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He must stay. We cannot afford to change manager yet again. We finally have a manger in a position where he can effectively end the player power that has so plagued our club since before José left- simply by releasing the main politicians within our squad, Drogba, who currently rules the roost, and Lampard, who looks like he's had enough of being demoted. The others involved, such as Terry and Cech, won't really bother with it as much as they'll lose key allies this summer, and won't have the power any more to challenge a manager. I hope we give him a sizeable war chest during the off-season. Something in the vicinity of 100 million pounds, and hopefully we can garner some 50-60 million through sales. That should allow us to buy 5-6 good young players, with hunger and desire, and without delusions of political supremacy over managers.

I think, since we'll hopefully be letting go of ~ 8 players, we have to match that with players we bring in. We can get a couple of reserves promoted, but we'll still need to make in excess of 5 signings.

As a huge Blackadder fan, thats a :goodpost:

Who's been voting for Bosingwa?

Sacking Villas-Boas at this point would achieve nothing. Not even José Mourinho could achieve anything with this squad. Get rid of the players.

That was the worst fucking performance I've seen by a Chelsea defence. What the fuck was that? Raul Meireles and Lampard need to leave right now. Raul was a fuckwit on the pitch, and Lampard, who the fuck do you think you are? You come on and take 2 wasteful long range shots that wouldn't have gone in if I was goalkeeper in 20 minutes and that's all you contribute? Fuck off, you've had your time here and I respect you for that but its apparent now that you've become a waste of space. The entire back 4 should be dropped or perhaps even fined wages for that. Credit to the attackers, at least they managed to fashion a few chances. Mata played well today, Malouda and Sturridge weren't too bad and Drogba was ineffectual but that's hardly his fault. I'm glad I don't watch Chelsea often these days. I don't know how you people can deal with watching such shit on a regular basis, this kind of thing usually has me fuming for most of the day.

I think we're fucked. We've been in awful form of late, we would do well to keep it scoreless then steal a win with some flukey 35 yarder/own goal.

Look at this. 5 months to go in his Chelsea career, and he's still more bothered than the manager to provide a team talk. It also shows that he is the top dog at Chelsea, and the arm band around Terry's shoulder is nothing more than a scrap of cloth: http://www.dailystar.co.uk/football/view/236241/Didier-Drogba-delivers-Chelsea-team-talk-in-tunnel/?

UEFA don't hate the English, imo they just hate upstart clubs like us that upset the status quo. We come barging in with no history and threaten to be the greatest force in football, UEFA don't want to see the big Italian 3, Spanish and English duo's as well as Bayern Munich lose their power. So they keep coming up with shit to keep clubs like us, Man City, Anzhi etc. down. FFP is something that supports my opinion, there will be absolutely no chance of clubs like AFC Wimbledon becoming the champion of Europe. I have to agree though, these next couple of weeks will be vital in shaping our future, not just our season.

It's not about being more powerful than them. They have the respect and like of Roman. Drogba has previously (working with Cech and Ballack) engineered the sacking of a manager, by basically talking to Roman and asking him to get rid of him. If he really is bothered, he can do it again, especially when you consider Scolari actually performed slightly better than Villas-Boas.

Worse than Scolari? Wow, that would take some doing!

Hi mate

I'm sick of all these managerial philosophies. Come in and be pragmatic, you won't make a lasting impression on the squad anyway as you'll be sacked in 24 months so why bother? If only all our (or any) managers brought that attitude. We'd be a lot better off. All I have against him at this point are awful substitutions and poor work in the transfer market. Romeu and Mata have been good, yes, but the signings of Cahill and Lukaku seem pointless. I'm also unhappy with the treatment he gave Alex. He's also caved and allowed the players to gain power over him. Tactically, he is not very astute but at least if he figures out our strengths and plays to them, thats all we really need. Motivation is something I've noticed has been lacking since "bad moment". I'm not sure this is the managers fault, I think our senior core have simply got the attitude that enough is enough, we've had successful enough careers, we don't need to bother anymore.

He's determined, driven to do as well as he possibly can. Unfortunately his potential isn't that great, but at least he comes close to fulfilling it and tries his hardest every time he goes out there. I would much rather see him in the squad ahead of Malouda, Torres et al.

Come to think of it, all our 04/05 kits were brilliant.

Why would they think it when they've known it and exercised that power since before Mourinho left? If Drogba and his faction want AVB out, theres not a lot anyone can do to stop it.

Bringing on Ferreira for Bosingwa with 10 minutes to go when drawing at home to Fulham back on Boxing Day was the single worst substitution I have ever seen in football.

A point worth considering is that Salomon Kalou is 186 cm, Lacina Traoré is 208 cm and Nikola Zigic is 202 cm. None of them are famous for being able to out power their opponents.

That's a huge wishlist, I think at the best we can get 2 of those 3. We can't afford to splash 120 million on wingers, we need a playmaker, and a right back who can offer more than Ivanovic going forward but more than Bosingwa when defending. We also need to promote Bertrand/van Aanholt or buy a new left back as Ashley just doesn't have it in him these days to play 50 games a season.

If he's coming back to England, we've got to throw money at him if he looks like going anywhere except Man City. I think we can afford him going to City, inevitably the Sheikh will do a Roman and get rid of José. Also he could cause some dressing room problems at City like he did with us We absolutely cannot afford one of our rivals getting him. As it is we're struggling for 4th, we'll be fucked if Arsenal/Spuds/Liverpool (however unlikely any of those 3 may seem) get him.

We could go for Mata-Sturridge-Kalou. Kalou is surely better than Malouda, and Sturridge through the centre is worth the price of Kalou starting.

Here they go again, virtually managing the club: Texting"]http://www.telegraph...e-Mourinho.html Texting Mourinho, effectively undermining AVB

Surely those quotes are not real?

Here's a wish that will never be fulfilled, Bastian Schweinsteiger.

Sorry if I come across as ignorant, but I thought the only "major" minority group in India were the Muslims? And also I thought that most governments around the country were Hindu right-wingers, and hence not very interested in pandering to the minorities?