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Agreed, Oscar albeit did have an enormous weight on his shoulders to be fair. With Mourinho basically saying 'you're my guy' over that player who won twice 'player of the season' with us. The demands of being Mourinho's no10 are quite different to what you see of how Arsenal expect Ozil to play, Manchester City with Silva, etc.

Lol come on man, liven up..

Lol mate, it's just as absurd to say Simeone won't leave Atletico than it is to say he will.. Eventually he will grow tiresome of the tedious battle against the spending power of Madrid and Barca

Oscar has still been unable to do what Mata did in a Chelsea shirt. Whatever way you judge their careers now, to understate Mata's contributions would be criminal.

It would be rude not to.

Shock horror right, how dare we!

Looool ouch! :D

Aye count me in, I'm with your belief on City winning.

That's basically it in a nutshell. I corrected Henrique earlier to say having a fickle nature, albeit even if its a few times, is just a by-product of football. It's part of the process of being a fan to be fickle on certain issues and Oscar seems to be one of those right now. This thread is just prime example, going back to when he was signed and the promise he showed. To then becoming an Oscar v Mata debate, that dragged on far longer than it had to! To then becoming forgotten, I mean we literally forgot about him during our struggles. No-one looked to Oscar as the man who would save our season. Let's see how we get through until the end of January. New manager syndrome is effective, ask Klopp, but lets see if its sustainable.

On this forum, certainly true. Outside of it, barely heard a mention.. And I spend a lot of time talking to football nerds. Not trying to discredit him, but it's interesting to see the levels of his popularity around here. What about him stands out? We're getting Santa?!

Why always Swansea . From Eden kicking the ball-boy in 2013 to Eva in 2015

While that's a nice picture, it's a fallacy. He'll get bored or something, but as a manager curiosity will get the better of him and he will manage elsewhere. Money talks, if Chelsea have the intention and the blank cheque to match the Simeone will be leaving Atletico Madrid. Whether he should or not, is another issue. I agree with you that we should go for a more open/positive manager, but Simeone would do wonder for organisation and defence.

This Emery fellow is flavour of the month all of a sudden huh?

Mark of respect to José perhaps, these aren't ideal times to be boasting a change of manager. I'm sure Hiddink also would rather get on with it rather than dealing with the media, who I'm sure will relish the fact they'll have a straight talking manager this time

I'll take that, but technically I'm from Harrow so if we ever draw Barnet

Let's not get carried away. We know Oscar has such games in him, his problem is consistency (or there lack of). Until he does that in consecutive games, I refrain from jumping back on the wagon. Made that mistake when he was cost Mata his role.

The club I support vs My local town.. A win-win or lose-lose?

Let's not forget Drogba had his own spell of bad form, early in career. I think we were all slightly guilty then of jumping the gun on the Ivorian, so he'll be a good influence on Costa. Let's be honest, the Spaniard isn't messing with that man. He'll be good for morale overall too, we know Drogs is banter. He should've been here to help Mourinho, but alas that's moot now.

*fickle is what you mean tbh. That's not exclusive to Chelsea fans either, it's just a natural by-product of the modern game.

"and then they said, here's a new contract!"

I don't think so. The fact Mourinho's name was heard throughout SB, throughout a 3-0 drubbing, shows how high in regard he's still left. When he came back with Inter, the reception was impeccable. We're respectful and whatever mind games or psychological warfare Mourinho must use when he's employed again, he'll always have deep respect for Chelsea fans alike.

Yeah I mean I'm not even going to try and argue he'll be long-term there, even I can't sell that one to myself But I think we agree that United team isn't far from being where it needs to be. Mourinho will do that over his time and they'll get some success in silverware. Pep will do great things with City, but it won't be quite as easy ride as he's had with Bayern

I wanna get high witchu and talk about shit like this.

Not all heroes wear capes. My g.

Yo anyone got highlights?