Chelsea are planning a comprehensive clear-out of their coaching staff with Henk ten Cate and Steve Clarke, the assistant coaches, likely to leave the club along with Avram Grant. The first-team coach was at Stamford Bridge yesterday for talks with Peter Kenyon, the chief executive, and an announcement over his future is expected once a compensation package has been agreed.
Such is the confusion at Chelsea that senior board members confirmed yesterday that they had yet to be told either way about the Israeli's future, although they consider his departure to be inevitable. The talks are understood to have focused on a possible future role for Grant at the club and the terms of his payoff, which if not quite in the region of the £12.5million collected by José Mourinho will still cost Chelsea several million pounds.
Grant will not be offered the position of director of football, as the club are aware that it could be difficult to recruit a top-class replacement with the previous incumbent still involved. Grant would almost certainly have rejected such a position in any case, as he is confident of being offered another managerial job on the back of his achievements in taking Chelsea so close to winning the Barclays Premier League and Champions League this season and is reluctant to return to his old salary, £920,000, having been upgraded to a £2.8million-a-year contract when he replaced Mourinho last September.
Ten Cate is also facing the sack after upsetting many at the club since he joined from Ajax last autumn. The Dutchman has failed to develop a close working relationship with either Grant or Clarke and, more importantly, has alienated several senior players with what is perceived to be his brash and arrogant attitude.
Ten Cate was recruited as the bad cop to complement the work of Clarke, who is close to many of the players having spent the best part of 20 years at the club, but appears to have taken his bullying routine too far. The former Ajax coach, assistant to Frank Rijkaard at Barcelona when they won the Champions League two years ago, is known as “Mad Dog” by the players and clashed with John Terry on the eve of the Carling Cup final defeat by Tottenham Hotspur in February, with the captain leaping to the defence of John Obi Mikel, whom Ten Cate had repeatedly picked on during a training session at Stamford Bridge. That incident, which became an eyeball-to-eyeball confrontation, was particularly embarrassing to the club as it was witnessed by fans taking a tour of the stadium.
Clarke's position is more complex, as the board is aware that he remains very popular with the fans as the one surviving member of Chelsea before Roman Abramovich, the owner, bought the club. The Scot would like to leave after four years as assistant and is willing to take a pay cut to secure a management job at a Coca-Cola Championship club,but has yet to be inundated with offers.
Paradoxically, Clarke is more likely to stay if Grant leaves because the pair have never been close, although many at the club believe it would be better for him to move to achieve a clean break and sever all links with the Mourinho era.
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텐카테 선수들이랑 불화란말이여?;;
텐카테는 선수들과 사이 안좋다고 예전부터 루머가 쭉...;;그랜트감독 그만둔다니 왠지 불쌍해보임..성적이 나쁜것도 아닌데..
아 그랜트 1년만 더 남아보지..
그랜트좀 믿어주지.... 불쌍하다.. 그래도 나름 잘한것 같은데...;;
그랜트떠나나 ㅠㅠ 왜떠나냐~
마음에 두고 있는 감독이 있는가 본데 ?
레이카르트...
히딩크가 오면 재미있을텐데..
그랜트....
바꾸면 뭐가 또 잘될줄아나
제발...클락코치는 안나갔으면..ㅠㅠ 진짜 첼시팬들이라면 같은 마음일 듯..텐카테야 원래 말 많았고..진짜 클락 코치는 안나갔으면 좋겠네요. 자기가 챔피언쉽 감독 자리를 원한다고 하긴 하던데..정말 선수들의 큰 형같은 존재임.
아 ㅠㅠ
아 클락 제발.....ㅠㅠㅠㅠ
아이런 클라크코치는 남기자제발 ㅠ.ㅠ.. 텐카테는 관심없고. 그랜트 한시즌만더.. 이번시즌 비록 무관이지만..무리뉴도이루지못한 챔스결승 ㅠ..ㅠㅠㅠㅠ
클라크 코치님 ㅠㅠㅠ
누누히 말하지만,, 발락, 램파드, 에시앙,마케렐레, 테리 등등. 그랜트 아니었어도 빅3안에는 든다. 그랜트는 첼시를 맡을 만한 감독이 못된다.
클락 코치님 남지........ 무링요 다시 콜 해서 담시즌엔 트레블 도전 해보지..
아 클락 제발....................
클락크는 남아요
솔직히 첼시팬들 그랜트 떠난다니까 좀 고소해 할거 같음...ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
클락만은 안 된다..
휴..... 첼시 붕괴 위기다....
'붕괴'가 아니라 '개혁'이 되겠죠. ^^ 반장만 남아준다면 몇몇 선수들이 바뀐다고 해도 큰 탈이 없을 듯..
그랜트 한시즌 더 기회줘봐라 잘할거같은데
히딩크 올꺼같다 -_-; 왠지 -_-;;;;;;;;;;;
클락만 남고 다 갈아치우길...무링요를 경질한 그어떠한 명분도 없는 올시즌 결과물들...선수들의 정신적 지주인 클락만 남겨두고 보드진 대대적 개편하길...
진짜 클락은 꼭 남아야 됨..
클락 ;; 텐 카테는 나가도 상관 없지만
삭제된 댓글 입니다.
그 당시에 훈련할때 텐카테랑 JT랑 싸웠었죠. 텐카테 본인도 후에 인정했구요.
네.. 저도 그건 알고 있는데.. 그 때 다툰 이유가 훈련에 관련된 거라고 알고 있었거든요. 이 기사 내용 처럼 텐 카테가 미켈 괴롭혀서 테리가 미켈 보호하려고 끼어들다가 다툰 줄은 몰랐는데;
제가 괴롭혔다고 해석을 했는데 예전 2월달 타임즈 기사에서도 언급된 부분이에요. 카테코치가 미켈을 함부로 다루는 것에 테리가 끼어들어 둘이 큰소리로 다투었다는 기사를 본 적이 있습니다. 다른 선수들도 테리편을 들었다고 하고, 본문에도 있듯이 선수들 사이에서 카테가 '미친개'로 통한다니까 카테코치 이미지가 안 좋은 건 사실같아요
'이제 점점 정들려고 하는데...'이러는 첼시팬도 있을듯
제발 클락코치는 남아줬으면 ㅜㅜㅜ
빨리 짜르자고 하던 첼시팬들은 이미 다 그랜트 능력에 동화되 버렸나보네..
첼시팬이지만 그랜트는 떠나야한다는거에 아무 이의 없음...클락은 남아줬으면
그랜트 그래도 선수들 엄척 위하고 좋은데 ㅠㅠ... 흑
클락....ㅜㅜ
클락 코치는 남았으면 좋겠는데 ㅠㅠ
내 닉네임 ㅠㅠ,,,