• 2004/05 - Manager Jose Mourinho
• 2005/06 - Manager Jose Mourinho
• 2009/10 - Manager Carlo Ancelotti
• 2014/15 - Manager Jose Mourinho
• 2016/17 - Manager Antonio Conte

So this is more a three part question, which team do you think was the best, which one was your favourite and do you think any of these teams would win the league now?

 

For me I think our best team was 2004/05 but my favourite was 2009/10, which I think was more down to how exciting that season was and the football we were playing. I do think the 04/05 team would walk the league now in all honesty. That team did it in a season where Arsenal were coming off an unbetwen title winning season & a United Team that had just signed Wayne Rooney.

3 minutes ago, Bobbywoodhogan said:

• 2004/05 - Manager Jose Mourinho
• 2005/06 - Manager Jose Mourinho
• 2009/10 - Manager Carlo Ancelotti
• 2014/15 - Manager Jose Mourinho
• 2016/17 - Manager Antonio Conte

So this is more a three part question, which team do you think was the best, which one was your favourite and do you think any of these teams would win the league now?

 

For me I think our best team was 2004/05 but my favourite was 2009/10, which I think was more down to how exciting that season was and the football we were playing. I do think the 04/05 team would walk the league now in all honesty. That team did it in a season where Arsenal were coming off an unbetwen title winning season & a United Team that had just signed Wayne Rooney.

Difficult choice. Statistically the 04-5 team was the most dominant and by far the most consistent. You could argue 05-6 was a stronger team with Essien added.

Agree that Carlo's team was probably the most exciting.

José's 3rd championship team started brilliantly but ended up grinding out results.

Conte's team was also very impressive once he sorted the formation.

50 minutes ago, Backbiter said:

Difficult choice. Statistically the 04-5 team was the most dominant and by far the most consistent. You could argue 05-6 was a stronger team with Essien added.

Agree that Carlo's team was probably the most exciting.

José's 3rd championship team started brilliantly but ended up grinding out results.

Conte's team was also very impressive once he sorted the formation.

Problem for me with Conte’s team was he had no adaptability beyond the formation that worked. Take the Spurs away game which we lost and then the FA Cup final. I believe especially in the FA cup final under our previous managers we’d have ground a win out there. It fell apart the season after too.

What no votes for Ted Drake and Roy Bentley?

My favourite team was Carlo's team.

Toss a coin over who had the best squad. Carlo had Ashley Cole, Ballack, Malouda and Brana while Jose 04-05 had Robben, Duff and Maka. Hard to separate them.

Edited July 9, 20206 yr by Spiller86

The first half of 05/06 actually blew 04/05 away in terms of domination but we petered out a bit in the second half of that season which makes 04/05 the best team out of the two.

49 minutes ago, Bobbywoodhogan said:

Problem for me with Conte’s team was he had no adaptability beyond the formation that worked. Take the Spurs away game which we lost and then the FA Cup final. I believe especially in the FA cup final under our previous managers we’d have ground a win out there. It fell apart the season after too.

I disagree he's the best manager performance out of the five titles by a considerable distance. With Jose you could argue another top class manager would have still delivered the title, with Carlo you could argue we may have won it even more comfortably if Hiddink stayed on instead but I don't think anyone would have thought up those tactical adjustments to win us the title in 2017.

I think you're being a bit harsh holding that WHL game against him, Spurs won 17 out of 19 home games that season for a reason and that's because they were very, very good (at that point I thought it was a matter of time until they became champion, thankgod that didn't happen).

As much of a c**t he became the following season, he got pretty much everything spot on in the title season.

83-84.

1 hour ago, Spiller86 said:

What no votes for Ted Drake and Roy Bentley?

My favourite team was Carlo's team.

Toss a coin over who had the best squad. Carlo had Ashley Cole, Ballack, Malouda and Brana while Jose 04-05 had Robben, Duff and Maka. Hard to separate them.

Come on we all know the league didn’t start until 1992 ?

 

27 minutes ago, Argo said:

The first half of 05/06 actually blew 04/05 away in terms of domination but we petered out a bit in the second half of that season which makes 04/05 the best team out of the two.

You know I think if we took just the year 2005 on the whole was probably our best.

 

23 minutes ago, Argo said:

I disagree he's the best manager performance out of the five titles by a considerable distance. With Jose you could argue another top class manager would have still delivered the title, with Carlo you could argue we may have won it even more comfortably if Hiddink stayed on instead but I don't think anyone would have thought up those tactical adjustments to win us the title in 2017.

I think you're being a bit harsh holding that WHL game against him, Spurs won 17 out of 19 home games that season for a reason and that's because they were very, very good (at that point I thought it was a matter of time until they became champion, thankgod that didn't happen).

As much of a c**t he became the following season, he got pretty much everything spot on in the title season.

I think Conte was incredibly fortunate myself, we went on that brilliant run wat was it 13 games? No one figured out our system but I think the FA Cup final exposed us and the following season that system died. Also that Spurs game we didn’t perform, Spurs weren’t good in that game so much as we were poor.
 

While I’ll agree it was probably most impressive cause we weren’t really expected to win it plus City has gotten Guardiola, Jose he gone to United etc infact we probably wouldn’t have even been 3rd choice to win it that season. I think it was a flash in the pan. Where Jose’s team went on to retain the title and dominate for longer.

Also I do agree other managers could have brought us success in this site he seasons but that first season under Jose when we became the best team in Europe imo. I don’t know if anyone could have made us that good that season as Jose did. 

Edited July 9, 20206 yr by Bobbywoodhogan

I think 2004/5 was probably the best, but 2009/10 was the most entertaining for sure. Loved it when we sealed the title with an EIGHT NIL victory LOL.

13 minutes ago, Sexyfootball said:

I think 2004/5 was probably the best, but 2009/10 was the most entertaining for sure. Loved it when we sealed the title with an EIGHT NIL victory LOL.

Yeah that was mightily impressive, I remember I was nervous AF prior to the game and then we scored after what like 4 minutes & I just relaxed and enjoyed it.

3 minutes ago, Bobbywoodhogan said:

Yeah that was mightily impressive, I remember I was nervous AF prior to the game and then we scored after what like 4 minutes & I just relaxed and enjoyed it.

Ah yes indeed ... let's have another look ... ?

 

 

49 minutes ago, Sexyfootball said:

Ah yes indeed ... let's have another look ... ?

 

 

Good times! I really loved Ancelotti....

I can't remember Melchiot played for Wigan, I'm not even sure I was aware of it at the time 

Carlo's team is my favourite, however i think the 05/06 team would fair the best, i feel we won the league that year without really gettting out of 1st gear. 

34 minutes ago, big blue said:

Carlo's team is my favourite, however i think the 05/06 team would fair the best, i feel we won the league that year without really gettting out of 1st gear. 

It was an amazing watch at the end but i think what counts against that team in comparison to the other 4 sides is complacency.

Pretty much anytime we had a chance to build a serious buffer on United we f**ked up and because of that we let a far from vintage United side recently stripped of 2 gamechangers back in when we should have slammed home our advantage. Compare that to Mou or Conte where we ruthlessly took any chance to disappear out of sight.

I would probably put 09/10 above 14/15 despite that as Hazard and Courtois carried that side past Christmas but the back to back and Conte teams i'll 100% have above. 

24 minutes ago, Argo said:

It was an amazing watch at the end but i think what counts against that team in comparison to the other 4 sides is complacency.

Pretty much anytime we had a chance to build a serious buffer on United we f**ked up and because of that we let a far from vintage United side recently stripped of 2 gamechangers back in when we should have slammed home our advantage. Compare that to Mou or Conte where we ruthlessly took any chance to disappear out of sight.

I would probably put 09/10 above 14/15 despite that as Hazard and Courtois carried that side past Christmas but the back to back and Conte teams i'll 100% have above. 

It was up and down under Carlo, certainly wasnt the best side, but going forward we were great to watch at times, and if essien didnt get that injury, i think it wouldve been more comfortable. 

I agree on 14/15, warning signs were there after that Tottenham defeat, and we didnt address them in the summer, amd the rest was history unfortunately. 

Conte and Mourinho 1st time, are the best managers we have had, both were eventually let down with poor acquisitions, and both didn't exactly help themselves either.

Hopefully this new team lamps is building surpasses the lot.

For me it's 2009/10 with Ancelotti, we won the Community Shield after great penalties, FA Cup after Drogba scored in the final and the Premier League by 1 point over ManU which was really special since we stopped them from winning 4 times in a row there which would have been historical, it showed we are to be the final boss to me.

In the Champions League we lost early on but we lost to the eventual winner, that season Inter won a treble so there was no shame in losing there.

 

04/05

I loved that team, it was rock solid. Duff and Robben (when fit) on the wings were so exciting to watch, no team in the league could cope with their counter attacks. The defence was the best I have ever seen in the Premier League too, and the stats back that up. Cech, Gallas, Terry, Carvalho, Ferreira and Makelele protecting, I doubt we'll ever see a defence as good as this one in our lifetime.

05/06

Almost as good as the season before, but I think our defence was weakened with the inclusion of Del Horno, and although Essien turned out to be brilliant for us, he was still adapting to league at that point. 

09/10 

The most exciting and the most frustrating at the same time. The race for the title was much closer than it should have been. We would blow teams away one week, and then struggle the next week. This was Lampard, Drogba, Malouda and Anelka's peak year in my opinion.

14/15

Some of the best football I have seen at the club in the first half of the season. Fabregas assisting Costa every week and Hazard's brilliance. Terry had one of the best seasons of his career too.

16/17

A strange season. We looked well off in the early games, but once Conte changed the formation, it changed everything. Luiz didn't look like a disaster waiting to happen every week, Azpilicueta turned into a world class CB and Moses went from being a right winger to a right wing back.  

 

My order would be

5th - 16/17

4th - 14/15

3rd - 05/06

2nd - 09/10

1st - 04/05

Carlo's by far.

Best football.

6 out of 6 against Manure, dippers and the goners.

Won by 1 point. 

 

4 hours ago, Droopy said:

Carlo's by far.

Best football.

6 out of 6 against Manure, dippers and the goners.

Won by 1 point. 

Won the double too. There was a stint in the Spring where it felt like we scored 5 goals every week. Malouda in particular was unplayable.

I think the Champions League remains the let down for that team. 04-05 is the only year we really competed on both fronts. Barring Liverpool's ghost goal we should have made the final that year. Beat Barcelona and Bayern only to be robbed by that lot.

5 hours ago, big blue said:

It was up and down under Carlo, certainly wasnt the best side, but going forward we were great to watch at times, and if essien didnt get that injury, i think it wouldve been more comfortable. 

I agree on 14/15, warning signs were there after that Tottenham defeat, and we didnt address them in the summer, amd the rest was history unfortunately. 

Conte and Mourinho 1st time, are the best managers we have had, both were eventually let down with poor acquisitions, and both didn't exactly help themselves either.

Hopefully this new team lamps is building surpasses the lot.

I think what’s most frustrating is if we’d sorted out our problems in the Summer we likely would have retained the title in 15-16. I think we f**ked our selves in Pre season going to the States aswell. Should have stayed more locally like we did the previous year.

6 minutes ago, Bobbywoodhogan said:

I think what’s most frustrating is if we’d sorted out our problems in the Summer we likely would have retained the title in 15-16. I think we f**ked our selves in Pre season going to the States aswell. Should have stayed more locally like we did the previous year.

The all time collapse already started in the back end of the title season only at that point Courtois and Hazard were papering over the cracks.

9 hours ago, Argo said:

The all time collapse already started in the back end of the title season only at that point Courtois and Hazard were papering over the cracks.

You’d think we’d lean though, 09-10, 14-15 & 16-17 the title defences the year after we’re because we didn’t fix our problems in the transfer window. Heck even 07-08 after 06-07 failing to win back the title if we’d made the right moves in the transfer window in 2007 we could have easily taken the title in 2008. We really could have more league titles if we’d been more ambitious in the seasons following those.

55 minutes ago, Bobbywoodhogan said:

You’d think we’d lean though, 09-10, 14-15 & 16-17 the title defences the year after we’re because we didn’t fix our problems in the transfer window. Heck even 07-08 after 06-07 failing to win back the title if we’d made the right moves in the transfer window in 2007 we could have easily taken the title in 2008. We really could have more league titles if we’d been more ambitious in the seasons following those.

In the other season's I'd agree but after the title in 2015 the damage the done during the back end of the title season (which is why I dismissed the idea Drogba and Cech staying for their dressing room aura would have helped prevent it, I'm just glad they got out intime so they weren't associated with that 15/16 season). The team were so completely unfit and devoid of attacking ideas that even if we got his signings in they wouldn't have changed much, Pogba even in his prime couldn't fix a Jose season three himself and Stones alone most definitely wouldn't have fixed those defensive issues.

The one which had Eidur in it

Those two champions teams we had 14/15 and 16/17 weren't as near as good as the previous ones. The competition was terrible and only lack of European football saved the League from even greater disgrace than Leicester champions - Scums with the gold.