Kostas

Agreed. But that could be a case of a smart man appointing the wrong people, which one may think that with the sackings of Kenyon and Arnesen he admitted. I just think the board should take the most blame.

The club has definitely lacked a clear on and off the pitch direction over the last 4 years but pointing at the man paying the cash is both ignorant and ungrateful.

While I agree with the general point of this post (needing continuity) the way you've been talking about the the Double reminds me of Scousers talking about Istanbul.

Fair but there's always the case of a striker depending on the service he gets and we've had either Anelka or Malouda or our entire midfield missing during the last 3 months. Not to mention being overplayed and having Malaria only a couple of months ago. I'd agree but we don't really know if Ancelotti ever requested Maldini. Not for me it won't.Granted I believe Abramovich is wiser than most people give him credit fore but at the moment I won't be shocked with either him staying of going.

Not sure I agree with this.Even during our "bad moment" I've been fairly impressed with the way we defend corners especially in contrast to last year and I do realize that I picked the wrong day to say something like this.

Being realistic I can't find anything at all so it will be January transfer window. Some were desperate to find a match which would turn our season, I'd say this is the month to turn it.

Exactly. A few years ago a striker named Drogba came for £24 million. I'm afraid we'll have to start looking at the numbers in a different way. However one can argue with the cases of David Villa, Mesut Ozil and Khedira. Everything points to that direction but I do remember a Neymar lad back in the summer.

You're wasting your breath. Ancelotti has stated that he has no intention of changing our shape. And nothing but one his "I may need to wake up too" quote has suggested a change in tactics.

That. +1

Dunno about that.Everyone was blaming lack of commitment (or injuries ) in November before they started to notice CA's faults. From my point of view Cech, Terry, Ivanovic, A.Cole, Malouda, Mikel, Ramires, Kalou and maybe even Drogba* have been trying week in week out. Sure some of them have been SHIT but I certainly haven't seen them not caring. Just look at Malouda's and Drogba's reaction in the last goals. Those weren't people who didn't care. * I remind you that I skipped the Marseille game.

He tries those formations just like teams might try playing 8-1-1 to steal a result. I always thought of his decision to change our formation last year in the middle of the season as one of his strong points but after he said that he won't change our shape a few weeks ago I've lost all hope.

With the speed new posts are coming I'm not even sure that was pointed to you.Anyway I'm not even taking part in this game. Have fun playing FM about managers..

That would have been possible back when we didn't have a season to save. Now it won't improve much.

Unless there are indications that he isn't the one picking our formation+our starting XI then one has to criticize his decisions. Not now but back in November...

Hallelujah!!Thank you!

Exactly. Both our few fast attacks and our slow end up turning into corners.

I rarely dissagree with you but to me up until we were forced to play 4-2-4 he was our worst player.

Agreed. Ironically today his corner was our most dangerous .

Now here's a bandwagon I'm not jumping.

I'd rather we have such a topic when Ancelotti is off. Now it's both disrespectful to him and useless.

Porto's manager is one for the future.But I'm not even joining a replacement talk until we're officially looking for one

don't remember anyone but me accepting crisis talk back then.

No. If Ancelotti survives this month I'll say he's a very patient man.

Wtf?Even if shit really hits the fan Paul Clement will probably take over for the rest of the season. Rafa ain't coming.

This has to be our worst offensive display since Blackburn last year.