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IMO Supporter is the best member on the site atm, always positive and keeps things in perspective when we drop points. His knowledge is impressive especially when talking about La Liga. The guys passionate and i like that.

Azpi also protects JT, he always covers for him while Luis' loves to bomb forward to help the attack. Gary Neville alluded to it a few months ago, look at how narrow Azpi plays when defending. I generally rate Luis, he adds so much to our left hand side but i can understand why Jose is cautious. I know i may get some flak for this and he has been our best defender this season but i think as a team we'll look more better and cohesive once we buy a faster CB to partner Zouma, obviously it's easier said than done but it's just my opinion. We'll be far more proactive and able to press properly instead of sitting deep and worrying about players getting in behind Terry.

He works very hard, not easy to push off the ball, can player as an attacking midfielder or further back (like he has done for Spain), is also playmaker in his own right. He's brilliant. IMO we have way too many pacey players with little end product, its' why our counter has been lacking the past few months, we need more players who are not only technical but has vision and intelligence, Koke is that player.

lol it was probably the worst cameo i've seen in a long time, truly bad. I'm not going to slate him though, it's true he has looked very poor so far but i'm sure once he has a few more games under his belt he'll improve.

We sold KDB instead of this guy... jesus christ.

You also have to take into consideration the majority of PSG' team consists of players in their prime or older with plenty of big game experience. Sirigu (28) ; Marquinhos (20), Thiago Silva (30), David Luiz (27), Maxwell (33); Verratti (22), Thiago Motta (32), Matuidi (27); Pastore (25); Cavani (28), Ibrahimovic (33), It's hard to judge PSG though, they looked real good against Chelsea (in both legs) but in the league they haven't been great... i dont care how well the likes of Lyon and Marseille have been this season, with the squad PSG have they should be running away with it.

He's actually pretty overrated, he's decent but far from their best talent.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqhEZPzNM5k&feature=youtu.be

Ask any Liverpool fan and they'll tell you. He was very inconsistent and lacked the end product. He was always a good dribbler but just didn't do anything with it. Now he's performing well week in week out, he's scoring some vital goals as well as setting up a few with some fantastic passes. These past few months he's been Liverpool' best player, when have we said that about Oscar?

He's really not good enough, lacking in technical ability, goals and vision to be a proper number 10. I was on board with the Oscar-Fabregas theory earlier in the season (that his workrate and filling in allows Cesc to flourish and go forward more) but it's BS, he looks so out of his depth it's unreal. Same could be said for both Willian and Ramires as well for that matter... to think we bought three Brazilians and they all lack the skill, vision and ability - who would have thought that. The funny thing is Oscar is a year older than Countinho (if i'm correct) and just look at how much Countinho' improving season by season, Oscar is actually regressing and practically becomes useless in the months Nov to May.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/chelsea/11468845/Chelsea-line-up-move-for-Raphael-Varane-after-Jose-Mourinho-fumes-at-slack-defending.html

I'm disappointed about yesterday but never would i want him to be sacked, we're top of the league ffs... we need some stability. We do need to kick on though, the last few months we've played some turgid stuff, i dont know why we've gone off the boil, whether it's Jose' tactics or the players lacking form. We played some beautiful football in the beginning of the season, we looked like a top, top european team. Whenever the opposition scored i knew we were going to come back. Now, we play with no urgency, everything seems so laboured, also for the first time yesterday we looked scared of defending, it was like the players had no idea what they were meant to do... it also doesn't help the likes of Willian, Oscar, Ramires and Cahill have massively dipped in form as of late. I trust Jose 100 percent and think he's the best man for the job, but i'm not sure what type of team he's trying to create here, whether it's a Chelsea (04-06) 2.0 or a more attacking team like he previously stated (link), I'd have no problem with either, its just right now we cant defend a lead to save our life or play with any attacking flair like earlier on in the season. I also hope he keeps his word about integrating the youth players such as RLC, we need to start seeing some of the youngsters break through at Chelsea, Jose has a tendency to just say things and not actually mean them, not slating him it's just what he does.

That defending.

Something similar happened in the first leg, i remember at the time thinking he took a bit of a gamble. He actually takes a few steps forward before he knows where the ball is going, it's risky, but nine times out of ten it works out for him.

What frustrates me is that last season we pressed high against certain teams at home (Swansea, Liverpool, Arsenal, Gala etc) and we looked good. This season i see no evidence of us doing that, we may have spells like yesterday for the first 15 mins where we actually pinned PSG back and won a lot balls in their half, after that for some reason we sat back and looked lethargic. I know with JT's lack of pace it's hard to implement a full press but surely against 10 men we dont have to worry about that? i get that Jose is the type of manager who looks for the oppo' weaknesses and tries to exploit that but what is he trying to implement here? recently the tactics in big games is to just sit deep and hope we score a goal on the counter... it's not been good enough. I love Jose and we need stability but i'm just confused as to what team he wants to create here.

Oscar, Willian and Ramires will be lucky if they are here next season IMO, attacking-wise all three are very limited and offer absolutely nothing. How many times in the first half did Oscar mess up a counter attack? it happens far too often, he either loses control of the ball or misplaces a pass. Two seasons in a row now where he's had a good first couple of months than slowly goes off the boil, no more excuses anymore. Willian works hard defensively but thats just it, when he's on the right he hardly ever beats his man, instead just stops for 2-3 seconds and easily passes it back to Ivan, £32 million for someone who runs around a lot is a joke. Ramires again is so poor in the final third, messes up every chance he gets with a heavy touch or a bad pass. I've been wanting to say that for a while so it's definitely not a knee-jerk, now onto the game last night. Abysmal. simple as that, we actually got outplayed by 10 men and thats unforgivable. Where's our early season football? Jose was far too negative and the players looked physically nervous and unsure, it was just poor from everyone involved. PSG deserved to go through, they were excellent and played with the sort of passion, hunger and desire we used to have in those massive CL nights.

So do Fiorentina have an option to buy for 18m euros?

I love how he celebrates after a good save, brilliant GK.

It's like last season all over again, he plays well for the first few months then in the second half of the season turns to shit... he's had plenty of rest so he cant be tired, i honestly dont know whats wrong with him. We're at the most important stage of the season he needs to step it up big time.

We're showing far too much respect for Spurs...

Cahill playing in the pivot... ffs.

Is Jose seriously going to play Cahill ahead of Ake? lol, why the hell is he in our squad? if he's never going to play we should have loaned him out or at least let him play for the youth side...

Now all we need is that stadium expansion and we'll be all set.