Scolari new Chelsea manager

World Cup winning manager Luiz Felipe Scolari has signed on to be the new Chelsea gaffer. He has reportedly signed a three-year or four-year contract worth around £5 -£6.5million a year and has reportedly been given £100million to spend, he will start July 1.

I think Scolari is a quality manager, how can you say something bad about a World Cup wining manager? I think he has the attitude to handle the egos at Chelsea and the brutal English press, but Scolari has not managed at club level for 7 years and we all know that managing a club is not the same as managing a national team, he has also never managed a club in Europe. A European club is not the same as club in South America the amount of money available in Europe is no way near the amount of money that is available in South America and the quality of the players available is not the same. Can Big Phil handle a big European club? I'm not sure yet.

A lot is riding on Scolari's success or lack of success as a European manager. Scolari is the first South American manager to have the opportunity to manage a major British/European team and a lot of South American managers are hoping that with his appointment he will open ways for them.
Here is the Chelsea announcement:

Chelsea TV and www.chelseafc.com can exclusively reveal the following statement:

Chelsea Football Club is delighted to confirm that Luiz Felipe Scolari will be the club's new manager from July 1, 2008.

Felipe has great qualities. He is one of the world's top coaches with a record of success at country and club level, he gets the best out of a talented squad of players and his ambitions and expectations match ours. He was the outstanding choice.

Out of respect for his current role as Head Coach of the Portuguese national team, and to ensure minimum disruption to this work, there will be no further comment from Chelsea FC nor from Felipe about his new role until his employment with us commences.

Personally i think Chelsea and Scolari should have waited until the end of the Euros before announcing his appointment.

Now I'm wondering will Carvahlo go to Inter Milan with Jose? or now that Big Phil is at Chelsea will he stay? I am 100 percent sure that Drogba is gone no matter what, will Crespo come back? will Essien go? what about Lampard? I can't wait to see what happens with this Chelsea soap opera.

So what do you guys think, is Scolari a good choice for Chelsea?