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I am not sure who he signed, Ibra was not a flop, he played well, they just don't like each other . Villa has been terrific, Alexis is great, fabregas is great, dani alves is great, Afellay came as backup so it was ok

I can only say good luck to avb, hopefully he can get his old job back at porto or tottenham job because tottenham team suits avb system perfectly.

Nope, Carlo job was to win the league. Our next manager job has to start with rebuilding our squad.

The problem with new manager is that we need a big-time and proven manager in top level so that the board and the fans will trust him when he sell our older palyers (Lampard,Drogba,Terry?,cole,etc) similar to when mourinho sold guti and raul in Real. I am not sure there is a manager with that kind of pedigree out there right now (maybe guardiola, but i don't think he will leave barca)

I am pretty sure we will beat birmingham because it is birmingham and usually with a new manager a team will be excited and start playing well for a couple games

I am pretty sure, Jose will come to city. Tottenham does not have the transfer budget that is big enough for him and unless RA come to jose and tell him he has 200 m to rebuild the squad, he will not come back to Chelsea

He did not go back to chelsea old style, it is still his style but with major tweak to fit our squad. Everybody bashed him when he used high line, even in this forum. We were really awful defensively when we used high line because our defender especially Terry,Cole are not fast enough anymore and our midfield pressed the ball slowly, you need to be able to press fast and maintain possession to be able to play high line. I am tired of youth argument, you cannot just start playing youth. He need to prove himself in training before you can play in the first team. He has made a gamble by playing danny. It payed of a little bit but for me danny is not ready to start every match. His decision making and dribbling is not good enough for a winger. His biggest mistake was to trust the like of malouda,lampard,terry, kalou,etc (international level players) in the beginning of the season that they are good enough to play in his system. The only reason I want him to stay is that I really like the way we play with high line + high pressure. We outplayed MU in OT but we lost. That game showed me the potential of his system, and that our team is not good enough to play in his system

I want a manager that will have full support from the board and fans when he decide to sell lampard,drogba,cole like what Real gave to Mourinho when he sent Raul, Guti (Madrid Legends) out of real madrid

I am actually really tired of torres saga that is why i want him to play well so that we can sell him =)). Based on our track record if we hire for rafa next season, he will be out by the end of next season. By then I think Drogba will be out, lampard is out , Torres is out. We can really start fresh building our spine. We can buy cavani =)) Btw, Aguero has been superb for City this season, I have no idea that he is not only good at scoring but his link up play and his assist is tremendous as well.

I'll take rafa so that he can make torres play better so that we can sell him for good price

Most coach in PL that was successful in smaller team usually had problem managing the bigger team (The last example that I remember is Roy Hodgson, He was successful with Fulham and now with WBA but he struggled with liverpool). I am not sure why, that is my biggest concern with pardew and rogers

Honestly, I am not sure who I want to be the new manager. - The rumour is that RA want guardiola, he is one of my favourite manager but he is even more offensive manager compare to avb and I don't see his passing football can work with our squad - Bielsa like to play pressure football and this season show that it's not going to work with our squad - Jose => he is not coming back - capello => boring football - Rafa => I never like him

it's really sad but it's true

When we hire AVB has his own system which has been adjusted tremendously to fit our squad, he has dropped high line + high pressure, but is still does not work. It is simply a case of system that does not fit the squad, so it's like you said. It's players fault, manager fault and the board fault.

I think everybody complained about lampard because his performance has not been good and he is 33 and as fans we always respect what he has given to chelsea but we also need to realize that it is time to move on

I think pardew mentioned how much he struggled handling senior players in West Ham, I don't think he want to face the same problem in chelsea

Excellent post Milan was a team in transition uder Allegri from a creative side (pirlo,seedrof,kaka) into a power side (Boateng,nocerino,Ibra) - (chelsea is trying to move to the other direction). They realize that pirlo is not in his prime anymore and they need to move on, so like them we have to accept that when a team try to change its identity there will be casualties especially for players who represent the team in the previous system(in our case,it is lampard , terry(high line) and others ) Allegri job was not easy but he inherited ibra,robihno,pato,cassano up front = they are all proven players and boateng was the biggest surprise last season. Again I don't want to argue about youngster but there is a big difference between playing robinho/pato compare to playing Mceachran, Kakuta and Lukaku. I think AVB have made that gamble by playing Sturridge. I think for 90 % fans out there think he is a very good player with huge potential. For me he is still a young striker with plenty of potential who play on the wing and struggle most of the time. He does not offer much in term of build up, his one on one skill is not great, his distribution is poor, his decision making is poor, his defense is bad but he offer a goal threat for us. And I 100% agree with viltwinz93 If RA still want to transform chelsea into a more expansive side, he need to be patient and give AVB more time to transform the squad but if he want result straight away, he should sack AVB and get a coach that want to play the old system

More importantly why pep want to go to chelsea, when our best player (mata) probably will struggle to get a place in barca

Ah the evergreen Zanetti, You don't lose much of your technical ability but you lose your physical ability that is why it affect player like lampard and drogba more. Btw zanetti started to play in midfield more because he lose some of his speed

Two clear cut opportunities missed, I am sorry there is no excuse for that

Because our key players are in the wrong side of 30, at that stage you don't get better as you get older, you get worse

Am I the only one who think that our performance especially 2nd half was decent ? - We pressed the ball higher up, we created plenty goal scoring opportunity (Lampard missed a gimmick, Mata missed 2 shots, Danny missed 2 sure goals) - Meireles came in and gave us possesion in midfield - Torres brought another aerial threat Btw I think AVB will be sacked soon

wba certainly did not deserve that goal. We played really well in the 2nd half, press the ball like crazy. We really lack quality up front

I love high pressure + high line

Lampard looks like the weakest part of our midfield, His pressing is too slow