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We're gonna get sooo much stick from City fans for this one.... "they're even dressing like the champions" etc etc FFS, adidas had to fuck it up somehow.

Over 10 years he is, £30m is a bargain. Less headaches with the homegrown quota too, plus the Chelsea die hards/season ticket holders get to keep their english core. In 2024, when he becomes a United legend like Rio after his mega money move from Leeds, we'll see what people think of that price tag.

In a few years time it's gonna get to the stage where we only have an aging Gary Cahill representing this 'english' club. Talents like Shaw don't come around everyday, spanish sides have that luxury.. but not us. Shame he's off to United, would have been a great investment football-wise for the next 10 years and culturally. Fuck the board.

Cech has suddenly made his presence known via social media (twitter account). Probably his agent advising him 'PR wise' to get the 'Cech-brand' out there for potential suitors next season. He's still young for a keeper and 'legend' or not.. doubt he'll want the Cudicini role.

Wow, £30m for Luke Shaw looking pretty good right now..

Ferguson coined the phrase 'squeaky bum time' regarding the feeling you get in the 'latter' stages of a game. It was squeaky bum time for the entirety of that final as a Chelsea fan..

We signed Torres after a career changing injury.

Peter Osgood.

I suppose £32m for us.. and for a transfer of this calibre in general won't back fire 'too' much if he turns out to be a flop. Anything over £40m and he'd be on a constant tight rope..

Another angle could be marketing reasons, something that can't be measured in conventional ways like shirt sales.

'The Jaded One'...

Way too lenient?, as opposed to what exactly?.. only ever criticising him?. There are members here who don't EVEN strike THAT balance.

Again, I think this is a results problem, I even said in that thread (behaviour wise) that he doesn't want to dress up for a 'non-occasion'. Look how he dressed at the start of the season for example. Even though I made a whole point of that, ultimately his attire is only a very small crack in the window, in regards to this.

Even 'if' he was very unhappy with no love or passion for the game and only did it to pass on instructions. The very fact he's passing on instructions (with such a display!) means he's got the enthusiasm and hunger to win and see the game through. So much for "jaded and unenthusiastic" ey..

Jaded/unenthusiastic.. that's a results problem, nothing perpetual. Were you saying that when he was running to the corner flag at the end of the PSG game?..

Mourinho is just as much an anomaly as Ferguson. You're claiming Jose doesn't have the same appetite for the game, this is a theory, your theory. A few less points dropped this season and we would have won the league, who would have been questioning his hunger then..

The connection with Mourinho should be innate (minus the soulless robots who support the club like you'd support a FM save), but it's also based on success. The days Wenger was regarded in such a way (even by Arsenal fans) are LONG gone. Thus, any comparison and the infant point you're trying to make become void. The rest of your post is just the same old 'sit on the fence' rhetoric we've heard over and over again.

You have to question Chelsea fans who go about their business in such a disconnected manner. I think it was Spike who said 'you don't have to be a Mourinho fan to be a Chelsea fan', and therein lies the problem. If you support the club like a computer, maybe not. If however you experienced our first period under him and understand the impact he has on the club, then you'd have an emotional connection. It doesn't mean you have to agree with everything he says or does, but it means a level of respect would be apparent in your posts.

Well, that certainly takes the whole 'Eva should be allowed in the showers' argument we had in the gay footballers thread to another level.

Well, obviously not, because as you 'sort of allude to', it's all about consistency. Mourinho's is unmatchable..

. Sold Mata (still bitter) . Rival fans are 'moulding' the minds of Chelsea fans with the 'Bus meme' epidemic . Hazard fans are currently displeased (even though the Belgium coach criticised him for the same reasons)

Chelsea & Inter were somewhat equals, so in that case.. the managers are out-thinking each other, yes. Small teams/games are irrelevant here, notice you had to take it out of context (again) in order to have a point. I said Mourinho was a big game specialist, if you disagree with that 'do so'... don't change the subject.

Great way to take the game out of context, 26 seconds of youtube (hmmm).. Vs watching the game and knowing what happened football-wise over two legs. Mourinho is the big game specialist, Carlo was out-thought just like Pellegrini at the Etihad. Feel free to post whatever anomaly in his career you want to disprove that fact.. Carlo failed us in Europe like he failed Milan domestically.

Then you have a shocking memory, Inter rightly knocked us out. Check the archives of this forum and that was the general consensus, nothing like Barca 09 or Liverpool circa-05. We were embarrassing under Carlo in the CL, so much so.. that we actually 'relied' on any conspiracy theory we could get our hands on. There was a penalty 'incident' with Ramires against United in the CL, but again.. they knocked us out convincingly.