Jamie Carragher said Chelsea are rightly sticking to their managerial policy and highlighted the three available candidates they could hire to continue their successful approach.
From an outside perspective, Chelsea’s announcing Graham Potter‘s sacking on Sunday was hardly a surprise but still baffling, nonetheless.
It seems that nothing changed despite the change of ownership last summer.
In fact, Todd Boehly and Clearlake Capital-led ownership group have taken it to another level. Under Roman Abramovich, Chelsea had never sacked two different managers in one season.
Carragher, however, simply argued that there is no reason for Chelsea to abandon what has proved successful for the club in the last two decades.
“It’s what they do,” the Liverpool legend told Sky Sports’ Monday Night Football when speaking about Chelsea’s decision to sack Potter.
“Do they go back to the idea of a young and up-and-coming coach, like Graham Potter?
“But that club is used to bringing in managers.
“And managers who are available right now who you think of off the top of your head are [Zinedine] Zidane, [Luis] Enrique, [Julian] Nagelsmann.
“They are managers who have managed at the top level. That’s what Chelsea have done in the past.
“I know it was a different owner and I’m not being critical at all, I don’t like some of the criticism Chelsea have got ‘they have changed another manager’.
“I don’t care. It works for them.
“When you are a manager going in to Chelsea you know what the score is.
“Don’t complain when you lose the job because that club has been very successful with that culture.”
As Carragher mentioned, Zidane, Enrique, and Nagelsmann are top managers, and these are exactly the individuals that Abramovich would likely have gone for to lead his team.
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