BlueLyon

Bakkali and Tielemans are something to watch...but for the sake of their careers, they shouldnt be near Chelsea until they are 23y.o. That will be around in year 2020.

That summer, we got Hazard instead

By clueless, I meant he didnt do any improvement, even if he knew a change is neccessary. Maybe clueless wasnt best choice of word. We had like four games (vs Villa, Palace, WHU, WBA) where we made same mistake; no attack plan vs team that parks bus. Then Sunderland, last placed team in PL comes to SB; we have to win to get title by all stakes, yet our performance was same like those four before. No changes, no motivation. I will give Mourinho (this season he made everything better; defending, team-play, getting everyone together etc..., except attacking plan) another season, where we will get proper striker, Mou will be here for second season etc. Maybe things will change. But generaly Mou is not bad or clueless coach at all. In summer, he will have plenty of time to learn from mistakes he made this season against small teams. Why i dont want to sack him, even if I think NOW he doesnt know how to make our attack better? Because I dont want new coach every year, because I believe in Mou he CAN IMPROVE our attack. Because he has special spirit and loyalty to the club that makes up for his lack of playing nice football. Everyone has good and bad points, we all know Mou was never the guy who would make his team play some super attractive, attacking football. We always played with only result in mind, not how nice we will play. Recently, we play unatractive football and there are no results. But results will come eventualy, I hope. No one is perfect, not even Mou, but he can drive us forward in his way, besides, Im not someone who will stand by players or coach when things go well, but want him leave when they dont.

Oh stop it, you...cant remember how many brilliant posts you made here. Truly knowing everything.

No I think he has one more year to show improvements. He was clueless about attack this year, but he can change that next season. And speaking of cowards, arent you one who is talking about ref-lpool conspiracy? Yeah bring on excuses...

Yeah but Sterling is something special IMO. And they trusted Sturridge when we didnt.

Through all season we were dragging on those one goal wins...fearing of conceding till the end of almost every match. Football we played was generaly decent, but ending product, or better say our attacking was piss poor. Mourinho fixed defense, he didnt do ANYTHING in our attack. He brought few players (Willian, Schurrle, Salah, Etoo), he made certain players play better (Hazard), he made the team play counter football, but even in those games where we played counter football, dont get fooled that we are some world class counter attacking team. It was more on opponents mistakes (like Torres goal vs City) than actualy outclassing them (there were such games too, but few). When we play against team that parks the bus, Mourinho is CLUELESS. Yes we lack two or three players, but same could be said for Liverpool or any other team. Mourinho simply didnt know what to do against West Ham, Villa, Palace, West Brom. And then after FOUR such games, where we were piss poor, Mourinho and the players couldnt find the way how to beat Sunderland too. The refs fucked up sometimes, but they also did some favours to us. Still, refs aside, if you are better team, you will beat Sunderland with difference and refs can try as much they want.... Our attack is terrible, SAS alone scored around 50 goals, we have 67 combined. If we had SAS, we would score more goals sure, but Im sure they wouldnt put 50 of those for Chelsea like they did for pool this season. We simply dont know how to play in attack. We rely on Hazard, on flashes of individual brilliance, Oscar looks nothing like playmaker, Willian makes bad decisions, etc... I dont want Mou to leave, he can make team better next year, but with this approach, we will still bottle it against small teams more often than not. We bottled it this year and there should be no excuses by Mourinho or whoever.

I dont see Liverpool losing to Norwich...Suarez always scores hattrick against them. Hoping for a draw, but considering the current situation in PL where everything is going in Lpool plan, they will probably win against norwich by big difference.

Azpi was only trying to block the shot/cross from Altidore if he took one...handled the situation perfectly. But that ref cunt called it penalty. Im realy pissed with Refs nowdays, they fuck up every second game.

Costa or whoever wont solve things alone. Oscar, Willian etc..sometimes play like they are worst attackers in the league, making wrong decisions, having ending product worse than Torres etc. They have to step up against any kind of opponent, but they cant even crack Sunderland ffs.

No excuses...we have a team and manager that should defeat relegation zone teams. We have bottled against Sunderland, Aston Villa and West Ham. We have been lucky number of times this season, scoring goals via luck, opponent mistake or deflection. Our attack is piss poor, we dont have any kind of plan up there. Even Psg win was quite lucky. I dont know if that is Mou fault or players fault, we should beat botom table Sunderland at SB easily. It was clear, win the games and we win title. No more motivation needed. We will simply have to start playing better football to win trophies. And Mou home record gone, another reason to not be happy today

Ramires is trying us not to win the game...missing heading sitter on empty goal and looking for red card...what the fuck happend to this guy...

What the fuck is Schwarzer doing in goal...

+Top prospect +Chelsea fan +English -expensive as hell (worth about 20mio max, they want 30l -unproven at top level (CL, big derbies) -inexperienced (playing for Soton, childhood club is one, playing for Chelsea where defending is pivotal is sth else) If we get him for 20m, be it, but I wouldnt ever pay 30mio for him. He hasnt done anything to be worth that price, just potential. For 30mio, you expect world class full back ala Alves or Lahm. Silva (arguably best CB in world) cost 40mio). No way is Shaw who is just 19 and isnt even the most outstanding player in Soton (Lalana is), neither is he best LB in league worth 30mio. If Shaw reaches potential, he will be worth 30mio. Now he is good talent, worth 15-20mio max. Gotze was 35, Hazard was 35. Shaw for 30mio? No. I like him because he is apparently huge Chelsea fan, and if he is one, he will wait with move until we sign him. Soton doesnt need to sell (and they wont if Shaw wont agree), meaning if United comes with 30mio offer, Shaw should refuse it if he is realy our fan. There are plenty LBs who (apart from not being english) would suit us under Mou more than Shaw. Alex Sandro, Rodriguez, maybe even more experienced fullbacks... We need to invest in top top striker, top top CM, and then if money, spend it on Shaw or whoever.

Should we decide to sell Ba, Etoo, Torres and Lukaku; Bony (or Immobile) would be great 2nd option.

He is world class CM and Mourinho is looking for a midfielder of Vidal's quality. No doubt Mou will at least ask for the price, but thing is Juve wont sell him. And I think Vidal's loyalty to juve cant be questioned. The one and only reason for Vidal going here is because he would be coached under Mourinho, man who can make Vidal play even better. And obviously we would have to splash tons of money plus Lukaku or Ramires... ---- Honestly I think Vidal is too good for Juve, but that doesnt change the fact that Vidal and Juve wont agree for sale.

Lol. Another troll detected.

You are also Juve fan right? Would Vidal to Chelsea mean positive or negative news for you ?

Yeah because Serie A is that more difficult to score than La liga...Last few years, Serie A is retirement home and their defenders are slow as fuck. No wonder the likes of Totti or Di Natale still score for fun there. La liga on other way, its easy to score because the defenses play high line. I think the real test comes in Premier league, where every team's emphasis is on defending,

If he plays well against Chelsea ''best defense of england'' and causes us trouble, he will cause trouble to any defense in Premier league. If we will completely cut him off the game, he might struggle in PL too. I think Roman and Atletico will make or break deal soon after semis...

Modric, Vidal, Fabregas,...I like we are linked with proper midfielders. Whoever of this class we sign, it will be great. Mou knows best who to get. For me, Modric would be ideal, he is hard worker, great on and off the ball and can play either counter attack or creates chances when opponent goes full defense. Vidal...much much better Ramires IMO, but he realy isnt the man to solve our problems against small teams who park the bus. We need DLP, he isnt that. But as I said, whoever of this quality we get, it will be amazing summer!

First, I dont want that to happen, but I think Mou might be looking to do that. Barkley suits his play more than Oscar, Modric would be near perfect to Matic etc... What I disagree with you is the Modric opinion. Yes he is 29, but he is Xavi/Pirlo type of player and those peak at age 30 or even later. He is even better than he was when he left Spurs; this season, he was most outstanding player (bar Ronaldo) in real. His role might be underrated, kind of what hapend to Makelele. I wouldnt swap Oscar for Modric either (unless one of Barkley, Reus, James,...would certainly come), but Modric is still easily worth 40mio, despite his age. His role at Real is extremely important and he is my faw player there, he was very consistent, good in big games and real creator of Madrid's game. His role of deep playmaker is closely connected with experience and he realy plays good nowdays, I feel he will play even better in two years time (around 30s).

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He would fit this team as mucu as Kroos would. Neither of the two is perfect CM we look after. Both are quite slow too.

I think Mourinho might actualy swap Oscar for Modric and Lukaku for Barkley. Costa and new LB would be bought with money only (Ba, Torres, Mikel, Cole, Marin, Moses, Romeu sales, Mata money from january).