Jack Pitt-Brooke

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1,033 appearances 20 recordings 2 series first heard May 2026 last heard 15 Sep

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The Athletic FC Podcast · What If... Abramovich bought Spurs instead of Chelsea? · 6 Sep 2026 podcast

I think that the the dynamic that they had there with Thomas Tuchel, Marina Granovskaya and Peter Czech, that was a really successful dynamic for Chelsea.

Uh and I think Tuchel was a really

good manager for Chelsea who was very settled and the club was quite well well run at that point and they had a good generation of players coming through the guys who won the Champions League in twenty twenty one.

So maybe Tookle maybe Tuckle would have been able to do what no Chelsea manager has really done and kind of build a long term thing there.

I d I'm not sure.

Well

Yeah.

Uh I'm not sure.

I mean I think he uh I think after the Chelsea job, he probably England might still have made sense as a next step.

Obviously in reality he went Chelsea Bayern, England.

Um but I don't know.

I mean it might i if he really built a dynasty, then maybe the England maybe he wouldn't be wanting a switch to international football in twenty twenty four.

him I think that's really why he's why he built that last great team, the sort of the the team that won three consecutive titles, that won the Champions League, you know, the kind of um Carrick, Rooney, Ronaldo, Tabez team.

the bar had got higher and higher basically, the combination of the Invincibles, Mourinho is Chelsea, and then Ferguson.

But you're right, like under in a world in which Abraham Rich and Mourinho are never combined at Chelsea, would Ferguson have the same incentive, the same need to build that team that we just described?

Maybe not.

Yeah.

And it was a real sort of proof of concept, basically.

Like it allowed people around the world to say, look, if you've got if you've got an awful lot of money and you want you want a seat at the table at the one of the biggest entertainment product in the world, and you can have some fun and you might win things, and people will love you, and people will think of you differently, perhaps, than they would have done in the past.

All of that, as soon as a brown

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