Chelsea will contact 37-year-old manager again as they hope to change his mind about Blues job
Chelsea will reportedly contact Porto manager Francesco Farioli again to try to change his mind about taking the job at Stamford Bridge.
The 37-year-old Italian tactician has done a hugely impressive job at Porto this season, winning 37 out of 50 games in all competitions so far.
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According to Simon Phillips, Chelsea have previously tried hiring Farioli, only to be told that he wasn’t interested in the job.
Still, it seems Farioli remains one of a number of leading candidates for the Blues, who plan to contact him and Andoni Iraola over taking over as the permanent successor to Liam Rosenior, who was sacked last week.
Who is Francesco Farioli and is he the right pick for Chelsea manager?
Farioli may be relatively young, but he has a decent amount of experience in the game, so could be a good option for Chelsea as they try to rebuild next season.
Currently at Porto, Farioli has also managed Nice and Ajax, and has been influenced a lot by Roberto De Zerbi after working as part of his coaching staff earlier in his career.
Farioli’s tactics are fairly typical of the modern game, with a lot of emphasis on dictating the play through control of possession, whilst also pressing aggressively without the ball. This has often seen his teams dominate games and concede few goals.
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It’s certainly easy to see that kind of style working well for CFC, though of course it will be a bigger challenge for him trying that in the Premier League.
Francesco Farioli not keen on Chelsea project
This is not the first time we’ve heard reports about Farioli not being keen on Chelsea, though, as O Jogo also made this claim earlier this season.
There will likely be a few other managers out there who are concerned about how the club’s project has gone under this ownership, so that’s something Chelsea will have to work around.
It seems they remain big admirers of Farioli so might try again to convince him, but perhaps they should also focus more on managers who are keen to buy into what these owners are trying to do.
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