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Pep Guardiola would have to be crackers to join the Roman army at Chelsea
Martin Samuel
8:42 AM on 1st December 2010
Did you watch Barcelona against Real Madrid on Monday night? Easy to see why Pep Guardiola would be just bursting to come to Chelsea, isn't it?
Stuck working with the finest footballers in the world, playing football from the gods at a club he has adored since boyhood, with the full support of the board and minimal interference.
Along comes Roman Abramovich and gives him the opportunity to manage an ageing group of players with increasingly limited resources, while having his staff picked off by an owner who wishes to lecture post-match on football matters. Hey, Pep, what's not to like?
Guardiola would be crackers to leave Barcelona and certifiable to come to Chelsea. It is becoming a madhouse of a club, snatching defeat from the jaws of victory, thanks to the dead hand of Abramovich.
This season, Chelsea have moved seamlessly into crisis mode when weeks before nobody looked beyond them for the title. Now the talk is of losing Carlo Ancelotti, the best manager the club has had since Jose Mourinho.
The idea, floated at the weekend, that Guardiola or Barcelona's director of football, Txiki Begiristain, were next on Abramovich's wish list is almost laughable. If they come, if anyone comes, it will be for one reason only: the money.
Abramovich's treatment of his managers and executive staff means he has forfeited the right to expect more. To think of building, long term, would be ridiculous in the circumstances. Notions of commitment, or loyalty, are entirely redundant also. Get in, indulge his whims and spend his money as best you can, then get out again. No doubt that is how Ancelotti views it.
He became quite emotional as he explained to his players the unsuccessful battle to keep his assistant, Ray Wilkins, in a job. Now by Ancelotti's side is Michael Emenalo, who is not involved in training the first team, and was rescued by former manager Avram Grant from a life running youth football academies in Tucson, Arizona.
What is the only tool that could be used to persuade a serious football man to accept an imposition such as Emenalo? Cash. Bound by a contract and well rewarded, it is what keeps Ancelotti at Chelsea, and it is what will tempt his replacement, too.
Yet consider the case of Guardiola. One imagines he is not impoverished at Barcelona, and that he has a huge say in the direction of the club. If he leaves, it will be an emotional drain and he would not be human, having been at Nou Camp since a boy, if in moving on he does not have second thoughts, moments of doubt, perhaps a crisis of conscience over whether he will ever feel the same motivation as a manager again.
At this time, the attraction of his new club would need to be great. If the decision is solely economic, it may not be enough. And what is the allure of working with Abramovich if not the pay cheque. The famous inquests? Answering to the master at the end of matches? The regular visits to the training ground? The whims that resemble a Politburo cull?
We wonder why Guus Hiddink only served his six months as caretaker, when the treatment of Ancelotti makes it obvious. Maybe Hiddink will return one day; or maybe he has already seen enough.
After Ancelotti there will only be two options for Chelsea. Either Abramovich appoints a stellar name who is financially motivated, or he gives the job to a novice, who will tolerate interference for a crack at the big time.
Say he went for Louis van Gaal, the current coach of Bayern Munich, who also has Ajax and Barcelona on his c.v.. Van Gaal might be suggestible, but it would be with the knowledge that he would either be prematurely sacked and paid off, or he would survive through being successful before the owner grew tired and precipitated the inevitable fall-out. Either way, Van Gaal leaves a wealthier man. This short-term ploy is an attractive proposition for him, but hardly beneficial to Chelsea.
The alternative would be to appoint a young manager such as Roberto di Matteo, now with West Bromwich Albion. As a replacement for the popular Ancelotti he would be a good choice, because he is loved by Chelsea supporters, and clearly gifted.
Gaining Di Matteo would soften the blow of losing Ancelotti, and after his impressive performances at Milton Keynes Dons and now West Brom, this would represent his first opportunity to win major honours as a manager. As Di Matteo is untried at the highest level, however, it would be a gamble.
Yet, after watching the way Ancelotti has been isolated these last few weeks, how many options exist? Would Guardiola seriously consider throwing his lot in at a club where the manager, plainly, is just another chess piece? He is valued more highly than that by Barcelona, surely?
Any speculation around Guardiola's future at Nou Camp invariably centres on the old cliche that he has gone as far as he can at the club. It is funny how this logic never seems to have influenced Sir Alex Ferguson at Manchester United, though.
Ferguson knows he is at the biggest and best club in England, because he has a strong squad and the freedom to mould it as he wishes. Whenever he gives one of his speeches in support of the Glazer family, it is inspired by the simple fact that they give him the freedom to run the club. This could also explain why Guardiola is said to regard Manchester United with greater fondness than Chelsea.
Then again, if Barcelona offer similar backing why should he grow restless? As the performance on Monday night proved he has further to go yet, because f ive-goal winning margins over Real Madrid are rare; just three since 1950.
No team has won, and then retained the modern Champions League, so there is a project that could occupy him until May 2012 at the earliest. And what of winning it again, and again, of deconstructing one great team and building another, as Ferguson has done three or four times at Old Trafford?
There are multiple reasons to stay at Barcelona. Alternately, he could sign up to hear Abramovich's deep thoughts on how the game should be played at the end of every match. The money would need to be good, though. Guardiola would require golden handcuffs, not to mention 24 carat ear plugs.
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