Are the doubters wrong about Wenger?

[Power n Glory]

People on this board do the same thing when it comes to refs.

I also hate the way people use billionaire clubs to mask our failings.

Jose is a funny character. I don't pay him too much mind. His most shameful moment has to be the eye gouge incident with Barca.

[Bumble]

I'm sorry but i don't want to hear about Mourinho, i think a club like Chelsea should be ashamed that their manager resorts to playing the way they did against a smaller club like Atletico Madrid with the infinite resources they have. It's bad enough that they have the kind of money they have to spend irradicating any sense of building a club up whilst remaining fiscally responsible, but you'd think at the very least there would be some element of entertainment in what they do.

Playing 11 men behind the ball doesn't make you a tactical genius, it makes you someone who is more afraid to lose than determined to win.

This isn't about defending Wenger, any half decent manager could tactically outsmart him....but don't try and make Mourinho out at this brilliant schemer able to adapt to any given situation...he's a man who acheives things with a generous cheque book and doesn't even have the guts to do so with flair and style...pernicious little coward.

i agree, cant stand mourinho and he sucks the life out of football. what makes it worse is that he will probably succeed with the tactic and then we have to watch it again in the final when they spawn there way to a win on penalties.

[Power n Glory]

His brand of football is mind numbingly boring. His interviews are entertaining but I can't say the same about his football.

[Letters]

I also hate the way people use billionaire clubs to mask our failings.

It's hardly an irrelevance.

And yes yes, Liverpool. But let's see if they sustain it when they have a CL campaign and the pressure of being champions, especially if someone goes *yoink* and turns Suarez's head.

I do agree that it's not the only reason for our failings though.

[Globalgunner]

how do you know that?

Well I know for a fact that Zimm only earns. £7,999,999 and his Sunday league team are tops of the Cant stand Wenger, little league. I could be making it up though.

Zimm speaks to the truth.........Letters on the other hand...

[Globalgunner]

i agree, cant stand mourinho and he sucks the life out of football. what makes it worse is that he will probably succeed with the tactic and then we have to watch it again in the final when they spawn there way to a win on penalties.

Mourinho is proof positive to the hard up billions amongst us that Money doesnt usually make you a better person....Most often it amplifies your worst traits.

[Letters]

Zimm speaks to the truth.........Letters on the other hand...

Do carry on. I what?

[Dein-machine]

More embarrassing than claiming the refs are conspiring to stop Chelsea win the league when it was actually his own team's failings?


Not really.

Try - "one accident doesn't make you a bad driver" - that after our 3rd consecutive humiliation against a top 4 side.

Yes really.

[Letters]

You think that's as embarrassing as saying the whole football establishment is conspiring against you?



OK. We'll agree to disagree about that

[Dein-machine]

I'm sorry but i don't want to hear about Mourinho, i think a club like Chelsea should be ashamed that their manager resorts to playing the way they did against a smaller club like Atletico Madrid with the infinite resources they have. It's bad enough that they have the kind of money they have to spend irradicating any sense of building a club up whilst remaining fiscally responsible, but you'd think at the very least there would be some element of entertainment in what they do.

Playing 11 men behind the ball doesn't make you a tactical genius, it makes you someone who is more afraid to lose than determined to win.




This isn't about defending Wenger, any half decent manager could tactically outsmart him....but don't try and make Mourinho out at this brilliant schemer able to adapt to any given situation...he's a man who acheives things with a generous cheque book and doesn't even have the guts to do so with flair and style...pernicious little coward.

I doubt anyone on this site wants to discuss Mourinho but it was bought into this thread by someone else suggesting that our manager doesn't act like him - he does.
Like us he doesn't have quality forwards so he went into the modweek game against the current La Liga leaders with a game plan to win over 2 legs. I don't like the negativity either but its exactly what we did earlier this year at Dortmund & Napoli aswell as against Bayern when we needed to score goals - Mourinho wouldn't have been that negative.
Mourinho won the Champions league with Porto through tactical nous & NO cheque book along with stopping the Barca romp in Spain with their supposed unbeatable team by spending far less than his predecessors.

Mournho is a spoilt brat whom I would love to come across in a dark alley but he is a winner. He breeds that mentality. We have a manager who thinks 4th is wonderful & we should all be so grateful whilst showing his ambitious side by buying a 32 year old Swede with a bad back to save a crumbling season in Jan. Mourinho saw the same need & bought Matic back. Don't say because he had the money, this wasn't a Bale deal! - we should & could have paid that aswell.