petre.ispirescu

His problems go deeper than tactics. It's his ego and all the fucked up things in his head. Funny hearing he'd start over and do things "the United way" just for the sake of being hired. Means he's learned nothing. You only address mental disease with medication, not good will. Third season at his next job will be the same, I have no doubts about it. Sick people tend to do the same things over and over again, waiting for different results. Mourinho is broken and won't change. Like he won't change United either.

31 at the start of next season and a truly amazing record since coming to Europe - 82 goals in 348 matches (all competitions). One scored at every four played. Others must be sharting their pants hearing this, wondering how did we manage to pull this off. Worrying signs from the off. That extra 20k seats will be of no use if we're planing on spending the next 20 years into mediocrity. Someone should sound the alarms asap.

The farce continues.

World beaters Lavezzi and Pato are the main targets, probably Alex Teixeira is deemed not good enough by the transfer guru Emenalo. Let Liverpool have him, maybe he'll do a Douglas Costa and take the league by storm. Only then we'll wake up and bid something like 55-60m in a year or so. Jesus Christ, this is comedy gold what's happening.

Really hate the situation where are in and this is the worst part about it - all this dreadful rumours about shitty players from the bargain bin. Pato, Lavezzi, Bacca et al. Listen, questions have to be raised on how the board sees the future of this club. Why on Earth would they pay money on transfers & wages for all this below par players when there's a summer transfer window coming where we can actually start over and rebuild properly?! Why don't we just save money instead of throwing it away on stopgap dealings?! We are not relegating with this squad and top 4 is long gone. As for trophies, do we stand a chance against PSG? Not a single one. FA Cup? We might have a go at it - but is it worth signing all this shitty players that we'll be stuck with for years just for a FA Cup win? Not for me, no. I've read that Djilobodji is heading to Bremen on loan and apparently Baba Rahman could go back to Augsburg in a 10m deal. Six months after we've bought him for 21m. These are all Emenalo's transfers and if supposedly we sign the likes of Pato & Lavezzi and he is behind this deals as well, then he should get the sack. Enough is enough. We're supposed to be one of the biggest brands in world football, but looking at our transfers you'd say that COC is our biggest dream. If Roman wants entertainment and fancy football, then he just have the guts to appoint a proper manager this summer (Sampaoli would be a dream move) and let him do his job and rebuild.

Absolutely agree, Schneiderlin has been nothing short of terrible this season. It's been some time since I last saw such a unidimensional midfielder. Can only play in front of the defence as a half back, other than that he is lost. He adds nothing offensively, passes only sideways and backwards, the definition of a destroyer. I think he'd do a better job as a centre back, lacks so much things for a modern midfielder. United have kind of spent a fortune on average players - Herrera, Blind, Rojo, Schneiderlin, Depay, Darmian, Fellaini. Unless you are lucky af, these players will only get you fighting for a top 4 finish, no more than that.

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GET IN come on you CHELS

Ban applies for the next two transfer windows, not this one. I would not be surprised if they'd push the panic button now and bid for Hazard this month. If that's the case and they show signs of desperation, then we have to be ruthless and milk them for as much money as possible.

Nah, he is not a "gung ho all out attack" manager. He's clever, knows how to find balance between attack and defence. Favours a three at the back formation as he's a Bielsa/Guardiola adept, obsessed with having the ball most of the time, wing backs bombing forward and players occupy attacking positions to recover the ball quickly. Best example would be the Copa America Final where naturally you'd think he'd revert to a four at the back formation knowing he's going to face the likes Messi, Aguero, Di Maria, Lavezzi, Pastore, but he didn't. Went for three at the back, but guess what?! None of them was a natural central defender. All of them defensive midfielders - Gary Medel (1.70m), Marcelo Diaz (1.65m) and Francisco Silva (1.78m). Clever move if you ask me because Argentina did not possess that big of a hight advantage, but Sampaoli had to deal with other thing and that was Argentina's pace upfront. That's why he brought small, but quick defensive midfielders to play at the back. It was not the most entertaining final, but you could see how solid Chile looked and how they limited Argentina to only two shots on goal, both in the 1st half. So yeah, you could say he goes into a more pragmatic approach when facing dangerous opponents, but does not derail that much from his own philosophy. Sampaoli is flexible, as I said, favours a three at the back formation that easily switches to 5-3-2 when having to defend, or a 3-1-3-3 when going forward. His tactical knowledge is infinite, likes to experiment a lot while keeping a balance in his team. Today he arrived in Chile and a number of fans insulted him after Sampaoli said he does not want to work, nor live in Chile anymore because of the scandal that Chilean Federation involved him in after the Copa America (some documents leaked that show Sampaoli depositing money in British Virgin Island accounts etc). He will be a free agent in the next days and I also read in Chilean media (although they quoted a Spanish outlet) that he is keen to take over at Chelsea and the negociations have begun. Sampaoli and Abramovich had a chat and he asked Roman, in the eventuality of him becoming the next Chelsea manager, to do everything to sign Alexis Sanchez. He sees him as the catalyst for a new Chelsea and wants to build the team around him.

Man that was intense. Amazing match.

We've had one and look in what mess he's left us in. Maybe it's time for a change, a complete turnover in our club's mentality. Someone creative, spontaneous, romantic, with new ideas, new tactics, new approach. I for one I'm bored of this 4-2-3-1 tactics and all the shitty, old cliches such as "wingers have to come back in defence at all cost", "we need to make sure we're rock solid at the back before we go forward." etc. Sampaoli is clever and imaginative, I'm sure the players will love him. He challenges the players and plays them at their strenghts, total football, attacking football, lots of intensity. Players do not accept you or start to doubt your ability once you bring nothing new to the game, except for the usual things. They all know the basics, you just have to bring something new. That's the difference between Mourinho and Guardiola - one guarantees you instant success, but you get bored of him in two or three seasons once he can't bring nothing new to the game, the other brings both success and entertainment and no matter how long he's been in a club, you simply want more and more of him. And Sampaoli is in the mould of Guardiola/Bielsa, mad tacticians always looking for new ways on how to keep the ball for most of the time, how quick to recover it, how many players to bring in attack. That's football nowadays, total football belongs to the big teams, counter attacking football to the smaller ones. Chelsea FC one of the biggest brands in world football must play the right way.

In Chile they say Sampaoli will be a free agent starting tomorrow and he admited today that he sees EPL as his next destination. We should be all over this, Sampaoli is a genius, probably the closest thing to Guardiola right now (together with Paco Jemez IMHO). If Chelsea is in for a change than the best thing to look into is somebody like Sampaoli (assuming Guardiola is off the market)- he's not unidimensional, likes to challenge his players, favours attacking football (obsessed with it should I say), likes to rotate a lot, he's flexible with his tactics. Hopefully this turns into something more than just a rumour.

Three away games in succession, but that's ok. We'll go through. Hoping for a home game next though, plenty of accessible opponents have been drawn together.

He's joining River to replace Kranevitter.

Quoted price is 30m pounds. Yeah right... Hate this silly rumours with a passion

Stay tuned for lots of stories now that Zidane is taking over at Madrid.

And now you're gonna believe uuuuuus, we're gonna win the league !!!!

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I think I'll start cheering for City from now up until May. Can't stand the idea of watching those deluded goons lifting the EPL title. With Chelsea missing on Champions League football as well. Bleah . Would be the worst season ever. Anyone but Arsenal, Tottenham & Liverpool.

Would absolutely love this to be true, this kid is the real deal.

It's been quite some time since we last won an away game, August IIRC. Palace with some important missings, time for us to get back on track and start off the year on the right foot. Chelsea win and Hazard to score, that's my call.

Happy new year fellas, all the best from Romania.

We've sacrificed years of development at the expense of a league title. That's the harsh reality and we all have to accept it. Do not get me wrong, nor call me a hater, but Mourinho has left us in such a big mess and will take an awful lot of time before we get back to normal. Hiddink won't turn us into a possesion based machine in the space of one week. That dull football that we've seen today, that's Mourinho's legacy. Can't expect a team that has played ugly football for two and a half years to turn into world beaters over night.