Ten Cate to Chelsea soon?

[Filho]

 http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/story?id=470776&cc=5901

ROTTERDAM, Netherlands, Oct 7 (Reuters) - Ajax Amsterdam coach Henk Ten Cate admitted on Sunday the Dutch club and Chelsea were in negotiations over his move to Stamford Bridge.

'There has to be a solution between Ajax and Chelsea,' Ten Cate said on RTL4-television.
'If that doesn't happen I will stay with Ajax and otherwise there is a chance I will leave.'
Ten Cate has been linked with an assistant coach position at the Premier League club, and according to media reports is set to sign a three-contract.
The TV station also quoted a Chelsea spokesman as saying an official announcement would be made on Monday.

[Disgruntled_Trini]

apparently he was credited for bringing out the best of Roanldinho when he was at Barca

I thought he would of enjoyed more success at Ajax

[PantherX]

One of the rumors making the rounds is that if Ten Cate leaves for Chelsea Ajax are going to offer the job to Martin Jol.  The treatment of MJ by the Tottenham Board this season leads one to believe that he'll accept leaving us high and dry.

Fun times.

[Tenorsaw]

One of the rumors making the rounds is that if Ten Cate leaves for Chelsea Ajax are going to offer the job to Martin Jol. The treatment of MJ by the Tottenham Board this season leads one to believe that he'll accept leaving us high and dry.

Fun times.

Levy is ah asshole to be chasing every available manager for the Spurs job.  Watch and see spurs qualify for Eufa again under Jol, if he stays.  If Grant cyar get the job done at Chelsea, Ten Cate will be made manager.  Grant only bumping he gum bout who is in charge, when he knows that behind every good manager is a boss manager that does call big shots too.

[doublet750]

CONFIRMED BOYS ajax have agreed to let him leave and join us

http://www.soccerway.com/news/2007/October/08/ten-cate-heads-for-chelsea-as-ajax-agree-release

MSTERDAM (AFP) - Dutch club Ajax announced on Monday that they have reached agreement with Chelsea to release coach Henk ten Cate.

The Ajax coach has been linked with a role on Chelsea manager Avram Grant's coaching staff, as the Premier League side look to rebuild following the departure of former boss Jose Mourinho.

In a statement on their official website, Ajax said: "In talks with Chelsea, Ajax have reached agreement with the English club about the immediate transfer of Henk ten Cate to the London-based side.

"After being approached by Chelsea, Henk ten Cate asked the Ajax management last week permission to start negotiations with the Premier-League side. After internal deliberations, Ajax granted permission.

"It is now up to Chelsea and Henk ten Cate to finalise the deal together. Ajax do not expect this to take much time."

Ten Cate's move to Chelsea should become official later Monday when he is expected to sign a three-year deal worth nine-million-euros, according to Dutch media.

Ten Cate, a former assistant of Frank Rijkaard at Barcelona and regarded as an astute tactician, had been under contract with Ajax until the end of the season.


so this is what it is boys....this would be a smart logical move for the certain reasons ....ONE...CATE  was the tacitician behind barcelona rijkaard and highly reevered for being an astute tactician...his only disapointments as a manager himself has been two close attempts mised out on the champions league in teh third qualifying round........TWO...he was and still is very close to ronaldinho and it is thought that with him there it gives ronnie extra incentive to join the london club with one of the few men who really stuck by him during rough times in catalonia

[JDB]

so this is what it is boys....this would be a smart logical move for the certain reasons ....ONE...CATE  was the tacitician behind barcelona rijkaard and highly reevered for being an astute tactician...his only disapointments as a manager himself has been two close attempts mised out on the champions league in teh third qualifying round........TWO...he was and still is very close to ronaldinho and it is thought that with him there it gives ronnie extra incentive to join the london club with one of the few men who really stuck by him during rough times in catalonia

Looks like getting rid of Mourinho was a good move then.

[doublet750]

not really....cuz HENK TEN CATE is a good number two....the suspected thing is tht when avram messes up then  a dutchman will come in to fill his palce..wheter its van basten or hidiink is yet to be seen.

mourinho however if he had been allowed to do his own thing then he would have gotten around to the business...

[Mose]

Well then, it looks like Chelsea may not implode after all.

[Observer]

The verdict according to many Dutch football supporters is the verdict on Henk ten Cate is not yet in. Ajax fans have been patient, but many are happy to see him leave. As a head coach of Ajax he has struggled to get the right balance as an assistant to Grant? Not sure how that will go over, especially since Raineri & Mourinho second Clark seems to have been overlooked.
Stay tuned to another episode of Chelski the year of turmoil 

[Filho]

The verdict according to many Dutch football supporters is the verdict on Henk ten Cate is not yet in. Ajax fans have been patient, but many are happy to see him leave. As a head coach of Ajax he has struggled to get the right balance as an assistant to Grant? Not sure how that will go over, especially since Raineri & Mourinho second Clark seems to have been overlooked.
Stay tuned to another episode of Chelski the year of turmoil 

Breds...dat Chelsea money hadda be real large, or things were getting real sour at Ajax...or both. Why Ten Cate would leave the head coaching job at Ajax to go and be Grant assistant at Chelsea alongside Clark is a mystery to me. Rijkaard coulda give the man back his old wuk at Barca next to Neeskens

[Observer]

The verdict according to many Dutch football supporters is the verdict on Henk ten Cate is not yet in. Ajax fans have been patient, but many are happy to see him leave. As a head coach of Ajax he has struggled to get the right balance as an assistant to Grant? Not sure how that will go over, especially since Raineri & Mourinho second Clark seems to have been overlooked.
Stay tuned to another episode of Chelski the year of turmoil 

Breds...dat Chelsea money hadda be real large, or things were getting real sour at Ajax...or both. Why Ten Cate would leave the head coaching job at Ajax to go and be Grant assistant at Chelsea alongside Clark is a mystery to me. Rijkaard coulda give the man back his old wuk at Barca next to Neeskens

Ent! Man leave ah big team like Ajax fuh Chelsea assistant 

[SOBRIQUET]

Henk ten Cate has revealed his determination to help Chelsea win in style by putting emphasis on entertainment rather than "not losing".

Ten Cate, assistant coach to Avram Grant, is in his second week at Stamford Bridge after arriving from Ajax with a reputation for free-flowing football from his time at Barcelona.
During Jose Mourinho's successful spell in the Premier League, Chelsea earned a reputation of being powerful and also stubborn in defence, and Ten Cate would like the club to be associated with attractive football.

"I think this change in attitude is huge," he said on Chelsea's website. "It is bigger than everyone imagines. You enter the field with it in the back of your mind that today we are not going to lose, or you enter and you say I am going to win today. And we have to work on that.

"It will cost a lot of energy and effort working on the training ground, trying to convince the players there is also another way of playing football that is fun to do and which pleases the crowd.

"This has to go step-by-step. You cannot go for a miracle change, it is impossible. We are a big football club and we need results along the way and you have to do it step-by-step."

The Dutchman is confident Chelsea have the players at their disposal to win in style as they try to win the Premier League title back from Manchester United. Next up is Schalke in the Champions League on Wednesday.

"I think you can play a certain way of football that is very similar to Barcelona but you need the players for that - and Chelsea doesn't have (Andres) Iniesta, doesn't have Deco, doesn't have Xavi which are players with a certain quality," he added.

"But Chelsea on the other hand has (Michael) Essien and (Claude) Makelele and (Frank) Lampard - different players with different styles.

"But I think it is not the style of Barcelona players, it is the way they play that is attractive - and with Chelsea with all the players we have and all the quality we have, we can play attractive football that is fun to watch, with the intention of winning the game, not with the intention of not losing the game."

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