Exactly! If there was any reliability about it, our manager for the past two years would have been the odds on favourite Franck Haise.... Rather that 12/1 RDZ (who at the time was as likely as Bruno Saltor).
I'm hopeful that, like the recent announcement that the long departed medical team were being replaced by some standout candidates sourced from far and wide, that something similar is in the off with the much depleted recruitment team. Annoyingly, it would have been beneficial to have had this...
Farioli doesn't have much top flight experience at all - a year and a half in Turkey and a year in France. Honestly, I think it's a big risk.
2021: Fatih Karagümrük
2021–2023: Alanyaspor
2023–2024: Nice
Really wanted Fonseca personally.
Unfortunately - as we discovered - they are going to have to get used to it - any success means you get picked off.
At least an approach is being made end of season. We've really felt it over the past couple of years with key people moving within a season (Ashworth, Potter and co, Winstanley...
So, looks like Chelsea will pass FFP this year by selling one part of their training ground to BlueCo. With four other parts of the training ground left to sell, I assume they'll be able to meet FFP for numerous years to come 😫