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Wanted him gone in the summer but not sure now. Surely either him or Mikel leave because as a two they're "waiste of space" as it is called. Both take the same role as each other, they sit on good mid-wage bill, happy to be even 5th choice, perfect age for squad player, plenty of expierience, little to no ambition to push for place. I think there should be only one of them at the same time in the club. My shout would be Ramires then as he can play multiple roles and occassionally (o-ca-sionally mind) can be seen as classy player. IMO even if we sell him we won't earn much. That 12-15m€ club would get don't change much in transfers as it won't improve chances to get class player. Club has the money and can use them but won't throw it over the top for the player they consider not worth it, so that potential received sum won't be thrown over the maximum they can offer for someone, it doesn't work like that. They would probably use that money to sing a couple of youngsters at best. Therefore I'm ok with Ramires staying. He is happy to be 5th choice even so we can have Matic, Fabregas, RLC and X player ahead of him and he's still here to be valuable number.

"I'm giving attention to all details" OMG, kick him out ASAP. What a miserable, fucking liar. How you can have respect for liar ?

You really find Atletico tactic with 120m€ budget negative ? I don't. He builds pressing machine and is able to give identity to the side. And integrates youth. 3 things that I point in my signature. The most important thing is that even his defending is active with all that pressing in the side.

If they appoint Klopp I'm offically backing Jose full-stop until Simeone is available.

Relegation party I don't think it will be that easy.

They give him time and I think it's certain we spend big in January. Top 4 is a must no matter what.

It's actually quite surprising that he isn't bossing first few months. Mourinho keeps playing him because he can deliver one great ball. It's similar when he put Zouma against Swansea to play as a centre-forward because he can score a header ... Great tactics boss. I think with UEFA badge you're able to figure something better.

Hope that 2 weeks are enough to sort his contract situation. Voted for yes. I'm probably the biggest Jose fan boy but you can't help him if he wants it so much. What infuriates me the most is that he didn't see that coming yet internet warriors did. I used a phrase in March or April that even unarmed eye can see problems in the squad and in the team and there are many things that are not rosy. There was me and other guys but honestly it was so obvious I'm not taking pride for that. Yet the guy that has UEFA Pro badge since 1992 and is coaching at the top level for 15 years pretends to be blind, as long as scoreline is good, no matter performance, no matter if you were lucky or not lucky, he thinks everything is alright. He really believed that we were actually that good last season, imagine that ! He should be using PSG matches as a reference where the team is. Instead he decided to ignore that and he is literally abusing this term "champion" like if this is giving special skill and status to the players and make them better. But problems as were previously as are now with or without champion badge on a shirt. The team should be developing all the time. Yet we're resting on our laurels completely, thinking that we already are at the peak and it is our manager who allowed this to happen. So blind. But remember, he can't hear critics over clanging of all his medals ! In attack we look abysmal. We can't interchange few passess, we look way way more like a country who meets every 2 months than a club. No drilled attacking patterns, no triangles, literally like this element wasn't exercised. We rely on individual brillance. This article from ESPN that attacking drills under Mourinho are very basic, as true as it was, it's not discovering much we can't see. Especially our counter-attack looks shocking, the amount of time we did great transition with few passes you can count on both hands and half of that amount is from City game at Etihad in 13-14 season. Yet our manager looks clueless, he doesn't try anything and I mean anything to change that. We kick ourself in heads. Sort the full-backs at least, how HOW EVERY CLUB AND COUNTRY play with two natural full-backs yet we still can't do that and try Ivanovic at RB and Azplicueta at LB over again ? It's basic thing to give you few new options, there's a reason why every manager does that. But our manager even this can't change. He is so limited in attack it's un-be-liavable. The idea that we still play with Cahill, Ivanovic and JT in backline never stop to surprise me. We know every of them is limited and every of them needs protection to actually perform and we're in 3rd season and still play with so XX century defensive block. We won't start building attacks from the back when you have backline so vulnerubable for any act of pressing. We will always have Sunderland mentality. I wrote this before that I think no one from ours attackers actually developed. You can have a case with Hazard but I say he's supreme talent and he had to develop no matter what. Apart from one in generation talent in Hazard, who is better under Mourinho ? You just have to thank us from the whole footballing world that we didn't sign Douglas Costa because now we would call him fraud, another Willian, toothless technican, no end product, overrated. The whole footballing world now have a great player to watch who otherwise would be ruined, devoid of confidence and playing on a right wing with no purpouse. Thank letter from the world of football beckons for Chelsea. And how I can ignore how big, annoying liar he is ? What's still with all the talk that he picks players based on performance and there's no untouchables ? How stupid I feel when 1,5 years ago I tried to speak to the people that KdB was in already lost cause and Mourinho/Chelsea gave up on him before he gave up on them. He didn't want to fight for his place. Yes, with manager oriented around 12-14 names who alienetes squad players and berefts them of any confidence, literally like he was on exterminate mission. How you can imagine him being here long-term when he can't identificate problems BEFORE they arise and how you can imagine him being here long-term if he can't rotate ? If he has untouchables, deprive any others of confidence when they feel as low as ever in their carrer. This guy takes it to the whole new level. Now whole squad feels alieneted not just bench players. Why we start pre-season so late ? Because players were fatigued. Why they were fatigued ? Because there was no rotation. Vicious circle. If we were still scraping wins coming into this season Mourinho would again orient around few names and tire them to death. I'd prepare safe landing. We have to get to top 4 whether is it with Mourinho or no it's different matter. We will make huge signings in winter to save the season. However there are no sings for him being able to be at the club long-term. When motivation is down you see how limited we are. We can't rely on something we drilled in training because there's nothing there. We should prepare Jurgen Klopp. He's basically Mourinho 2.0 with pressing, counter-attack, intensity, something Mourinho was known for. He is also great character and personality so we won't lose that either. He integrates youth. He does speak English well. Yes, he had terrible last season but there are few circumstances softening assessment and it was after 6 seasons at the club not 2 ! He also took sabbatical so should be fresh to start again with clear head. Something Mourinho should do btw.

Change its name to "Moaning thread". We were moaning for no reason, apparently ...

Mourinho with his best "I don't have a clue what is going on" David Moyes impression.

Anyway I hope this come back will look like the one we pulled 2 seasons ago in this fixture. From 0:1 to 3:1 playing awesome, dominant, high pressing football. So underrated game when actually it was top 3 performances under Jose's second spell.

Shocking. Offensive play is non-existent. Last 15 mins were abysmal but you can be sure Mourinho wouldn't change a thing if we didn't concede a goal. Change something ffs, bring full-backs into play at least !

Is this coward has in his repertoire changing full-backs to be more offensive minded or it is out of his comfort zone ?

Why would they care if there's 96% attendance every year ? Especially it has nothing to do with Chelsea if I read something like this : " Chelsea sold a higher percentage of tickets for their home games than any club in England last season. Stamford Bridge – a ground the Premier League champions are planning to redevelop – was at 99.8 per cent capacity on average during Chelsea's march to the title." What is with all this "fans are priced out" and yet there's so high attendance ? I may be missing something here. Do fans plan to stop going to stadiums for their protests to mean something ?

Just do the same with Cuadrado and we have nice transfer kitty for winter ! Btw Salah is such a good player, shame it didn't work out. But he's bossing calcio in Italy. I'm hoping that Roma will be champion for few years now.

Kenedy ? He cost the price that Porto is paying for those Brazilians. Chelsea is hardly milked nowadays. Yes, it's incredible that we have a player who's not ready to play against a team he would be the most expensive in their history. Could you imagine Porto wouldn't play Imbula (their most expensive signing ever) because they think he's not ready to play against Chelsea ? Let alone price, if Porto had Baba he would play against Chelsea, I'm 99% sure about it - why he can't play against Porto ? It's similar what I wrote above - Galloway can play against Chelsea but you can be absolutely sure at Chelsea he wouldn't be "ready" to play against Everton.

For Chelsea sure, he can only be decent scorer and stay where he is. But I disagree completely that he isn't scoring player. I see so much potential there, the goals against Newcastle and Aston Villa are so identical how he reacts when ball is playing across and he shoots low at the far corner - it's so natural for him ! If only he had set-up and coach to fully unlock him he'd break that 30 goal barrier. It's more surprising that people still say that whole team plays bad, each and every player plays bad and think that's possible for every player to be coincidentally in bad form at the same time. It's absolutely SHOCKING that people can still say that. Actually EVERY time there's a root of the problems which determines the whole thing and how team is doing. IMO this root is not Hazard.

1) I get that you want to steadily introduce him to the team but that requires rotation - something Mourinho is scared off. Where are games that he is supposed to play ? Why not against Porto ? Now we have must-win against Dynamo in the Champions League - looks like Baba has to wait until Maccabi to have his chance in the Champions League. So maybe Capital One Cup ? Now we have Stoke AWAY, why would he play there if he can't play in the Premier League ? He absolutely should play on Saturday if he doesn't we're very short in games that he can actually play. I get it you don't want to baptize him through fire and throw him at Old Trafford but Southampton at home ? The second thing is that I don't know why he isn't ready when our opponents actually PLAY inexperienced left-backs in 19 years old Galloway and 20 years Mbabu (who?) and somehow they cope with it - why the better player like Baba can't play ? They can throw youth at us but we can't at them even though we have full-international at our disposal FFS ! 2) He cost 25m€. He didn't play against Porto. Because it's too risky ? Because it's away and he could not cope with it ? It's absolutely hilarious that 25m€ player is on our bench and not ready when he would be THE MOST EXPENSIVE PLAYER IN HISTORY for our opponent. You can't make up stuff like this.

Having someone like Hazard who's naturally talented to interchange the ball with someone at pace and plays in triangles and yet isolating him to receiving the ball on the wing with 2-3 men to beat. Still can't blame him, sorry. He is showing glimpses which are enough for me to think that he would be unleashed as soon as he is in proper attacking team. We're able to diminish Hazard to zero goals in 10 games, that's one helluva achievement for the manager.

They do. They're looking for DM/CM and Ruben Neves is one they're very, very interested in.

So true. I just can't comprehend how you cannot train attacking patterns. When I see Pedro who has to beat his man, one or two, to make something happens something is very wrong. Because Pedro's dribbling is not great and he lives by movement that's why he is next to useless now. And also lack of attacking full-backs just proves the point. Every decent club and country play with two recognized full-backs who bomb forward but some genius figured out that they're all wrong and plays with RB on the left and CB on the right. You just deprive yourself of two potential contributors in attack. I even saw that in Pedro when he was waiting for Ivanovic because he is used to Dani Alves making run. Then he doesn't see him and start dribbling and loses the ball. Also this article suggests through "sources close to the club" that our tactic last season was indeed giving ball to Hazard and see what happens.

Chelsea has 3 and a half bigger budget than Porto, let that sink in. They were playing with few players out of position too. Yet they outplayed us from 60 min (surprise surprise after Mikel came off). I hardly felt so bad. We can't pass the ball around. There's zero innovation in attacking play, ZERO. Not even in set-pieces.

What a clown. And fucking liar. Never felt so bad in recent times. All on him. He really wants to get sacked. You can't help him if he wants this so much.

Just to remind you that Chelsea has 3 and a half bigger budget than Porto.

LOL ! When we play Maccabi again ? He won't even enjoy his Carling Cup appearance since we play Stoke next ! He's not ready for Premier League yet some no-name from Newcastle who is right-back plays on the left and is bossing Pedro.