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no good manager in his right mind would come if the old guard except Terry still remain next year.

Is any young one that "dropped" by JM eventually succeed and becomes great player, or most of them end up in Cyprus league or alike? If later is the truth then you should blame such as Arnesen not JM.

I think shipping out Lampard is minimal requirement for this club to re-succeed. I have no taste for such as Lukaku, but Josh is great. For a 18 years kid more than 90% pass completion almost every game against top teams is simply something you cannot ignore.

Lukaku looks like Drogba so he must be Drogba II, Betrand plays in same position as Cole so must be Cole II. I never understand this logic. No one seems to mind Lukaku never draws a formal bid except from Chelsea. Not even from any Bundesliga or Ligue 1 teams who usually have good connections in Belgium. And not from any other great club, either, despite the fact that club grown players are generally in short supply for these clubs. As for Betrand, Just see how Man U and Arsenal chasing local wonderkids with huge transfee fee, usually before those guys reach 20, and no one seems to mind Betrand, even there is no good left back, not even second classed English LB since Cole. Doesn't these facts say something? Just stop wild fantasy for those only "Chelsea interested wonderkids" and buy some good solid players like Cavani, Falcao or Coentrao, please! Before that happens no one not even JM could expect to succeed in this club.

Lukaku is simply not good enough. He got his chance and generally disappoints. Josh could only play in Lampard's place and Lampard already complained he hadn't played enough more than once. Oriol is injured. Kakuta cannot even get a regular or even a subsitute place in a relegation threatened team. And Betrand never draws any interest from any PL team despite years playing in lower league. What makes lots of you suddenly think this championship level player could suddenly turn into a star I can never understand. Cole in the same age already won national fame.

The most likely result is you sack AVB and not getting JM back, like what happened in Inter. Instead, the power from those obsolete old players runs rampart and from then you get nothing more than those oppotunists who has and will get no chance to manage great club and so take their one time a life chance to ruin before get sacked. In short, when AVB sacked I expect Avram Grant style.

I am sure the only team he really loves is Victoria Setubal.

I am afraid Mikel is out. He is a Xavi Alonso style DMC who thinks he should and could play like Lionel Messi.

This team need to ged rid following players for good before it could ever think about challengeing Champion League again. They can never succeed in Chelsea anymore, so it is time to stop self cheating and continue to carry their salary burden for nothing. Cole, Essien, Lampard, Torres, Drogba, Mikel, Malouda, Bosingwa, Ferreira, Kalou, Hilario Following players should be phased out gradually for lacking of talent, quality or problematic attitude. We may have to retain some of them, but certainly not all, and certainly could only as second lined troopers. Meireles, Cahill, Sturridge, Turnbull I know people would disagree certain names, for example Cahill or Sturridge. But just think that: Cahill is no better than Real Madrid's worst CB, Albiol. And Sturridge is worse than Callejon, and there are at least 4 attackers in that team who is significantly better than him ( Benzema, Higuain, Di Maria and Ronaldo), and how could we beat RM when their no.5 best attackers is better than our no.1 or no.2? Just ask yourself: Can we hope to employ a manager tactically better than JM? If not, how could we use those players A LOT worse than Real Madrid's to compete with them when they also haver better or at least equally good manager?

Why is his age such a big problem, has Mourinho not said "This could be the story of a donkey who worked for 30 years but never became a horse?" He won UEFA cup in second year of his managing career, he dealt with CSKA Moskow easily, which Mourinho with his legion of world class players only managed to get a draw today. He broke all time record of a league which ranks No.6 of Europa. If his achievement is so meaningless, then what are these managers who with their 10, 20, or 30 years of exp yet never manage to produce even close results? Then what does their so called experience really count?