Mourinho`s Coming Home?

Like i said in many previous posts I love Jose. I love him for all he done for chelsea. BUT i dont want him anywhere near chelsea this time around. RM is one of the cleanest image clubs in the entire world. But 75% of their fans now think that JOSE destroyed their image with new fans and children's etc. Its almost in all the newspapers poll's. JOSE is not worth the PAIN the club need to suffer to win some trophies. In 04 chelsea is a unknown so we need to win at all costs. But we are a genuine BIG club that doesnt need his antics at all. My bet is PSG. They are the ones who need to win trophies now. All these fans who thinks that RA will just appoint JM is deluded. RA tried hard for the past 6 years to move from the FUNCTIONAL team that JM and CR builded. Now with our team is just shy of 3 quality players away from becoming a great entertaining and winning team. RA will be mad to destroy all the hard work of the past 6 years. Not giving FL the contract is more to do with getting RID of the one dimensional functional play more than the ability of FL. FL is still very good player but he cant play the type of football CFC is trying to install. All clamoring for JM return should just look at the mess he created in RM. His obsession with the opposition and his image destroying of anybody is not needed at CFC anymore. His obsession to break up the friendship between barca and RM players to install US vs WORLD mentality has backfired spectacularly. CFC dont have that type of playres anymore. Now what we have is superior talented players who need a helping and loving hand coach some one like a UNCLE for them to guide them. Moyes, Martinez, Diego,Klopp etc. Not some one who will go to WAR with each and everybody and turn every soul in the entire continent against you except for cfc fans.

Think people are looking into this in a weird way. The way Jose manages and the beliefs he installs is what CFC is! We are the lost hated club in England and always will be. The ones who are no ones second favourite club the ones everyone is wanting to beat and be ones it is always us v uefa and FIFA! And we have been missing that leader at the forefront who optimises that more than any manager out there. We need a manager who is bigger than the players. One the players know is the best and don't take no prisoners. Jose mourinho is a born leader and winner and CFC has never been the same since he left. The squads have got worse and lost its identity while trying to buy fancy tiny little players trying to play like poxy barca! WE ARE NOT BARCA!!! We are Chelsea fc! We are made for Jose as he has the same cocky arrogant swagger that you inf everyday walking down the kings road! We are big time Charlie's and we need a big time Charlie in charge! BRING BACK THE SPECIAL ONE!!!

I doubt there's any truth to this Merlin,its the Sun trying to mess with fans emotions. They know its what majority of the Chelsea fan base want,so they are having go at us,laughing as we jump in excitement of the prospect of Jose returning.

BRINGHOMEJOSE! Stamford Bridge will explode! JOSE PLEASE COME HOME! It will be the very best for Chelsea FC.........i think this could happen really!

i cant beleive some people wouldnt take jose back, I would take him back in a heartbeat, i completly agree with Dave-David,under mourinho we looked invincable.every team we were up against we went into them games with beleif, we havnt been the same since he left, people always say the football was poor and we wernt good to watch, I myself would rather win above anything else.look at our famous cl win last year!!!sexy football was it? was it hell we parked the bus!!!...would any of you lot rather play tici tac football last year or be the first london team to win it? He does instill a us v them mentality but thats his way, i personally like it :)WE ARE CHELSEA SUPER CHELSEA NO ONE LIKES US WE DONT CARE!!!!

i never said mourinho parked the bus,we did last year in the champions league, he is a clever man, he would adapt

This crop of players don't need to learn how to play football,they are a talented bunch,what they need is direction and growth in mentality. Yes that's what Jose can provide...Di Maria is still a silky player,Ozil is still as creative as Mata,Ronaldo is still a stroke of genius if not better,Xabi still has an eye for a pass,Sergio and Pepe are more solid tham ever,but one thing that has changed is their growth in mentality and hunger to win.

Nelyvanile has said it all, nice one mate. But just to add to that, which other manager do you Mourinho hating lot think is better than him and most importantly would be available in the summer? Isnt The publicity of CFC worse of now? I think people on this site jst like to talk s.hit all the bloody time, i even doubt if they are true fans. With Mourinho, even when we draw or lose a game, be rest assured we would bounce back big time in the next. Mou has been the coach to bring Madrid to within touching distance of the invincible Barcelona in the last 5yrs.

Why are all talking about parking the bus???? Is real always parking the bus - NO! Get the ***** right and bring him home!

Jose will be off to PSG or god help us to Man City - how would the British gutter press know whats going on - made up stories

D'you know what, stuff this blooming bus, I'm gona go and pick him up myself, and park him and the blooming bus I use infront of the opposing goal if it means we win.

Mourinho coined the phrase "parking the bus" in relation to Spurs doing it at Stamford Bridge years ago. It does not apply to Chelsea apart from 3 games last year which is the only time I can ever remember the team doing so over all the years. Chelsea don't park the bus - it is other teams that do that when they play us, either on their ground or at the Bridge.

Of course we want Jose back - all you synics - what would you prefer that he go to City and make them even stronger? Jose is the best manager we have ever had and he has unfinished business. He would love to build another championship winning team and win the champions league again with us. He wont put up with Torres and other players underperforming. He will also use players in the correct positions and make subsitutions when they need to be made not wait until 10 minuted from the end of the game then replace a defender with a defender! #RafaOut #TorresOut #Comebackjose

For starters, we won't have excitement, something Roman (and me) craves very much. Secondly, instead of averting some crisis' we'd be rushing head on into them with Jose in charge. 3rdly, we'll be left in 3 years time when he starts to "lose it" as he always does in his 3rd year at a top club (first us, now Madrid)

You can clamor for Mourinho because we don't have alternatives right now but mark my words, 2 years later you'll be crying for another Manager.

We've got the quality young players just need the manager to turn them into winners and that's jose no doubt

Funny for people to think JM is the messiah. With the squad he have at REAL everyone would expect him to be very close to BARCA but they are 16points behind that show is not a magician as everyone are thinking.. imagine if he was in charge of our team and we are 16 points behind, I think every1 on this site would have SPECIAL names for him. What is important for building a successful team is a good working atmosphere. These are the main reasons CFC and REAL MADRID are in their current state. If that doesn't improve JM won't be able to perform any magic here.

If we got a Manager like Klopp or the Shaktar Manager (who can build young, good football and difficult to beat sides) then I couldn't care-less where Mourinho went to FUNKYAV because I don't like his football period. Madrid are experts in counter attack, play them against a team that sits deep and they struggle (as they did this weekend) so he has no plan B. As for Inter, you the first person I've heard who's said they played good football (apart from Inter fans) and 16% ball possession+1 shot at goal vs Barca in the 2nd leg is hardly "good football" even RDM's football was better than that

FANS who are talking about "how we will always be the bad boy of football" "UEFA and FA hate us so what. We dont care about the media image etc. All these comments are childish and they are living in the stone age. IMAGE is everything in this cut throat modern world. It may not be important for cfc fans but its much more important to RA and cfc board than JM and his dire football. Creating a myth image is what is all about. BARCA is one of the worst cheating team in the HISTORY. Yes they are great team but i have never seen a great team that cheats as much as barca. The dives for penalties, play acting to get opposition sent off etc is worse than most of the big clubs. YET you cant see a peep in papers about them. WHY? its bcz of their image. All these talk about i dont care about the image is pathetic. IMAGE is paramount important for the club to improve commercially football wise. Even in the football field the refrees will give more decisions to BARCA than RM in la liga. Do you know why? Its bcz of JM and his devastating negativity that surrounds RM. The way officials brandishing yellow and red cards for RM players and compare it to barca players then you can clearly see it. With out image the no club will survive. It will die slowly. RA could do one thing he could by all the papers from Murdoch and write evil about barca and UTD etc and good about CFC. But RA cant buy all the media. Can he. So he is going about other way by serving great entertaining football and winning trophies with out controversy etc. Now you guys all want JM the king of controversy. JM will simply die if there is no controversy at all with him and his club. He will simply DIE with out controversy. We can appoint JM in the summer bcz of there is no available canditates. But mark my words its not going to be pretty. JM cant match that 7 trophies in 3 years again. We are not the only one who can throw the money around now. JM will come and win the fa cup in the first season then what? 60% of the fans will talk about how he is declined as a manager its not the same like 04. JM is not the answer. JM was sacked for a reason.Controversy is what JM is all about. JM cant change. Chelsea changed too much in these past 6 years. So all in all it is going to be a disaster. I will take DAVID MOYES over JM now just bcz unlike JM moyes can build on the club with out any controversy.

Laughable comment by BAWA...Really laughable. So we had no controversy under Carlo? We had no controversy under AVB? We had no controversy under RDM? The media will pinch on whatever they can to get at us,attractive football or not. One minute ure the darling and the moment you slump they attack you like bees on honey. We had our worst PR this season with so many off the ball incidents happening week after week,the lack of discipline within the club...So who was manager? Jose? Manchester United are the darlings of the media in the british press,regardless of what they do,they always get the soft treatment,isn't it obvious Ashley Young dives,Hazard gets clean penalties and is labeled a diver by the Media...you need a strong head to take the pressure of this lads. If ur reason for not wanting Jose is controversy then that's utter bull*****....

Yes Agreed! Jose is no Magician either. Like I say always,the board and the Club are not functioning and thinking right,so very few managers can thrive under our current decision makers. Only a manager that thrives under pressure can work under this bunch of clowns at the top. Well if u feel Jose can't thrive under pressure ure obviously emmmm...what's that word?

English press is melodramatic. They are asking for JM to return to CFC bcz they dont have anything to write now. But the moment he walks into cobham they will change their tune 100%.Each and every match they will write about how great JM of 04 is how pathetic the current cfc team and JM is. So what JM could do. He will do what he do best. Deflect the blame on to RA and the board and players. If he wins anything at all then its all down to JM and JM only. If you ask me simply JM is not the answer for chelsea.

@Blue_Mel i dont think lot of fans like myself saying JM is a bad manager. JM is a very good manager but that doesnt mean we need to appoint him. Even greatest manager could fail if the timing and the club is not right. Whether JM is the right appointment for chelsea of 2013. We are not talking about JM at 2004 chelsea. JM was a great appointment for cfc in 04. But will it be a case now?

Jose (and Roman's money) created Chelsea's current image. We wouldn't have all those Jap fans if it hadn't been for Jose. But Roman wants on the field success. Now I remember as a boy FEARING Leed Utd. when they came to the Bridge - they were the best, most daunting team of that period. I want other fans to think that way about us when we go and play them. Now other teams think they can park the bus, get a breakaway goal and see what happens. I don't like it. i want Jopse back who will put a stop to all that nonsense. But probably Laudrup at Swansea will get the job in the end because the Board are trying to preserve some sort of image which we don't even have anyway as we are targeted by the press no matter what we do.

Blueheart9.....which foundation you are talking about..jose is destroying foundation aftr one another....first inter milan and now real madrid....he is not the long time solution...he is short time solution and we dont want short time solution now....he will come spend big and will have problem with roman and will go....he has too big ego to stay at one place..

Going through all the comments I see a clearly divided side, but let me tell u guys what u don't know, mou in some logic is the best coach currently in the world!! Why? He have proven himself to be successful everywhere he goes, which shows he is a born winner and his very tactically sound, hiddink as much as we love him flops mostly and does well to exceed expectations in another time, but the magic with mou is that he will win, either u demand it from him or not and u can't ever say a team will beat mou's team, with mou u'll never see ur team decline, in the season we parted ways with mou he drew in our first game against rosenburg and drew a league game, so chelsea were not declining when he left, when you look at what he achieved under porto when he was allowed to do things the way he wants, u saw the results, inter allowed him to do what he wanted too and u saw the result, why does mou have problems in clubs that interferes with his football philosophy and excels to perfection with the ones that don't interfere? Why does he excel in teams to a point in 4 different leagues higher than any other manager? Mou is a coach that we need now, to make us giants again and we can let him go when he has fixed this leaky boat of ours and we can go with a more experienced laudrup or poyet after his spell where they would have more experience by that time, the only flaw I see with mou is that u can't count 6 players he graduated from his teams academy throughout his career as a coach till date, that is his only flaw and if he remedies that, he would be a coach other coaches would be chasing including mr pep. Pep chose an easy way out and chose a talented bayern side, I'll really love it if mou and pep meet in next season's UCL with bayern and chelsea, it would be epic, sadly we have to make top 4 this season first

@Desmondadonis You cant see JM's team in decline bcz he moves out just before the decline. Nobody is arguing whether JM is a good manager or not. JM may be the greatest manager currently in the world. But that doent mean he will succeed in chelsea of 2013. Yes success follows JM nobody is denying that. But so is the controversy and hundreds of pounds lavished on 2 players for each and every position. JM is a born winner but at what COST? JM's seconf half of the final full season and his fourth season is going for disaster in terms of league form. You can go and check it. CFC's is on course for 3rd title until december UTD is nowhere near us but we gave the title to them but the cup wins masked that. JM is not the coach we need now in my opinion. Youth and JM is non existent in his 10 year managerial history. Yet CFC has the great youth and young stars even better than barca. JM will completely destroy this current team. These players are not winners yet. But with a good young forward thinking manager who allows the players to make mistakes and grow they will be world beaters in 2 seasons. But if you make a high profile mistake under JM then you will be banished from the club(remember delhorno). Two set of players 1)invisible's 2)eternally peripheral players.(bridge) Even this fringe players play better than the invisible yet cant hold down the place. There is no need for JM to make us "GIANT". CFC is already a GIANT. We are already a top 5 club. What we need is create a foundation and club structure that will last with any manager.

This is a really tough one.... I live by one rule: Never start to date an ex-girlfriend after you break up (whether one sided or mutual). There's always a reason WHY you broke up in the first place, and that reason often comes back to haunt people. Jose was like that great girlfriend. He came here and we had fun. Laughs, cheers, sadness and tears. When he left we wondered if we'd ever find someone like him again. As time has moved on we look bad and remember the good times and think "What if.....? What if we'd never broke up?". Well we should also remember the arguing with match officials / rival managers / internal board members. The Jose who was not just a genius on the field, but a spiteful man off it. Yes he had us playing disciplined football which I wish we had right now, but is that only because we DON'T have it right now? Would I throw in Carlo or RDMs 7/8 goal matches for one of Jose's 1-0 affairs? I really don't know. Sometimes you go so long between the ex-gf and waiting for the next true love that you forget about the bad times and wish for everything to be back like it was in the good old days. Grass is always greener?? This is a love affair that might be set to repeat itself, and right now I don't know how I feel about it. "Confused" might be best describing!

@bawa u make ur claim pretty well, and I'll add boularouz to the bannished player and robert huth too, but that is ur opinion that JM spends millions of pounds on 2 players for each positions, it is not true my friend, I posted a link a coupla days ago about mourinho's buys and they are not that much, there are some players ranieri bought that we think it was mou, examples are robben and cech, we as club are in a downward spiral now and we need a coach who is mentally tough to steer us away from trouble and danger, after 3 years we can now turn our vacant seat to laudrup who will be more experienced at that time or klopp or any other good coach at that time, but right now, I see mou and only him or hiddink helping us out of this quicksand we find ourselves in, there are some really skewed arguement above that mou destroys technical players and I am glad nely quelled that fat lie, did mou destroy deco? Did mou destroy ozil and ronaldo? Di maria? Or benzema? Did he destroy sneidjer? How come his players are always nominated for uefa team and player of the year?

mourinho would be great for us....zola would be better....hehehe...me love me all chelsea legends...alll da time.

I think you guys should go through this links and come back to debate mourinho www.transferleague.co.uk/premiership-transfers/chelsea-transfers.html www.goal.com/en/news/1717/editorial/2012/02/26/2928862/crisis-at-chelsea-inter-imploding-but-jose-mourinhos m.bleacherreport.com/articles/1092383-the-toxic-legacy-of-jose-mourinho-at-chelsea-fc worldsoccer.about.com/od/leaguesandclubs/p/Jose-Mourinho.htm

Careful what you wish for...

Sorry MQ can't agree with you on this one - I have supported chelsea since 1970 (aged 10) and with the exception of the team at the time and when we had Gullit, Zola and Vialli we have never played better football then with Jose. He single handedly installed belief in the players, brought some organisation that was sorely needed and scared the likes of Man U and Arsenal to death! Bring him back for God's sake and save our team from endless tinkering, poor performances and bad results!

I wont waste time on this argument...it is pointless..lets see who Roman appoints. I personally doubt Jose will return to Chelsea because i dont see Roman changing the way he does things and Jose will demand control that Roman will not give any manager. To those ingrates who can only abuse and denigrate the man all i can do is chuckle..lets see who Roman can convince to take the job and how well they do. This sense of entitlement that some fans here have when they mention managers like Klopp and Pellegrini..it as if they think all Roman needs to do is wave his money and these guys will come running like they have no principles or better places to be. One would think that the pep experience would have taught some people here some humility. Anyway i suspect Jose will end up with either City or PSG..when he has brought success to those franchises those who say the man is useless can then explain that in addition to all the other successes on his illustrious resume.

foreign_viewer, I'll tell you how Jose will succeed with Mata, Hazard & Oscar. He'll sell 2 of them, raise money and buy more suitable players. When all's going well watching Mata, Hazard & Oscar is a joy - Aston Villa at home. Unfortunately 95% of the teams we play aren't as crap as Aston Villa. We will need to be more like Man City and we will win the league again with Jose in charge. It may all go pear shaped after 3 years but it will be worth it.

@johnboyblue Mate you are talking about again and again the effect JM has on CFC. I am not disputing JM is great but what i am saying is CFC should build a foundation for any good manager to be great. Not the other way around. You are saying CFC was great bcz of JM in 04 to 07.What i am saying is I want everybody to say JM is successful bcz of Chelsea. Like Barca With solid foundations any good manager should do great things with CFC.

Jose or no Jose it won't matter until the club create a philosophy and have a long term plan. If Jose comes there will still be rough patches. The question is then does he get off-loaded or do we stick with him and the long term plan?

Get ready for more of the Ross Turnbull experience... Cech has a broken finger.

There's a lot of talk about philosophy and youth etc. but all that can be done and probably is being done but CFC are at the top of the pile - Champions of Europe and FA Cup holders and (usually anyway) 1st, 2nd or 3rd in the PL for the past decade or so. What has been done has been successful up to now and perhaps only Barca and Man. Utd. have been more successful but I think we have won more trophies than Man. Utd. in the past few years.

The foundation that Jose put down, has lasted us 8 years and is the reason that we have won so many trophies, both when he was at Chelsea and since he has left. Winning in Munich was the final roar from the side that he produced along with the winning mentality. The requirements at Real are different to Chelsea, they are a massive club and have dominated at the top in the past for generations, while we have not. Only since Jose walked into our club have we been percieved as a serious club, I know he brings baggage, but trophies are part of the package. I`m bored with tippy tappy football going nowhere. Football should be played on the pitch, not on the playstation by Roman and Emenalo. Unless we get a serious manager soon we will be scrambling for a top 6 finish year after year.

And I have to say I thought the same thing this afternoon when the match fixing issue was mentioned - Overbo anyone?

jose would be bad for our image? As if we have the best image in the world right now. We have a young team. A team whose core will last atleast 5 to 7 years. The foundations of which have to laid now. Klop or moyes are gentlemen. They will not last 6 months here. Jose and chelsea know each other very well. JoSe is still known as a chelsea manager though he still won more at inter. Welcome back jose

morinho uses ozil, Ronaldo and D maria behind a striker in the same 4-2-3-1 formation we use, ozil and d maria are not that much bigger or stronger than mata and oscar and harzad and mosses can hold there own against ronaldo, only difference with us and madrid is we don't have a regular scorer like ronaldo and our team isn't yet a team, all we need is a manager to get us displined but at the same time playing good footy + scoring goals, and morinho is that man!

Its just some English unreliables making noise. I have heard nothing from Spain. Given the type of players at our club, I dont think Mourinho would want to be unless he is given complete authority to restructure our squad. What I want is for RB to get sacked ASAP though(still got respect for him because of his good work at Mestella) and Frank Lampard appointed Player Manager. He may find a way to stay in London and we may find a way to keep at home one of our greatest legends.

It's more likely that hiddink is coming back. Jose would be amazing but I would believe it when I see it. Anyway hiddink has something on roman that makes it more plausible for him to come back.

**** meant to say he learnt JM has gone to the medical staff to ask why JT was declare fit******

Jose's team he put together is the best chelsea side ever. All of the managers who have followed him have basically kept his side until arguably last season but even then we reverted back to Joses team when we had problems. Jose is the best manager we have ever had, He has unfinished business, we need him back. I cant understand those who dont want him back. He will build another championship winning side. It is laughable the names that are suggested, half of which we have no chance of getting and the other half have no experience of English football. #RafaOut #TorresOut #ComebackJose

one thing i hve learnt in all my yrs of supporting chelsea under RA is tat it is useless to speculate......movin away frm d topic i read article an over hear which had all the figures about revenue generated n money spent on tranfers by chelsea, barca, MANU etc. the thing is i am not able to find the article. it would be of gr8 help if anyone can let me know the name of the article or could provide a link to it...really need it

david moyes , laurent blanc , guss hiddink , walter mazzari , diego simeone are all being linked with chelsea ... wht ottmar hitzfield the head coach of switzerland

I love this mourinho picture in the rocky balboa pose lol

well for me this year can still have a silver lining if jose returns!

pego sama, Only flaw is that Real Madrid/Barcelona play in Spain not the English Premier League. Time and time again a team full of big strong players wins the league in England. Arsenal, Man Utd, Chelsea, Man City. tika-taka will never win the league in England. There is a reason Barcelona nearly always lose when they come to play away games in England.

They would probably just strip Barca of the 2009 title, if it was that match. But then can anyone see UEFA doing that to their darling Barca?

Jose is an extremely good coach who will get most of our problems resolved right away. What coaches like him have got going for them is that they have found a formula in most aspects of running a club. He already knows what kind of style works for him, and most importantly what kind of players who fit into that kind of style. He chooses players who match skill and mental toughness and in turn. He takes care of them and in turn they usually fight for him. For us players like Luiz, Eden, Oscar will benefit a lot from him as he will whip them into shape discipline and mental wise and or he will ship them out. We will know within a few months what the problem with each player is: laziness, indiscipline etc. By our second season, we will have a team that can go for another 5-7 years regardless of who is n charge. Jose will also resolve the board interference issues as he will want to be sorely in charge. However that said, Jose is a 2-year solution. He is a nomad who thrives off challenges. He likes the thrill of fixing a team, but he does not last and does not like staying at one place. He gets bored. And when he gets bored, he becomes a PR nightmare to the detriment of the club. Therefore, it will be a very good 2 years with Jose but downhill from then onwards. By the 3rd year, we will be working overtime on the PR front as well as looking for another coach. Jose is who he is. From a playing standpoint, we will have at least one league title, FA Cup and perhaps another cup as well. Where I have doubts is in as far as the style of play. Jose is struggling at Real primarily because how his team is set up is no longer a match to the South American/Spanish system that is growing in La Liga which emphasizes on being compact and counter-attacks. Jose plays an EPL style system that is expansive where players are positioned to cover the whole ground. However that system isolates attacking players and leaves holes which teams can exploit. It’s a system which made us suffer in Europe under Carlo and which is seeing United and City suffer in Europe as well. At Chelsea we used to blame it on Frank saying he didn’t have flair and was not creative. City, Real and United have creative players but are all struggling against that South American style. Jose’s Real has better players than us at every position including having Ronaldo, but he is losing. My point is we will not win in Europe with Jose. If we settled on Jose though, I would suggest that we (i) sign him up for only 2 years and (ii) bring Zola/Poyet/ or some other young hotshot who can serve under him as an apprentice and then take over. TWO year and let him move on. He will be focused enough rebuilding. The more sober solution is to bring in Guus as manager/Director with an assistant manager who will take over. More like what Carlos Quiroz was for United. Jose option probably limits the choice of assistant coaches who can work under him, but with Guus, you can attract more.

OCblues, good thinking in the mou for 2 years side of your comment, but the question I ask myself is that can mou and hiddink work progressively together without clashing? If hiddink was appointed as DOF are u sure he won't suggest marco van basten or rijkaard instead of mou?

Odd that they same people that wants lampard out,wanted rdm to get sacked, loves AVB, wanted pep to be chelsea manger. Dont wants Mourinho to return. Wait not so odd really.

I think at this time we need hiddink as manager for 2 seasons. Our transition hasn't finished yet and we are still not the finished article. Hiddink could make our transition work better. He is clearly trusted, will most definitely be the owners choice and he's loved by all. I believe at this time after what's happened this season Guus can be our knight in Oranje armour! Employ the next manager as his assistant.

Any suggestions**

Just watch this and all you mourinho haters will be quiet. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TWaZBXcWvg&list=UUNe72yWJVb09pgEkkwGlw8Q&index=1

@ Desmond. Its either Jose or Guus. Not both of them at the same time. You can bring in a Poyet, Zola, etc under Jose. There will be stability in as far as the squad is concerned, but there might still be interference after Jose leaves. The difference with Guus is that you can still bring him in as a coach who can manage for a year before becoming the DOF. So with Guus you have more options which are advantageous. For starters even head coaches such as Simeone, Laudrup might be tempted to come in as his assistants knowing the club will be stable after he becomes DOF. Guus also knows how to structure a club from the bottom up. Not only will we play total football right away, but we will have ourselves a Barca style academy within his first year with actual players being promoted. If I was to choose between the two, I would say Guus. Most likely the same impact as Jose but with more value as he can deliver additional that Jose can not.

Like him or loathe him a mourinho article gets a lot of response on here.

And who's to say Jose wants to return. I'm sure he would but an owner never changes his spots! What's different between now and the last time he was here. Nothing's changed.

@Blue ABS excellent mature and well thought out post above...i fully agree with your idea that in the ideal world Gus Hiddink as DOF would be wonderful to serve as "marriage counselor" between Roman and Jose were he to return. I just dont see it happening..i dont see anything to suggest that Roman has changed and that means i dont see him having the patience to appoint a young coach and give him the time needed to build a new squad, nor do i see him being patient enough with an established superstar coach once the results and trophies dont keep coming or when said coach dares to stand up to him and refuse to be his puppet. Honestly the only thing that will convince me that Roman may have seen the light is if he reconsititutes our board..to keep his circle of advisors and our present administrative structure the same and think anything has changed is just ludricous.

Thats gonna be the dream come true for us. I really want him to manage us again cause we don't look like how we used to under Jose. Yeah we've won a few tro[hies but there was missing something special in our club: his character and smile :).... Come home Jose!!! We miss you!!!

You are right @Splint1976... but why has Mourinho failed to stay beyond 3 seasons in any of these clubs.... What is the probability of him staying here for more than 2 seasons and not pick up a quarrel with the club management or owner after spending just one or two seasons... Jose is volatile. If we need someone to manage the team for 2 or 3 years then Jose may be a good choice but if our goal is a long term manager then I'm afraid Jose may not be the right choice....

No club, ManUre and currently Madrid (under Jose) aside, exists in Europe where the Manager has power over football matters.

Some of you's come here criticizing Roman like he is stupid, negating that infact you aren't the brightest of the lot either..."Give Mourinho control, Give Jose control, Jose is the best that's ever happened to Chelsea" I mean LoL...hardly any club in Europe does what you suggesting, the exceptions being those who've proven themselves (SAF). Get Real ffs

And people think we sack managers for fun. They should look at Palermo now gasperini has been sacked. They've had 22 managers in 10 years. Zamparini makes roman look like a pussy cat!

@GabeU - I agree, this catatonic malaise that is Buck / Gourlay / Emanalo has to change for our Club to progress. Roman has his ideas on how he wants HIS team to play, but there is, and always has been a disconnection between him and the squad, including managers. In the past, he has used senior players to convey that message to the playing squad, which can't be right. He needs to appoint a DOF that can be his mouthpiece to squad and fans. Hiddink would be ideal, but just to throw it in there, maybe even Capello. Once this bottleneck in administration is sorted, then we may have a manager appointed who doesn't have to keep looking over his shoulder and worry when he sees Buck or Gourlay in the tunnel.

Emanalo has to be demoted or even let go for bringing the Tubby One to our Club.

Oh you jokers. Who else will you take? Won't park no bus, won't add to the controversy, won't cause player infighting. Will discipline, will have the tactical nous that is unparalleled, will have more than one system, will have the fans support, will win mind games, will motivate, will pressure referees , will make the bridge a fortress and with United needing to replace fergie will be favorite to win.

and for the record, show me a billionaire who'd spend as much as Roman has but doesn't want control....otherwise, if you can't stomach it then puke and leave

Let's see...Morratti - Inter is broke now after "ceding" control to (no prizes for guessing) Mourinho....Abu Dhabi - they do have a DOF at Man$hitty don't they, and judging by the way Mancini cries about players, he clearly doesn't have control does he?? Case in point, he still bemoans missing out on Van Persie.........................so much for control GIAN :)

Mourinho back in the summber = No brainer. Make it happen RA...

And by the way,if Mou with all the control he had at Inter had said...''No,im not selling Ibra cos i really need him and i dont want Etoo'',Im sure Morratti wouldnt have sold Ibra and the rest would have been history. MQ-whichever way you look at it,Mou agreed to let Ibra go for 40mill plus Etoo. If thats not genius,i dont know what is.

Mark your word?????!!!!!!! Wonders will never end. If i recall correctly, the last time we marked you word, we got a Spanish Waiter who is busy dismantling our dear club. I will rather delete your words if i have a chance.

I wish our club was run as well as Man City. They are at the beginning of their journey, sadly ours is now coming to an end. If Roman can not grasp the simple concept, that he needs to surround himsef with football people, as opposed to yes men who are to frightened to challenge any decision, our days at the very top are over.

I always make the mistake of logically engaging ppl here who have no concept of the term logic...logically; not wanting a Mourinho return makes little sense...all the successes at our club were prefounded upon players he molded and/or bought. Where are we without Drogba...not in UCL 2013...not with players such as Oscar/Harzard etc...no prestige...his goals in the FA Cup gone...that is 4 trophies gone...5 with the UCL...6 without his golden boot year in 2009/2010...7 considering his wembly exploits in the League Cup...who brought us Drogba...Mou. We are what we are because of two people...Roman and Jose (who brought us Drogba...he who would have gone had @Mq had his way and we invested all our trust in Schevschenko as was his stated wish...)

If we want a glory of 2 years then struggle for identity of 5 years then Mouhrinho is our man but if we want a coach that will build a virile team and stick around to win trophies with them for the next 5 - 10 years the Jose wont be a good choice. He is a proud fellow that prefers having won here he should be seen to be winning with another (club) elsewhere in order to create a niche for himself. His Ego wont allow him remain for instance in England winning trophies for Chelsea for 3 seasons running. In addition, he will come with more controversy, bad press, friction with Management etc Suffice me to add (i maybe wrong) that his technical skill, match reading ability, man-management, right substitution forsight is on the decline as evidenced towards the end of last season and most of this season. so at chelsea he will end up paying some set of players all through and killing (the skill) of those he doesnt like. What happens to our legion of 23 currently on loan? i doubt if he will ever make use of them as you are sure to see 3-4 players from Madrid perhaps joining us (another round of wasted funds on buying players starts). Wont want to repeat other reasons e.g boring play, lack of desire to stay more than 2-3 seasons, speaking when he is supposed to be working etc mentioned by others. I have this strong feeling he may want to come to Chelsea just to prove a point against SAF and his desired will be hightened if United beat them in the CL

@JIm Shimfe--I am sorry mate but that is the most ridiculous form of drivel i have come across on this site!!!!WTF! His Technical skill,match reading ability and sub forsight is on the decline??? Cant believe im replying to this. Has he gone mad or gotten brain damaged? Has he grown so old? You have absolutely no idea what you are talking about and to imagine you have typed something so long with so much bs is worrying!!!!!!

You can call me all you like but BOTTOM LINE is....1) RDM was a clueless chancer who, when the going got tough, failed to live up to expectation. 2) Mourinho is a good Manager but whenever he's had control, he's fu(ked up big time. At Inter he had control, he left them in a mess and God only knows what would've happened had he stayed 1 more season. He left on a "high" and recall him always saying he wishes he left Chelsea earlier, that's right, on a "high". So much for longevity and building under Mourinho. At Madrid he's taken control and look how fu(ked they are now. Proves if you give him control he'll either leave on a "high" (when he's won) just before you faced with financial disaster, or he'll fu(k things up as he had at Madrid. Now why would you, being Roman and having invested so much to see the club build even in the academy, trust control to a man who'll either leave on a "high" or leave when he's fu(ked things up??...*smh*

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/chelsea/2644279/Jose-Mourinho-I-wish-Id-left-Chelsea-earlier-Football.html

And this^^^is the man you want to come "home"....*smh*

How did mourinho ruin chelsea when he left? How did mourinho ruin inter? Stop spewing this kind of talk and give statements that are backed up with facts!!! If mou comes here for 2 years, he'll create another solid foundation that can last us another 1 years, u people are saying stuffs that u can't prove, how was real playing under capello and pellegrini? How is it more better than mou's real?

...how was real playing under capello and pellegrini? How is it more better than mou's real?...Pellegrini led Real Madrid to 99points, the highest ever tally for a team to come 2nd to a vastly brilliant trebble winning Barca that season. Yes his Champs League record was "awful" but that was 1 season with them, how much better has Jose done?? The same Jose that lost 5nil to Barca LoL

A team atimes isn't built by one man, if mou builds our team and u get someone like klopp after a coupla years if he (mou) wants to test his mettle elsehwere again, would it be delusional to say that team would be solid with both manager's input?

Stop making a fool out of urself, I am talking about playing styles, u lot are saying he plays park the bus style and I said how is capello's team and pellegrini team playing, so pellegrini was so good he didn't win anything, mou was so bad he won la liga and copa dey rey isn't it? How many players scored the goal ronaldo scored in a season under pellegrini and capello, if his football Is that boring real would not be a free scoring side as they were

Sneidjer left real for inter, and became a world beater there, is that reason toxic too? Lampard, drogba?

I quote...Additionally, his brand of attacking football was more in tune with what most Madrid fans feel should be their side's style of play - a passing and possesion philosophy more similar to Barca's than their current counter-attacking game under the Portuguese....LoL boy am I loving making a "fool" out of myself ;)

...Manuel Pellegrini: "I would have liked to have won at least 1 title with Real Madrid and I still think we did enough to deserve it. I wonder how strong would Real Madrid be these days, if all of a sudden they would lose Cristiano Ronaldo for a couple of months and Pepe for almost half a year, as it did happen with me during the 2009-2010 season. Even with all those setbacks, we did 96 points in the Spanish League!", pointed out the Chilean manager, who seemed a bit upset with the fact that José Mourinho's men did break La Liga's single-season point record in 2011-2012, after reaching the impressive 100 points mark.....so it turns out Pellegrini didn't have Ronaldo for a while, likewise Pepe and yet he achieved 6 points less than the best Mourinho's ever achieved in 3 seasons there?? Talk about a comparison, man this just get's better and better to proving just how Mourinho's all that you claim him to be

http://www.ronaldo7.net/news/2012/578-manuel-pellegrini-i-wonder-how-real-madrid-would-do-without-cristiano-ronaldo.html

@mq,If you think sahin would play ahead of alonso and khedira then it sums you all up (your real knowledge of football!!!) :-)....

LoL dude you are either intentionally naive or naturally naive 3NITY he said..."That's the moment I regret. After that day, after that final, I should (have left) Chelsea and I would have the chance in Wembley to say goodbye to the fans and to say goodbye to English football.....But clearly if I regret one decision in my career it's that decision of staying in Chelsea not one more season, staying in Chelsea a few more months."....in essence among his "regrets" in his career, him not leaving early counts as of the "highest".

..."The style of how we play is very important. But it is omelettes and eggs. No eggs - no omelettes! It depends on the quality of the eggs. In the supermarket you have class one, two or class three eggs and some are more expensive than others and some give you better omelettes. So when the class one eggs are in Waitrose and you cannot go there, you have a problem."...this is what Jose said about the players who would go on to lose the Champs League on penalties. So much for "progress" from Mr "buy buy"

The players Mourinho called "bad eggs" reached the Champs League final under Grant

@MQ---Your negligence of the facts is alarming and it only oozes stupidity. He said he rejected an offer to move on at that wembley final cos he wanted more years and more success with the club. The only reason he regrets it was cos he was later forced to leave mid-season anyway. Are you bi-polar or you just have a hard time understanding what he was saying? HE REGRETS NOT MOVING AFTER THAT FINAL BECAUSE EVENTUALLY,HE WASNT ALLOWED TO ENJOY MORE SUCCESS WITH A CLUB HE DEARLY LOVES AND HE WAS FORCED TO LEAVE A FEW MONTHS LATER. How can you attribute that to the fact that he always like to leave on a high? Besides,wouldnt you rather leave the stage when the ovation is highest? You have simply decided to ignore any sort of common sense as you have been blinded by your hatred for the man. Shame really cos he is a winner anyway!

@MQ- you lose out on an argument cos you dont stay on point! Pick one point,drive that point in and prove your case. If i am wrong and end up agreeing with your point,i will state it. It doesnt make you the better man,it proves that we live and we learn. In this case,you are having a merry go round. Now you are switching to stats. What titles did Pellegrini win with Madrid? Are you comparing him to Jose now? If Pellegrini is loved by 80% of madrid fans,how about Porto,Inter and Chelsea fans willing to die for Jose??? Youre not as argumentative as you think you are....you argue almost blindly. Sometimes you bring out your facts but most times you just go on with.................

RDM,I can vividly remember the time. You both were always at eachother and i had a great time reading your arguments. Lets just say i am so glad Hulk didnt come to Chelsea but to be honest,i secretly admired him until i watched him up close and personal at the Olympics and i found out certain things about him. The greed didnt help his cause either. Moses on the other hand is just getting better. His head is down and he wants to learn...

My point: if it's longevity, stability and team building from the academy upwards you want 3NITY, Jose is not your man. If it's short-term instant success at a cost, he is your man. What we need right now is the former, which Jose doesn't fit the profile. Hell, he's even failing @ Madrid now, with all the "control" you feel he should be given to come to Chelsea, his "home" apparently, which further justifies why he'd be the wrong choice for us in the long-term

...Although now, after the "period we going through you ask yourself, 1) what if we didn't hire RDM but hired some1 whom we had enough faith to buy their recommendations?? It's possible we wouldn't be in this "mess", not so?? This proves I wasn't wrong about us not hiring RDM. 2) What if we bought Moura instead of Oscar?? Moura is a faster player, who would add more pace with trickery going forward, possible helping especially in being versatile with the wingers. Again, it's possible I was right about us buying him. 3) What if we bought Hulk instead of Moses?? For all those calling Hulk a flop, none have proven so. Further to that, Hulk was versatile enough to play as striker so when we saw TorrMented1's flops, we'd have had a "viable" alternative earlier on and possible rescued some games, in the process resting TorrMented1. Furthermore, Moses left for Afcon and we've suffered in winger squad depth, had we got Hulk we'd surely have had him by now, reducing the fatigue in the players by having more options available. So in essence, I could've been right in us following my recommendations in the summer after all ;)

LoL DESMOND Pellegrini is at Malaga and doing very well for a club in a financial crisis lad LoL

you absolutely right we didn't buy the players DESMOND and look what's happening now?? LoL

....I am talking about playing styles, u lot are saying he plays park the bus style and I said how is capello's team and pellegrini team playing....if that doesn't intimate Pellegrini plays garbage football (park the bus) then surely I'm as stupid as you say DESMOND because that is what YOU said in this SAME ARTICLE a while ago *smh*

As for a VC "mad man" there is a mental note of that is at far as cfc is concerned. Priceless*

LoL...anyone can see what you attempting to do DESMOND I won't debtae lengthy with yo anymore. Call your father, brothers, uncles, nephews and all the male brain you can get, then I'll indulge you. Otherwise, why waste my time proving something I've always done ;)

sorry for interrupting the argument, but i do remember @mq accept defeat of his own error regarding RDM, admitting to eat humble pie having to watch the amazing of mazacar last year

i hve read comments hear where in ppl want managers to stay for 10 yrs etc etc but according me if a club has a strong philosophy there is no need for a manager to stay that long, a new manager can com in jst follow d philosophy make few changes to it n tats it........3-4 yrs is long enough, i dnt mean to say tat remove a manager after 3-4 yrs even if he is doin good but if either d club r d manager want to move away then its ok.......if u look at teams big european teams since 1980 lik AC milan they have had 22 managers (tats an average of 1 manger for every 1.5 yrs). longest being carlo(8 yrs) n saachi (5 yrs).... At RM there have been 30 managers since 1980 ( ave of almost 1 manager per season) longest being del bosque (4 yrs)...At FC DIVERS there have been 20 managers (ave of 1.65 yrs). longest being cyruff(8 yrs) n after him was pep(4 yrs).... At bayern there have been 19 manager (ave of 1.7) longest being Lattek & heynckes (4 yrs).... At Juve ther have been 16 (ave of almost 2)... the beeter ave is due to Trapattoni staying for 10 n 3 yrs n lippi staying for 5 & 3 yrs

so we should stop running around tryin to get a guy who will stay for 8 or 10 yrs. we should 1st sort out the structure of the club, get a DOF wit a good footballing vision. d DOF will should then be allowed to map out the course the club is going to take in the future n then we should start looking for d manager who would take d club thro tat course (and also it would help us select a coach who has a similar philosophy to tat of the club)... rite now the club is running around lik a headless chicken coz there is no proper planning for the future. the outlook is always only for 1-2 seasons. tryin to hire a managers who r successful wit other clubs but not really compatible wit us. theres no proper planning to get d academy players into d 1st team. the only manager who did this was Carlo n he was sacked (a mistake according to me).

@blueabs - lik u hve said bfore in ur post, RA is surrounded by YES men n tat doesnt bode well for any organization. i can take d example of the organization where i work, the owners r surrounded by YES men n they take some of the $hittiest decisions i hve seen in my career....havin lots of money doesnt guarantee tat d person will make rite decisions, to run a good organization an owner should hve advisers who can say "wit all due respect sir, the decision u r takin is wrong".... But to say tat the advisers should also be experienced in the footballing matters which they arent.....these clowns are not at all qualified to run a club lik CFC, its lik telin a bus driver to fly a plane

Totally agree with chelsblr and blue abs, we're a business first and foremost and the name of the game is success, whether that be instant or a lasting legacy it doesn't matter, I'm sure Roman can see this and understand. So what if Mourinho only stays for 2 to 3 years, he proved last time out that the team he built and the mentality he gave them that it built a lasting legacy which is now coming to an end. I think people forget that we are a club in transition, every club goes through that, he'll even United have, the difference being is when United done it, the competition was not as fierce as it is now, before there was a top 4 now there's a top 6, which makes it harder to achieve that success year on year, I for one think Mourinho is the perfect fit, if he can continue the legacy and transform the likes of Hazard, KDB, Mata, Oscar etc into World class consistent talents and leaves after 3 years then I'll take that. I totally agree though if we get him, then the whole structure of the club needs to change, I would give Mourinho total control over first team matters, bring in a football minded DOF and keep Emenalo under him as head of youth scouting and development, it would then be up to the DOF to communicate between Emenalo and Mourinho regarding the integration of youth into the first team and decide which players are surplus to requirements or need experience via the loan system etc. because currently we have far too many players out on loan that could be beneficial in our current predicament. This way everyone is happy.

@Splint1976 - The big show-stopper with Jose is whether he can work with a DOF, and I mean really work with him. That is he converses with him and has exchanges opinions with him, both work for the betterment of the squad, not against each other, as is Jose's usual modus operandi. Both should embrace regular meetings with Roman, altogether in a room, no Buck, no Guorlay, etc. Talk football, enjoy it, I reckon Roman would love it.

the most imp thing tat RA needs to learn is PATIENCE (n also some of d fans over here). rome wasnt built in a day n neither was the british empire... RA wants want us to play lik barca but he doesnt understand tat the project at barca was started in the 1980s...... even if he brings in the best manager in the world n the best players in the world, there will be matches & seasons where in chelsea mite not win trophies.... till the time he develops patience chelsea will always be a revolving door for managers

@fv - how well would have pep done if he would have coached say liverpool instead of barca??? Now tat would be a real test

I don't care about Pep. The fact is, Mourinho hasn't done what Klopp did with Dortmund. The type of players that Dortmund have are not Mourinho type of players. The football they play is way better than what Madrid do.

Mq. Sahin was injured the majority of 2011 2012 season. So how would he be Abel to play under Mourinho then?