Henrique

Besides his hair, the reason I love David Luiz is the way he get involved in big matches. Watched again the UCL final, and David Luiz had a special connection with the crowd. Here he is facing the german crowd after he scored his goal: Celebrating Robben miss with Chelsea fans: And he was the only player to turn to Chelsea crowd to celebrate when Cech saved the penalties:

Watching the UCL again its interesting to see the difference between Neuer and Cech. The german was trying to intimidate Chelseas players before the penalty, he was jumping and touching the post, like he was saying: look how huge I am, thats why I think both Luiz and Lampard faced the german crowd, in fact they were facing Neuer and his arrogant attitude. It was funny that Lampard scored his penalty in the same place where Neuer was touching the post to show he was huge. Cech to other side was only concerned in get the right direction, he was focused, thats why he saved 2, and went in right direction in other 3. I never see a gk doing such a thing in 5 penalties.

Im not downplaying him, but I would not go that far and say: he won us this and that. In fact the tactics in final against Bayern were really poor, he played a part in everything, but for me it was more about players than RDM.

I watched the UCL final agains last night, and now we can pay attention for some details and have a different perspective, Lampard played that match as a really nice leader and captain, and if this is his last season, we should at least win one trophy, because he should end his Chelsea career as a captain in a trophy match.

He improved a lot since the start of the season, now its safe to say he was worth the money, and now he is even scoring some match winners and decisive goals, like the one against MU.

1- you should download those matches agains, because being outplayed by Shaktar in 2 UCL matches is far from heading into right direction. In fact it was a team with good players trying to play some good football. No tactics at all. 2- RDM had time enough to implement his ideas, at least he got much more time than Benitez. 3- Robbie didnt won us two titles, in same way Avran Grant did not made Chelsea reach the UCL final back in 08. 4- Im not sure the squad last season was less talented in terms of competitiveness, the current squad have more potential, specially with Hazard and Oscar, but last season we had Drogba, a match winner in a way that Hazard is not even close yet to be, now we have Marin and Moses but I'm not sure if thats an upgrade to Kalou and Malouda, last season Ivanovic was playing as a RB, and in that position for me he is a better player than Azi. Your post ended with you asserting that we now playing with long balls, you should watch more games and understand more about tactics.

Tbf, the team looks more solid when Mikel is around, so I dont know why the only place to be believe he is the one to blame for every poor peformance.

This post is hidden because you have chosen to ignore posts by Spike Spiegel. View it anyway? No, thanks. lol The journal made they look like characters of a horror movie.

anyone know why this one was banned?

So just shut up and stop quoting my posts if you cant even share some jokes. In fact you are easily one of the most boring forum members around, 88 % of your posts are spams, if I remember by the time you joined, other people who loved to spam also got here, to be honest I dont know what you think about any kind of subject, because you are usually doing generic posts. Well, you opened your heart, so I decided to do the same, and it wont be a surprise if you quote this post with one of your boring posts, but it wont be a problem, i'm putting you in my "ignore" list. Peace.

These are clueless, then, and your avatar is really weird.

Mourinho is a funny man, Casillas is on the bench because he believe the GK is not good enough, and he chooses the spaniard over Cech. Sarcastic or what?

Tbf, Benitez is doing a really decent job, the football under RDM was easily the worst the Chelsea displayed in an UCL edition. Shaktar outplayed Chelsea in both matches, and Juventus looked like the strongest team in the world in Turins match. Benitez is not the best manager for a long term job, but its nice that are discussing about real managers who can make the job, like Mourinho. When people talked about RDM, it was all about he being a legend, and a very nice guy.

only a man who has erotic dreams about other men would see my last post as very, very, homoerotic.

Only a man who have erotic dreams about other men would see this campaign as very, very, very homoerotic.

Yes, in this case it really is, because its pretty strange that after all those years this is the first time he is not involved at all. Even Ba is there.

Everything is really cool, but I dont understand the "buy the kit without seeing it" thing.

this is the first time in many years that Lampard is not in the promotional stuff for a new kit...

Hope you are right, because thats really bad. But perhaps that design was based in the real deal.

This is the kit: http://todosobrecamisetas.blogspot.com.br/2013/04/chelsea-adidas-home-kit-20132014-leaked.html?m=1

And whats up with the constant comparison between Chelsea and Manchester? Everytime we fire a manager, someone will say "SAF had x season with no trophy, now look how many things he won after that". You have many ways to make a club succesful, but it seems some people believe the so called stability is the only way forward. In fact who is the manager is not the most important thing, but whats behind. People fail to undertand that Alex Fergunson longevity is not the reason why Manchester is the club they are right now, same way Guardiola is not the reason behind Barcelona success. Managers play an important role, but there is no manager in the world that will save a club, like some people are suggesting. Mourinho wont change the way the owner and the board rule the club, he will be a part in a complex structure. Look at Bayern, they used to fire a lot of managers in the past, Louis Van Gaal won Bundesliga and led the team to the first European final in 8 years, next season he was fired due to poor results, they just found someone else to play that role, and 2 years after, the team was in that final again. Now they decided that someone better should suit that role, thats why they went after Guardiola, but Bayern dont need Guardiola to be a succesful club at all. Mourinho won a UCL with Inter, but as soon as he left they never got those results again. Mourinho is leaving Real Madrid, but the club is pretty much the same, still wasting a lot of money for the results they are getting. The problem with the stability, is that it makes people believe everything is just fine, thy think that someday a bad manager will turn into a winner because Alex Fergunson did the same years ago. The problem with Arsenal is not Wenger. The club just lost the desire to win big things. You know, they just spent a lot of money in a new stadium, no money for big players. It could be Mourinho at Arsenal, but with their politics they still would be a club fighting for a top 4 finish, and happy with a proud death in UCL. Since Mourinho left, Chelsea won a UCL, a PL scoring more than 100 goals, and the record in other UCL and PL editions are pretty good for a club that never dreamed about it all 10 years ago. Chelsea are with Adidas, Samsumg for so many years now, they got new deals with Gazpron,Sauber F1 and Delta Airlines, people in the board are pretty much the same...this is what really matters, this is stability, but this kind of thing dont sell newspapers or make people check Daily Mail website, but for me this is the definitions of a club with stability.

You are a clown, AVB sacking led to the greatest league tittle.

Well, I have read in past days crazy things like this: "only Mourinho can save Chelsea". Chelsea doesnt need to be saved, and Chelsea doesnt need stability. The success of Abramovich days was built around chaos. I think its exciting to discuss about a new manager every few seasons. It must be pretty boring to have the same manager for 25 years. The magical moments of last season were only possible in a mad house, like Chelsea. Now Mourinho returning is a real possibility, but its only possible because RDM was sacked. Imagine RDM getting the 2 years he had in his contract, Manchester or Paris would be Mourinhos' home for next years. Arsenal had Wenger for the past 7 years, 7 trophyless years...this season we have Benitez, perhaps we will end up with at least one trophy and with a place in next UCL and with a world class manager. Not that bad, after all. Perhaps Mourinho will be the manager by the beginning of the 13/14 season, but it must be a short term deal (no more than 4 years). Then it will be time for another manager. Change and chaos are the way forward.

Some people got angry when someone said he was new Kalou. Kalou is the one who should be angry.