didierforever

i have not turned on him once. mata will go but selling off mata right now makes as much sense as your replies. mata may not have been in jose's plans but it takes time to phase off a player who has literally been carrying the team for the last 2 seasons. cech started his career as a striker too, lets play him there cos all we care about is where people played during their formative years not where they have become world class superstars., right? just goes on to show how great your thinking is. your reasoning is makes 0 sense. again let me stress my point. we are not swansea. we are at this moment fighting for winning the PREMIER LEAGUE, not top 4, not top half of the table. We want to keep players who can help us win the PL as well as perform well in the CL and FA cup. for that we need squad strength. selling mata at this moment with not even half a decent option will be weaking our squad, not strengthing it. playing torres and etoo is not the way forward to win the PL and put up a fight for CL. selling off mata at this moment solves NOTHING. and why do u want to sell him? cos he waved his hand twice after getting subbed off, or threw a tantrum for 30 seconds. well this seems like a perfectly legit reason to sell our POTY for the last 2 seasons. also for the last time, tell me exactly how selling mata off STRENGTHENS our squad. dont give me shit like torres and etoo and ba have played on the wings so they can play and rambo can play too on the wings (like we have de rossi, alonso and pirlo as backs up and can afford to play rambo on the wings). actually tell me how it would make us better.

your reasoning is so pathetic and laughable, sometimes it confuses if u actually understand ANYTHING at all. torres played in the wing and etoo has played so they become better than MATA in the AM position. this argument deserves to get a special mention among other stuff. i probably that is the very reason why jose mourinho has said twice in 3 days that he wants mata to stay. i think probably that is why we have 3 different strikers and 6 different AMs. they both have shit all compared to mata when it comes to playing as an AM. hence they are strikers. or do you just think we should sell mata so as to get funds to buy KI. as for hazard, i never once doubted his "attitude". if i am harsh on hazard it cos i expect "greatness out of him", which he is delivering right now. if u think this hazard playing right now was equal to the hazard in say september then there is something wrong in your head. as for oscar, i challenged his attitude towards the end of the last season and was i worng?? he was at best average. he may have been tired by the excessive football but when the stakes are as high as a top 4 finish, u dont care about those things. look at how vital and good oscar has been right now. he has been the heart and soul of the team and if u think he was playing as good as this towards the end of the last season then u what... again let me stress my point. we are not swansea. we are at this moment fighting for winning the PREMIER LEAGUE, not top 4, not top half of the table. We want to keep players who can help us win the PL as well as perform well in the CL and FA cup. for that we need squad strength. selling mata at this moment with not even half a decent option will be weaking our squad, not strengthing it. playing torres and etoo is not the way forward to win the PL and put up a fight for CL. selling off mata at this moment solves NOTHING. and why do u want to sell him? cos he waved his hand twice after getting subbed off, or threw a tantrum for 30 seconds. well this seems like a perfectly legit reason to sell our POTY for the last 2 seasons. also for the last time, tell me exactly how selling mata off STRENGTHENS our squad. dont give me shit like torres and etoo and ba have played on the wings so they can play and rambo can play too on the wings (like we have de rossi, alonso and pirlo as backs up and can afford to play rambo on the wings).

hahahahahaha... so we should sell mata so that the press dont bother jose. also if u think we are going to buy a CB and especially an LB in this window then u have another thing coming your way. AM is the least of our concerns cos we have so many options. and thats the only reason we have been able to be as successful as we are. for eg - against tottenham, norwich, cardiff etc where our subs have turned the match on its head. so u now want torres and etoo to play on the wing but want to sell mata because????????. u still have not given a single reason how it would help us by selling mata along with kdb or even over kdb if only one of them is sold.

then tell me how selling mata but keeping kdb makes us a better team/squad!!!

we have 3 DMs in lamps, mikel and rambo. 2 of them are inconsistent (mikel, lamps). one of them SHOULD not be playing more than 1 match in a week, if we sell mata right now (with kdb surely leaving), we will be having 4 AMs down from 6 and will be losing our most potent weapon - strength in depth. how many PL matches have our AMs influenced after coming from the bench. also after getting an injury to even one of those 4 AMs we will be having 3 AMs with no one to influence the game off the bench. so please think what is best for the team. how is selling mata going to better chelsea. can u give me a couple of pointers??

willian is already in the 3 right now!!! what is oscar gets injured? do u want to sell mata too when we are already selling kdb...

if we can sell kdb for 25mil, add essien to that for another 2-3mil, kakuta for another 1-2mil and add 10mil more from roman's pocket, then we should be able to buy him. would be absolutely fab alongside rambo.

makes sense.

25mil for kdb!!! atlast we have started ripping off clubs too. lets say he goes for about 20mil, add another 2mil for essien to that and get bender/witsel from that money + something from roman's pocket. i am sure traore can do what kdb has done so far this season.

is bertrand still injured? whats the latest on him?

did mata spit on mourinho??? i mean the way people are "ridiculing" him here, thats what u would think have happened and not just that mata was upset over being subbed and shaked his head with an exasperated look.

we have 7 "regular" defenders out of which iva is injured. JT, GC, azpi have played 90 mins of 4 matches in 9 days. cole has played 2 and a half matches. so that leaves us with DL and bertrand only. dont think we can play just 2/3 defenders.

i think kalas will have to play. gc, jt and azpi have literally started every game in the christmas period. with iva out until end of jan, we need to rest some players.

we have hull (a), united (h) and whu (h). 3 must win games in which i would not even think about playing essien or youngsters. so we have mikel, rambo and luiz. not that bad a situation. but we simply cant afford another injury to the defence or defensive mids.

so we now have 2 midfielders to play with for 2 positions.

the team probably selects itself for this game. after the busy christmas period i would be shocked to see cech, azpi, gc, jt, cole, mikel, hazard get any game time. also we have atlast found our magic trio in hazard-oscar-willian. no use in playing them for cup games. schwarzer kalas ake DL bertrand essien rambo kdb mata schurrle BA. this team should be able to get a result. time to prioritize the league and let our big squad take a little heat off the starting eleven.

pathetic??? really!!! he showed dismay on being subbed. has he given a public statement. has he gone to the press saying "i am disappointed at my game time and the position i am playing in". NO. stop overreacting on every little thing. just cos u love oscar does not give u the right to critisize everything on mata. he was a professional yesterday. can professionals not get disappointed on their performances, on the decisions been made by their managers or the refs? or would u have robots playing for us. mata's reaction showed that he wants to be out their and be a part of this club's success. their was another guy who threw tantrums like this, today he is the fucking LEGEND of this club - DIDIER DROGBA. so please stop this childish character assassination of mata.

awesome result. should have won the match in the first half itself. too many missed oppurtunities. but we have atlast got our best team and combination of AMs at exactly the half way point. hazard-oscar-willian ROCK!!!the balance that these 3 bring to the team is AMAZING!!! cahill in the past 2-3 weeks (after the sunderland game) has been a new player. ramires bossed the mid and was given good support by mikel, torres made some brilliant runs with ball in the first half but somehow scored thru sheer luck. thats what luck can do. mata was FOOLISHLY played on the wing despite having 2 wingers on the pitch. something is definitely not right between mata and jose, cech - atlast a match where he got to earn hi living, southamtpton had some decent oppurtunities and cech made some decent saves. his handling of crosses was good too, 7/10 azpi - was fabulous. that block off lallana was just brilliant. would have been a big blow to us if he had went off injured. everything that is required off a RB is provided better by him than iva. the only problem is that we simply dont have an outlet from goalkicks without iva. 8/10 GC- another brilliant performance. he has been a revelation. simply amazing. his reading off the game has somehow improved or he has jut gained some confidence. hope this contunues. 9/10 JT - another solid performance. 8/10 cole - good performance. thi back 4 is definitely our best. cole's prowess on the ball is awesme too.brilliant block off lallana. 8/10 bodies on the line stuff from our back 4. mikel - good shield. another "did his job performance". the best moment was when he held the ball even when surrounded by 3/4 soton player. 7/10 ramires - another like a boss performance!!! totally bossed the mid. should have scored atleast one. 9/10 mata - very poor performance. dint understand why he dint play as a CAM.the only time he was in the center, his 1-2-1 with hazard was amazing. 5/10 schurrle - uninfluential. and why did he take corner and freekicks which were hopelessly poor. 5/10 hazard - awesome. livewire. what a form he is in!!! hope this continues for ever and ever!!! 9/10 torres- brilliant runs, hold up play, link up play but he gets a goal thru sheer luck. thats football.he needs to make his fabulous runs count 7/10 subs - oscar - game changer. pathetic decision to card him. flawless performance. simply took the game away from the soton. 10/10 willian - another dynamic performance. brilliantly taken goal to ettle the nerves. good perfrmance. 8/10 essien - meh!!! when is he leaving??? jose - as much as i adore him and love him, his decision to play mata on the wing while playing hazard in the center that too against shaw and lallana was PATHETIC and smacked off desperation and his probably dislike for mata. he did change the match with his subs but it was his formations and player management that made us go in that position. 6/10

line ups??

why? let him win the youth CL with us.

out - essien (3m), ba (10mil) in - reality (guarin 15mil), ideal (witsel 35mil/sven bender 20mil)

is he really leaving? any concrete news...

i dont get it. we lost 49.4mil this year. had a profit of 1.4m the last year. for the 2 years combined its a loss of 48mil which is 3mil more than the FFP regulated. anyone who can clear the air?

de gea coleman mertesacker JT shaw yaya hazard rooney lallana aguero suarez subs - krul, zabaleta, lovren, sturridge, ramsey, rodriguez,lukaku,

people here think mata would go for less than 30mil, hahahaha LOL-MAX. mata is 25 right now. yet to hit his peak. still chelsea POTY twice in a row. all u need to do is talk to a united/pool fan to know what they truly think of him and how much they value him at. PSG themselves were willing to shell out 35mil in the summer.