The Mourinho Thread

[Fernando 6,585]

So if cavani, ibra and Falcao are imposible who's left?

Costa? I'm not really sold on the guy.

I think mourinho and Chelsea will still be with out a great striker come new season.

[Hamon 103]

Ba is a momentum player, he will deliver a decent return if given a run off games and responsibility, he has never got that here.

Lukaku barely played for us, Sturridge had a decent record for us actually.

Torres was on the wane under Woy before he even got here and Eto'o's not scoring like he use to for the same reason Drogba didn't post double.

Exactly.

[kellzfresh 7,229]

So if cavani, ibra and Falcao are imposible who's left?

I think mourinho and Chelsea will still be with out a great striker come new season.

That'll be terrible. Can't imagine that happening. If that case occurs, then we'll have to go all out sell more players and raise 80mil for suarez at all costs.

[BleedsBlue 1,549]

Jose says Ibra won't leave PSG so maybe there is a chance of Cavani signing for us.

[duo11bluecl 207]

Apparently he said Eto'o is possibly 35 years old and that he will eventually manage Monaco at the end of his career to prepare for retirement. He also said Falcao needs a team and we need a striker.

Now the Eto'o part is interesting, always make me think twice about signing African players now. It is really hard to spot whether they are their age or lying about it. Then there is the story about that Lazio player who is apparently 17 but looks like 41.

[HD3D 1,038]

So if cavani, ibra and Falcao are imposible who's left?

Costa? I'm not really sold on the guy.

I think mourinho and Chelsea will still be with out a great striker come new season.

Cavani and Falcao both want out. PSG and Monaco are both rich clubs but if the player requests an exit, they will have to listen to offers.

I think Chelsea can get both of them. The only problem is that I think we'll have to overpay if we want to.

[duo11bluecl 207]

Cavani and Falcao both want out. PSG and Monaco are both rich clubs but if the player requests an exit, they will have to listen to offers.

I think Chelsea can get both of them. The only problem is that I think we'll have to overpay if we want to.

Well 60m for Cavani is pretty much a must if we want to get him, but essentially we will pay him nothing if we allow Cole to leaves.

[Fernando 6,585]

Cavani and Falcao both want out. PSG and Monaco are both rich clubs but if the player requests an exit, they will have to listen to offers.

I think Chelsea can get both of them. The only problem is that I think we'll have to overpay if we want to.

Not sure about cavani but Falcao yes. Mónaco is not a team for a player at his peak. More like to go collect a check and play in a nice place.

So I would think Falcao want out.

But last time we bought a player after a major injury... Well you can still see him in our team sucking ass. Not even mourinho was able to work his magic.

[duo11bluecl 207]

Strikers who came back even better after injury: RVP, Costa(believe it or not he was out for like 9 months before his great season at Atletico last year), Higuain(he was out for sometime at 1 point a few years ago)

Strikers who got worse with injuries(well some still play well but never the same): Rooney after that injury in 09-10 season, Torres, Millito

So there are case for strikers to still be able to do well after injury, just have to look at RVP who had 2 amazing seasons last 2 years after so many injuries. Or we can look at Torres who is destroying the souls of every Chelsea fans.

I don't think we should take that risk on Falcao

[kellzfresh 7,229]

Strikers who came back even better after injury: RVP, Costa(believe it or not he was out for like 9 months before his great season at Atletico last year), Higuain(he was out for sometime at 1 point a few years ago)

Strikers who got worse with injuries(well some still play well but never the same): Rooney after that injury in 09-10 season, Torres, Millito

So there are case for strikers to still be able to do well after injury, just have to look at RVP who had 2 amazing seasons last 2 years after so many injuries. Or we can look at Torres who is destroying the souls of every Chelsea fans.

I don't think we should take that risk on Falcao

ACL knee ligament injury is a different ball game to those other injuries.

It has a bad track record, torres a star in it obviously.

[HD3D 1,038]

Not sure about cavani but Falcao yes.

Cavani is second choice to Ibrahimovic at PSG. Not to mention he is often played out of his preferred position in order to add to Ibra's play. This is why there is speculation he wants to leave.

He is out of his habitat just as much as Falcao is because a striker of his caliber shouldn't be second choice to anyone.

[Las7 951]

"The problem at Chelsea is that we are missing a striker. I have one in [samuel] Eto'o but he is 32, possibly 35, who knows?", Mourinho joked

I love the man more by each passing day - LEGEND

[Gilvorak 3,734]

I would prefer Cavani to Falcao.

Falcao's career as a WC striker is all but over. Players hardly ever recover from a major injury in their late twenties.

Can't see why PSG would sell to us when they signed him only just last summer though.

[The Chels 2,502]

According to the Guardian (usually very reliable) the club has said that Mourinho 'was unaware he was being filmed' when he made the striker comments.

http://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/feb/24/jose-mourinho-remarks-chelsea-champions-league-galatasaray?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitterfeed

[Jase 43,479]

Jose Mourinho made Chelsea 'a winning machine', says Didier Drogba ahead of Champions League reunion

This is just ..

“When I over-reacted in the Barcelona game and I went to the disciplinary commission and they punished me he was helping me.

“He was very supportive. He spoke up for me. He sent me a message saying if I go to jail he will send me some oranges!”

[duo11bluecl 207]

I love the man more by each passing day - LEGEND

I agree top class manager but he just slammed his own players, how is that legend stuff? Not to say I disagree with you but what he did was wrong imo, if we are out of every competition and he knew they will leave(Eto'o, Ba) he should do that but not during the crucial period of the season.

[Las7 951]

I agree top class manager but he just slammed his own players, how is that legend stuff? Not to say I disagree with you but what he did was wrong imo, if we are out of every competition and he knew they will leave(Eto'o, Ba) he should do that but not during the crucial period of the season.

He made pretty much the same comments a few months ago, it's Eto'o; Ba and Torres's jobs to prove him wrong.

Besides his comment was tongue in cheek and its fairly obvious the only striker he somewhat rates out of the three is Eto'o

[Barbara 15,149]

According to the Guardian (usually very reliable) the club has said that Mourinho 'was unaware he was being filmed' when he made the striker comments.

http://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/feb/24/jose-mourinho-remarks-chelsea-champions-league-galatasaray?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitterfeed

they might be reliable, but the way they translated the quotes is weird. I didn't get the notion that Mourinho was questioning Eto'o's age rather than making a joke along the lines 32 or 35, same difference. Also he's never said we don't have Falcao. He's said we don't have a striker and Falcao doesn't have a team. So I think they're trying to make it a bit bigger than it was for the sake of making it a hit story or something.

To be honest, we don't need an absolute world class striker. Bayern proved it just last season that you don't need the very best striker in the world (although they do help a lot). We need a consistent, reliable guy that keeps scoring - especially if he manages to do it in important moments (few manage that). It's not the amount of goals, but the goals we need. That was something we had with Drogba. Look at his stats and he wasn't that big a scorer in most of his seasons here, still he scored some of the most important goals that led to titles. Benzema, Costa, Mandzukic, Higuain among others aren't world class or at least not as big as Cavani, Lewa, Falcao, Aguero, Suarez but they score decent amount of goals. I do think they aren't that great in big games, but I think any of those guys are decent enough to have us being favorites to the competitions we play. I'd rather have two guys like those, or maybe one of those guys and some guy like Lukaku (as we don't know yet if he's staying or leaving), than have one big name. Cavani, Falcao, Aguero, Sturridge all got injured this season, if we only have a big name and spend all our money in only one player, and they get an injury we're back at square one. With our AMs, our good headers in the team and hopefully us getting more dangerous in set-pieces, I think we're good in the attack department with any of those guys added to the squad. In a team where the star is a winger/cam (just like Messi and Ronaldo), the striker is just the supporting role that steals the scene sometimes, but just keeps working hard and scoring decently enough. I hate to keep crying on guy we let go and you rarely see me in ex-blues threads weeping about the talent we wasted, but Daniel was the one guy I wish we haven't sold. I don't get why we sold him at all (unless he put a request because he wasn't having as much play time as he wanted). We aren't a selling club, having two good strikers shouldn't be too much (and that's being nice to Torres). We need someone like Daniel. I'd love him to come back like Matic did, but there's no way Liverpool is allowing that... especially if they're back in the UCL which they fatally will with the gap between them and the rest below them.

[robdog 2,084]

they might be reliable, but the way they translated the quotes is weird. I didn't get the notion that Mourinho was questioning Eto'o's age rather than making a joke along the lines 32 or 35, same difference. Also he's never said we don't have Falcao. He's said we don't have a striker and Falcao doesn't have a team. So I think they're trying to make it a bit bigger than it was for the sake of making it a hit story or something.

To be honest, we don't need an absolute world class striker. Bayern proved it just last season that you don't need the very best striker in the world (although they do help a lot). We need a consistent, reliable guy that keeps scoring - especially if he manages to do it in important moments (few manage that). It's not the amount of goals, but the goals we need. That was something we had with Drogba. Look at his stats and he wasn't that big a scorer in most of his seasons here, still he scored some of the most important goals that led to titles. Benzema, Costa, Mandzukic, Higuain among others aren't world class or at least not as big as Cavani, Lewa, Falcao, Aguero, Suarez but they score decent amount of goals. I do think they aren't that great in big games, but I think any of those guys are decent enough to have us being favorites to the competitions we play. I'd rather have two guys like those, or maybe one of those guys and some guy like Lukaku (as we don't know yet if he's staying or leaving), than have one big name. Cavani, Falcao, Aguero, Sturridge all got injured this season, if we only have a big name and spend all our money in only one player, and they get an injury we're back at square one. With our AMs, our good headers in the team and hopefully us getting more dangerous in set-pieces, I think we're good in the attack department. In a team where the star is a winger/cam (just like Messi and Ronaldo), the striker is just the supporting role that steals the scene sometimes, but just keeps working hard and scoring decently enough. I hate to keep crying on guy we let go and you rarely see me in ex-blues threads weeping about the talent we wasted, but Daniel was the one guy I wish we haven't sold. I don't get why we sold him at all (unless he put a request because he wasn't having as much play time as he wanted). We aren't a selling club, having two good strikers shouldn't be too much (and that's being nice to Torres). We need someone like Daniel. I'd love him to come back like Matic did, but there's no way Liverpool is allowing that... especially if they're back in the UCL which they fatally will with the gap between them and the rest below them.

<sarcasm>I think if we move Branna or JT up top then we will be ok.</sarcasm>

Sorry I couldn't help myself, especially after these past two weeks it seems that our defenders score more goals than our forwards tend to do.

[The Chels 2,502]

they might be reliable, but the way they translated the quotes is weird. I didn't get the notion that Mourinho was questioning Eto'o's age rather than making a joke along the lines 32 or 35, same difference. Also he's never said we don't have Falcao. He's said we don't have a striker and Falcao doesn't have a team. So I think they're trying to make it a bit bigger than it was for the sake of making it a hit story or something.

I agree with what you say about not necessarily needing a world-class striker, but in fairness to the Guardian I do remember Mourinho saying: 'J'ai une équipe mais je n'ai pas Falcao...Falcao n'a pas une équipe' which they correctly translated. I think Canal have removed the video off their channel now(?) which would perhaps back up the paper's suggestion that Mourinho is angry about it and didn't know he was being filmed.