BlueLyon

If we play our best football, we can win the game. End of. Its up to the players if they have balls and enough passion to step up.

One of biggest mistakes we made was not bringing Cabaye in january. Yes, we bought Matic, but could easily gone after Cabaye too as he was available. Add not bringing Cavani in summer... Great player, in prime, experienced, top FK/corner specialist, hard worker, creative, big friend with Eden. Now, I dont see any realy good CM being available; Gundogan is injured, Kroos wont go and he isnt realy suited for us, Vidal wont leave Juve, Pogba will cost 60mio, Strootman is injured,...

Why bitching bout the kits...they are as they are...blue with Chelsea logo on it....once the season will progress, people will get used to them, we will memorize great moments with wearing this kit (hopefully) and thats it. Its nice looking shirt IMO. Why no Luiz in the ad though

they are two points ahead of us, but we play vs them and if we win, we will be one point ahead. LOL.

This game is crucial for PSG clash later. Playing two games in a row at home will hopefully up the moral of the team. For the title, the only way I see it is this: Sure we must win all the games, including vs Lpool. City must lose to Lpoo and at least get another draw. The ending would be like this: Chelsea 87 City 86 Lpool 86 Not that impossible, but I simply dont see us win all 6 games tbh. There will be some odd draw...

I have strange feeling it would be better to keep Mata till end of season, he could add something different vs Palace, WB, WHU, Villa,...if Mou would ever trust and believe in him in first place. I think we lost title in games vs small teams, games where Mata was superb last season. With him, we might concede more goals, but also win those games in the end... Sometimes, Mou completely cuts certain players off, which isnt necessary a best thing for the team on long term.

What about Ribery? He was even better last yeari in counter attack formation, but he is still world class IMO.

Yup, only one thing to add; there is Coutinho who is doing pretty well this season IMO.

hah, I didnt mean we should get those or even think we have any realistic chance of getting them, but just point out what type of players Mou would idealy want in his team. With no real #10, but Gundogan type player instead... And Eligius, read this again, if you missed it: ''But for the best of development, keep it as it is, to fit Mou style, you dont only need inteligence, but also energy/stamina that comes in few seasons. Oscar will come good, he showed it already, give him time.'' No need for sarcasm...

I think Mou idealy would have 4:3:3 --RB---CB---CB---LB-- Vidal-Matic-Gundogan --Willian-ST-Hazard-- But for the best of development, keep it as it is, to fit Mou style, you dont only need inteligence, but also energy/stamina that comes in few seasons. Oscar will come good, he showed it already, give him time.

Thats just wrong. He is idealy best possible #10 that Mourinho could have, but needs to fullfill his potential. I dont think he is only one who plays ''average'', the whole attack is average. Thats certainly something to do with Mourinho, because last year, our attack was more fluid. It has stagnated since Mou arrival. Defence got better, but attack, not so sure. I dont think its on Oscar to be guilty for his bad form, but also on Mourinho for 1.) not rotating him more 2.) giving him extremely big defensive duties. I still think Oscar will improve, but definately even next year he wont be consistant. He will reach that level at age 25 or sth when he spends few full seasons in PL and completely understands his role. You have to undertand that first few months, Mou was just watching our players play and Oscar was brilliant. Then Mou (when he finaly knew his players better) started giving team very specific orders on how to play and Oscar's role got very limited. I think Oscar, to some extent even Hazard and Willian will never realy fullfil their potential here as they might in RM, Barca, Bayern (who are all very offensive teams), but they still can become best as a team and world class individuals, should Mou give them at least a bit of freedom. As they say, once you are scoring goals for fun, defence isnt as important anymore. I remember few years ago, Bayern was in similar position, some big talents, but missing players on several areas, trying to play counter attacking football etc. Ribery needed to completely adapt to his new defensive duties and people were already moving him to big clubs in spain, england,,,,because they thought he wont realy fulfill his role in Bayern. Look what happened, few years of patience, some new players in the team and Ribery is world class winger. Oscar is different role obviously, but the point is same. Give him few years and he will definately become what everyone wants him to be; world class. As there is a lot of talk about Mou selling Oscar/Hazard to fund striker, I think its just BS, but I realy hope we wont sell most important players; we already need 3 new starters to buy in 1st eleven, selling more players will completely reshape our 11 and we wont win nothing next year. Team needs to play together for some time, you forget that when Mou came to Chelsea (or inter) for first time, he had players in their peak, now he got half of team with bunch of young apples and oranges, required of being put in basket. When he makes complete team, when players will play together for some time, then judge whole project. There is a great song that says what we need to do, wait:

Even if we get 150m, we should never ever sell him, at least not for several years. Best clubs in the world dont sell their best players. Simple as that.

Messi never scored against Cech vs Chelsea, Im sure Courtois will continue legacy well.

Why the fuck is Mou such a pussy about Torres? He had balls to cut Casillas and Mata (who werent even playing that bad) but he sticks with Torres for what? Put your authority up and send the fucker to spain!

Home looks nice, will look even better in matches I think. Red gk kit on itself is good, but I think should be different colour because of the contrast between red and blue though...

Mou y u no send this Potatorres to the reserves?!?

Dont forget Bale was left winger too, but he converted himself in RW pretty well. Think Reus is intelligent and skillful enough to turn into RW. Not to forget, he already was playing RW several times and constantly changes wings in bvb. If not Reus then Vela, Di Maria, Lucas,... Imo Vela despite Arsenal history would be realy good bet, he can score, assist, dribble, and looks he got mature in spain. What Mou should look besides striker, cm and lb is AM who can score goals.

Not happy with the rumours for Mandzukic or Lavezzi...sure we can do better...

Those clowns misdated the april fools it seems...

I firmly believe Hazard would be more consistent in better team.

Lukaku waits his team to do the work and he then scores goal. This wont work here. Mou expects from out striker to create, track back and be able to hold up the ball. Apart from being able to score goals, Lukaku is miles away from being proper striker we need. But would be very good 2nd option. If you take goals away, Lukaku is average. We need much more than just goals from striker. Lukaku is poacher, we need allround striker. Good thing, Lukaku is just 20 and his price wont drop in next few years if he keeps developing. If not keep him here, just loan him for two more seasons and then sell him if things wont go in right way.

To play in Rm/barca, they would have to splash 100m for him. The pricetag itself would demand him to play. He has the skill to play ahead of Bale/Dimaria/Neymar IMO. He is much more dynamic than those three and he can not only play for himself, but also for team. In Chelsea, he has limited role, but in Real or Barca, he would have free role. Sure he would be behind Messi or Ronaldo, but would be efficient at least as Bale/Neymar. Stats are not everything. Eden is mould of Ribery and someone like that would fit Real/Barca and Messi/Ronaldo more than 'wannabestar' Neymar or Bale. I wont even go to the dribbling ability between Hazard (natural talent) and Bale who is only pace and power. Neymar never suited barca in the first place, not with Messi in team atleast.

Offense wise, he was much much better last year. Together with Hazard and Mata, he was more dynamic, they passed between each other more and played as a team. Mourinho realy fucked up our attacking trio IMO, it was much nicer to watch it last year. The video shows it clearly:

Splash 100mio on Suarez, we wont even need new Lb or Cm then

What im trying to point out is that Oscar vs spain (or italy, if you think its easy to score vs spain) will make superb assist to Neymar, while he will fail even the simpliest pass vs Crystal...same goes for Luiz who looks 10 years more mature in NT than here. And he played in big games vs spain etc where pressure is certainly higher than vs palace. The point is they dont even try here and dont have ability here. Besides Oscar should love Mou as he fancied him ahead Mata, he had great start, but in 2014 Oscar looks like he just came to europe... As you say if Oscar is that reliant on his team mates, well then...