The Chelsea F.C. Thread VI

Yeah that jew goal is the best goal I've seen us score.

Wish it was Willian to Torres though for him to score a tap in and celebrate in front of the Kop. Beautiful absolutely beautiful.

Bertrand will not be recalled as his option to buy is 10M. He's easily justified his fee so far so we've basically made a profit on a youngster we brought up I guess. He's not really the answer considering we have Filipe who can do that role and better anyway. Guy puts in great crosses but his attacking quality wasn't fully put to use at Atlético.

Its protection. If you say we're the favourites and we're going to win, then don't its difficult, if you spend all season downplaying expectation you're safe regardless of the outcome.

I fully understand why Jose does it, I don't understand why his fans feel the need to replicate it. If Chelsea fail, its Jose's failure, that's why he need to downplay.

Jose's always pretty good with managing pressure on his team. He'll use this until he wins a title or something, and the downplaying become unsustainable then you'll see the siege mentality of conspiracy with referees and media come out.

Yeah I agree, meant to say that but forgot Lel. Jose is a master of managing his teams, particularly in the media. There's no benefit to fans doing it, then they'll be out in force May 2015 barking some **** about how they've won against all the odds, Atléti MkII, brb let's make a movie called the Underdogs nonsense.


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Guess you could apply a similar mentality about getting beaten by Newcastle, except it was the media hyping up an unbeaten season as opposed to Chelsea fans and especially Mourinho. Nowhere did I see him or any of our players say we could do it, yet all that afternoon I had Arsenal fans taking the piss out of him - even when they were losing 3-0 to Stoke.

Yeah true. Can see why you do it tbf, media have a clear agenda against Chelsea. Arsenal fans are so butthurt it's unreal. Top club, top fans if I'm honest, maybe the best in the league.


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Chelsea? Surely you can't be on about Arsenal?

I wouldn't say we're top. As a fanbase I think we're up there, especially away but we have this stigma put on us by Arsenal and Liverpool fans because they're pretty envious and think they should be in our shoes; I'd say Palace have the best support in the league - far closer to the likes of Dortmund etc than any other team in the country.

As a club all-round I'd say Everton are the best run. Good stability, proper old-fashioned English ground and they have a academy fairly good academy who they actually use. Southampton not far behind either. I'm biased but I do think Chelsea are becoming slightly more likeable to other fans though certainly compared to when we were winning around 2005-2006.

Even if they don't make it at Chelsea we've had a fair few players make it in the PL at other teams, ironically it's the likes of Liverpool and City who have screwed them up rather than us, ie/ Borini and Sinclair to name two.

Yes I agree but you can clearly see that Chelsea's model is to build for the future by signing young players with potential.

I'm trying to be holistic and objective in my views of this situation without bias.

Ivan is 29.

That's a load of horse ****.

Well the United and Arsenal fans were my mates so it was a little different to some nonces on Twitter. DGAF what these "football banter" pages on Twitter say anymore tbh, used to get so wound up by them which is pathetic tbh.

Anyway this United fan is from Coventry and doesn't even watch United matches anyway (especially not last season), the Arsenal fan is pretty deluded tbh and thinks it beneath Arsenal to resort to such low tactics to simply win a game, think he's finally starting to see past the Wenger facade this year anyway.

And tbh I've caught a few Bayern games on BT Sport this year, and each time it's utterly dull. I know neutrals aren't going to see it like we do during a big game where we park the bus but for me it's genuinely exciting (if not heart-attack inducing) to see if we can hold off the likes of Liverpool and Barca away. I reckon Jose would secretly have loved to have wrecked Liverpool's title chances last season, I think he's even said they wanted to be the clown's that recked Liverpool's (title) party.

The Liverpool game last season felt pretty long, but the sheer excstasy when you see Ba slot it under the keeper at the Kop end, or Torres jew it to Willian in the last minute makes the 90 minutes worth it imo.

Having said that you should of realised by then what he was trying to do

Just lol at anything you disagree with resulting in you branding said poster a troll.


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Except Jam said he agreed with me?

You try way too hard man

Except Jam said he agreed with me?

You try way too hard man

It's a generalised statement. I've noticed you do it a lot and it's poor tbh.


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Go away

Yeah I agree, meant to say that but forgot Lel. Jose is a master of managing his teams, particularly in the media. There's no benefit to fans doing it, then they'll be out in force May 2015 barking some **** about how they've won against all the odds, Atléti MkII, brb let's make a movie called the Underdogs nonsense.


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That's a load of horse ****.

Chelsea's model is to buy as many "promising" players and see which stick to the wall when they are all thrown - whether they develop in the Chelsea youth team, on loan at other premier league clubs or Chelsea FC MK II (Vitesse). Chelsea don't care if they develop or not - happy for one to succeed even if 9 others fail.

After that, you still either buy players in their peak (Fabregs, Costa, Filipe Luis) or you buy promising players for high fees who are already good enough to play but still have some further potential (like Hazard).

Having said that you should of realised by then what he was trying to do