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there is a very real possibility that Jose would want a new adventure. City or P$G offer something fresh for him to take up ...build a new team there.

Tom Ince is overrated.he's tricky but a little one-dimensional in his dribbling. would rather have Reus/Schurrle or any quality option. would need good cover

GK:Cech Sorensen Blackman RB: Azpilicueta Ivanovic CB:JT Luiz Cahill Kalas LB: Cole Bertrand CM:Fellaini Ramires Mikel Romeu Chalobah RM: Moses Reus CAM:Mata Oscar LM:Hazard Marin ST:Cavani Ba Lukaku Manager:Mourinho Rsv: Turnbull Omeruo Piazon edit:Reus in place of Schurrle

Well taken goal but I liked how he set the tempo sitting in front of the back 4 and driving Watford forward

@CHOULO19, I wrote one when i found time... something about the magic of the facup and how we should defend it with pride...no time right now. maybe in a couple of days or so

i think the system focusses on getting first throw-in, first free-kick etc because fixing results is a lot tougher in football. Cricket has had a lot of match-fixing in the past and that's because a single person can affect the result of a game. Azharuddin, Cronje anyone? But I dont think this has anything to do with Ovrebo. I would love for this to be about Ovrebo though!

If you had asked me at the end of last season, I would have put Joachim Loew, Jurgen Klopp, Diego Simeone and Brendan Rodgers ahead of Jose because the platform was there to build a new team, a new era. Drogba had left along with third-rate players like Kalou and Bosingwa. Quality players like Hazard had been brought in. I thought a new manager with fresh ideas could build a team around Oscar-Mata-Hazard But Now that we're shambles again, Jose is the man to pull us back up

Whispers getting louder by the day....I like this. He's surely going to get sacked at Real in the summer or even before the summer if United or Barca do a proper job on Real. Mourinho can take this squad to another level

who says we need 2 defense-minded midfielders? 2 in the pivot need not necessarily drop deep and shield the back four. we have done well with only Essien as our DM not so long ago 2 CDM's maybe necessary for the current team, but when things are not working out, change is needed. go back to Carlo's 4-4-2

wide diamond with Hazard on the left and Oscar on the right. don't think we can leak more goals than we already are. also, playing 2 strikers doesn't mean, we are gonna get ripped apart in defence. Our problem with protecting leads is that we go deeper and deeper late in the game when Hazard or Oscar would've been subbed for Ryan 'Winger' Bertrand. 2 strikers can keep the pressure on opposition. Don't see why we can't make 4-4-2 work. No harm in trying when we've been pathetic of late.

Cech Azpilicueta Ivanovic Terry Cole Ramires Oscar Hazard Mata Torres Ba Bench: Turnbull Cahill Luiz Bertrand Lampard Benayoun Marin Diamond 4-4-2. Convert to 4-2-3-1 with Oscar in pivot and Torres on the wing if we need to consolidate. Torres can't do worse than Marin on the wing

Even if we scrape 4th, i don't think Falcao or Cavani would leave their teams to join our circus Imo, we should dig deep in the market. Go past Falcao/Cavani and have a serious look at the likes of Lewandowski or even Luis Suarez for that matter

i think they terminated Harry Kane's loan deal at Norwich.

@, Although, he's mostly rambling about Rafa or about getting KDB back these days or Only Place To Be

Cech Azpili Ivanovic Terry Cole Lampard Ramires Oscar Mata Torres Ba

Nothing seems to go right for Chelsea. Wins over Arsenal and Stoke aside, we've been pathetic this year. And to think everyone were so happy back on boxing day weekend when Lamps stirred us to a 2-1 win at Goodison.

slightly better imo. yes, he's shaky but he had a Good game in the FA Cup semi-finals last season against rivals Everton. can't imagine Turnbull pulling a blinder....ever

but Lampard at DM alone means we could get caught out often. Ramires more mobile

it may offset our system but in essence, what it does is that the opposition defenders will have to deal with both Ba and Torres. Ofcourse, for this to work, the supply from midfield must be good and we should have a certain degree of control over the game

We have really good prospects to get in and expand the squad next season. Tomas Kalas in defence, de Bruyne in midfield and Lukaku in attack are almost ready for the step up. Hope the new manager coming in is made aware of this

I would start Ba and Torres up front here. No better time to try this. if we lead and need to consolidate, move Torres to the left wing. Can't do worse than Marin can he? Cech Azpilicueta Ivanovic Terry Cole Ramires Oscar Mata Lampard Ba Torres

would love to have had a stop-gap winger. a loan or something. looks like Rafa won't sign anyone to be frank, this team is good enough to get 3rd comfortably. would be allright with top 4 finish even if we win nothing this season

Watched him play recently and when faced with a deep defence, Blackpool would give Ince the ball a lot but he was not very open-minded about passing it around. tried running at the defenders once or twice but failed. not really strong as well. i wouldn't want him here

I made this point in another thread. Without a stable manager and a proper project, we are never going to improve. yes, we may have been able to buy success by changing managers all these years, but over the years, we have blooded ZERO youngsters into the first-eleven. We either sign a definite starter (Oscar, Mata, Hazard, Luiz) or a young guy who gets loaned out to various clubs before leaving (Stoch, Sinclair, Borini, di Santo, Matic) or guys like Zhirkov, Romeu, Sturridge who are not given the chance at the club. Other clubs continously blood talent giving them more and more action every season before eventually becoming first-team material. Welbeck is a great example for this. so is Wilshere, Caulker etc Imo, we need stability. As much as trophies are important, we are not going to improve without stability

Brilliant. I don't care if other forums have more members cause this is bloody brilliant..Quality>Quantity