Post-season review - Chelsea 2013/14

[BlueLion. 21,491]

Yeah Real is overrated

Was supposed to trash Dortmund last year, but got destroyed instead

Was supposed to destroy la Liga but gets beaten everytime by Atletico and Barca

They flex their muscles against midgets like Shalke and a weakened Dortmund

PSG is a much more dominant team, i'm pretty confident we'll bitchslap them after we finish you off

You need to win the second leg against us yet. Napoli in 2012 were a far more impressive team than your side. If you go through it'll be because of our goalkeeper having an incredibly poor goal and the fact we don't have a suitable striker to play. Your weaknesses will be exposed against a side with forwards.

[psgfanxx 18]

You need to win the second leg against us yet. Napoli in 2012 were a far more impressive team than your side. If you go through it'll be because of our goalkeeper having an incredibly poor goal and the fact we don't have a suitable striker to play. Your weaknesses will be exposed against a side with forwards.

stop trolling

we'll go through ( i'm 99% sure it will happen ) because we completely dominated the second half, we were defensively solid, the only chance you had was hazard hitting the post and a pen generously offered by Silva

Mark my words, only Barca and Bayern can defeat us, overrated Real will fail again in the semis

[BlueLion. 21,491]

stop trolling

we'll go through ( i'm 99% sure it will happen ) because we completely dominated the second half, we were defensively solid, the only chance you had was hazard hitting the post and a pen generously offered by Ibra

Mark my words, only Barca and Bayern can defeat us, overrated Real will fail again in the semis

You are right, there is a very good chance you will go through, but if you think it will be easy at Stamford Bridge you are wrong. I am confident you will lose on Tuesday, but I doubt we will beat you by the requisite number of goals.

If you progress, you will be exposed by whichever team you come up against. The best team you can hope for will be Barcelona or Atletico, because Bayern or Real will quite comfortably dispatch you.

[Yeboii 1,844]

stop trolling

we'll go through ( i'm 99% sure it will happen ) because we completely dominated the second half, we were defensively solid, the only chance you had was hazard hitting the post and a pen generously offered by Silva

Mark my words, only Barca and Bayern can defeat us, overrated Real will fail again in the semis

Turn off your Playstation please

[didierforever 7,349]

so is this thread used ONLY when we lose?

where are the haters now?

[BlueLion. 21,491]

stop trolling

we'll go through ( i'm 99% sure it will happen ) because we completely dominated the second half, we were defensively solid, the only chance you had was hazard hitting the post and a pen generously offered by Silva

Mark my words, only Barca and Bayern can defeat us, overrated Real will fail again in the semis

[iseah100 5,612]

stop trolling

we'll go through ( i'm 99% sure it will happen ) because we completely dominated the second half, we were defensively solid, the only chance you had was hazard hitting the post and a pen generously offered by Silva

Mark my words, only Barca and Bayern can defeat us, overrated Real will fail again in the semis

Well....this is awkward.

[Stats 7,135]

Thinking about it this question will be more worthy asking at the end of the season? If we win the UCL or PL or perhaps both it is a definite success. If you stopped the season where we are now and went out the semis and finished 3rd for instance then maybe their is more discussion for debate but one can only truly answer this at the end of the season.

[Ainsley Harriott 2,732]

Some people are quiet around here...

[Barbara 15,149]

so is this thread used ONLY when we lose?

where are the haters now?

Some people are quiet around here...

the haters I don't mind, but it never ceases to surprise me how fickle people can be.

The moment to discuss if the season is failure is when it ends or when you're out of every possible competition.

Where are the people who voted it's a failure?

And I'll take a step further, does everyone who voted something in the between still think the same?

We're in UCL bloody SF with a squad that became thin in the competition very quickly (I don't think we have a thin squad for EPL, it could be deeper, but it's not exactly thin). People jump to conclusions too fast and just because they have unrealistic and delusional expectations that couldn't be reached, they call it a failure (and some something in between - although some people gave fair arguments for that, it's the ones with unrealistic expectations that make no sense).

I just read the problem is that we were top of the table for a considerable time and let it slip between our fingers. Was Arsenal EVER seriously the team that would win this? We were top of the league when City's matches started being postponed. Mathematically we were NEVER top of league, during all rounds we stayed there, if City won their belated matches they would take the spot from us.

Liverpool is a worse squad than us with TWO - not only one, but TWO great strikers, one of which world class and probably the best in the world right now. Haven't those people seen ManU win a title all because of van Persie last year? Let me tell a very simple rule in football: whenever you outscore the goals you concede you win three points. Winning three points week in and out because your striker just push the ball into the net makes you champion, not matter how weak the rest of your squad AND/OR system is.

Sometimes things couldn't be more obvious and simple if you asked them to. I can accept that we didn't make the best out of the summer window, but we had a target that didn't work out and the market wasn't favorable. I'd rather have André, Marco, Willian, Eto'o and then Salah and Matic than spend all that money only in Cavani. Cavani solves our problem, probably gives us the EPL title and we're back to what we were years ago. A team that wins now and then and when one of the starts is injured and other teams start to figure us out, the manager is out, the team fades away and the titles go away. This generation lives out of fast food, expect patience is clearly a stretch and it annoys me to no end.

So the fact we're fighting for the title til the end, in UCL SF despite having no striker force and with a few bumps in the way (injuries, players having dip of forms because of their inexperience and immaturity, bad days in the office - God forbid those to happen) we have to come here and say it's either a failure or simply that it wasn't as successful as they expected (that's what the in between people are saying).

I honestly would like to know what their down-on-earth expectations were. Because being top4 in Europe (it could be more) and fighting til the end for the league title - the hardest to accomplish imo - isn't enough to reach their expectations. At least the people who calls it a failure make it very clear where their delusions are. The people (some, not all) that say it's not a success admit that they accept this is a team for the future, they accept that Mourinho needed time, for fuck sake, some of them even accept this is a transition year and still they say not a success or a failure. I must admit, understanding you people is VERY, VERY, VERY difficult.

[termninja 5,290]

I would place it between neither and success but closer to success Especially if we reach CL final.

I don't care about trophies this year, but what I do care is our team's mentality, and that has improved a lot. For pretty much all of this season, we played decent, but most importantly, I felt secured watching us play, unlike previous few seasons. STABILITY

Now we bring this season to an end, adress our striking options, decide on Courtois, and look towards a new dawn! :blue scalf:

[iseah100 5,612]

It's a success already. Guaranteed a spot in the CL next season, Semi Final this year. I'd say it's a success.