Rafa for Chelsea?

Yup. The Blues are getting desperate. With Andre Villas-Boas' days at Stamford Bridge numbered, the question now is when the Portuguese manager will get the sack and who will be brought in to salvage Chelsea's season.

That man is apparently Rafa Benitez.

The former Liverpool manager has been unemployed for the last 15 months and would offer Chelsea a wealth of experience and a keen understanding of the English game, something that seems to be severely lacking in the current man in charge of the Blues.

Furthermore, Benitez' penchant for rotating players may actually work at Chelsea which has a large (albeit aging) squad.

And perhaps that most attractive proposition of bringing Benitez in - at least in Roman Abramovich' eyes - would be in reviving Fernando Torres career at Stamford Bridge. To date, Torres most successful period of his career was under Benitez at Liverpool.

In my last blog posting, I wrote about the similarities between Torres' and Andriy Shevchenko's tenure at Chelsea. And just like how Mourinho got sacked for failing to utilise Shevchenko, it looks as though his Portuguese compatriot and former assistant is about to get the boot for failing to get the best out of another marquee signing.

I'm sure there will be more on this story in the coming days.