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A wee bit disappointed that we didn´t sign a DM. Or a CF, or CM or CH. Or that we sold FM. Well, summer´s gonna be that time of the year than...again.

Pathetic. That´s all. Pathetic.

I sometimes hate the internet.

The rot started years ago. I remember after Carlos first season we had this mass exodus of experienced players who left the club and never have been replaced properly. Not that we should have hold on to the likes of Deco and Belletti (who I loved) but simply not replacing them with a blend of younger players and some good and more established players brought in left the team in ropes ever since. It was always for Drogba, Terry, Lamps, Cole and Cech (the infamous Spine, the old guard, the heroes) to carry the team. Bringing in Torres and Luiz for that kind of money was simpley a half a year to late. Especially Torres. Of course no one can tell "what if" but if he left Liverpool on a high he could´ve carried that with us. I think of all the big mistakes that have been done the worst was to sack Carlo. He just started to build something and made us look "nice". Of course we had a bad spell, but it totally disrupted everything that he was just starting to build. I´ve always been of the "Consistency is key" - rollers and I will remain that way, even if the sacking of AVB made way for the last hurray of the aforementioned old guard to carry the team towards the Champions League. The reason why RDM was sacked was because he had to oversee the changes that should have been done more carefully and not just apruptly after the biggest season for us and then still expect to just go on. You don´t let Drogba and to a lesser importance Mereiles and Bosingwa go and bring in a couple of young players and expect them to be as experienced to carry us through one of the toughest groups in the CL this season and carry the team to the crunch time in the league when the "keep calm and carry on" brigade of players like Terry is likely to pick up injuries. I could carry on for ages here blaming the missing structure and philosophy (or at least some sort of 3-year plan) for what is happening now. All I am saying is that what we experience now as fans again ( to quote Gorillaz': November has come (and hasn´t left) is not down to Rafa. That would be the easiest and the post pleasing analysis of the problems. He was brought in to make the 50 million quid passenger score some goals and pick up the pieces left by smashing up every year the latest idea how to run the club. You can argue and justify for every sacking of the managers in the past but there exactly lies the key. We all face to eat the rotten grapes now of the "thinking for the next CL qualification" policy now. I don´t even care if it is Rafa who stays on, because it doesn´t matter who is in charge if the board doesn´t support the manager and stand by him through difficult times. AND don´t start about Wengers consistency of being not succesfull. That is down to Arsenals financial policies. We could have both: shatloads of money and consistency. My word, that would be something.

Klopp is a bit like Pep in the respect of a clubs culture and structure. And to be honest, we can´t offer that as just yet for new managers the way Barca, Bayern or Dortmund can offer that.

I don´t think Klopp will come. No way. He will stay at Dortmund and keep on building. I just read an interview today that he loves nothing more than to watch his team of 19 years olds (exegerated by himself) to win the double. Of all the managers that are stated up there I think only Mourinho would be a real step forward for us at the moment. All the others are fairly settled with what they have now.

Thanks for the inside view. I hope that the mood will turn again soon with the majority of the fans. The more I think about the whole situation the more fucked up it appears to me. I just hope that there not the sort of long term consequences that I am painting in mind stemming from this season. And beating Arsenal next weekend will make up for a while...then the whole redicolous circle starts again.

The away fans are amazing. That is for sure. No doubt about that. But morale with the fans and therefor the team at home is surely low. I don´t blame them. It is more than understandable given the performances they and we all witness at the Bridge but I think it won´t change before the booing stops.

Was the only other time we drew a game after going up 2:0 against United last season ?

@thepreacherman - Yay! Thank you Chelsea fans for making Stanford Bridge a great place to come and play football! from the Guardian comment section. I think it holds a point. We have Rafa here now, we have to cheer the team not him. Make this a place again where away teams don´t fancy their chances.

It maybe sounds a bit strange given how shit we are lately at home, but I think the situation at The Bridge is probably making it tougher as it should be for the team to take the home advantage. All the last home games since Aston Villa I thought the opposition comes here and sniffing a great oppertunity to get at least a point. Fucking hell, I didn´t think that Pep would come to join us (Bayern makes perfect sense for both parties envolved) but it just makes it even clearer - bring back José. Straight swap - Rafa&Torres to Real, José and any player apart from Cassillas and Ramos to us.

What a good occasion this was to introduce Ba to the squad. Other than Torres' first game against Liverpool. Goodness me, how much madness there has been at Chelsea over these last seasons.

Probably Oscar can play a bit deeper, but there won´t be any "new Lampard". There will be a new midfield, basicially. It makes me fucking sad to think about Lamps leaving Chelsea in the nearer future. He should be given a new contract, at least for one more year.

These kind of games were exactly the ones that kept costing Rafa back at Liverpool. He is a tinkerman. I was surprised to say the least when i saw that line-up. It was so obvious that this had to happen. bringing on Mata at half time would have been imperative the way the first half went along. Fucking hell. TwentyThirteen and already a home loss under the belt. Fucking Hell. I am gutted. It HAD to be them. They were absoloute pants against Liverpool. It was so fucking coming our way that they would dig in and Rafa being stubborn. SHIT. Such a pointless loss. So unnessesary.

That was terrible. Mata and Hazard on for the second half. Marin and Torres made two strong cases for a bit of shopping.

Let´s beat these fuckers convincingly. Mustn´t lose or draw.

Thank you Danny for all the equalisers and short-lasting leads you scored for us whilst AVB was here. His connection with Ashley Cole on the pitch was great...strange thing that...but yeah. I think it is good deal for us. Means we can spend the money on Ba without breaking the bank. Seems as if there are finally some sensible deals happening for us in january. Hopefully Ba´s knee won´t explode in the medical.

Villa would be a fucking sweet buy.

So whats the breakdown on the situation ? Since it looks like we are selling Sturridge to Liverpool we will have to buy another striker. Is Chelsea in talks with Atletico or is just the typical roumorious situation ?

To be honest, looking at how it is going at Citeh at the moment I can see players like him leaving the club rather than Busquets. Toure signalled that he´d wanted to leave after they won the league last season. I think it is if not anything likely to happen more likey than with Sergio.

HA ! As if he would ever leave Barca or rather: If Barca would ever sell him to CHELSEA! Never. Although I hate his peek-a-boo dives he is a class player we could certainly do with. Barca never sell players unless they have someone better lined up already. He is starting eleven for them, drove Toure Yaya out (another player I´d like us to buy), is holding their tiki taka madness together, ...

Wonder if the dealers in Australia just ping their goods 50 yards about and score free kicks with them.

SHIT. Just when things started to look up for Oriol, getting more minutes, getting into a rythm. Feel for the fella.

what a clusterfuck of a situation for rafa

Fair play to the man. It is obviously ambigious ambitions to take over the job. He will restore his image, that´s for sure. It is a win/win situation for him. That is clear, but to actually go through with it and keeping his head down takes something I´d say. He knew he´ll be loathed here and still got on with it. To be fair, he already improved our gameplay a lot, the West Ham comidy aside. I think it is time to accept it that he is our man for now. He made all these silly comments back then but he didn´t know that he´d take over at the Bridge one day. So of course it´s easy to stick it onto him, but that was also the intense Chelsea Liverpool "shit on a stick" phase in which the game seemed to be won in the Presser and not on the pitch so much. So he would stick it to Chelsea as we did to them, namely José. I hope we will win that damn trophy, that the team comes back more galavanised, getting on with it an keep the pressure in the league.