Source: Daily_Mail
'Lucky Guus' ticks all the right boxes for Abramovich and Chelsea
Experience? Check. Trophies? Check. Coaching credentials? Check. Attacking philosophy? Check. Ego management skills? Check. Available? If you know the right people. [LNB]Guus Hiddink ticks the boxes and Roman Abramovich appears ready to call in a favour after previously resisting the urge to lure the Dutchman from Russia. [LNB]It is only six months since Hiddink, 62, agreed to exercise a two-year extension on his contract with the Russian FA, but he has never been afraid to indulge in a spot of international job-hopping. From Holland to the USA, Turkey, Spain, South Korea, Australia and Russia.[LNB] The eyes have it: Abramovich (left) gets a closer look at Hiddink during last year's Super Cup final in Monaco [LNB] Get me Guus: Chelsea owner Abramovich targets Hiddink after Scolari axe[LNB]MARTIN SAMUEL: Performing seals are great at Abramovich's Chelsea - just so long as they win[LNB]SACKED! Poor results cost Scolari as Chelsea sensationally axe coach[LNB]Blues swing the axe on the man Kenyon described as one of the best in the world[LNB]Fans want Chelsea legend Zola to step in to replace sacked Scolari at the Bridge[LNB]Where did it all go wrong? The results that cost Scolari his job[LNB]CHELSEA FC NEWS FROM ACROSS THE WEB[LNB]When his Russia team faced the Dutch in the quarter-finals of Euro 2008 he was branded a traitor. 'If I am to be a traitor then I would like to be a very good traitor, a traitor with a capital T,' said Hiddink, who won this duel but lost to Spain in the semis.[LNB] The Traitor: Hiddink is ecstatic after Russia's 3-1 win over his native Holland[LNB]There is a theory that some elements inside the Chelsea[LNB]dressing room have become too powerful, but Hiddink's key asset is his ability to operate politically.[LNB]When it comes to factions and in-fighting, Holland make Chelsea look like novices.[LNB]Their Euro 96 campaign was savaged by allegations of racial splits in the camp and Hiddink kicked Edgar Davids out of the squad after an argument about selection.[LNB]Two years later, at the World Cup, he supervised a tournament of relative harmony, involving Davids, and made the semis before losing on penalties to Brazil. In 2002 he was awarded South Korean citizenship after leading the co-hosts to the last four of the World Cup.[LNB] Folk hero: Hiddink is held aloft by jubilant South Koreans after steering the side to third place in 2002's World Cup[LNB]When Hiddink was linked to Chelsea in the past, there were always fears over his relationship with Frank Arnesen, said to have broken down when they worked together at PSV — with whom Hiddink won the European Cup in 1988 — but Arnesen's days are already numbered at Stamford Bridge. [LNB]His extravagant scouting network has been branded an expensive failure and is a victim of cost-cutting. [LNB]Hiddink has been earmarked to salvage the season, finish in the top four of the Barclays Premier League and convince Chelsea's star names to stay beyond the summer. [LNB]One other thing. The gods tend to smile on Hiddink. He is known as 'Lucky Guus' in Holland.[LNB] Get me Guus: Chelsea owner Abramovich targets Hiddink after Scolari axe[LNB]MARTIN SAMUEL: Performing seals are great at Abramovich's Chelsea - just so long as they win[LNB]SACKED! Poor results cost Scolari as Chelsea sensationally axe coach[LNB]Blues swing the axe on the man Kenyon described as one of the best in the world[LNB]Fans want Chelsea legend Zola to step in to replace sacked Scolari at the Bridge[LNB]Where did it all go wrong? The results that cost Scolari his job[LNB]CHELSEA FC NEWS FROM ACROSS THE WEB[LNB] [LNB]
