John1611

This graph makes it clear that attack-wise, this team has been on a terrible decline since 2014/2015. This lends further credence to Jose's inability to affect his sides on the offensive end.

Mourinho's teams have never had any sustained way of playing in attack. Just relying on counter attacks and the quality of certain individual players will not bring long term success. Excluding the initial spurt in quality of football after the Costa and Fabregas signings, we've been very unconvincing in attack throughout Mourinho's 2nd spell.
Mourinho is to busy making proclamations like "when you reach my level, it's difficult to learn from others". Other managers continue learning, his ego means he's stood still.
Another thing is this.

We have 5 outfield players of all players in the PL to have registered the most minutes. That's crazy. I see a lot about how Oscar has played so much football in the last few years, I wasn't aware that Eden had even played more. Like Capello said recently, Mourinho runs his players into the ground. It's not to difficult to imagine this is one of the biggest reasons we've struggled this season.

you clearly dont know what match fit means, just leave it at that.
and again what are you talking about, saying he isnt any different, he has barely played! its bizarre how you can judge him already when he hasnt had a chance yet, he has made 3 sub appearances 2 when we were down to 10 men! and you are already comparing him to last season! judge him when he actually gets some decent amount of miutes on the pitch.

Cesc was left out there because he keeps possession. did you not see that we had more possession and ended up winding the clock down with Hazard and Cesc passing it around.
And Cesc also provides that quick outlet ball, which he did for Costa and Falcao.

As Mourinho said, KDB wouldnt have reached this level had he stayed at Chelsea. He wasnt training 100% because of lack of motivation. We dont need players like that at our club, no matter how good they are.

Why the 'Rodriguez' in the thread title?, the football world knows this man as 'Pedro', if anything.. Rodriguez confuses it, considering. This reminds me of when we had Oscar's full name in his player thread title

Mourinho's tactical ability is vastly overrated, as much as the clueless, lazy english press mythologize it. Park the bus and hope for a goal on a counter attack or a set-piece. If the opposition press high, man mark tightly and are very physical with us, we crumble like a park of cards. Pellegrini figured him out. They've been by far the better team in virtually every match between us since that 1-0 win.
Of course, the clueless, lazy english press will barely give Pellegrini any credit.

To be fair to Mr. E, he has always backed his views on Mourinho, whether we win or lose.Attack their opinion, not the person.

Baba's first day at the club.

we shouldn't let one match Remy was bad to shadow how good he was for us last season, against teams all sizes. He has a bad history against Arsenal, it's a bad matchup for him, so as long as Costa can play Arsenal in the league, that wouldn't be a problem.
I do worry about Costa's absence though because even if Remy is good and Falcao will probably improve (right now he's the same as DD for me, and that's after a summer competition, limited rest and a landing in a new team - so whatever much he improves from now on is already an improvement over DD), but Costa is one of the best strikers in the world. He was way off form in preseason, but I trust him to play well in the regular competition. He's probably one of those guys who can't really bring himself to play his best in friendlies because his fuel is competitiveness and hunger to win, things that aren't really at stake for real in friendlies.

watch the fucking match. he has been one of our best players.

Loic Remy confirms he will stay at Chelsea - and believes Falcao's arrival can only make him better
http://www.standard.co.uk/sport/football/loic-remy-confirms-he-will-stay-at-chelsea--and-believes-falcaos-arrival-can-only-make-him-better-10401503.html

http://www.apimages.com/Search?query=Chelsea+training&ss=10&st=kw&entitysearch=&toltem=18&orderBy=Newest
Chelsea preseason photos:
By the looks of things a full game took place, one team consisting of:Begovic: Chalobah, Ivanovic, Cahill, Azpiliqueta: RLC, Matic, Ramires: Hazard, Remy, Salanke: Versus : Courtois: Clarke-Salter, Terry, Zouma, Aina: Oscar, Mikel, Fabregas: Moses, Costa, B.Traore

(The only player on tour unused was J. Blackman)
PS. Just search Chelsea training

Im relieved you arent in charge of our transfer deals . Could see you trading Hazard for Walcott or Downing

Yeah, and Sterling is worth 50m! And we bought him for 20 how on earth he HARDLY worth a 20 now?

If we replace Remy with Falcao, with no intention of Remy wanting to go elswhere, this will be the most stupid action in the summer transfer period.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pc0iwBWMw5I

Lol... He's played 175mins!!! What are you talking about?

His cross field passes are always impeccable. Right weight, speed, curve, everything.

He already got his goodbye and caring last summer when nobody knew he would rejoin EPL as a City player, should they really repeat it?

Thats why we won and the others didnt. #OverhypedEnglish

As much as we all dislike Rio it truly is terrible and my condolences are with him and his family. Credit to him for managing to keep it out of the press. Those poor children

Should've even been 20 points, without the FA campaign.

Legend. Just look at him after the game - he gave everything he could.

one of the worst thing is - somewhere down the road, when people would get into an argument over players, no one will remember the "performance" willian put in today, but instead they would simply copy paste number of goals and assists to make their point.

Seeing him work his ass off every game you start to take it for granted without properly realizing how hard it is to keep that up for an entire season, bravo Willian