The Chelsea hierarchy is involved in hiring Julian Nagelsmann as their next manager due to the German’s young age.
The Blues are looking for a new boss after sacking Graham Potter on Sunday night. Caretaker manager Bruno Saltor will take charge of Tuesday night’s match against Liverpool at Stamford Bridge, with the team in 11th place in the Premier League table.
Chelsea chairman Todd Boehly is believed to be due to appoint a new manager ahead of the Champions League quarter-final first leg against Real Madrid in Spain on April 12. Boehly will interview at least five candidates, adding Nagelsmann.
Former Bayern Munich coach Nagelsmann is the most sensible favourite for Chelsea’s job, despite the Bundesliga champions leaving at the end of March. However, the emerging coach’s lack of fun is noted as a fear for the Blues after the Potter debacle.
Potter was appointed to Chelsea in September, he has no fun coaching a Champions League club. Nagelsmann, 35, once coached Europe’s biggest club competition, but his departure from Bayern is worrying, according to Sky Sports.
Nagelsmann’s past assignments were at Hoffenheim and RB Leipzig, which are not considered among Europe’s elite clubs. Nagelsmann’s first task at a club that had already won the European Cup. . . And it ended with him fired 20 months later.
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This, coinciding with the fact that Nagelsmann is potentially looking to take a break from management, may rule him out of the race for Chelsea’s job. Still, that would leave Boehly and his colleagues with 4 other candidates, all of whom have intriguing resumes.
As reported via The Telegraph, Chelsea administrators Laurence Stewart and Paul Winstanley were tasked with locating the club’s next Premier League manager and drew up a five-man list, adding Nagelsmann.
The other 4 candidates for Chelsea’s task are former Tottenham coach Mauricio Pochettino, former Barcelona coach Luis Enrique, current Napoli coach Luciano Spalletti and the candidate, who remains anonymous.
Pochettino is independent lately and has a brilliant reputation for running with younger players. During his time at Tottenham, he listened to Dele Alli and Harry Kane to take them to the 2015 League Cup final and 2019 Champions League final.
Chelsea have a number of emerging talents in their books, including Mykhaylo Mudryk, Enzo Fernandez and Noni Madueke, but Pochettino’s history at Tottenham may rule that out. The Argentine is still adored by Chelsea’s bitter rivals.
Enrique was named FIFA Global Coach of the Year in 2015 after inspiring Barcelona to a treble in La Liga, Copa del Rey and Champions League, but his inventory has plummeted since leaving the Catalan giants in the summer of 2017.
Enrique named Spain a year after leaving Barcelona and guided them to the Euro 2020 semi-finals and Nations League final in 2021. However, he was forced to resign from his post after Morocco eliminated Spain from the World Cup in Qatar.
Spalletti is one of the most experienced coaches in Europe having played for Udinese, Zenit St. Petersburg, Roma, Inter Milan and now Napoli. His team has its first Serie A name in 33 years and has reached the quarter-finals of the Champions League. League.
Still, it’s unclear if Spalletti would be fit to leave Napoli at that exact time. The Italian will almost certainly remain in Naples until the end of the season to cement his legacy in the region.
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