The Mourinho Thread

[Styles 9,790]

Jose doing all this theatrical is fine by me, but the players are not the only ones qe should be 'blamming'... Jose was piss poor yesterday and that loss is also 'on him'.

Strange comments after the game. The team needs more balls? What? Nonsensical. That in no way describes what happened yesterday. And obviously most supporters buy that and think a lack of balls is the problem.

The team only really knows how to counter-attack and not much else. In almost every game we need to take the initiative and break teams down we struggle to create and rely on Hazard to make something happen.

[Fernando 6,453]

Strange comments after the game. The team needs more balls? What? Nonsensical. That in no way describes what happened yesterday. And obviously most supporters buy that and think a lack of balls is the problem.

The team only really knows how to counter-attack and not much else. In almost every game we need to take the initiative and break teams down we struggle to create and rely on Hazard to make something happen.

Well I would go as far as saying the team has no balls, it's a reflection of what Mourinho has been saying.

When your manager says your not title favorite, does it inspired confidence?

No!

And if it was mind game from Mourinho then it back fire drastically on him.

[xPetrCechx 13,563]

Chelsea = Counter Attacks.

We just can't Initiate... break average defence...

[dee25 1,044]

Well I would go as far as saying the team has no balls, it's a reflection of what Mourinho has been saying.

When your manager says your not title favorite, does it inspired confidence?

No!

And if it was mind game from Mourinho then it back fire drastically on him.

Was it mind games though?

I think he was just being honest. The team is not strong enough to be called title favorites, there's no point in Mourinho pretending that we are. Doing so would only raise false hope among the fans.

[Fernando 6,453]

Was it mind games though?

I think he was just being honest. The team is not strong enough to be called title favorites, there's no point in Mourinho pretending that we are. Doing so would only raise false hope among the fans.

Alright then, people then should not be shocked.

We are not good enough and that's what Mourinho has been saying, it was never mind games.

[darrus 422]

When your manager says your not title favorite, does it inspired confidence?

No!

And if it was mind game from Mourinho then it back fire drastically on him.

Sorry, there are things Mourinho should be blamed for, but this one is ridiculous.

I would have gotten that logic if we lost to any of the big teams showing resignation, some sort of Arsenal match reversed.

But we played Chrystal Palace, for God's sake.

And these games are not confidence, these games are about doing your job. And there was a number of players who failed to perform. End of.

It's easy to qualify everything Mourinho says as mind games or trolling, the problem is - most time he is simply telling it as it is. This team, with this sort of attitude and severe lack of players for at least 2 key positions and with no strikers at all is not winning anything this season without a big slice of luck. But is still in with the chance.

[bushman 2,043]

Never mind whether the team is strong enough to win the PL. Jose does not need to broadcast it in the media, does he?

To blame Jose for yesterday´s loss, only an idiot may post that. The team was not there mentally, that´s all.

Most likely, their minds were set in Paris. Perhaps, we may be pleasantly surprised on Wednesday.

[Rmpr 8,977]

Lol the fact that Torres missed opportunities is Jose's fault? The team he played yesterday should have destroyed Palace. Non of the players pulled their weight, simple.

Everybody was horrible in yesterday's game, including Mourinho!

The fact Torres missed all these opportunities was also Jose's fault because he was the one who selected him. It is funny how when we win Jose is God, but when we lose it's all because of the players...

Dont get me wrong, I love Mourinho and I am absolutely amazed he returned. But when he has a bad match, we have to acknowledge!

[darrus 422]

The fact Torres missed all these opportunities was also Jose's fault because he was the one who selected him.

You seriously think Ba would have done better?

Two other striker options - Torres and Schurrle - were playing... Oh wait. Ba too was playing.

Though maybe playing with no striker at all is preferable to having Torres on the pitch. And I'm serious here.

[Tomo 21,733]

God if we don't win anything this season the tedious "well Rafa won the EL post's" will be cringeworthy.

[Polo7 3,496]

Everybody was horrible in yesterday's game, including Mourinho!

The fact Torres missed all these opportunities was also Jose's fault because he was the one who selected him. It is funny how when we win Jose is God, but when we lose it's all because of the players...

Dont get me wrong, I love Mourinho and I am absolutely amazed he returned. But when he has a bad match, we have to acknowledge!

And if he dropped Torres and Ba had a bad game you would be on here again slating Mourinho because he didnt play Torres (especially after he had a decent game against Arsenal). Crystal Palace are awful, even our reserves should beat them.

[The Skipper 20,593]

I have said from the start that I don't mind if we win the title or not but if we isolate this game on it's own, some blame has to go to Mou for the way we set up our team. You have to expect this sort of performance when there is still no patterns in our attacking play against teams that sit deep against you, it's always been my only problem with Mourinho's approach especially against the smaller teams.

You can't keep relying on the individual brilliance of Hazard to bail you out in these sort of games.

[duo11bluecl 207]

God if we don't win anything this season the tedious "well Rafa won the EL post's" will be cringeworthy.

But it is a fact... at least Jose should have got us Capital One or FA Cup.

[Tomo 21,733]

But it is a fact... at least Jose should have got us Capital One or FA Cup.

It is, but we will see that used a lot as reasoning that Rafa did a better job, which just won't be true.

Regardless of what happens now, Jose has done better than Rafa.

[duo11bluecl 207]

It is, but we will see that used a lot as reasoning that Rafa did a better job, which just won't be true.

Regardless of what happens now, Jose has done better than Rafa.

No one is saying that, remember throwing 2 goals in last 2 mins against Reading or lost at home to QPR, that were just terrible. The 2nd part is debatable as well, in term of head to head against top teams yh probably. But we haven't actually not anywhere yet so nothing solid(trophy...etc) to back it up.

[BloodIsBlue 291]

I feel way happier just being involved in the tightest premier league race in ages than winning the Europa league. If we were something like 15 points off the top and City, Liverpool and Arsenal were going at it for the title it would suck. Europa league is about as satisfying as stepping in gum, it was awesome in the moment but in hindsight it's not so glamorous.

[The only place to be 11,313]

Strange comments after the game. The team needs more balls? What? Nonsensical. That in no way describes what happened yesterday. And obviously most supporters buy that and think a lack of balls is the problem.

The team only really knows how to counter-attack and not much else. In almost every game we need to take the initiative and break teams down we struggle to create and rely on Hazard to make something happen.

Guts. Grit. Whatever synonym you want to use for balls. That's what we needed.

I'm also a little tired of this notion that we can only counter-attack. It's utter twaddle used to paint Mourinho as a one-dimensional coach. The fact that you contradict yourself almost immediately by saying that we have to rely on Hazard to make something happen indicates just how hollow a notion that is.

We don't just hit teams on the counter. We press them into mistakes and we do have the ability to create chances in second and third-phase situations but all that is hampered right now by the lack of an effective striker.

I have said from the start that I don't mind if we win the title or not but if we isolate this game on it's own, some blame has to go to Mou for the way we set up our team. You have to expect this sort of performance when there is still no patterns in our attacking play against teams that sit deep against you, it's always been my only problem with Mourinho's approach especially against the smaller teams.

You can't keep relying on the individual brilliance of Hazard to bail you out in these sort of games.

The movement from the striker yesterday wasn't good enough, but that's been the case with Torres for years now? The idea that there's no pattern to our attacking play is simply wrong though.

[Joe Cool 388]

Jose can play down our expectations all he wants, but the fact that we appear to be so horrendously flaccid in the final third at times with all the flair players that we have, striker or no striker, is incredibly disappointing. With the amount of investment that has gone into the squad these past two summers, there is no reason why we should not be able to break down the teams that sit in the bottom half of the table.