Magic Lamps

the silver lining is that, ManUtd in 2007/8 won CL and PL. On the other hand we started just as badly that season.

I'd rather play Mikel or RLC. they at least can shield a ball when necessary. And I bet they will also manage 5 yard passes and shooting into opposition players thighs which is basically everything he has done in the last few matches.

we could as well sign this chinese guy. both come from joke leagues and are useless but zhangmos at least is 2 years younger, prints money and has a funny nickname.

yup and counting falcao, baba and bego as replacements we did not bring a midfielder nor a defender. only pedro who is a winger.

I find this quote particularly interesting the club obviously knew which players mourinho wanted but did fuck all. now reaping the rewards. can't believe we reverted that much back into the dark ages after spending so wiesely in the last few windows.

we are 6/4 to get this useless mediocrity.

they are pretty close. last season pogba edged oscar closely, the 2 seasons before oscar easily outscored pogba. if both would play a season without injuries and starting the same amount of matches i am sure oscar would outscore pogba. Pogba would be great for his pace, strength and dribbling ability b2b. but oscar is not the one being replaced imo. On current form it is fabregas.

1. we only had the 2nd best defense after southampton. that is because we have been leaking unnecessary goals since that tottenham defeat and never quite corrected that 2. yup our set pieces are dead on shit. we have no decent set piece taker. we used to have ballack, lampard, drogba, deco, mata now we are stuck with average ones from pedro, willian and fabregas. and this is shocking as it is so easy to work on these. even most amateur players take better freekicks than us 3. Totally agree. even though counter attacks are about the only way we score these days. 4. noticed that a few times every game that we over-elaborate instead of playing passes that actually give us space. in germany we call this "klein-klein". quick short passing is only beneficial when peoplemake runs to exploit space behind defenders not around them. 5. this is really a shame. some of our players should get their shit together and have a few more kgs oatmeal and streaks per day. Even Matic is not remotedly as strong as Lamps, ballack, essien used to be. Fabregas is as easy to dispossess as a kid. no idea where his flat track ability has gone. he is completely useless nowadays.

I'm yet to see kevin perform effectively against a parked bus. Today he would not have made a difference but off it was dumb at to sell him so early as he was always going to be the player he is now.

Haha you are both right. If we had a player with some long range threat people would not be able to cover through balls to Costa effectively. And if we had the ability to cross, we would be able to stretch the opposition better. But both exclusively would lead nowhere as many under Moyes have encountered. Though ifnmou would play baba on the left and azpi on the right we could actually make Pedro's and hazard s job easier + have better crossing prowess&width

Tbf you won't win shit with crosses and long rangers nowadays.

really he skied like 5 shots today. If pogba had those opportunities i am sure he would have scored one. He might not be a workhorse but he isnot dispossessed as easily as fabregas and his long range threat would actually mean at least one, if not two as pogba can dribble past one for sure, of the oppositon's dms had to step out which would create space for others. Other than that we need a back up for matic who has been poor for months.

jose banned eva after having conceded twice vs swansea. after that 3 vs city, 2 today and 2 vs wba. 7.

sry but I have to diagree. People moaning means they at least care about it. We should be worried if everyone did not even give a fuck. Don't you think supporters of shit clubs are not moaning all the time.I know a lot of die-hard supporters of some mediocre teams and they are moaning all the time because their clubs actually are shite and there are plenty reasons for that. This is a forum and everyone has the right to moan. Having won the title last season means nothing now. Loss happens yeah but this is the 3rd loss in 5 games which is unacceptable for a team like chelsea. even a suppoter of Aston Villa, stoke, norwich or whoever would complain about such a start especially when the wrongs are so plain obvious but jose is too stubborn to remedy those. Hawing won the title means we actually have the potential to rip the league apart but obviously the people in charge don't get their shit together for some reason and that is worrying. We don't have 34 games to remedy this, we have 3, maybe 4 games and Jose will be sacked and with no decent coach available we have to build on from the start again. no consistency, nothing just us being the underachieving club we have been so often. Nothing to do with arrogance, i just fail to understand how the poeple in charge could be so blind. the writing has been on the wall for months. but still no signings, no change of tactics to improve the brilliant players we have available, just our text-book approach failing. rinse and repeat Just a fan worrying about the direction his club is heading.

he was incredibly shit today. skied like 5 shots he never believed in, completely useless in attack, shunned every great run by hazard, azpi and pedro and was invisible in defence... god when is oscar fit again.

are you serious? say knee-jerk or overraction or whatevs but let's be honest: the title is lost already. we are 8points behind city now. never gonna recover this against a motivated city side. we might still have a successful season in the cups but epl is over. But what worries me most is that Mourinho seems to have lost it. We are clueless in defense, inefficient in attack and his adamacy of playing ivanovic has cost us 3 points today.

he must feel really hoaxed. Mourinho bringing on kenedy as a left back but letting iva stay on. wow.

never seen something as uninspired as our late attempts to score.

lol falcao great block. but the shot by iva was piss poor anyway.

even pedro can't fuckin control a mall anymore. it is not that we were completely poor today. just error prone at the back and wasteful in attack. Palace were just so much better. our team is still decent but every other team in the league has improved whilst we have declined.

if we lose this we are nearer to relegation zone than to 4th place.

we will not even get a draw here. we will straight fucking lose this, cos neither this team nor jose has the balls or the quality to turn this around.

fabregas gettint disposessed again and again, ivanovic getting ripped a new one by bolasie is just pain in the eyes

playing with 9 men now falcao and ivanovic are both on. once great players but stealing a living from jose's delusions nowadays.

jose's protecionism for falcao and ivanovic is just nuts. completely lost it in that regar.d