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Luiz as an individual has been terrible and has made mistakes but that doesn't mean hes a shit footballer as the Skipper said. Cahill has also made mistakes as has JT this year. Look at the starting 11 we've put out every week and how many times has the whole team defender well together as a unit. Not once. We haven't defended as well bar the Barca games since under Mourinho imo.

http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/48526/rafa-benitez-chelsea-ipad-app interesting read..

Cahill has better decision making, when to go to intercept/tackle, when to stay etc. Luiz beats him at distributing the ball out from the back though but if Luiz could sort himself out and not make mistakes he'd be a great CB. Both aren't our best CBs anyway. Ivanovic imo is our best one.

Congrats Donni Mate!

Rafa wants Paulinho from Corinthians or whoever he plays for. Wants to partner him with Rami.. On TalkSport.

I dont see the massive fuss now after the last day or two, whats done is done. Anyway where was the 50 threads for AVB or Carlo or Scolari etc. Move on. Roman does things his ways, it has brought us success, simple as. If you'd rather have a manager in for 10 years than win trophies your nuts. I was pissed with AVB's sacking but we won two trophies so in the end I wasn't as pissed. I feel we will do something similar with Rafa.

Press them high up... stop them scoring... get at their back three and take our chances... we win the game. Simple. City have been very bad at the back so far this season as have we.

You'd have Luiz as a DM? I'd have him as club mascot at most. Hes fucking shit. Unsure how hes got so bad, he was decent under Carlo..

Think he said tactically, because he went on to explain how they work on pressing and the team shape.

I'd rather the club won trophies and was recognized as a successful club than kept managers for 10 years. If anyone else would rather a manager in charge for 10 years and not as many trophies then they are fucking retarded. Also being honest, Robbie isn't as a great a manager as you think, he won us the CL which we are all grateful for but his tactical knowledge was useless, every team we've played, we've gave time and space on the ball this season. If some of the finishing was better, we'd be 7th or 8th not 3rd.

Lets be honest, Fergie is a fat oaf who should shut his mouth. Cracking manager though.

Also if we got all three of them, a good CB to replace JT, a CM similar to Xavi Alonso and maybe a back up GK better than Shitbull, we'd have one of the top 5 squads in Europe no doubt. Just would need to get them all in the same team which would be a headache for whoevers in charge... but a very good headache knowing hes got at least 4 top quality CAMs and 2 class strikers, also Torres and Sturridge if they don't go.... Probably won't happen but imagine, Midfield options of : Ramires, Mikel, Romeu, Lampard, new CM (regista) or Oscar.. Attacking midfield options of : Hazard, Mata, Oscar, James Rodriguez, Sturridge, Marin, Moses, Piazon. Striker options of : Falcao, Cavani, Torres, Sturridge, Moses, Hazard (false 9) Would be fucking insane....... the tactical flexibility and the unpredictability of the line ups we could put out would also be very very good. Could easily play 4-3-3, 4-2-3-1, 4-1-2-1-2, 4-3-2-1, 4-4-2, 4-5-1, 4-6-0, 4-1-4-1, 4-2-2-2 with such additions to the squad and still be very very strong. Also could rotate our midfield and still be incredibly strong. Obviously this is basically fantasy right now but if this happens then I think everyone will be fucking delighted.

Isco is too good to be wasted.

Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich is planning bids for 26-year-old Atletico Madrid striker Radamel Falcao, Porto winger James Rodriguez, 21, and 25-year-old Napoli forward Edinson Cavani. http://www.standard.co.uk/sport/football/watch-out-fernando-torres-abramovich-is-planning-south-american-spending-spree-to-boost-flagging-attack-8343422.html

Press conference filled me with a bit more confidence. I said I'd support him but the fact is hes set himself a basic goal. He wants to win trophies. He wants the focus to be on the team, not him managing the team due to a lot of fans not wanting him. If he wins trophies and wins a lot of games, will a lot of fans still hate him? No will they fuck. As long as the teams winning games and picks up a trophy or two this year we'll all be happy. Guaranteed.

If he starts scoring on average a goal per 2 or 3 games then he can stay. If not he can still fuck off and go back to Liverpool..

They've been hit and miss. Play good sometimes and play poor other times. If they play 3-5-2 maybe Rafa (looks weird sitting typing Rafa in doesn't it) could use his "tactical knowledge" (well thats what that Spanish guy whos always on Sky Sports says he has) to counter it even though I reckon he'll go 4-2-3-1.

If City play 3-5-2 then we could be in for another tactical nightmare

I think winning any sort of trophy is worth it. Win this and it could galvanize our season, you never know.

That list is incredible. The players he signed, only a small fraction of them went on to actually play for Liverpool consistently. Lucas, Agger, Reina, Johnson, Mascherano, Alonso, Torres, Kuyt etc. Also seen that Mikel San Jose of Atletic Bilbao played for Liverpool before... wtf!! Was reading that list and found this.. Gary Stevens Cost: Free (Ross County, August 2007) Where is he now? Part of Liverpool's youth setup. If anyone watches the SPL (highly doubt it) that is Gary Mackay-Stevens now playing for Dundee Utd... hes from Thurso, which is 25 minutes away from Wick .... he did some class skill thing was on Soccer AM, I'll post a video when I find it.

When Mourinho leaves clubs, clubs seem to fall apart and appoint 6 different managers or whatever.

Never mind all this lets step up and claim our club back stuff, I had a kitkat earlier and some fuck nugget stole it, lets step up and claim it back as I'm rather hungry and quite frankly sick of all this Rafa Benitez talk and Roman Abramovich talk... Rafas manager, protesting or whatever wont do fuck all. Just think about this, no Roman = no money = no major success in last 10 years so yeaaaah we'd be that club that could maybe win stuff in the future like ermmmm... Arsenal... and we don't wanna be like that. Wow your picture is awesome! Would have done the tag thing but forgot how to do it...

Its weird that Roman hasn't spoke to any interviewers or that. Apparently he has good English, well I read somewhere that somewhere despite reports he cannot speak English..........

Ben Jacobs some guy from Sports Talks has tweeted some interesting things yesterday. It seems our situation in the CL was nothing to do with Robbie getting sacked. Also something about Torres.. 45] Ben Jacobs ‏@JacobsBen Rafa also told me Torres is nursing a knee injury and, although still playing, it is affecting his form/confidence #Chelsea Expand 45] 1hBen Jacobs ‏@JacobsBen Finally, Benitez is looking forward to linking up with Fernando Torres again, but revealed he has a knee injury which is affecting his formAnother tweet on this "knee injury"

Exactly. Perhaps Roman has thought "we are playing poor and aren't getting better but infact are getting worse, this could get bad" and removed Robbie for the clubs best interests this season. Every time Roman's done this, we've done better. Harsh as it is on Robbie it might work.