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One problem here: Ba started last time and even broke his nose. Rafa will play Torres, he has every excuse possible to do so. Sigh. That cancer.

You never know. Women work in mysterious ways :-)

Repost from another thread because I thought it fits here even better :-) I cannot help but think players pick up things that are unsaid. Even the old guard. Our team can play, but it's in the head stuff isn't computng anymore. And I can relate to it. Whe you thin of it, it is quite simple! Suppose you are all a talented bunch of players. Some new and talented with a lot to prove and some older with a pedigree that just got a CL title attached to it. In comes a transition year in which you start to feel something is wrong or strange. We buy a LOT of youngsters and we seem to loan out even more. No matter how thin our squad gets, we keep stalling very talented guys elsewhere to get experience (think Chalobah, Courtois, Lukaku, KDB, Josh, Piazon). Some of the older ones get loaned out to (Essien) or sold (Meireles), maybe bexause in the long run they can gives us nothing extra anymore in the eyes of our board. All this only makes sense if this is a very deliberate strategic choice of our board. But what decision? Well, Let's do the best we can with the old guard (in the process we don't disappoint our fans too much), we buy some real young hot shots designed for greatness because we would simply miss out on them otherwise (Oscar, Hazard). We also decide to play our failing 50 m striker till he at least is worth some values for money when we sell him again. We get all our prospects in teams where they pick up the experience they need (like planting seeds everywhere - in business this is a sure and guaranteed wa to be able to harvest in a very insecure environment. Salespeople call this 'filling your pipeline'). Then we wait patiently, confident we will get a CL place and next year when we get rid of Lampard, JT and all those other oldies (except Cech - but we will replace shitty Turnbull and qhilarious with a hot new star on the firmament Courtois). During the season, we keep RDM aboard - perhaps waiting for Pep in the year to come. Suddenly we see our performances (CL especially) stutter a little and our board panicks. We sack RDM because our entire strategy stands or falls with a CL place (remember FFP is coming up) Enter a manager - though hated - with a pedigree. One of the few or maybe the only ne that was available at the time. Result: a team void of direction. Too thin, in some areas too unexperienced (we depend on Mata who joined last year, Hazard and Oscar - both u22 players even though they do a great job considering) Result: a team that is now in danger of sliding away from a CL spot. Why else have we only bought BA. Did the oard think this would be just enough to get us that number 4 spot after all? Now everything is gong downhill a bit, a slippery slope we don't seem to be able to get out of and Rafa is left with nothing. No new players, no Charisma, no leadership, no fan support and .... If my analyses is correct: no board support since the last couple of matches. Ergo: what happened this season so far: we overplayed our hand. Bluffed a little too hard and hoped for he best. Unfortunatley that's when Murphy (the guy from the law, you know) came along. And now we are here ..... and there is only one thing left to do. Buckle up and bite the bullet. Maybe JT comes along as a player manager or Eddie even -just for the psychological effect! We will have to sit this year out and NOT forget our team like our board see's to have done a bit by playing high stakes with them. After the CL win, they actually deserved much better 'Nough said. Ps! Sorry for the typos. Frantically writing on ipad is hell :-)

I cannot help but think players pick up things that are unsaid. Even the old guard. Our team can play, but it's in the head stuff isn't computng anymore. And I can relate to it. Whe you thin of it, it is quite simple! Suppose you are all a talented bunch of players. Some new and talented with a lot to prove and some older with a pedigree that just got a CL title attached to it. In comes a transition year in which you start to feel something is wrong or strange. We buy a LOT of youngsters and we seem to loan out even more. No matter how thin our squad gets, we keep stalling very talented guys elsewhere to get experience (think Chalobah, Courtois, Lukaku, KDB, Josh, Piazon). Some of the older ones get loaned out to (Essien) or sold (Meireles), maybe bexause in the long run they can gives us nothing extra anymore in the eyes of our board. All this only makes sense if this is a very deliberate strategic choice of our board. But what decision? Well, Let's do the best we can with the old guard (in the process we don't disappoint our fans too much), we buy some real young hot shots designed for greatness because we would simply miss out on them otherwise (Oscar, Hazard). We also decide to play our failing 50 m striker till he at least is worth some values for money when we sell him again. We get all our prospects in teams where they pick up the experience they need (like planting seeds everywhere - in business this is a sure and guaranteed wa to be able to harvest in a very insecure environment. Salespeople call this 'filling your pipeline'). Then we wait patiently, confident we will get a CL place and next year when we get rid of Lampard, JT and all those other oldies (except Cech - but we will replace shitty Turnbull and qhilarious with a hot new star on the firmament Courtois). During the season, we keep RDM aboard - perhaps waiting for Pep in the year to come. Suddenly we see our performances (CL especially) stutter a little and our board panicks. We sack RDM because our entire strategy stands or falls with a CL place (remember FFP is coming up) Enter a manager - though hated - with a pedigree. One of the few or maybe the only ne that was available at the time. Result: a team void of direction. Too thin, in some areas too unexperienced (we depend on Mata who joined last year, Hazard and Oscar - both u22 players even though they do a great job considering) Result: a team that is now in danger of sliding away from a CL spot. Why else have we only bought BA. Did the oard think this would be just enough to get us that number 4 spot after all? Now everything is gong downhill a bit, a slippery slope we don't seem to be able to get out of and Rafa is left with nothing. No new players, no Charisma, no leadership, no fan support and .... If my analyses is correct: no board support since the last couple of matches. Ergo: what happened this season so far: we overplayed our hand. Bluffed a little too hard and hoped for he best. Unfortunatley that's when Murphy (the guy from the law, you know) came along. And now we are here ..... and there is only one thing left to do. Buckle up and bite the bullet. Maybe JT comes along as a player manager or Eddie even -just for the psychological effect! We will have to sit this year out and NOT forget our team like our board see's to have done a bit by playing high stakes with them. After the CL win, they actually deserved much better 'Nough said. Ps! Sorry for the typos. Frantically writing on ipad is hell :-)

OR in the case of blueschick: Milf Of The Month :-) You see, we are complete gender-neutral in our MOTM awards :-)

Well, you and me both Hutcho :-)

I'm done for now. Don't feel like analysing anymore even. This is all just to depressing. Our beautiful, blue club. What happened ffs. Fsw - Cunt. Board - Cunts.

he is, isn't he ...

I kinda miss Hazard......

ow fuck it .... really

YIIIIIIIIIIIIIHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATTTAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Comon now!!!!!!! Run them in the ground , blues!!!

Get in there!!!!! But but but .... where the hell did that goal come from :-) :-)

I second that!!

What the hell, Lamps. What's with the header to Sissoko .... wowowowowow

We can close the books on this one I fear ... Sigh

Roman , plz, plz plz fire rafa ... Our shape looks like complete shit ... Our confidence is down the drain ... Our manager is a cunt that can't change a game if his life depended on it ... Goddamned!!!!

Keep the focus guys, FOCUS!!!

Goddamn, thats a broken nose

Dangerous raised boot!! Fuck

Hmmm, We lack speed, width AND guts. We seem so mentally weak ... Edit ... Oscar seems to be picking it up a little though

Go blues, get the pace up a little!!

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Awesome shows!!

@Torontochelsea. But what if you got an ugly girl that is like this :-) would you date her? Ps: sorry mods for the off topic