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Not bad, perhaps you can lend your uncle Ryan half of that with an option for a 50 percent return

Mikel is still the best player for the pivot guys.. Luiz has been good but hes no Mikel. Mikel's positioning is much better as is his tactical awareness

Piazon looks like he will become a vital cog of this team in the next 3 or 4 years. His link up with Eden was class, his touch, movement, vision, was all brilliant. I thought at first he didn't play like Kaka but tbh, he kind of does.

Hazards goal is still unbelievably good to watch 300 million times.

The bit where Neil said that the Chelsea fans loved him and he was like Chelsea fans.. I love you, I love you too then at the end of the interview he said it as well haha. My stream froze after he said he loved the fans so I missed a lot of it until the end

Anyone know any good movie sites? Want to watch that Jack Reatcher film while I'm dloading the Villa game

I'd love to see Gianfranco Zola, Paolo Di Canio, Gus Poyet or Didier Drogba (we can only wish) as manager at one point. Would be great to get any of them four tbh. Got to love Di Canio, hes such a crazy character hahaha.

Rafa will be third choice before Pep and Mourinho if he gets sacked/resigns. There is an extra 12 months option for his contract in case Pep takes another year out/Jose isn't available and Joachim Low said he won't consider his future until after the 2014 World Cup at least. All the top managers/decnet up and coming coaches are in jobs at good clubs or Roman won't go for them (British coaches) - Fergie United till he dies... (which isn't very long to be fair) hes 70, United will be his last job for sure. - Klopp is trying to build Dortmund into an incredible force in Germany. - Moyes is attainable but very unlikely because Roman wants a foreign big name usually, also said he'd like to manager in Germany one day. Also highly rated at United. - Mourinho at Madrid. PSG and City want him too and he'd go there because they are looking for instant success like he usually is. - Stramaccioni (hes a top manager in the making at least) is doing well at Inter and will want to earn his stripes there first before doing anything. - Guardiola seems United bound. - Van Gaal is the Holland boss. Probably close to retiring as hes like 124. - Hiddink retiring end of season. - Ancelotti, already had doubt he'd ever ever consider coming back after being sacked a year after making history for finishing second. - AVB (yes I said it haha) at Spurs, won't ever ever ever ever ever ever come back as long as he lives. Like it or not he's likely to become a top coach one way or another. - Benitez will probably be the answer. - Zeman, if anyone would ever consider him, he always seems to be managing in Italy. - Bielsa, doubt we'd go for him as well.

I love Lampard but he doesn't suit what Chelsea are trying to do. Hes not a technical player in the same sense as Mata, Hazard, and Oscar are. Hes got a great technique but he isn't in that mold of a 5 ft 7-10 player with a small frame but an amazing footballing intelligence and adaptability to play in 3 or 4 positions like them. When they have the ball, they are 6 ft 7 because of their technical qualities with the ball and their intelligence to make runs and find space in between the lines. Lampard is a decent player still but those who say he should get a 2 year contract because of two mediocre performances against 2 sides - one a shite Leeds side and the other a young inexperienced Villa side - need to honestly calm the fuck down. Bosingwa would have looked good vs both sides.

How do I not have to right to criticize them when I do understand them. I know it was a difficult appointment to take because of the Liverpool thing but I thought Chelsea fans were better than the way they had acted at the Man City game. I thought they would have maybe forgiven Benitez and supported him from the start but they didn't. I instantly thought I'm going to give Rafa a chance to prove himself, hes a good manager, can turn the ship around as many interim coaches have done before and hopefully he can win one of the trophies we are in. I thought Chelsea fans were smart enough to do the same and support him as hes now going to be in the clubs history if you like it or not - positively for winning a cup or negatively for being the 9th manager in 8 years or whatever under Roman. The Rafa quotes, did you honestly expect him to say anything else, or anything like "No Chelsea fans are better than Liverpool fans because they have plastic flags", he was going to say something, its mind games, they are used to annoy managers to try and stress the manager and the other team members out to distract them from preparing for a game. Jose was a mastermind at using mind games, he annoyed Guardiola with them and caused Pep to loose the rag and do an angry press conference about it before a CL game 2 years ago. He also annoyed a lot of people in Italy due to his mind games, arrogance and his ego. People loved Brian Clough for such bold comments and stuff, people also loved Mourinho because he was very psychological before games to try and unsettle coaches and players to give himself and his team an advantage so for Liverpool fans or even people who don't like Chelsea in general Rafa would have been seen as good guy for saying that. I understand the point about peoples point of views, totally 100% but I thought, we, as Chelsea fans are all more intelligent and would just give him a chance. I thought they would put the team first, rather than all this negativity with all the booing at games and that. It was a disgrace to hear all of that, absolutely disgusting. The players would of heard and felt that they were in a hostile atmosphere.... at a home game.

Sturridge wasn't good enough to displace Drogba/Anelka/Shevchenko/whoever else was at the club when he was from the striking role upfront. He clearly didn't play good enough on his small marginal chances he got upfront to displace Torres upfront either. Stop with the he never got a chance, because he did actually get a chance. He never showed anything great up top as a lone striker so he's getting moved on due to his persistence in wanting to play there when hes not good enough. The club obviously know more than we do. He had that good half a season but then you remember the shit year hes had since then. Half a good season of consistent performances isn't good enough - as it isn't with Torres good 2 months then shitness for 6 months or whatever.

Exactly wins 8-0 and 5-1 and people still moan. Is it any wonder why other clubs fans do say we are mugs and that we are fickle and ungrateful etc etc. Just because hes Rafa Benitez people want him out even though hes a more proven and much more established manager than Robbie was.

Average player going to an average club, settle down we'll replace Studge with someone much better than him.

How do I have no right to criticize the members who bash Benitez? People criticized Benitez right after he took the job, not having played a match etc saying we'd be shit because of his negative tactics bla bla bla. First game we got a draw vs City (not a bad opponent to get a draw again) but people still criticized him just because he was an ex-Liverpool manager who had said some stuff he'd probably regret and there was no other logical explanation bar that. That first game vs City at the Bridge I could have criticized 99.9% of the crowd for continuously booing him like absolute twats instead of getting behind the team and supporting them. That pretty much stereotyped Chelsea fans as idiots who wouldn't give a Benitez a chance due to him being an old Liverpool manager who had said stuff years ago that some people hadn't gotten over even though we idolize someone who has been given multiple fresh starts due to his private life and on the pitch problems hes had at times and got over all the stuff he'd done (JT). If I don't have the right to criticize people who criticized Benitez before he'd even taken charge for one game does that mean that the people who criticized Benitez didn't have the right to do so in the first place? I'm not just arguing for the sake of it, I'm just trying to say all this anti-Rafa stuff is absolute bullshit. We should support him as hes Chelsea boss now, forgot all the stuff hes done in the past as we have with JT and just get on with it.

Na I did see it, just I seen some people sticking up for Lamps too and thought they were a bit crazy because he was clearly at fault for moaning about not playing!

Its shocking when you consider Villas-Boas was sacked because half the team didn't want to play under him (mostly the senior players, I don't care about if he tried alienating them or whatever, your senior pros are there to set an example, they should of just got on with it) and went off complaining eventually led to him getting sacked because of a split camp, lackluster performances and shit results because of low morale and team spirit. Call me a AVB fanboy or whatever but he was harshly treated by the older guys, they weren't happy because they were rotated etc even though he didn't really communicate with them as well as he could have but still hes the manager and hes there to pick a team, its not up to them to pick a team. Lampard came out and said their relationship wasn't ideal but still he was seen as the "good guy" in this incident and Villas-Boas the "bad guy" just because he was the coach.... nobody seems to ever blame the players at Chelsea FC...

Why does everyone criticize our managers when it should be our players? Same happened with Carlo, same happened with Scolari, same happened with Villas-Boas, same happened with Di Matteo and now the same with Rafa. Some people always think the coach is the one who should get the blame. Ultimately Cahill missed a sitter, so did Torres and Ramires should of went and headed the ball away before Gurrero got it but where is their criticism? Also the fact barely anyone looked like they wanted to win the trophy except Luiz and Oscar when he came on. Rafa said he was here to win trophies, he wanted to win it, that was his main objective when he became Chelsea boss, to win as many trophies as possible.

No he didn't fail, the players did. They looked like they didn't give a fuck at all bar Luiz.

Luiz was good in the pivot today, but he won't be used there the whole time. I don't think hes disciplined enough to play there against the bigger teams so to speak but he can do a job against the smaller clubs.

Why are people still criticizing/hating Rafa? Hes done what the recent managers we've had haven't even though of doing, put Luiz in midfield and hes also got Torres scoring goals again. Roman will be delighted with the Torres thing especially. Things are looking up, the team is much more balanced, we can defend and attack with ease now unlike under Robbie we were very open. Reinforcements in January and well you never know, we could push for the title, just depends on the personnel we get in.

Don't want to criticize Villa as their a young team that is more for the future but we absolutely smashed them. Great performance. Its not that Villa exactly gave us the chances, we carved them open most of the time. Keep these results coming Rafa

Would never happen, hes a decent CB, good at playing the ball out too but he won't come here.

I reckon Rafa will be the third choice option, thats probably why hes got that extra 12 months clause in his contract.

Mourinho will travel to every country he can to win big trophies so hes remembered as the greatest coach that ever lived. He wants to be known as the greatest coach ever. So I wouldn't be surprised to see him in the Bundesliga at one point. He wants to return to England too as he wants to win the CL with an English club.

Isco Well if we need another attacking midfielder then yeah Isco..