Korial

This is not about being liked by the FA. It's a legitimate explanation for the issue that some deem "bias against Chelsea"/certain teams and players".
It's the same in the real world, first time offenders of non extreme crime are shown way more leniency and sympathy than repeat offenders who have literally made the prison and the court their second home. we all know how this works in football and the real world but it just strikes me as some members trying to be argumentative for the sake of it.
If you don't want to become a target, stop giving the authorities a reason to target you in the first place. If Costa wasn't a hot headed, emotionally immature thug, whose main agenda whenever he steps onto the pitch, especially in big games, is about creating drama rather than actually focus on playing football, we wouldn't be having this conversation.
The FA and rational/non bias posters aren't who you should be directing your anger/frustrations and criticism at but rather the repeat offenders at the football club i.e Costa and Mourinho who consistently refuse to see the errors of their ways nor strive to change for the sake of the club's image/reputation (at the very least) and that of the team.

i can only imagine how that "bust up" would have gone.
JT - you are shite!!!
Costa - you are shite!!!
IVA - dont forget me, i am the shitiest.
Cecs - no iva, i am the shitiest.
JT (the leader) - stop fighting!!!! we are all shite!!!
**group hug***
**the whole squad hugs while courtois and begovic look on from afar**
**in the background, jose's voice is booming - "we are awesome, we deserved better. we are awesome, we deserved better"***

Well here's the thing, Mourinho didn't had enough patience with him after a sub par performance, but he sure can do it for Ivanovic...
You need to have more patience for the younger guys not the older guys!

Yeah you're right: Silva, Yaya and Aguero never really turn up for Belgium.

If we had a proactive defence that would ease the work-load on the attacking players as they'd have less ground to cover. At present they are running more or less the entire length of the field constantly to track back and then go forward. Azpi is the only defender in the starting 11 that would be great in a proactive defence.
The reason we look so disjointed is because our team doesn't function as a unit.

Nah, but it's unreasonable to demand attacking players press like their lives depend on it and then carry defenders who are unable and/or unwilling to press high up and support those same attackers.

The fact Mou keeps on making statements in the press makes it clear to me he knows he made a mistake.
You never hear KDB making statements in the press about MOU... I also believe KdB proved MOu wrong by becoming Bundesliga player of the the year. Bundesliga has a lot of starplayers and Kevin was better than them all last season.
I think its a great loss for cfc Kevin left and I hope he will join Bayern instead of City.
And off course Mou will not admit in the press he was wrong, he is the special one and the special one never makes mistakes.

Theoreticaly Pedro is still harder worker than Hazard so its Hazard who need more protection from behind.
But I hope Mou finaly goes with normal football style. Play Azpi on right because he is fucking right back. He will get well with Pedro as well. After spending 20m on fullback Baba, play him for god sake. Baba and Hazard will work well eventualy. Sure in begining we might have some problems with defending on that side, but longterm, the two fit eachother great. Baba can go forward, and actualy contribute to attack and at same time elevate Hazard play to next level.
The only thing, is Mou brave enough to give Baba and Hazard a real chance or will he stick to his old football with no imagination?
I absolutely hate that our fullbacks are so poor in general play. Take a look at Alaba and Lahm, Marcelo and Carvajal, Alba and Alves etc. Some of those can match and even surpass our midfielders and attackers in terms of creativity, ball control and passing. And we are stuck with Iva and Azpi(on wrong side) who dont contribute to our general play at all. Iva scores some key goals indeed, but his play is still poor.
Long gone are the days of Ashley terrorizing the flanks of left side but at same time not allowing anyone get past him.

Typical Mourinho. Even fucking Young gets a chance ahead of Di Maria to prove himself.
But Mou cant for once try something and give chance to others. Traore, Moses, last season Ake, RLC are all just figures for Mou. No wonder our bench is so poor if Mou doesnt trust anyone to prove. Mou keep playing Ramires on RW, what the hell? And ok if we played better or at least get results. But no. And he still doesnt make a change.
In every damn club players make some sort of surprises and get ahead of regulars or have at least some concrete impact apart from first 11. Bellerin, Young, Ibe,...what Mou does? Player plays shit and he will still continue to play him because of ''consistency''. Fuck that. If Iva plays poor, drop him. If Willian plays poor drop him. If Cesc plays poor, drop him. If you dont have players to replace, buy them. Thats why the window is for. Stop saying we have good team and then keep playing fucking Ramires on wing...and in mid season if things wont go his way, he will blame refs, players, lack of rotation, lack of depth etc. Same old, same old.
If you keep Moses, Traore, Ake etc give them the fucking chance. We dont have world class team that cant be benched. If you intend to use them for 3 games per year, then get some seniors who dont need play time, but will do their job like Belletti for example did in past.

THIS:
Mourinho vetoed Demba Ba's loan move to Arsenal in the summer of 2013 after deciding the Gunners were potential title rivals, but he said: "Petr Cech is not a player - he's an institution.
"Ten years in goal, going through everything he went through, great moments and sad moments, dying on the pitch.
"Chelsea gave him a lot, but for what he is giving to the club still, he deserves a special perspective. I think he won the right to be part of a discussion and a decision.
Everyone should think about this before blasting Cech. You have attackers that win games, we had Cech in Champions league. I dont think a goalkeeper ever had such influence and importance in winning any title as did Cech. We had quite shit team, but Cech was absolute world class in that tournament. Our best player without a doubt. No disrespect to Drogba and co, but without Cech, we wouldnt win that year in million tries. He deserved to go wherever he goes and even if Arsenal, I will always respect him and like no matter what. Its football. Even if he performs well for arsenal, it should not be forgotten how much he gave to this team.
Relationship goes both ways and we moved on first. Im just happy the breakup wasnt bad, but ended in good terms and respect.

Or the fans just don't care about what the players have done for them in the past and keep demanding them to stay faithful while their career at the club is death.

This is the biggest thing for me, and something that some people will not be able to relate too. My kids and family come before anything and everything in this world and if it means a change in career path/disrupting something that I have done for a long time to make my family more better off, or even happier then I will do it.

People throw around the word legend far too easily. Don't suck for 4-5+ years and you're already a legend. I know it's somewhat different with Chelsea, because of the change under Abramovich, but still, set the bar a bit higher.
Anyway, Petr rocks and that will never change. The only GK I've ever loved. No tarnished reputation for me. A world-class performer that was replaced with an eye to the future. He's not leaving because he wants to, and he did not come up with 'clever' ways to fool the fans when moving to a rival. So he's allowed to go where wants. Doesn't mean I like it though. Not one bit.
I'll always think of Cech when I think of CL 2012. Godly performances that year.

That is a horrible comparison.
I think this is a better comparison. Assume that you are a one of the main executive in one company, you are a legend work there for years. Suddenly your company hire a new younger executive to replace you. You are now "vice" executive with very little influence. Of course your company still want you to stay just in case but you know you can get an executive job in similar size firm.
So yes it is true that it is your decision to move but essentially your company "indirectly" force you to move.

Up until replacing him with a younger keeper when he was still world class and would start in almost any other team in the world.
Petr has the right to go wherever he wants and still be held in the highest regard here. He's still world class, and the club decided to throw him out, he didn't want to leave.
He just sat an entire season on the bench and was more than a top professional about it. He deserves to be allowed to leave to wherever he wishes.

I still like Lampard. I don't care about any of this.

I was never really hurt with Lampard going to City in the first place, sure i was a bit annoyed but in my eyes he's always a Legend, same with Cech if he goes to a rival club.

Btw, funny how people see his qualities:
- Belgians think he's the best because he's Belgian.
- Chelseafans see him as overrated because it would be a disaster if he becomes the engine of a CL winner.
- Dutch people think he's overrated, because they're Dutch and they want to be better than Belgium.
- German people think he and Robben are the best BL players and both belong in the list of best players in the world.
- People in general see him as an amazing talent, because of his sick stats this season for an attacking midfielder in one of the best leagues.

I noticed that many times this season when an opponent play with pace, they hurt us by Ivanovic side.
Don't think Mourinho cares because Ivanovic makes assist and score, but I wonder who it was that said that a defender first job is to defend..

You could tell how excited he was to move here with his first interview, his tweets about the score (even when he didn't play) and the story about how he told Courtois he'd 'see him in London' when Atleti had just beaten Barca to the league. Mourinho undoubtedly sold him false promises.

And selling De bruyne.

NOT Chelsea standard ....... FAR TOO CREATIVE

Considering that he used to do that for us and to our advantage, don't think we have the right to moan about it. In fact, think most of us enjoyed it when he trolled the opposing teams.

Uhm okay...so you say Lukaku got a proper chance at Chelsea? Just like Sturridge right?
You do know strikers, unexperienced, at age 21 need around 10-15 straight games to say atleast and full support from manager no matter what.
But hey, those three games with ton of pressure from Mou, were more than enough for Lukaku right?
All strikers go through rough pattern and not scoring in 4/5 consecutive games, even best ones like Rvp, Falcao, Costa, Cavani,...Lukaku had bad start, but surprise surprise he actualy played good for Everton after he was given regular football.
As I have feeling you dont believe in Lukaku too much, I will be happy when he proves you how wrong you were, either here or anywhere else.

It's difficult to create when you have no striker in front of you in the first half and a fraud up front in the second, and when we have no pattern to our play if we're not counter attacking.