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Strangely enough, that's not what I was thinking as I stood at Eel Brooke Common in May. Jose has work to do and, since win loose or draw makes no difference to that reality, we might as well win while he does it. Will you forgive me if I say that your opinions seem rather immature to me? The thought that you can see what Jose cannot is just silly and taking Jose's public pronouncements as a direct indication of his private thoughts is sillier still. Just because Jose does not choose to attack our problems in the way you would does not mean that he is wrong. These are his decisions to make and he has earned the right to make them. What's more as you know better than I do, the overwhelming majority of Chelsea fans are going to support him while he does. I know I will.

Man you need to do some breathing exercises or something. I'm feeling your pain.

I wish I could help you deal with all that anger and frustration, I really do, but the only way forward for you is to face reality. Jose is going nowhere, he is going to keep picking the team and he isn't going to refer to your views when he does it. He isn't going to refer to mine either but I'll survive. You on the other hand, I'm starting to worry about.

Can't see a front two of Costa & Falcao working too well. Inevitably in such pairings one of the two will find themselves occupying the ten position a lot of the time. Costa certainly does not have the skillset for that function and I'm pretty sure Falcao doesn't either.

They've improved the tubes a lot so, nowadays, I find I can get there just as quickly as I can get to the Bridge. In fact when I went to the Women's final, with 'only' about 31,000 in attendance, I got there much quicker door-to-door. If that's an indication of how it might be with 50,000 or so then travelling won't be an issue for me.

I have not read it so I hope I'm not getting hold of the wrong end of the stick here, but... I think any Chelsea fan who signs a petition against West Ham's stadium costs, on footballing grounds, would be a disgrace. Yes they're getting a ridiculously good deal so, yes, they've been lucky but who'd swap them a cheap stadium for Roman? We've had our own huge slice of luck and the only dignified response from us would be to congratulate the Hammers on their good fortune. Now, if people are unhappy because no business with the kind of turnover enjoyed by Premier League clubs should be getting hand outs from taxpayers that's a different story but, if people are complaining because this move gives West Ham and unfair advantage then, Chelsea fans at least should have absolutely nothing to say about it.

No I think it has more to do with Jose trying to sound like he's not desperate to offload Cuadrado and not pretty keen to move Moses too. Unfortunately for the boss I think everyone is going to file that attempt under, "Yeah right. Nice try Jose."

That can't be right because, as I pointed out, he looked good on YouTube.

Fairish. I say that because, for me, if Oscar fails to deliver this season it will be because he isn't good enough, not because he's bottled it. I've long held a different view to yours. For me it is no more than an excuse to blame Oscar's woes on too much football, too little rest and truncated preseasons. While the lad is undoubtedly the best number 10 we have he is, in my opinion, simply not good enough to hold down that role for team hoping to be be competitive at the very top of the game. By the way I have never accepted the widely held view that Oscar is consistent before Christmas and inconsistent after it. I see him as inconsistent all the time, it's just that by Christamas coaches tire of waiting for things to improve. In fact this whole consistent/inconsistent argument is one of the great myths of football. All players are inconsistent, all the time. It is just that with some players, players like Oscar I suggest, their contribution is only good enough when they are at the very top of their game. David Silva has good games and bad games but, even when he's bad, it's clear that he's a top quality number 10. That is barely true of Oscar even when he's at the top of his performance range.

OK, we disagree on this then.

No I certainly don't think that. If it were true then it would be an absolute disaster for our club. If Emenalo, Bobby Campbell and even Roman himself couldn't see what was so totally, blindingly, obvious to all of us, then Chelsea are in deep trouble. Truth is that of course those people can see what we can see.

I meant in style and, in terms of style, I imagine Thierry Henry crosses the mind of many people when they watch Martial play. In terms of quality though, perhaps you're right. Maybe Studge is the better comparison.

Thierry Henry is exactly what I was thinking while watching Martial. One thing you didn't talk about was his decision making in looking for the pass when it was on. I don't remember a single occasion when I felt he made the wrong choice. I liked what I saw from Martial last night.

I don't think CB is a high enough priority to make our need for Stones such as to justify the kind of fee Everton will want. Next summer it will be without a doubt but, if need be, I think we can navigate through this season with what we have. That's all the more true now that the Baba move has happened. If left to me, I'd still be working on two more deals, a CM and another AM. In that order. If those can be afforded along with a mega CB signing, then fine but if not then, for me, CB can wait.

Obviously they must first do something that suggests they may be good enough. If, and only if, they are good enough then I think the best way for us to provide the right environment for youngsters to shine when given opportunities is to significantly strengthen the squad with senior players. I guess a lot of you will be ahead of me on this but just in case that statement sounds odd, let me say some more about what I mean. For a club with our resources our squad is, and has been for a long time, woefully shallow in numbers and, particularly, in quality. As a result, our squad team is often a shambles. Youngsters thrown into that situation have no chance. Give a kid a good side to come into and he has a better platform to show what he can do. A stronger squad serves our purposes not only in pursuit of points, but in facilitating regular rotation to avoid player fatigue and in nursing youngsters through.

If we reach that stage then we better play the top team. I'd be fuiming, not laughing, if we don't. It's a great characteristic of our club that if we're in it, then we aim to win it. We are not Arsenal.

Lionsden, forgive me, you've probably explained this many times and I may even have read it somewhere along the way but, as I type, I can't remember why this issue is so important to you. You, me and pretty much everyone else here would like to see Cobham graduates regularly starting for the first team, and we all know it is an avowed aim of the club and its manager to see this happen but it can only be a subsidiary aim surely. The key goal must remain to produce a Chelsea team which plays the way we'd like and which dominates on the pitch. If that dream comes to be then, even though I take more interest in the development squads than most, I'll be counting the trophies, not the number of Cobhamites involved. Jose needs no excuses. Only if the kids show themselves to be good enough, will they get game time. That's the only route for them. I think the challenge for people who take your point of view is that, so far, not one Cobham product has gone on to show that level of ability elsewhere. In fact, so far, they've all gone on to prove the exact opposite.

He did look good and did brilliantly for the goal.

A sort of a Frank Lampard goal, following a delivery into the box hoping for a rebound and getting it.

How do we know that Jose bought any of the players you have in mind?

No he didn't call Eva anything. He vented frustration using a well known expression. It was not aimed at anyone in particular. The pair of medics were, rightly or wrongly, the immediate cause of that frustration but it just exploded out. It had no specific target. It's an odds on bet that Jose said the same thing the last time he stubbed his toe. Glad your acid levels were driven up by the manager's press conference. You deserve it. And why are you going to wait until tomorrow to expound further? Hoping we'll loose perhaps? I hope that's not the case. I hope you can honestly say that you are not wanting to see Chelsea beaten, and that, at worst, you are simply fearing/anticipating that it might happen. I have my doubts however about just exactly what it is you do wish. Doubts which are entirely reasonable given the line you take so persistently.

When I said in January that, based on you tube, he looked technically superior to Cuadrado, someone laughed at me. At the time, I didn't mind too much. I accepted that youtube is youtube, and that the other poster must have seen more of the two players than I had. From what you say however, this perhaps turns out to have been another missed opportunity for the club. Let's just hope it does not proove to be of Agureo sized proportions. The club can't dwell in the past. It simply has to keep looking until it finds what we need. If that happens within the next fortnight then great, if not there will be other windows.

When I first saw Patrick play for the junior sides, before he moved into the loans phase of his development, I thought, and said, that he did not look a Chelsea player. To be fair to the lad he has since done better than I expected he might. I do not believe however that he has done as well during his loan spells as his growing reputation might lead us to believe. If Patrick emerges as a starter here then it will mean that Chelsea have not become as good a side as we'd all like. Our aim should be to find players at the Suarez/Aguero end of the scale and to keep trying until we do. Patrick is not at that level. If we had not bought him as a teenager then in my opinion, based on his performances to date, we would not even consider signing him now.

Sadly have to agree with you. Hasn't looked a Chelsea level player.

Watched the first 2 minutes then stopped. Too depressing for me, too embarrassing for City. With that collection of players they should be ashamed of themselves that they didn't walk away with the last five Premier League titles. Meanwhile, we all know that there are players in this world like David Silva yet we have to listen to people telling us that ourCAMs are world class. We have much better squad cohesion and will to win; if we also had Aguero and Silva where would we be? Oh well.