So the managerial merry go round at Chelsea continues. While Abramovich is busy sacking coaches others are building stronger teams and someone needs to buy him a new dictionary - his appears to be missing the word 'continuity'.
Abramovich is strangely resistant to the fact that the only person that can bring success to a football club is the Manager and that the owners role is to simply facilitate and support. Without a long term manager, given the freedom to actually manage, Chelsea will only ever achieve fleeting success at best and eventually decline.
The sacking of Ancelotti was possibly the biggest mistake Abramovich has made - the man is a proven coach at the highest level and was only 2 games against Man United away from the title and a place in the Champions League Final. To sack him one year after doing the domestic double was a joke, and then to replace him with a rookie manager who won an uncompetitive league with by far the strongest team was bizzare. But to then sack him too, after declaring he would be given 3 years to realise Chelsea's (and his own) potential after only 8 months and hand the reigns to di Matteo is the biggest indicator since the Ray Wilkins debacle that Abramovich puts his own whimsy and unrealistic personal ambitions before the greater good of the club.
It might be the greatest service the secretive, silent Abramovich's inner circle could do Chelsea Football Club if they summon up the courage to point out the mistakes the Russian has made, the long list of errors that mean after spending more than 1 billion he is actually further away from his dream of winning the Champions League than at any point in his time at the club.
Chelsea is a still an arriviste club that presumes it has some sort of status as a significant football institution. The way it has gone about some of it's business, with its mega rich owner making ludicrous footballing decisions has made it a laughing stock. Ron Gourlay and Bruce Buck should be replaced by more challenging directors who will better advise Abramovich, support the Manager and have Chelsea's best interests at heart and together work towards trying to become a big club and not an imitation of one.
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