Paul Merson and Gary Neville have disagreed as to who should be appointed as next Chelsea manager. Graham Potter was sacked on Sunday evening following the Blues' defeat to Aston Villa and Todd Boehly is now in the market for a new head coach.
For now the west London outfit are be fronted by Bruno Saltor, who followed the former Chelsea boss from the Amex Stadium to Stamford Bridge in September as an assistant coach. Plenty of managers across Europe have already been heavily linked with replacing Potter in the dugout, such as Julian Naglesmann, Luis Enrique and Zinedine Zidane.
However, Merson believes that Brendan Rodgers would be the perfect candidate to take the helm at Chelsea. The 50-year-old was sacked by Leicester City just hours earlier after Crystal Palace dealt the Foxes a huge blow to their hopes of remaining in the Premier League.
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Speaking on Sky Sports, Merson explained why Rodgers 'ticks every box' despite his time at the King Power Stadium going 'horribly wrong'. The former Arsenal midfielder said: "I would like to see Brendan Rodgers in at Chelsea... I'm a big Brendan Rodgers fan.
"Unfortunately, things have gone horribly wrong at Leicester. In football it all comes down to timing, and let's be honest, if Leicester were where Brighton are now, everyone would be calling for Rodgers to go to Chelsea.
"Rodgers ticks every box; he plays on the front foot, he started his coaching career at Chelsea and knows the club. Chelsea fans will question why they should turn to a manager who has just been sacked by Leicester.
"But if you look at the all-round picture, Rodgers is a good manager who has worked at top clubs like Liverpool and Celtic, won trophies at Leicester and put them on the brink of Champions League qualification. I just think Rodgers is the one."
However, Neville believes that Chelsea should go for Mauricio Pochettino. Speaking on Sky Sports, as quoted by the Express, the former Manchester United defender said: "Everything Chelsea is saying and Boehly is saying is that they have spent £600million and they have done their spending apart from a centre-forward for the next three years.
"If they sign [Zinedine] Zidane, [Diego] Simeone, Enrique, they are going to want another £300m because they won't like some of the players they have signed. They have got to appoint a manager that is going to inherit and like the squad they have already got. I think that man, because a lot of them are young, is Pochettino."
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