The Mourinho Thread

[MrExcalibur100 7,124]

I think I finally understand Mourinho's thinking behind starting Azpiliceuta at RW. Oscar was apparently injured, so he decided that instead of starting Schurrle, he was going to use him as an impact sub because of his pace and also because he played the full 90 mins vs Liverpool. Add to the fact that Salah was cup-tied and that we were always going to play a 4-2-3-1 and not a 4-3-3 because of a shortage of bodies in the pivot position, we only had 3 realistic options to play behind the striker. Hazard, Willian and Schurrle.

So it was more of a shortage of options than anything. But when was Oscar allegedly injured? The day before the match, because it was never spoken about in any presser.

[bushman 2,043]

Even Atsu has been linked to ridicule Jose's parking the bus. Will this banter ever be stopped? I don't think so.

What have you done Jose?

[Special Juan 28,100]

Is Jose the enemy again now?

[darrus 422]

Anyone knows if this guy has any sort of credibility?

https://twitter.com/fizzyjacko

That is some scary twitter rumors...

[xPetrCechx 13,570]

Chelsea's Rui Farai banned 6 matches by the FA over ''cheat'' attack on referee Mike Dean

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/chelseas-rui-farai-banned-6-3484448#ixzz30UwAc7fl

[Special Juan 28,100]

Doesn't exist, like his silly tweets.

[Eidur the Spider 4,515]

ROB ‏@1RobBeasley 2 hrs

Omg massive news about Jose coming up later!!!

[MrBlueGuy 1,552]

ROB ‏@1RobBeasley 2 hrs

Omg massive news about Jose coming up later!!!

That he will be without his assistance Rui for the next 6 matches

[Special Juan 28,100]

You lot need to come away from Twitter.

[Tomo 21,751]

We didn't play better football last season, that is a myth mainly created by Rafa lovers and there agendas.

Robbie tried to change the style we played and the end result was a catastrophic nose dive that saw us win twice in 9 games prior to his sacking (a run that was extended to 2 in 12 after Benny's horror start) and one off them was against United's B team/youth after extra time.

The football we play just has to be better really. How do you explain the fact that we played better football last season with less resources? The line-up yesterday was quite frankly ridiculous. Jose seems more concerned with not losing than winning and it shows.

Our general build-up play when we play against lesser teams we are expected to play has been appalling for most of the season, tbh. There is simply zero fluency and we have been relying far too much on the individual brilliance of Hazard. How do you explain the fact that teams like Everton and Liverpool play much better football than us. Look at the flair/ball-playing players we have : Hazard, Willian, Oscar, Schurrle, Salah, Matic. Most teams in the league will die for those players. This is why Roman has signed these type of players for Chelsea. To play good football, not to play with Azpilicueta at right wing. That's a joke and a slap in the face to Schurrle and Oscar and to our so-called "evolution".

Taking sentiment out of it, the fact is that through out his career, Jose has never built a team that plays expansive possession based attacking football. It's almost always counter-attacking football. Now this is all fine and dandy when you are winning stuff, but when the trophies stop coming, people will get bored very quickly. Jose said we should judge him by what he will do in his second coming and that is what I'm going to do.

The excuse of having the "physical" and less "technical" players like Drogba, Essien, Ballack, Malouda and so on no longer holds water. The job of a Chelsea manager, and any manager at a big club is to win trophies and play attractive football. We have taking massive strides in the former which is brilliant, but we have failed woefully in the latter. And that could soon become a problem for Roman and that is what I fear.

[Tomo 21,751]

We didn't play better football last season, that is a myth mainly created by Rafa lovers and there agendas.

Robbie tried to change the style we played and the end result was a catastrophic nose dive that saw us win twice in 9 games prior to his sacking (a run that was extended to 2 in 12 after Benny's horror start) and one off them was against United's B team/youth after extra time.

Half my post got deleted here god knows what happened.

[Blue Armour 4,436]

http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/football/27242327

[Blue Armour 4,436]

And this is Rob Beasley's latest:

1. ROB ‏@1RobBeasley 4h

   Diego Costa will sign for #cfc in the summer

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2. ROB ‏@1RobBeasley 4h

   Jose's done the deal!!!!!!

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[Blue Armour 4,436]

So please stop panicking

[kellzfresh 7,229]

Good post. Carlo sacking is still one that makes me angry. Crazy to sack him, we did the double breaking the record for most goals in the Premiership, If it wasn't for a Jose masterclass at the Bridge, We probably would have won the Champions League. Now at Real he's doing to Di Maria what he did to Malouda. He needed to be given the money AVB got to bring in a few new players for us.

It was the sacking that pained me the most after mourinho. We played our best football in 10 years and we sacked him, I almost cried hearing that news