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Pep Guardiola will replace Manuel Pellegrini as Man City manager next season. He will start work on 30/06/2016. [Cadena COPE] Cadena COPE reliable?

Pep Guardiola's plan: Manchester United then Brazil http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03c9gn3

If Chelsea find 'right replacement' Mourinho is gone http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03c9cnw

Henry and Fabregas discuss Chelsea's woes http://www.skysports.com/watch/video/sports/football/10101024/henry-and-fabregas-discuss-chelseas-woes

#Chelsea are in talks to sign Shakhtar Donetsk attacking midfielder Alex Teixeira in a deal worth nearly £30m. [independent]

Showed more heart and passion than most of the guys who have been here for years, should be a starter.

@mods/admins This is also not a member that will add a lot quality to your forum, maybe you should give him a warning for repeatedly using the term ''fanboys'' for defending the club's most successful manager. Actually, he provoked us from the beginning with using ''mourinho fanboys and sycophants '' from the beginning in his first post. Even the older members who are Mourinho critics don't call us like that. @bellion, Mana & other negative people Call me a fan boy, call me a big Jose fanboy I don't mind it, I don't care. But then you should also call me a Willian, Ramires, Cahill, Mikel, Diego, Cesc, Pedro, Hazard, Matic, Azpi, Courtois, JT, Ivanovic fan boy. Or in other words, I just love my club. This is an open forum and probably the biggest Chelsea community online, I don't like the atmosphere to be ''the players from other clubs are always better'', ''the ex players are always better'' and ''our manager is a fraud''. That's why I defend them. You guys always focus negative sides, these players and manager won us the league last season but starting from match day 1 people are already slamming our own players and manager.Willian was still getting stick after the West Brom game (game 3) while he performed whole 2015 year long. Cesc is now being labeled as the biggest villain - he produced 23 assists last season, give him some respect, he's just not playing in the right system. Ivanovic has been a Chelsea great if not legend, don't f*cking insult the man because he is aging. Same thing happened with Drogba last season, people were even insulting our club's legend on here. Sometimes I seriously wonder, is this even a Chelsea forum? By far the most negative community online, maybe bellion is an added value after all because he fits here perfectly.

@The Skipper and @Spike Hi, please take a look at this member, it's probably ''couris'' that has been banned. reason = new member, and using fraud + ''maureen''.

I almost always wait for a while to calm down before I react on here after we lost. I agree that first half was really bad, but we also need to give credits to the best performing side in the league, they were full of intensity, they had more balls, they had more confidence and wanted it more. Could you tell me how on earth it's possible that the players gave so much passion and desire to win against Porto and then 5 days later, to be completely passionless? Nobody was taking responsibility on the pitch, they all look scared to do something. We can blame it on tactics and work methods from the manager, but Jose has not changed his tactics and methods that won us the league with 13 points and league cup last year, it's the same manager and the same working methods. Has the league opponent ALL changed so much? I also don't think so. Or are the players just not up for it anymore after winning it? I read that only 3 players after the game went to salute the away fans. (Courtois, Azi, Iva) If you don't play well, you have to finish the chances you have, but I saw 4-5 chances but we scored 0 from them. Diego should've scored that, Ivanovic was making a world class clearance for Leicester, Remy had to shoot instead of controlling the ball, Pedro should've done better because he had time and space, Hazard should shoot with his weaker left foot instead of switching it. These guys are just not mentally alright. On your statement: No excuse for Jose to stay There can be no excuse to sitting at 16th with 15 points after 16 games but we are still qualified for the last 16 in the UCL. If there is 1 manager in our history that deserves a complete off season, it's Jose. He's proven to be one the best for a decade (his CV speaks for it self), his last league win was not in the last decade - it was last season and we're still the champions. If Klopp deserved time after all he has done to finish the season, Jose deserves it too. One swallow does not make a summer - One bad season won't suddenly change Jose into a bad manager. This is a manager that won 2 Champions leagues and 8 league titles in 12 years we're talking about. This is a decision for Roman, if he sees the long term future with Jose - he should stick with him and back him completely, if he changed his mind he should sack him immediately, simple.

If the players can bring the same performance as vs Porto, we will win.

Leicester team: Schmeichel; Simpson, Morgan ©, Huth, Fuchs; Mahrez, Drinkwater, Kante, Albrighton; Ulloa, Vardy. #C Leicester Subs: Schwarzer, Wasilewski, Benalouane, Dyer, King, Inler, Okazaki. #LCFC

CHELSEA XI: Courtois; Ivanovic, Zouma, Terry ©, Azpilicueta; Ramires, Matic; Willian, Oscar, Hazard; Diego Costa Chelsea Subs: Begovic, Cahill, Mikel, Fabregas, Kenedy, Pedro, Remy

Chelsea HQ ‏@Chelsea_HQ #Chelsea have been warned they face paying a hefty £36million for Alex Teixeira in the summer if they fail to sign him in January. [Express] Chelsea HQ ‏@Chelsea_HQ Lucescu (Shakhtar): "Alex Teixeira is now worth more than €40m (£28.9m). At the end of the season his value is €50m (£36.1m)." [Express] Get him ASAP.

Time for him to return with Stones? Lukaku: "It really hurts to see Chelsea at this moment. I was always a fan of the club & you don't want to see this as a former player "I have faith in Mourinho that he will turn the situation around. Everyone has these moments I guess. "People should respect that. And everything Mourinho is experiencing now, is making him a better manager." Lukaku: "This is the 1st time Mourinho is confronting these kind of problems. How many coaches can say that? Not a lot, certainly not a lot" "The 2-0 win over Porto was very important, also for the dressing room. I don't think Mourinho is doing anything different than before. "He still prepares his players in the best way, and his training sessions are very good."

No problem mate, check my post above. We have the advantage with 4-5 Brazilians in our squad, plus Mourinho as the manager. edit: no Brazilians advantage, Paris also have 5 lol

If we want him, we will get him. Alex Teixeira: ''Mourinho is the 'world's best coach' , 'I think I would learn a lot from him. I hope he does not leave Chelsea now. I want to work with him and have great success in his side.' 'I read an interview he gave where he said he was keeping an eye on my football, and had sent scouts to watch me.'

One of his best performances (most complete) I've ever seen for us. He had everything: pressing, tackling, linking play, tricks, and even some beautiful passes. I'd have this Oscar over the ''bad playing Oscar but scores a goal to safe his game''. Keep it up!

For me, Courtois>Neuer. He makes everything look so simple, I don't need a goalkeeper to give me heart attacks with his kamikaze actions. Tibo gives us such a secure feeling at the back.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-2PP2rAB94 https://youtu.be/M-2PP2rAB94 pre-match presser

Everything happens for a reason, maybe the players needed that defeat to really realize how bad they were doing. Maybe Mourinho needed that defeat to realize Oscar should start over Fabregas for the Porto game. Stay positive mate, I believe things are turning. Only 3 goals conceded in our last 7 games, 4 clean sheets and 4 victories with a BIG win for the morale after Porto (and our favorite Willian is the hero of this CL campaign so far) Let's play the same eleven and see if they can reproduce the same performance. Quite funny that we're underdogs for this game, maybe that can help us because they will attack us and we'll have more space like the Porto game.

Looked simple but it was a top top class finish. Casillas was very close to that post but still couldn't save the shot because it had too much power.

Mourinho: "Our fans are magnificent. They give us more than we deserve - especially me. I'm sorry I can't give them more at the moment."

Congrats to all !! We're in the last 16 ! :blue scalf: :blue scalf: :blue scalf: To those who rather wanted to lose to have Jose out, I feel bad for you guys guess you have to wait a few more days. Great performances by the lads, everybody was good, even Oscar (he was very good) and Ivanovic. Zouma such a beast, future captain Ramires as always reliable in big games! Willian our top scorer in the CL with 5 goals!