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Chelsea have been dire so far. I thought they would be title contenders but they look very poor everytime I see them. They have got loads of results due to fluke goals or refereeing decisions. Many of their key goals have come from set-pieces as well, which is surprising.

I have a feeling mourinho wanted the rag job and didn't get it and is now doing a half-hearted job for Chelsea so far. He has tried to piss of Chelsea's best player and best striker as well. I think he is waiting for Gollum's sacking and will jump on the rag job after that.

half-hearted job, fluid football or not but just watch, mourinho's chelsea will be up there or thereabouts come may. just like they are right now.

can't believe he loaned out Lukaku though. or his refusal to play Mata. but doing OK stuff so far imo

Pretty much the opposite of Typical Mourinho, non?

LookMumImOnMCF.net wrote:Pretty much the opposite of Typical Mourinho, non?

Atypical Mourinho then?

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LookMumImOnMCF.net wrote:Pretty much the opposite of Typical Mourinho, non?

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Clowncrete wrote:Chelsea have been dire so far. I thought they would be title contenders but they look very poor everytime I see them. They have got loads of results due to fluke goals or refereeing decisions. Many of their key goals have come from set-pieces as well, which is surprising.

I have a feeling mourinho wanted the rag job and didn't get it and is now doing a half-hearted job for Chelsea so far. He has tried to piss of Chelsea's best player and best striker as well. I think he is waiting for Gollum's sacking and will jump on the rag job after that.

Part of me thinks that the Mourinho/AVB tactics have been found out for the past few years or so. Football is constantly evolving, yet both of them have stuck with the same ol' thing. Pellegrini has a philosophy but is willing to line up players in many different way to find that philosophy. Maybe Mourinho's philosophy is too narrow to adapt to the changing times.

And probably a big part of it is what you said; he's just stopped putting in the hard work to adapt. It seems the constant harassment that he got at Madrid broke him a bit.

bigblue wrote:

Clowncrete wrote:Chelsea have been dire so far. I thought they would be title contenders but they look very poor everytime I see them. They have got loads of results due to fluke goals or refereeing decisions. Many of their key goals have come from set-pieces as well, which is surprising.

I have a feeling mourinho wanted the rag job and didn't get it and is now doing a half-hearted job for Chelsea so far. He has tried to piss of Chelsea's best player and best striker as well. I think he is waiting for Gollum's sacking and will jump on the rag job after that.

Part of me thinks that the Mourinho/AVB tactics have been found out for the past few years or so. Football is constantly evolving, yet both of them have stuck with the same ol' thing. Pellegrini has a philosophy but is willing to line up players in many different way to find that philosophy. Maybe Mourinho's philosophy is too narrow to adapt to the changing times.

And probably a big part of it is what you said; he's just stopped putting in the hard work to adapt. It seems the constant harassment that he got at Madrid broke him a bit.

you can add moyes to that list

defensive football is dead...?

Clowncrete wrote:[highlight]Chelsea have been dire so far. I thought they would be title contenders but they look very poor everytime I see them.[/highlight] They have got loads of results due to fluke goals or refereeing decisions. Many of their key goals have come from set-pieces as well, which is surprising.

I have a feeling mourinho wanted the rag job and didn't get it and is now doing a half-hearted job for Chelsea so far. He has tried to piss of Chelsea's best player and best striker as well. I think he is waiting for Gollum's sacking and will jump on the rag job after that.

Well however you want to describe their performances they are title contenders at this moment in time - have you looked at the table recently?

Does anybody still crave this cunts services? Who'd he blame this time!

Chelsea look a lot like us last season under Mancini. Scraping victories, but in a very uninspiring way.

The problem with the likes of Maureen and AVB is that they can inspire the players all they want but they haven't got the inspiration of experience to fall-back on.

Players have now moved on and Maureen is no longer seen as a the top dog, they are, or at least they think they are. I think that team should be showing far more than they have and even a manager like Moyes would get more out of them; Martinez would have them playing beautiful stuff.

I really don't understand it, Chelsea have been crying out for an overhaul at the back and it's never happened, like the Rags in midfield or West Ham upfront

I've said it before, the guy's a broken record - still the same shite he sprouts out like he did last time he was there, got called out on his shit by the Italian and Spanish press and he didn't like it - the gormless English press just lap him up and butter up to him hoping for some half decent print that he already hasn't muttered 5 times before! And while i'm in the mood, his shit negative tactics that clinch games they should lose, he's a rich mans Alardice nothing more. Cam he build a good team? I don't know - he's only ever really walked into already strong jobs and moved out the creative talent.

Haha. The posts with just the dots are the best ones.

Thank goodness we never went for him. He has a side with players such as Oscar, mata , lampard and hazard and they end up playing football as exciting as a tony pulis stoke side.

Dunnylad wrote:I really don't understand it, Chelsea have been crying out for an overhaul at the back and it's never happened, like the Rags in midfield or West Ham upfront

Releasing Carlton Cole on a free and begging him to come back... Classic

say what you want, but that defensive performance from Chelsea was as well drilled as you will see in modern football, imo.

Look at this http://i.imgur.com/9iPNa6O.jpg

chelsea went away from home to the league leaders, set up on the counter, and if not for shit strikers and midfielders, would have scored 3. Went there, implemented the exact tactics needed to stop arsenal playing their game, and made ozil look invisible (not that that seems hard nowadays).

True, he could have gone guns a-blazin' ... but with the squad he has right now, I think Chelsea are going to lose a straight attacking game vs. all of the top teams this year, they are just not firing up top.

Mourinho went with the season's point total in mind, and they are still up in the table, can't really argue with it.

I love our attacking game right now, but I can definitely appreciate the tactical aspect of this kind of decision from Mourinho ... it's just a bit too pragmatic for some.

League leaders?