We all wish him well for the future. Wilkins has been assistant manager at Chelsea for over two years having taken the position following the departure of Steve Clarke to West Ham United in It is believed by some that the decision to release Wilkins was financially motivated as a cost cutting measure as the club seek financial viability. Ray 'Butch' Wilkins will long hold a place in the hearts of the Stamford Bridge faithful.
I guess we will never know. Sure wish he never left, things be a lot different. I do appreciate the man that Ray is though because he could've went out to the press and spoke about what happened but he has too much class!
A lot of other people wouldn't have handled it the way Ray did I do like him in the booth but don't get to hear him so much living in the States. Then again, I very much doubt that the club would've dispensed with his services without having Ray sign a confidentiality agreement that covered the circumstances of his departure.
Together with an inducement to sign same of course. It was bad when Ray went, I thought that he and Carlo worked really well together, and that at last we had some stability. But I guess thats not Chels is it? Yep, Carlo and Ray seemed to work. Ray has emotional intelligence, an understanding of the Prem and the players warmed to him, coupled with Carlo's knowledge, experience and standing a good combo I thought Ho hum. He seems to have been shafted from commentating aswell!
Havn't herad him since the newcastle qpr game last month! Well, this is awkward! The Shed End Forum relies on revenue to pay for hosting and upgrades. While we try to keep adverts as unobtrusive as possible without pop ups, we need to run ad's to make sure we can stay online and continue to keep the forum up, as over the years costs have become very high. Could you please allow adverts on this domain by switching it off.
Ancelotti will go ahead with his usual Friday press conference this afternoon at Cobham. Ever the pragmatist, he is expected to react philosophically to the decision and project it as simply "one of those things" that happen in football. In his recent autobiography Ancelotti described Wilkins as an integral part of Chelsea's success in breaking the grip that Manchester United had on the Premier League for the previous three seasons.
Ancelotti said: "Ray is one of those select few, always present, noble in spirit, a real blue-blood, Chelsea flows in his veins. His heart beats in two languages, and that helped me. Without him, we couldn't have won a thing, and in particular we would not have started the year at supersonic speed.
Wilkins is understood to be sufficiently well off not to have to seek another job in football. A smooth performer in front of the cameras, he will be in demand for punditry work. However, as a resident of the Surrey area in which Chelsea's training ground is based it will no doubt hurt this popular figure.
Chelsea released a brief statement which did nothing to explain the decision. Gourlay informed him that not only was his deal not going to be continued but that he would have to leave immediately.
Sources at the club described the decision as "clinical", but characteristic of Chelsea's ruthlessness in decision-making at executive levels. Chelsea have stressed that there had been no major disagreements involving Wilkins and the other coaching staff or executives but the truth behind his departure lies less with what he did wrong and more towards what he no longer did right. Wilkins had seen a fundamental part of his responsibilities disappear, or no longer carry quite the same value.
When he was hurriedly appointed by the club in the wake of the former assistant coach Steve Clarke's departure to West Ham United in September , he was seen as the man to help the manager at the time, the Brazilian Luiz Felipe Scolari, adapt to the demands of English football, particularly off the field. As a former Chelsea captain and coach — he had worked under Gianluca Vialli — Wilkins had no little credibility but, moreover, it was his contacts within the English game and his knowledge of the authorities and their procedures — in short, who knew who and how things worked — that made him appear as the ideal sidekick for an overseas manager.
Wilkins served under Scolari, Guus Hiddink and Ancelotti, and he would even address the media at press conferences on occasion, to take the pressure off the manager, most notably when things began to go wrong for Scolari.
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