MrExcalibur100

Willian, you fucking donkey. Fucking clown

We are seriously struggling with their pressing. When we have the ball, we never seem to have time or space to operate. They on the other hand have time and space to pick passes.

Oscar has been a joke in this game.

We have to dominate the possession and keep the ball properly or at least make it 50-50 . At this moment in time, this team isn't solid enough defensively to keep out wave after wave of attack. Very important.

Beasley is a lifelong Chelsea fan. He is Chelsea through and through and is actually one of the few British journalists out there who isn't a complete c*nt with us. I can't understand the stick he gets from some Chelsea fans.

For players like Hazard, it's simple. Playing for a team with the following characteristics. Big trophies, important league competition, playing CL football, playing positive/attacking football, big wages. We've offered him everything so far except the big trophies and attacking football. He also knows that playing for a manager who is going to ask him to play as a second left back in the biggest matches where the whole world is watching will hurt his chances to win the big individual awards, so even if we win the league, I won't be surprised if he still doesn't sign the contract.

Especially when Ake could have played Left back as well and Christensen/Azpilicueta at right back.

Mourinho was there for only 2 years. No one ever cherry picked his best players. They all left when he left. Deco, Carvalho, Ferreira et al.

True, it's surprising, but it has to be something mental for not just for the manager but the players when you're competing against a bully that can buy all your best players and then some. I'm sure Klopp wants out of that league.

Yeah, let's just ignore his previous achievements that includes multiple German league titles, German cups and a CL final appearance. Season in, season out, his best players keep on being cherry picked away from him. He's never had the luxury of managing insanely rich clubs like Chelsea and Madrid who can stupid sums on any half decent player. I wonder how Mourinho would have fared in similar conditions. Oh wait, he's never been in a similar situation.

It's part of the cult of personality that surrounds Mourinho and sorry to say, the small mindedness of some, the follower mentality, especially (but not limited to) among the johnny come lately, post-Abramovich crowd who think Mourinho is the best thing ever to happen to Chelsea and can seemingly do whatever the hell he wants. Including moaning about the fans, making very questionable remarks by paralleling our support with Scouse scum with the latest "25% bullshit". Maybe, just maybe if you didn't set up the team to be so pathetically defensive in the first place, the fans who paid good money to watch it in the blistering cold would have had something to shout about!

It's funny how some posters were already on the low trying to shift blame for this appalling result away from the manager to the players by saying stuff like "that's why Jose doesn't play kids" when the only kid in sight was Christiansen! Zouma the so called "kid" probably has more caps than Bradford's entire squad! It's not like we had Boga, Loftus Cheek, Solanke, Brown and Ake (where the f**** was he?) by the way. All the noise from Mourinho of playing youth seems like hot air now. They won't get another opportunity till next season till they're eventually sent to some mediocre lower league team on some bad loan.

I'm not taking anything away from him. I just don't think it's a praise-worthy gesture. If he came out trying to make excuses, he'll have been lambasted.

He had no other choice really. He would have looked a massive fool if he started making excuses for that. No one would have bought it.

This times a x1000

We still need Cuadrado though. The defense will sort itself out. It's the lack of quality in attack without certain players or when those certain players are not at their best that worries me more.

And we're still penny pinching whether we should sign Cuadrado or not?

"I lose against Bradford, it's a disgrace" or words to that effect. Pride goes before a fall, it seems.

Talk about bad Karma. Instead of focusing on his team, he's throwing shots at Ancelotti, a manager managing a team in a different competition in a different country. http://as.com/diarioas/2015/01/24/english/1422115055_880095.html

Didn't you know? Azpilicueta will rather be played at LB against the mighty Bradford.

Ha, Did he really say Loftus Cheek was much hyped?

Cuadrado is the best option we could have gotten in this window. He's a massive upgrade to Schurrle and Salah and will put a lot of pressure on Willian. An actual right winger that will stretch teams and doesn't have the tendency to cut in all the time. He's also not cup-tied and can play in the CL. Win - Win scenario for us.

What?! I know about the penalty but when was the 2nd so-called shot? I was already half asleep. Zzzzzzzzzzz.

Why did Mourinho bother fielding Hazard and Fabregas today? Why not just play Ramires for Fabregas and Zouma as a 5th defender if we were just going to defend for 90 mins? I felt sorry for both of them especially. Disgusting, embarrassing performance.

It's hardly surprising when we defend for 90 mins that Courtois is the MOTM.