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Oya correct question for all Chelsea fans.

I commend those who have an opinion on why we this disaster persists. However, I am seeing a lot of people disagreeing with others without stating exactly what they think is wrong.

So folks, what exactly is wrong? Healthy debates please. No name calling. And please don't criticize others if you haven't made a contribution.

sephia:
Everyone is beginning to see Mourhino for what he is. Arrogant, proud, petty and stubborn.
Top 4 would be a miracle.

In the midst of all the fights, we failed to realised that BlueDiva made an appearance.

lordfalcao:
Nuer tops my list for Now in europe, He covers most of boateng's errors


De gea and courtois- this two are just good in using every parts of there body in denying strikers . Nose eyes leg, even there d! Ck

Mate, please help keep the thread clean. Do not mention Boateng and Errors in the same abeg.

SailorXY:
if you were serious to "chance" the deal, you should've offered more money than what was on the table. It's as simple as stripping bananas - forget all these water color fronting.

I am trying really hard to understand the reason for your post. I still don't get it.

So apparently Chelsea offered £64m for Pogba, Juventus accepted the bid, JM called Pogba personally to convince him (Paul) to join Chelsea but Pogba rejected the move because of disagreement on personal terms. Jose wanted the board to convince Pogba but the deal could not get done. In that time, Mikel's deal to Turkey was on the cards. JM was not convinced that the Pogba deal could still be done and he blocked the Mikel deal.

Also, Chelsea apparently attempted to steal the Martial deal just before deadline and matched the £36m Manchester United paid for him.


My point is, as opposed to what many of us think, the board actually attempted to back Jose to the tune of £110m (including John Stones); that the board was not complacent and realised the need to upgrade the team even after the EPL title. It was Jose who had up to £110m to spend in the market but identified only two targets and a crocked Radamel Falcao.

DD still reporting for duty even in old age.

timbros:
He was born in England, yes but he has represented Jamaica in senior level. So he is Jamaican.

What Lalaboi is trying to tell you is that despite having represented Jamaica, Hector is in fact, classed as "home-grown". Right now we lack home grown players.

Now whether Hector is the player we should go after in the name is "home-grown class" is another debate. If you ask me, I think not.

Bimfo. RLC
Ruben Loftus Cheek.

Nihilist:
Went past the battersea power station and the've already cut down one of the chimney stacks.

What was all the talk about ' it must look exactly as it was' for then?

Perhaps they detected structural weaknesses in them and they cut them down to commence restoration work. I will be surprised to see it not "look exactly as it was". Less prestigious buildings have their Grade Listing protected.

I haven't gone past that area in a while though. I avoid that place like a plague. The bike lane highway construction along Embankment ehn? Serious traffic.

So na so so defender we dey sign. I hope everyone will agree now that either JM does not see midfield and RB as priority signings or he does and wants to splash on the world's priciest players. If we could find a couple of defenders for less than £7m, I don't see why we cannot find mid-fielders for cheap. Cabaye, Sissoko, Song, Mcarthy are all better deep midfield options than Mikel, Ramires and Fabregas.

Me sef don activate siddon look mode. Watching how we struggle game after game, to contain a strong opposition midfield and how we go game after game, with only one shot on goal in the first half.

Iranu.

donjazet:
For those calling for injection of youth into the team. This is not the time for that!!! We are 8 points behind the leaders you're here talking about fielding untested players at this point in time. Nateevs be careful ooooo we really need to enter the market now!!!!. Mou ejoo.

chelseabmw:

Well said my broda ...... We got some set of funny humans here

So what both of you could pick from what I said is that we need to inject unproven youth to claw back the gap. Seriously?
Guys, please re-read what I posted before jumping to conclusions. Next time, I may not be in a good mood.

Greatihex:
The problem i hv wt sum chelsea fans on dis forum is the way they forget so easily like the israelites. These guys played dia best last season and won us the league losing only twice prior to securing d title and all of a sudden now, u guys no longer believe in dia talents and ability.
One tin we shld undastd is that you cannot always win. This is the premier league wia anytin is possible. I still have faith that we wl retain dis title. Relax guys, the chelsea u knw wl return, the chelsea dat shld nt be underestimated. My beloveth club that always spring up surprises wen no believe in them. That is the reason i love d club so much. One tin is sure, "we will be back to winning ways"

What you are failing to take into account is that while we were "winning" last season, some of us were quick to point out the papering over the cracks. The true state of events was that we were only grinding out results. Some of us were quick to say that JM was heading down a very dangerous path, encouraging a system of untouchables AGAIN and playing a first 11 into the ground.

He plays with a small squad and keeps only a few fringe players as back up because he is afraid to experiment. His cautious methods are very successful, no doubt but I have never been shy to point out the potential huge flaws to his methods.

You see, Jose's methods are very effective but only for the first two seasons at any club. If Jose has to stay longer at than 3 seasons at any club and he doesn't spend hugely, the flaws in his methods will be exposed on a grand scale.

Jose plays only a few players into the ground season after season. Jose ignores the injection of healthy competition. Jose does not build a dynasty when he doesn't introduce young players in the unnecessary games. Jose is afraid to experiment. He picks one way of winning and sticks with it. If that method is found out, as it has been now, he will struggle.

That horrible form carried on into the pre-season. I remember stating my displeasure at our play and especially method of attack and predicted that we will have problems this season.

Conclusions drawn from pre-season games are mostly useless. One conclusion is true though; we are going to struggle in Europe this season again.

The same problems exist. We have no midfield and this is actually all our first choice midfielders playing.

The transition of play through the middle is non-existent. Our forward play comes only through the wings and only through Hazard on the wing. Once Hazard is marked out, our attack is dead.

Barely four games in and the cracks have appeared seriously. You only needed to have seen the games.




Granted, there are management induced problems Jose has to contend with. There are many other problems that are predominantly Jose induced. Sold Bertrand and bought Filipe Luis. Failed to play Luis. Sold him back. Now he's gone out and bought Rahman yet still plays with Azpi at LB. Why? Why would a top European team, for 3 seasons, insist on playing football without an attacking left back, constantly leaving Hazard alone to do it all by himself? . Why so conservative?

Last season, he was telling the press, "My Ramires is back" Ramires?

Persists with Iva at RB when people like Ibime and I have been shouting for a better part of 3 seasons how much of a liability Iva is.

He will never play a young player in the League for 90 mins. My point - if RLC is not good enough to play alongside other good Chelsea players, against Watford, then screw it. Close down the academy and send all the boys to other teams who need them. This will normally be the side JM leans on; Oh! I don't want to give up a possible 3 points from a mistake by a young player.

However in stark contrast to this belief, Chelsea trailing 1-2 to Crystal Palace, he throws in RLC and Kennedy to salvage a point. It doesn't make any sense. How does he expect them to salvage anything? Especially when you didn't give these players 90 mins in preseason, didn't pick any of them for the community shield, wouldn't give them game time against the weak teams in the league. All of a sudden he wants them to be heroes.

It's a classic case of someone who only becomes inventive when their back is against the wall. Example, when all defenders were out and he had to rely on Tomas Kalas for 90 mins against top flying Liverpool. The boy gave a wonderful account of himself and almost scored a wonderful goal on his league debut. Where's Kalas now?

If he groomed Kalas with 60 mins here and 45 mins there, surely we won't be begging Everton with £40m for an average John Stones. If Nathan Ake had been allowed 30 mins here and there, surely we will have enough depth to prevent a possible shell out of £70m on Pogba.


In fact make I just stop, I have 3 seasons worth of complaints. I no get time.

Walahi RLC and Kennedy are practically carrying everyone on.

WTF?

Classic Falcao 5h1t. Brought back from the dead.

Falcaoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

How was that not 0-2? We were lucky there.

Now he is going 2 strikers when we are on the back foot. Even I could see this game was calling for 2 strikers. Get in there, get the points and seal the game.

raumdeuter:
[size=14pt]terry is out and chelsea defence looks decent[/size]

Argument of a troll.
0-1

City 2 up.

Now this is one of those games where I strongly believe we can play with a twin-striker presence. Just to create presence in the box.

Willian who doesn't score is shooting from distance when tall guys are lining up in the box.

FBS:
Iva don suffer and me no get why JM dey play the guy. That's the weakest link in the team and opponents are taking full advantage of this.

Tell me about it bro. And Rahman is not playing again. I hope Jose has not found himself in another No 3 trust issue.

Kennedy and RLC on the bench. Interesting.

AirborneLacer:
Seems like the idea is to keep Kennedy and cash on Moses.

Do you have any idea of how our 25-man list for the season looks like?

With the Ins and Outs, I really don't know what we look like

I usually do it every year at about this time. The squad set-up; especially as it concerns HG, Association Trained and Foreign Players. But I haven't had the time this year.

I am not sure about Kennedy and/or Moses but based on the number I last run, Moses, Kennedy and Traore can't all be in the squad.
So you are probably right about Moses leaving. One of them will surely go.
To be honest, I cannot understand why Moses came back at all.

Debroslink:
It's normal to you when that babe hyped man city, but was abnormal to you when I hyped Sevilla. It's a free world Bro. Free me

It felt normal to me when the babe hyped Man City because everyone is allowed at least a moment of hyping. What is abnormal to me is a grown man who spends all his time talking about how one thing is better than the other.

No other constructive suggestions or positive contributions; except ghastly cantankerous drivel time after time, every single day.

Jeez!

Anyone else surprised Kennedy has not gone on loan?

Debroslink:
Alice in Wonderland tales. Wake up and smell the coffee. All Spanish teams will qualify including Sevilla in Group D at the expense of Man City.

Why are you like this? Is it not possible for you to engage in a conversation about football without discussing superiority and inferiority. Why are you so obsessed with who is better at what?

SeverusSnape:
Are you really asking this question
Is Nigeria made up of only the north?

Bros, please go and sleep.

I am asking the question. What does it matter if the appointees do their jobs effectively? You cannot seem to rise beyond North and South. That's your biggest problem and that my friend is bigotry. Essentially what you are trying to make the whole world believe Buhari is.

How can you not see this?

SeverusSnape:
You're just trying to save face.

I've known Buhari to be a stupid_ and bigoted goat, So I don't even expect anything from him, In fact, I'm happy about these appointments. But the waste who voted him-Tinubu, how far?

By the way, you sound like a schizophrenic patient.

So why are you seen posting thousands of messages about someone you don't care about?

SeverusSnape:
LouisVanGaal

Please answer this salient question.

And shut the Fvck up if you have no tangible explanation.

If I may answer, I will say I do not know. Then I will follow up by asking another question, why is it important that he appoints a Southerner at this time?

Reference:
I see. So if the President is from Auchi and appoints 100 Adams Oshybabs into his cabinet, fulani man will nod at this your postulation.....hmmm.... okay oh.

So what's your point? Continue the bigotry because someone wouldn't stop it? How do you guys look yourselves in the face and call others ethnic bigots? ?