Popular Post! manpe 10,861 Posted April 14, 2016 Popular Post! Share Posted April 14, 2016 1 hour ago, CHOULO19 said: What a performance last night! MOTM for me by some distance  Oh, and for those trying to rewrite history, the problem with this 'hindsight' of yours is that apart from a few glimpses Luis never actually impressed playing for us despite getting many chances and even long (6-7 matches) runs in the team and he was consistently outperformed by Azpi at LB. He just was never able to replicate his Atleti form with us. He needed more time to adapt, Mourinho with his short-term vision had no patience to wait. And despite the numbers, Luis was in and out of the team, mostly out when he could and should have been in. It was favouritism, Luis had no chance, because "11 Azpilicuetas can win you the CL" - after such comment from Jose you know the player has to retire for anybody else to get a look in. 11Drogba, !Hazard!, Iggy Doonican and 4 others 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue Colored Sky 1,807 Posted April 14, 2016 Share Posted April 14, 2016 16 hours ago, Styles said: Mourinho's decision making looks even more pathetic every single day. Hate him. Buying Salah instead of Griezmann also counts ? http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/antoine-griezmann-could-have-joined-chelsea-last-january-mourinho-bought-mohammed-salah-instead-1500739  Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CHOULO19 24,332 Posted April 14, 2016 Share Posted April 14, 2016 7 hours ago, manpe said: He needed more time to adapt, Mourinho with his short-term vision had no patience to wait. And despite the numbers, Luis was in and out of the team, mostly out when he could and should have been in. It was favouritism, Luis had no chance, because "11 Azpilicuetas can win you the CL" - after such comment from Jose you know the player has to retire for anybody else to get a look in. Why should he have been in the team when Azpi was objectively consistently performing better? He played in 26 matches last season, including a run of 6 or 7 matches in November when Azpi was suspended for 3 matches in the league and Jose decided to keep playing Luis in the cups and CL as well. In that run he made several costly mistakes and generally failed to impress so Azpi was back in the side the moment he returned from suspension. I really don't get how that was 'short-term' vision from Jose. In what sense? His decision was to give more playing time to the younger player who was consistently performing better. And there certainly was no lack of patience from Jose on this matter as he kept giving Luis chances and playing time till the end of the season despite failing to displace Azpi. If anything, it was Luis who lacked patience because he decided to go back to Atleti after just one season instead of giving himself another season to adjust more and try to win a starting a place. manpe, pHaRaOn, Tautvix and 1 other 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Last Sicarius 610 Posted April 14, 2016 Share Posted April 14, 2016 It's all about Jose could drop Ivanovic and play Luis and Azpi. But for some reason(which i dont get) he would rather played Ivanovic who became warts and worst. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manpe 10,861 Posted April 14, 2016 Share Posted April 14, 2016 32 minutes ago, CHOULO19 said: Why should he have been in the team when Azpi was objectively consistently performing better? He played in 26 matches last season, including a run of 6 or 7 matches in November when Azpi was suspended for 3 matches in the league and Jose decided to keep playing Luis in the cups and CL as well. In that run he made several costly mistakes and generally failed to impress so Azpi was back in the side the moment he returned from suspension. I really don't get how that was 'short-term' vision from Jose. In what sense? His decision was to give more playing time to the younger player who was consistently performing better. And there certainly was no lack of patience from Jose on this matter as he kept giving Luis chances and playing time till the end of the season despite failing to displace Azpi. If anything, it was Luis who lacked patience because he decided to go back to Atleti after just one season instead of giving himself another season to adjust more and try to win a starting a place. Good points, you might be right. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LAM09 7,056 Posted April 14, 2016 Share Posted April 14, 2016 Shame he was sold instead of Iva. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
petre.ispirescu 4,928 Posted April 14, 2016 Share Posted April 14, 2016 6 hours ago, CHOULO19 said: If anything, it was Luis who lacked patience because he decided to go back to Atleti after just one season instead of giving himself another season to adjust more and try to win a starting a place. It seems that this "lack of patience" as you call it occured with Lukaku, De Bruyne and Bertrand as well and you have to wonder why it's happening. Why are players so eager to leave Mourinho after such short spans working with him? Maybe because he wrote them off from the start? Ok, let's call Lukaku a nutter for wanting to leave after that penalty miss. Maybe he could not take the pressure and did not have what it takes to make it at Chelsea as some say (although I do not agree with this). But what about Filipe Luis? What about De Bruyne and Bertrand? Were they pussies as well? I don't think so and I don't think they lacked patience as well. They knew from the beginning (or as the season went by for Filipe Luis) that they don't stand a chance against Mourinho's favourites no matter what they do on game day or on the training pitch. Maybe none of these players would have ever left if Mourinho gave them a glimer of hope that Chelsea is all about competition for places. But it wasn't like that, it was all about constant favoritism and they figured that out and they've all gone and saved their careers. They did not lack any patience, they were smart in figuring out that Mourinho would have never dropped his favourites, no matter what. And they were damn right, this season has demonstrated this with plain facts. The Chels, Stats, Blue-in-me-Veins and 1 other 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beigl 1,387 Posted April 27, 2016 Share Posted April 27, 2016 Not good enough for Mourinho. [emoji1] Stats 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LAM09 7,056 Posted April 27, 2016 Share Posted April 27, 2016 40 minutes ago, Beigl said: Not good enough for Mourinho. It's truly unbelievable. He fancied an RB at LB rather than him. Stats 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hybrid Angel 2,130 Posted April 27, 2016 Share Posted April 27, 2016 Incredible player. To think that Mourinho never game him a proper chance and when he played him in the champions league he benched Azpi and not Iva is just astonishing. He should have started here since day one. Mourinho really fucked us this time around. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Essien19 1,415 Posted April 27, 2016 Share Posted April 27, 2016 Good thing is back in the day we all knew it. Brilliant, brilliant, at that time Azpi and Iva were shocking. Fun being a couch manager. ? Gesendet von meinem SM-G930F mit Tapatalk Blue_Fox_ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pizy 18,928 Posted April 27, 2016 Share Posted April 27, 2016 Indeed a fantastic player as most of us knew when he was here rotting on our bench. Nice guy off the pitch as well and seemed genuinely delighted to come to Chelsea. Ivanovic being Mourinho's general doomed him from day 1. Happy to see him doing so well. Luckily, unlike with KDB and Lukaku, Felipe is over 30 now so we won't regret letting him go for too long. Fernando 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fernando 6,585 Posted April 27, 2016 Share Posted April 27, 2016 10 minutes ago, Essien19 said:  Good thing is back in the day we all knew it. Brilliant, brilliant, at that time Azpi and Iva were shocking.  Fun being a couch manager. ?  Gesendet von meinem SM-G930F mit Tapatalk Good example that Mourinho got a lot of support and backing from the board to do whatever he wanted....well not 100% but a lot. If we do the same for our next manager then we should be good. MefiX19 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue_Fox_ 2,086 Posted April 27, 2016 Share Posted April 27, 2016 This is the one player i regret the most letting go. Wish he would've stayed, but oh well Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kieran. 6,317 Posted April 27, 2016 Share Posted April 27, 2016 What a fucking player.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hazardousteddybear 16 Posted April 28, 2016 Share Posted April 28, 2016 Atletico and their defense are beautiful to watch. Even with Godin injured, they have a solid block. Luis was awesome to look at, both in defense and offense. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Special Juan 28,141 Posted April 28, 2016 Share Posted April 28, 2016 He was in beast mode again last night. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OneMoSalah 8,886 Posted May 3, 2016 Share Posted May 3, 2016 2 matches against Barca and Bayern in the biggest competition in Europe and I don't think he made any mistakes. Why did we let him go? What a player. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wilander 35 Posted May 10, 2016 Share Posted May 10, 2016 On 2016年5月3日 at 7:55 AM, OneMoSalah said: 2 matches against Barca and Bayern in the biggest competition in Europe and I don't think he made any mistakes. Why did we let him go? What a player. Why did we let him go? Mourinho is the answer! Luis doesn't want to be benchwarmer! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nyikolajevics 2,700 Posted May 10, 2016 Share Posted May 10, 2016 On 2016. 05. 03. at 1:55 AM, OneMoSalah said: 2 matches against Barca and Bayern in the biggest competition in Europe and I don't think he made any mistakes. Why did we let him go? What a player. José:  Filipe LuÃs < Azpilicueta < Ivanovic Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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