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you still didn't get it! It's not about saying we're fucked, we won't win this, bla, bla, bla - which no one said btw. It's just how poor pissed we were. Our midfield was completely dominated by them. We didn't win any second balls, we didn't pass the ball around, we just tried the crazy long balls and the frenetic counter. We were poor, saying otherwise and especially that it was part of the plan it's delusional imo... but as I said, each to their own, let's agree to disagree. ***** was about to ask Will for André

your post below this one was perfect, I had to put them together that gif is one of the best ever posted here. Made of win and yeah, boy's got swag

It never ceases to amaze me how GOOD Eden is taking PK It's too much coldness and technique

good ol' Eto'o just got us a pen and a red card pun intended LOL this became so funny in the last couple of minutes

his celebration. I'm dying laughing here. LOL

ETOOOOOOOOOO

at least we're getting them booked now in the second in the counters. Either they'll get a player sent off soon or they'll avoid the contact and improve our chances...

that's comical. I needed the laugh

I may need to relax and you need to come back from cloud nine. Seriously... we've been slightly outplayed, our midfield was completely dominated by them only you think otherwise. I bet parts of my body José will say some of those things in the interview if he acknowledges the first half. Just because this isn't over and we can turn it around and win, we don't need to fantasize that everything went according to plan like you did. I admit I'm pissed, but this is football, it's emotional. I don't get how we play shit at home and you feel like that's part of the plan. Jose just made a change in HT, I'm positive that proves that fuckery wasn't part of the plan. I get that some things are overreacting, but you're completely out of the reality in your comment right now, sorry. So we'll settle to agree to disagree.

he did say our problem was the final third, or final pass, or whatever. look at Mourinho at the sideline and you can be sure as hell that that wasn't the plan at all. He was pissed, but certainly not more pissed than us as he's the one who's started Ramires, Lampard and Matic. Sorry, I have to disagree. MANY times I saw Ramires playing in the wings, but mainly in the middle, between Eden and André with Matic and lamps way behind him. I don't know how that's a 4-3-3. Mainly a 4-3-3 is a system with THREE attacking players. Schurrle and Hazard aren't that forward... there's no way that was a 4-3-3, except maybe for a few seconds a time.

excuse me, but what frigging plan? Risking to concede a goal with some shaky defending and be absolutely poor attacking, creating nothing with a poor as piss attacking lineup? Sorry, if that's the plan I want out.

We desperately need Oscar or Willian in the match, no matter how out of form they are...

he isn't in the wing because it's Eden and André. He's our CAM. Fuck my life...

why isn't Hazard playing as the CAM? He has no fucking reason to in the LW, leave that to André and go to the middle. We have absolutely ZERO creation right now, except for Lamps, who should be playing ahead of Ramires anyway if we have to have that midfield...

one of our wingers will have to be as we have a non-factor on the other. #pissed edit: worse than a non-factor in the wing, is such a player as the CAM. I'm hopeless in addition to bloody pissed

can't believe Hazard missed that.....

he's not offside and fucking Lorris can go get his mother fucked by Eto'o

at Torres injuring himself during warmup... no words really

Just so it doesn't go without me complaining about it. I hate Ramires in the RW more than I hate most things in football. There said, now moving on. It's a good team and I think our chances are good, despite the nonsense in the RW.

but the question is, is he ready to accept only that? Every time I read his interview he comes off as really arrogant (maybe it's just my feeling and I'm wrong), as if he's one of the very best strikers in the world - when he isn't one of the best even in the league if you ask me. He feels he's entitled to play Champions League after everything he's done. Pray and tell what is he talking about? what has he ever done that makes him feel that he's earned it? A lot of players play the UCL for their clubs in other countries and they're really bad. I don't think one has to do anything to earn to play UCL, you just have to be at the right place, at the right time; but FFS the boy has done nothing but have a very good season scoring for WBA. I don't know how many goals he has this season for Everton in the EPL, but I'm not impressed (haven't seen many Everton matches, so I'm talking only statistically) but based in all the shit he was saying earlier the season that he'd outscore all Chelsea's strikers, that he's this and he's that, that he's earned UCL, I'd expect a lot more result and for god's sake, a lot less words. He just needs to shut it. I've never been convinced by him as a footballer, especially one that fits us under Mourinho, but I've always been willing to know him better and then be fair, but I have to say, more often than not I just want to say, 'shut the fuck up, already'. He's making me dislike him in a certain way because of the never-ending amount of shit he spouts. It's the gift that keeps coming with him. I hope when he's here that he develops into a great player, but I also hope Chelsea never allow a microphone near him either.

I think Mario is the one who may have done the first contact now. He's older, he's more mature, and wiser, and he must know he won't flourish under anyone else as he will under José, if he can flourish at all under someone else. He's a special kid and he needs some special attention because I feel he's a bit fragile emotionally. Yes, mentally he isn't too strong, just like Luiz isn't, but I think they have completely different issues. Mario needs guidance and a father figure to help him and reach him out. Luiz needs some slaps in the back of his head Also, Thomas, why do you think Benzema is out of reach? I'm not completely sold that RM won't sell him. Perez is crazy. neither has he said he doesn't It's always a mind game with Mourinho when it comes to transfer rumors.

UEFA is missing an important point about financial fairness here... or even sustainability. There should be a ceiling of how much a player can cost and about their wages too. This thing is getting out of control and the world isn't on its best economical moment of history. As long as deals like Bale's are allowed to be done, things will escalate until we have a crack in the football market with many clubs going into bankruptcy or just being in deep debts. It makes NO sense for one single player to cost as much and to have 300k/week wages. It doesn't need to be an Einstein or whatever Economics guru to see that this won't end well if UEFA doesn't put a limit on this. It's not only how much a club can spend a spend, but even more how much one single player can cost.

That's the point. If there's a release clause, it isn't a case of 'a chance you don't always get', as the clause is there and won't be removed unless he's offered a new contract. I don't know if there is and how much that is, but José knows exactly what's the case, as he signed him. Shaw already has a very high price, we desperately need a striker - or even more than one (I'm not sure Mourinho is that willing to keep Lukaku). We need to start adding English players or homegrown talents to fill the EPL quota of such. I think it's unlikely for us to spend so much money at once. We'll be spending a lot between Shaw - who I honestly see coming - and a striker. Not to say the smaller signings that we do about 10-15m (Zouma, Salah, even someone as expensive as André - who I think was 18m, but as @didierforever, corrected me, I'm not the person to quote on how much we spend, lol)

I'm a huge Varane fan from the moment we signed him in RM. Mourinho literally went on and on about this boy and a few months later he was playing for us at the time. He's AMAZING I want him as much - or more - than all of you. Don't forget that the money we did we already spent on Zouma, Salah and Matic (part of the money). We don't have 40 as you're implying we do. I'd love for him to come here, but as he has a release clause and we don't desperately need a new CB - as we do in some other positions, I agree with @didierforever that we may be signing him, but not this window. Surely, RM can offer him a new contract and take away the release clause, but it's unlikely. Carlo isn't even using him that much... so I think we'll go for him either in the winter window or in the summer of 2015. edit: btw you were right in the Zizou thing. He hinted Mou about it, but Mourinho was absolutely enchanted by the boy. He's a real fan of his since RM signed him in 2011. And time flies, I swore that happened in 2012, but it was 2011. Gosh, I'm old.

if there's a buyout clause, there's nothing Zidane can do. I just think that after spending 18m on Zouma, we aren't going to Varane. If we were we wouldn't have spent as much on Zouma imo because I don't see Mourinho having so many defenders younger than 21 in his team even if he's building something for the future. He's said a few times we'll be spending differently from the past because of FFP (and I also believe Roman wants to start making money out of a few players that aren't useful to us, but that we increased their value while they were here). If we only had a CB to buy next season, I'd think we'd afford buying him by offloading Luiz, but he's one of the many supposedly targets we have. We won't get them all because Mourinho hinted enough times we won't splash money as in the past. So how can we buy Shaw, Varane, world class striker and an occasional good deal that comes around. A lot of money will be involved in those, and selling only Luiz and adding the money we made from selling Kev and Mata doesn't seem to cover all those things. I don't feel like Chelsea is going to do something like that, but you never know. Between Shaw and Varane, who do you think the team is going to prioritize and be willing to spend a lot? The English player - ofc. Don't think this is the real history. This was a Mourinho signing, not a Zidane signing. I'm not even sure Zidane was involved in getting players signed for Madrid 2 seasons ago when Mourinho signed him at age 18. I followed Madrid very closely that season. Mourinho was going on and on about Raphaël before and after he's signed him. Zidane only agreed and said nice things about Rapha a few months after the signing.