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Well Said

[The Skipper 20,593]

We built a good young team with very interesting talents until Jose came. Jose sold our future for a PL title. Didn't manage the squad well at all hence why the likes of KDB, Mata, Lukaku and Schurrle left. Now we have squad players like Pedro and Moses. 

[robsblubot 3,504]

21 minutes ago, The Skipper said:

We built a good young team with very interesting talents until Jose came. Jose sold our future for a PL title. Didn't manage the squad well at all hence why the likes of KDB, Mata, Lukaku and Schurrle left. Now we have squad players like Pedro and Moses. 

I wouldn't call Mata a youngster or a player I miss terribly unless as a rotation option for whenever hazard is skulking.

I do miss all others you mentioned - perhaps Bats will prove to be at the same level or better than lukaku though (pretty young too). 

[bluephoenix 1,126]

The board needs to just back out from making any kind of decision with respect to buying/selling players. It is something the manager should be given full control of. If manager doesn't get the player he wants due to fund or any other crazy reason, the manager has to come up with another player who he thinks he can work with/ make the team work with.

It is really exhausting to see board make idiotic decisions with the transfer. We sold Mata, KDB, Luiz, Lukaku, ...etc when we didn't have a proper player to replace them. 

[coolhead23 1,146]

3 hours ago, bluephoenix said:

The board needs to just back out from making any kind of decision with respect to buying/selling players. It is something the manager should be given full control of. If manager doesn't get the player he wants due to fund or any other crazy reason, the manager has to come up with another player who he thinks he can work with/ make the team work with.

It is really exhausting to see board make idiotic decisions with the transfer. We sold Mata, KDB, Luiz, Lukaku, ...etc when we didn't have a proper player to replace them. 

Completely agree with u ... 

However, didnt we sell the likes of Mata, KDB, Lukaku because of the manager ... He didnt have them in the plans which forced the players to push for an exit. 

[BoyBlue96 990]

1 hour ago, coolhead23 said:

Completely agree with u ... 

However, didnt we sell the likes of Mata, KDB, Lukaku because of the manager ... He didnt have them in the plans which forced the players to push for an exit. 

Mata never made sense to me. Player of the year 2 times in a row but it seems that José knows better now as he is willing to give Juan a new contract.

Really hurts seeing him at ManUtd as he still could do an amazing job here...but Kevin de Bruyne hurts the most IMO. That guy is a top, top, TOP class player. Maybe world class....
Lukaku...don't know. Has way too many blah blah's.

Remember him saying at the end of the 2015/2016 season that he wanted to leave Everton for a UCL team? Hahaha wat a donkey, not ONE club showed any interests in him apart from us (if reports are true)

[Jase 43,479]

6 hours ago, Robguima said:

I wouldn't call Mata a youngster or a player I miss terribly unless as a rotation option for whenever hazard is skulking.

I do miss all others you mentioned - perhaps Bats will prove to be at the same level or better than lukaku though (pretty young too). 

Skipper said 'young team' rather than a team of 'youngsters'.

6 hours ago, The Skipper said:

We built a good young team with very interesting talents until Jose came. Jose sold our future for a PL title. Didn't manage the squad well at all hence why the likes of KDB, Mata, Lukaku and Schurrle left. Now we have squad players like Pedro and Moses. 

This has been mentioned many times before - the club wanted to play attacking, progressive football and they took the initiative to buy young and talented players to help achieve that style of play. But for some reason, they went and hired a manager whose style of play is the complete opposite of that and then allowed him to ruin their good work back then by selling those players and ending up with a bunch of braindead players.

Regarding Mata, I'm finding it incredible that Mourinho barely played him here but is now playing him a lot at United.

[bluephoenix 1,126]

On 9/26/2016 at 10:46 PM, coolhead23 said:

Completely agree with u ... 

However, didnt we sell the likes of Mata, KDB, Lukaku because of the manager ... He didnt have them in the plans which forced the players to push for an exit. 

Yeah that is true. We had a highly egoistic manager who screwed us badly :(.  Regardless our board has been making a lot of stupid purchases and sales. What was the point of selling Luiz and then buying him back? I would think we actually lost money in the whole transaction. I get when we sold and bought back Matic, *we thought he matured well, and maybe he did for that one season* but otherwise the board is making some really stupid mistakes.

Hopefully Conte gets enough time to sort this mess and build a proper team. I am sick of make fix managers. If the players can't listen to the manager throw the players out (it shouldn't be the other way around)

[DYC. 7,542]

Cech/Begovic

Azpilicueta/Aina - Christensen/Zouma - Luiz/Cahill - Luis/Bertrand

Fabregas/Oscar - Kante/Matic

Salah/Willian - De Bruyne/Mata - Hazard/Schurrle

Costa/Batshuayi

Who's got the cheat code to make this happen?

[communicate 2,703]

On 9/27/2016 at 4:32 PM, Jason said:

 

Regarding Mata, I'm finding it incredible that Mourinho barely played him here but is now playing him a lot at United.

It is because his first and second choice (Rooney and Mhky) AM are playing poorly. So he has no other option and whenever mata plays they look like a better team

 

 

[Jase 43,479]

9 minutes ago, communicate said:

It is because his first and second choice (Rooney and Mhky) AM are playing poorly. So he has no other option and whenever mata plays they look like a better team

He can shift to a different formation if he wants to really but he's just obsessed with his 4-2-3-1. And let's not forget we're talking about a manager who didn't drop players when they played poorly last season.

[Jase 43,479]

On 9/29/2016 at 5:40 AM, DYC. said:

Cech/Begovic

Azpilicueta/Aina - Christensen/Zouma - Luiz/Cahill - Luis/Bertrand

Fabregas/Oscar - Kante/Matic

Salah/Willian - De Bruyne/Mata - Hazard/Schurrle

Costa/Batshuayi

Who's got the cheat code to make this happen?

Time to re-start that FM14 save...

[communicate 2,703]

50 minutes ago, Jason said:

He can shift to a different formation if he wants to really but he's just obsessed with his 4-2-3-1. And let's not forget we're talking about a manager who didn't drop players when they played poorly last season.

IMO because there are 4 players in that team that can give some kind of control with the ball.

Ibrahimovic - he is a striker so not much help

Carrick - old

Mhky - played poorly 

Mata 

So  he need to play mata

[DYC. 7,542]

1 hour ago, Jason said:

Time to re-start that FM14 save...

The creativity, speed and firepower in that team...

[Special Juan 27,427]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-3815407/Chelsea-owner-Roman-Abramovich-ready-Antonio-Conte-January-transfer-window.html

If true this is fucking typical us....backing him in the wrong window when the players are limited and the right players are not available.

This club is just fucking backwards at times it really is.

[xPetrCechx 13,563]

Roman Abramovich has assembled a crack team to get Chelsea back on top... a secret transfer list and a plan to match Manchester United's commercial success

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/article-3830433/Roman-Abramovich-assembled-crack-team-Chelsea-plan-includes-secret-transfer-hitlist-finally-bringing-youngsters-matching-Man-Utd-s-commercial-success.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitterfeed

[Leif 6,006]

2 hours ago, xPetrCechx said:

Roman Abramovich has assembled a crack team to get Chelsea back on top... 

We don't need a team to tell us our board are on crack

[xPetrCechx 13,563]

Walter Sabatini could be set for Chelsea job after Roma exit

http://www.eurosport.com/football/serie-a/2016-2017/walter-sabatini-could-be-set-for-chelsea-job-after-roma-exit_sto5912871/story.shtml