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I do not understand, why the person who is wanting Mata to play, is selfish and not a real fan of the club? Maybe, we who want Mata, we have good vision for the future? We realise that when Mata leave, he will punish us in future. Even if the team is not weaked- which it will be, very weakened, losing the best player. Another team will be more strong. And this is bad. Everybody want what is best for Chelsea, correct? Mata is the best player in the team. He proves this, two years in a row. What is best for Chelsea, is that Mata is playing. I think it is the people who are saying 'Mourinho knows best' are the people who are holding back the club. Why should Mourinho know best? Why is he so special? The fact is, nobody knows best, so telling people to shut their eye and support Mourinho 100% is not the right thing. Why should he be not criticised, questioned? And where is everybody saying, 'I am Chelsea fan! Fuck off Mata!', where are they when Lampard is getting contract extension, even though he is not good enough? You cannot take the position of ivory tower, if you are supporting Lampard last year. If you do this, then automatically, you have the precedent, where you have let your love for a player get ahead of the club's interest. Where is everybody saying, trust manager, Mourinho knows what he doing, where are they when Benitez, Villas-Boas, Scolari, Grant is the manager? Telling him to fuck off, this is where they are.

Also, if the team is so weak in defence, that number 10 player need to be skillful defender, then why Mourinho is wasting money on more and more attacking players? Why Willian, why not a defender? Two options- picking attacker on defensive skill, or not buying defender so that attacker has to help. Both of them, Mourinho has made the wrong decision, and he will pay in future. Why everyone is thinking, it will work out good? It will not. Mata will go, to some big club, two seasons time, Champions League final, he will score a hat trick, maybe then Mourinho regret. If he still has a job here.

What is the point, picking attacking player, the number 10, on defensive skill? If this is why Mourinho is not playing Mata, then it is useless thinking. Next we will hear, striker chosen because he can goal keep.

Why such a big deal is made for Ibrahimovic.. he is like Mario Gomez... hat trick every time against the bad team, but when things become difficult, he is disappearing... How many goals he have in Champions League knockout stage? I am thinking very little, less than 5. One thing we are forgetting when we say Eto'o is better than Drogba. Barcelona is better than Chelsea, in La Liga, scoring goals is easier than in Premier League.. the defending is not so good as in England 2004-2010... and Eto'o have such a great team. Xavi, Iniesta, Ronaldinho, Deco... then in Inter, he have Sneijder. We have no creative player as good as when Drogba is playing, until Mata, and that is Drogba's last season so it is not fair. Maybe if Eto'o does not play for Barcelona, then he is not so good. Drogba is much better for Côte d'Ivoire than Eto'o is for Cameroon.. and these two teams, roughly at the same level. It is a more fair comparison, and this is why I say, if Drogba have such great midfielders, and plays in weaker league, then he will score more than Eto'o.

It is not such a bad idea to sell Essien. He has nothing left, I think. It is very sad that his knee has stopped him. If he did not have these injuries, even today, he would be one of the best midfielders in the world. But now, he is not so good and he is earning a big contract. It is not smart to keep him. Somebody on 100,000 weekly, he is not keeping as the backup player. He should be playing every week. But Essien is not good enough to do this anymore.

Why to sack Mourinho? There is no sense to this. Who will be the new manager? I am thinking maybe Capello would be a good choice, but he is working for Russia now, he will not be free. We are stuck with him for better or worse.

If he come to Chelsea and become striker, 100% he will be the shit... like Sutton, Kezman, Mutu, Shevchenko, Torres...

The Bayern chiefs, they have always been so arrogant... I remember in 2008, Rumenigge and Hoeness keep saying Premier League is cheating, Chelsea is breaking football... they are just jealous. Now look where Hoeness is, he is going to prison for tax fraud... now who is the cheat? Who is cheating in 1962 when the big German construction tycoon buys Bayern and makes them the biggest team in Germany? Before he buy, Bayern are mid table in second division in Germany. At least before Roman buy Chelsea, we have been a good team in Premier League for 7-8 years..

I think there is more to this than just the statistic... I see Mata miss chances more often than Oscar.. Last season, he play more than Oscar and he is the main person. Now this is not the case, so Oscar should be getting many more chances to score goals... and in this case, I think Oscar is better in shooting.

I am thinking, Oscar is a good player. But Mata, he does everything better than Oscar, except scoring goals. But maybe because the strikers are not scoring goals, Oscar must play because he and Lampard are the only ones we know can score goals.

Bosingwa is a very nice man, I think... I am sad he had the injury... remember, he was very good for Chelsea first year, then after the injury, he is not so good. But I do not believe Redknapp is speaking truth... whenever I see Bosingwa play for Chelsea, he is giving 100%. It is not his fault that this 100% is not good enough anymore. Can a lazy player keep Messi quiet when playing in the wrong place? And do it three times? Maybe he stop caring when he go to QPR, because he is already having the complete career... 2 Champions League, many league titles in Porto and Chelsea, FA Cup, many times he play for Portugal.. there is nothing left for him to do now. This is QPR's fault for signing somebody who is already happy with what they have, who does not feel the need to work hard anymore because they have already done everything. It is like learning to drive, I think. You have to stay on the learner licence for 1 year. But after 2 months, you know how to drive, you know you can pass the test... so you do not try so hard while you are driving. Such a player is only good when he is playing with people who he is automatically better than, he does not need to try to play good... so maybe Bosingwa should have gone to America, or Arabic country, or bottom leagues in Europe... I think we can have the same problem with Eto'o. He is the proven champion. He has done everything. Many people think, he is the best ever footballer from Africa. He has nothing left to do now except make easy money. I think he is thinking like Bosingwa maybe... I have done it all, why should I try now when I have already done everything I dream of? I hope this is not true.

I am not saying they are bad. But first, none of them play in Bale's position, second, Bale has done more in football than all of them have. He is the proven champion, they are the challenger. They have to prove themself... Bale did not. Because of this, I am thinking if Bale stay in Tottenham, then they will be doing better... only 6 goals in 7 matches. This is not good. This is like the relegation team, not the team wanting to come top 4, or top 2. Are they all better than Jeffers? I think for all except Soldado, they are the same. Big young talent... nothing proven yet. Maybe they all become very good in 3 or 4 years. Or maybe they become exactly like Jeffers and become bad. I am making the hipérbole (sorry, I do not know the English word for this) when I call Bale Henry. But look who is the new winger for Tottenham. It is that Townsend idiot. They are weaker, for now, I think.... maybe all of the Francis Jeffers become good, then I will look stupid. But they will not become good for at least 2-3 months. In this time, maybe Spurs are 10th, maybe they will not do enough in the second half of the season to finish top 4. Also you are correct. Selling Bale is the best thing they have done. So much money for a player, who is only one injury away from being bad forever. He is like Michael Owen... if Bale break the leg muscle even once... he is finished. THen Real Madrid have 100 million player who is only so good as a 100,000 player.

You can say this... but I do not think this is right... buying 5-10 decent players in exchange for one of the best in the world, it is not going to happen... Bale will have done more for Spurs then all those new player combined. It is like replacing Thierry Herny with 5 Francis Jeffers... I do not think Spurs will do well, because of this.

I think Bosingwa, when he play in Barcelona in 2009 and in 2012, he is excellent. Very strange, in right defence, he is very erratic, in center defence and left defence, he is the wall...

Hazard has been very bad, I think, whole season... I think he should be dropped for a while. Maybe Mata plays in the wing instead. He is not so bad there. In Valencia, Mata was the winger, he would sometimes run into the center and sometimes he would run into the side line. Mata-Oscar-Schurrle for Staua?

I am not saying sack Mourinho now. I am saying if Mata say he wants to leave, then give Mourinho the choice. Play Mata or leave. If he still does not want to use one of the best players in Premier League, then he can go.

Mata is a special one... if he goes, who do we have? Oscar is not so good as Mata, Oscar cannot play 60 games. There are very few players like Mata. Mourinho, he is not special. He is just the manager. There is only one special manager, and he is retired from Man United. Any body can put 11 names on paper, any body can talk in press conference. We win Champions League with Di Matteo. You do not need a great manager to have a good team. You need great players.

Maybe we make the mistake with Kalou, making him midfielder? I think he is playing very well as the striker.

I think if the Mata situation become very very bad- maybe Mata says he wants to leave, he put in the transfer request, then Mourinho must leave. Managers, they are easy to find, easy to replace. Mata, he is not. Mourinho is not Sir Ferguson, he is not the most important thing in the club. That is Mata.

I am reading that Mourinho is wanting Mata to change the style. I think this mean that Mourinho wanting Mata to become the workhorse, a defensive player. What the fuck? Why spoil Mata, he is so much better than that. If you want workhorse, then why you loan Moses? He is good for this job because he is not talented. It is okay to spoil him, there is nothing to lose.

I think the problem is, everybody think now that defensive midfield, you must be Pirlo otherwise you are not good. This is stupid. It is like saying, striker, you are not good if you are not Pelé. Pirlo is one of the best ever football players. Maybe in our whole lives, we will see one more like Pirlo, if we are lucky. For everybody else, Mikel is the maximum. People see Pirlo then say, why Mikel cannot pass like that, why Mikel cannot score goals? I think we need to be more realistic. The whole point of defensive midfield, is to allow other players to attack. Why should he be good at attacking? That is not his job.

I am 27. That is old enough? This is very ignorant. How do you know what the young people in the forum are living? Some may have familia of their own. Or another big response bility. They are not immature.

I think this is because they get so much money and famous at a age where they are not smart enough to make adjustment.... you look in Hollywood and in American music, the young people that become stars, they always get problems... it is not just football. They get surrounded by people they think are friends, but really these people are like the vulture, they will look at the young rich person and see that he is easy to cheat and fool. Or else they become very arrogant and think that they have done enough already... I think when you become like this so young, the amibiton, it is not there anymore. If you have 5 million already when you are 20, that is enough for life.

This is not important, I think. Making the new stadium is very expensive... it can take years before profit is made.. and if the building is not quick, then there will be more problems... if it take long time like Wembley then it will be even more money wasted. There is not so much money in selling tickets. Better to try to make money from TV and things like that.

The break is very boring