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That would be anti climatic

We did play some attacking futbol, but after the Sunderlan defeat in the Capital One we revert to a more defensive mind approach (coincidentally this is when Oscar disappear as well). In fact Mounrinho said this, that he had to change that style to a less pragmatic approach in order to secure top 4. I wonder, will we be struggling again to qualify for top 4 this season if he goes to what he was trying at the beginning of the season?

If this is the case, then there's no need to get rid of players like Cole. Fact is that Chelsea is no longer going that route. If we can't keep some of our oldies, the fuck we doing looking for another oldie?

He seems like a big step up to the previous managers. Really a team now to be careful of.

Wrong, we have Terry and Ivan. Ivan goal against Napoli, against Benfica last minute EL final. That's character as well. Now new and young players yes we lack a lot, with the exception of Azpi. He got bigger balls then all the lot...with the exception of Terry as well. No one will beat him, bigger bollocks!

Hmmm if that's true then people should have known that before buying Torres. That such injuries would have done that. But nobody knew. Similar here, nobody knows so why take the risk? And to be fair, for 25 million is not a bad risk as it was for 50....

Why buy him? He's the same case as Torres, coming of a major injury and might force himself into the world cup hurting himself even more.....

So you guys think we have a buy back clause or something like that?

Some was saying that they doing these transfer right now cause they count towards the 2013-2014 season. And that the punishment begins for the new season of 2014-105.

Is that only in spain? Cause Wenger activated the clause for Suarez and Liverpool didn't sell, cause they didn't want to.

Not going to bother debating since your clearly a big mourinho fan as your already bias to the numbers. Is like debating with an arsenal fan vs a Chelsea fan which of their team is best.

Did I ever question that? I like two other managers better because of their style of play they implement in the team and personality simple. But as you state, number and numbers. Just like numbers prove that Guardiola won more tittles in shorter time then Mourinho. And I still don't like them as much as these two, but if Guardiola was here he would have my support. But we have Mourinho and he has my support!

Guardiola has more tittles in less time yet I'm not wanking over him every second.

I actually like Hiddink and Carlo better then Mourinho, cause unlike Mourinho they don't have to resort to shenanigans mind games speaking a bunch of bullshit to win. If you are good, you are good no matter what a fool might say. That being said, our current coach is Mourinho and while I might not agree with him in everything and is not my favorite coach he has my support. It's better to support then saying I wish this manager and so and so was here....

So it seems, people are obsess with him.....

Like Sturridge?

What has made the big difference is buying potential then ready made stars.

I liked the final in which benfica lost to a last minute goal from Ivanovic! :-D

Is this true? Cause the same thing happened before David Luiz signed for PSG.

I'm on par with some. This guy needs a rest. If they take him to the world cup we better watch out cause that's exactly what did Torres. Rush himself for the world cup. So the best thing is for us is to buy him and he chills the whole summer in the lovely hands of Eva! :-P

Well Ranieri built a team for mourinho as well... At least the core but I never heard any praises for that... So sadly that's how this sport is, you forget about the hardwork the previous manager did in building up the team and just focus on who won what.

Mourinho fan boys? We support the club. If the club is on par with Mourinho philosophy then so be it. But just like the club is supporting Mourinho, it won't support failure for too long. We all know that if we don't improve from this season, hes a dead man walking. But that has not happen, so until then stop bitching and moaning and support the club.

Sorry to break it to you but it's 50 million Euros! So that in pounds is like 40 something million. Which is still really good.

But the thing is that they was first choice before Mourinho came to the club. Just like Terry wasn't first choice for Benitez.... Press was right with players not fitting their philosophy. They where right all along! :carlo2: