Jase

Not sure if this squad can handle his high pressing game approach.

Chelsea star Diego Costa set to avoid FA rap for aiming kick towards Martin Skrtel

Double/Treble success every season. Guaranteed.

"Passed to me by a football contact". A "football contact". That's convincing. It's basically another way of saying "a Chelsea source said...".

Costa is basically the player version of Mourinho. When everything is going well, it feels great to have them. When it's not, it doesn't feel great because they will cause more trouble than do anything good.

Never dull supporting Chelsea FC.

http://www.espnfc.com/chelsea/story/2692865/diego-costa-could-face-fa-charge-for-martin-skrtel-incident 4-match ban incoming...

Madmax brought up that idea 3 years ago - http://forum.talkchelsea.net/topic/4510-give-us-feedbackbugs-thread/?p=378472- and while I do think that's a good one, it's difficult to implement the system. (don't take that the wrong way by the way. just saying)

Cheers @Rhino's Skin. And who made those offline donations?

This season is the worst. Even when we had poor periods under Mourinho previously, we were still able to create chances, score good goals along the way. But this season, we have been very pathetic - scoring mostly only from set pieces and relying on individual brilliance. Also, never mind the fact that we look clueless going forward under Mourinho this season, he doesn't even seem to know how to organize a defence anymore (which is known to be his main strength). Our defending has been extremely atrocious and we have the second worst defence in the league (22 goals conceded). The 3 goals we conceded against Liverpool sum that up. The defence got sold and outdone by the simplest of skills. It was seriously embarrassing to watch.

Jose Mourinho's job at Chelsea 'not under threat' That's just taking the piss!

West Ham are really one strange side... BEAT - Arsenal, Liverpool, Man City, Chelsea, Crystal Palace FAIL TO BEAT - Bournemouth, Norwich, Sunderland, Watford

Only 1 shot in the entire first half and we were playing at home. That sums up our football under Mourinho. On top of that, if you discount the goals we scored against Aston Villa (which came because they made mistakes), Ramires' goal is the first decent one we've netted since West Brom away and that was 2 months ago!

My god. We are so embarrassing to watch these days. Every week, we are putting out the same old uninspiring performances and even the small, tiny improvement isn't doing us good in any way. We are still not winning matches and we are the English champions FFS! We are doing even worse than Blackburn in the 90s and Moyes' United!! It's really hard to predict when we will actually get better and where our next win will come from. At this point, we might as well just take our losses and sack Mourinho because if we continue to play like this and end the season in a disastrous manner, the repercussions will be far greater than paying the 30m+ compensation - e.g. tough to attract world class players, manager etc. Hire an interim manager (get Hiddink in for instance, he can't possibly do any worse than Mourinho right now) and hope we get the short term reaction to pull ourselves out of trouble and then, sort things out properly come the end of the season because right now, we seem to be dropping deeper into the mire and there's no sign that Mourinho can/will get us out of it (it's already November FFS!).

Apologies for the delay. The poll is up but not that it matters...

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Chelsea vs Dynamo Kiev PRE-MATCH DISCUSSION AND LIVE CHAT 2015/16 UEFA Champions League Group Stage Matchday 4 4th November, Wednesday, 2015 Stamford Bridge 19:45 Kick Off (UK time)

Chelsea 2-1 Dynamo Kiev POST-MATCH DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS 2015/16 UEFA Champions League Group Stage Matchday 4 4th November, Wednesday, 2015 Stamford Bridge 19:45 Kick Off (UK time)

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And Courtois is obviously still out.

FOUR reasons why the club haven't sacked Mourinho yet (either one, two, three or all of them): 1. If we sack him, who can we bring in? Only big name and experienced manager out there right now is Ancelotti and even then, it seems like he intends to stick with his sabbatical plan. 2. His contract. Sack him and we have to pay 30m+. With the club being so concerned about the FFP and obsessed with the finance, doubt they would want to take that hit. 3. The club are owning up to their mistakes made in the summer (e.g regarding transfers) and not blaming Mourinho entirely for the mess we're in now. They intend to give him time/chance to fix it by backing him in the future transfer windows. 4. Maybe the club are serious about wanting stability with the manager, even if the results aren't great on the pitch.

In an alternate reality, it could have been Chelsea v Arsenal.

http://www.marca.com/en/2015/10/29/en/football/barcelona/1446145725.html?cid%3DSMBOSO34503%26s_kw%3DtwitterCM%26t%3D118478694=Twitter

@Johnnyeye and @quickpassnmove, cheers lads. Much appreciated.

Should have gone to Bournemouth. But too bad he wanted to stay in London.