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ermmmmmm He was a Barcelona man then change to another club. It would have been with any manager coming to the club.

He will have the same dilemma as kdb. Piazon will have too much competition for his spot.

If he doesn't get a chance for the next game he never will.

Well people are ridiculous. I been saying it, this team is inconsistent. One game we play good and the next we play bad. We are not ready for anything till we are more consistent with our ways.

He should be ready to be our main strikers next season. I will be seriously disappointed with Mourinho and Chelsea if they go buy an expensive striker when you have such a young talent.

Don't think Mourinho deserves much criticism or much praise. As we are still a very inconsistent team. We can play good against Southampton and totally fuck it up the next game. It was just like that with Beniteze as well. Where we would play amazing one game and very horrible the next. The real praise and real criticism will come once we have a set idea of what we actually want to play. At the moment it's all a clusterfuck with many different ideas, tactics and lineup. I thought that by the end of December we would have a grasp of things but by the looks of it this might take the whole season before we really see what Mourinho is proposing, ie his philosophy.

Today's display showed he is too good to be bench. He needs to put a transfer request this January and move a long since Mourinho don't give him many chances.

Well anyone can see that as we are so inconsistent. We play great one game and then play shit another.

Not even in today's line up. I thought he should have a chance today ahead of essien. I guess he is truly a gonner if he can't get ahead of essien.

Today's line up.... Well last time we play the mazacar trio was at Newcastle and was dired. Let's see what they can do today.

Good then I would like to see a bit of Mata and KDB. This period of December is the time for someone to make a name for himself. Hopefully one of these two or both produce good that might change the momentum of their career and the team in general.

Well Mourinho said he came here to give stability to the younger players and play good futbol. Which is something we really need to bring some younger players into the team Up to now I am a bit disappointed since we have not seen much, but I honestly did not expect much the first season. Mourinho will really need to prove he's up to the task second season. He would have one full season and enough time to evaluate what is going on. So let's not get all despair because it does not look good right now. This season was always going to be the hardest. Too much transitional parts going about. But if Mourinho is really the man to lead us for long term, then we should see some progress in this department come next season.

I can't blame the guy. And I'm happy that Mourinho and Chelsea gave him the option to leave. We could have really used him, but as Romelu said it was better for his development. As I also believe next year he should be ready to be our main striker if he keeps up his form and improving.

The bashing of emanolo is silly. He has done a wonderful job following the mandate of the owner. Roman wants sexy fútbol, and youthful exuberance. But the structure he wants to build at the moment does not go hand in hand with Mourinho philosophy. So it's not Mourinho fault or emanolo but the man who made the appointment.

Just read that atlético Madrid are in for him.

I don't think Roman really cares about the fans feeling and all that shit. Plus Chelsea fans have no guile to stand up to Roman.

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Very fair point. However being how Roman is, I'm not sure he will take it too kindly with Mata leaving and us playing like shit and counter attacking futbol.

The only fuss is that mata was the best player last two season. And when you play shit like yesterday people will ask why mata is not playing?

Well the Mata situation could be the biggest mistake out of all. Ever since Roman has been at the club it seems he values players more then managers. If Mata leaves the club that might trigger a chain reaction in Romans crazy old head!

I think a manager must only stay for long term if he brings a good philosophy to the club. Close to December and the only philosophy that Mourinho has shown me is that of defense and counter attacking futbol. It's okay right now, but in the long term this philosophy does not go hand in hand with what Roman wants. I think it's silly to say sack a manager after a couple of months. We should evaluate after a season. If he merits a second season then he gets it. But after the second season if the philosophy is not clear with the mandates of the club then someone will go.

I said it the team is very inconsistent. We play good one game and then play horrible the next. This is why I said let's wait till December is over before passing judgment on the manager overall progress.

A center forward? When we have Lukaku banging them in for fun? Does not makes sense. When is this club going to stand up and gamble on youth?

Is best to wait till the end of December to see if he has understand it. But he did really good in this game by adjusting to the opponent something Mourinho said. "I think we identify well the qualities of our opponent, we cope well with the difficulties they could leave us, and after that the team was very solid." See that's what I'm talking about. That's what a top coach, a top staff should suppose to see. I been saying it for quite a while that when we have very tough tackling, physical teams, smaller players like Mata tend to get lost. This is what happened last season when we played West ham, we where on fire and as soon as they started pressing us with their aggressiveness our team fell apart. But Mourinho was smart to put in Mikel to help with this side, something he also alluded to: "I tried to bring some stability to the midfield by playing Mikel. I think Frank was happy with that as it gave him more freedom." Still the midfield problem is something everyone and their mama knew about before coming to the new season. So it was weird that Mourinho did not chose to address this before the season started. It will be interesting if for Mourinho, Mikel will be the solution to all his problems or he will need to do something this January. It was a good game but it seems consistency is not our thing yet. Cause we might look brilliant one game and total dog shit the next. So let's net get carried away yet.

Don't understand why. This is West Ham, a Sam team and they play ugly like stoke. Against such teams we must also go physical like we did for this game. It was pretty ugly for us as well till we scored the penalty. Even at 2 to 0, if West Ham had scored that goal that went by the post it would have changed the whole feel to the game. Now if we put the same line up say against South Hampton then we will look bad. Mourinho should play the right line up according to the opponent. And that's what he did here. It payed of good results.