Stingray

Shackle and fart, cause you're to blame, you give TC bad name

My kind of GTA !!! Anyway: i date from the "all your base are belong to us" era ... sigh. Ow ... and ehhh Now those were the memes! I am such an oldfag ...

Yes. With Genk and Bremen - once with the nt.

That must be something we don't know, really. I think he wants to create what people call a 'burning platform' in Mata. a realisation he needs to change and he does it the hard way. It is his style real. I also think he is doing that to KDB. It is something I myself do when training people. 1: Get them to see there is a problem and create a burning platform 2: get them to see that they can be a solution to the problem if they change 3: get them motivated enough to work on it every day 4: Hope their natural talent is enough to warrant the change .... We will see if he can do it.

Lol yeah!

It is a very good point - but it i one Mourinhou apparantly answers by saying it is time for getting new paradigms in. Oscar adapted and Mata will (as will Hazard). He did explicitly pronounce his wish to play both - but in a system. So it is a choice of philosophy really. To be fair - we have been crying out loud for some identity and a football philosophy. It is not because it doesn't look pretty at the moment, it will be a cruel system that sacrifices a formidable creative AM such a s Mata, really. Now that is true. I suspect a little anxiety avoidance by Mourinho here. He has had a bit of bad feedback, and maybe prefers to have the team up and running first. I, myself, ask the question why there is no Mata or KDB for those games. But if you want to work in calmer waters with your unscrambled eggs, maybe we should have patience a bit. With tho I gladly add, I think that is a weakness display - you should be able to play Mata regularly to get him in form. Not because this is Mata FC but because a fit Mata is a superb long term Chelsea FC item.

In Holland on a boat :-)

Month, year, decade, century .... Having one of 8 cm and saying it is 25. All is so relative

Lmao. I don't think the Belgian fanbase said that really. In fact some that did say that weren't belgians at all. We, the belgian brigade (if there even is such a ridiculous thing) did say he 1) has great talent and 2) performs better in the NT than Hazard has done 3) is essentially a winger (although a LOT on here said he couldn't play on the right flank) and 4) hs the potential to play in the CM as well. No worries mate - he will come good. He hasn't had much playtime but he has shown he can do it. It will happen. Let's just wait a bit before ejaculating so prematurely

After being initially disappointed a bit after the ManU game - I must say he is such an intelligent coach, very shrewd and tactically adept. If you try and see between the lines, you can tell he is really building something (but you gotta break the eggs to make the omelet ). I have NO worries for Hazard actually (nor does he need a shrink B, lol). He is unlearning and learning again - I predict he will explode after new year. It is just a WHOLE different kind of play, really (Thanks @SEB for the great analysis in the other thread) and I believe we as a team will only progress the next few weeks - to a point we are virtually unstoppable. Can you just imagine what happens when Oscar keeps doing this on the 10, when Hazard finds his routine in this new philosophy and Eto'o starts scoring ... wow. The last few games you see the movement changing, positions alter and while we are still shite right now, we do have the top of the table. I am starting to really like it (even though I miss KDB a bit on the pitch - but that will come good as well, no doubt). :blue scalf:

If you hurry , that is!

Great article SEB! This truly the question at hand and one of the core components of form-issues (e.g.. Hazard). When truly evolving or learning a performance curve always drops before it rises again. I hope we can have the patience to see it rise to new heights, really! Again: great article.

Well, I don't really think this applies to Lukaku. His genetics are pretty much ok, it is the extra experience he needs now. And that is something nobody is 'born' with.

This needs a bump :-)

Fucking hell - Hazard, Etoo and no kdb or Azpi again Curious - more of the same?

And off we go ... This is exactly it, really. And this is a choice Mou is making - either you change your system or you change the players. It is really clear what it will be. I don't now if I like it though. If it works it can be good - fast, direct, compact play with good flanks and defensively sound but now it just shows we aren't there in a long shot. And then it is ugly to see imo.

Wel Oscar, ok! But Kevin actually layed in attacking pivot role and I personally think he is good at it - even with to potential to be better there than on the flanks. So it is really not a FIFA thing, it is just that a lot on here haven't seen him play there and think it would be a mistake. Imo he could take the role Lamps now has (so he doesn't have to play all the games). On the Mata Oscar subject I will refrain from commenting because I don't like the question, especially with the 'versus'. Mta is great, Oscar is great - they have a different skill set and can be used accordingly. If one doesn't fit in the system - that is very well possible. Mou indeed expects a 10 to drop deep and that real is Oscars game. If it is more operating between the lines of the final third - then Mata (when confident/fit) is simply class. It is all about choices really and NOT about who is best. I compare it to evolutionary adaptations really: organisms are adapted for a certain ecosystem, so they thrive in that ecosystem (e.g.. the elephant ears to cool the animal down). however, put an ice bear in Central Africa and he imply wouldn't make it - despite being such a fierce predator. Key is when and in what tactical setup is one of the two the best 'fit'. Right now, that seems to be Oscar - but there will be games we need Mata. That is the reason why I want him nurtured a bit more. Still, as so often this can be an attempt to tickle the player and hope for a positive counterreaction. - which can backfire as well.

Wut happened? Got your dick stuck somewhere?:-P I mean, seriously, why? Family - the entire family ... Ugh.

Goddamned. Not able to see the game. Crap. Go for it guys! Hazard: be benched or be brilliant !! Ps: and KDB for Lamps - there, I said it :-)

I love him ... Take it easy though

Choulo I know you like a jazzy sound. I like it a lot and this is gold. A song in exchange for those panties :-)

I don't know ...; Neymar is so, so talented. Just watch Barcelona - he will be awesome. Even if a lot on here doubt him. I wish we would have bought him instead of william, really.

Yeah!! That we need to learn. Finish with a BANG :-)

Nobody is .....