round. plus last season it was reported that he rejected a short-term contract from chelsea.

on an interview-by-interview basis

the Telegraph now reckons it's Rafa or Avram Grant as caretaker

Oh PLEASE let it be Avram Grant. And then somebody get PeteW back over here.

I wonder where Harry's stationed himself today? I imagine him hovering at the top of the escalators at Notting Hill Gate station, trying to maintain a signal.

no way does Redknapp get the Chelsea job

As a caretaker with a view to a permanent move next year, it could happen. He was being talked about as a future Chelsea manager before Spurs fell off a cliff last season. QPR is more likely though.

Harry as short as 5/2 2nd favourite with some bookies for the Chelsea job, though he's still favourite for QPR.

Maybe he could do both, it's only just down the road innit.

Stupid horrible club. God I hate them. Chelsea that is, not QPR.

di matteo to qpr could work

Cunts are going to qualify for the next round of the Champions League an' all

They really aren't.

Benitez "before the end of the day" says the Guardian

It's actually saying a new manager before the end of the day, with Rafa as favourite, which isn't quite the same.

Interested in where Di Matteo goes next - how do you judge the right level for someone who's gone from a rookie mid-table Premiership manager to a CL winner in a few months?

you could maybe look for a Premier League club with Italian connections in desperate need of a new manager?

PLEASE DONT LET IT BE PEP

Rafa would be the best for everyone, yes I am glad of all this talk.

Sacked at 4am, nice. How does anyone manage to do anything at 4am?

Matt: He's been credited with a lot of the hard work turning WBA around in good long termy ways and produced the exciting tactics and CL his boss wanted at Chelsea. I think he'll do just fine and be decently high on a lot of chairmans lists. I wouldn't be surprised to see him go to a high profile Italian team, Allegri is forever waiting to be pushed out the door and if they can't get Pep he could be a promising second choice.

I dunno, I just noticed I got offered a job on an email coming at 5.10am (yayayayayayayay btw)

(suck rdm im gonna be working in west london come next year!)

(suck it not just suck)

(or on second thoughts, no)

anyway, rafa or 'arry in. both are 'ilarious.

congrats sam

grats sam, hi nilmar

Any team that fancied martinez will fancy rdm

I notice you haven't said what this job is that you were offered seventy minutes after di Matteo got fired.

di matteo was fired at 4am?

where was ron gourlay to give the happy news forty-five minutes after the end of the game??

ha its for cancer research, a disease slightly nicer than working with jt

well they didn't want to fire him before the flight back. That would have been awkward

Driven to the Lubyanka Cobham after landing back at Gatwick at 3:30, got the bullet in his own office. Gourlay and Buck sitting alone at the front of the plane while coaching staff sat in the middle. I presume the players were throwing screwed-up paper from the back row.

rafa in :(

and as "interim manager", blimey he must've been desperate.

aren't they all 'interim' at Chelsea?

The downside of lol Chelsea is that they're too competent to appoint a lol manager. Shoulda been Shearer. No, shoulda been Terry.

Gonna be really weird if Rafa's still manager when Chelsea come to Anfield later this season.

Ja, this isn't right at all.