Chelsea Legend 11

Only player we have on our roster good enough to contest Fellaini in the air is Zouma... I really don't think that's where the game will be won and lost.

Every week we have a bunch of Nancy's in here quivering about our form and every week we win. Two loses all season and we still have people crying over how we have been playing.... 2-0. Title is won.

I think you guys value the workrate of Koke, I do too he seems to be the type of guy who will do whatever the team asks of him. My problem is I don't think Fabregas and him give us enough pace and strength to work a midfield 3 effectively. He can pick a pass and is decent in counter attack but he isn't exceptional in possession and doesn't really offer the type of pace that I think Jose values in the midfield. We're not gonna be able to sign both Pogba and Koke and for my money Koke doesn't offer enough both ways. For the money he's not a perfect Jose player like Pogba is.

Mettle! Winning every scrappy battle! Character building.

No thanks... good ole pragmatic football FTW

I have no idea what you're talking about. we got 3pts at a ground we haven't won at in eons... Quit your whining and look at the bigger picture. We were without our two best strikers, two of our midfielders were very close to missing the next two games and had to play it safe, the pitch was shit and the conditions not ideal to playing it long. Every season has ebb and flow, we haven't been at our best for weeks now but guess what? WE'RE 7PTS CLEAR AND ARE STEAMROLLING OUR WAY TO THE TITLE!!!

He changed the game no one can argue that.

Was weird to see him kiss the shirt it has to be said. Most people kiss the badge!

I blame the pitch and the wind. We couldn't connect any passes.

Ya it is.

Man of the Match is Courtois.

Not serious, precautionary.

AND NOW YOU'RE GONNA BELIEVE US AND NOW YOU'RE GONNA BELIEVE US AND NOW YOU'RE GONNA BELIEVE US!!!!!! WE'RE GONNA WIN THE LEAGUE!!!!

Brother... I know nothing about the J-league at all, its a tiny league that gets no coverage where I'm from. I don't even know one team from there. If we weren't in for the player and it didn't have corporate interest Jose would've just rubbished it and moved on. Instead he mentions how football is changing and how satisfying the sponsor is part of the game. Without being too presumptuous I think its safe to say Jose is basically saying "this is not my signing!" You can spin it any way you want whats clear to me is Jose is OBVIOUSLY telling us that we are signing this guy with corporate interest at the heart of it. He's not just any player, he is one of the better players in the league I would imagine since that would be the reason why our sponsors would like to utilize him in marketing. Anyways, I really don't care too much... At the end of the day this guy is either a loaner or end of the bench fodder, if it helps appease our sponsors who are helping us secure some of the best players in the world so be it.

So basically we've found our loan partner.

Are we talking about the same Jose Mourinho???? The media master and mind game king???? Jose is not at all straightforward in the media especially when it comes to transfers. One minute we're not buying anyone and no one leaves, the next minute Mata, DeBruyne and Lukaku are out the door. In the interview what was clear to me is Jose drove home the fact that football is changing and with FFP you have to play the corporate game in order to survive. This is a corporate signing, its so obvious... And no Jose isn't gonna throw the guy under a bus by saying he's shit! He's basically said we signed the best player in Japan for our sponsor.

If he's in place of Fabregas then you may be onto something but not with Fabregas if you ask me. Too much money on the bench.

Not to me. seems slow and doesn't really recycle possession as well as our current midfielders... He gets after it but what role do you give him in our squad? if its 4-3-3 he's not fast enough to play next to Matic and Cesc. Just my opinion but he doesn't strike me as a Jose player and especially for the fee.

I seriously doubt Jose is interested.

I think you need to learn to read between the lines a bit.

Sounds like it.

Jose pretty much laid it out in the press conference, this fella is a Yokohama signing. Whatever doesn't really matter, the thing that we need to look at now is getting our hg quota up so we have a full roster of 25 players.

Hopefully he can help sell a few jerseys down there and help with our visibility in the market. I'm not mad....

We're never gonna sub off Hazard for Muto unless we're up 3-0 and he's dead tired or injured.

Some extremely lazy journalism out there. If Pogba is sold in the summer how on earth could it be to Barca who have a transfer ban till next summer? Pogba will go in the summer and it won't be to Barca, sorry.