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Matic said the players want to win for the fans and the coach. How many moles do we have left in the squad ?

Ridiculous dive, should have scored, now the game's stil open... Anyway, decent first half, not much movement as I would've predicted with such lineup but we look really solid in the back, pressing when needed and not allowing the opposition negotiating balls inside our box. Excellent performance by Baba, I've been one of those who criticized his defensive contribution but he has been absolutely complete today, Oscar ( as predicted ) is the one protecting his spot when he rushes up. Could've been a lot better had we been a bit more clinical in front of the box or Costa taken his chance, no time to moan, GET IN !

No Eden creativity, but also no Hazard liability Wel will play with way more width as we have two natural full backs, so a better balance, I also expect us to press really hard with a Matic-Ramires-Willian-Oscar midfield. KTBFFH !

Hazard probably benched because Rahman is playing.

Scenes here when people find out that Ivanovic is strating I actually miss him, and I'm serious.

Still you would think that a guy who won 8 league titles and two champions League trophies over 15 years would've seen that coming rather than the theory that says the guy is just "past it".

PSG are absolutely outplaying Real Madrid at the Bernabéu, so I guess they were indeed good last year, not just us...

Did you actually hear what he said about that ? Don't be surprised that you don't get his point if you don't bother to listening and actually understanding it.

Media won't quote this of course, so I'm just putting this here

Spike, I fucking love you for this.

"A lot of underwhelming European campaigns" when the man has reached CL semi-final 5 times and won it once in his last 6 seasons :lol: People will do/say anything to serve their agendas nowadays won't they ?

José Mourinho, the short term manager who built the highly successful 2004-2012 Chelsea He is staying, It doesn't make sense to see him leave, don't be fooled by the media.

Absolutely spot on ! :clap:

Except that Costa didn't do much harm against Liverpool. In fact his hit in the second half is just a response to Skrtel's elbow in the first half ( who everyone clearly saw and which would've been probably blown out of proportions in the media had been it the other way round )

One last time, money isn't the problem. RDM and AVB were sacked ( although the diplomatic reason "mutual agreement" might suggest otherwise, the results were clearly the reason ). Apparently, both had a clause stating that they could be sacked without receiving all the salary left in their contract if results are bad. Now let's try and analyze that, "apparently", no official statement to support that, but seriously, do you people think that that's how it works in elite clubs ? You know what that would mean ? That every top club manager could just stop caring and working hard and cash in way earlier than he would normally, managers would be just way too over protected against clubs, and that's absolutely not how it works ( except if we all assume that all clubs are dumb, and that all managers are honest enough not to exploit that loophole, it's just too naïve to be true ). All managers have a minimum of objectives to reach, and they all have clauses in their contract that protect the club in case of bad results, reports suggest they were activated in our last 2 sackings, RDM and AVB, which would make sense since what had happened with Ancelotti before ( although results weren't that bad in the end of the year, for sure ). Now do you guys believe that the club is dumb enough not to put those kind of clauses in the managers contract ? Even if his name is Mourinho ? Sorry, I just can't get my head around that fact, it looks absolutely dumb and naïve for me, just the typical stories the media would improvize in order to assist their totally random theories ( when I say random, means with no official statement and/or reliable source ). So yeah, José probably has that clause in his contract. But you know what, let's assume he doesn't. Sacking José means him probably not going for a job until summer 2016, at least, let's go even further and assume the guy wants to take a sabatical, so he will find a job in 2017 ( if Moyes still can find a job, of course Mourinho can too ), that gives the club just 1 year and a half of salary left to pay him ( again, under the assumption that José takes a sabbatical, which is pretty unlikely if you ask me, judging by the man's natural challenging spirit, say he wants to stand by his father in these tough times, okay ). His contract expires in 2019, so it would be 30M£ over a little less than 4 years ( assuming the numbers speculated are true ), if we calculate the equivalent over 10 months ( assuming he works next summer ) or a year and half ( taking a sabbatical ), it would cost the club respectively 7M£ or 12-13M£ to sack him. Do you think that's a lot for the club ? I don't think so. Remember, we assumed Chelsea didn't put a performance clause that would protect the club's results AND we assumed that he's willing to take a sabbatical, and concluded Roman and the board would "only" have to pay a maximum of 15M£ to sack him if that's really the right decision. Now if you want my opinion, I think, once again, it's pretty naïve and dumb to believe in these theory which just prove to be absolute nonsense when you take time to analyze it, and if you don't know the media guys, well they aren't dumb, nor naïve, they just don't give a shit since it helps them make their stories, thus "prove" ( let's all laugh at the credibility of this word to the journos ) their stories, and sell more ( in case of digital media, generate more clicks, more buzz around their stories, thus more sponsors, just to make it simple ). I am pretty convinced the club has total faith in José, because we just proved that money isn't the problem, and had the club been waiting for the situation to be highly critical to act, well then José would'be been sacked post-Southampton. That statement was made for the media, and not for José, he said it himself, and I think it's pretty fair to assume that the club communicates in a more formal, internal and private way with their employees, I don't think it was to "reassure him" or "put their trust in him", I think he knew that way before reading the statement ( he said he knew he was staying before going to diner with Roman the night just after the game ). So yeah, to sum it up, I believe the club puts absolute faith in Mourinho and stand by him, because all the evidence and common sense suggest that there is absolutely no obstacles had the club wanted to sack him, and that puts smile on my face, because it's the first time in the Roman era that a manager is allowed second chances, a lot of them, sure, but then again, if José doesn't deserve second chances, who does ?

I love how people say that he "consistently imploded" his teams in their third seasons when he only had two 3rd seasons, one with us, vice champions, FA Cup and Carling cup champions, and one in La Liga, vice champion and Champions League semi-finalist ( one tiny goal short ).

Considering the board's ridiculous inconsistency, that's more like it

Lolz. I've been a fan for over 12 years now, I'm 23 years old, so basically Chelsea is all I ever loved when I started discovering football. I live in Morocco, I have never attended a game at Stamford Bridge, just so you know I don't owe you an explanation, but I prefer this calm and positive answer to keep the good spirits in here, we already have a cloud dark enough looming around the club to start fighting each other. It's just that the picture of the incredible support today is all I want to have in my head for this weekend, these times are incredibly hard for us and I don't think I have ever experienced a feeling this hard on a sustained period of time as a supporter, but my support goes to the board, the players and José who are all fucking up big time. Let's discuss it in good spirit guys, no judging each other's support or whatever. KTBFFH !!

Moaners jubilate Celebrate the victory as much as Liverpool Blue is the color, Keep the blue flag flying high ! José Mourinho one of us ! Players are deceiving, manager is awful, the board has been absolutely inconsistant for over 3 or 4 years now ! Don't care, support them all, sort your shit out ! This weekend is too hard for me, so I think I will be avoiding the forums and everything football related in the next few days. Positive scene of the day : the support at the bridge..

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH. WHO NEEEDS BABA WHEN U HAVE AZPI !!!!

He is getting better, not playing out of form players, keeping his cool in post and pre match conferences. Something must have been said to him after the West Ham game. ONE OF US !

Don't take it to the other side, no one said that But yeah I prefer Mourinho to all managers in activity actually, and there's nothing wrong in that

I won't argue much with you, as your posts have really been OTT in my opinion for the last couple of days, I respect your opinion. But there's just one thing, I'm glad the board aren't reacting like you guys, that means I'm glad you will witness him staying and turning this around. And don't worry, I'm not the kind who says that now just to say "See I said that" then, just making a point, I'll be here around talkchelsea jubilating, just like you, beacuse I know how much quality we got in our staff and players

But...but.... The guy can't coach a football team anymore But... I thought the 50-70 experts here had more knowledge in football than Ancelotti, Ferguson, Carragher, Lampard, Bilic, Hughes and co. But... He's destroying the club, and is solely working for his own personal benefit Because Guardiola of all people actually lives and breathes about Bavaria at the moment The Mourinho moaning was going to happen anyways, he is the kind of personnality that divides people. The main issue is, people who are moaning about him for months now, didn't happen to be right, they just moaned at the exact perfect time : sloppy preparation, disastrous transfer window, weak players mentally. It's not José's fault that Matic can't play two good games in a row, that Cesc can't protect his ball or that Ivanovic can't win a 1v1 for his life anymore, yeah, it's the coach's responsibility to ensure this kind of guys are at their best, but they were a few months ago. It's not his fault that Cesc, Hazard and mostly Costa report back to pre-season overweight, we also don't know how much of a say he has in transfers, so until anyone has an official document stating that José is the ultimate decider when it comes to buying and selling players, it isn't only his fault ( I'd even tend to say the opposite, as the guy kept shouting that he doesn't want Cech to leave to Arsenal and the guy did anyway... ). Too bad, you guys happened to moan at the exact perfect time for your theory to "seem" plausible, with the bad results we are encountering.