The Skipper

No idea dude...

I'm guessing it's the book split down into 2 books...

Finally arrived earlier today. Last exam tomorrow. Cannot wait to read these.

That's not right. Spanish FA don't have the right to ban someone from an English/European Cup.

"NO. Termination by mutual agreement with no compensation" - Perez. So his fee was never a problem. Fabricated stories, as usual.

Feruz hasn't even been all that in the latter part of the season, he's been terrible I think. RLC has been better IMO, happy to see him in the squad. Also happy for Christensen. It's only a friendly, don't know why people are getting so worked up about it.

They should focus on turning him into a Makelele type player. I think that's where his future lies.

Michael Laudrup's agent and Mourinho, a while back.

Fair enough. But like I said before in the same post, for me anyway, stats don't tell the whole story.

I know you're just posting up the stats, but its not as simple as Mikel being the underlying factor as to why we won more games when he didn't play. There are a lot of other intangibles and non-statistical factors as to why we've won more when Mikel hasn't played. He's off form and been injured and therefore hasn't featured as many times as he should've, but no doubt people will obviously use these to condemn Mikel even further though. Mikel's had a rough season, but he's still a good player in my books, and I'm interested to see how he'll perform next season under a new manager. I won't write him off just yet because he's shown on numerous occasions that he can be a good player here. Just did some quick research as I think your stats aren't accurate as you're choosing to omit games where Mikel was subbed in, which is unfair in my opinion. Out of the 38 games we've played, Mikel has only been named in the squad 24 times. Out of those 24, he's started 19 and been subbed in 3 times and out of those 22 games, our record during those games stands at 12W/6D/5L which brings the overall win percentage to when we have played Mikel to 54.5% - which isn't as bad as your initial stats suggest. As I've said anyway, I wouldn't look at the stats simply because there are many other intangibles to them e.g. the team hitting good form in recent weeks. But like I said, people (not you per se) will still use it as a case against him.

Fair enough... Must've missed that. Interesting to see anyway, maybe a Lukaku loan to Swansea next season? Laudrup has recently been complaining about a weak strike force.

Didn't hear anything about Laudrup's agent on MOTD to be honest, think it's fabricated and just caught on on Twitter.

HBD Petr!

Just yesterday: http://www.thisissouthwales.co.uk/EXCLUSIVE-Michael-Laudrup-leave-Swansea-City/story-19020146-detail/story.html#axzz2TnuOmqU8

Pfft. Deco, Sneijder and Ozil say hi.

GIF OF THE YEAR.

BEAST. Literally, a truck. A fridge. A comet. A bomb. An Escalade. A train.

Fair play to Rafa in the way he's been very professional throughout most of this, which has surprised me quite a bit. I'll still question some of the decisions he's made over the season, he hasn't been the revelation the media will have you believe he's been but he does have some class about him in a way, and he is departing the club with his record in tact and the respect from most CFC fans and most football fans. Thanks Rafa. Wish you the best in the future (of course, not against us though). It's now time for The Special One to come in and take us to the level we belong to.

We want you to stay, we want you to staaaaaaaaay... Paulo Ferreira, we want you to stay. (As a coach).

Torres always does this, fills us with false hope at the end of the season.

Thorgan is more of a CM, Eden is way more direct from what I've seen.

Yes. Please.

@TorontoChelsea, it's easier to say in hindsight that Mourinho had "world class players" when he came to Chelsea. Yeah, the Essien's, Drogba's, Carvalho's etc. came for big money but they weren't exactly "established" as world class players. They were very much like the Mata and Hazard purchases. Yes, they were both in the PFA team of the year but in no way did that make them established world class players. You're overrating TOTY too much - there are plenty of non world class players that have been selected for team of the year before. JT and Lampard were good talents when Mourinho came but in no way were they at that world class level yet. You've got to give him credit for turning both into one of the best players in the world. How you give Mourinho no credit for turning JT and Lampard into world stars baffles me. You only have to look at the way they both speak of him. JT was voted in the WORLD XI of the year which is far more prestigious than the PL TOTY a consecutive 5 times after Mourinho came. He was also voted best defender in Europe after Mourinho's first season, and 2 more times after that. Lampard finished runner up in the Ballon D'or when Mourinho was here. You can't argue with that. Under Mourinho we spent money but it wasn't on nail on established world class talent, it was more with raw talent. You've got to give credit to Mourinho for turning all of these raw players into the players they later became. Drogba was a project, so was Essien, Carvalho, Robben etc. Yeah, our team slightly declined in his last year here but that was more due to the superstar signings our board made e.g. the Shevchenko's, Ballack's. The Shevchenko money could've definitely been used more efficiently. That summer we Mourinho does have his negatives, every manager has, but you're undermining what he did here too much. You act like it's easy for any manager to achieve what he did here which is bewildering. You don't understand why he's so regarded by most Chelsea fans? Surely, winning Chelsea their first league title after 50 years is an achievement? Surely, the way most of his ex players regard him should tell you how much his work and management style impacted on them? I mean, Essien calls him "Daddy" for crying out loud. Lampard, Cech, JT, Ashley regard him very highly. His former players at Inter love him. His former players at Porto still have him deeply in their hearts. He's synonymous with Chelsea's rise to the big stage, Chelsea's becoming of one of the elite clubs in Europe. That's why plenty of Chelsea supporters have an emotional attachment to the man. I'll reiterate; you're undermining what Mourinho's done here and throughout most of his career. The way your post is phrased makes those who read it think that it's easy for any manager to achieve what he has over the years which simply isn't true. Yes, you may argue that Chelsea did what was expected of them due to the investment Roman put in (even though plenty were expecting Arsenal to win the title that season), but it isn't always easy to actually meet expectations, as you can easily see with Man City who arguably the best squad in the league for years, a decent manager etc. They should've won more trophies than they did over the last 5 years no matter which way you put it. Mourinho did exceed expectations in a sense that we absolutely dominated the league when no one expected us to, set a PL points record and went unbeaten at home for his whole time here. That isn't something you "expect". Winning the treble at Inter Milan isn't something anyone "expected" either. Winning the Champions League with Porto wasn't "expected" either. Money does not guarantee you the success that is expected. You're being way too cynical in your assessment in my opinion.