Alex Crook REVEALS NEW NAME in Chelsea Manager Search as Simon Jordan SUGGESTS Aston Villa's Emery!

Alex, at times you get information and you bring it to air. At times that information is a bit, it's tough, isn't it? When you get information like, there's a big meeting going on at Chelsea about Liam Rossini, could he be about to lose his job? Like me, you know Liam and it's hard.

It is. A situation like that. Yeah, it is because obviously you have to have a heart of stone not to feel sorry for Liam Rossini because he was parachuted into a role that probably he wasn't yet equipped for, as you made the point at the time, he couldn't turn it down because they probably would have sacked him as a Strasbourg manager and obviously it's all ended very abruptly. Listen, he's gone away with four million quid

in his pocket, so it's hard to feel too much sympathy. But yeah, I think we forget sometimes when we're talking about managers, and we're going to be talking about managers under the pump here, they are human beings and they're all dedicated to their craft. You know, it's not for a lack of effort.

Yeah. Let's stay on Chelsea for the time being. Any news as to who's going to come in full time?

Well, they're still saying they're going to take their time over this permanent appointment, three names quite prominent in the list of potential replacements for Rossinia. Andoni Riola, as we broke on Talk Sport last week, is certainly right at the top of that list. Marco Silva, whose contract at Fulham is coming to an end this summer. There's a three-year deal on the table that he's yet to sign. He's also a potential candidate. And we were told yesterday, myself and Ben, that they've reached out to the agent of one, Jaby Alonso. Of course, had Arne Slott not been Liverpool manager come the end of the season, he probably would have been a contender for that job, but it looks like Slott will stay.

So, you wonder if Chelsea might see an opportunity there.

I think we touched on that, didn't we? It might have, now Alex is telling us, they've reached out to him.

Nothing circulating about Oliver Glasner Not a name that I've heard in terms of Chelsea Because that would mean, from my mind, that's someone A. He's won things at Frankfurt and at Crystal Palace B. He's ambitious C. He loves London And all of those, I mean he's a difficult bugger to work with

As is Marco Silva by the way Exactly, but I'm surprised he's not in the mix Alonso is interesting, we mentioned Alonso yesterday didn't we? In terms of that's where they should be looking at. Alonso, I mean everyone's got to be looking at some point at Emery. United have got to be looking, I mean I mentioned it a while ago, but if I was in situ who would I go for? I'll go Emery, buy Matt Fit, Aston Villa's contract and of course the Aston Villa fans go up in arms and Gabby, their spokesman comes up with United want him or Chelsea, these are the sort of guys that are going to take him to the promised land. Get him back somewhere. What I would say about that is, if you look at Unai Emery,

he is in a rare position now in that he is master of all he surveys. He runs the club from top to bottom and he wouldn't get that level of control at Chelsea and not at Manchester United either.

Henry Winter, this morning. Hope the good people with the FA at St George's Park reach out to Liam Resignia and either offer him some role with England age group sides or some mentoring, LMA2, to help Resignia get what was a promising coaching career back on track.

Should the FA be a charity case here? Who's going to mentor him inside the FA? Who's qualified within the confines of the FA establishment to mentor Liam Messina to be an elite manager what are they talking about what is Henry talking about what is he exactly referring to I mean the LMA might be a call for him to make sure that he's got the support structure that he needs to count the

money that he's just been given for nothing but but no I'm not I don't know what Henry's point is there and does he want to be is he suggesting it being incorporated into the England framework for the lesser for the for the younger years he wants to be an elite manager yeah he wants to manage at the big end he doesn't want to manage the kids with respect wonderful job that it is he doesn't want to do that he wants to be a first class manager and the problem for him now is he's just been trashed by a decision that others took for him and a situation that he had no choice but to be put in. I mean he was a victim of his own ambition. He's a victim of his

own ambition and the challenge for him is what does he do now because there is no doubt that Chelsea will sail on, the players will sail on, but Senior is damaged.

Yeah we'll keep our eye on Chelsea, we'll keep our eye on Newcastle. Members of PIF travel into Newcastle this week for their annual meeting with the club's departmental heads. How high on the agenda do you think Eddie Howard's name is going to be, Alex?

I think it has to be pretty high because it's been a disappointing season. There's no two ways about that. They're a lot lower down the Premier League table than he would have expected at the start of the campaign. Looks like they're not going to get European football at all next season, which might help them in the long run because I think they found it a struggle balancing Champions League and domestic ambitions. But if I was Eddie Howard, I'd have some questions for the owners. You know, there's players who want out of that football club. Anthony

Gordon being one. Sandro Tonali. I don't think it was a coincidence that his agent was leaking stories that Arsenal were interested in January. Tino Livermento, I'm told, has no intention of signing a new contract, but they've got to handle this summer a lot better than they did last. The Alexander Isak saga was allowed to drift on for far too long. If they were going to sell him all along, as I understand was the case, they should have done it a better position to get top targets. Because if Newcastle fans think that Nick Voltomato and Johan Wisse were anywhere near the top of Newcastle's list of potential options at the start of the summer, they're deluded.

I think the recruitment was poor. I think the handling of the ESAC situation was poor. And I would say, be careful what you wish for, because this is a manager who's come in, relegation he's took them into the Champions League not once but twice he's ended that long wait for domestic silverware and I don't think he's necessarily getting the credit he deserves because they've had a bad

season. It's hard to disagree with anything Alex has said there isn't it? I

think that's right but I also think there is a point where someone's voices become less effective than they once were before whether there's a need to change up some of the team that goes alongside Eddie or there's a need for that. I mean the bigger change has to be in the ownership. I mean with due respect to what their chief executive said, which I thought was an absurd statement, I'm not entirely sure what they've got in the mix to help Eddie advance to the next level. I keep on making this point and I make it repeatedly about their ambitions. It's one thing this guy coming out and talking about a 2030 project. It's

another thing them talking about he doesn't have a stance on the manager's position it's another thing not being able to buy well they had a sporting director in the season before that everyone said was a problem Paul Mitchell was a problem for Eddie Howe this season they didn't have a sporting director that's a problem come on you've got to get hold of this situation you're supposed to be a club with an immense wealth we know they've never turned around themselves and said they're gonna buy the world up but the understanding was that they're in business to be in business. They've got to build a stadium, they've got to push the envelope. They're not challenging the orthodoxy. They've not got challenges with PSR. They can't have challenges with PSR.

The profits they would have made on other players, despite the fact they've bought players and they've amortised those players. This is about proper ownership and proper management. And I feel, my nose tells me, that Eddie's runway is running out not because he deserves to be given a bullet but I think there's a time that things get changed because something needs to change now that seems a little bit unfair but it might create another opportunity for Eddie Howell because I think on the whole he's done a bloody good job at Newcastle. Just on the owners I think you're right by the way I think

PSR has been used a little bit too conveniently when it comes to Newcastle maybe not to maybe not to be as ambitious as they could be you look at what's happening with the Live Golf are they still as invested in Newcastle as they once were? It makes you question doesn't it about you've got the various Middle Eastern consortiums that have various attitudes the UAE's are very aggressive and they want to dominate and own sports as you see with Abu Dhabi and ultimately the situation surrounding Manchester City we know what the Qataris did after the Arab blockade, they wanted to buy a football club in the West

and put their footprint down and as a result of that they've done it in a league that allows it. What are the Saudis doing? They seem to be participating. They seem to be spending what they can but not really pushing the envelope, not going for it, not really challenging the the orthodoxy. I know they haven't got hotels and women's teams to sell to be able to subsidise some of the losses that Chelsea have got, but they've got creative thinking to be able to generate revenue. You would think, yeah. And really push it, but they're not. They're not. And that's an interesting phenomenon, is it, because culturally, Saudis don't need to be the best at something, they just want to be involved in it and be influential. And was just a vanity play. It had no commercial acumen behind it. It was basically willy-waving of its worst extremes.

So this is, we're going to make a splash of it, and now we don't fancy it anymore because it doesn't make any commercial sense.

You didn't say willy-waving, did you?

And even the Saudi Pro League, we spend a lot of time on this programme talking about big-name Premier League players potentially going to Saudi Arabia. Very few actually do. That's a good point, very good point. You spoke yesterday Alex briefly about Scott Parker and Burnley, any extra news there? No, conversations ongoing again it would not surprise me if Scott decides to walk away at the end of the season. A couple of names in the frame potentially to replace him, Craig Bellamy is someone

who is still held in high regard there, I guess he's got to make the decisions, does he want to go back into club football or does he fancy the idea of leading Wales at home Euros? And the other name obviously is Stephen Gerrard, also links with Bristol City that I'm told have got some name obviously is Stephen Gerrard, also links with Bristol City that I'm told have got some substance. So I'm expecting Stephen Gerrard to be back in management pretty soon and probably