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Mourinho said this season '4th would be a fantastic achievement for Chelsea', despite the fact they were the defending champions and he was in his third season in his second spell at the club, he said that because they got off to a bad start. Professional managers in all walks of life make...

We've surely scouted a new LCB and RW (with speed and creativity) and probably the best young players in their age group so there should be a lot of info on players ready for the step up, Mourinho just needs to assess this or whether he wants different players in those positions. Our defence...

I like what has been started so surely we should build on it, I bet this place loved seeing Rashford starting the final and Lingard scoring the winner, I want the youth policy to continue, academy graduates of Rashford, Lingard, TFM and CBJ are good enough for Mourinho's squad. Even though...

To be fair he had a point, when you have so many players either making the step up into the first team or adjusting to life at the club you must expect inconsistency. He himself stated he has fallen short of his expectations by not finishing third in the league, he said this several times, he...

Mourinho is the best manager in the world, who would say no? And LvG leaves having delivered an FA Cup, i'd say it's the perfect ending and vindicates those who said he'll win something with us.

He gave us Martial. He discovered Rashford. His handling of De Gea created the possibility for what happened, he signed a 5 year contract. He discovered talents like Fosu-Mensah and CBJ. Bastian Fecking Schweinsteiger is still a good player for us. He gave us the first FA Cup since 2004...

Depends on how he rates the young players, we had almost a new 11 this season, the following were either adapting to the club or having their first season in the first team: Romero Darmian Fosu-Mensah (Blank) CBJ Schneiderlin Schweinsteiger Lingard Memphis Martial Rashford It's not...

we parked our team bus right next to the stadium and we're still going to be late kicking off.

They took our houses. They took our roads. They took our hospital beds. They took our GPs. They took our school places. They took our jobs. They took our taxes. Next they'll take our daughters. --- Project Scapegoat. --- I sadly think vote leave will win by a slim margin and it could...

In the short term perhaps but it is something that's been practiced a lot, soon enough it will pay dividends because if we can drop off and still remain defensively solid then you have a lot of space for players like Martial, Rashford and Lingard to move into when we press and win the ball back...

The problem is we're not effective at possession football yet therefore we lose the ball too often especially when pressed exposing the high defensive line. And we're not effective at counter attacking football so despite the fact we play some good stuff and create some chances we don't always...

I was going to reply to @Di Maria's angel in his thread but I figured this would be worth a thread of its own so i've put the reply here. We're not so focused on possession football, as Louis van Gaal has said many times his philosophy is defending and attacking space on the pitch. He rates...

I think he's seen something in training otherwise Rashford wouldn't get the game time especially since he had a few games where he's been poor, I think Louis van Gaal sees it simply as inconsistency as opposed to his level.

Valencia has just returned after most of the season out, there's no way he's ready to perform for 90 minutes yet.

Does our team honestly look that much worse than City? They just have more firepower in attack but we're not far off because players like Martial, Memphis and Lingard will be over their first season at this level, Adnan still could nail down right wing.