I Fully Support the Timing of Luiz Felipe Scolari's Midseason Dismissal

There is no better time than now to do the right thing. Roman could have done this a lot earlier, too. Scolari’s continuance would only have worsened the situation beyond repair.

We truly run the risk of not making the Champions League next season. I’m all for stability and continuity, but a wrong manager does not deserve that.

Am I being very harsh on Scolari? No. He has no defense. The results have been poor. We’re playing horrible football. There are no signs of improvement. The best thing is to sack him and bring about a much-needed change.

For all those rival fans, press journalists, and experts expressing their shock and disappointment, please f**k off. This is our club. We’ll do what we need to do. We’ll do what’s appropriate for us. I’m tired of rival fans talking about "class" when we change managers. Most of these guys don’t follow Chelsea as much as we do. As score-checking neutrals, they simply have no understanding of the real situation here.

You stick with managers when they show promise and potential. If you still do it otherwise, it is plain stupidity.

Clubs like Manchester United were lucky to get a top-class manager like Fergie. Don’t tell me that he was given time and he took four seasons for his first title. Football was different back then. The pressure was different. The pressure and investment of modern football is much more demanding now.

Trophyless seasons are fine as long as we show some promise. Under Scolari, we have lost all we’re known for and we’ve got into all the bad habits that we’re never known for.

No one fears Chelsea anymore. Teams love coming to Stamford Bridge. We struggle to beat any team. We surrender to top teams. Players are becoming indifferent.

In my books, these are good enough reasons not to show any patience towards Scolari.  Rival fans are disappointed because Scolari is gone. They all sensed that under Scolari Chelsea will hit new depths under Roman. That was not to be. So they are upset and they are talking about how football has been ruined, how sad the state is, how unfortunate the managers are, how there so little patience and all that.

As I said, f**k off.

In this whole sacking episode, the one thing I’m particularly pleased with is the timing. What Roman did was very smart.

Imagine you bought a share at 10p and the value is going down consistently and now it’s falling every hour and there is no hope of the rate going up. What you’d do is sell at the first possible opportunity to cut the losses. You just stop the losses. That’s what he’s done, too.

He realised that Scolari at Chelsea was shi*. Then, what’s the point to hanging on to him only to realise that he was more shi* than we thought?

By sacking Scolari in February, he can bring in an interim manager who can resurrect this season for Chelsea as much as he can. Also, this would give Roman an opportunity to see if this interim manager can be entrusted with the full-time job.

While what Roman did was smart, it was also very honest. He didn’t mind accepting that he’s gone wrong again with the selection of a manager. This was the second manager to be sacked in the space of nine months. He just went and did what he felt was right.

By all probabilities, the new interim manager seems to be Guus Hiddink. I'm neither too excited nor too worried. I have a strong belief that he cannot be worse than Scolari.

But I’m also a bit skeptical about Guus. He has managed both national and club teams. Now that we’ve learnt not to care about the international records, let’s look at his club record. He won a lot of silverware with PSV in Holland. Winning in Holland, with PSV? I’m not jumping for joy.

He’s had some failed stints and faced the sack in Valencia, Real Madrid, and Real Betis. In other words, outside of Holland, he has struggled with club football.

Jumping straight onto a pressure cooker like Chelsea FC in the month of February does not look like a success formula for Guus. By the way, if this was a well-planned move, we could have got Guus along with Arshavin and removed Deco from the list.

There are also rumours that Carlo Ancelotti could become the Chelsea manager in the summer. AC Milan have had enough with Carlo. They want to get Rijkaard for next season. So, you hear all these Milan blacksuits saying that Carlo is available, Carlo is interested, Carlo loves London and all that nonsense. Milan is just trying to take Chelsea for a ride. They want to offload Ancelotti and they’ve started their baiting.

We know how Shevchenko was sold to Chelsea. We know about the Kaka transfer drama. Milan are cunning bastards. I have nothing against Ancelotti. He is a good coach. But whatever Ancelotti has achieved is all in Italy. His playing career and his coaching career have all been in Italy. That doesn’t impress me much. As far as I know, his English is no better than Scolari’s. Anyway, I’ll wait. It’s just a rumor as of now.

By the way, the poll results show that you want Jose Mourinho back. He is always the No. 1 choice and the fans’ favourite.

I’d love to see him here, too. But that’s not going to happen. We’ve missed our chance. Jose will win the Serie A and then take over Real Madrid in the summer and stay there for some seasons and probably manage Manchester United.

I don’t think he’ll come back to Chelsea. He’s gone. Roman made a mistake there. I’m sure he’s realized that by now.

In other options, the top choices are Frank Rijkaard, Guus Hiddink, Gianfranco Zola, and Steve Clarke. Some have voted for Grant.

The opinion poll is still open. Keep voting.