The Mourinho Thread

[Henrique 9,133]

What enlightened strategies would you use?

I'm not a manager, so I don't habe any elightened strategy, but I think I'm a good boss, so I would try to have a private convertation with my player and try to understand whats wrong and explain why I think he could be a better player if he develop some aspects of his game. I think I also would try to understand what my players can and cannot do, and would try to play with a strategy that would get the best ouf of my players.

Lets be honest, the board should just fire Mourinho and name Henrique as the new manager.

[quickpassnmove 924]

Dont get me wrong Im not exactly loving Mourinho right now, but to sack a manager who rightly criticises a player is idiocy. If Hazard leaves one day this forum will be left with true fans of the club.

I'm still looking for a reason why I might enjoy watching CFC play now that Drogba's time is truly done. Jose and whatever is going on within the organization are making enjoyment nearly impossible. I'm skipping more matches and fast-fowarding through some of the play.

At this rate, I'll be done watching football within a couple years. better things to do with the time left in life.

[Adnane 1,101]

People are twisting the facts.

Baba is poor defensively at the moment, everyone even on TC ( which is surprising lolz ) noticed that, it would have always been hard to put him in a side where he would have to defend more than behind a Pedro or a Willian, because yes, those two are still miles ahead of Hazard in terms of covering their left back, and Baba really still needs to improve defensively.

I don't understand people, everyone is calling for Baba, Iva is injured, Mourinho puts him, people start moaning because he is protecting him by a more versatile winger, do you guys even realize he is resting Hazard for the same matter ?

Do you realize that Hazard and Oscar burned out in our last two seasons, I'm glad José is learning to rotate and try different options, have different people included.

Hazard is going back to his place next game, and don't be surprised if Jose starts a Zouma/Azpi pair ahead of a Baba/Azpi one as Cahill would be fit, and that would make perfect sense.

I have criticized tons of his choices this season, but you are guys over reacting here, chillax, he isn't going to sell/bench the guy he's been prainsing since he came back here, Mou appreciates Hazard, and we all sense reciprocity in that, remember when he benched him for a home Premier League game and everyone went mad ? When he criticized him against Atletico ? Didn't Eden get better and collect every single individual award last year in the EPL ? Yeah so get your heads around the fact that José knows what he's doing.

As for his situation, I was willing to give him a last chance, he won against Villa, the result was good, factually he did some good decisions, including Baba, Pedro/Willian, RLC and Matic, some bad ones, like Fabregas, but get over it, we won, I'm happy, end of story, onto the next one, I'll slam him again when we lose.

MOAN DOWN, RAM PA PA PAM.

[Spike 12,049]

I'm not a manager, so I don't habe any elightened strategy, but I think I'm a good boss, so I would try to have a private convertation with my player and try to understand whats wrong and explain why I think he could be a better player if he develop some aspects of his game. I think I also would try to understand what my players can and cannot do, and would try to play with a strategy that would get the best ouf of my players.

Lets be honest, the board should just fire Mourinho and name Henrique as the new manager.

You don't know that he doesn't do that. That is near impossible to know; so you are criticising Mourinho based on a hypothetical; which in turn is based on conjecture.

[Ainsley Harriott 2,732]

How does a manager take a public dig a player that he considered top 3 in the world and said he was better than Ronaldo last season... For not defending enough?

Meanwhile, others have been a steaming shower of shit and yet simply don't get benched. Way to go, this man has turned into a professional troll. We're fucked really, the board won't fire him because they'd have to give him around 50M euros + pay the next coach.

[Henrique 9,133]

Still its great to be a Chelsea fan eh ? C'mon Henri its not all doom and gloom is it me old mate ? Eh ? "championes championes, ole ole ole ole Chelsea Chelsea !!'

You have to admit its a great club to support isnt it ? We're having a few difficulties, but who doesnt ? Who the fuck doesnt -eh? I know you dont like him because of the Portuguese/Brazil ting, but we've got the greatest manager Chels ever had at the helm havent we ? Give the cunt a bit of slack. Roman n the Board have. Cmon.

You should just answer the PM I sent you, and avoid this kind of trash the next time, or you could just add me in your "ignore" list.

[Jase 43,479]

Now while I think Mourinho has gone a bit too far in this instance, I don't understand why its scoffed at when people ask about how good wingers are defensively.

But Hazard is not even bad defensively, is he? Let's not also act as if Mourinho doesn't ask the attacking players to do more defensive work than one normally would.

Look at Azpilcueta, he's as solid as you can get as a defender but isn't even considered when talking about the best fullbacks in the world because he isn't the best going forward.

What do you expect when Azpi - a right back is being played out of position at left back? He's not even getting the chance to improve, develop himself and show what he can do - both offensively and defensively - in his natural position on a consistent basis.

[Jase 43,479]

Imagine Baba and Hazard on the same flank. You don't think we would've conceded? Most people were slating Baba saying he's bang average, he's as bad as Ivanovic etc. You then want Hazard, who lets be honest doesn't defend as well as Willian, on the same wing? Then we'd concede and we're back to Mourinho being clueless.

So, in other words, Hazard's inclusion depends on the availability of Ivanovic? God, we are so screwed!

Why did we even let Luis to leave in the summer?! If Mourinho is so concerned about playing Hazard and Baba on the same side, then play the former in the centre or even on the right.

Yeah, the comments weren't probably necessary. But it spurred him on after last season didn't it?

It did. But that approach is getting tiresome but judging by this season alone, it's not really working either. A number of players have been criticized but none have really improved. On top of that, the public criticism - if Mourinho really wants to do it - only works if it's justified but in this case, it's not justified. Could just easily tell Hazard (or whoever else) that he's unhappy with this and that behind closed doors and it would likely yield a positive result/response. Doesn't always have to go public with the comments.

[Adnane 1,101]

Hazard is not bad defendively.

But he is not good enough for a side where Baba would play too.

And that's why Filipe didn't play much last year ( yes, brilliant offensively and defensively atm with Atletico, but he was really struggling physically against PL wingers with us... )

[bethos1 802]

Hazard is not bad defendively.

But he is not good enough for a side where Baba would play too.

And that's why Filipe didn't play much last year ( yes, brilliant offensively and defensively atm with Atletico, but he was really struggling physically against PL wingers with us... )

Then put him on the right with Azpi, it's still a better solution than to put Iva back in the team.

[Jase 43,479]

Jose Mourinho's obsession with personal battles could lose him the war

[kmk108 1,186]

But Hazard is not even bad defensively, is he? Let's not also act as if Mourinho doesn't ask the attacking players to do more defensive work than one normally would.

On the team, Hazard is the weakest defender IMO.

Yes, Mourinho asks more from his attackers in terms of defense, but that's who he is. If you're not putting in defensive effort, you're not going to play. Hazard wasn't doing enough offensively to justify having him in the squad.

Personally, Hazard being Hazard, he's one of the first on the team sheet, but I'm not going to argue that a sit for a game against Villa isn't deserved. Are there others that deserve it as well? Yes, but that doesn't take away from the fact that Hazard has been off all season, and he needs to wake up. He's one of the best in the world, but he's not playing like it at the moment. We don't know what Mourinho has done with him behind the scenes, so we can't make judgements on it. We just know that he's done this before and Hazard has responded well.

[didierforever 7,349]

i am sorry, but this hazard exodus is even more of a joke. i mean we have a player like cesc right in the middle of the park not giving a fuck for most of the match and jose is singling out the only world class player in our team!!! seriously jose?

why was not cesc benched after his defensive fuck up in that corner. or when he completely slept and failed to mark his man for soton's first goal.

double standards and more double standards.

[Stingray 9,441]

Jose Mourinho's obsession with personal battles could lose him the war

Mou's war of attrition. Quite so indeed.

[kmk108 1,186]

Jose Mourinho's obsession with personal battles could lose him the war

There's no facts that say he's even waging in personal battles. That's all created. Has any player come out and say they disagree with what Mourinho has said about them? Did we see Hazard throwing a fit? Did we see Baba crying because Jose has no confidence in him? Do we see Loftus-Cheek say he's being treated unfairly? Maybe, just maybe, Hazard will work harder to prove to Mourinho that he's better. Maybe we'll see Baba working harder to be a more solid defender. Maybe we'll see Loftus-Cheek track back more.

It's just another article making Mourinho out to be a ruthless dressing room tyrant and the players poor little victims.

[Iggy Doonican 4,186]

Mourinho I just can't work the bloke out. He keeps saying how much he loves London and how his wife and kids are settled here. But yet he seems to rattle more cages everyday even more then when he was at Real Madrid. Is this an exit strategy?. Probably not but bloody hell there is a touch of self destruction about him at the moment. Who's next in the firing line?

[bababoom 4,478]

I have to admit over the past few months i'm starting to get tired of the negativity that Jose brings, where has the funny, positive, witty Jose gone? His time at Real has made him very paranoid and bitter. I just wish he would keep his mouth shut sometimes.

[Roquila 1,335]

As another poster said.

We sold our future for a league title.

[zeppos 20]

Mourinho is an "impossible person", and whilst his debatable "genius" may short term give results, at some point of time the negative spiral his personality disorder is creating will take over. Please get rid of him before he sucks out all the joy of football...

[Adnane 1,101]

People don't understand Jose's logic for fuck sake.

I will mention one exeample, when we won at City in 2013/2014 with an absolute masterpiece by José.

Matic-Luiz-Ramires, very solid midfield.

Willian and Hazard behind Eto'o.

Ivanovic on his prime, brilliant Cahill-Terry partnership etc.

We had the best defense in the league at the time.

I remember one particular interview, when Eden was speaking about that game, he said José told him for that game especially : "Go and play, don't worry about defending, just play and do what you do best".

Why did José say that to him ? Because we had a solid defense and midfield, and because we were the in-form team of the moment ( that game was the part of a serie of wins that put us top of the table ).

Why did José tell Eden to defend in the start of his second reign ? Because we didn't have that balance yet ?

Why is he making adjustments and thus dropping Hazard and/or asking him to defend more ? Because we lost that balance once again, because we really are on a bad moment, and because we are putting in Baba who is no Azpilicueta defensively.

Dave covers pretty much all the left flank by himself when he plays, he is the one piece in the team that lets Hazard free from defensive duties without compromising the balance of the team.

I saw Hazard defend really good in the start of José second reign, when Azpi came in and showed he was a beast, I saw Eden defending less, the optimum is last year, Hazard defending more or less but having enough freedom to do what he did, you know, POTY stuff all season long.

I have no problem with Mourinho trying bold choices to momentarily fix our team balance and grind us results, even if it's by dropping Hazard, so be it, he won, you can barely criticize him on this one, when he drops Hazard and loses, come running at him ( and I will be too ).