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People keep discussing Oscar vs Mata as our best #10 option and I've been saying for a while, Willian is our best AM. He was a bit of both and flair for all our midfield. imo it's him + 2... He's objective, fast, has quick and amazing vision and technical.

I honestly believe you've never watched him for Barça and Inter... the way you keep dismissing him on his thread and Torres' since forever shows me that you either don't know a thing about him or you have some hatred for the guy (or maybe it's something else more related to Torres)... Dismissing the history of someone of his caliber as you often do doesn't seem reasonable at all. But to each their own... I rate Eto'o > Drogba >>>> Ibra, although I'm not sure how I feel with Ibra being part of the list...The only reason he has those multiple-team records is because he's really a piece of work, and created many problems in many clubs he played for, consequently leading him to leave them too often and too soon. It goes without saying I don't rate him much... the only thing I like about him is him being Swish, but that's a player I personally don't like at all - although I do admit he's one of the best goalscorers of the last decade. Still he pales in comparison with the other two, while he has top scoring records about him, titles wise there's no comparison and I think titles are very important when we judge how big a player is. Didier was the one player that shone in our UCL title. We played some insane defensive football and our defenders and especially Cech are as much important to the title as Didier, but he stepped up and took matters into his own hands in critical moments. That's what you expect a player like those to do and consequently win you the title. Eto'o was simply brilliant for Inter and he was outstanding for Barça being a very important player in both UCL titles. I don't know how many times Didier (my personal favorite, although I rate Eto'o higher) won African player of the year, but Samuel won it 4 times.

There are two matches Arsenal are bound to lose points this month: City away (dec 14th) and Mourinho home (dec 23rd) That's why it's so important for us to do well in those matches now because on the 23rd we could have a real chance to be at the top of the league. They also have some tricky matches against Everton home (dec 8th) and Newcastle away (dec 29th). I think we left the trickiest behind us with Southampton and I hope we play well against Arsenal and Liverpool. I just wish Mourinho didn't approach those two games defensively as he did with ManUtd and Tottenham. We took risks in the League Cup match against Arsenal, even if they were missing some key players (so were we). That's why doing well tomorrow, Saturday and then against Crystal is so important. We should approach those three matches as the most important in the month because they're the ones that can provide us with chances to end the year the top of the table. That's the one thing preventing ManCity from leading the table right now. They had losses against teams from the bottom half of the table away and if they lost it's because those teams can challenge. So we take them seriously, but also treat them as finals. Then it's in our hands against Arsenal to grab that top position.

Going through streaks of matches without scoring happens to many good strikers at some point of their careers. The change in this guy from the last two seasons is undeniable. I'm not going to compare him to Lewa, Falcao, Cavani or even Lukaku (all of which getting better service than any of our strikers, btw), I'm going to look at Torres alone and know that he's playing his attainable best, working his socks off, putting his heart into the performances, helping the team when we don't have the ball and fighting, fighting, fighting. In terms of attitude he's even better right now than some of those guys above, as for technical quality he isn't on his prime anymore, he's past it, but every time I see him in the pitch for us now, it's different from how it was last two seasons when I'd internally beg the attackers not to pass the ball for him because it'd be a waste, when his apathy and lack of interest and clutch would make me want to punch my TV. Playing Fernando now doesn't feel like playing with 10 anymore. He's changed and while he won't shine as in his best days, or justify his price tag, I'm happy with a player that works for the team and works hard and his work has fruits. Can he improve technically? Of course he can, but the only thing I could ask him right now is scoring more - but then I'd have to ask the attackers and midfielders to also feed him more chances. He's trying to create himself those chances when they don't appear by themselves. So yeah, I'd like to see more goals, but this is much more than I've ever expected from Torres after those two and a half seasons. Mourinho - even if he tries to diminish his credit on it - has done an amazing job with Fernando and, of course, Fernando deserves a lot of credit too. It's been a good partnership and in cases like this I realize how we can easily underrate some of the work Mourinho's been doing since he arrived. He's still making mistakes when it comes to a few selections (imo), he still doesn't have his starting 11, but he's worked individually with some players (Fernando, Oscar, Ramires, Terry, etc..) in a fantastic way. He's helping those guys improve and develop individually and it's only a matter of time until we finally start making definite and consistent collective improvements instead of the frustrating roller-coaster displays of good and bad football. Hats off to Mourinho for his work with Torres, and hats off to Fernando for answering in such a way. It's more than I've asked or expected and I think with a bit more of confidence and if he keeps the injuries away, he'll add more goals to his good displays now for the third consecutive month.

He can definitely use a rest. I wouldn't play him in either games this week. He says he's okay (probably concerning his injury), but I guess it's time Mourinho starts to use him wisely. This boy has been playing football with barely no vacation 17-18 months now with only those three week-vacation between Confeds Cup and our pre-season. He must have more than 100 matches under his belt in that period, if not more than 110 - which is crazy. We're going to need him a lot in the second semester, when the tough matches come, playing him scarcely now - especially with the in theory manageable sides we have in December with the exception of Arsenal and Liverpool. It seems fitting for Mourinho to rest him and I hope he can resist the temptation of playing Oscar every match. edit: checked on ESPN FC. He's played 135 matches in the last two calendar years (2012/13) in about 18-19 months as he didn't play most of Internacional's first semester last year because of judicial issues. http://espnfc.com/player/_/id/173667/oscar?cc=3888

It's a generalization about the forums (that do have tons of overreaction about how poor or average he's been) - but it isn't about the ground support. I was bitching on Mourinho in the first half and I could hear the fans singing his name while we were playing shit. I don't know if it was because I was moody today, but I think he was very poor in the team selection with Mazacar and Essien and I think Lampard was a risk I wasn't willing to take. Still he was brilliant with the 4-4-2 in the second half. While I do question a lot of his recent choices and how we've been piling some wins (or draws) whilst playing bad for a period of the match or the entire match, I guess I was really unfair to him in my rantings earlier today being influenced by my anti-Mourinho commentator (he's convinced Mourinho is in the descendant curve of his career and isn't capable of emulating his best works here, at Inter and his 2nd season with RM), my bad mood and how frustrating and apathetic the team was in the first half. He's entitled to make mistakes - although I think his team selections and some of his subs should have less mistakes - but he's still a genius and a great tactician. His vision of football is second to none, his ability to rile up players and work in the psychological aspect is incredible so I think those things make up for the mistakes in selection and subs. imo his struggle to find his best team has a lot to do with those players being very inconsistent and inconstant. One match they play amazing, the next some of them or nearly the whole team plays shocking football. How much can we blame it on him if the same players that kill a match don't turn up in the next? As rotation is going to be a must this month maybe he will have a better idea of why that's happening and when he shouldn't trust the players that will always swear they aren't tired and can play and therefore make changes and when he should stick with a winning selection. It felt terrible though dissing him today - because I was moody - and I don't get how it's so easily for people disregard him so easily. It felt bad while I was typing those tweets and its feels much worse now. The only reason why I'm not ashamed of myself is because *** is bitch and can fuck with one's mood.

Well, I was having a bad day - reason why I stayed out of the live thread. I was in bitchy mood and my Twitter timeline is a testament to that, so I didn't want to spoil the thread just because I was moody. It was a very good second half, but all the problems we've seen in matches such as Basel, West Brom, 2nd half against Newcastle, 1st half against Tottenham, ManUtd, Basel (home) were all there in the first half. First of all I had problems with Essien and Mazacar when the lineup came - and I feel very backed up by their performances to have felt like that. I want Essien to start some matches for us, but those matches have to be against Sunderland and Crystal, not an ascending (although now descending) side like Southampton who had a very good defense and such a decent midfield. It felt like suicide. I said in Mata's thread physical players need more match rhythm than highly technical players. This is clear shown by Essien and Mata today. One struggled a lot with the basics of his game because he doesn't have enough matches under his belt whereas the other was able to bring his best goods to the match. Mazacar is still a big no for me. I'm willing to see any combination of two out of the three: Mata/Oscar; Mata/Hazard; Oscar/Hazard, but I still think the three of them don't work together although on paper they should. Reality and theory don't ever walk together though. I still want to see a 4-3-3 with Oscar playing where Lamps played against WHU and Mata as an AM and Hazard can even be the other AM I wouldn't care because the dynamics would be different from 4-2-3-1. I still feel that might be our best formation and I'm frustrated that now that he's tested even bloody 4-4-2 Mourinho is yet to test this 4-3-3. I have a feeling we could shine with that formation. Hazard needs to learn when he should dribble and when he shouldn't. A few times yesterday he dribbled in our half, lost the ball and thank God Soton were playing their worst (and most disinterested) match I've watched this season otherwise they could have capitalized our terrible 1st half. He should dribble when he's aiming for the goal whether in a counter-attack in midfield or near the box. Dribbling his way through 2-3 players in the defensive half is a bad decision and I hope Mourinho talks to him about that. Really happy with the work from both our strikers. Can someone give Ba some red tinted glasses with aap3 logo in the middle so he always plays as well as he does against Soton? That way he can imagine playing them Our defense was good and despite Essien's horrible mistake, why can Rodriguez run and reach that ball and neither Azpili or Iva can (except for the obvious)? It doesn't exempt Essien at all, but I guess they were still a bit disconnect from play in the very first seconds whereas Rodriguez was quite alert. Lampard... how much I bitched when Mourinho brought him for Oscar and not Schurrle. Don't get me wrong, I'm not one of the Lampard haters around here who even wish we haven't renewed his contract. He was one of the most tired players for us against Basel it was just an unnecessary risk imo. He could feel the weight of three consecutive matches in 9 days and it could have been ugly. I would have gone with André and I still don't get what he did to Mourinho as he barely featured in November (didn't have one single start) when he had an amazing October imo. I'm happy Lamps didn't feel much the amount of matches, but some of his missed passes were clearly because he didn't have legs anymore. His vision in the ball for Mata in the second goal was highly praised by me on Twitter. As CHOULO19 reminded me on Twitter, Mata is very important for our set pieces. Set pieces are a huge part of modern football and many teams rely a lot on it whether it's corners or free-kicks. If memory doesn't fail me, Mata had 8 set-piece assists among his 20 total assists last season and he's our best set-piece taker for assists (not for direct shots though imo, then it's Lamps). Set pieces aside though, he was fantastic for us yesterday. He had a slow 1st half that could be because of Mazacar playing together and also because the team was apathetic imo, but he was amazing in the second. I hope to see him against Sunderland and who knows, maybe against Stoke too. One last comment...more like a plead. Can Mourinho give André Schürrle playing time and maybe even a start?

Maybe we can swap one of many AM's for him? For example, I don't see a future for Moses in this team (or Marin, but I doubt anyone wants Marin), maybe business involving a good winger such as Moses would interest Southampton as it would improve their team. I don't know Moses' market value and I doubt Shaw will leave for 30m the next two transfer windows, but I do agree he must be valued by Soton when offloading him because of his quality, his age, being home grown, etc... so maybe giving them a player + money (or a couple of players) that summed is more than they would realistically get for him now, might close the deal for us. I really have no idea how much Moses is worth (after what RM paid for Bale I completely lost track of market value), but I'm positive we can involve him or another of our many loaned players inflating a bit Shaw's value without having to disburse a lot of money. Offloading a player for Soton is better than loaning him to rivals (such as Pool) or selling him to a potential opponent in Europe, it's quite clear we have AM's to last 15 generations, so we can turn them into valuable bargaining chip in ways we make money out of them, but having the competitive advantage of selling them for less money than they are worth, making the deal all more attractive to the club negotiating with us while still making money out of players. So for example if Moses is worth 18, in the negotiation we 'price' him 15 or 16 which means the club getting the deal is paying less for that player than they would in an isolated deal, we get profit from the player (supposing Moses didn't cost that much), their team is improved and we have this advantage over the competition. I do feel some of our AMs at this point are at most bargaining chip for us as they don't realistically have space in the team. It seems not even all the 6 that remained with us have, let alone the ones loaned and I believe both Schurrle and Willian are far superior to Moses or in André's case he can become.

Still not sure why Mourinho gave him the 'you killed my puppy' treatment when he was in a very good moment for us. He's barely used as a sub these days and some matches just suit his pace and objective play in addition to the width he brings to us, and his impeccable work-rate. He must start against either Sunderland or Stoke

I believe that was his best match for us this season. I said a few times players like Mata feel less the lack of match rhythm because their game are based on their brilliance and class and those are permanent. Physical players depend much more on the amount of the matches under their belt. I don't think Mata had yet to play a match that really earned his place at the team - not even the Arsenal match - because of many factors, but simply because he hadn't outplayed the other AMs (this is not only about Oscar, as Mata played almost all matches predominantly in the wing in EPL and UCL, except for one he played central and curiously enough Oscar played that match too). His performance today might one of the top performances by an AM player for us this season if it wasn't the very top. That's the Mata this team needs so desperately and the Mata I'm sure convinced Mourinho he needs to play. Also having so many chances created is a breath of fresh air of that hideous performance against Basel. I already feel sorry for Gus coming Wednesday - except that I don't

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I'll say something else... that was fast. way faster than Cahill.

I hate that lineup with a passion, especially against such a compact, solid side as Southampton this season. That said, I hope it works out, I hope we play some nice football and get three points - even if I feel few combinations of our available players could be worse than that. That's all I'll say in this thread.

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Had 3 Southampton defenders and thought before playing us tomorrow I'd better change at least one of them (conflicted interests and all ). I've checked the fixtures this GW and the next and went with a Coleman + Jagielka (still have Boruc and Fonte though). No regrets Too bad Barkley didn't play though I was about to drop Hamsey or Ozil from team, but at last second decided against it (I had 2 FT) because I've seen their history and and it seems to work in cycles for Ramsey and Ozil has been anonymous (in terms of assists or goals) for a while, so I kept them. Will my good luck continue tomorrow (probably not as I don't see both Oscar and Hazard playing and I have both)

I still think he's disrespectful and what he implied was beyond flags. But these days anyone is allowed to say whatever BS they say and most don't feel it's disrespect because they've got used to it (they disrespect others themselves - and I'm not saying you or anyone here do that, I don't know any of you to state such). But a huge part of fans still hate him for that. The hatred he received from beginning to end from the support in London (mainly, but I've seen all around in social media) says as much. He didn't offend me in a personal level, I get it and I agree, but he was a disrespectful cunt that knew nothing about this club's history. While I don't know that much myself all way long from Brazil, I've looked back, I've watched matches from the 50's and onward and special TV shows about our history. We've always had avid, faithful, passionate fans. It wasn't Roman's money that brought (or bought) that... Also, if you're a professional there are a few lines you don't cross. When you're hot headed you say shit about your opponent, about their money injection, their poor football, but you don't actually badmouth support (in a cool moment nonetheless) especially in a country with the historic England has when it comes to [violent] reactions from fans. It's nearly irresponsible on his part, but everyone brushes it off as if it was nothing... Do you think people who act violently against others because of sports are rational enough to overlook even stupid little things like that? To this day we still hear about isolated acts of violence between fans that lead to death or not all over the world. Then a supposedly professional comes and say things about the support, implying they're as fake as the flags the club bought them to wave? What if someone had reacted bad about that and took it to in the next level? Then I bet you, this convo between us now would be very different. Then one might say nobody would do that based in such silly words. I think it's completely irrational, appalling and shocking that people kill because of sports at all and still they've been doing it for decades all over the world, many times without any provocation, any silly words, just out of craziness, but many times reacting to provocation. Good thing nothing happened though, but you still hear isolated cases all over the world about a fan that took a joke or some mockery or even disrespectful words too far. Or do you not? I could tell you a few stories only this year... As for his work last season I said it a few times on this forum that he honored his job and the wage he was paid because he took the job seriously knowing he was just an interim with no chance of being made a permanent manager. He showed good work ethic and I think he did the best he could do (which as a manager wasn't that much if you ask me, but still in the short time he had it was decent and he at least achieved the CL qualification goal) despite being disrespected by fans through and through (there's also this, the seed you sow is the one you get). People are bitter and dislike him and I actually find it amusing many here are so ready to badmouth Mourinho - who's never disrespected this club - and be so quick to defend the one who did. People are emotional and passionate - I don't know how many still resent him for his words like I do, but I'm sure I'm not the only one (there signs disapproving him him til his last match at the Bridge). Irrational, silly, whatever it is, it's how some people feel. There are many other episodes about Benitez being disrespectful towards other clubs, so many unnecessary words, it wasn't an isolated fact, so I don't respect him as a professional at all, my appraisal of him as a person seeing his true colors showing like that is a bad one and I'm thankful he's not here anymore and I hope he never steps on Stamford Bridge again. Overreaction for overreaction, I'll keep overreacting about my dislike for the man, while others will overreact about a few bad results and some questionable decisions. As Raphael said in Mourinho's thread the other day, there's just an amount of useless and annoying posts, each defending or presenting something annoying or nonsense (that first post was all about that, this one has relevant points imo though, although it also includes some of that). I won't deny though it makes my blood boil when people mention Benitez and dare to compare him to Mourinho... not only that's a blasphemy judged by their work and titles alone, but I feel something I can't explain well in English about my values and what I should and shouldn't say to others (especially as a public figure). I was taught since very early age, in a small city in the middle of nowhere in Brazil. Call me old-fashioned.

So the kid asks for a loan because he wants to play because he wants to take part of the WC and José - knowing he wouldn't give too much play time with him while we had 4 strikers - agrees to let him go, not only so Lukaku can accomplish his personal goals but because he thinks it'll benefit the player and consequently Chelsea in the long term and now José is being judged by that? So José should have kept him and allowed him play time inferior to Mata... Oh no, that's not true because people think he could easily emulate what he does at Everton for us, despite our bad service and his not impressive individual technical qualities? Because our history with strikers prove just that, right? How many strikers came here and played equally well or even better then before joining us? The only exception I can think now is Drogba, all other strikers flourished here which is why is fair to think Lukaku (who isn't even technically gifted) would too, at age 20 And @Stats, I can't talk about others, but the reasons I badmouth Benitez is because of how BLOODY DISRESPECTFUL he was towards Chelsea FOR NO REASON AT ALL when he was at Liverpool. It has little to do with his limitations as a manager (and he has plenty of them). And your words aren't even fair, mate as this thread was a pandemonium when the loan was confirmed with people against José and the club. Then it was clarified by everyone involved that Lukaku requested to leave (although some poster who is close to Lukaku agent or family I don't remember insisted in a completely different story) it toned down a little, but I still feel like most people that post in this thread disapproves the loan, so what's your point with the Benitez comparison because Mourinho gets (and got) a lot of stick for this loan. I have to confess I'm a little fed up with the Benitez comparison I read in every thread these days. It's not only about his mediocre work here, because maybe I could overlook that - although I don't miss losing both domestic cups, finishing 14 points behind the champions (nearly 10 points added during his spell) nor did I enjoy us struggling to win against second level teams in EL (but hey, at least he played Mata while doing all that, right?). So while none of this makes me miss him and therefore I wouldn't understand why people keep going back to him what shocks me the most is how people forget this good for nothing, disrespectful guy, who lacks any class, badmouthed this club and its supporters for no reason, completely gratuitously. I will never forget what he said about my club and about me as a Chelsea fan while he showed his true colors. Maybe his words didn't offend some people? Because I feel deeply offended and disrespected by that piece of spanish mierda for the things he said about us.

So much was said about the match against Liverpool that I had to watch it. The things I wanted to see improvement on his part were still shocking if not worse than I remember them. He can score goals, that's always been a fact, the thing is scoring goals in certain situations are more difficult than in others (the team he plays for will dictate how other teams approach the matches against his team, and that alone is an influence). His linkup play, his ball control, his first touch were all still terrible imo. Torres, for example, would be crucified here if he had showed so much unfamiliarity with treating the ball well (as we'd say in Brazil). Still he was at the right place, at the right time and scored his two goals. I wonder if he was better in those things I've just mentioned if Everton wouldn't have won the match... Lukaku works in many teams with his qualities, I just don't know if he'd work easily for us. It's been a while since Torres missed a sitter (this season) and it's been a while since he's scored (but there was the injury so he wasn't playing) and he hasn't scored enough which means the service isn't good because if the service was good he was either scoring as Lukaku is or missing sitters right and left, none happened. The goals our strikers did score (except the ones where they fooled the goalkeeper, ) as far as I remember (and I don't remember them all) weren't easy goals to score. It wasn't about them being at the right place, at the right time, receiving a great assist and using one or two touches to score. I guess our service is worse, because teams are way more tight against us than against Everton, our midfield doesn't serve our attacking midfielders properly, we play too narrow and when we don't Ivanovic can't cross for his life and Hazard will mostly cut in, among many others reasons. So at the end of the day we rely much more on the individual technical quality of our strikers and I think Lukaku has glimpses of that in some moments limited to situations that suit his style while he completely lacks it in all other situations. ************************************************************************************************************************************************ It's good for us he's scoring against our opponents (the dailymail link above gives us confirmation that this was part of José's plans all along: send him to a good side so he'd score important goals against our rivals, but not against us), he's scoring all around so he's gaining confidence, but something seems seriously wrong in his motivations... it seems he isn't looking forward to become a better player, it seems he just wants to prove Mourinho he was wrong by trusting more experienced players than he trusted him, it's like he wants to prove he's better than the strikers we do have (many of his quotes can show that, the most direct being when he said he wants to end the season scoring more than Chelsea's strikers). If the kid is there with the wrong motivation, he'll come back to us next season and will be send away again because this isn't about his personal vendetta, bitterness or whatever he feels against the club or Mourinho for the decision to let him go. This should be about him trying to improve, focusing on himself as a player and getting better, but I all I get from his words and actions on the pitch is that he wants to outscore our strikers to prove to everyone else, but especially to Chelsea that loaning him was a huge mistake. Maybe I'm completely misinterpreting his words to the media (and how much he focuses on our strikers, our manager instead of improving as a player, working with his current manager and his current team). When you compare his interviews to Piazon's you see the difference in the tone. Piazon WHEN he mentions Chelsea is in a light that he wants to improve as a player at Vitesse and come back at the end of season better than he left, so hopefully he can stay because he knows the competition for a spot in a club as big as Chelsea is high and big and that he hopes he improves to the point he can stay. Shouldn't all loaned players have the same mentality? Why does Lukaku seem so worried in doing better than Chelsea and Chelsea players? And if Everton finishes 4th does it mean they're as big as the size he thinks a club is worth of him, and therefore he doesn't need Chelsea anymore? I should probably break this post in two parts, as I'm talking about two different subjects and I don't people to mix them, so I'm adding a line of separators. Lukaku has two different problems imo: 1) he isn't technically as good as Chelsea needs him to be, because of his own deficiencies, and also Chelsea's deficiencies to provide him the service he needs to be provided otherwise he won't score as much; 2) his motivations seem to be way off target (I'm not stating they are, I'm interpreting them) if he simply wants to do better than Chelsea to prove a point. About the #2 I also have something else to say: he isn't bigger than Chelsea and he won't ever be (no player will), if he thinks he's too good for us or so awesome that we should have kept him and played him 50% of the matches, he can stay at Everton or wherever else for as long as he wants.

City has been way better? You mean considering only home matches, right? Their form away is worse than ours with far easier fixtures except the match against us. I'm not discussing if they are or aren't title contenders, but their form away is abysmal, so even if they play amazing at home and are shite away, I can't say they're better than us... If we were the ones losing away to the likes of Villa, Cardiff and Sunderland this forum would have imploded. It nearly did with losses to Everton and Newcastle... so yeah, not sure why you say City is way better, unless if this is a greener grass situation.... As for Arsenal, they're 4 pts ahead of us. We need to keep the gap and then we'll play them twice, get 6pts and it's a done deal (not entirely true and easy, not entirely unlike either)

José's conference will be shown live by Chelsea TV in 9 minutes from now http://www.chelseafc.com/live-press-conferences http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_YbW5HR3bk#t=1235

you forgot the worst (imo). The never ending comparisons with previous managers when the only between both Jose's spells that did a decent job was Ancelotti but still you see people proclaiming di Matteo's and Benitez's tactics as if we were Bayern under them. That goes hand to hand with the list of guys to replace Mourinho... that's what's annoying imo. Some people are already talking about sacking him... after a few months. That said, he was terrible with the team selection against Basel. I'd rate him a 4 out of 10 because even though the problem was that the players didn't turn up, they were damn tired. When José realized that 1) he should have made more changes, especially when he admits he saw his team was tired from the first minute; 2) shouldn't have played all of them if he could say so early they were tired. It comes back to his decisions and I get anyone who moans about it because it was a pathetic display, I don't expect people to react positively or even neutrally to that. It's the implication that his predecessors did better (they didn't) and the willingness to sack him already that is He won't leave so Laudrup, Guardiola or Klopp can come... We don't even have players with the profile some of those managers like (not Klopp and definitely not Guardiola). Some players (very few, like 2-3) fit each of those managers' profile and still they're supposed to come because they're the ones that would make Chelsea invincible playing the sexiest football out there. Okay then...

É FLAMENGO PORRA!!!! And that's because we were fighting against relegation, but somehow won't be relegated and won Brazil Cup beating the Brazilian champion, and another top4 team before the final. That's Flamengo!!!!! If Ozil gets tired of not winning anything, he's welcomed here too. Also 65th player to leave Arsenal to win a title.

well the haters, the moaners, the impatient ones can suck it up because Mourinho isn't going anywhere, so you better get used as expecting you to be patient and support the manager is clearly a stretch. You can cry, yell, curse, post stats, pictures, videos, maybe even try a petition. He's here to stay.

I was nearly embarrassed for him and that nonsense foul that stopped our attack had me I get it that if he's tired his legs stop working... but at some point it seemed to affect his decision making too. I'd love to rest him against Southampton, then I look at our bench and the options are dreadful. Between benching him and Lampard, I'd go with Lampard, because of the age, but I don't see how we could bench both...

It's sad that we came to the point where not only one, but two members, one after the other wish one of our players to be injured. Not only said player has a history of service done for this club, but that's an human being, a professional, working like any of us and people are wishing his health to be affected so he doesn't play. I feel utterly disgusted at how low people can stoop, honestly disgusted - no drama or exaggeration involved.