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Jose Mourinho: Chelsea 'young eggs' to be given a chance in first-team Cool story Jose. Will believe it when I see it. Otherwise, it's the usual BS youth talk.

Papy who? This has desperate signing written all over it.

The worst part is, we haven't even experienced our annual winter slump yet...

Given the state of Ivanovic right now, I don't think there's any wide player will fail against him.

And let's not also forget that Mourinho proceeded to blame those players for not wanting to compete for places.

*enter Pogba thread, see discussion about TV shows, exit thread...*

I wonder whether Maccabi Tel-Aviv will be Rosenborg 2.0 this season...

I find this loan deal to be rather bizarre because I thought we would loan him to another English side. Our success rate in loaning players to a foreign club isn't exactly great.

That is because he's stubborn, too loyal to a certain group of players. He doesn't put the same faith and trust in everyone, which is why some players felt alienated and left the club. Had Mourinho treated the players equally and the club not being eager to get profit, we might actually still have players like Luiz, Mata, De Bruyne, Schurrle etc available to help us get out sticky situations.

The handling/management of the squad depth has been atrocious for the past few seasons. The club seem more concerned about earning profit than actually having a competitive squad to challenge for all major trophies and of course, Mourinho having his 'untouchables' has also been a detriment to the team. Our bench/squad depth is pretty desperate for a big club and hell, even some of the lesser teams have better players to call upon than us!

Please tell me you were trolling there. If not, then ...

Napoli boss Maurizio Sarri doesn't know anything about Chalobah... http://www.football-italia.net/72326/sarri-napoli-improvements

PLEASE LET THIS BE TRUE!!!!!!!!

Martinez on Stones.... http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/john-stones-true-evertonian-praises-6351383 :lol: Martinez is an absolute cunt! Fucking twat!!

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That is a fair point but at the moment, we still don't know what Mourinho will do with Kenedy and Traore. They are after all, still youth players and we all know where Mourinho stands with that. If he's going to use them, then great but if not, then we will lack some decent, experienced back-up.

Unless someone is coming in (desperately hoping that will be the case!), loaning Moses seems a bit daft. On a day City strengthened their already strong squad, we decided to weaken ours when we are already lacking half-decent/quality players on the bench.

At fault for Roma's second goal. Signed for Juventus and they have lost their first two league matches for the first time in history.

Hope he flops badly at City.

You can call it unfair but if last season was anything to go by, then Falcao won't do well for us this season (if he does, then fair play). He was unconvincing at United and with Colombia too during the Copa America. His form has completely gone out of the window since the serious knee injury he picked up in January 2014. Yes, he did score a good goal yesterday but otherwise, he hasn't done much and the highlighted sentence above is exactly why people draw similarities with Torres. People keep on heaping praises for the very little things even when he has nothing to warrant a praise.

What a fraud.

How can that be used as an excuse for Falcao's failure last season? He was given a decent amount of game time by Van Gaal and he didn't perform anywhere near good. None of this performances suggest he's going to succeed with us/in the Premier League.

OR it could be like Lampard and Cole, who were both released after being deemed no longer good enough for the team. If Mourinho and the board still have any logic in them, then they would not be giving Ivanovic a new contract, not with the way he has been playing.

Rather than blaming Van Gaal for Falcao's failure last season, maybe people should look at why he never trusted him to play in the starting XI...