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The picture below encapsulates perfectly everything that is wrong on our right side. This is a snapshot from last season's annihilation by Sp*rs, but it still applies this season.

I agree and I wasn't even arguing that point.

Yes, but when you have a shit striker then you still can capture points either by drawing or having other capable players score. If you have obvious weak links in defence, you WILL concede goals and this team is not prepared to play the outscoring game. I'd rather have a Torres in attack than an Ivanovic in defence any time at the moment. We have got to start getting the basics right from the back to the front.

This is flabbergasting to say the least. At the end of last season Jose spoke highly of Remy, saying he deserved to play more and it was his mistake not to give him more game time. Now he signed a past-it Monaco and Man Utd reject who has been injured and in abysmal form for past few years and plays him over the striker whose goals helped us massively to win the championship last term. There is not even a hint of meritocracy in Jose's selections anymore, not even a faint smell. Demba Ba was right.

His only chance is if Ivanovic gets injured. I rarely hope for something like this to happen, but this time....

We don't have the players to play a 3-man backline, so no. I'm sure someone has already explained it in more depth, so I'm not gonna bother.

Aah, the infamous academy day :') Good times!

Need a reaction in this game, both on the team sheet by the manager and from the players on the pitch. What I would prefer to see: Tibo Dave - Zouma - Terry - Baba Ramires - Matic - Fabregas Pedro - Costa - Kenedy According to Jose Baba wasn't quite ready yet, so maybe stick Kenedy at LB and hope Hazard shows up. I see so much drive and pace in this line-up that we might actually be effective in counter-attack... might.

Yes, he could have and probably did. I literally don't remember any games where Ivanovic didn't play, being shot is a natural outcome for a slow and old CB being forced to run up and down the field every second day. He was shit already in the second half of the season, alarm bells should have been ringing by April. Fabregas the same, you can't expect him to be in mesmerizing form all the time while being overplayed - cover is needed, which we don't have. Terry, afaik, played every single PL minute last season, which is crazy for an oldie like him. People expecting him to be at his best until his 40s need a reality check, and Jose has had that considering he openly admitted seeking for a long-term replacement. Tbf the players seem still fatigued either physically, mentally or both from last season. What is our fitness team doing?

Those aren't rumours, he said it himself in post-match interview.

Yeah, benched next game probs.

If that is the case then our board has gone from genius to moronic in a fingersnap. Why offer him a new long-term contract if you're not going to invest time and trust in him? Instead fire and pay yourself silly, leaving less funds to improve the team for the next Avram Grant-type donkey. Changes need to be made in the board, not the manager. Before Mourinho we had tons of good and not-so-good managers, and without exception they all failed "long-term". I don't believe for a second all of them were incompetent fools (including Mourinho). The board seems to always screw something up past the first or two seasons that a) fucks with team balance, hinders the manager's work. Still too early to say anything though, hopefully no rash decisions will be made. Still no excuses for playing Ivanovic this much though. The guy is shot physically, he can barely run anymore. Hence all the backing off, he knows he will never keep up with his pacey opponents. Full-backs need to be QUICK and SHARP, because wingers are just that. I'd go as far as to say that our full-backs are the biggest hindrance to our toothless attacking play. Open your eyes Jose, this cannot continue. And if it does, then the board have every right to question his position.

Weird, I barely remember him playing

If it's true and the board went behind Jose's back, then I'd be surprised if he got 10 minutes let alone 10 games. Did even Filipe Luis get 10 games?

You trippin son. It was clearly Pedro's fault for not tracking back.

Jose would blame Hazard for letting the cross in.

Just a protip: It would be easier to read posts without paragraphs if the sentences started with capital letters.

Just when I start thinking there's nothing he can do or say anymore to surprise me, he comes out with this I can imagine his face when he was preparing this speech, probably smth similar to this- Mind games for next season?

Terry, Ivanovic, Hazard, Matic and Fabregas should not even travel. It would be moronic if they played at all.

No one I think.

Claudio Ranieri: “I am very sad because when these players leave, something is lost,” True words. Despite what's been said and done, seeing players like Lamps and Gerrard leave is the end of an era.

Wonder if he got kicked in the teeth by Jose for his last performance like on here..

Could Jose's rants finally be working? He kept talking about Chelsea players being unappreciated, especially last year, and bang this year we are sweeping away individual awards.

What? Costa will retire here a legend.