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Come off it. You do not believe in the man, nor his abilities. Everything in your post is a doomsday disaster prediction. I've never seen a post so negative about JM and Chelsea's abilities from a Chelsea fan. Lighten up man.

Very interesting article http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/chelsea/11791127/Jose-Mourinho-signs-new-four-year-deal-with-Chelsea.html

I thought it was only me. That Gk shirt looks like a bargain brand.

Not quite as infuriating watching rookies fumble where experience matters. I've seen some of our Chelsea youths in those situations of late. We are two-three years away from full integration. I have a feeling that is why there are no long term expensive investments in players, otherwise those players would lend to waste. Experience in the best motha, nothing beats it. No I sometimes look back at games I lost as a coach, One lousy decision has cost me a game or two, after playing brilliantly. But I did not lose that many (Thank God) Not that I am bragging, but I consider myself lucky and fortunate enough to have trained under the best coaches in the world. If I knew what I know now, my head would have been in the clouds.

Really?

You're right. Those are the key board members I was referring to, without mentioning names. Jose is consulted yeah, but the final decision is those two. Emenalo identifies the prospect, while the lady is responsible for negotiations. She is well known to be tight-fisted, plays hardball and wouldn't pay a cent over what she thinks the valuation of a player is. Roman just gives his blessing after all is agreed to. She is the one holding up the deals. I do not blame her though, with over inflated prices and the way our former administrators wasted money buying nonsensical players left and right, I would too if I were Roman. The only difference now is that Chelsea rewards loyalty by not asking people to leave. You must be totally, totally bad and outright suck to be asked to leave by Chelsea. I even found this article by a Liverpool great interesting. This about sums it up for all the over reactive Chelsea supporters.

Some of you guys keep forgetting that Jose left Chelsea the first spell for this very reason. Roman and his board buys what they want, when they want. Benitez wanted to change the team, they didn't even let him either. certain teams, that operate that way. Barca, Real Madrid, Chelsea, Spurs(Levy), Bayern, Juve, Inter Milan, Milan etc. They are owner controlled not coach. Those days are long gone. You work with the players we give you or hit the road. Secondly, Which coach out there that is available, can do better than Jose? If they fire Jose right now, who can get us to places right now? Even LVG is struggling at Man U.. Dick advocate is struggling. Klop couldn't handle it and left. Pep has aged 10 years at Bayern. Anceloti been used and fired by us. Quality coaches are almost non-existent. Wenger has been struggling for last ten years and will still not. The choices are almost zilch.

Not when your boss (Roman) wants instant success. He fired coaches that were winning go figure. I get you, no one ever is an absolute on the future. However, on that note of recognizing talent, he is correct, that much I know.

Just like I've said, if you live and breath soccer, the way Jose does, you will know. I'm not at his level and I can tell.

Like Jose is ever going to tell you his line up until about 20 minutes to go in the game. lol. I'm usualy scrambling around in the last 30 minutes trying to Chelsea players ever week. Best choice is not to pick them, but stay with the main guys like Hazard, JT, Ivanovic, Fabregas. Others, I'm not to sure about.

My people are very impatient. Like I've said, Chelsea is looking for a specific type player to fit into the puzzle. Not an easy find. If found, they are being priced out of the stratosphere. You guys should know by now that once Chelsea is mentioned, the price goes up by 5 million pounds.

The 10 minutes does not necessarily refer to a game. It could be practice, training, indoor games ........etc. Before you can audition at that level, they must have a lot of scouting, reports, videos and stuff that has been done in the background. You just don't show up out of the blue and get 10 minutes. Its not only about your touches on the ball either. Movement off the ball during offense, defense, positioning, decision making after receiving the ball, techniques in the right position, understanding team tactics etc. The same way people get eliminated for "British got talent" or other talent auditions. They don't sit there with them 2 hours waiting for the rainbow to shine. The same way you get a job in first 10 minutes or not during a job interview. Interviewers already know if you are going to be hiried in the first 3-5 minutes.Acting auctions etc., It does not take a lifetime.

He was good before he came to Chelsea. He just lost focus for a while and changed his training habits. The Nigerian coaches used to complain about him a lot and was subsequently dropped from the National team. He has since changed his habits and approach. He seemed to have found his mojo again.

One reason and for one reason only "Torres" He cost way, way more than 50 million pounds if add up all the managers we had to fire for failure to launch Torres. I'm estimating 250 million pounds thereabouts if you add his salary, plus all the comps we had to pay to fire each respective coach that failed to get him going, plus their salaries all the way back to Jose.

People forget that the Fiorentina coach used the substitution to his advantage. Every-time his team was getting worn out he will throw in like 5-6 subs. he must have used 30 subs in that game. How the hell do you expect any team to beat that? By the time to start to figure out this group, he will bring another. Then another 5-10 minutes goes by trying to figure that one out. No amount of preparations could help you solve that kinda puzzle.

If you've ever coached before you will understand what he means. In such organizations, coaches have already received dossiers, feed backs from scouts, junior coaches, assistants and watched tons of videos of players (new and young) before they ever even feature on the first team. Lots of discussions and evaluations etc., By the time he sets foot on the pitch with first team, the rest is mental approach, he will either have it or not. Didn't Mikel come in as a kid. Varane? Zouma? Traore? Etc., etc. Chelsea is not trying to build a team, they already have a team, just trying to fit in the missing puzzle. You are either the missing piece or not. Its a lot more complicated that just buying pieces to patch a team up. I've coached at various levels for 30+ years and I can usually tell from opposing teams who the key players are, (during their warm ups) weak links etc., whenever we went to tourneys in different states where scouting reports were not not available for whatever reasons. I hardly missed a beat too. You either have it or you don't.

That's why you are not the owner.

I don't think you get what he was trying to say.

How is it JMs fault. He doesn't buy the players, he just makes recommendations to the board.

They did just that in the second half of last season, thats why we played defensively.

Willian, Hazard, Remy, all dwell on the ball too gaddamn long. Geez. by the time finish putting all the salad dressing on the ball, the whole town has closed shop. Very lacking in ideas, especially in the attacking third. Give the ball to Fabregas expecting miracles, or give it Hazard and stand around. Mikel was so useless, he's indescribably boring. I felt like walking into the field and slapping him silly. How many times was he caught on the wrong side of ball, only to be shrugged off by Babarcar. Damn. I'm so pissed.

This interview confirmed my sentiments exactly.

Calm down! We can't just sign anyone. Chelsea's needs are very defined.

How do you know the Arsenal offer was perfect in every way? From what I've heard, he had better offers from Europe and more money per week than the 100k/week. Anyways end of story. You have your opinion and I have mine.

Regardless, the interference was a slap in the face for JM or any manager for that matter, especially to your worst rival. Roman could have let Jose save face with a different arrangement. Personally, JM is more loyal to Chelsea, than Petr will ever be.