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I just heard Dortmund have called a press conference by 12.30 UK time about rumors of Klopp quiting Dortmund. Surely this is our chance to get reus. A former german player of the year and world-class on his day...

Koke is different. He moved around to demand for the ball and keep it moving and pointed out where to pass to his teammates. He is stronger in possession when he is man marked which is fabregas and oscar weakness

This is our most successful loan in a while.

He has that modric /thiago mobility I love. But let's hope he comes back to his original form. It could be a steal

I think some Chelsea fans have actually started hating Jose as much as arsenal and Liverpool fans. Hanging out with those lot too much is not good for the health

Any central midfielders or central attacking midfielders we want to buy must be Spanish. They're more intelligent than most footballers, and have the best passers especially in midfield.

He certainly knows how to hold onto the ball under pressure. That's what I confirmed last night, no one's going to easily nick the ball off him like our midfielders. But he misplaced some passes too. He certainly misses a runner like costa, Mandzukic was slow as hell and couldn't get onto any pass into space.

Oblak made 6 saves in the first half

We'll be able to play higher without fear against big teams because Varane and zouma will catch any striker running. Another weakness of our team

We should play 4-3-3 like we did against tottenham in the final But with mikel-Matic-fabregas in midfield 3

He's so injury prone, like thiago. He has tackling in his blood, I think he'll be better than Matic in tackles soon. His energy, size and box-to-box ability is what Mourinho craves in midfield battles.

Painful At first I wondered why Mata was so poor in the wing. But after more than a year of other failed experiments in the right wing, I've changed my mind. Any player who doesn't have the physical balance of Hazard and Willian and strength to hold the ball under pressure is useless in our right wing. I just wish he was given a chance behind the striker, especially Eto'o who was better at linking up than torres. At least if Mata showed no desire to work hard from the middle then fair play, but he was thrown to the wings and inevitably out after being our best player for 2 straight seasons. I can't blame Mourinho though, he thought Oscar had more potential than he's shown so far, and put a lot of faith in him.

The moaning thread?? :lol:

I never thought we'll find it so hard to get another midfielder with as good movement to always get chances and fantastic finishing as Mata. If he had some strength and a little more speed, he would have been world-class. Shame he coudn't cope with Mourinho's physical demands for the right wing like cuadrado has found out.

You sir, deserve a bottle of champagne. We have really grown in terms of our mental strength. We are now scoring late winners and converting draws to wins like Fergusons manutd used to, if we regressed in style of football we actually got far better in mental strength. No way we win last season at Westham, QPr home and away, Hull, Everton, unless we play them to death. Now we can score late winners and annoy the crap out of our rivals hoping we drop points like Ferguson used to do. Our second half of the season the whole team got fatigued because of no rotation and the bench midfielders are not on the same level as starters in creativity (Ramires, mikel, etc)so this summer we need another 2 quality midfielders so that we can still create/dominate when any of the Matic-Cesc-oscar combination is missing or fatigued, while also getting cuadrado to gym so he can come on for Willian a few times.

While many of us see us overplaying our starters as the reason for our poor form due to fatigue, he says disrupting the usual Matic-fabregas-oscar combination made Fabregas's and our performance worse

Full drama I tell you

We just need to win this big title and get this fear off our backs, so that we can return to the football we played in the beginning 5 months of the season

Park the bus, put zouma and Matic in the middle to fight Fellaini, get Remy fit to make runs behind the defence onto fabregas passes, let hazard switch flanks often so he doesn't get marked out of the game. We win... Crawling to the title continues....

Our team don't handle the pressure of being favourites well. We're used to being underdogs for titles. We go to PSG 2nd leg as underdogs(since they dominated us in the first leg) we played well for 30mins till ibrahimovic gets red. All of a sudden we became massive favourites to go through and we turn to complete dogshite from there.

I just saw this at WAGNH Ramires:The main reason for our problems?I think so By KingdomofEden on Apr 12, 2015, 9:28a 2 2 Flag  TWEET SHARE Signing Fabregas heralded a new era for Chelsea.It was a sign of intent from Mourinho,that we would no longer be the team that relied largely on fast counter attacks.It signaled that not only will we use counter attacks,but we would also seek to control the game with posession. Were we succesful?For large parts we were.When we had Matic at full fitness(not tired),Oscar at full fitness and Fabregas at full fitness,we almost always succeeded with this game plan. In the first half of the season,there were only around 2-3 games where we faced problems with this approach post Man City/Swansea games.This was when someone like Fellaini would begin marking Fabregas. Fabregas being inexperienced in the pivot would be unsure about how to deal with it.The only other instance was when Matic was absent against Newcastle. However cracks began to appear early Jan,when we lost to Spurs.In that game one could clearly see that the players were tired after an intense schedule and simply incapable of carrying out the high pressing approach they normally do with success. Things changed for the first time,after the Liverpool game.In the first leg we didn't use Oscar(who has linked very well with Fabregas and Matic).We placed Mikel,and the failure to purposefully threaten was expected. In the second leg,Liverpool consumed all their energy in the first 50 minutes,and somehow we couldn't deal with it. Ramires was introduced,we played better.People were initially glad at the arrival of Ramires.Cesc Fabregas got injured and missed some matches.We were unable to control matches like we used to.And people were clamouring for Fabregas' return. Return he did.But this time,he did not have Oscar for company like he used to.Instead he had Ramires,a player he does not gel with at all,Matic suffered his moment of madness against Burnley and things became worse. Matic returned against Psg. But again we had Ramires involved. So the problems were- 1)Matic returning a bit jaded 2)Ramires,who is simply not suited to posession play like Oscar and Willian are. Result we conceded the control of the match to a 10 man PSG.My question to WAGNHERS is:How many times has Ramires played and we actually controlled the match?I dont remember any.People say that Cesc has suffered a dip,but I feel him being paired with Ramires is the reason for the same. You may say,that I am exaggerating.But today against QPR you could see the proof again.Oscar was brought on and we immediately looked better and more fluid.Many people are saying Cesc has suffered second half of the season dip.Has he?He never had Oscar and Matic in full fitness for company.To top it all,Costa also also looked a bit jaded in recent matches. Cesc's so called drop in form is not an accident.It is a direct consequence of these two factors. 1)Being paired with Ramires 2)Costa being a bit jaded since his ban What do you think?Please feel free to comment.How do you think we should go about the transfer window?

The main problem is his strength and balance. It's okay in many other leagues but here, he'll lose the ball once every 3 touches

Forgot him We don't play 2 strikers though so only one of costa or Remy can be on the pitch

Against QPR we had no runners off the ball till oscar came on, it was so easy for them to defend