Tomo

Its funny how great our ex managers are when they go. With Carlo it's like 10-11 and the stagnant, sterile, borderline comatose footy never happened. Don't get me wrong the double season was amazing, but the lack of blame Carlo gets for 10-11 is hilarious. That still to this day is the only season i was glad ended, infact it stripped a lot of my enthusiasm for the new season, usually im buzzing for the new campaign but that season drained me. Rafa goes, and all off a sudden we played great/good football under him (it's bad enough the scousers have that fantasy, our own fans following suit beggars belief). I wonder if the same people thought the same in 10-11 and when we lost at home to QPR!!!!!!

09-10 yes, but you can't seriously be suggesting what he served up in 10-11 was anything close to good football, surely?. It was static, lethargic and devoid of anything positive, worse than anything we saw under Mou, Benitez, Scolari or AVB.

Furthermore Fergie was at it for years, bullying ref's, Wenger, Rafa, calling Alan Wiley unfit, publicly ousting Stam, Becks, Keane and RVN, his comments about Jordan Henderson's running style, i could go on and on. Yet how many United fans truly cared about his actions? How many United fans wished they had a manager with 'a bit more class'? None of them and if they did they got their wish this season with disastrous consequences. Mou is what he is and that's not perfect, but it grinds my gears when i see Pep, Wenger and even AVB used as these examples of class.

Ibra and Eto'o would disagree, regarding PG.

Funny you mention that, Danny Fizsman put £50 million into arsenal to fund players like bergkamp and propel them to the title,when you consider £50 million was 2 1/2 times arsenals turnover at the time (City and Everton turned over £12 million that year to put the amount into perspective) is it really any different to what sheikh mansour and Abramovich have done?. Wenger was hardly pennypinching in his early days.

Oh yes the old imagine him with money line, the same line that was used on Moyes for years. Simeone is on the verge off making Wenger's money excuse look very, very silly. Oh and about Fergie, he told Wenger to 'shut his mouth' back in the 90's.

Im starting to think some people are copying and pasting from RAWK or the daily star.

He should be told he has no future at Chelsea, give him the chance to find a new club, if he insists on seeing out his contract then he should go the same way as Malouda.

We show a lot more urgency when chasing a win this season, today, WHU and WBA at home we threw the kitchen sink at them. Frustrating as the dropped points are it's good to see the urgency back in our game. Too many times from Scolari's reign all the way to Rafa we were in cruise mode when we needed a win and was drawing or losing. I remember the 0-0 vs Fulham in 10/11 at Craven Cottage, we needed a win to get back in the top 4 and Essien, Rami and Lamps kept passing it between themselves even in the late stages, Luiz kept by passing them and taking it forward himself.

Leti have similar problems vs teams that sit deep, the difference is they are further on in their development so find a way to win 9 times out of 10.

If we want an experienced striker than just extend Eto'o's contract for 1 more year. Drogba was awful in his last 2 season's bar the big games at the end, he's a great man and undoubted club legend so honestly, for people who want him back as a player, are you thinking romantically or in a football sense?

If LVG takes over United, he could possibly face the same problems that he had under Jose. The Dutchman demands a lot from his players too.

Eto'o would have been handy today, the amount of times Ba messed up a simple pass or a knockdown wasn't even funny, even if Eto'o played and was average, he would atleast get the basics right. Costa would make a massive difference to this side. I do like the fact that this season we play with more urgency when chasing games, for years we just use to cruise like we were 5 up.

Here we go......

If Van Gal goes United and does exactly the same thing with Mata Jose did, the backtracking will be even funnier than when Ancelotti decided to stick with Lopez in goal.

So he plays for United against Sunderland, and United had no clue how to break them down, so much for his sale being the only reason we drop points vs shit sides.

Based on what? The CL? Going by that theory Avram an Robbie are the best managers in Chelsea history. You on about overall? because Mou won the league over what many say are one of the best team's of all time. Regarding what you are claiming i said (something i cleared up already) i said Real won't win La Liga any time soon, which i stand by and i said City have a better squad than us but we will make up for that with our manager and challenge them, again, which looking at the table now i would say that was pretty spot on, don't you?

Monaco (who they beat in the final) knocked out Chelsea and Real Madrid. Deportivo, the team they beat in the semi, beat AC Milan 4-0 in the quarter final 2nd leg. Maybe if the big boys didn't fuck up against team's Porto comfortably eliminated he might have had a 'harder' route to the trophy.

The 35m squad is also 2 wins away from winning a league that has Barca and Ancelotti's Madrid in it. Its not as simple as looking at the money side of thing's, especially if the squad has been prudently built like this Leti or Jose's Porto.

We did in the first season, but 10-11 we played some off the worst football i have ever seen, even the 6-0 vs Wigan was poor.

Mesut Özil this week we could see the importance of the Champions League. another three points and no one can challenge our ranking in the top 4. we want to win on sunday at all costs! #‎COYG #‎bpl #‎AFCvWBA ______________ Wengie's even managed to brainwash Ozil

He has to be brought back and made number 1 as far as im concerned. He could end up winning all the trophy's on offer to him in Spain at the age of 21, that's fucking insane.

Whats funny is when it looked for all the world Falcao was coming here, we all wanted a more 'all round' forward like Cavani, Falcao went to France then the Cavani rumours gathered momentum and then all of a sudden we wanted a PL proven forward in Rooney instead. Back 6 months ago when getting Costa was a pipe dream almost every one wanted him, now it looks like it could well happen all of a sudden Manduzic and Bony are better options I wonder what type of comments will find it's way here next season when Torres scores for his new club in a weekend Costa doesn't.

Half my post got deleted here god knows what happened.

We didn't play better football last season, that is a myth mainly created by Rafa lovers and there agendas. Robbie tried to change the style we played and the end result was a catastrophic nose dive that saw us win twice in 9 games prior to his sacking (a run that was extended to 2 in 12 after Benny's horror start) and one off them was against United's B team/youth after extra time.