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1st image: a touch of light blue on the home 'shirt' only 2nd image: I bought that top, completely different shade to City's. Hopefully Mourinho starts wearing his suits again.

Honestly don't have any hope of us bringing through any youths without them first proving themselves for at least two seasons at another 'competitive' club. Which is why I had a laugh at the homegrown rule thread, with people referencing Josh and co; suggesting we let them rot on the bench just to fulfil the quota.

Worst thing is, our ENTIRE bench with be light blue... and even Jose is wearing official tracksuits instead of suits now. City fans will have a field day with this one, 'prepare for the banter'.

English talent comes around once in a blue moon, you just have to roll the dice when it does. The board played it safe here, and it'll come back to bite.

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..

Congrats, personally I've just lost all enthusiasm for the game now. Genuinely.. fair play in regards to 'last' seasons title race though, I was actually putting effort into tactics etc then.

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..

He didn't become a billionaire through being an entrepreneur, more a case of having friends in high places (Berezovsky). Although his early beginnings are pretty entrepreneurial, he's started up all kinds of businesses. Although his 'formula' for success is impossible to narrow down and you’d just be speculating. You're better off doing the project on someone like Steve Jobs or Jeff Bezos (Amazon founder). Because with those guys there is plenty of 'character' analysis already out there and material for you to base your writing on.

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.