The Mourinho Thread

[lucio 5,418]

Im afraid the team will keep using the 4-3-3 formation...

why are you afraid? its a good thing. our 4-2-3-1 sucks balls

[The only place to be 11,313]

Always funny to go on Twitter and see the people giving him shit when the team is announced, only to begrudgingly have to admit it was a good performance and he got it spot on.

[gary gordon 1,777]

Does anybody else just feel safer with Jose around? It just seems no matter how bad things get, we can look toward the bench and still smile. I absolutely hated seeing Rafa wearing our crest.

Just seeing Jose walking out, giving high fives to the kids, signing autographs and just being the champion that he is always puts the biggest smile on my face.

[The only place to be 11,313]

Does anybody else just feel safer with Jose around? It just seems no matter had bad things get, we can look toward the bench and still smile. I absolutely hated seeing Rafa wearing our crest.

Just seeing Jose walking out, giving high fives to the kids, signing autographs and just being the champion that he is always puts the biggest smile on my face.

Yesterday I was thinking the same. 2-0 up and with Rafa you'd be worrying about us conceding two, but with Jose you're looking at a third.

[gary gordon 1,777]

Yesterday I was thinking the same. 2-0 up and with Rafa you'd be worrying about us conceding two, but with Jose you're looking at a third.

Absolutely! You can see the body language in the players has changed enormously! I have no doubt the future is bright as long as Jose is around. So proud of Roman for swallowing his pride and bringing him home.

[Sidzeret 2,257]

Yesterday I was thinking the same. 2-0 up and with Rafa you'd be worrying about us conceding two, but with Jose you're looking at a third.

Remember Reading last year???

Thank God we have Mourinho

[Laylabelle 9,351]

Remember Reading last year???

Thank God we have Mourinho

And Swansea..so many games where they went completly mental!!Glad its all changed so far and hopefully can get a run going and stop the winter crappyness we go through

[Sidzeret 2,257]

And Swansea..so many games where they went completly mental!!Glad its all changed so far and hopefully can get a run going and stop the winter crappyness we go through

Make or break for us. i reckon the title is won during this period.

[kellzfresh 7,229]

Does anybody else just feel safer with Jose around? It just seems no matter how bad things get, we can look toward the bench and still smile. I absolutely hated seeing Rafa wearing our crest.

Just seeing Jose walking out, giving high fives to the kids, signing autographs and just being the champion that he is always puts the biggest smile on my face.

Fegurson said it in his autobiography:

"When you see the two managers in the dugout, you just know who'll win"

[kellzfresh 7,229]

dp

[Fernando 6,451]

Always funny to go on Twitter and see the people giving him shit when the team is announced, only to begrudgingly have to admit it was a good performance and he got it spot on.

Don't understand why. This is West Ham, a Sam team and they play ugly like stoke.

Against such teams we must also go physical like we did for this game. It was pretty ugly for us as well till we scored the penalty. Even at 2 to 0, if West Ham had scored that goal that went by the post it would have changed the whole feel to the game.

Now if we put the same line up say against South Hampton then we will look bad.

Mourinho should play the right line up according to the opponent. And that's what he did here. It payed of good results.

[Phil Driver 503]

There were/are big problems with this squad Jose has inherited and our style of play ,Jose is starting to understand what it is that has meant we have been underperforming in the league for years now . He will get it right and against West Ham he started to eradicate why we are soft touches away from home and very in and out .

LIke the way he also questiones Riley on why he only needs to appologise for decisions that go Chelsea's way , Riley needs to be ringing a lot of managers again tomorrow inc. Poyet and Malky McKay .

Refs have been taking liberties with us for too long now that must stop and we need the same level of respect as Utd under Fergie .otherwise Jose will be speaking out .

[Fernando 6,451]

There were/are big problems with this squad Jose has inherited and our style of play ,Jose is starting to understand what it is that has meant we have been underperforming in the league for years now . He will get it right and against West Ham he started to eradicate why we are soft touches away from home and very in and out .

LIke the way he also questiones Riley on why he only needs to appologise for decisions that go Chelsea's way , Riley needs to be ringing a lot of managers again tomorrow inc. Poyet and Malky McKay .

Refs have been taking liberties with us for too long now that must stop and we need the same level of respect as Utd under Fergie .otherwise Jose will be speaking out .

Is best to wait till the end of December to see if he has understand it. But he did really good in this game by adjusting to the opponent something Mourinho said.

"I think we identify well the qualities of our opponent, we cope well with the difficulties they could leave us, and after that the team was very solid."

See that's what I'm talking about. That's what a top coach, a top staff should suppose to see. I been saying it for quite a while that when we have very tough tackling, physical teams, smaller players like Mata tend to get lost.

This is what happened last season when we played West ham, we where on fire and as soon as they started pressing us with their aggressiveness our team fell apart.

But Mourinho was smart to put in Mikel to help with this side, something he also alluded to:

"I tried to bring some stability to the midfield by playing Mikel. I think Frank was happy with that as it gave him more freedom."

Still the midfield problem is something everyone and their mama knew about before coming to the new season. So it was weird that Mourinho did not chose to address this before the season started.

It will be interesting if for Mourinho, Mikel will be the solution to all his problems or he will need to do something this January.

It was a good game but it seems consistency is not our thing yet. Cause we might look brilliant one game and total dog shit the next. So let's net get carried away yet.

[Phil Driver 503]

I think you will find we will be making changes in January . A centre forward and a DM are at the top of our list .

[Fernando 6,451]

I think you will find we will be making changes in January . A centre forward and a DM are at the top of our list .

A center forward?

When we have Lukaku banging them in for fun?

Does not makes sense.

When is this club going to stand up and gamble on youth?

[bushman 2,043]

Jose was hired to mold the team into winners. Personally, I was jumping with joy to see him on board.

However, are we entitled to question some of his moves ? I believe, we are.

Regardless, who stays or goes, we still need to wait & see for the end of January, where Chelsea are under his guidance.

Perhaps, we will be very surprise to see Chelsea rolling along & playing some fine football games, I hope.

As of now, it´s still too early to judge, I feel. As long as, the team stays close to the top, everything is just fine, in my view.

[Tomo 21,733]

Hopefully we return to 4-3-3 for good (well immediate future at least) this time, yes that will probably mean 2 AM's will make way and almost certainly 1, but the club comes first and it's what's best for Chelsea going forward and for me that's 4-3-3.

[The_Flash 1,144]

I just saw him say that on the news I fu***** love Jose