The Mourinho Thread

[AndersonBLUE 819]

Funny how the doubters come crawling out of the woodwork just to say 'I told you so'. Review him after the season over if anything. 2-0 in the second leg isn't impossible.

[Fernando 6,585]

Must be really furious tonight...Before the match he said that the positive was the solidity of the back 4 and today, that caves in...

Personally wouldn't give too much thought to this match...This wasn't the easiest match to make a comeback after the Palace defeat anyway, and besides this isn't the team we would have fielded if everyone was available.

Defense was good till the David Luiz cock up.

If we sell him in the summer hope we get someone else.

Cause mikel is even worse and lampard about to retire.

[BlueLyon 9,359]

Curious...was this your opinion during the city game...never thought we were overly defensive against West Ham either...considering the result

But yes, might have been overly cautious for a few of them..

I said in most games. There were also good games like City, Arsenal, Gala home,...

We played 2/3rd of the team defenders vs Crystal ffs. When you play pivot of Matic-Luiz vs Crystal you would think they have 5 Messi's and our defence needs extra cover from pivot ffs. And why didnt Mou tried Cole- Azpi as full backs more times?

As I said, Mou made from offensive players a defensive team. Thats why we are good in defence, but (usualy) bad in attack.

I stand behind Mou, but wont hide to point the problems he and team still has.

[Alan Partridge 1,124]

Who do people think we would realistically get if Jose went? There is no one else out there that could transform this team in 1 season. There are so many average players in this team and we don't even have a quality striker. Dont underestimate how much of an impact a few quality players have, look at Dourtmond this season without gotze, they looked even worse tonight with Lewandowski suspended. Look at the difference Sturridge and Suarez have made to Liverpool.

Mourinho will not change his tactics and philosophy, it may be stubborn but it will benefit us in the future. We have to get used to playing this way and it's not easy without a quality striker that he needs.

Jose is a winner and he will find a way to get us back to the top.

Judge the team on next season after he has a chance to buy the players he needs. We should think ourselves lucky to be where we are right now.

Look at the mess United have got in, at least we will have CL football and one of the best managers around

[MrExcalibur100 7,124]

Mourinho on decision to start Schurrle-

'I am not happy with my strikers' performances so I have to try things. With Andre at least I know we have one more player to have the ball and to associate with the other players. Even not being dangerous because he's not a striker he can associate and the team can have control of possession like we had.

'Football is not just about that. It's also about scoring goals, getting in behind and having real strikers'.

Pretty brutal, but blunt and straight to the point. The chelsea board has a lot to answer. Just how one of the biggest and richest clubs in the world ends up with Torres, Ba and a "33" year old Eto'o to lead the line is beyond me. People praise the board for making no-brainer decisions like bidding for the Hazard's and Oscar's of this world, but it's this sort of poor planning that makes us a bit of a laughing stock. Demba was a panic buy. Eto'o should be playing in the MLS and Torres was done even in his Liverpool days. The signs were there.

If City win the league, it's because they have done their homework in the transfer market. Txixi Bergenstein has been fantastic for them. Having good transfer windows is what makes a successful team, even more so than a manager. Just look at what good buys did for Bayern.

[Jase 43,479]

Probably shouldn't be enjoying this but so glad that Mourinho has finally had it with Torres (and our STs situation in general). About time a Chelsea manager finally criticized Torres after all the protection and diplomacy involved with previous managers. Ruthless and merciless in revamping this squad is arguably what we need from the manager. No more messing about after 3-4 years of not fixing the obvious problems within the squad. Will be great if we can ditch the deadwoods this summer & have a proper squad! Mourinho's comments after the game couldn't be anymore obvious in expressing his dislike/distaste on Torres and our STs overall.

[Vybz Kartel 1,613]

And he had the guts to call Arsene Wenger a specialist in Failure, he is the failure for failing to fix our scoring problems and set piece problems all season. His not won anything in 2 years by the way

[thekid9 418]

Jose should concentrate on his job, and not slagging other people! Special one his is not!

[DDA 9,941]

We have Mourinho one of, if not the best manager in World football today and yet you fairytale fans still want more. Go bang you head against a wall !

[Gilvorak 3,734]

Blaming tonight's performance solely on the strikers is a poor excuse. Cavani and Ibra both had shit games tonight and yet they still outclassed us.

Signing Cavani or Costa is not magically going to improve our build up play, ability to break down packed defenses, decision making in the final third and crossing.

There's a reason Drogba had by far his best season under Ancelotti rather than Jose.

[duren batu 15]

Is this Real Madrid forum?

[Bosnian Blue 2,471]

Plastic, plastic fans. Nothing can surprise me though after Robbie and FSW.

[sdrcfc 461]

Blaming tonight's performance solely on the strikers is a poor excuse. Cavani and Ibra both had shit games tonight and yet they still outclassed us.

Signing Cavani or Costa is not magically going to improve our build up play, ability to break down packed defenses, decision making in the final third and crossing.

There's a reason Drogba had by far his best season under Ancelotti rather than Jose.

So Blanc is a better manager than Jose? You're having a laugh.

[thekid9 418]

Even if we sign a striker, we will still be stuck with Jose's style of football.....

[LAM09 7,056]

Even if we sign a striker, we will still be stuck with Jose's style of football.....

He can play attacking football if he has the right players. Look at the majority of his time at RM.

[thekid9 418]

we have everything he needs Oscar,hazard,willian,salad,schurrle.. barring a striker, how often do we actually get the ball to our strikers? hardly ever, so why not?

[Belgiannutt 3,201]

Even if we sign a striker, we will still be stuck with Jose's style of football.....

Having a striker that can actually hold on to a ball is pretty important no matter what style of football you play.

[bluedrake55 1]

psg got lucky due to luiz having a blonde moment. they will get turn over at the bridge. try having some faith. after all JM knows more than us and has walk the walk.

[Kieran. 6,317]

You stupid idiot Mourinho you've crushed all my hopes and dreams...!!!

Chill the fuck out, the first year was always going to be difficult. We have great times ahead.

[Magic Lamps 11,692]

No manager is perfect and Mou surely has to take some of the blame that our form has depreciated in this final part of the season, with onyl 1 out of 7 away wins. That problem to motivate his players in the very crucial moment was also evident last year in Madrid. Let's hope he has not lost his touch and bounces back.