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We're in the position we are because of the directors at the club mainly, some players in specific like Costa and a little cause of Mourinho.

The directors are signing players Mourinho dont even want like Cuadrado and them 4m signings in the summer. When Mourinho gets to choose his own players to sign e.g. Costa, Fabregas, Zouma last summer then we won the league. He hasn't had the chance to do that in the last 2 windows except for Pedro.

Some players like Costa came back after the summer fat and unfit and that's why he hasn't been performing.

Mourinho gets too much blame. The only things he's wrong about is incidents like Eva Carneiro which he was at fault in.

If he gets the chance in January to get rid of the dead weight and sign some players he actually wants himself then maybe he can turn the season around.
 

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Im happy with the work Emenalo is doing. Not every signing's a winner, but he's doing some great work especially at youth level. Jose may be there to sweet talk a Costa/Fab but Emenalo and Granovskaia are the ones doing all the hard work to get it over the line.

Jose made a fair few stuff ups in my books too, getting rid of guys like KDB, Schurrle, Mata and Lukaku. But we won the league so it's hard to complain about to much.

Plus Jose wanted Mangala when we signed Zouma(thank god that didn't happen) and I'm pretty sure he was happy to swap Schurrle for Cuadrado.
 
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Applause for Vardy/Mahrez and the whole Leicester team.

We need a major team re-vamp and have needed some new proper signings since last January, instead the directors or whatever decide to buy players they think they will flip for profit after loaning them out e.g. Cuadrado, Nathan, Rahman and them other French dudes we signed in the summer. That money should be going straight to Mourinho for him to decide who to buy himself.

Thank god the champions league is in february, hopefully by then we'll have sold some players and bought some new ones.


Im happy with the work Emenalo is doing. Not every signing's a winner, but he's doing some great work especially at youth level. Jose may be there to sweet talk a Costa/Fab but Emenalo and Granovskaia are the ones doing all the hard work to get it over the line.

Jose made a fair few stuff ups in my books too, getting rid of guys like KDB, Schurrle, Mata and Lukaku. But we won the league so it's hard to complain about to much.

Plus Jose wanted Mangala when we signed Zouma(thank god that didn't happen) and I'm pretty sure he was happy to swap Schurrle for Cuadrado.


The thing with Emenalo and Granovskaia is that they're not football experts, they're all about business. Mourinho + them have to work together, it's the manager's decision who he wants to sign and he knows how he wants to play that player. e.g. they can't just sign a in-form player if that player does not have a role in Mourinho's actual plans. That's why he made some controversial sales e.g. Mata, as much as he was a great player his style did not fit Mourinho's and hence he had to be sold. Mourinho should be the one giving them a list of players and then letting them do the business side of the transfers, e.g. negotiating the best deal possible for the club.

KDB was young, and wasn't a first team starter so for the money we sold him for, it was a good deal at the time, obviously if anyone had known he'd turn out to be the star he is now...

Same with Lukaku, he wouldn't have got first team football last season if he stayed at Chelsea because of the form Diego Costa was in.

I'd much rather prefer Schurrle over Cuadrado though.

we're unlucky as **** too though this season, these moments just now... Diego Costa could have easily scored that, so could have Ivanovic.
 

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Also I'm pretty done with Mou. The players aren't performing but he's doing absolutely nothing to change his approach to keep them motivated.
 

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Teixeira and Mahrez in Jan please :thumbsu:
Yes to Tex and as for Mahrez... look I'd love to get him but I can't see Leicester selling, not when they have a shot at actually winning the league. Also, Costa can **** off, I've had enough of him. Spent more on the angry pills than actually performing.
 

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Yes to Tex and as for Mahrez... look I'd love to get him but I can't see Leicester selling, not when they have a shot at actually winning the league. Also, Costa can **** off, I've had enough of him. Spent more on the angry pills than actually performing.
Leicester and Mahrez would laugh in our face. I think Tex will be available in Jan though and we should go hard for him. His price will shoot up in the summer otherwise.
 

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How many goals has Costa actually scored this calendar year? Would barely be double figures.
12 goals this year.

1). Tottenham 5-3 Chelsea - January 1 2015
2). Chelsea 2-0 Newcastle - January 10 2015
3). Swansea 0-5 Chelsea - January 17 2015
4). Swansea 0-5 Chelsea - January 17 2015
5). Chelsea 2-0 Tottenham (League Cup Final) - March 1 2015
6). Chelsea 1-1 Southampton - March 15 2015
7). Hull 2-3 Chelsea - March 22 2015
8). Chelsea 3-1 Sunderland - May 24 2015
9). West Brom 2-3 Chelsea - August 23 2015
10). Chelsea 4-0 Maccabi Tel Aviv (Champions League) - September 16 2015
11). Chelsea 2-0 Aston Villa - October 17 2015
12). Chelsea 1-0 Norwich - November 21 2015
 

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How he is keeping Remy out of the side is mind boggling. As is how Ramires/Fab are keeping our RLC and how Ivanovic is a FB over Baba etc.


Mou's just making the same mistakes over and over again.
 

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How he is keeping Remy out of the side is mind boggling. As is how Ramires/Fab are keeping our RLC and how Ivanovic is a FB over Baba etc.


Mou's just making the same mistakes over and over again.
Costa and Mou both have the same manager -the germ which is Jorge Mendes. José has been known to do him favours in the past so wouldn't surprise me if Diego's game time is another. Falcao is also one of his clients which is, supposedly, a major reason Mourinho wanted him.
 

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Someone save us in the upcoming window. We need a striker. Does Aubameyang have the technical ability to play in the Premier League or is he another Salah/Cuadrado.
 

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I think we still have the capacity to get some amazing players in. Pogba. Griezmann. PEA as you said madman. But I don't think January is the time that they would move, unfortunately.
 
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Nobody is sacking Mourinho. He's not the problem, half of the problem is the way we're doing transfers, and the other half of the problem is the players not performing this season. I already explained the issue with the transfer directors at the club and Mourinho, you can't be letting business people control the transfers of the club. Even Fabregas went out and blamed the players yesterday, they're not performing at the level they should be, including him.

Possible players out in January:
Diego Costa - Under-performing, ageing, injury problems and the bans along with his personality
Ivanovic - Was probably the best right-back in the PL last season, but he's ageing + under-performing alot this season.
Oscar - Hardly plays anymore, and when he does he's not really making a big impact. Said last season we need to get rid of him.
Eden Hazard - Highly doubtful, he's got the ability to be one of the best in the world but Mourinho might need to sell him to generate funds if we want to sign 3-4 new world class players.

Ivanovic is doubtful too, he's only got promoted to vice-captain this season and under-performing in one season don't always mean you're shit, so Mourinho might have patience with him.

Would love someone like Isco up in CAM though, along with a new world class striker.
 

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Was there a problem with the people doing transfer last season when we walked the league?

There is nothing wrong with this squad. It could do with some tweaks but we should be sitting comfortably in the top 4.

We're a point above the drop in mid December, Mou has got to be almost out of credits.
 
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Like I said earlier, last season Mourinho got the players he wanted, players like Costa, Fabregas, Zourma etc, and we walked the league correct. The past two windows he has gotten no one he wants except for maybe Pedro.

If there is nothing wrong with the squad then why are we one point above the drop?

We should be sitting comfortably in the top 4, correct, but we're not, why? Because the players are not performing. Mourinho can't be getting all the blame when the players aren't living up to their end of the deal.

Obviously the form the club is in isn't going to look good on Mourinho, but he is not one of the main problems that's causing the bad form. Like I said, the squad is not performing, and the directors haven't got players Mourinho wants to work into his game plan for 2 windows besides for Pedro. If Chelsea want to start winning then Mourinho should be able to decide what players he wants for his squad, rather than buying them to profit. The directors are businessmen, not the manager who decides the tactics.
 

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Fair enough, i dont agree with that:thumbsu:

Me myself im more than happy with the work Emenalo and staff have done with player purchasing and especially happy with the work they've done in our youth setup (which i guess is wasted with someone like Mou as manager).

Its going to be a very interesting couple if weeks in terms of which direction the club goes, rebuild the whole squad or sack Mou as at the moment the two cant work together.
 
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