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[Viper22 2,418]

sorry but if you can't see how poor our situation is then you are in for a rude awakening , I have seen nothing remotely positive and the season starts in 3 days time .

Seems anyone who is concerned is dubbed a "Plastic" , Im not sure what I should call those living in cloud cuckoo land

Wasn't really directed at you but i'll explain myself nonetheless. Calling this the worst Chelsea team ever on the back of 3 defeats in 5 pre season games is just plain hilarious. As soon as stuff starts going remotely wrong people start over-exaggerating and saying stupid shit like "this is the worst Chelsea team ever", "we need a dramatic overhaul of the squad" and "we'll struggle to scrape top 4 next season" is unloyal and plastic in the extreme.

I tell you what i've seen that's positive: We still have Mourinho (the best coach in the league, probably world), we still have the exact same players who won the league easily for us last season, we still have our star players Matic, Fabregas, Hazard and Costa and most importantly we won the damn league last year. We have not lost a competitive match since then.

If we play like this for the first 3/4 games of the season and come away with like 4 points then yeah, time to start freaking out. But I have faith that Chelsea haven't suddenly become a bad team that has forgotten how to win overnight. We haven't lost any first team players. We haven't lost our manager. I have faith that Chelsea will start the season with wins at the very least if not performances to match as I faith in the coaching staff and players that dragged us from 6th place in 2011-12 and the EL in 2012-13 to the title within 2 years.

[RoyalBlues 4,050]

Just look at the comment.

Jose doing Jose

[Barbara 15,149]

OK give me the positives you have seen

did I say positive?

Isn't there something known as middle ground? The team is off pace, which I said, there are some issues, which I said, but this the same team that one year ago left everyone in awe about the way they were performing. I'd rather judge it later rather than now over preseason matches, especially one three days away from real competition.

So the fact we still have the best player in the league, the better assister, a hell of a goalkeeper, one of the best, if not the very best DM of the league, a great LB, capable strikers (at least two of them) are all positives in my book. I won't behave like hell is breaking lose before we even start the regular season. As I said, twice already, things aren't ideal. But it isn't a disaster yet anyway.

But you asked positives: Courtois is very much in form, Zouma was very solid, Hazard while a little quiet now, scored an amazing goal against Barça less than a week ago, JT continues to be in form, Matic continues to do a great work, Willian was amazing in the Barça and Arsenal matches. Should I stop or is that enough for you?

[zolayes 14,489]

Wasn't really directed at you but i'll explain myself nonetheless. Calling this the worst Chelsea team ever on the back of 3 defeats in 5 pre season games is just plain hilarious. As soon as stuff starts going remotely wrong people start over-exaggerating and saying stupid shit like "this is the worst Chelsea team ever", "we need a dramatic overhaul of the squad" and "we'll struggle to scrape top 4 next season" is unloyal and plastic in the extreme.

I tell you what i've seen that's positive: We still have Mourinho (the best coach in the league, probably world), we still have the exact same players who won the league easily for us last season, we still have our star players Matic, Fabregas, Hazard and Costa and most importantly we won the damn league last year. We have not lost a competitive match since then.

If we play like this for the first 3/4 games of the season and come away with like 4 points then yeah, time to start freaking out. But I have faith that Chelsea haven't suddenly become a bad team that has forgotten how to win overnight. We haven't lost any first team players. We haven't lost our manager. I have faith that Chelsea will start the season with wins at the very least if not performances to match as I faith in the coaching staff and players that dragged us from 6th place in 2011-12 and the EL in 2012-13 to the title within 2 years.

I NEVER called it the worst Chelsea team ever .. I saw us lucky to avoid to relegation to the old £rd division . Your positives are all in the past .. Last season is

gone ,, Will we win THE DAMN LEAGUE this year , Two months ago I thought yes ,, Now I think not

[zolayes 14,489]

did I say positive?

Isn't there something known as middle ground? The team is off pace, which I said, there are some issues, which I said, but this the same team that one year ago left everyone in awe about the way they were performing. I'd rather judge it later rather than now over preseason matches, especially one three days away from real competition.

So the fact we still have the best player in the league, the better assister, a hell of a goalkeeper, one of the best, if not the very best DM of the league, a great LB, capable strikers (at least two of them) are all positives in my book. I won't behave like hell is breaking lose before we even start the regular season. As I said, twice already, things aren't ideal. But it isn't a disaster yet anyway.

But you asked positives: Courtois is very much in form, Zouma was very solid, Hazard while a little quiet now, scored an amazing goal against Barça less than a week ago, JT continues to be in form, Matic continues to do a great work, Willian was amazing in the Barça and Arsenal matches. Should I stop or is that enough for you?

Nowhere near enough .. you are clutching at straws JT has been poor ONE goal from Hazard YIPPEEE So we have Courtois .. Im never impressed when our best

player is our keeper

[Unionjack 7,531]

Well is anyone as scared as I am yet? Going to be a dodgy year i can feel it in me bones!

[zolayes 14,489]

Well is anyone as scared as I am yet? Going to be a dodgy year i can feel it in me bones!

you should see your doctor .. you must have plastic bones

[thekid9 418]

I think everyone should be refunded for that utter shit!

and then for jose to give us this " It was a good training session" shit again

He's starting to sound like Rogers or Moyes

FUCK UP and sign some players, +

[thekid9 418]

I think everyone should be refunded for that utter shit!

and then for jose to give us this " It was a good training session" shit again

He's starting to sound like Rogers or Moyes

FUCK UP and sign some players! You are the only idiot that can't see we need to!

with this lot, a couple of injuries and we will be lucky to make top 4

[Billy. 2,742]

relegation party 2016 whos in

[thekid9 418]

yes, I did... how could I possible be talking about if I haven't?

Unlike many people here, I actually try to base my opinion in facts. They're still only opinions, but they come from my interpretation of facts.

You're all overreacting. You're making a circus out of some issues.

Also, with the season starting in three fucking days, did you guys expect the players to hit the ground and risk an injury? They were all there getting match time, but they wouldn't risk a muscular injury, much less risk other playing injuring them.

Sometimes I don't believe how shallow the thinking is... if there's any thinking at all involved, it seems just like regurgitation.

So, last year when we won 7 or something out of our 10 friendlies? .........

Anyone glossing over this with "good training time" should wait till after we get beaten on Saturday then think up some new excuses

[Sovieticus 743]

Well they have shown great character today.

[nadavTKL 1,787]

The root of most people's complaints here is because we've had a quiet window - which also bothers me because I wanted us to sign a CB and a CM and most people agree with me. Thing is those players we're talking about are for most of you squad depth players, not even players for our first team. Some of you want Vidal, Pogba and I don't know who else, but sorry, none of those guys will displace Cesc or Matic. Others want a WC RW - which I don't even want. So you believe we would be a completely different team with a player replacing Matic or Cesc, another replacement for the defense and maybe Reus? We are those three players away from winning everything?

Sorry, you guys don't make sense. It feels just frustration because there hasn't been any money splash.

Just about that, because i agree with everything - people who want Vidal want him to play next to Cesc and Matic, probably instead of Oscar. I believe Jose dont want to chance the system, at least in most games he likes to play with 3 AMs behind the striker and Vidal and Cesc are not AMs. About Pogba, I think Jose would've got him if he could, he's a talents who's yet to find his place on the football pitch imo, could be a like-for-like replacement for Oscar probably.

But, as long as we'll continue to see Ramires playing instead of Oscar, the questions will be asked. If you play with Ramires, why didnt you bring a better CM? Vidal is an example.

[Unionjack 7,531]

It just hurts right now watching them.

I dont understand how BASICALLY the same bunch of lads played IMHO some of the best football Ive seen let alone watch Chelsea play for the opening months of last season, yet we go out and play utter crap like we mostly have so far.

[KevinAshburner 1,270]

I know this video is long, but he basically says it as it is and what is wrong with our squad at the moment.

Chelsea 0-1 Fiorentina | Is This Worrying? | Match Review

video length - 27:30

by : 100PercentChelsea - YounesHH

[Roquila 1,335]

This is worrying

[AndersonBLUE 819]

Hahaha the comments in this thread. Could lose all our pre season games for all I care. Judge team in an actual match.

[cosmicway 1,333]

Look, the writing is on the wall.

I cannot express optimism and most certainly I cannot suggest that the team is in motion for higher things this season.

Be that as it may - we stick together in championship division too.

What I really don't like is the cockiness of Jose, dictated by the cockiness of Roman quite obviously.

They had better come forward and say "listen folks we are trying something new this season because we can't afford transfers".
I have seen this kind of attitude many times and it's bad for the football clubs concerned, it's bad for the psychology of the fans and it's ultimately bad for the image of the directors-managers too. Is n't it much better to make a honest approach ?
We are what, 25,000 managers writing in these boards. That's one too many really, but we are not the proverbial Sid and Doris Bonkers. We know some footie.

[obiwan92 217]

Oh and btw:

Team to play Fiorentina tonight: Begovic, Cuadrado, Zouma, Terry ©, Aina, Mikel, Loftus-Cheek, Traore, Oscar, Moses, Falcao. #CFC

Oh, are you talking to me? Totally forgot about your post. It was good fun.

Lay off.

[obiwan92 217]

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