Agbonlahor: Silva, not Alonso, would be the ideal manager for Chelsea

Former Aston Villa striker Gabriel Agbonlahor has urged Chelsea to appoint Fulham manager Marco Silva instead of Xabi Alonso as the club’s next permanent manager.

Agbonlahor said that Chelsea’s senior players—referred to as the “big‑time Charlies” in the dressing room—require a tough, disciplinarian figure rather than a high‑profile name like Alonso, describing Silva as the “perfect character” for the job.

“Marco Silva is the perfect character that these big‑time Charlies at Chelsea need,” he told talkSPORT.

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“The way they’ve got rid of Rosenior, they’ll do it to a soft manager that comes in. They need a hard‑hitting manager.”

“Marco Silva doesn’t take any nonsense. We’ve seen him on the sidelines, similar to Antonio Conte’s sort of style.”

“He will go into that football club Chelsea in pre‑season, sort them out. (He will work out) who’s on side, who’s going to work hard, who’s going to follow runners, who’s going to run?”

“So to see that from Chelsea, they need a hard manager like Marco Silva going in there.”