Expectations for 2014-15 season? Time to end the sucess/failure debate for all

[petre.ispirescu 4,928]

Domestic glory for me. It's been a while since Chelsea's last title, so this should be the priority in my opinion.

EPL Title

win the FA Cup

Kalas, Zouma, Chalobah(?), Baker, Loftus-Cheek, Swift, Ramires in Capital One

Champions League - I don't care.

[Viper22 2,418]

Honestly? I couldn't give a flying f*** about the League or FA Cups, we've won them tons in the last 10 or so years and we don't need to prove ourselves any more in them.

It's all about the PL next season, I don't think it's unreasonable to expect us to win it; we beat City home and away, Liverpool home and away, Arsenal 6-0, Spurs 4-0 and Arsenal 2-0 away in the cup. On top of that Jose will have the whole summer to plan for next season and hopefully buy exactly who he wants, so we should be winning the league. Not suggesting it'll be easy, but we have to expect and aim high.

CL is a hard one, always nice to do well in it but I don't think it really matters any more now we've won it. PL is far more important. Once we've won the PL 2 years on the trot or something, then we can focus on dominating Europe once again.

That's just me though.

[zolayes 14,489]

before the season starts ,, England will win the WC ,,, Roy will replace Jose as our manager ,,,

We will finally sign both Gerard and Rooney ,,, .. Will be so excited to see how things work out next year

[MrExcalibur100 7,124]

(1) Bring in a CF, preferably Diego Costa, a creative CM, Fabregas, Gundogan or Kroos, a LB, Moreno or Rodriguez, and perhaps another AM/winger, more precisely, a goal scoring one like a Greizmann or Lavezzi.

This is crucial if we want to have realistic expectation of winning the league or the champions league. If we are clever in the transfer market, we would have an unstoppable squad. This squad is not far from completion.

(2) Focus more on possession based attacking build-up plays. Mourinho needs to set up his teams to play with more freedom and not turn them to robots.The low-block, counter-attacking football is just not cutting it ATM. Give us the ball and we look clueless, disjointed and ponderous with it. Why? That's why Roman signed the Hazard's, Oscar's and Mata's of this world. Whether fans want to believe it or not, this IS a job requirement and if things do not change, well, we know the history of managers in the "Abramovich era" , Mourinho or no Mourinho.

It's simple really: Fighting for all titles and playing good football. That's the standard at every big club. We must not lower our standards. Not even for club legends.

[Viper22 2,418]

That is the biggest bull ever mate if you are being serious. Sure we get 1-2 decisions against us but loads for us too. Unless you were kidding

I actually hope he will because with this squad(with wc striker) it is a must. We will be up there with Man City in best starting 11, no excuses. I think he will be sacked especially if we keep playing like we did against Atletico 1st leg. Consistency is earned imo not a given, MU tried it with Moyes and had disastrous results so the stability idea is a bit overrated too.

Do you remember Rodgers' first season at Liverpool? It's knee-jerk reaction people like you who would have sacked him quoting *stability is earned, not given* after his first 18 months in charge. Now look at them. We need stability. I for one wouldn't care if we didn't win a trophy next year as long as I can see that the club is heading in the right direction but I know that won't be enough for fans like you and possibly RA (unless he's grown out of sacking people at the first sign of trouble, which I truly hope and believe he has).

[Viper22 2,418]

before the season starts ,, England will win the WC ,,, Roy will replace Jose as our manager ,,,

We will finally sign both Gerard and Rooney ,,, .. Will be so excited to see how things work out next year

Easy on the absinthe. It does terrible things to your liver .

[zolayes 14,489]

Easy on the absinthe. It does terrible things to your liver .

I lived in France I only took Pernod in winter and even then mixed with water ,, but thanks for the advice ,, but i do have almost 70 years of drinking experience

[MrExcalibur100 7,124]

Do you remember Rodgers' first season at Liverpool? It's knee-jerk reaction people like you who would have sacked him quoting *stability is earned, not given* after his first 18 months in charge. Now look at them. We need stability. I for one wouldn't care if we didn't win a trophy next year as long as I can see that the club is heading in the right direction but I know that won't be enough for fans like you and possibly RA (unless he's grown out of sacking people at the first sign of trouble, which I truly hope and believe he has).

(1) Liverpool actually played good football last season, so you could see progress there. Our football has only gotten worse and worse as the season has progressed, unfortunately. We look clueless in possession and we play incredibly disjointed football relying chiefly on the brilliance of Hazard. How many times have you seen people moan about the football we play?

(2) We need stability, but the question has to be asked. Can Jose make this team play the brand of football the owner wants to see? Remember, Mourinho was not first choice for this job. He wasn't even second choice. Guardiola and Klopp were ahead of him.

[MrBlueGuy 1,552]

(1) Liverpool actually played good football last season, so you could see progress there. Our football has only gotten worse and worse as the season has progressed, unfortunately. We look clueless in possession and we play incredibly disjointed football relying chiefly on the brilliance of Hazard. How many times have you seen people moan about the football we play?

(2) We need stability, but the question has to be asked. Can Jose make this team play the brand of football the owner wants to see? Remember, Mourinho was not first choice for this job. He wasn't even second choice. Guardiola and Klopp were ahead of him.

Yep the 2nd part is very important too for Roman, remember he and we all want to enjoy at the same time as winning. That 0-0 draw in Madrid for example was not what Roman wanted. I still think Klopp would be a good choice for us too because he seems to know how to make his team play an intense pressing attacking game.

[BleedsBlue 1,549]

Well we came really close to winning two major trophies this year so maybe next season one of them can be a possibility.

Its important that we dominate our own league before thinking of winning the Champions League. So, I'll keep the Premier League and at least a semi final FA cup finish as our top priority.

[iseah100 5,612]

Vela, Costa, Vidal, and Moreno. And we're set(;

[The only place to be 11,313]

How many times have you seen people moan about the football we play?

On here there's a small number of 'fans' who regurgitate the same shit over and over and over again. I wouldn't read too much into that though.