petre.ispirescu

It's harsh to say that Barcelona crushed him when the truth was that Guardiola was missing his best players for that leg. Robben, Ribery, Alaba out, Lewandowski far from being 100% fit, Bernat & Rafinha against Messi & Dani Alves. Lots of new players against an already established Barcelona team. And he still managed to dominate Barcelona both home and away. Take a fully fit Bayern against a Barcelona missing, let's not say Messi, but Neymar, Suarez and Iniesta. Surely that would have been a walk in the park for Guardiola. Pep is the best thing that could happen to this club. Not only for footballing reasons, but he'd change the mentality of the whole institution that Chelsea is. We need to get rid of all this negativity bullshit and siege mentality, players have to enjoy the beautiful game, not go into games like it's a fecking war. I'd take my chances with this possession and risky football that Guardiola tries to implement wherever he goes, rather than this dull neverending 4231 and all the track back & work rate drama.

99 out of 100 managers would build their team around Hazard and let the little magician express himself on the pitch. Not with Mourinho though. Fecking track back and work rate, he is not a full back FFS. It's so hard to understand Mourinho these days. So much negativity around him, it's like every word he says turns into a war tune. Why can't he just shut the fuck up for at least a week and do the job he's being paid for.

Kloppo's a fantastic manager, but not a magician. He's inherited a bang average squad at Liverpool, full of mid-table players and absolute donkeys. He needs time to adjust to EPL and to rebuild the entire squad if he is to challenge for the title in the next years. IMHO Liverpool can claim they are title contenders only by 2017/18 season. Sooner, there is no chance. Put Europe's best five managers together and they'd still do jack shit with this subpar squad. They're simply not good enough to challenge for big trophies right now or next year w/o major signings, world class players. One thing's for sure with Kloppo - the already biased English media will adore him, regardless how shit they'd be or how many times they'll embarass an entire nation in European competitions.

Heard he is 1st on Juventus' shopping list and also entering in his final year of contract with us next summer. By offering him a new deal Chelsea is ensuring that they have the first and final word in the negociations. One is to negociate for a player that could leave for free in six months, other is to negociate for a player with three or fours years left in his contract. Good decision, we can not lose players for peanuts these days.

Klopp's waiting for the job at Bayern next summer when Guardiola's gone. One of my best mates runs the FC Bayern Fan Club in Romania and he usually attends at least one game per month there. He's got a lot of German friends in Munich, season ticket holders at Bayern and they confirmed it to him. Also one of the Bundesliga commentators at Eurosport Romania, Bayern fan as well and probably the best and most intelligent commentator in this country, keeps talking about this thing every match like it's a done deal already. This guy adores Guardiola and his philosophy but agrees that this will be his last season in charge there and Klopp will be taking the reigns at Bayern next summer. I'm thinking that you would not be speaking about something live on TV week-in, week-out if it had not had any substance in it I guess.

Forget about the sack at this point, let him in charge until May with one clear objective - Champions League football next season with no transfers in the next window. From now on Roman should grab his phone, call Guardiola and do everything in his power to convince him to come here. Big salary and big money for transfers next summer considering we've saved a huge amount this summer and will be saving again this winter. Give Guardiola 150-200m and he'd rebuild the squad completely with players to fit his philosophy and hit the ground running from the very first match. He's not known as a big spender so he'd probably build his core around players similar to Thiago, Douglas Costa, Alaba, Boateng et al. That's fine with me. Chelsea should have enough to finish at least 4th and I'm more than sure that Guardiola would at least listen to what Roman would have to say. IMHO, Guardiola is the only one that could change the mentality at this club and take us to next level. Others would only do what Mourinho did - have a short term impact, but then fade away. This is why I think the Mourinho should not get the sack right now.

So harsh on him as he undoubtedly was one of the best defensive midfielders in the world last season and did the job of three men in midfield. Hate it when Mourinho goes all personal with his players. There's others stealing a living as footballers at Chelsea and Matic is not amongst them. He does not deserve this FFS.

He's lost it.

Willieeeeeee hahahah He can't stop scoring from free kicks can he haha

Boycott the game just because Brana's playing? Fickle football, grow a fucking pair you lot and get behind the team. Mourinho and Ivanovic are only passengers at this beautiful club, Chelsea's going to be here forever. Jesus Christ.

I think we've lost him, THAT Jose Mourinho we used to love I'm afraid is gone, Spain has absolutely destroyed him.

Fucking jammy bastards need a penalty to beat those German minnows fuck off

Stinnnnnnnnndl 1-0 Gladbach GET IN

Raffael How many chances do you need FFS???????

Willian and Ramires deservedly back in the team. Eden and Matic have to be back too at HT - Mikel and Pedro bring nothing to our game unfortunately. Up the Chels. Come on

YESSSSSSSS Willian

We're toothless upfront and that's what is going to cost us in the end. Mourinho is a one dimensional coach that can't teach the team how to play in the final third and the most frustrating thing is his stubbornness to bring in an attacking coach. Fergie had the exact same problem, but at least he realized this and brought Meulensteen to his coaching staff. With all the world class forwards we have, we're still dreadful in the final third. Take all the matches this season, bar the WBA one - we've only scored from set pieces and long shots. That's depressing for a team of Chelsea's calibre. You simply can not go to a place like St James's Park and start the game the way Chelsea did yesterday. They're a shower of shite beaten by Watford and Sheffield Wednesday's reserves at their place in the space of one week and we're still clueless and start playing football only after we're 2-0 down. Depressing stuff.

Do not bottle it Jose now beat the crap out of this shower of shite

The Radamel Falcao of two years ago would have destroyed Lewandowski's record last night. The problem is that his confidence looks shot right now and it is a pitty that he can't find the net because he seems to be over his injury - he makes the right runs, his movement is as good as you can get from a CF and he links up very well with his mates. Biggest problem is in his head and in order to regain some of his old form I think he needs a long run with the first team, something I'm not so sure Jose's willing to give him in the next months. The Radamel Falcao of Atletico is probably done and dusted, but still, the one we have right now is a fine option to have on our bench.

Hahah it was good while it lasted

Come on Carlisle

Depay used to score goals like this for fun in that poor league and look at him now. The most overrated player to have arrived in EPL for years. Eredivisie has regressed A LOT imo and no attacking player should be judged by his stats there - defenders in Holland are complete frauds.

There's a couple of guys in here that would take Coutinho over Oscar and I rate that as a massive joke. Overrated player with a goalscoring ratio similar to Cristiano Ronaldo's free kick ratio - one goal out of 15-20 shots. One trick pony that himself overrates his shooting ability. Liverpool is a joke of a club right now, full of bang average players and I wish this trend would go on for another 30-40 years because that vile club and that disgusting fan base deserve nothing else than constant failure.

Kate Abdo. How can you improve on perfection? Stunning woman.