MrBlueGuy

Potential to be better than Rooney if he keeps this up.

Time for him to do a Reus now and become injury prone

Another player who won't play for us because of Jose unless something surprise happens.

This is almost as bad as MU losing Pogba for free, I think Kevin is worth like 50m now in this inflated market. Also tbh I am not sure he and Hazard in the team would mean us being automatically amazing going forward. Look at Belgium, maybe it is just me but for some reason Hazard never seems able to impress there while Kevin is a star in that team. This could work but in theory imo not as well as it would be on paper.

Could still do a MU/Liverpool and bottle it Yeah I guess but it hasn't always been equal though. For example a defender will much more likely get a chance to impress than an attacker. For example Zouma came on for 10 mins or something and we kept a cleansheet=>he did well. While someone like Cuadrado/Salah comes on for 10 mins and they are expected to score/assist in that amount of time to be considered a success in that match.

Tbf he probably had Zouma down as another Salah too before he came in and impressed. Other than that yh not much unexpected changes have been made, maybe some people were expecting Ivan to be dropped/move to CB once Felipe signed but it looks like that is not going to happen now. Overall I think this season that is acceptable because he has to win the title to relive some pressure on himself. But from next season I am sure lot of other Blue fans also want to see him introduce MORE youngsters into the team to at least show he cares about the future and not just his personal glory in the short term.

1st criteria: Track back skill-check 2nd criteria: Pace-check These are 2 criteria that Jose mostly use to sign attacking players I would imagine

When they asked those questions with Mata or Kevin he got mad so ever since they don't dare to do it anymore. Also the closest the questions come are like 'is your team going to play counter attacking today?'

Arsenal will finish like 2nd or 3rd-probs like 5-8 points off top in the end and 'go again' next year then the cycle repeats. I am only worried about City because they have experience with these things while their rivals collapsed. Who knows God might reverse it this time with Gerrard scoring the winner in a few weeks and we lose ground to City. Anything can happen with the way we play.

Then next Jan go for a Matic type signing in Rodriguez or Aogo or Danilo

Meh one of those transfer that really in the long term benefited no one. We get a great player but soon he will lose his touch because of long time on the bench, Atletico lose one of the best LB in Spain at the time and now get another one but not quite as good, Luis will win titles but like Torres...etc in the past he contributes very minimal compared with for example last season.

What is scary is that he is so TOOTHLESS, looks at Hazard always creating danger. Willian is just like Oscar if not worse but at least he gives movement and always not afraid to track back all the way back to our box. This guy also works hard but because he is so limited physically he cannot really press all the way deep into our half for most of the time and he isn't the fastest around so he can't move up and down the pitch quickly like Hazard and Willian. His shot is also nothing special, always straight at the GK or over the bar. He scores a few great goals because he got great techniques on the volley but his shot power is incredibly weak and for some reason always straight at their GK. This is something I have noticed for a long time now and not just today where he missed a great chance.

If Cuadrado is benched and this guy starts next week against Hull I am lost for words.

While this guy can't stop scoring and assisting, we sit here and lacking creativity because all the burden is on Hazard, Fabregas goes on a 2nd half of season hiding, Willian reverts back into ineffective self, Oscar following up Fabregas by creating his own legacy and bottling myth, Cuadrado can't even do the basic right after being benched for nearly 2 months after signing. Whose fault is this? I know...

Hasn't been himself for quite a few weeks now. I think he is tired, he has never played this much football anywhere before so it is understandable why he is tired now. Also the intensity of BPL is much higher than Portuguese League.

This guy doesn't know how to coach proper attacking football. It is all good when the individuals shine but he is not as good as Klopp or Pep in this area. It is all about attacking on the wings with pace and cross, no one dares to try a long range like Yaya.

Torres of midfield, one of the best player at WC is like this WOW

Where the hell did you plug Pellegrini out of, he is a shit manager as proven by tonight and can't be compared with anyone of Pep/Jose/Klopp/Simeone. Also Atletico had their man down before the end of the 1st half and Espanol is hardly crap either. I didn't say we should sack him I simply explained why after next season if we continue to go out of CL in this style we should be looking at a change. Then that post is to explain why SOME might prefer other managers to Jose in the long term. No where did I say we should sack him.

Very good commentator and most of his comments are always spotted on most of the time. Also he always seem to talk positive or defend us so that is great in my book. However this thread kinda sums up mentality of modern day fans as well, players/pundits that talk positive about your side get praises while the others like Carragher who is a decent pundit as well doesn't get the same praises just for pointing out some of the negative true things about us that some of us don't want to hear. Next time if Mike Dean gives us a pen against MU most people will go Dean>Clatternburg because of that 2-3 match 3 years ago.

What 'respect' do you want everyone to have for him? no one is calling him a cunt, names like FSW like with Rafa...etc. No one is forgetting his past achievements with us and he will be a legend here no matter what. What do you want everyone to do? Bound to him like followers of a God? There is a line between respect and criticism which you seems to combine them to create new meaning for respect. People wanting him out due to style..etc are not disrespectful, maybe they want us to defend well like Atletico or play good passing like Pep's team or good pressing attacking football all the time like Klopp. If Jose can't give them that then naturally they would want someone else to be in charge, but not without ever forgetting Jose's achievements.

Vidal can play as a CAM fine too but recently injury has made him not being able to be at his peak and rumor is that he will never be fully healed, could maybe sign Isco if we offer 40m for him and he is being benched now Modric and when James is back. Pjanic is another option but imo he looks like another Oscar and not that much better, That is about it for pure CAM I can think of, of course Koke is the perfect choice but like you said he doesn't want to leave.

In Mourinho we trust though he is the best judge of character after all isn't he or Kevin is playing against pub teams in Europa, nothing to see

Because it is the same problem fundamentally all the time, every time we lose it is because of his approach and tactic. You see when we got beat 2-1 by Newcastle or 5-3 by Spurs the criticism is not that big because it was due to other team defending well/luck or in the case of Spurs Cahill messing up badly but after we lost/draw for being extremely negative then people are unhappy. For example if Hazard scored an own goal and we lost yesterday with him being terrible all game, everyone will be in the Hazard thread talking about him now and no one will be here. Btw when this thread is quiet it means silence appreciation so it is not that many don't care but if we are silence that means there is nothing to criticize him for. You see threads like Matic...etc barely get any post, that is because he has been doing well and there is nothing to discuss, virtual praising is not necessary.

Anyone think he is not really that good? Yeah by that good I mean top 5 strikers in the world...etc. I mean sure he is a good player, have strong will to win and sometime I think he is trying to be a cunt on purpose. It gets to a point where you need to cut down the act, I mean the will to win is great but is it really necessary to go have a fight almost every single match? So now that is Zabaleta, David Luiz, Coleman, Can, Skrtel, Howard, Cabaye...etc and many others that he has been involved in a small fight. Are they all cunt that deserve to get shit from him? Sure some of them are, but some like Cabaye...etc are really nice yet he decides to start a fight with them for no reason. Also as good as his goal scoring record is for us and Atletico for the last 2 seasons, he has shown for 2 consecutive years of being slow down greatly in the 2nd half of the season compared to the 1st. If next year he drops off again I will have to start putting him in the same bracket as Fabregas in this aspect. Another thing is he is not capable of a 'magic moment', he doesn't bang them in from 30 yards out, he doesn't dribble past 5 players and score(he is capable of doing this but doesn't yet officially for us). He isn't like Aguero who always has his head down and aim to score, this guy sometime want to fight more than scoring. I really cannot see him ever becoming a big legend for us, certainly not as respected as the likes of Drogba even if he scores 20 goals for the next 5 years. Drogba has his fault but sometime he knows the limit as well, this guy thinks it is almost funny to try and get past that limit all the time. I hope we sign a young striker like Lacazette soon when Drogba retires to challenge this guy, maybe then we will see if he is truly willing to win and fight for his place like he did in 12-13 under Simeone and having to compete with Falcao.

From potential Quadruple to Capital One Cup only be the end of the season is sackable offense to me. If we win the BPL though I would give him another year but he needs to learn from this mistake, or he will have to go in summer 2016.