Legendary former Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has urged the next Chelsea head coach to demand a special clause in their contract ahead of their arrival at the club.
Chelsea have suffered four consecutive defeats across all competitions under caretaker manager Frank Lampard, who returned to Stamford Bridge after the sacking of Graham Potter.
The Blues on Tuesday crashed out of Europe after suffering back-to-back defeats to Real Madrid in the Champions League quarter-finals.
A second-half brace from Rodrygo ensured a place in the semi-finals for Madrid, who will face either Manchester City or Bayern Munich in the next stage of the competition.
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Chelsea chairman Todd Boehly, who completed a £4.25bn takeover of the club last May, has been left furious with the Blues’ lacklustre campaign this season.
Boehly brutally blasted Chelsea’s ‘embarrassing’ season in a bizarre dressing room rant after the Blues’ 2-1 defeat to Brighton at Stamford Bridge last Saturday.
According to reports, the Chelsea co-owner even ‘singled out’ one Blues player with ‘heavy criticism’ in the club’s locker room.
Former Bayern Munich manager Julian Nagelsmann and ex-Barcelona boss Luis Enrique are widely tipped as the favourites to become the next Chelsea manager.
Wenger has now urged Potter’s successor -- whoever that might be -- to have a clause in their contract to prevent Boehly from ‘interfering.’
When asked if he would allow a club owner to speak in his dressing room, he told beIN Sports: “No, I wouldn’t, that was always clear in my mind.
“I always put that in my contract. The advice I give to young coaches when they make contracts, I say make what is important for you, put that clearly in your contract that you are the only one, nobody can buy a player without your agreement, nobody can interfere with the team, and you are solely responsible for managing the team.
“After that, you stand in a different way because usually when a club wants you, you are in a strong position.
“Once you’ve lost three games and you want to put that in a contract it’s already more difficult.”
He added: “Well, again, the comeback… I don’t believe in these kind of things because if I’m paid to motivate the team, to manage the team, I do not want somebody else to do my job.
“It happened many times where the president goes into the dressing room and doesn’t talk well at all, but the team wins because it’s a good team, he thinks after it’s because he spoke to them.
“It’s not always a consequence of their speech, most of the time it’s the quality of the team.”
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Topics: Chelsea, Arsene Wenger, Todd Boehly, Premier League, England, Football
Adnan Riaz