The Mourinho Thread

[Liquidator 5,176]

REALLY? Why? It's the end of the world for God sake. What happened when we failed in group stage in 2012/13. Nothing. Even ManU failed. I still think he is the right man because he is one of us, he is not just a coach but he is a fan of this club.

In the age of financial fair play we will miss out on important money to buy high calibre players to replace the shit we already have. Champions League football is a huge draw for players. Hazard would not have signed for us had we not won it in 2012, what made Willian turn down Spurs for us? Part of what makes a 'big club' is being competitive in Europe. How many players say in their first interviews at big clubs how excited they are to be able to play in Europe? What happened when we failed in the group stage of 2012/13 is that we *somehow* managed to finish high enough in the table (3rd I think?) to qualify for the Champions League for 2013/14 and were therefore still able to attract players.

Please expand on your point that he is ''one of us''. I'm not quite sure what he's said to earn that title with the exception of coming out with it in his first Press conference back here.

[the wes 7,212]

In the age of financial fair play we will miss out on important money to buy high calibre players to replace the shit we already have. Champions League football is a huge draw for players.

man utd signed di Maria with no champions league football ??

[BlueStorm1003 539]

man utd signed di Maria with no champions league football ??

Hate to say this but those guys have a bigger name than us. I believe that´s one of the reasons they can interest big players regardless.

[the wes 7,212]

Hate to say this but those guys have a bigger name than us. I believe that´s one of the reasons they can interest big players regardless.

footballers nowadays don't care about champions league football all they care about is huge pay cheque

[Last Sicarius 610]

If we wont to paid Pogba his huge week's so we will paid it to another player? I don't think so. And looking far away player want to expose his talent if he is offensive player but in our club right now, we just want to score one and def it for end. simple.

tbh one of reason why Roman didnt sack jose is that he just wont to pay 30mln for sack him.

[11Drogba 2,000]

He knows something that he was unsure of a week ago, that's why he was calmer after the game. It might be related to his father but last week Alex Texeira said that we are after him. I think the board told him that we will be active in January.

[Henrique 9,133]

There's still Sunday and Monday.

http://www.skysports.com/football/news/32461/10051036/jose-mourinhos-job-at-chelsea-not-under-threat

Thats just unbeliveable if true. "Not under threat". If thats really the case, the club is set to follow Arsenal path, because only in a club that lost any kind of ambition the job's manager won't even be "under threat" in such circunstances.

[Henrique 9,133]

He knows something that he was unsure of a week ago, that's why he was calmer after the game. It might be related to his father but last week Alex Texeira said that we are after him. I think the board told him that we will be active in January.

Not sure what he know, but what I know is: if the team is relying on Alex Teixeira to save the season, then its already over.

[11Drogba 2,000]

Not sure what he know, but what I know is: if the team is relying on Alex Teixeira to save the season, then its already over.

I think there will be more than one signing.

[Essien19 1,415]

http://www.skysports.com/football/news/32461/10051036/jose-mourinhos-job-at-chelsea-not-under-threat

Thats just unbeliveable if true. "Not under threat". If thats really the case, the club is set to follow Arsenal path, because only in a club that lost any kind of ambition the job's manager won't even be "under threat" in such circunstances.

You missed one word not under "immediate" threat, i think the meaning is different.

Otherwise i don't want him gone, so i'm quite happy about the news.

Cheers.

[Stats 7,147]

I've been in the air all day so I couldn't get a chance to watch this game live. What amazes me, (though not surprises me) is Mourinho had the temerity to put in Falcao, (his agent's client) instead of Remy, even after Remy scored the goal that got us back in it vs Stoke City and even after how diabolical Falcao has been. Any other manager out there would have gone with the hot hand today, not Mourinho.

This just goes to show what a poor man manager Mourinho has become. The partiality he shows to certain players is not worthy of a Chelsea manager. He should be sacked just on this recurring theme alone. And those fans at The Bridge that were chanting his name, despite all Mourinho's transgressions this season, are nothing short of an embarrassment. Open your eyes! Mourinho knows he doesn't have what it takes to turn it around so he doesn't give a flying fuck anymore. He's only stalling for his paycheck. If he had any decency, he'll resign and forfeit money for the club he claims to love.

This. Absolutely ridiculous. Falcao just looks clueless when he comes on but Mourinho will not work on merit. Remy was an excellent impact player for us last season and is better than Falcao, yet he has isolated Remy on the bench so much times to bring on a finished striker like Falcao and it always backfires. He just has made so much fucked up decisions and he has lost it. I struggle to believe he is the only manager to get us out of this current mess.

Gladbach ex-manager guided them to 3rd spot last season, which meant they qualified for UCL football automatically. Excellent achievement, however this season, like Mourinho the team got of to an awful start losing their first 6 games in the league, including getting battered in their first UCL opener against Sevilla 3-0. Despite what the manager had done before in the previous season, the team had totally lost all form in the opening games of this season and the Gladbach board realised the situation was not going to change. What do they do? Sack the manager and higher an interim manager within the club who was mangaging the U23 team to take over the first team.

Since taking over the Gladbach interim manager has taken control of 9 games. 6 league wins in a row which included beating the likes of Wolfsburg and Schalke convincingly. 1 excellent cup win away to Schalke. An excellent point away to Juventus and their loss was against Man City in the UCL where they were very unfortunate. So he has taken charge of all league games and won every single one.

It just shows that you don't need a manager with whole long experience to take over. Sometimes it can be someone within the club who has been here for a while and can build up a strong rapport with the players. Like Favre at Gladbach, the players have lost confidence in Mourinho and they need someone who can give them a kick up the backside and give them new ideas. I would take a manager with experience as first option but right now I would even take someone like Steve Holland till the end of the season until we get a long term manager in. Someone who has been here for a few years and knows the squad well.

Gadbach have a much inferior squad to us and yet with this new interim manager have managed to do wonders. If they can do that with inferior players, there is no reason we cannot with better players move in a better direction under a new coach. Moruinho has lost the dressing room, does not have a clue of how to take the team forward and we need an interim to just give the boys the lift. These players have not turned average overnight.

[Henrique 9,133]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-3298533/Now-s-Roman-Abramovich-Chelsea-owner-fire-Jose-Mourinho-slump-goes-on.html

According to Neil Ashton from Mail, Jose's job is under threat and will get the axe if performances don't improve. Before usual suspects say he is not reliable/hates Mourinho, he was the first to report weeks ago that Mourinho survived a meeting with board after Southampton defeat, hours before the club relesead that public vote of confidence.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-3259268/Jose-Mourinho-survives-meeting-Chelsea-board-not-sacked-despite-poor-start-season.html

[Blue Armour 4,448]

I have to laugh because I cannot believe that people still want Mourinho to coach this club. He has NEVER shown the ability to turn around a club after a terrible start. He has consistently imploded clubs in his third year. He's lost the locker room. He has acted like an odious delusional cunt. Chelsea has 11 points in 11 league games.

We're on pace for 38 points people.

Make arguments if you want, but please don't try to pass pseudo stuff as fact. The only clubs where he has been 3 years at least are Chelsea and Madrid. And no, they did not implode during that time.

Our matches have been mostly embarrassing this time around, but this so-called '3rd season syndrome' is one of the many things used to blow the situation ridiculously out of proportion.

[Blue Armour 4,448]

do you think it would return as before? no cech , drogba , lampard , cole, ballack anymore. I doubt oscar and baba will be running the dressing room

Well, I trust Cech , Drogba , Lampard , Cole, Ballack to turn things around no matter who the manager is, even if its an interim. Can you say the same about Oscar and Baba?

[Lapo Blues 21]

I still want him to stay till the end of the season. If Guardiola wants to come then sack him and get Guardiola.

If not let him continue.

No other manager that I see as improvement to him.

Other then that if we can't get top 4 why don't we finish 3rd in the CL and go for the EL and win it to get CL?

Unless we do the impossible one more time and win the CL this season.....

This is a right attitude fan.

When things gone bad, some fans just ignored mou's achievement last year trophy ffs.

[Belgiannutt 3,201]

It really is mind-boggling how a manager who's so meticulous when it comes to defending can have such a lacklustre/ laid back "just go out their and express yourselves" attitude towards the attacking part of the game.

Our entire attacking game rests on three things : Opposition f*cking up, set pieces and individual brilliance. I mean that's it. Over 2 years with this group and that's all he can come up with.

About the Liverpool game, just textbook Mourinho wasn't it. Score a goal, sit deep and let the opposition get back into the game.

You'd think after we'd score such an early goal we'd grab Liverpool by the throat. Keep disrupting their passing game. Not let them get into their game. Go for a second goal but no no let's just sit back. Let them get their passing game going. Let them settle into the game. Just defend for the remaining 85 minutes. What could possibly go wrong...

[skeeo 37]

Jose should have spoken to Klopp who knows all about a top side being completely out of form. I distinctly recall that Dortmund side being relegation battlers the season after they won the league (or finished top 2 - I don't recall exact details now)

[zakhov 253]

Jose should have spoken to Klopp who knows all about a top side being completely out of form. I distinctly recall that Dortmund side being relegation battlers the season after they won the league (or finished top 2 - I don't recall exact details now)

Agreed, people seem to forget that Klopp went through the same shit last season. The only difference is that Klopp handled the media way better than Mourinho did, or the German media isn't as insidious as the English are.

[sekar_blue4ever 1]

I think it has reached a point where only changing the manager will turn it around.Its already in the players mind that he's gone.Sad to see him go but seems to be the only way to turn it around.

Remember Chelsea before Jose

[blues.bridge 343]

This is a right attitude fan.

When things gone bad, some fans just ignored mou's achievement last year trophy ffs.

i don't live in the past! i look what mou can make in the next seasons! he has been 2 years, and what has he done? if has someone in this 2 years seen some project for a long time? young? team's play?? something???of course then, now i don't stay to explain all the motivations cos i want mou out that i already said in the past!

Agreed, people seem to forget that Klopp went through the same shit last season. The only difference is that Klopp handled the media way better than Mourinho did, or the German media isn't as insidious as the English are.

ok ok, we are not confronted this situation compares to that !

1) it is arrived for mou only after 2 years, klopp then 6

2) klopp had created BVB out of noothing, without a lot of money and the crisis was arrived after 6 years! Mou instead? crisis after 2 years, has all money he wants and not has created nothing, he is just destroying it