Tomo

Looking with (extreme) hindsight you have to wonder if Jose leaving the first time was even a mistake. We defended a lot better but the attack was everybit as disjointed and clueless as the one he left in 2015, we all assumed he would have turned it around because well he's Mourinho, but looking how he's dealt with crisis periods since, could things have actually got worse?

I couldn't care how outspoken he was if he was good enough, but i'm not convinced he is.

No chance, with all due respect to Cech, imagine him playing sarriball?

If i go down the route of thinking with my heart over my head i would love this for a bit, Costa Rica is my second country (in spirit not blood) so it will almost be for me like it was for Bosnian fans when Begovic turned up for example. Thinking with my head however, i'm not too sure, he seemed to have declined big time last season and there must be a keeper somewhere we can scout the same way we did for Courtois back in 2011 (he was probably good enough to come in for us immediately, but we had Cech).

I would say we went through a mini period of that with Cech in the late 00's, those Liverpool and Bolton games under Hiddink I can't see us suffering with a bad keeper for as long as those examples if worse comes to worse and we sign our own Bravo this summer, we may have a problem with complacency while on top but we have always been quick to fix any messes we get ourselves into (Torres aside).

I thought his best season was 13/14, it was around December 2014 i felt his old habits were starting to creep back in.

I was initially pissed when i heard this but after stalking the dcfcfansuk forum early signs are that Lampard is seriously building something up there.

Apparently he turned down a 2 year loan to Bremen.

Define sour? if he has us fighting relegation or gets repeatedly outsmarted by mediocre managers then ok, however if I believe he was getting close to the best out of what he has then ill be fine.

Spanish is alright to start with, I found the basic words and sentences pretty easy, it's when the adjectives and nouns come into play it becomes a total mind fuck.

The vibe im getting with Sarri is he REALLY wants this job and this is the pinnacle and reward of all the hard work he's put in during his life, all the pictures released he's grinning like a Cheshire cat.I also feel this could be a fruitful partnership as we have something the other wants, we want the football he offers and he wants trophy's, we have a winning mentality running through the club that gives him a high chance.

Kante on a Saturday.

Yes, but that won't happen.

Conte and Jose's downfalls had nothing to do with player power.As for AVB, i can't speak for you but im glad the players won that battle.

Bernardo Silva is his namesakes long term replacement.

Pep's known for constant tweaks, if he can drop Henry, Eto'o and Villa after great season's he can sure do it to Sterling.

By all accounts Pep's trying to find Fernandinho's successor, not back up. As for Mahrez he will take Sterling's place.

Terry was part of the 15/16 squad lets not forget, while i don't doubt his influence on the club i think we are overestimating the influence his departure had somewhat.

It was 10 years ago under totally different circumstances.

I can understand the caution to a point but when have rumours regarding us gone this far and not happened? Only time i can remember is Robinho.

It's quite surreal. If this happened at any point upto January i would have been everybit as gutted as when Mou left the first time, now im relieved.

Willian has in the space of a few years gone from being the most underrated player in our squad to the most overrated. At the start people focused too much on what he couldn't go while playing down what he could do, now it's gone well, well too far the other way, it will only get worse if he goes United as the grass is greener shite will kick in to go with it!!!

How do you know it was only 5 days of negotiation? have you got inside information with Juve?

Not even sure he's even suited to Mourinho, his positional sense is woeful and most of these amazing slide tackles he does are putting out fires he started, Jose may not mind his lack of ball playing ability but he'd certainly have issue's with that. His only regular PL action has been during our worst period in the modern era and with a relegated team who held the worst defensive record, i know that isn't totally his fault but imagine the uproar if we got linked with buying a player of similar profile? He's has good character and was signed as a youth project, both of those things have gone a long way to help save him from criticism, in my opinion.