E-Mail 'Chelsea Terrace Talk – Irish Examiner Article By Trizia' To A Friend

5 thoughts on “Chelsea Terrace Talk – Irish Examiner Article By Trizia”

• I agree with your comments, but we are so bloody predictable.

  We pass the ball around the opponents penalty box for 20 passes then it goes back to the half way line. No one wants to shoot, instead we try to thread the ball through an eye of a needle

  We have been worked out.

• Chelsea has become “specialists in losing” and Jose is dragging the club down by his actions kicking in the last few months. Something is drastically wrong at the club players do not have the fight anymore though a slightly better performance but same result.Costa is the big problem, and who else is going to get the goals? Jose is not an attack minded coach so why Chelsea do not have prolific strikers like a Vardy, Aquero or Suarez type. On transfers why would Pogba and Stones want to come to Chelsea, why Jose not go for quality strikers or Plan B options if the club did have the money to spend? You got to say the club scouting network is crap if you look at other rivals in the PL with good quality squads playing exciting football, high tempo, pressing game, probably worked out how we play as Jose’s team is so so predictable. Chelsea FC has to change, Jose has to take responsibility to change of tactics, formation, coaching staff may need to be brought in defence and attack, play the youngsters. As a Chelsea and football fan (I’m not a Mourinho fan) a change is imminent as the relegation zone is that close.Put it this way anything outside top 4 come end of the season if Jose won’t get sacked but he will personally quit and walks out of the club.

• I agree too, remember all those teams that were too good to go down, yet ultimately did so. My cousin (a Manure) fan joked with me how funny it would be to win the ECL and get relegated. Hilarious! Or not. I loved Costa when he got stuck in, riled defenders etc and scored goals. Now he seems like a fight waiting for somewhere to happen, and he’s not scoring either. Something needs to change before we get knocked out of the ECL and are left praying for mid table obscurity…

• Several £30m+ bids for Stones can hardly be viewed as the board doing nothing. At the end of the day if Everton refuse to sell there’s not a whole lot else Chelsea can do about it and whilst they might have gone after a better alternative than Djilobodji, it’s not the crux of the matter. It was Stones or nobody and if that came from Mourinho – as I’m sure most people will think it did – it’s not the greatest planning.

  On Falcao, if you think it was anything other than a Jorge Mendes-Jose Mourinho-concocted agreement then, with respect, I feel for your naivete. That’s one deal you simply can’t level at anyone else as it’s so screamingly obvious what’s happened there. For an additional hint, look at where he’s being linked to next (and by whom, for that matter).

  It was hardly a stellar transfer window, that’s clear as day, but suggesting Mourinho had no say in any of it is shifting matters to suit your agenda or argument. I’m sure the board would be getting all due praise if the signings had come off, or would they have been another Mourinho masterstroke?

  Everyone talks about bigger hearts, bigger bollocks, being seen to be counted too. That goes for the manager as well, and whilst he wears his heart on his sleeve as much as anyone, he’s been a letdown on that front too. Don’t let the window dressing disguise the problematic foundations.

  • Jose has gone on record saying he gave his list of transfer targets to the powers that be in mid April, I’m pretty certain not one of the players he was after joined this summer. The Falcao deal seems very strange, why does the club feel it’s needs a “has been” as our third choice striker, and why replace a decent left back with one who “supposedly “isn’t ready for the first team… why not do something radical and actually purchase players who are ready for he first team instantly. Jose has to shoulder his share of the blame for this season, but he has at least one hand tied behind his back in terms of the transfer dealings…we were nowhere near good enough to compete for the CL last season so how can we be expected too this year??

Comments are closed.