Although I was far more devastated when he left than Potter, that's the view I tend to hold. I was still cross with Bruno but he was pretty much my favourite player for a number of years and IMO he's a fantastic bloke. I forgive (even though he's done no wrong in my book) and that makes the feeling he could return easier.
He had worked for us for ten years! Do you think employers can just boot an employee with ten years service because they fancy it and not pay them a penny?
I suspect Bruno had confidence in Potter and was sold a dream by the new owners at Chelsea who were spending millions on new players. I can't see him going in to that job expecting it all to fail.
I just dont believe this. TB has more than proven he looks after our ex players and there is no way he would have let a club legend get the boot without finding him a role somewhere. At the end of the day he just wanted the big payday, end of.
OK stop now. He's not come back begging for forgiveness and neither should he. As you say, he did what he felt he had to do. He didn't do anything just to piss you lot off.
Then comes along the chance of signing RDZ and his 9 merry men. Bruno perhaps thought a demotion to the U23 or worse and thought of his career. Possibly, possibly.
It very much depends on who the new manager is and if they get on doesn't it? These were unknowns at the time.
And how many of those people have jumped ship at the first opportunity to a bigger club with more money? We gave them a chance because they had history with us, as we did with Bruno.
How many of those have had an opportunity to move to a bigger club?
More fool him- pretty much everyone else in the country could see it was going to, and said so at the time.
No idea.
I don't disagree with that. Can't see the club employing him unless there is a need. FH backroom team is slim so perhaps there is a needs if Bruno's expertise is a match for that requirement.
I agree with almost all of this but I do wonder if, as some have implied this will be a development/academy role, there are better coaches out there than him at this level.
He hasn't employed Zamora. Even though Zamora made 'noises'.
He was part of that coaching staff for less than a year. How many Champions League games did they play in that time? 'Managed at the top level' is definitely stretching it a bit
It's not about being a fool is it, you said yourself that Bruno is ambitious person and that most ambitious people would take the job. If you are ambitious then you tend to back yourself and the team around you to make a success of things and you tend to take risks.
Of course they would. But it was Chelsea- everyone knew it was going to go wrong, it always does. But going wrong with a couple of years experience at the top level and with an extra couple of zeros on your bank balance is probably a gamble worth taking. I can't believe he went into that job thinking it was going to be anything other than that. And as it happened, it didn't even last a year.
