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how many games in Costa's career has he missed due to suspension? exactly.
and what exactly is terribly bad that has been turned into a positive? just because I dont have meltdowns and am not fickle doesn't mean I turn everything into a positive, I am calm about our start as I don't rate Man City as highly as the fickle fans who thought they were invisible because they started off well, I have seen it before with us, have a great start to the season, then implode, I don't panic so easily like yourself.
Costa has behaved the same his whole career, and at 26 years old, he has had a brilliant career so far, so keep acting like Costa is a terrible person, I will keep supporting him, as will José, as will his teammates and as will most Chelsea fans.

Lmao

Fabregas is magic
He wears a magic hat mask
He could've would've signed for Arsenal
But he said, "No, fuck that" the idiots didn't ask
He passes with his left foot
And He passes with his right
And when we he helps us win the league
We will We'll sing his song all night.
Oh...

March 10 represents an important date in the history of Chelsea Football Club - for on this day 110 years ago, over a quiet pint at The Rising Sun pub, the Club was founded.
Chelsea represents something of an anomaly amongst football clubs. Rather than being founded and a stadium being specifically built for that club's purposes, after Gus Mears acquired the rights to Stamford Bridge athletics ground in 1904, all he now had to do was find a football club to play there.
Chelsea's existence today is entirely dependent on Mears being rejected in his attempted takeover bid at Fulham Football Club. Instead, in March 1905 at The Rising Sun pub - now known as the Butcher's Hook and located opposite the present-day Britannia Gate entrance.
Little did Mears know that the Club, which in its second season won promotion to the old First Division before yo-yoing between the top tiers through the inter-war years, would later go on to reach the heights of today.
In 1920, a third-placed finish in the First Division represented the Club's best league performance, whilst five years earlier Chelsea had been defeated by Sheffield United in the 1915 FA Cup final at Old Trafford, in what was to be the last domestic football game in England prior to its suspension, due to Britain's involvement in the Great War.
The arrival of Ted Drake, the former Arsenal striker, in 1952 brought about an instant change in success as the Club exchanged its Pensioners tag, and penchant for playing attractive football and bringing in large crowds despite not really challenging for major honours, for a partisan support and instant silverware - in the shape of the First Division title in 1954/55.
Fast forward another sixty years and the Blues look set to add their fifth league title, barring an absolute catastrophe. 2015 has already been a trophy-winning year for Chelsea Football Club - but what a 110th birthday it would be if José Mourinho could inspire us to further honours!
Despite what the critics may say, Chelsea has an illustrious history. The Club is the only English side, and one of just four teams in Europe, to have won all four of the UEFA competitions - the Champions League, the Europa League, the Cup Winners Cup and the UEFA Super Cup - but it is only when you compare these successes to the dark days of the 1980s that the transformation can be truly appreciated.
After Tommy Docherty built a new young team and came within a whisker of landing a domestic treble in 1965 (Docherty secured the League Cup after an aggregate win over Leicester City, but after winning just one of their last six matches they surrendered the First Division title to Liverpool, who also had knocked the Blues out of the FA Cup at the semi-final stage), Dave Sexton ushered in an age of success and glorious football in the 1970s - but what followed almost led to the liquidation of the Club entirely.
An ambitious redevelopment of Stamford Bridge threatened the financial stability of the Club were saved from bankruptcy by Ken Bates, who would later help to secure the future of the Bridge and oversaw extensive redevelopment of the ground, and the tutelage of John Neal, which empowered the Blues to escape relegation to the Third Division in 1983.
Two decades later and the arrival of Roman Abramovich has made those dark days seem little more than bad memories - but Chelsea fans have never forgotten where we have come from.
Happy birthday, Chelsea!
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I think salah benefitted from his time at chelsea. I know he lacked playing time and wasn't given a chance to show his skills and quality but if I were JM I'd probably do the same thing. This is chelsea and not Ajax or atlethico Madrid. There isn't time to raise little kids and wait on them til they grow bigger and better. It's chelsea. And this is the epl where if you're a big team on a dog fight for a title all the time then only ready players on th field and not the ones we want to developed. World of instant results and not future investments. I love salah. I think he's a great player and can show quality not too many players epl or elsewhere can show but what he lacked here wasn't skills or quality. What he lacked is confidence and JM jus didn't have the time to wait. After all the man has to worry about 5 titles to try to win annually. Anyway, I think JM still cared for the guy, thought he had quality, and i believe this form salah is on now doesn't come from Basel but rather from his time at Chelsea and in particular from the special one himself (for people trashing him left and right for not giving salah a chance. He chose to loan the kid and not permentantly sell him). Salah will continue to develop but the guy's style of play and physique is best fit for Italy or Spain. I don't think the EPL is where salah will be a legend. I honestly think if messi himself came to the epl that he too will be shit. Some leagues are just not best fit for any player. Style of play is a big factor and we can sit here and count a million biggggggg name players that came here with might and proved to be just absolute shit. They're not actually shit at all..they just don't fit here well. I think salah will be better and bigger and will probably move to a bigger team eventually (provided he keeps his form and continues to develop ). I just don't think here is where he can become the player he is or wants to be.

Repost from "Is Kurt Zouma the New Desailly?".
http://forum.talkchelsea.net/topic/20020-is-kurt-zouma-the-new-desailly/#entry1058840
Sorry if I upset someone by my repost. Excuse me.
Kurt Zouma is already a reality. A TOP Centre-back for the next decade.
If I had to compare him with other Centre-backs I would choose Desailly, Carles Puyol and Samuel Kuffour, and for his great speed of reaction with Gallas.

1. Very fast to the shock, very fast in anticipation, in reaction and its movements on the pitch.

2. A very blunt player. Zouma defends in a similar way like Carles Puyol. Very strong when he attacks the rivals, but forcefulness without aggressiveness. I think Zouma is a player with great nobility in his way of playing. He is not a player who can be prone to red cards. He is aggressive without violence, and that will allow him to be a great player because he will accumulate very few yellow and red cards.

3. Now he plays quiet. At the beginning of the season he played doubting himself. Kurt is now full of confidence. He plays like a veteran, he is not afraid to make important decisions.

4. Zouma plays with intelligence. He never is precipitated in his actions, and expects the best time to attack the balloon.

5. He has an impressive jump. It reminds me, and not just physically, Samuel Kuffour (Bayern Munich 1996-2005). He has a power and forcefulness similarly.

6. It also has a mind that lets you learn very quickly. In just a few months training every day with Jose, Kurt has improved his performance spectacularly Better and better every day. His future with us will be spectacular. In addition, he has a great mental strength. After his failure at Old Trafford, the most normal thing was that he would have been demoralized. However, this mistake has made him mentally more stronger. It is not easy recover from a failure in a great match for such a young guy.

I think Zouma is no longer a promise, Zouma is already a reality, a great reality. A TOP Centre-back for the next decade.





Zouma will be part of our history. Jose`s player 100%.

We can be very happy and proud of Kurt.

Regards to ALL.

He's going nowhere. He has just formed one of the best partnerships in world football with Fabregas. Why would he want to go? Financially and trophy-wise there is no big difference between Real and Chelsea in this moment in time. In Real, one has to be always wary of the fact that if a new world superstar rises from somewhere, that same player might be bought next summer with mega-money to take your place in the XI for marketing reasons. At Chelsea, Eden will have secure starting XI spot for the rest of his career.
Mark my words, Real Madrid is not going to win a single trophy this year besides La Liga. The team is unstable in midfield with players chosen on the basis of their marketing value rather than tactical reasons. That habit makes sure that they are not going to be a dominant superpower in football terms for consecutive seasons unlike Bayern, Barca and yes, Chelsea.

Pep will come to chelsea, If mou somehow successfully create a super team.

Pep will come to chelsea, If mou somehow successfully create a super team.

I wonder when people are gonna stop and realize that the reason Azpi doesn't overlap is because Jose WANTS coverage for Hazard on that flank. Its by design and not because Azpi is poor. When Hazard attracts two defenders it leaves space for others to exploit, we just have to start moving the ball quicker is all.
Hazard was in the mood today, explosive and very influential! Whenever he was in the middle of the pitch he looked a threat and that's exactly what we need from him.

Of course the excuse is "I want to be first choice" but the truth is he's a coward. The thing that hurts me the most about Lukaku is his lack of care for the fans of the club. Despite all the attention and love we have given to him. And all the mental energy. We have 447 pages on this forum alone about a player who only played 10 games for us. It's the same on other Chelsea related sites as well. The rival fans say we lack class but I'm on twitter and most of the comments I see are respectful and thankful for his little/non-existent contribution. It's an admirable quality but one I feel Lukaku doesn't deserve. He's no Juan Mata. Fans of clubs like Liverpool and especially Arsenal would have ripped him to shreds.
Another thing that I noticed about Romelu is just how self-centered he is. Now, I understand that every man has to look out for himself and his family, even Mata left us the following transfer window when he realized he wasn't in the manager's plans but no one can accuse him of being selfish or self centered. He was here for two years and genuinely liked the club and fans. Mata was a team man first and foremost and will always have the respect of the fans and everybody associated with the football club.
Basically, almost every phrase that comes out of Lukaku's mouth is "I" and "me" , never anything about the club he represents or about the fans. I've never known a Chelsea player like that before and we've had some mercenaries in my time following the club. And to rub salt into our wounds, there's the pretentious rubbish about his "love for the club". He claims he's a fan but was has he ever done to show that? I read his tweets from time to time but unlike many of our other players, I just can't register with him on any sort of level. He cares more about the clubs we loaned him out to, West Brom and now Everton. That's okay, but don't play with us by saying you're a "fan". Joe Cole, that's a fan not Romelu. Romelu is just a mercenary.

What a bitter end of season (not even bittersweet, plain bitter instead).
Instead of feeling proud - even if disappointed by the way things panned out in the EPL losses and the UCL elimination - we're taking sides between our most important player (at least in theory) and our manager.
I read somewhere the whole interview translated (many, many, many pages back in this thread there's the entire thing in French in video and printed) and at least the version I read Eden implied something about playing alone - which is ALWAYS a bad statement to do because I think it's very disregarding towards your teammates. I don't think it was a jab at Mourinho's tactics, but I think it's unfair to the rest of the team - IF that was the original statement at all, my French is too rusty for me to try to figure it out myself).
While I don't appreciate Mourinho for pointing out Eden made a mistake because seems like he's showcasing him alone (and we had a lot of problems that match), I won't make a fuzz about it. The same way I didn't about the 'my wife' comments, or the 'Chelsea don't play football - which should be translated with the ball' things. The media is trying to make a circus out of it and it's sad our own fans are buying it.
Hazard made a few mistakes in the match, so did many others, including in the goals. I do think the first Atletico goal was a capital one and why we lost, I do think Schurrle or Willian would have done better if they were at Hazard's position because they've been doing exactly that in the last few matches, including against Liverpool and the first leg in Madrid. So the kid made a mistake. Get over it, Terry also made one in the PSG first leg, so did Cech, Luiz, etc... Mistakes are part of football and we don't need to crucify the boy and I don't think Mourinho was crucifying him either. I do think though he could have handled it better. Mourinho bit the bait the media planted to him. They want to make a mess in out dressing room and I do hope Mourinho learned from the Spanish media gate. While the journos there are disgusting, Mourinho isn't a saint himself and although the main reason things got out of hand in Madrid was because of player power, he handled the media poorly.
So at the end of the day we lost a UCL SF in a frustrating way. We were outplayed, we had a shot when it was 1x0 for us, but we weren't good enough in the end. It's time to regroup and get over, but instead the media - at least in this forum and I hope that's not how it is inside the club - is successful in creating an unnecessary crisis. 30 teams were eliminated in the UCL. We were the last ones. It happens. Next year I have no doubts we'll be fighting for it again. No need to point fingers to our manager - who made mistakes; or to any of our players - who also made mistakes, when in the end collectively we just weren't good enough.
A bad atmosphere only makes this elimination worse than it really is and creates a lot of unnecessary issues.

Exactly this.We have to attack together and defend together.
Most of the season, we only defend together and attack with the front four and ivanovic. That's not enough again.
We need to learn from bayern last season, total attack/ total defence. They broke goal scoring record and best defensive record in the same season.
That's the pinnacle of how football should be played.
Mourinho started to make us stable from the back, so next season, he'll have to concentrate on attack completely (even though it took longer than I thought)

Which goal was Cahill to blame for? What did Schwarzer do that was so wrong? Our team was and is just what it is. Our players are human, therefore open to "human error". Nobody went out and gave anything less than 100% in my view. We were just beaten by a better side with better tactics on the night. Sometimes you just have to accept these things with good grace. It is an honour for me to even see Chelsea in a Champions League semi final. I remember Chelsea been beaten by teams like Scarborough many moons ago, so if you think last night was a disaster well you dont remember how far Chelsea have come in a very short space of time. And, we will get better and we will be back !!!!!!!!!!

the strikers in 2004-05 - droga - 16, eidur-16, kezman -7, total 39
2005-06: crespo -13, DD -14, eidur -3, total 30
2006-07 - sheva -13, DD -33, kalou (?) - 9, total 55
and this is what taking into account that we had the best defence in the league, not just clean sheets and goals conceded-wise but actually a defence which seemed impenetrable. we had a mid which boasted of makelele, essien, lamps is being compared to what? mikel, ramires and luiz????? give me a break...
i mean are we seriously even comparing that squad to this one.
even the goal scoring aside, those strikers were good players. can u say that about the current 3 (current etoo, also considering, he took half a season to get into any groove).
some people are just.... special.

Success. Top 4 in the world, top 3 finish in England. Only a success.

massmassive success ,, failure will be the next Olympics game . at the start of the season people said the benchmark in CL was getting out of the Group or even making
the last 8 .. we did much more ..

No they're not. I don't think I've ever seen Tom overly criticize or insult one of our players.
And that's besides the point which was the bashing of our players is completely uncalled for since they have already exceeded expectations by taking us so far. This is a moment to reflect and be proud of the boys, it's not a moment knee-jerk over-criticism and it certainly isn't a moment for cynical swipes at other members and starting petty arguments.

I'm very proud of the boys and José
I think we did our best, but it's clearly not enough. We couldn't cope with a physical team that had a better attack than us and we just weren't good enough.
I'm sad, of course, but far from heartbroken. The players gave their blood there, Willian cried when he was subbed, Terry cried when the match ended. They fought, they tried, but we're just short.
Hazard was lacking any rhythm and couldn't do his thing, Torres made an effort but it wasn't enough. Courtois had a great display - and the post was in our way (but then again so was in theirs). I think it's fair to say the better team in the pitch won.
I have no doubts we'll come stronger next season. I have no doubts those players will mature a lot and I have absolutely no doubts next season we'll celebrate again.
For now we have a few hard lessons to learn, an attack to improve and some players to mature.
Keep The Blue Flag Flying High. We are CHELSEA!!!!!!!!!!!

Why is it that when we lose people are so keen to jump on the bandwagon and slag us off yet when they deserve praise you never see them?
Fickle cunts.

If you are a true Blue, just chin up, stop bitching and fucking move on already.

KTBFFH Bitches!

Chasing the game plays right into their hands, they are a great counter attacking team.
Cowardly tactics? You'd rather us be more offensive and get hit in the counter all match. The silly goal before half time fucked us over and the pen was the nail in the coffin
That's football. Semi finals is about fair for how we have been this season and good experience for the younger players
So, your all out of the Jose love fest now?