Post-season review - Chelsea 2013/14

[Muzchap 8,966]

This perfomance right here shows why our season has been a failure

Getting beaten by one of the most expensive squads ever assembled?

Think you need to chill out mate - go have a wank or something and calm down... T.T. Has some great material in the NSFW thread

[Vybz Kartel 1,613]

Getting beaten by one of the most expensive squads ever assembled?

Think you need to chill out mate - go have a wank or something and calm down... T.T. Has some great material in the NSFW thread

This season alone we have spent 100 million or close to it, but on what?? We seem to be way behind the top european teams like Bayern

[Tomo 21,751]

It's all about looking at the context off thing's. If we were a squad in it's prime then 2nd/3rd and trophyless would be considered a failure. However the last 3 season's we have been riddled with an ageing, unbalanced squad, weak midfield even shite team's walked over and no real plan going forward.

Jose has come in and done superbly in his first year, the problems off last few years won't go away overnight and there has been a few shocking on pitch displays, but we look a much more balanced and stable unit these days, on and off the pitch (Rui Faria or Zenden?).

Missing out on a trophy won't be nice, but at the same time we have made great strides in terms off consistency and performance this term and a choice between that and Europey? no contest.

[Vybz Kartel 1,613]

Why was Lukaku allowed to leave on loan?

[thekid9 418]

Massive Failure! MASSIVE.

[Henrique 9,133]

It's all about looking at the context off thing's. If we were a squad in it's prime then 2nd/3rd and trophyless would be considered a failure. However the last 3 season's we have been riddled with an ageing, unbalanced squad, weak midfield even shite team's walked over and no real plan going forward.

Jose has come in and done superbly in his first year, the problems off last few years won't go away overnight and there has been a few shocking on pitch displays, but we look a much more balanced and stable unit these days, on and off the pitch (Rui Faria or Zenden?).

Missing out on a trophy won't be nice, but at the same time we have made great strides in terms off consistency and performance this term and a choice between that and Europey? no contest.

Good points, but we still have an unbalanced squad, with too many young guys that just cant handle the pressure yet (Oscar, Hazard, Schule).

We have some great talents like Hazard and some mediocre players, like Cahill.

Our defense is liability. Mourinho is a genius, because he managed to turno our defense in the best in the league, but that happened because our attacking players now are spending more time in their defensive duties than in past season, when Hazard, Oscar and Mata barely helped the defense.

Some people our defense os okay, but I think Mourinho just discovered a way to make those players work in a defensive system, but for me thats more a quick fix than anything.

Azi is a RB, not a LB, and Ivanovic is not good enough when he have the ball on his feet. Terry is having a solid season, but at the end of the day he scored an own goal in crucial game in PL, and was poor in the most important game of the season. Cahill is not a great defender, he just a hardworking man.

I think Mourinho fixed some problems, but those were quick and temporary fixes. We will discovery if he will handle the situation well in next season.

[Henrique 9,133]

After such a game, there are people around there who still believe this season is a success.

I understand it was Mourinho first season and the squad had many problems. Some can even call this season a transition. It might be a transition, but it still a failure.

Its failure for Chelsea standards (its gonna be only the 4th trophyless season in 11 years of Abramovich era), and its gonna be a failure for Mourinho standards (its his 2nd trophyless season since 2002, the second in a row).

Only failure specialists would say this season is a success.

[TrippingStep 336]

Progress has been made in terms of bringing back a quality DM in Matic and winning key games against the big boys....but our struggles against the lower-half of the EPL continues..

Overall...without any trophies*, the season is a failure.

You can't call another manager a specialist in failure and then in the same season, fail to win anything with your own club.

*The season isn't over...but I don't see us winning the PL or UCL this season.

Against the lower half or average teams, it's worse than last year as we don't have the excuse of playing every three four days and our squad is deeper.

But it's not a great surprise to me as Mourinho's team have always look average when his teams had to break defences.

If Real wins the champion's league this year, it would be an horrible season for him.

[petre.ispirescu 4,928]

Success for me is Jose coming back home. He'll take it from here.

I just wonder if those guys blaming Jose in his first season (with a pretty average squad) will have the guts to open this topic in four of five years from now on.

[iseah100 5,612]

Success for me is Jose coming back home. He'll take it from here.

I just wonder if those guys blaming Jose in his first season (with a pretty average squad) will have the guts to open this topic in four of five years from now on.

In 5 years? When we have 3 BPL titles and 2 UCL titles? Doubt it.

[kellzfresh 7,229]

Its not a failure because we are challenging strongly for the big trophies finally (after years of being massive underdogs in everything, mourinhos presence alone made people see us as contenders once again), and have made our home a fortress once again.

But sometimes success is measured by trophies, this season can slide because it is a good progress in terms of transition.

Now mourinho has an idea on the full weakness of the squad, now he has a transfer window to fix it, now he has seen first hand how we have suffered with torres, no fucking way things will be the same again next season.

We will come stronger next season.

[The Skipper 20,609]

But we showed ''progress'' remember?

What is different from this and the Palace game compared to Napoli+ West Brom 2 years ago?

A 14 match unbeaten run before the Palace game maybe?