Not only does he need to turn around a Chelsea team that is slipping down the table, he also needs to do it in double-quick time and while improving the bottom line, which effectively means curtailing salaries and transfer expenditure.
Mr Santelli's televised rant against bail-outs has gone down in history as the birth harangue of the tea-party movement, which went on in double-quick time to capture the Republican Party and yank the whole of American politics sharply to the right.