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Did I just hear Baba for Kennedy? Is this some form of joke that I'm not getting? I came to see Pato.

I came to see Pato.

Totally understand the club saying this. Also saying that no deal is on the table and having John or whoever say that contracts take a few months to get done is a poor excuse. preferably we'd of done the same with Ivanovic so I can also understand the timing of the leak. Having the new manager decide is perfect, clean break or keep him on depending on whether whoever the new manager is etc. Plus we should see him playing out of his skin from now till the end of the season more so than we already do.

Another month of price wrangling I guess.

Reports that he wants to go to R Madrid in the summer, usual newspapers.

Look so much more balanced with a natural left back. Same situation with Luis last year though.. Should retain his place for Stoke. Good to see him covering behind Terry for diagonal crosses just like Ashley used to.

stand up for the special one

All I've heard this morning on the radio is that he has tomorrow to save his job with Hiddink ready to take over until the end of the season, its absolutely ridiculous that we have not even HALF a season thats terrible yet we're ready to pull the trigger on £30million contract dismissal and getting rid of the manager we all wanted back for years and years. I don't agree with everything thats happened but yeah I can bang on about the transfers that were not done because thats the issues that a manager foresaw, same as we all said toward the end of last season "Wow we really need a world class CM" to say the least. It'll be a sad day when we're all back here posting for a new managers head, same old Chelsea with no stability - does Jose need to evolve as a manager? Sure. But we need to evolve as a club instead of the hiring/firing mentality we have. Who comes in? Hiddink? To the end of the season? His last 'good job' was Chelsea. Ancelotti? No thank you, we've been there with that eyebrow before. Bielsa? Seriously. someone suggested that and I can't remember who but my.. give me whatever your on. Pep at the end of the season? I think its safe to say that Munich didn't get as much as they hoped for with Pep, league titles in Germany when they consistently spend a good amount of money against the competition + buying their stand out players. Its a tough period that we'll be better off for if we see it through. I was slapped down for this transfer argument previously but seriously, we had our business done early with Fab/Costa, settled pre-season, complete reverse in the summer and we're suffering, why does everyone have such an issue with that? Would it be the worst thing in the world to make it to 4th, get the players he wants in the summer and then compete again next year?

Progress with what? Players he didn't get? We want £40m John Stones and we ended up with Papy a £2m signing, just put that into perspective for a moment. Do I agree with everything Jose does? Absolutely not, do I think he's the right man for us? Absolutely. Its a tough period, other teams have been through similar in seasons past we just have to fight our spoilt brat attitudes after being lauded with trophies. To me, it said to the board exactly what Jose said 'After winning the league standing still in the transfer window is dangerous'

100% and I'm glad he's in the position of power. We need stability and fortunately we are being forced into keeping on that track rather than panicking after bad results/some issues. Try being an Arsenal fan, 10 years with nothing, unfortunately our success came too quickly and in the modern world Chelsea fans are spoilt as fuck, sadly. Still behind Jose, so what, one season of mediocrity after not getting Jose's summer targets, I'm fine with that. Chill.

Intensity suddenly just died or what?

Well I read something this morning that kind of made sense "The players are bored with playing in a tactical straight jacket and want to play with more flair/freedom" I can see a few of our players that might feel that way, Eden for one.

on sky at the moment on the yellow ticker that hes survived a board meeting this morning

Sometimes teams have horrific periods, why are we always the first set of fans to call for a sacking no less of Jose, who 90% of the fan base wanted back at the club. We had problems from March, Jose gave the board targets in June, didn't get who he wanted so now we play with who we have, simple. What's the issue? It's a bad patch, seriously hate to think what would happen to some of you had you been Arsenal fans. Stick with the manager, stick with the team, under performers included, so what if we have one bad season and come fourth or something? Just means we missed an opportunity in the summer to reinvest, Jose said standing still isn't a good idea, we did. They need to have a serious sit down and hash it out before Southampton that's for sure... Because I have a ticket! Ha.

sigh, chill with the goals

Watched the game, unfortunately very average display, I don't watch him often btw it was just on stream.

I actually liked the fact that we had a female Dr at the forefront etc. but honestly just move on now, managers are allowed to be frustrated, whether it was public or not I don't really care, Jose is the manager of the club and Eva one of the doctors. Its a shame that its because Eva is female that the media has jumped all over this and seems to have offers from lawyers from every angle but fair play if she wants to go the payout route, just hope its worth it for her if Chelsea decide to fight it because in truth was it really that bad? Called someone a name and then it got heated? Jon didn't have an issue, kept his head down and resumed duties. If this happened in the office there would be a verbal or at most a written warning, not a full scale millions payout. Sad.

Looked knackered 10 minutes before he came off, hopefully he can recover by Saturday to put a shift in, feel as though Matic-RLC is our best chance against Arsenal. If I see Matic and Fabregas lining up or Ramires together, switching the TV off.

Considering it was his debut, played great, few lapses in concentration but our left side looked so much bettter, equally as good as our right side.

Begovic Azpi-Zouma-Terry-Baba Matic-RLC Pedro-Oscar-Hazard Remy Don't think we can start Baba without starting Terry to be honest.

Chill out, I'm not happy with our performances but look at other clubs in past seasons, they've had much worse. Some fans, whilst entitled to their own opinion as this is a forum, are simply ridiculous.

Not sure what's worse, our performance or listening to Michael Owen for 90 minutes straight accompanied by Glen Hoddle's noshing of John Stones and Barkley.

Same guy reporting pogba is tweeting we terminated negotiations with Everton, moyd or something , someone link..

Flying in two hours.. We best of signed him by the time I land.

Calling it now, he hands in a transfer request after the City game.