2013-14 Season Expectations

[Strike 7,474]

What should be the clubs' minimum expectation next season? Instant success? Another transition season?

What would you prioritise? The League? Domestic Cup? Champions League?

Discuss.

[Hutcho 8,443]

Until we know who we have and what other teams have its incredibly hard to say.

ATM:

Top 2 in the league.

Semi's FA

Semi's League

Semi's CL.

Minimum would be top 3, but much closer points wise, a couple of quarters and a semi.

[Strike 7,474]

I think on the outset, the club should pursue a (atleast) 10-point improvement on this season i.e achieve consistency and have more than 2-3 purple patches over the course of a season.

Champions League is an incredibly hard competition and Jose should look to build that "hard-to-beat" mentality we had in 07-08-09

FA Cup and League Cup - This should be fairly straight-forward for Jose. Should look to make it to Wembley at the very least

+ Squad development - Integrate 1-2 youngsters into the squad.

[ZanSnake 1,211]

Depending on the strategy Mourinho enforces, with the whole Lukaku, Kevin and youth etc. adding depth as well as the kind of transfer that could happen. For me we should seek for a final in all competitions and a title challenge, raise the bar when the other contenders are down, as i say. If we decide to enforce the youth as depth, and a somewhat intelligent rotation between the competitions, with the talent at our disposal we could go all in for all competitions.

I have always thought we have needed to win the League Cup in the last couple of years, hopefully the youth players and fringe players can step up to the task.

[pHaRaOn 2,131]

Title Challenge with real chance for crown. Win FA Cup and semi-final CL. It's would be good for me.

[Muzchap 8,966]

I have voted:

1) League is not a priority

2) Semi-Finals will do

3) Clear group stages

Reasons:

A) My expectations are low - whilst Rafa got us some silverware - we have a lot of dead wood and players out on loan, now whilst its easy to say they are playing great at their respective loan club, we need to integrate those players into Chelsea - that wont happen overnight.

in addition to the above, we'll also likely sign a few more players - this will amplify the issue somewhat, now of course it's possible to get a team working quickly, but it isn't the norm! So limiting my expectations accordingly.

C) We need a good steady burn from a manager not a flash and then darkness and I truly believe we can achieve this. The problem however is going to be the press and our own fans - they are going to expect Chelsea to dominate again - I'm not sure this is possible with our overall squad next season.

D) I really hope we have a Plan B to the 4-2-3-1 formation and I think this will take time to evolve - so again not trying to rush anything

Finally - just hoping for calm - obviously if we do better than my expectations I will be absolutely delighted - but I no longer believe in the 'magic bullet' scenario (sign x player, sign y manager) - to win consistently a lot of things have to be kept running and that is tough

Roll on the official announcement and next season though

[HRiver 1,512]

Instant success, definitely. With Jose at the helm, the least we should expect is either Champions League or league title glory. We should win at least one of these, but league title is priority for me.

[nachikethas 1,154]

A silverware is for sure from Jose.

[Reddish-Blue 2,489]

I just want to see an improvement in terms of points and more consistency in our play.

Hopefully we see a youngster or two given a chance (eg. Lukaku)

[didierforever 7,349]

PL is a must. we have a good squad (which includes players on loan) and a few decent signings (de rossi/witsel, cavani) plus selling off the dead wood like torres, marin, (malouda and yossi already gone) would make us stronger. add to it the fact that united would totally be revamped and city being city, we should be winning the title this year.

FA cup is a maybe but i would prefer either one of FA/COC to get the ball rolling.

CL- well when u compare our squad to BM, RM, BARCA, we just dont have the juice and now not even that X-factor that won us the 1st one (DIDIER DROGBA). quarters/semis would be good enough,

[Igi26 346]

With this kind of investment in team and bringing back Mourinho, we should realisticly expect instant success. And I'm sure we will win two trophies next season (13-14).

[Beirut_Blues 306]

Our objective should be to win all the competitions we participate in...I think it's silly to put in a poll for this one.