Steve Clarke Possible Assistant?

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tadpole said:
Clarke has played a central role in taking Chelski to the Champions League final and to the brink of an unlikely Premiership crown, after the unpopular Avram Grant gave him free rein to train and coach the players. Can't imagine that Clarke would settle for a no 2 job again after that.
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Just read in the echo that Clarke is now "front runner" for assistant job.

I have to be honest and say why does he deserve the praise he is getting in this thread?
SOOO he was at Chelsea, a team we have nearly beaten everytime we have played them for the past 2 seasons. I don't care how they got on against anyone else, but I'll conceed they didn't do badly. But how much of that was down to individual brilliance of SWP, Essien, Drogba, Lampard.

To my eyes, Chelsea play bad as a 'team' at football. They rely on individual skill rather than a collective team effort.
Take out the big names of that team and replace them with players from Reading then we'd be able to judge Clarke as a coach.
I bet a Chelsea team with no big names in would have been in a relegation battle this season...

*readies flame proof suit*

Don't agree with me? Watch the CL against Liverpool, they played terrible team football. Liverpool outplayed them all over the park with passing moves and training ground stuff that was clearly worked on as a team.
Chelsea didn't know what to do with themselves at times, they didn't know how to change it to stop the rot. Their big players couldn't get the ball so they were screwed.

Clarke has got Euro experience, but based on how I've seen Chelsea play as a team, I'd say it was as fledgling a knowledge base as Moyes himself has, infact I'd say it was worse.

I really just don't think he is the right man for the job. I don't think he gives us that extra width we need from an assistant, that extra ingredient that we don't already have.
Moyes is a great coach and I'd say our team plays better as a team than Chelsea do. Clarke would be getting more out of the deal than Everton and for me that's not good enough.

Flame away.
 
This would be excellent. Then again how many better places can he go to if his time is done at Chelsea? I suppose he could try for management or go to Jose at Inter.

Maybe he'd have some chance to prove himself at ours with a view to being a manager-in-waiting - building success over the next ten years. I'm not sure if he is particularly ambitious tho (otherwise perhaps he would have had a go by now) - perhaps he's more of a Colin Harvey type.

TD
 

Looks like he's the frontrunner at the mo but how is Alan Irvine getting on at Preston? Don't think he pulled up any trees last season, wouldn't mind him coming back myself, excellent coach, media friendly etc.
 

id be very happy with steve clarke as number 2 fantastic coach for chelski. And from what i hear very similar to mr moyes.
 
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