The only place to be

I've never been that convinced about him, but he was fantastic the other night. Pulled off a reflex save that we'd be oohing about if it was Courtois and looked very secure elsewhere. Probably deserves a good loan to a Championship team but I'd be surprised if he was anything more than a future back-up for us although that's no bad thing.

Nope. I'm saying that rather than be a coward, why not actually call Jose what you are afraid to, maybe even in person and not behind a keyboard. And you're just another gloryhunter who does nothing but criticise. You use phrases like 'trophy drought' against our manager when he's spent this season rebuilding a fractured club, then dare to criticise him for calling Wenger a 'specialist in failure' when he hasn't won anything in EIGHT FUCKING YEARS. Oh look, someone got himself a book for Christmas . No mate, I'm not. I'm just a guy who is prepared to say exactly what he says on here in the real world as well. The thing is I have. I've proven to you that YOU ARE A FUCKING LIAR. You actually posted lies in order to besmirch the name of Jose Mourinho. AND IF I HAVEN'T PROVEN YOU'RE A LIAR THEN I WILL PAY THE FULL MONTH'S UPKEEP OF THIS WEBSITE. SO COME ON, TELL ME I HAVEN'T PROVEN YOU'RE A LIAR.

You do nothing but criticise. You contribute nothing positive (not even money to this site's upkeep) and do nothing but moan. Honestly, you represent everything I despise about a certain breed of supporters who arrived in the late-90s. But what is it you think he's turned into? Come on little lamb, have the balls to say it in front of the rest of the class. Even better, try uttering it at tomorrow's game. That'll be a nice little education for you, and an education is something you sorely need.

The fact is that Jose has praised Hazard a lot this season and given him a lot of responsibility in this team, which is one of the strongest endorsements he could give him. One bit of well-deserved criticism alongside that isn't 'throwing him under the bus' as some are suggesting. The maturation process isn't just about praise, it's about looking at yourself critically and learning from your mistakes. Some people don't seem to understand that. Eden making a mistake was crucial to our chances of going through, but I think everyone connected with the club expects him to learn from that in much the same way Oscar will learn from his poor form this year. We're a work in progress and that includes the players as well. People need to recognise that and have some patience rather than constantly criticising.

Don't believe that for a second. You've done nothing but criticise the manager and the football since you signed up. You're the type of gloryhunter that every true supporter of this club despises. You don't 'support' in any sense of the word, you just criticise from your armchair. You don't represent a single thing I know and love about this club. You wouldn't last a fucking second here.

I don't believe you. So you're ignoring 2012 Madrid when they scored a record number of goals. Proven liar. Wenger is also largely despised amongst managers, and opposition fans. He's widely mocked IN THIS COUNTRY. Once again you've shown you simply don't understand ENGLISH football.

Which we've employed how many times? Try watching the games and making your own mind up rather than listening to twats on twitter talk shit. We've 'parked the bus' in less than 5% of our games this season.

You're so far wrong it's a fucking joke. How dare you offer an opinion of what the supporters of this club think? You have no fucking clue. There is no division in my view, except for from a few cowardly shits on the internet who don't represent a single thing about this club. Mourinho has more support than any manager I can remember for a long time. You are a fucking disgrace.

I'm always amazed by the way people who dislike this club take a few instances of us 'parking the bus' and suggest we do it a lot. They did it in 2012 as well. Bravo.

That would be mine. They way we broke for that goal was beautiful. The closest one to that would be the goal against Bayern though, and I think that's probably the best example of the skill, pace and incisiveness that Mourinho has wanted all season.

All exceedingly true. In fact I've said similarly myself. We were the poorer team, with an atrocious midfield and terrible strikers. We were also 1-0 up. Against Liverpool had about 7 first-teamers out and gave a 20 year old his full debut. Yet we won that against all odds by nicking a goal and defending manfully with no-one making any real mistakes. If we get to half-time 1-0 and don't have to chase the game, would you back us to see the game out? I would. He made one big mistake that completely undid the good work everyone else was doing in that particular moment. Yes we were stretched, but if he simply blocks that ball from Juanfran and puts it out for a corner then we can get back into position to defend it. We may concede from the corner. We may go on to lose 5-1. All I know is that Hazard's mistake completely changed the structure of the tie. We were NEVER going to beat them going toe to toe with them. Our only chance was to defend like we did at Liverpool and look to get something on the break. We didn't do that.

For me it's once the manager has had a chance to build the team he wants. We've had midfield problems for YEARS and no striker worth his place since Drogba left. Now we actually have something approaching a decent midfield (Matic) and hopefully a proper striker (Costa). The squad has had a year under Jose to learn what he wants and they'll hopefully go on from there.

How exactly is it crap? Are we the finished article? Do we have a solid spine throughout the team, or are we still building one (with the acquisition of Matic and hopefully Costa)? Are we still trying to shift dead wood like Mikel and Torres? How exactly are we not in transition?

So who is the best manager right now? Guardiola? Klopp? Ancelotti? Simeone? The point is that you could go back to 2004, 2005, 2006, 2010, 2012 and maybe a few other years and see Jose having success. Seven leagues and 2 CLs means his record is as good as anyone currently working.

So now we're rewriting Jose's triumph at Porto? Fuck me that's desperate. Have you 'forgotten' that he won La Liga in 2012 with 100 points and a record number of goals? He only went out of the CL on penalties as well.

This is getting pathetic now. Jose is a fine ambassador of this club and good value. He's done more than enough to earn a bit of leeway and doesn't deserve 'fans' like you constantly on his back. I'm sorry if you think I'm picking on you, but in my defence it's only because I despise fans of your ilk and what you've brought to this club. He hasn't thrown Hazard under the bus but simply been honest in the hopes that Eden will learn from his mistakes.

He's a bad loser. That's fine. There's nothing noble in being a good loser. Jose isn't always right, but most of use support him. You never fail to moan and criticise him. You're a joke.

Well Luiz is a defender. You'd expect him to tackle better. Eto'o is a striker and Costa mugged him. Don't forget Eto'o got plenty of grief for his 'tackle' on Suarez earlier in the season which should've been a penalty because it was stupid. This one was just a guy trying his best and simply not being very good at something. That's somewhat forgivable. Ideally he shouldn't have been on the pitch in the first place but we had to chase the game.

He was playing because he was assessed as being fit. Honestly I'm not sure what the injury has to do with anything though. Could he not track Juanfran's run because of his injury? The fact that he was so vibrant and full of running at the end of the match suggests he wasn't suffering any after-effects of his injury Mourinho's decision was to set up his team accordingly. Against a better team we were 1-0 up in the semi-final of the Champions League. Atletico Madrid had to attack us, and we had to defend and possibly look to hit them on the counter, something Jose had done EXPERTLY just a few days earlier with a much weaker team. In that position you want one thing - 100% commitment to the cause from every player on the pitch. Our midfield is shit, but we were 1-0 up and had arguably the best defensive manager in the world in charge. His instruction to Hazard would've been to track overlapping runners (JT also says it to him). Some people want to argue about the instruction and some people recognise that the order wasn't followed. Everything that comes after that is the result of us conceding that goal.

If you want to talk about it then you have to start at the beginning - why was Eto'o on the pitch? Because we had to chase the game. Put simply we had to chase the game against la liga leaders with a midfield of Luiz and Ramires and no top-class striker. If Jose wanted to do that then he'd have done that from the first minute, not the 55th. We might not have lost the game because of Eden, but we lost our best chance of winning it because of him.

I think if we do what we did against Liverpool and win 1-0 against a better team then a few people call it a 'tactical masterclass'. But tactics don't just exist on the whiteboard at Cobham - they have to be executed by every member of the team. Hazard didn't, so the narrative becomes something else. In Madrid he set his team up and 11 men did their jobs - he got the result. In Liverpool he set his team up and 11 men did their jobs - he got the result. On Wednesday he set his team up and 10 men did their jobs. So you don't like him blaming the refs, don't like him criticising players and forget when he takes the blame. What you want is a mute manager - why don't you lead by example?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/24155092 Two seconds to prove you're a liar.

Ah, the Brendan Rodgers 'I only want us to win one way' type of football. Are we going to write letters to our opponents so they let us do that? Why do I get the feeling that you view 'tactical wins' in a negative light? Were the 12 points we got off of Man City and Liverpool not to your liking? Not only do you want a league and cup double, but you want it won in a certain way....unbelievable. I'd be happy with progression and us acquiring players in the positions we need them. I think if we do that then the league is very much in our reach. I'd like to see the squad reshaped to better reflect what Jose wants and get rid of some of the deadwood.

So we're going to sell Chalobah and Omeruo? Why? And we're going to loan out Davila and Delac? Can't we sell them for £10 million each to the same club we're apparently going to sell Marin and Kakuta for? It's interesting that you put their figures in pound sterling and not gumdrops or rainbows because honestly, I think that's kinda what they're worth at the moment. Piazon over Atsu I don't understand either. I've never seen anything special in Piazon, although there's a possibility I'm wrong. Wallace....how he goes from not playing football to being back-up for Azpi I don't know. That's where I'd be inclined to include Omeruo if we sold Ivanovic, which I wouldn't. I agree with most of the players being sold like Ramires and Luiz, but I simply don't see any reasoning for letting Chalobah go when he's got a long contract, no premier league experience and Mourinho has already hinted that he'll come back. Also I think you've maybe left out our highest goalscorer of all time, although maybe I'm misreading.

What the fuck are you on about? Do you know how many times Mourinho has shielded his players from criticism in his time at this club? I think he can occassionally be honest with a player as a teaching exercise when they make such a major mistake. 10 fucking players worked their bollocks off after we scored and one player stood still like a fucking statue so maybe he can take a bit of criticism and LEARN from it. It amazes me how fairweather fans like you don't hesitate in jumping on the manager's back though.