Post-season review - Chelsea 2013/14

[Nike 373]

TBH, if Benetiz was 3rd place again this season and lost in the semis and all our cup tournaments, would fans still want him?

I personally dont think Mourinho was a failure, however, I don't think he was a success. I would give him 1 more season with 2 more transfer windows to figure it out.

[MrBlueGuy 1,552]

this was a TRANSITIONAL season for us.

funfact, we will have lost about 7-10 players that started our current season. mata and kdb were not jose players. we are building for the future and considering how much part the likes of schurrle and willian have taken to mata/kdb, it should not be a suprise. we did try to buy rooney and when he dint come, we were stuck with ba and torres.

buy costa in the summer. yes i am sure you would have been the one who were crying off rooftops to sign a 24 year old striker who has had one good season (good not great) in his entire career and that too on the wings as falcao was their main man.

making rambo a dirty player - so did jose tell rambo to try and break al ahmadi's leg?

so since he had "apparent" fall outs with players, its a MASSIVE failure?

so if we had won the carling cup, would this season have been a success? how big a success?

If we have won any trophy the season would be a success no matter how small the trophy is. Transitional which we still managed to defeat 2 potential champion teams home and away+ beating the likes of Spurs and Arsenal 4/6-0? If by transitional it means struggling to find a way to break small teams down then I am lost for words. We should know they would have never let Rooney go especially since Moyes just came in and you think his 1st act is to sell one of his best player?

Yh he probably told him to be more aggressive so Ramires started to get into more of those regularly. No the fallout reason doesn't make it a massive failure, all of these factors together does. Tell me what success we have apart from record against top 4-5 teams?

[didierforever 7,349]

If we have won any trophy the season would be a success no matter how small the trophy is. Transitional which we still managed to defeat 2 potential champion teams home and away+ beating the likes of Spurs and Arsenal 4/6-0? If by transitional it means struggling to find a way to break small teams down then I am lost for words. We should know they would have never let Rooney go especially since Moyes just came in and you think his 1st act is to sell one of his best player?

Yh he probably told him to be more aggressive so Ramires started to get into more of those regularly. No the fallout reason doesn't make it a massive failure, all of these factors together does. Tell me what success we have apart from record against top 4-5 teams?

dude, let me explain it to you properly then that how its a sucess.

first of all, getting a trophy "however small" does not make a season a success. or wait!!! do u think united have had a better season than us since we were trophyless and united won the community shield??? HUH???

if we beat pool and city and arsenal and spurs, it changes the fact that we are in transition? sunderland beat city at stadium of light, beat united twice in the season, beat us twice in the season, so u would call them a "big team", . from the start of the season we have already lost mata, kdb, essien. we will probably let go off etoo, torres, ba, mikel, bertrand, lamps and cole. which would take the tally to 10 players changed between the start of 2 season. but somehow its not tranistional for u? we could not beat palace, villa, sunderland, wba, whu, norwich, stoke cos we have a problem in our squad known as a goal-scoring striker. moreover, any squad takes time to acclimitize itseld to a type of play. how many years were bayern useless before they came to the fore again. it has been one season where we reached the CL semi and 3rd place of PL with no striker that can score more than 10 goals.

so u mean rambo has taken a red card only this year. when he took a red card last year against aston villa with our top 4 spot on the line, jose must have called him up from madrid to play more aggresively, right?

[zolayes 14,489]

I kept saying success ,,, BUT if we lose Hazard , Oscar and Luiz ,, it will have been a monumental fucking DISASTER

[Tomo 21,751]

Leti have similar problems vs teams that sit deep, the difference is they are further on in their development so find a way to win 9 times out of 10.

[MrBlueGuy 1,552]

Btw interestingly enough if someone told us 2 years after that night in Munich we would only win Europa league and Mata would be sold, what do you guys think we would have reacted like? Cannot believe it that is for sure so it is OK to write this season off but since winning the CL this 'transitional' period is a failure.

[Laylabelle 9,534]

Say in between...failure because we came so close and messed up against teams which on paper we should be beating...success imo as never thought we would challenge or keep it up till the end.We were the last team in Europe again although didn't really matter in the end as we were poor in that game got further then thought we did.Cup run however was a bit shite but hey...

[Jase 43,479]

Throwing in some (depressing) stats...

1. Man City have 4 players who have scored 20+ goals this season in all competitions - Aguero (28), Dzeko (26), Toure (24) & Negredo (23).

2. Man City have scored 154 goals in all competitions this season and 101 of them have been scored by Aguero, Dzeko, Toure and Negredo.

3. Man City have scored 100 PL goals this season. Only need 4 more goals to break the goalscoring record by a team in 1 PL season - 103 by Chelsea.

[zolayes 14,489]

now I will say it depends what happens with Oscar . Hazard Luiz and Courtois

[TacticalBlues 2,817]

So the season is now officially over and I’m interested to 'hear' some fellow Chelsea fans thoughts on this most enigmatic of seasons (Not just whether it was a failure or success ).

Overview: It’s been a long season, and one that’s ended trophy less. For a club like Chelsea it’s not one to be celebrated but on the balance of things, I’d still say it's been a decent one. Top 3 without a proper striker, reaching the semi-finals of the UCL after being embarrassingly knocked out in the group stages last year. And perhaps with a bit more luck we’d even of had some silverware (Supercup).

I think it’s fair to say that the performances on the pitch have been lacklustre overall, there are times when we’ve struggled to even string together more than a few passes. But that’s not to say there haven’t been any great performances, i.e like against Citeh at the Etihad and Liverpool at the bridge. Once we actually have a proper striker and a better partner for Matic (hopefully) this will obviously improve.

For next season it’s hard to predict what will happen until the transfer window is closed (please start by getting rid of that spanaird up front ).But I trust that Mou’ will improve things, he’s already talked about how his report is ready which is great to hear. He’s also said throughout the season how we will be proper contenders for the title next season. So, although premature, I really expect next season to be a success.

Most Memorable Moment: Can’t decide between Ba’s winner against PSG, the 6-0 thrashing of Arsenal and the Gerrard slip (also props to Eto'o for his hat-trick against United) (I’m also not including the youth cup victory as I’m focusing more on the first team)

Worst Moment: Probably the Sunderland game, really was an awful moment, at least the ex-Liverpool player linesman can tell his mates he did all he could to bring the title to Anfield . The second leg against Atletico was also a bad moment, but we definitely deserved to lose, making it a lot easier to digest than some of our previous UCL exits in that sense.

Best player: Eden Hazard (just ahead of Azpi). It’s the easy option but he was overall superb.

Best goal: Been a long season but off the top of my head I’d say it’s between Torres vs Bayern, Eto’o vs Arsenal or Hazard vs Sunderland.

Season in a word: Transition

[Special Juan 28,090]

I have merged this into the success/failure thread. It all sits into the same thing.

[Pizy 18,848]

After all the praising and the creaming of pants by the media and other clubs' supporters about how incredible and amazing Liverpool and City have been, after all of the shit that has been spewed about how we play dire, boring, defensive football we finish only 2 points behind the "neutral's team" Liverpool and 4 points behind the most expensive team in professional sports WITH NO STRIKERS.

Liverpool and City finished with over 100 goals scored and still barely finished above us. Massive improvement over last season for us.

Next season will be our year. We'll be one of the most feared sides in Europe with a few key additions.