Tomo

In Chelsea he didn't have the chance to play any, as none were good enough. Huth was played a fair bit considering the other three centre half's we had were the best in the league, if not the world. He gave Micheal Woods a few appearances, was slowly intergrating Scott Sinclair before his sacking and lets not forget the brought Mikel in as a teenager too. In Inter lets not forget Davide Santon. If their is a young player genuinely world class, Mourinho would not ignore him.

I don't think so, he was frustrated about the lack of quality in youth last time, he will be more than happy with that bunch plus the current academy to pick from.

If Bertrand's a Championship player than PVA is league two standard, his defending is embarrassing.

Centre half and defensive mid must be top priority this summer, even over a new forward.

@Rupert, What do do you mean we have became better than Liverpool this season? We have been better than Liverpool for the last decade.

Your right, Liverpool were terrible up until their equalizer, one of the worst away displays at SB for some time. Liverpool fans seem to think they were the better team because they had a chance in the last minute

This summer is the summer. Its now or never. We will either get our man back home or have to accept it just won't happen again.

Unfortunently the media have far too much power in the country, if they said Drogba was not a big game player half the nation would follow and say the same. I have said before and will say again, if Mourinho returns, he will be the best defender in the world.

Play our best, we can win this and quite comfortably aswell. Forget Anfield factor, forget they use to be good, we are a much better side than Liverpool right now and it's time to start showing it in the head to heads.

Pellegrini took the Real Madrid job and finished with more points than any English Clubs ever managed in the Premier League, he just happened to be there at the same time one of the best teams ever were approaching their peak of their powers.

Absolutely wonderful defender and player.

Any one blinded by Torres's mini good run are hopefully seeing sense tonight.

Im fed up with this stability argument, why do most of this country seem to think the be all and end all of stability is having a manager for a certain period of time? So Arsenal, while they have had one manager since we have had loads, remind me, how many captains have they had since we appointed JT as Captain? How many problems have they had in the boardroom since Roman has took over? is that stabilty? really? Man.Utd, how many captains have they had since we appointed JT? How much financial trouble do they have compared to us? We have had more than enough stability this past 10 years. A committed owner, same captain and a strong spine. Stability doesn't begin and end in the manager, if you believe that you need to stop listening to the media as they believe it or not know fuck all.

The paranoia is quite funny, does anyone really think we will sell him in the summer? If their is one thing our board is top notch at it is letting players go, none have come back to haunt us, they won't let such a talent leave us. He will be in the team making it four amigos next season, no doubt about it.

Am i the only one who would be happy with Pellegrini? Obviously Jose is my number one choice but i do rate this guy very highly.

Luiz was in really bad form when Rafa took over and has been doing well for months now. But there's no point mulling over what Rafa has or hasn't done he will be gone next month and both parties will move on.

At worst he will become a decent squad player for us, which will save us £7-9m to buy one.

Hazard and David Luiz.

Im not quite sure he can be a number 1, but he will be some rotation forward to a decent forward we will hopefully bring in this summer, it's players like Ba that make squad's strong.

Under AVB he looked good at the start. Saying his all round game is better isn't saying much given how bad it was before. As far as im concerned this is his chance to do a Bosingwa and end a torrid Chelsea career on a high and win us a trophy but we shouldn't even contemplate the idea of him staying unless he is happy being a squad player but given his attitude so far i highly doubt that.

The second choice DM will be the best option for him next season, hopefully to Khedira. This pivot needs to be sorted this summer, even before a forward.

Well said, Ramires is criminally under rated, including by me at times. He is a valuable asset to us the second half at Old Trafford the main example for that.

Don't do this to yourself. He is having a mini run of decent form like he did before Christmas and at the start under AVB. He won't be back, he is still not good enough.

Who remembers our last game away at Everton in 2011? We finished 2nd but on 71 points, most season's that will get us 4th at best, (and also factor in the title rebound games at the start which boosted our points and gd no end) we had an ageing team. Anelka and Malouda were both horrifically past it yet still dominating our wings. Essien was not as good, Lampard dipped in form as well. The football we were playing was so static, lethargic and devoid off anything good. The Liverpool home match especially almost had me in tears. Compared to that, this season has been a dream, remember how we were on here pretty much begging Carlo/Roman to get some width and creativity? well now we have Mata, Hazard and Oscar. Lets not forget just how badly we needed players like that and now we have got them. We have had to bite the bullet in terms of trophies this season but our future is as good as any one's in England if we get the balance in the team right this summer. Compare that to two years ago when we only looked like heading in one direction and that was down.

Im responding to the fact you said this was our worst season under Roman, and imo 10/11 was much worse, our future looked dire that term, now we have some of the upcoming stars of world football. I fail to see how this season has been that bad (so far), unless someone was expecting a title win, were in a state of transition, these things take time. The best we could have hoped for this season was 3rd with a couple of cups on the side, we are in a good position to finish 3rd and claim a trophy, i would have accepted that in August given how much experience we let go. While parts of this season have been frustrating, i am more than encouraged by the direction we are heading in on the pitch, the potential of this team is unreal, all we need is a bit more defensive balance (Khedira would be perfect) and we are laughing.