Henrique

PL does no sign, but if the clubs can't sign the best players they are not playing in the league, you got what I mean, pointless argument. About being the best, that an opinion, you can't measure which league is the best, for me PL is also the best, but definitely not the strongest. About the greatest concentration of quality players, just check the top 30 players in the world at this moment and you will find few of them playing in PL.

Thats an opinion. In terms of entertainment value, nothing comes close to Brazilian league when title was decided in knockout stages...entertainment value is different from the strongest. 1- This is not about Breitner vs Mourinho. Mourinho is a very good coach but he say a lot of nonsensical stuff, so if you are comparing Breitner to Rodman, you really don't what you are talking about. You are one of those guys if Mourinho comes up saying Hazard is better than Messi you would agree, because he is Mourinho. 2-Mourinho wasn't talking about the competitiveness, he was saying PL still is the strongest because he believes its the more competitive. 3- Villa, WBA, West Ham, years ago those teams would lose 90% of the matches against the likes of Chelsea and United. I don't know you were watching PL in 2005, but before the match we knew Chelsea would beat Everton, Villa, City...some people are saying those teams are getting stronger, while that might be true in some aspect, no one can deny the big boys are not as strong as they used to be, you just need to see how those teams are doing in Europe in last 5 years, its not a coincidence that the rest of PL started to look stronger in that period... 4- Well, in PL we have 4 teams fighting for the trophy before the season starts, it means they fight for the trophy in theory. This season would be again a 2 horse race. Perhaps Arsenal will "fight" for the trophy untill january, but again, last season was an anomaly, and we had 3, all the previous seasons the title was decided between two team,. Lets compare PL since 2004 with other leagues you mentioned: 04-14: PL had 4 differente winners: Arsenal, Chelsea, City and United. 04-14: La Liga had 4 different winners: Barcelona, Atletico, Real and Valencia. 04-14: Bundesliga had 5 different winners: Bayern, Borussia, Wolfsburg, Hamburg and Weder Bremen. Yes, I'm using the english clubs record in Europe because its the best way to compare the strongest teams in Europe. PL does not have the strongest teams anymore, don't even have the best players anymore, in last 5 years, the PL clubs are spending big money for the likes of Lallana, Paulinho, Fellaini...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/article-2698182/Jose-Mourinho-believes-Premier-League-strongest-world-football.html Mourinho is wrong about this one. I watched a Paul Braitner interview, where he said that PL, just like brazilian football, stop its development. He believes PL was the best league until 2009, but the teams stopped looking elsewhere. PL is not the strongest in the world anymore, it still is my favorite league, but not the strongest. We just need to look at english clubs record in Europe in past seasons. Since 2009, when United were favorites, but lost to Barcelona, we only had english teams involved in 2 finals out of 5, in both finals those teams were underdogs: United got smashed by Barcelona in 2011, and Chelsea win in 2012 was a result of the heroic efforts from the players, and not a result of dominant football. We just need to compare english top teams from past season with those ones from 2005 and 2009. Liverpool had some miserable seasons, and is only returning to UCL this season, but right now without their big star, we can't see them emulating Benitez team success. United is in decline since they let Ronaldo leave. They got weaker season after season. Even in 2013, their last successful season, their european campaign was embarrassing. City won 2 of the last 3 domestic league, but in Europe they are non-existent. Chelsea never managed to be as strongest as in the old days, 2 season ago the team was ou in the group stage. PL can't attract the best players anymore, since 2009 PL lost the likes of Modric, Fabregas, Ronaldo, Tevez, Suarez, Bale. Fabregas is back, but he is back because his return to Barcelona never went according to the plan. Cavani, Falcao, Kroos, James Rodriguez, Guardiola, all those guys decided to go to another league (even Mourinho returned because his life in Spain was not exactly what he expected). Well, do we have more competition in PL? Last season was an anomaly, PL usually is a two horse race, its Chelsea/United, Liverpool/Manchester, City/United, and in some season we know who is going to win in the half of it, like Manchester in 12/13, or Chelsea in 05/06, and even if that was the case, its the same argument some crazy people use to say brazilian league is the best in the world: in the start of the season we have up to 6 teams fighting for the trophy, while is Spain its always Real vs Barcelona...

Huge deal. I thought Mourinho made a mistake letting him going on loan last season, but at the end of the day he is not even better than Origi...

An an honorary mention goes to the following, who very nearly made it onto the shortlist: The only place to belol

lol Who is Ainsley Harriott? He gets my vote.

Mohammed.

Luiz is the brazilian Higuita, if you know what I mean.

Poldi is one of his nicknames, and you will check Oezil is not wrong.

Sanchez is worth every penny. He is really an underrated player, but without the marketing associated with the likes of Neymar.

For people who gets impressed about having WC winners in their squads, Arsenal is looking world beaters next season: Meter, Oezil, Poldi and Kedhira. 4 germans!!!

So, Shurle is the second Chelsea player in history to win the tournament, I guess.

Is Xurli the first Chelsea player to ever win a WC?

People taking about Pogba, we will probably end up with a 19 years old guy that will go on loan for 4 seasons in a row...

To be honest I hate this kind of topic every pre-season. Probably the starting line-up in the beginning of the season will be way different from what we will see at the end of it. I bet in the winter market Mourinho will buy another buy to fix a weak point in the squad...

Those rumors are bullshit.

He was at fault in the first goal, when he let Muller free to score. He was at fault in the 4th and 5th goal he wasn't even inside the box, only Dante was there. He was at fault in Schurle last goal, when he was running in the midfield, someone else lost the ball, and then there was no CB at all inside the box to cover the GK. During most part of the game he was playing like a maniac midfield. Also, he was the captain, and he failed to keep the team under control. Scolari is the responsible for what happened last night, but Luiz was a disaster.

"Name" + "Sweden Flag" + "advocating for Luiz" + "using strong words"...are you sure he "joined" today?

Want to wait until the beginning of the season before this kind of reaction. The team is full of WC flops, so I understand people are dismissing those players. Its the same reason why people are saying everywhere that Schurle deserves more playing time next season, even if in his first season he was average at best in most of his playing time, despite his decent goal record. To be honest its crazy to create a crisis even before the season started...

LMAO Ten reason why Mourinho should be next Brazil NT coach: http://globoesporte.globo.com/blogs/especial-blog/pombo-sem-asa/post/dez-motivos-para-jose-mourinho-ser-o-novo-tecnico-da-selecao-brasileira.html

That will be really shocking, but if that happen I don't think Mourinho will change his system, Ramires would play as second DM alongside Matic, and Fabregas would be playing in a more attacking position, in the middle, while Hazard and the other guys will be playing on the wings. and even Ramires can play as a winger (lol).

He said in the beginning of last season he wanted to implement this system. Since his Inter de Milan success, his new system is 4-2-3-1. He used this system with Real as well and with Chelsea lasts season. Basically it means in the last 6 or 5 years the 4-2-3-1 is Mourinho system. There is nothing to suggest at this point he want to go back to the 4-3-3. http://www.sportskeeda.com/general-sports/the-evolution-of-jose-mourinho/ I think its easier to see Mourinho adopting a two striker formation at some point: like Higuiain and Benzema in some Real games, than adopting the 4-3-3.

I really don't understand the purpose of this topic. Mourinho favor the 4-2-3-1 system. Matic will play alongside Fabregas, then Hazard, William, Oscar, Schurle, Salah will share the 3 spots behind the lone striker. Van Ginkel is also returning from injury. There won't e any other CM signing, unless its a player for the future or a squad player.

Huge mistake to let him leave, but he is not a player to sit on the bench in favor of any other GK in the world, but Cech still is the best GK for Chelsea.

Luiz is a very good defender. I don't like conspiracy theories, but in the beginning of the last season Mourinho said Luiz and Terry were his first choice CBs. I remember those kind of thing: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2466358/Jose-Mourinho-Gary-Cahills-John-Terry-David-Luiz-Chelsea.html Mourinho had to answer questions about how Cahill lack of first team football would an issue for England NT. I remember after Luiz mistake in the match against Everton. In some tv show the guys were discussing Luiz lack of defensive discipline for about 10 minutes, he was basically pictured as the man who let the team down and lost the match for Chelsea. Then, there was that infamous Newcastle game: Just watch those two goals and see if they are Luis fault. After that match this topic was flooded by Luiz bashing, and the press was full of "Mourinho is making a mistake choosing Mourinho in favor of Cahill". As Cahill became a starting XI for England NT, british press tried everything to show everyone he was a world class defender, and the natural choice to be Chelsea starting XI: just imagine England going to WC with a CB that is a squad player for his club. The irony it that In the WC, England left the tournament after silly and amateurish mistakes from Cahill and Jagielka in the first two matches, while Luiz is easily one of the best player of the tournament. The difference in size between Luiz and those CB's is immense.