Mourinho to United, surely?

Moyes...

Burnwinter wrote:

This is true … but Chelsea's current squad probably isn't much more than a £50m striker who doesn't suck away from being able to challenge strongly.

Think they're also a centre back and a midfielder short of the 90 points you seem to need to win the league.

It's official, he's back at Chelsea:

http://www.chelseafc.com/news-article/article/3199099/title/mourinho-appointed

Brilliant

Grauniad poll on which of the three big four managerial appointments is the biggest success has Mourinho / Moyes / Pellegrini running 42 / 38 / 20%.

Would've had them in the opposite order myself.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/blog/poll/2013/jun/03/club-manager-chelsea-manchester-united-city

Burnwinter wrote:

Grauniad

That is one heck of an impressive typo!

It's an accepted nickname given because of the Guardian's propensity for typos.

Ah bugger, never heard or seen that before.

I thought everyone knew that one. I think it was in The Book of Heroic Failures if anyone remembers that.

Burnwinter wrote:

Grauniad poll on which of the three big four managerial appointments is the biggest success has Mourinho / Moyes / Pellegrini running 42 / 38 / 20%.

Would've had them in the opposite order myself.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/blog/poll/2013/jun/03/club-manager-chelsea-manchester-united-city

I would swap Moyes and Pellegrini there.

Burnwinter wrote:

They need consistency, "momentum", positive buzz from the fans, continuity in management and a top striker - then they'll compete for the league title again.

Well they'll get that now.

Burnwinter wrote:

By the way I don't agree we need 4+ world class players to compete for the title though it certainly wouldn't hurt. I reckon we need a top centre forward to work with, someone really decent through the spine (whether a CM or a godly CB) and to replace any useful player we lose through attrition.

And a top class manager......

If Chelsea don't win the league this year do you think he'll be sacked?

Would be well funny.

I'd really love to see him flop massively. It'll be interesting to see who they sign. They need a few players to compete for the league. As do City. I could see both of them going mental this summer with massive priced signings.

Hope Hulk is their mega signing.

If Rooney is on the market they will sign him.

qs! wrote:

I'd really love to see him flop massively. It'll be interesting to see who they sign. They need a few players to compete for the league. As do City. I could see both of them going mental this summer with massive priced signings.

Well lets just say for the sake of argument that we don't win the league next year.......it'll be either Utd City or them, who would you consider the lesser evil?