The Mourinho Thread

[Reddish-Blue 2,497]

There are 20 actually, not only 18.

Cech, Thibaut, Mark - 3 GK

Iva, Azpili, Luis - 3 DF

Matic, Ramires, Mikel, van Ginkel, Romeu - 5 MD

Hazard, Oscar, Willian, Schurrle, Salah, Marin - 6 AM

Costa, Torres, Drogba - 3 ST

I thought Romeu was younger, but he's about to turn 23, so he counts among the senior foreigns. We need to get rid of three among those players or register them in only one competition between UCL and EPL (like we did with Essien last season).

The HG would be JT, Cahill, Cesc and Lukaku among the seniors (although Lukaku still counts as U-21) and the kids would be Zouma, Aké, Christensen and probably Baker.

Moses and Bertrand are as good as gone, just like Torres and Mikel imo. They're deadwood that only add to our wage bill, but while I can see us easily getting rid of the former two, I have no idea who'd be interested in the latter... Mikel is a very decent player, but he's completely unmarketable... and nobody wants Torres...

There has to be some way we can make a deal with Atletico for Torres...

[Muzchap 8,966]

There has to be some way we can make a deal with Atletico for Torres...

We live in hope!

[MrExcalibur100 7,124]

[ChelseaFC12 134]

You know what I still fail to understand why did we renewed Shawarzer's contract when we wanted Courtois to come back and Cech has also confirmed he's staying.

And since we are already short on HG quouta having 3 keepers who are good enough to start for any top side doesn't make sense at all!

[The only place to be 11,313]

Mourinho is a brave man. The sale of Lukaku is easily the most bizarre decision Mourinho has made.

£28 million for a striker he doesn't perhaps rate, who walked away from a chance to win the number 9 shirt at Chelsea to a guaranteed start at Everton, having already signed a new number one striker.

I'm perplexed at anyone's ability to be surprised, confused or flummoxed by this move.

[Styles 9,790]

You know what I still fail to understand why did we renewed Shawarzer's contract when we wanted Courtois to come back and Cech has also confirmed he's staying.

And since we are already short on HG quouta having 3 keepers who are good enough to start for any top side doesn't make sense at all!

I would be amazed if both Cech and Courtois are still Chelsea players in September.

[ChelseaFC12 134]

I would be amazed if both Cech and Courtois are still Chelsea players in September.

Yeah one has to leave definitely...

I'm saying with hard heart but it should be Cech I know how great he has been for us. But Courtois is the future and he's already one of the top 3 keepers in the world. And we might still be able to get a decent fee for Cech he's still relatively young for a goalkeeper.

[Madmax 9,219]

Holding my peace till September 1; if we haven't signed a Lukaku replacement by then I would be upset.

[edetarod 2,155]

pressure on him is huge to win something now, after making some questionable calls

wouldn't want to be him right now

[LAM09 7,043]

Genius!

[didierforever 7,349]

Genius!

more credit to the board than to him!!!

[LAM09 7,043]

more credit to the board than to him!!!

Both deserve the praise. Mourinho could have easily said he want to keep one of them for the sake of it, but I get what you mean.

[MrExcalibur100 7,124]

http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/11668/9400974/premier-league-jose-mourinho-explains-reasons-behind-romelu-lukakus-move-to-everton

Mourinho on Lukaku's move to Everton. Nothing we didn't know.

[HD3D 1,038]

You know what I still fail to understand why did we renewed Shawarzer's contract when we wanted Courtois to come back and Cech has also confirmed he's staying.

And since we are already short on HG quouta having 3 keepers who are good enough to start for any top side doesn't make sense at all!

Shawarzer is a very good goalkeeper. And all teams need at least 3 of them. If 1 keeper gets injured and the other gets red-carded, the team is in big trouble. And even though you might think that's extremely unlikely, it has happened before, more than once. How ridiculous would it be if Chelsea lost the title race because of such a silly, unprofessional mistake?

Besides that, neither Cech or Courtois will accept to be on the bench. One of them will want to leave eventually. It's only a matter of time. And when that happens, who will be our second GOOD keeper?

[Styles 9,790]

‘The other good thing is we have not just Diego – we also have Drogba and Torres, I know what they can give. I also know because of Fernando’s great mentality he is ready to work the way he did today.

We can work and play with two of them at the same time. We are preparing things and we are working on things where it is possible to have two of them on the pitch. We have a group of three strikers that hopefully are going to give us a lot.’