calculatingInfinity

Pants are around my ankles.

Yeah that doesn't make much sense. Well I guess if he recorded some video just saying he's back when he was in London that could be it, but surely he's not going to do much more than that a day before the last match in la liga.

Nope. Anyone calling his contract running up him being fired are silly.

Well he just got fired from his club this year so there is the possibility of him returning, but he did leave Mourinho after Chelsea to become a manager himself.

Feel like it's a bit of a different situation though, as you said yourself RDM was fired and was then even snubbed by Birmingham. Zola on the other hand is a pretty damn hot name right now. But yeah, much stranger things have happened and it would be silly to say it 100% wouldn't, I have followed football enough to know not to say that.

Would Zola really want to be an assistant for Chelsea? He was so close to getting Watford promoted and surely there must be some other premier league clubs calling for him as a manager.

It's no different than Bartons ban carrying over to France.

Essien is still only 30 and while I'm not saying it will certainly happen, I could see him have a bit of a second youth again under Mourinho.

A very fine passer of the ball, not so sure about crosses, I mean it's not exactly like he often finds himself on the wing, he's certainly not a Ramires kind of midfielder that can also be used on the wing.

It's Zemanlandia! He got fired in February for a reason haha, but it makes for highly entertaining games. But yeah, Rossi played under that for most of the season and then a few months and then played under their assistant manager for the rest of it, I really would not judge anyone from Roma too much on this season especially players that has showed their class as consistently as Rossi before.

It's a reasonable price and his drop in form has not been close to as big as people on here makes it sound like, not being able to adjust to Zemans kamikaze tactics isn't really an indicator that he wouldn't be a very good solution for Chelseas midfield problems. Think we got a few players who would be hilariously bad trying to play like this too.

Unlike the Benitez story, they say in the Mourinho article that it's "according to Yahoo sports", basically saying that it's not their own story but just re telling shit sites rumor.

The assistant manager should just be good at his job and work well with Mourinho, if it's someone who played for Chelsea before that would be nice yeah, but if anyone can do a better job then not hiring him would be silly. I have my doubts about Materazzi of all people though lol, Lampard as assistant manager though? Not before he retires... Think you are seriously underestimating how much time assistant managers also spends working, should be 100% focused on playing instead.

Same way as Joey Barton was still suspended in the french league after he got banned with that whole Aguero incident I guess?

Awesome to see Andreas Christensen on the bench toiday.

I don't think it's fair to bring in his time with Benfica, he left because their club president lost an election and the new one wanted another manager, the new president even later admitted that he was in the wrong... But yes, he is a very strong personality and Chelsea needs to be able to handle that.

Of course that's why.

Problem being that Mourinho also has to agree to that.

So awesome

and yet again his shocking defending costs a goal. If it was Luiz on this form we wouldn't hear the end of it from the English media.

Cahill needs to stop being so fucking passive, he ends up backing all the way down into his box without applying any pressure to the player making a run towards him, he always does this.

I highly doubt he's making that much. Obviously it was a big opportunity for him and he messed up, it's not like he fucked up for the fun of it.