Viper22

Agree with Henrique, a lot of the threads are locked for me too. Also, what happened to my England flag!

Have a horrible feeling he's going to go to United and lead them to the title. How funny would that be eh?

2 of Schneiderlin, Wanyama, Witsel, Gundogan and Kondogbia are needed for sure to replace the outgoing Mikel and Fabregas (hopefully from the club but at least out of the match day squad). We need a top class CB aswell, someone like Hummels or Varane but if they can't be got then a great CB with potential to be top class like Stones or Laporte will do. Another winger and striker needed too, but tbh I think the DM and CB positions are the most urgent problems atm that HAVE to be fixed if we want to finish in the top half.

If he only played people in their natural positions why would he start Kenedy at LB?!? Also, Pedro is more often than not RW and Willian was LW at Shakhtar and would have been here too if Hazard's form hadn't been so good when he first joined. That's probably their natural positions.

Almost as rare as us winning a game this season...

My thoughts exactly. The guy is a complete tool of a person and very overrated as a manager. But then Jose was a tool at times and even though Pep is overrated he's still the best manager we could get unless Simeone is available so i'd be happy with him even though I don't like him. I'm sure i'd grow to like him too, especially if I know that it was him or some useless twat like Pellegrini or Rodgers.

The same people who controlled all of our summer signings; Abramovich and Emenalo.

So who picks the team for this weekend? I can't imagine we'll have the interim in place with enough knowledge to pick the team by then and I'm assuming Rui Faria will follow Jose out so... Steve Holland i'm assuming? Will be interesting to see who he picks, will likely be the usual suspects now.

Jason could you stick a new thread up (or in this thread) with a poll asking who Chelsea fans want to be the next manager (temporarily and/or permenently). Now this is done i'm curious to know the general feeling even though I have a horrible feeling it will Pep the bellend.

Well then Mourinho is sacked. I don't think any of us can be truly surprised and not many can argue that there weren't ample reasons to sack him, even if they would argue that we should have kept him. 1 thing I would say though, those of you that hounded him out, that insulted him and demanded him be sacked; you reap what you sow. Remember this 1/2/5/10 years down the line that you may never ever complain about Chelsea sacking managers early or about the lack of long term managerial stability. I'm not saying you were wrong, but just remember is all I say. The last few months have been painful to say the least but I wish to extend my heartfelt gratitude towards Jose for bringing us yet another title to go with the 2 he brought us in his first spell. That double last year has ensured that his second spell here should (and will be by the vast majority of Chelsea fans) be viewed as a success. My final thought is for the players. I hope you're all happy now. Mourinho wasn't perfect tactically, or with his siege mentality, but even if we'd had my grandma in charge this season I would still be embarrassed to have played as poorly as they have done this season (barring very few exceptions) and you all ought to be ashamed because you're not coming out of this well whatever happens. If you all start playing brilliantly now then you obviously were not trying for Mourinho, which is unacceptable when the man just led you all to a double and protected you all the whole damn time when you cocked up. If you all carry on playing terribly then you're obviously just not bothered about the club and can, quite frankly, fuck off.

Didn't know that, that's a pretty decent tally, albeit for a team that is walking the league. Haven't watched much if any French football this year so my opinion was based on what i've seen of him over the last 3/4 years. If you're right and he has evolved his game going forwards then he would be a fantastic signing to play in a 4-3-3 along with a creative flair player that can pick passes. Like you said though, not sure why he'd leave PSG to come here right now but money does funny things and we won't be this bad forever so maybe he wants a challenge eh? xD

RLC, Baba and Kenedy have to start. Give them a fair shake because the first teamers playing ahead of them have just been beyond awful. Musonda and Traore should be on the bench at the very least too, both great talents that we should give a shot to. Only players who deserve to start on the back of their performances this season are Courtois, Willian and Zouma. Everyone else is likely only going to start due to lack of competition for their places. Mou simply cannot start the usual suspects in the already outdated 4-2-3-1 again, he has to see that it would just end badly yet again.

Would add steel and balls to our midfield which can only be a good thing. Always liked him a lot but he's a very defensive player that doesn't offer that much going forwards a bit like Matic so while his signing would be awesome we'd essentially be playing with 2 DMs which might lead to us being a bit negative, even more so than we currently are.

First things first, I didn't mention everyone that wants Mourinho gone. There are some quality posters on this forum (Muzchap is one that springs to mind) that have put forth some compelling reasons for him going so this isn't a comment on the people wanting Mourinho gone.My problem is with 2 things - the disrespect shown by people to him by calling him names like turd when he has led the club to 3 of the 5 titles we've ever won. But the other is the main one and that is the enjoyment people gain from.when things go wrong. When we win and play good football very few people say a thing on this forum. The post match threads are silent, no one complimenting the players or the manager or anything. One loss and the whole thing explodes with people laying into the players, the manager and the fans. Then the people that dare say something nice or positive and not just knee jerk with rage after a defeat get shouted down by "told you so" merchants who take so much joy in being right about things going badly wrong you can almost hear their laughs as they bash away at their keyboard. Now please note that this isn't a comment towards you, I have no idea what kind of poster you are as I haven't seen any of your posts as I've not been around recently due to aforementioned reasons, this is due to you replying and I think misconstruing what I meant.

Oh for sure I agree. Musonda, RLC, Kenedy, Traore, Zouma and Baba are our youngsters that are ready for the first team and should be starting. The others I'd like to see in and around squads rather than wasters like Mikel, Ivanovic and Falcao and getting some games off the bench in the COC or EL if we even get that for some experience in the first team to remind them how far they need to develop. I didn't mean 'lots' of game time, that was the wrong phrase to use, but I think they're all ready for at least some game time throughout a season while spending most of their time with the youth team.Maybe Brown over Kiwomya then but I personally quite rate him, time will tell!

Fair enough. I guess it's just to stop the media speculation around José's job and to let us, the fans know that that is the case. You make a good point for keeping it internal though.Either way, something drastic HAS to be done.

Lol what a tool I am xD. We still probably wouldn't score. Nvm I'll remove my post [emoji14].

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The point was to literally state that no matter where we finish Jose is safe. Take all the pressure away because the players and manager are playing under such extreme pressure ATM and unfortunately for them they can't seem to deal with it. I would prefer the players to shrug off the pressure themselves but they just don't seem capable. Make a point that Mou is staying so all paper talk about him getting sacked stops and give him the freedom (and instructions behind the scenes so he doesn't have a choice) to play the kids.

My biggest bugbear with this forum, you expressed it well. I just can't understand the mentality of some people. It's literally a grass is greener syndrome coupled with a sense of weird perverse enjoyment at running the club down. Last season must really have hurt for them because, although we're god awful this year and some of the stick a few of the players and the manager have been getting is justified, this same lot of players and the manager were by far and away the best team in England and won the double. We all know if we'd kept Lukaku, De Bruyne, Mata etc. all the same members would be laying into them saying how they don't have the right attitudes and that we should signed those quality European talents like Costa, Hazard and Willian instead. There are serious problems at the club that need to be sorted but the sheer enjoyment some people seem to get from all of this turmoil both worries and saddens me greatly.

Roman needs to choose one of the following 2 options right now: 1) Back Mourinho, come out in the press and say that he will not be sacked regardless of where we finish and there is 0 pressure on him now. Then go to Mourinho, tell him he's getting no money in January but will get a large amount in the summer to rebuild the squad and should from this moment onwards include at the very least 4/5 youngsters in every single match (RLC, Zouma, Kenedy and Baba should be 100% starters, Aina, Traore, JCS, Musonda, Kiwomya, Colkett and Dasilva should be getting lots of game time too) for the rest of this season and get rid of the under-performing older players (most of them) either by selling them (Fabregas, Oscar, Ramires), not renewing their contracts (Terry, Ivanovic) or even releasing them if noone wants them (Mikel). 2) Sack Mourinho, literally tomorrow. Put Steve Holland in charge or something and give him exactly the same instructions I mentioned above. Then get a manager in towards the end of the season or at the end of it.

Nothing to say. Can't defend the indefensible. Their goal was lucky as fuck but the fact that we didn't score at home to fucking Bournemouth is beyond pathetic. That was the most demoralising thing i've ever seen. Absolute shite. Fucking wankers, the lot of them. Wish they'd give as much for the shirt and the badge as half the fans paying to watch the cunts do. But then if they did they wouldn't lose to fucking relegation fodder at home....

The rule is 2 opposition players between your player and the oppositions goal line. People get confused when there's one defender as they're used to seeing the GK in the goal but as Courtois had come out and it was only 1 player (Cahill) between him and our goalline he was offside.

Matic has a double fracture to his face, his nose and his cheekbone but will play in a mask. Mourinho says it is too early to consider new contracts for Terry and Ivanovic after Cahill's extension. Courtois is back fit again. If he doesn't play against Bournemouth he will play against Porto. He wishes Gary Neville well and hopes that he does well at his new job and calls him a very good pundit but warns him that you cannot "stop the tape" to make movements good in game. Costa is selected (in the squad). He has trained well and had a good week. He gave the players permission to go to the nightclub until the early hours and there were 25 players there, not just the 3 pictured. He had a dig at the paps too for only photoing these 3. Terry, Ramires and Falcao still out.