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who at our club deals with player contracts anyway?

he's obviously the mole. he's obviously been a sociopath from the start, and probably grew up supporting Arsenal. he slipped on purpose. he forgot to wash his mouth on purpose. he broke our hearts on purpose. terry you genius

You just have to scratch your head over and over again at the fact that we don't constantly have Azpi & Baba bombing forward

If Oscar read the posts aimed at him over the past couple months he'd want to set 90% of us on fire; or he'd have such a pitiful look on his face that he wouldn't even care for our existence. Let us not bum lick now. We're so fickle. We're only nice towards our players when they do good for us. Selfish innit.

we should swoop in for Rhodes

If we have to sell Hazard to make a manager happy, so that their one-dimensional tactics can work with us, then that manager is not good enough to manage the best players. That'd be silly but anyway, if we got Conte, hopefully he would have Hazard play as a #10 in a 3-4-1-2.

Nobody is talking about Michael getting Jose sacked, at least not me, not once. My issue and i think everyone's issue since around 2012, is he remains, despite high profile, quality people leaving, while bringing nothing comparable to the table when weighed against those who came and went. He's shown nothing in regards to how he deserves his position, and it is his position that is integral in recruiting players - too many of which are shit, and against the managers wishes. Who else is there to blame? Not for Mourinho's sacking, but for the appalling recruitment policy.

I never thought he'd make it here just because we're Chelsea, but i've also always thought that even if we did sell him, he's one of those players that we'll still get to enjoy, like Messi or Suarez or whoever. It'd be criminal to mess this one up. It doesn't matter if he gets in our team or not, but for football it matters whether Charly gets his chances on the main stage. We don't have many elegant #10's left. Once Iniesta's gone, this guy should be #1.

If you as a youth player really, really want to play for us, you'll do everything in your power to bump into Abramovich as often as you can, and you will learn how to make him happy. I'm not joking, that's how it must be done, and in fact that's almost how it used to be done, with players literally begging their managers for a debut. It's not enough to just play great and expect reward. Make yourself known off the pitch. No musician or actor makes it to the big leagues without connections. Why would the biggest sport be different? (though obviously there's around 3 or 4 of our youthies who do deserve to be playing for us based on their performances.)

mmm nice goal. Atletico 1-0 away to Barcelona, biggest game of the season so far IMO.

I love signing players so they can get fit; our philosophy is beautiful. We should replace our lion with Mother Theresa.

Obviously the root is Roman but if I have to pick between two disabilities to live with I pick him

I employ a friend of mine simply because he needs the social and financial aspect from it. He brings zilch to the company but you don't let your friends rot, or you lose them. That friend will usually outlast employees simply because of the politics, despite not adding quality to the company. Michael is that friend.

You can argue that he's not shown a reason to be sacked, but what I'd then say is, what did he show in the first place to get hired?

if you joined this forum only this season, you might be given a pass for thinking this. if you've been here longer you know that's a lie.

Because his role has been clearly defined by himself, many outlets, and by many examples from watching this club. I'll take a new approach. Everything is going perfect now. Mourinho caused all of this. Our next manager will choose our signings

No, it's called holding people responsible. When multi-million and billion pound corporations let key figures go, it isn't because they need a scapegoat. Grow up.

I imagine a smokey room, with very little light; like an interrogation room. I see Michael sitting down at a desk, with a 9mm handgun, staring through his specs into the soul of our manager. He brings out paper for our coach, clipped together by an official Chelsea hairclip. He slides it across the desk with the balls of his fingers. "Mr. Abramovich is very proud of this club, as am I very proud of my position here. Nothing needs to change, so long as you follow these rules." He taps the paper with his 9mm tip. Michael cracks his first, insane smile. His eyes are bloodshoot with hilarity, his grin wider than plantain. "Know your role, coach. Know your role."

If Gucci don't make a sale in 10 years, you look at the board and CEO, not the people making the actual products with their actual hands. If we haven't had stability for a decade, you can't *not* point fingers at the board. Ivanovic didn't start this shaky period. Hazard didn't. Mourinho didn't. Shakiness is consistent with Chelsea and the only thing consistent with Chelsea is the board & Terry. I know Terry isn't causing all of these awful transfer dealings, and i know it's not him pressuring managers into picking the same players week in week out.

If you can't see that the board hasn't been stable nor working to the standard of other top club's for many years now you haven't been supporting long enough. If you do see that the board is in shambles, then you have to offer some alternative as to who we sack instead of Emenalo. Otherwise you're saying everything is OK and it was just the manager or players. That'd be ridiculous.

Whoever set up the petition isn't the grammatical & literal voice for all those who voted. There's nothing pathetic about him not communicating as well as Shakespeare, and there's nothing pathetic about him having his view. If you think that an opinion so many people are sharing is pathetic, you're pathetic for being that close-minded.

Excuse me. I signed that petition and i don't even care for Mourinho one bit, there's 5 managers i'd rather see here. As for people having no clue how much power he has, you may have no clue, but all the evidence is out there. You being blind doesn't make others so.

Do football coaches ever tell these guys to do yoga & body realignment? I had chronic shoulder and back pains, but it turned out that it was caused by my neck, & posture, and so focusing on making my neck better was what helped everything else, even pains in my wrist. If Danny is always hurting his wee legs, they may not be the issue - it could be his core.

Chelsea is one of few if not the only positive escape some people have to their lives. To have an incompetant man so high up the hierarchy here, causing grief amongst so many people, isn't ok. It's just a game, to some. To others, it's a little more, and their emotions are involved. Their actual livelihood is involved. Too long have they been jerked about.

We have the most passive fans on earth. If this is the way our fanbase is going i'm popping out the champagne. It's about time our fans don't just accept dog shite on a paper plate and eat it up because there's a CFC emblem on it