Tomo

Im not saying he isn't happy now because he clearly is, but there must be a little part off him wondering what if he waited for Mourinho. No way would Mou have played Torres over him, absolutely no way.

Remember at the start off the season there were post's about how Mou would favour all his old boys? Well so far he sold Essien after barely playing him, dropped Cole and put a makeshift RB in his place and since Matic has signed Lamps has seen his fair share off benchtime also. He might even swap Cech for Courtois in the summer. Next season it's quite possible that JT will be the only player from the first coming playing regularly. Mourinho doesn't do sentiments, Carvalho found that out at Real, Essien and Cole have this season and Cech could be next.

Is that why he is playing well tho? His 2 best displays this season (Stoke and so far tonight) have came when he hadn't previously played for weeks.

Just watched the football league show for the first time in a while and deary me the standard off football in league two is so bad, i almost forgot how much, don't know whether to laugh or cry. 95% off goals i have seen in that division ever have come from defensive cock up's, you would expect the 4th tier off English football to have some quality players that look capable off potentially going up the pyramid. The bottom half off league one isn't much better either.

We have 10 games left and Jose on average wins 7 times out off 10 so if he follows his average in the remaining games then Liverpool will have to win 8 games and draw 1 to catch us and unless they have a thumping result to catch our GD Arsenal will need to win 9 out of 10 , if we win 7 that is, which we should do if we don't get complacent. City's a different ball game, were deal with them later.

I remember in 04 05 we got to the latter stages off the CL but still kept on winning in the league then in 05 06 we went out in the round of 16 and after that had a bit off a wobble that let United creep up on us. Add the factors that City have 3 extra league games that will almost certainly have to be played in midweek will mean those games are their CL Q/F substitute and our ability to play dogshit yet still win, i don't think that we will be as handicapped as people fear, if we get past Gala that is.

I still don't think he's world class, madly improved tho, for all the changes Jose has made i didn't see this one coming.

Its refreshing to have Jose tell things how it is, rather than Rafa and Carlo trying to pass off crap displays as good one's.

haha talk about speaking to soon.

I couldn't give a shit how we play if we get the 3 points. Last minute winner of Azpilicueta's backside when he's not looking, i don't care.

Under Jol in his first season, they finished 8th level on points with Liverpool and only a few behind Everton. Which in that season we got two 1 1s against them. Last season we drew 0 0 at home when they were still pretty decent but from Jan onwards there form totally nosedived because off players stagnating and since then we have had 2 comfortable wins without playing that great ourselves. Dont get me wrong there is like always a chance off dropping points, but new manager or not, this won't be as hard as facing them back in 2011 and 2012 was, we are better and they are worse.

They were a decent side up until the middle off last season when alot off their players stagnated and hit father time. This isn't the same Fulham team that constantly caused us shit a few years back, this is probably the best fixture away we could have hoped for after an CL game, and that's without factoring in we have literally no travelling to do for this one.

The game at Stamford Bridge vs Fulham was our worst PL performance off the season yet we still won 2 0 and never looked troubled apart from one moment when Cahill played Bent onside. This Fulham team are awful, the only way we will drop points is through utter complacency.

Every time i watch Spurs he is lazy as fuck and nearly every single Spurs fan i know backs that up. He wouldn't last 10 minutes under Mourinho.

Spurs are always there to go one worse than us. We sign a terrible striker from Spain, but Levy wades in and gets an even worse one.

This probably belongs in unpopular views but i said the same thing about Jose in 2010 vs Inter so the same applies to DD aswell. The romantic reunion in my eyes can wait, ill applaud when he warms up but during the 180 minutes he is the enemy and all ill be thinking about is Chelsea winning, if Drogs scores at any point i will not be amused in the slightest. During the matches i will be cheering on Eto'o not Drogba. Like with Jose i would rather wait until Drogba is back at the club (he will get either a coach or ambassador role when he retires) to truly give him the reception he deserves, not while he is working with Mancini to plot our downfall.

Ba is a momentum player, he will deliver a decent return if given a run off games and responsibility, he has never got that here. Lukaku barely played for us, Sturridge had a decent record for us actually. Torres was on the wane under Woy before he even got here and Eto'o's not scoring like he use to for the same reason Drogba didn't post double.

Miss the 09-10 Ivanovic.

He took a pay cut to leave his boyhood club and had a little wobble after CL win, if Jose tells him this summer that he's 4th choice and will only get a look in if 2 are injured i will be amazed if he doesn't at the very least consider his options.

This fantasy that "Torres always gives 100%" has me in tears off laughter, Torres makes the Malouda post double season look like a work horse. For all the cringeworthy excuses made for him this one tops the lot.

For all his faults, he isn't the mercanary type, if Mou tells him that he will rarely play and he has fallen further down the pecking order we might get lucky.

I feel with Eto'o he atleast gets the basics right, if nothing else. When he has the ball i feel happy enough to say were still have it in 5 seconds time , with Torres and Ba im mentally preparing for the loss off possession. But like you said neither are good enough to start for us and that will be adressed in the summer.

Apart from heading, what has Torres got over Eto'o? im genuinely curious.

Im not convinced the not playing in Europe thing is that big an advantage, if it even is at-all. I remember Pep saying once that he hated no midweek games because the players sometimes wind down a bit to much, whereas a game every 3-4 days and you are constantly in your element. Regarding Carlo's first season im not sure how much affect United playing in Munich had on our game at OT, the second half United swarmed all over us so they couldn't have been that tired iin first half, maybe we got our tactics spot on.

Score the winner at Anfield that wins us the league (last minute in the Kop) leave in the summer fetching us 15m we can put towards Cavani, then i might forgive everything you put us through.