27 May 2015 11:13:52
"There is one team out there that would like to play without goals. That team plays well, the quality of the ball possession is really beautiful but no goals. They asked the international board of Fifa to be champions for playing like this but were told it was not possible, that the bigger possession of the ball does not win matches." - (Jose Mourinho, 2015)
This is what Jose said about us during Chelsea's team awards. He thinks we're a laughing stock.
27 May 2015 11:26:02
He sounds bitter that we dominated them at Stamford Bridge.
27 May 2015 11:30:57
He sounds like a winner.
27 May 2015 11:41:44
Sounds more like he's worried to me. Were obviously in his thoughts and he knows how LVG works. He's lucky we've been weak in front of goal this term because 28% posession gets a whole lot worse when there's 2 or 3 goals on the scoresheet and you haven't knicked the win. You go from being dubbed the master tactician to your team having the worst performance of the season from any team.
27 May 2015 11:55:39
Guys it was all in jest, he was just poking fun and did it to all the other teams including his own Chelsea!
Where is everybody's sense of humour gone? Watch the speech
27 May 2015 12:03:33
Obviously we need to sack lvg following these comments
27 May 2015 12:04:37
Chelsea are not a great side. They are not that much better than last season. In fact, they seemed to have regressed as far as CL was concerned, losing to a side they beat the season before.
The won the league in the first half of the season when no-one else could put a run together. Next season will be much different IMO.
We just need balance and quality in vital areas. With added speed and power to our attack, we will be able to turn our possession into goals IMO.
27 May 2015 12:18:21
Yeah don't get so touchy, he was having fun with LVG's claim that we should have beaten them because we dominated possession. No big deal, just a bit of a wind up after a successful season for them.
And they won the league throughout the entire season because they are good at doing enough to win games. Nobody got close to them all year and they won at a canter.
27 May 2015 12:19:21
They were head and shoulders above us this season so if they aren't a great team then what are we?
27 May 2015 12:24:32
So basically Danny he was making LVG seem a little ridiculous?
27 May 2015 12:25:33
If parking a bus won the league the possession can also win the league!
27 May 2015 12:30:26
mbd
did chelsea also score the most goals
27 May 2015 12:34:39
I agree Mbd. A lack of cutting edge possession may actually bore our opponents to death and then by default we could be champions.
27 May 2015 12:42:44
Who said United were a great team?
IMO, there are four great teams currently playing in the world of football and Chelsea isn't one of them.
27 May 2015 12:43:31
Who cares?
Certainly not me.
27 May 2015 12:43:37
Chelsea were the best team in the league this season, just like we were when we won it in SAF's last term, when if I remember correctly, everybody said we were crap, and that the league was weak. Oh wait, haven't people been reiterating the latter part this year too.
They will be good next season too, but that doesn't mean to say they will win it. An injury to Hazard, and a few people taking their chances at key moments as Rooney should have done at the Bridge, and someone else will be champions. It's not like they're scoring a lot of goals either. They're just competent enough to be on the right side of more 1-0s.
Sometimes the stars align, and sometimes they don't. We are just one creative spark and one great striker away from making a run for the title.
27 May 2015 12:49:57
Haha I guess I shouldn't be surprised that people have taken his comments seriously, it was a joke, he poked fun at Arsenal and City too, it was all in jest, laugh at it, have a sense of humour, they were better than us, they can laugh at us, next season hopefully we can laugh at them.
27 May 2015 12:55:44
i woudnt say they were head and shoulders above us jmb, i think that shown when we have played them this season, both games we were the better team, so i wouldn't say they are that much better than us, they were just consistently better than everyone else over 38 games.
27 May 2015 12:56:43
He was taking the piss like most ordinary people do, no malice in it, just having a bit of a gloat and a wind up.
Did LVG's comments after the Chelsea game make him look ridiculous?
I would say no. We were coming off a really good run of performances and the manager was attempting to maintain the belief that we were capable of competing against the best. I'm far more concerned about the subsequent free-fall in performances after that game, than any media soundbite the manager gave.
27 May 2015 12:58:37
It was he's comical reply to LVG about the comments he made about Chelsea game. come on FUN LAUGHTER AND SMILES😆
27 May 2015 13:30:58
JMB's vacation lasted as long as it took him to find a new profile pic. back with a negative bang! what's the point in comparing ourselves to Chelsea last season when they won it and we didnt?? you're telling us nothing we don't already know, but were all looking forward to next season not dwelling on the past. Pity there wasnt a change of record with the pic
27 May 2015 13:37:05
As a Chelsea fan I've got to say I'm quite surprised to see how none of you really rate Chelsea. I think in the Champions League we were slightly unlucky to go out to PSG on away goals and to be honest I think Blanc got their tactics spot on over the two legs, not to mention if we could have defended their corners better we would have went through (and then we would've got battered by Barca haha)
27 May 2015 14:13:59
It is a matter of taste, Saim. I am not a fan of Jose's teams. Yes, they are tough, durable and produce results, but they play a brand of football that I find boring to be honest. I would much rather win in style than win by being a very good defensive minded team, which Chelsea is. Take Hazard out of the equation and you would have struggled this season, IMO. He has been your major outlet when teams have been on top.
PSG played you off the pitch. That said, I believe tha the pre-Christmas Chelsea team would have beaten that PSG side. They played you at a time when you were probably at your lowest ebb, and they capaitalised on it. As it turned out though, it was a blessing in disguise and ultimately allowed you to walk the league.
I expect you will be much stronger in the CL next season, as that will be Jose and the teams main focus IMO.