Eden Hazard

[Blue Traveler 256]

This is way over the top! Absolutely no need for that.

I said please!

I really don't want to lock this thread but you're kinda forcing my hand. Everyone just stop the insults and get back on topic!

No insult was intended.

[Stingray 9,441]

Which part was insulting?!!

There are plenty of people here communicating via their laptop, some with phones, tablet etc whom some of them might be challenged people using a wheelchair or any other aiding device! and there is no shame in that.

You forgot the part about 'weelchairs or whatever you are in' to one of our oldest members. You should be banned tbh.

Imagine and replace 'weelchair' with gay, nigger, .. Same stuff. But you cannot see that, cant you little Chorizo?

Lovely to see you try and wiggle out of it.

[zolayes 14,489]

now thats quite - no VERY - insulting.

i dont think he likes old people ,, do thats both of us

[Namika 922]

Namika, we are not the only team that the opposition defend deep against. Other teams don't seem to have a problem. You mention Costa, sure, he will provide some much needed quality up front, but he is not a striker that creates space for himself, though he does bully defenders. Those type of strikers are very very rare. We also need a creative CM and we also need Azpilicueta back at RB and an attacking LB on Hazard's wing to prevent teams from double marking him. Mourinho also should (I dunno, maybe he is!) focus more on build up play and less on counter-attacking football.

If we do these things, then I'm certain we will win the premier league and play some of the best brand of football in the world.

And we aren't the only who has problem against the opposition defend deep, some others teams doesn't seem to have a problem with them because they have very good strikers.

[CHOULO19 24,332]

No insult was intended.

The wheelchair part was extremely inappropriate.

@Namika,@MrExcalibur100, you've strayed off topic. This thread is only for Hazard discussions. Please take this discussion to the Mouriho thread or somewhere else where it fits more.

[lionsden 4,689]

You don't have to look to Europe. Man City clearly play much much better than us. Both Liverpool and Everton play better than us with less resources. If i'm being honest. we play some of he worst brand of football among the big European clubs.

Southampton, Arsenal and Swansea as well.

[Blue Traveler 256]

You forgot the part about 'weelchairs or whatever you are in' to one of our oldest members. You should be banned tbh.

Imagine and replace 'weelchair' with gay, nigger, .. Same stuff. But you cannot see that, cant you little Chorizo?

Lovely to see you try and wiggle out of it.

You twist a word like a Belgian twists an interview!

That statement was not directed at any one! end of!

[lionsden 4,689]

Not at the level of José Mourinho, for sure, even if you had been coached by freaking Bob Paisley or SAF, they aren't at the level of José Mourinho. I'll save these posts and next year we'll talk about it.

[Stingray 9,441]

You twist a word like a Belgian twists an interview!

That statement was not directed at any one! end of!

Yes Ayatollah!

[Greyco 143]

We had some tragic perfomances with Benitez, remember City home and away, Soton home, Reading away, etc...

The 6-0 trashing against Arsenal isn't a memorable moment, the 2-0 against PSG, the win at the Etihad, the win at Anfield, the torres winner in the last minute against City, fuck me, the supporter of this club have eaten so much caviar that now when we have tuna, it's not good enough, we should be all grateful that we have something in our mouth (metaphorically ofc).

Bayern under Heynckes took time to take a shape, Barça under Guardiola is one in a million, Rodgers took a year to shape his team, why not give that time to José ? I personnaly don't care about the style, I support the club not the style of football, we could play like QPR (god forbid) that i wouldn't care. Don't worry about sponsors (top 5 revenues in the world football), upcoming stars (Hazard joined us when we played some of the worst football ever (CL 2012), and fans comes and go. We have one of the best fanbase in the world sport, more than 300.000.000 fans.

You clearly haven't been reading what I've stated earlier. It was the club's intention to play a more attractive style of football. Hence they signed Hazard and Mata. Hazard even alluded to it when he signed his contract here, that he had spoken with Abramovich and he liked the way the club saw the future with the young attacking talent they were signed or just had signed. That was a major selling point of the club in trying to persuade him to opt for Chelsea instead of all the other suitors. After 1 year where Chelsea tried to employ this new philosophy it all has been thrown out of the door. Key players for that philosophy have been moved on and we're building again towards the same style. What style I prefer has nothing to do with it, and I don't understand why you even brought it up in the discussion.

A lot of supporters keep mentioning how far off the title Chelsea were last season and the CL failure as reason to discard that new path the club chose for. Well, Liverpool were even further off and this season the were able to turn it around while being admired for their style. I find it a real shame we gave the Hazard-Mata relationship on the pitch only a single season. A season were the squad clearly lacked a Matic and an undisputed manager which influenced the performances.

I tend to visit a lot of other football boards and last season rival fans were incredibly jealous of the trio Oscar-Hazard-Mata and looking at potential transfers to rival that trio in the future because it had them scared. This season you had to look very hard to find something positive about our play.

ps: I actually completely forgot about that Arsenal game, I can't even recall one goal..

[lionsden 4,689]

And we aren't the only who has problem against the opposition defend deep, some others teams doesn't seem to have a problem with them because they have very good strikers.

So It's because they have good strikers and not because they were able to break down the resistance of oppositions that defend deep with crisp interchange, incisive, accurate passing, overlapping runs, sharp, intelligent movement and so on. let's just attribute our inability to create clear cut chances against parked defences on the lack of world class strikers shall we.

[sutro 1,026]

A storm in a glass of water, yet we have 20 pages of people flaming at eachoter.

This forum will go in a complete meltdown the day Eden is leaving the club

[bluesman2610 1,226]

Again Eden said what he had to say and so did Mourinho.. Let that be all.. I say we let the manager manage and the player just play they have already gotten over it and you lot 3 days later still making a huge deal of it...

At this rate we should sell some of the support the way this thread has been recently

[The Skipper 20,593]

Wow, the last few pages have shown that there are quite a lot of disrespectful people on here.

[The Skipper 20,593]

Firstly i've done nothing related to world of football.

Second i never "proclaimed to be an expert" merely just reminding people they should stop sounding like an expert and think they know it all unless they contributed real thing to this field of sport with real credentials!

This is very contradictory, considering Jose didn't even play football consistently at a professional level before entering management here. Guess Jose isn't an expert either then, and Maradona is a world class manager because he was a very intelligent footballer... Very strange statement.

Also, you don't even know everyone on this forum on a personal level, so it's very naive of you to think that no one on here has any sort of credentials in football.

[darrus 422]

This is very contradictory, considering Jose didn't even play football at a professional level before entering management here.

Guess Jose isn't an expert either then.

Actually he did play. Off the top of my head, the only top coaches without playing experience would be Arrigo Sacchi and AVB which makes them rather rare exceptions.

On the other hand, many successful footballers were complete fail as coaches and/or pundits which proves that experience is not everything.

Back to the topic - I hope we won't have another round of arguments if Hazard doesn't start tomorrow. I also hope that he's not starting just to prevent the rumors even if he's still not recovered from injury.

[The Skipper 20,593]

Actually he did play. Off the top of my head, the only top coaches without playing experience would be Arrigo Sacchi and AVB which makes them rather rare exceptions.

On the other hand, many successful footballers were complete fail as coaches and/or pundits which proves that experience is not everything.

Back to the topic - I hope we won't have another round of arguments if Hazard doesn't start tomorrow. I also hope that he's not starting just to prevent the rumors even if he's still not recovered from injury.

Yeah, I edited my post before you replied.

[Henrique 9,133]

For me its a disgrace that we end the season without Mata, Hazard and Oscar future in doubt, while Mourinho is praising Ramires, Cahill and Ivanovic, and the attacking players Mourinho likes most is Willian, because of his defensive work rate.

Is this really happening?