Madmax

Martin Lipton is a class A wanker. He is one of the most anti-Chelsea hacks you're likely to come across and makes the Mirror the bog roll that it is. I'm surprised we gave the twat the honour of appearing on Chelsea TV.

Stop this Mourinho thing. He won't leave Madrid till he wins everything there is to win with them. And snap out of the past ffs. Mourinho is history. We are like those broken lovers who can;t accept the fact that the other person has moved on. Disgraceful.

UFFP aren't a great concern in respect of transfer prices themselves, as player costs are amortized over the player's contract length. What it does affect though is the wage packets, not more than 70% of our revenue should be exceeded by player wages and currently I think we are in the mid 80s range (before Luiz and Torres). So I expect a couple of big earners like Drogba and Anelka to leave while bringing in young rising stars who might command a relatively high transfer fee but will be easy on the part that pinches- wages.

Gigi What more could you ask for in a girl?

My my ... the single most perfect player out there to solve our wing and creativity problems. Sounds too good to be true.

Exactly. It's time to bury the past. We're sounding like Liverpool ffs.

^ That says it all. I follow Dortmund and this guy is fucking mint. I'd take him in a heartbeat, even more so at that price. Please let this be true!

Nobody. I have no interest in this dodgy league till next year, when the mighty Blues gear up for one more shot at it.

C'mon do you really think Roman would allow such open negative press for his buddy Grant? The man got appointed due to his connections with Roman, and his basic job was to be the board's eyes and ears in the dressing room. It's the biggest reason Mourinho walked. Sporting director roles are nothing but trouble, no manager can work securely without constantly looking over his shoulder if there's one of them at the club.

We've been over all that though haven't we mate ... time and time again. I feel like everyone is going around in circles saying the same stuff we've been saying most of the season. IMO all the things that have gone wrong can be attributed to a multitude of factors and to lay the blame squarely upon Carlo, like some have, is doing him great injustice. I'd give him one last season to right the wrongs i.e. stop being a yes-man, break up player power, get his own staff (playing and non-playing) in. We need big changes for sure but getting rid of him this early isn't good.

Absolutely, but just pointing out how he did manipulate the referees to his advantage.

:goodpost: Thank you.

Grant knows absolute sweet fuck all about football. He could hardly believe his luck when Mourinho's team took him to within an inch of being a Champions League winning manager. IMO we shouldn't even have a Sporting Director role. Those important sounding posts are nothing but a means to undermine the manager, eg. Grant-Mourinho. Give the manager full authority without any interferences and then we can properly judge his performance.

The refereeing swayed in united's favour the moment the gum chewing scot started his 'we don't get decisions at the bridge' bollocks before the first leg. Blatant penalty on ramires and red card for evra ignored, dickarito diving for the freekick that ultimately led to their first goal last night, ramires sent off without even touching nani ... hate to say it, but the drunk scot is a master media manipulator.

Agreed 100%

You answered it yourself. Because they're movies.

Same. Do 30 year olds really need to be told *eyebrow* 'Hey get your peckers up for this one, big game, important moment *eyebrow*

Surely people have to appreciate his job was made that much difficult with the (non) availability of options in the small squad? People say you need wingers but who's he going to put on when we don't have wingers? Bench Lampard, but play who exactly? Josh the 17 year old? Against weak opposition -yes it's possible; but against the big boys? Throw the boy in at the deep end and hope for the best? Don't kid me. It's easy to say that in hindsight when emotions are high but find me someone who'd rather wake up on the day of a big game and be happy to see Josh there instead of Lampard. You'd blame him for precisely that decision if we'd go on to lose. Truth is he's been in a damned if he does, damned if he doesn't position all season long. There's no fucking way Sturridge, Bruma and Kakuta should've been loaned out though. The genesis for this season's woes was laid in not replacing the summer exodus - FACT.

I said the same thing about Lamps-Essien and I was equally at loss to understand the continued selection of both side by side. Maybe he was hoping his big name players would rise to the occasion.Failed though, didn't it?

I was on topic all the time. But I'm not having a debate with you, for reasons aforementioned. My final view on the matter - of course he makes big mistakes, they're well documented. But he deserves respect for his achievements and the chance to redeem himself next year, a chance to continue on a strategy for the club. He's been undermined by player power and owner interference, though he's at fault for (seemingly) taking it lying down. I'd give him one more year.

Fuck this. You don't read posts, or purposely ignore the aspect of understanding their context. Carry on your usual ramblings.

Not gonna happen. Squad role - yes, sell him - no. Not next season anyway.

Don't shush me. I was referring to a point Styles made. Ascertain the context of my post before replying to it. If the league was so weak, why didn't anyone else win it? And how difficult is it to win the Portuguese league? There's no point trying to have a debate with you because you prefer to credit all the success to the players and all the failures to Carlo.

Nobody is scared. If you'd read through the posts on the earlier page and some of the other posts elsewhere, you'd seen several people advocating a truncated role for him from next season onwards.

And I doubt AVB would have led Chelsea to their first ever domestic double in his first season at the club.