Jase

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMT73svIzf0

Yay. More pussies to play with. Seriously though, welcome to the team @Rmpr, @Special Juan! If you have any questions, feel free to come and ask. I promise I won't scratch..

I guess that depends on how you want to look at it and set your expectation really. There is such thing called a 'long term investment' and if we do get Shaw, then he falls into that category. If Shaw is like already 25-26 y/o and entering his peak, then yeah. We should be expecting immediate success but to expect so when he's only 19 is a bit nonsensical. It's not always that simple/straightforward.

Maybe not now but am looking towards long term..

Said this before and will say it again. Don't think 27m or 30m (or whatever the amount is) for Shaw is a crazy thing especially when we'll probably be paying that amount for 2 different first choice LBs down the years. Not the worst idea of paying a straight 30m for Shaw and solving our LB issue for the next 15 years or so.

Funny you mention that it since does concern with the application within the system which in this case relating to the selection of players. And it's not even just the pivot problem but further forward as well. There's hardly any combination play, 1-2s or basically just any plan in attack and it's not like we don't have the players to do it..

Well, it's true. It's not like Mourinho outrightly said "Torres will be at Chelsea next season". There's still a possibility of the opposite will happen.

TBF people, Mourinho did say he *THINKS* Torres will stay at the club. There's still hope...

It's even more depressing that you are reminding us about it...

Good win. Always good to come from behind and win (would have been a joke had we lost to the 2nd worst defence team!). Our goalscoring record of 103 goals is still intact. Yay! :blue scalf:

You are really rubbing it into Choo Choo, aren't you? #PrayForChooChoo

Jose Mourinho prepares Chelsea's end-of-term report for Roman Abramovich to recommend how club can improve

Chelsea's Tomas Kalas is ready to come of age as a first-team regular

In an interview with the Guardian, Mata said this (and amongst other things)... http://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/may/09/juan-mata-manchester-united-chelsea-transfer

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2625191/Roman-Abramovich-falling-love-Jose-Mourinho-The-Chelsea-owner-not-happy-dull-football-outbursts.html Only 1 season has passed since Mourinho returned and Daily Mail already stirring up BS about Roman not being happy with him..

"Edin Dzeko is on Jose Mourinho striker wishlist after the Portuguese praises the Manchester City star"

So easy to say 4-2-3-1 is a defensive formation with the 2 DMs and all, when it's not. Guess you weren't complaining when we beat the smaller sides with this 4-2-3-1, were you? Has nothing to do with the formation at all but more so with the application of the system. Take RDM for instance, when he first came in, he set us up in a defensive 4-2-3-1 system looking to play on the counter but in the following season, we played a more attacking 4-2-3-1. If anything, Mourinho arguably need set us loose a bit more in his favored 4-2-3-1 and not change the whole system so that we are less defensive. Heck, even the suggested 4-4-2 can be defensive if a manager wants it to be that way. Doesn't mean it's more attacking and speaking of 4-4-2, that formation is never going to work for us properly if we don't utilize proper wingers and even overlapping full backs to stretch the play. Otherwise, most things are just gonna clock in the midfield area like we are doing now most of the time and that system itself have hardly been a success for us this season when we've used it. We never seem to be able to control the midfield since most sides these days play with 3 in midfield and we always get overrun and as a result of that, we then just launch aimless long balls and only hoping that something will come good of it rather than having an actual plan with it.

'Sound'?

Oh the joy. More BM nicknames. Bowel Movement Bitch Mistress What's next?

We'll be lucky if Inter even want to pay 5% of his wages...

Well, you might know it soon enough.

Silly thing happened..