The Mourinho Thread

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I got a feeling that something happened between Mourinho and Terry during halftime? To sub your best central back and captain that has played all games last season for Zouma (nothing against him)? Maybe Terry told his concerns to Mourinho about the tactics, I don't know, I'm just guessing. Maybe I'm just paranoid.

What are you talking about? JT sucked this game period. He gave Aguero how many chances. Begovic kept us in the game. Considering all the drama of the week, we are ok. We've weathered the storm.

[bethos1 802]

No worries? We didn't sign any player who could make our team any better than last seasons team and today we got embarrassed by our main title rival.

There's still 2 weeks left in the transfer window, I'll be worried if we don't get anyone by then.

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No worries? We didn't sign any player who could make our team any better than last seasons team and today we got embarrassed by our main title rival.

Football is not about buying every player in sight. Still no worries. We have a squad, they are just slow coming out of the gate.

[iseah100 5,612]

Football is not about buying every player in sight. Still no worries. We have a squad, they are just slow coming out of the gate.

History has shown, in the PL, you can't come out of the gate slow. Chelsea's fast start last year is what won them the title.

[MrBlueGuy 1,552]

Just confirmed the result was 'fake' and Terry off was his decision since it was him who gave Terry the chance in the 1st place. This is real bad.

[kellzfresh 7,229]

So Mourinho said terry is too slow to handle the pace of aguero, that's why he subbed him off so that we can press higher and hold more possession.

But our whole backline bar Azpilicueta has this problem. We can't attack well because they are too slow and stay too deep for us to press high and handle counterattacks. See how kolarov showed us how wing play should be done.

[Amblève. 4,995]

Mourinho be like

[MrExcalibur100 7,124]

On Sky now : "the 3-0 is completely fake".

This man is delusional.

[kellzfresh 7,229]

Just confirmed the result was 'fake' and Terry off was his decision since it was him who gave Terry the chance in the 1st place. This is real bad.

You just gave daily mail their new title

[MrBlueGuy 1,552]

You just gave daily mail their new title

Erm I didn't make up anything, this is literally what he said...

[Styles 9,790]

Just confirmed the result was 'fake' and Terry off was his decision since it was him who gave Terry the chance in the 1st place. This is real bad.

Absolutely delusional.

Pellegrini has learnt his lesson from the 1-0 defeat in 13-14 season. In fact, their very next game against Chelsea was 2 just weeks later in the FA Cup where Pellegrini set up differently and ultimately won 2-0.

Meanwhile Jose has been trying to recreate the 1-0 ever since.

For a supposedly tactical coach he sure doesn't make many adjustments.

[Sir Mikel OBE 4,919]

"The best team in the second half lost"

Are you kidding me?

[iseah100 5,612]

JT is not the problem.

[Billy. 2,742]

something just dont seem right atm

[Henrique 9,133]

3 League games ago we celebrated winning the league. Sacking a manager who won you the league 3 league games ago is stupid. Whether he is Benitez or Mourinho.

Perhaps you have a point, but football is dynamic. I have to remember you that PL is not a one month tournament like World Cup. The team won PL last season because of performance in the first half of the season. The team was in decline for the second half of the season. Arsenal scored more points and Manchester United scored almost the same amount of points as Chelsea.

Perhaps its just me, but last season was one of the worst in PL in terms of quality of football. English clubs performance in Europe speaks loud. Arsenal, City and United were all strugling for different reasons, they were never consistent enough. The team only won 2 games out of 6 against top 4 teams. Years ago a team with such a record against top sides would never win the PL. Its almost safe to say the team faced no competition last season.

For me, Mourinho's job in 2013/14 season was way better than in the last one, but in 2014 the team ended in 3rd.

[Adnane 1,101]

There's a middle zone between hating on Mourinho and worshipping him blindly.

We all know we need improvements, but none of us is sure about the source of our lack of investement in the transfer market.

Now what surprises me, is people saying that he's been "found out", aren't you the same guys who were asking for actual offensive football before the game ? Affraid of parking the bus ? Isn't that what we did in the second half ? Offensive football ? Didn't we concede two goals ?

Stop hating on him, we need reinforcements, he knows it, it's up to him and the board, we don't know who doesn't want to make the deals go through, we were champions 3 months ago, we didn't suddenly lose all our strengths, and we were playing the joint title favourites away, so calma.

We'll make the counts at the end of the season, talking about the situation here doesn't change anything anyway.

[didierforever 7,349]

i thought people here would be happy. we did not park the bus. we did not play defensive football. we had a lot of possession.

[Kieran. 6,317]

Something is wrong.