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I would love suarez here, .00001% of it happening though. We should have broke the bank for Lewa when we had the chance.

Agreed, there was a time we could have had Tevez as well, and Ruud as well come to that. Hindsight is wonderful

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What the heck?

Last season he was saying we will be title challengers from the go, and now he's changing his tune?

Hmmmmm

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Hopefully he's just waiting until we've made all of our signings before he starts talking about a title challenge.

Not exactly what you want to hear as a supporter, is it?

Knowing Mourinho, you shouldn't trust what he says in the public. Behind doors, am sure he's thinking of the opposite when it comes to things like this.

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Knowing Mourinho, you shouldn't trust what he says in the public. Behind doors, am sure he's thinking of the opposite when it comes to things like this.

Yep.

I completely agree with his point about the league being even tougher this season but in my opinion finishing any lower than 2nd and by any more than 3-4 points behind the champion is a failure.

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He knows we are still , even with the potential signing of Costa,Luis and Fabregas, below Man city in terms of quality. when people say things like "things will make Chelsea title favourites for next season now" I can't help but just laugh hysterically.

If Mancity buys one or two top quality defenders it wouldn't even be up for debate at all. It's their rather shaky defence owing to Kompany's decline and Nastasic injury record and Aguero's injury problems that makes the gap look closer than it should be in reality.

Toure,Silva,Fernandinho,Aguero,Zabaletta, Nasri and kompany (when on form, he's one of best defenders in Europe) are as good as it gets in terms of starting 11 quality goes and they still have players like Dzeko,Negredo,Sagna,Milner on the bench. I still have city down as fabourites for next season and barring another injury ravaged season for aguero, Kompany having another subpar season and Yaya Toure possibly leaving or causing dressing room unrest, they should walk the league.

However football isn't played on paper and that's why we have a chance to win the league next season.

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Yep.

I completely agree with his point about the league being even tougher this season but in my opinion finishing any lower than 2nd and by any more than 3-4 points behind the champion is a failure.

If you don't win the title, does it really matter if you finish 2nd?

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If you don't win the title, does it really matter if you finish 2nd?

Well yeah, it sort of does in my opinion. Finishing 3rd for 3 consecutive seasons would show stagnation. That we have enough to compete for the title but don't have enough to win it.

To finish 2nd, at least psychologically, you could reason that we made improvement. If we don't win the title but finish 2nd, win the FA Cup and make it at least as far as we did in the CL last season then I wouldn't be THAT upset.

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He knows we are still , even with the potential signing of Costa,Luis and Fabregas, below Man city in terms of quality. when people say things like "things will make Chelsea title favourites for next season now" I can't help but just laugh hysterically.

If Mancity buys one or two top quality defenders it wouldn't even be up for debate at all. It's their rather shaky defence owing to Kompany's decline and Nastasic injury record and Aguero's injury problems that makes the gap look closer than it should be in reality.

Toure,Silva,Fernandinho,Aguero,Zabaletta, Nasri and kompany (when on form, he's one of best defenders in Europe) are as good as it gets in terms of starting 11 quality goes and they still have players like Dzeko,Negredo,Sagna,Milner on the bench. I still have city down as fabourites for next season and barring another injury ravaged season for aguero, Kompany having another subpar season and Yaya Toure possibly leaving or causing dressing room unrest, they should walk the league.

However football isn't played on paper and that's why we have a chance to win the league next season.

So City sort out their weaknesses they walk the league, we do the same and we still have a way to go? Despite the massive 4 point gap last season.

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I think this is to avoid pressure.

Chelsea next season will be a lot better, and I don't think any team can improve as much as us. City already had a great team (but next season 1 year older, and they are not kids anymore), Liverpool and Arsenal don't have the money to do a super team, and Man United... is a surprise they obviously will do a lot better but they were mediocre last season.

Man City is the rival but right now they have problems with the best player (Yaya), Aguero has a lot of injuries, and they have the finantial fair play problem also. I think we will start the season as the first favourites.

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He knows we are still , even with the potential signing of Costa,Luis and Fabregas, below Man city in terms of quality. when people say things like "things will make Chelsea title favourites for next season now" I can't help but just laugh hysterically.

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If Mancity buys one or two top quality defenders it wouldn't even be up for debate at all. It's their rather shaky defence owing to Kompany's decline and Nastasic injury record and Aguero's injury problems that makes the gap look closer than it should be in reality.

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Toure,Silva,Fernandinho,Aguero,Zabaletta, Nasri and kompany (when on form, he's one of best defenders in Europe) are as good as it gets in terms of starting 11 quality goes and they still have players like Dzeko,Negredo,Sagna,Milner on the bench. I still have city down as fabourites for next season and barring another injury ravaged season for aguero, Kompany having another subpar season and Yaya Toure possibly leaving or causing dressing room unrest, they should walk the league.

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However football isn't played on paper and that's why we have a chance to win the league next season.

From player for player

Cech.

Iva-terry-cahil-luis

Matic-fabrepas

Willian-oscar-hazard

Costa

Hart

Zaba-kompan-nastas-clichy

Fernadinho-toure

Nasri/navas - negredo - silva

Aguero.

Not that much in quality between the two teams imo. It was wide last season, but not now. Our better manager should tip the scales in our favor

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So City sort out their weaknesses they walk the league, we do the same and we still have a way to go? Despite the massive 4 point gap last season.

I'm saying one of the reason the gap was narrow last season was because of injuries to key players and their captain having a subpar season (And it's very unlikely that lightening will strike twice again)

They were much better than us last season overall both on paper and on the field. Fabregas, Costa and Luis are not enough to bridge the gap.

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From player for player

Cech.

Iva-terry-cahil-luis

Matic-fabrepas

Willian-oscar-hazard

Costa

Hart

Zaba-kompan-nastas-clichy

Fernadinho-toure

Nasri/navas - negredo - silva

Aguero.

Not that much in quality between the two teams imo. It was wide last season, but not now. Our better manager should tip the scales in our favor

I disagree

Toure is the best CM in the league, Silva is far and away the best playmaker in the league, Aguero is alongside Suarez the best striker in the league and Kompany (excluding last season) was the best defender in the league and Fernandinho is an absolute beast who has hit the ground running, at worse on par with Matic and a case could be made for Zabaletta being the best right back in the league. The quality in the starting 11 is ridiculous.

They strengthen their defence and play anything close to their maximum potential and they would walk the league.

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