MrExcalibur100

Good squad player, nothing more.

Yeah, and even going back to John Barnes.

I'm sure it's mostly among the older generation. You hear that quite a bit from some of them.

Just look at the German, Dutch and French teams for example. In Germany in particular, it's only recently as well. In England however, we always fuck shit up, so it's no surprise.

I'm not convinced Mastour is the biggest 15 year old talent in the world though. Seung Woo from Barcelona's 98' generation (along with Carles Alena and Ayoub Ayou) of talents is pretty incredible. Mastour probably shades it on technique but Seung is more of an all round genius.

Multiculturalism might have something to do with it!

What do you expect him to say? To tell Mourinho to fuck off? This doesn't deflect from the fact that Mourinho's public criticism was bizarre and uncalled for especially since he has praised him for improving his defensive game. It's also clear to we fans that Hazard has improved his defensive game a lot this season, more than I expected and more than he should considering he is also our highest goalscorer and creator and get's double teamed every match. Jose needs to keep his "criticisms" in-house because he's been misled a lot by the press to say stuff he otherwise wouldn't say publicly.

You really believe this PL is the toughest and bestest hogwash, don't you?

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1ybbb_hazard-0-1-spain-u17-v-belgium-u17_sport

Most of the crosses he feeds off of come from Alaba and Lahm. Their wingers are similar to ours.

Has Mourinho expressed any desire to play a 4-3-3 as his main formation?

We don't need him, do we?

Willian crosses the ball alright but it's mostly cross field passes. He hardly puts in quality balls into the box.

More German papers reporting it: http://www.tz.de/sport/fc-bayern/bayern-tausch-geschaeft-mario-mandzukic-david-luiz-chelsea-geplant-3558065.html So long as Costa is coming as well, I'm all for it.

Physicality. Relentlessness. Nastiness even. He has a point but like you said, Mandzkuvic is more of a target man.

I agree with this and personally, I will be very happy to get both Manzku and Costa!! BUT if it's true (which I doubt) it wouldn't bode well for Lukaku's future at all. Right now, Romelu isn't even close to those two players. Mourinho will give him the Ba treatment if we had Costa, Mandzku and Lukaku. And Mourinho has said that there's a good chance Torres might be staying. It doesn't really add up.

This doesn't make a great deal of sense for us.

Hazard's goal vs Liverpool has to be on the poll, surely? It was a beautiful curler, in a big game against a very hated rival with an ace celebration! Some of the ones you included are very overrated. I'm going for Hazard vs Liverpool and Oscar vs Stoke.

Wonderful news if true. We will be insane to let him go anywhere anymore. Even on loan. Costa, Lukaku, Firmino. Goals, goals, goals is what we want.

Isn't the plan to be possession based team though, rather than a counter-attacking one? Chelsea, I'm sure dominate possession in majority of the games we play.

I actually watched that myself yesterday as well! Shaqiri also looked fantastic and Pizzaro at 35 (yep, our Claudio) is still better than all our strikers.

So he's definitely off then. I dunno what to make of this. Pretty unnecessary comments from Eto'o, but Mourinho had it coming, I guess.

Goes to show how silly whoscored can be at times. Ribery just had a very average season and was anonymous for the second half of it. Far too much credence is given to dribblers who play for teams that dominate possession.

This is actually a pretty remarkable post and I agree with the sentiment 100%. I will have to read it again though to fully appreciate it. Now more than ever, when they came ever so close to winning the league, they've shown their true colours. I honestly do hate that club more than I could ever hate a Tottenham for example, and I say that as a guy who grew up mostly around Spurs and especially Arsenal fans in North London. It's not a "Scouser" thing as some say, because Everton fans are normal! Liverpool "fans", more like fanatics/loons, are not and it's not a minority either. Always JFT 96, never for the 39. Hypocrites. Brilliant. Nail on head.

Hmmm..... Promising signs indeed. *crack*