The Mourinho Thread

[ZaynCFC 27]

I respect Gerrard 1000x more than Fat Frank. Actually I wish Gerrard a nice farewell to the US whereas my only wish for Lampard is a cruciate rupture.

[kellzfresh 7,229]

I respect Gerrard 1000x more than Fat Frank. Actually I wish Gerrard a nice farewell to the US whereas my only wish for Lampard is a cruciate rupture.

Jeez, calm down. Even if frank gets injured, he's already accomplished everything at his late age now.

[xPetrCechx 13,563]

I respect Gerrard 1000x more than Fat Frank. Actually I wish Gerrard a nice farewell to the US whereas my only wish for Lampard is a cruciate rupture.

[Jase 43,479]

Jose Mourinho decided against signing Angel Di Maria and Falcao due to FFP

[We Hate Scouse 10,286]

I respect Gerrard 1000x more than Fat Frank. Actually I wish Gerrard a nice farewell to the US whereas my only wish for Lampard is a cruciate rupture.

Why? Because Gerrard's "loyal" to Liverpool and Liverpool are "loyal" to him? Ignorance.

[the wes 7,212]

Brendan Rodgers admits that he can no longer be close friends with Jose Mourinho due to Liverpool's fierce rivalry with Chelsea

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2917369/Brendan-Rodgers-says-t-friends-Jose-Mourinho-Liverpool-s-rivalry-Chelsea.html

[Laylabelle 9,396]

Course he'll get mocked though prob better to when we're away n winning otherwise he'll probably score n fuck around

What bollocks from Rodgers.Like the comments say him and Fergie werent this petty and got on pretty well it seemed.Wine and all that

[Fernando 6,496]

Hmmmm this is why I don't get much excited about beating to a pulp teams like Swansea and schalke.

Once we are able to do it to the likes of Liverpool then I will say that this team is scary.

[DH1988 1,325]

Sigh subs

[The Chels 2,502]

Makes Liverpool look like Real Madrid while Simeone makes Real look like Liverpool. Please watch Atletico to see how to press while maintaining compactness and defensive stability. (This is not knee-jerk - I've been moaning at our defensive system for a long time.)

[Fernando 6,496]

Sigh subs

Yeah I remember mourinho was a beast when it came to this. He would spot the danger and do it.

Now he's just not reacting as fast no more.

[Jase 43,479]

There's seriously something wrong when it comes to playing Liverpool in the cup and the league under Mourinho. Almost a huge difference in the performance.

[Laylabelle 9,396]

Would this be happening if wasn't another leg?probably be completely different

[MrBlueGuy 1,552]

Could see a repeat of 3-1 PSG win, I just know we are gonna do this against them in the 1st leg. So sick of him not wanting to change his ideology of away play safe, home play good.

[bethos1 802]

Yeah I remember mourinho was a beast when it came to this. He would spot the danger and do it.

Now he's just not reacting as fast no more.

Now he's isn't even reacting...

[MrExcalibur100 7,124]

Let me just type my piece. I know some posters will accuse me of being anti-Mourinho but then again, I could care less. The way we're playing against Liverpool is all Mourinho. It's not Iva or Cahill. The unforced errors and misplaced passes is as a result of the negative tactics. Same thing at City. Even Cesc was misplacing them too. Even if we lost this game, say 2-1 and at least came out to play FOOTBALL, I won't be typing this now.

First and foremost, what some seem NOT to realize is that Mourinho is the one responsible for setting this team up offensively and defensively. In the latter, he's great, phenomenal even. His ability to organize a defense was almost revolutionary in English football in his first spell here. Let's remember in his first season here, we only conceded 15 goals in the league. First and foremost above anything else, he's a defensive minded manager. There's nothing wrong with that, but it seems a contradiction to the current group of players at his disposal.

In the former however, he's a one trick pony. That's what many people don't get and that's why I feel this group of players don't match his management style at all. Mourinho just doesn't know how to set up his sides to play decent, possession based football. We just press and hope for the best. When the press doesn't work, we retreat to our shell and play "counter-attacking" football. Except it isn't actually that, it's the football of cowards. And when defend and hope for the best doesn't work, we invariably lose or if we're lucky, draw. The only time we come out to play and express ourselves on the pitch is against mediocre sides and even that is once in a blue moon. That's the pattern I've seen in his second spell here, especially in the so-called "bigger" games and it worries me greatly. I hoped and prayed that Mourinho would have become more sophisticated with his tactical approach 2nd time around but it's the same shit over again. It's the worst football of any Chelsea manager I've ever seen in my life with the players at his disposal, both on the pitch and on the bench.

We might win the league, but we won't win the Champions league. Once we face a Barca or a Real especially, we'll get killed. We don't have the same defensive minded team that we had a few years ago and I can't imagine Cahill and a 34 year old Terry being able to defend for 180 mins vs the best attacking players in the world.

[MrExcalibur100 7,124]

Could see a repeat of 3-1 PSG win, I just know we are gonna do this against them in the 1st leg. So sick of him not wanting to change his ideology of away play safe, home play good

Luckily it's not Real Madrid. Could have been bloody. Hazard and Cesc defending for their lives for 90 against Bale and Kroos. Ronaldo bumming us and scoring a hattrick. What's most frustrating is that we're a much better side than this. Mourinho is just so much of a coward and to scared to lose.

[Vybz Kartel 1,613]

If we end up going out he has no one but himself to blame because he failed to make game changing subs which could have cost us the game