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somehow, someone thinks that a fresh stream of flowing football will erupt after a bad period at Chelsea under Jose. that would be a miracle. It's near the end.

One can dream.

http://www.skysports.com/football/chelsea-vs-liverpool/stats/341287 shots, passing accuracy in final 3rd, key passes.

Hallo, Juergen!! Alles ist gut heute!

probably would be better off giving JT a player-interim management position and letting players like Fabregas and other coaches run training sessions in an attempt to get this squad playing actual FOOTBALL again. hire Gary Neville. the season can still be used to build something positive regardless of all failures, but Jose isn't going to be the impetus for change. We want football.

this team's possession interplay is awful every time I watch. the polar opposite of why I began watch football years ago.

that's true. I think though that the abysmal time will end with a sacking soon enough. The January window does require an ascending CM or possibly a top-notch CM. Seems like every summer I want two CMs and two fullbacks, and in the end Chelsea sign only ONE out of four players needed in those positions. signed one Matic in a January then a Fabregas two summers ago, so Chelsea still run on one leg in CM, with Matic as the only possible top-notch box-to-box CM who can do it all. this past summer: Rahman, full stop. hard to tell what the hell people (management, board, director etc) see in such a mediocre squad from back-to-front.

I believe the number one objective of Chelsea and Jose at the outset of this second term was to build a future, a strong foundation for the club. something to propel Chelsea. that certainly isn't translating onto the pitch with how Chelsea have played under Jose, so yes, a title (in a season where other clubs fell short TBH), but also a dud manager for the utmost goal of the club.

when he gets fired, the January window will be a nice time to find at least one other excellent CM and the next manager might know how to run rotation and work in youth while giving the overall squad confidence in build-up play. hired a dud manager and lost KDB, but the future still can be bright. I'm more concerned about the idiot decision by the board and/or director to prematurely re-sign this manager. We seem to have a good scouting network, so I'll take that as a shining plus.

I think you can go to just about any forum on either Chelsea football or English football and get some of that garbage. Different mentality. Same idiotic stuff from American sport fans where supposedly fairweather fans are called "bandwagoners." If you don't enjoy doing something, you probably aren't going to do it. Why bother watching a sport when it's so unenjoyable? Wait for the day when you CAN enjoy it again instead spending years of life enduring the crap exhibitions of some teams/clubs. It's only old school religiosity that tells some people to do otherwise. tribalism. religiosity. identity.

what's the excuse of the day? glad I wasn't even able to watch.

this story could get very ugly if someone decides to say the next wrong thing --as soon as THIS WEEK. Should be fun. I want Hazard to stay; I don't care where Jose goes FFS.

Maurizio Sarri at Napoli is probably a much more interesting manager story so far this season: https://provenquality.com/napoli-full-of-potential-as-maurizio-sarris-formation-change-reaps-dividends/ more recent: http://www.football-italia.net/74500/sarri-napoli-remain-realistic

I'm still looking for a reason why I might enjoy watching CFC play now that Drogba's time is truly done. Jose and whatever is going on within the organization are making enjoyment nearly impossible. I'm skipping more matches and fast-fowarding through some of the play. At this rate, I'll be done watching football within a couple years. better things to do with the time left in life.

Hazard to be benched more until he's a "team player" for Jose's Chelsea. http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/jose-mourinho-says-eden-hazard-6652824 Interesting development. wonder where that's headed. How do you like being expected to carrying the team that is so inept at attacking and always the one to be kicked by the opposition? Will your knees hold out? Better in Spain or Paris?

This isn't going to last. Doomed manager. Never figured it out, still won't figure it out. tick-tick.

Ferguson's new book, Leading has good reviews. Might be the first ever book I buy from sport people. I'm more interested in usefulness as opposed to entertainment and nostalgia.

We should be playing 4-3-3 some of the time at Chelsea with RLC in the mix. would do well for our future and maybe help the present.

the seething drone of the 1st game's soundtrack along with the freshness of the story and its combat make Assassin's Creed 1 a landmark game in all my years of gaming (since Atari and Colecovision).

https://youtu.be/ilZm4jynAn4?t=3m20s

Simeone is also the wrong manager. No. We need to evolve, not hold or shrink.

they started on that because I quoted Sir Alex: "what you do on the training ground is usually what you get on Saturday."

yep. why not just go 4-3-3? I'm for it. I've been for that shit for more than 5 years while CFC haven't had 3 great attackers to put up in the AM positions. Now we might actually have 3 excellent AMs in the squad, but it's still worth playing 4-3-3 when all the opposition just pack it in and Chelsea pass too slow in the opponent's half. The problem for me is that --as SAF said again tonite on the radio: "what you do on the training ground is usually what you get on Saturday." If it were up to Cesc Fabregas, a Chelsea training session and match might look more like a brisk, quick-passing, flowing Chelsea attack --or like a classic Man Utd attack. I doubt Mourinho and his staff have it in them to produce this. Meanwhile at Anfield...

after this "ask the players" bullshit, I really wish someone among the players has spoken up or will speak up this week. We can probably wager already that Chelsea won't be in CL football next year unless other sides have injuries and fall apart later this season. So, the question is all about keeping our most valuable players for the future while not in the CL. I can't see a bad side to changing the manager despite the fact that he might not be the perfect one for the long-term. It's only going to be a few more bad results and poor performances then this manager is gone. That's the sound of inevitability, Mr. Mourinho.

if there were a younger manager like Eddie Howe Chelsea could hire, I would be for that.