The Chelsea F.C. Thread IV

There are reports that Götze’s younger brother was bullied home from school, and that his family home had been vandalised. Plus there's plenty of pictures of his shirt being burnt/defaced all over the internet. Not to take anything away from the Dortmund support though, as to my knowledge Götze wasn't booed by them tonight, but no club is without it's share of dickhead supporters. German football just seems a lot classier in general than the English equivalent tbh.

This is all getting way too monotonous now, but Bild is reporting that we're close to Mourinho and Falcao. Although Bild is basically The Sun of Germany, apparently.

Bild were one of the first sources to break the news of Gotze going to Bayern. Several hours before most other German sources. Must be doing something right.

I thought that as well (first time I'd heard of Bild), but on other sites people are saying Bild is really unreliable, lolz.

Going after his bro was wrong, but Gotze has utterly disgraced himself. Burning his shirt is petty but I dont see what's wrong with that. No Dortmund fan would want his name on their back anymore.

Like what examples?

And 9 months for Mark Bosnich testing positive for cocaine, a recreational drug. I don't know if cocaine has properties that put it parellel to performance enhancing drugs though. A bit inconsistent is an understatement. Stade Francais' scrum half, Jerome Fillol, got banned for 14 weeks for spitting. Sometimes spitting and biting can be worse than some other forms of physical harm, depending on the context, because of the issue of disease. I'm aware that footballers spit on the pitch but they shouldn't do it. Bad as 14 year olds who think it's cool to smoke who have to spit every minute for some stupid reason. Ivanovic might catch rabies off Suarez for all I know.

Do you see the level of hypocrisy in calling Chelsea a toxic environment as a Liverpool fan? Sure he'd benefit from being in the nurturing environment that is Anfield...

It's been a good 2 days of quality football on show. Don't disappoint Rafa and let Hazard do his thing

Imo being sacked by Chelsea isn't a blot on your CV, as its pretty much an expected outcome. Our former managers have mostly all gone on to very good jobs quite quickly, and if AVB had stayed at Porto and then for instance taken a job at Real Madrid he would be fired there as well very quickly imo - he learnt a lot in his time here, when he arrived he showed 0 ability to adapt and made unbelievably naive errors of judgement and just would NOT adapt. Playing the ultra high line here is what cost him the job, it was a terrible tactic with our set of players and he absolutely refused to try anything else. If you're that naive and stubborn in any ultra high pay job you should expect to be on your way out. The managers that didn't get a fair shot here, like RDM and Avram Grant, got a massive leg up in their career. No doubt RDM will get another shot at managing in the top flight somewhere at some point, and Grant obviously went on to manage else where.

The key is that if a manager has confidence he is better than the guys that failed here, he looks at the mistakes they made and says "I'm not that naive," then he should be happy to come in here and take a shot at it.

In other news, Torres says quite clearly that he wants to see out another 3 years here. Hopefully the club finds a way to get him out the door either this summer or the next, without treating him poorly as I don't think he deserves that. But in my mind its clear we need to free up his wages for a striker that can win us football matches.

£50m bid for Bale, all our problems go away

Haha trust us to keep the show rolling. Don't get your hopes up mate.

We'll get one goal and play out the rest of the game. Standard.