Do you think every player we have is Jose's player

[Bridgeboy]

If not then why not ? and is/has that been detrimental to the success in the last season and so far this season ?

[BLUENUT]

No I honestly don't.

It has been argued before but.......

His comments about our lack of sharpness in-front of goal seemed to be a another dig at Sheva after last night match.

I don't think it is a coincidence that we signed the German Captian and Ukraine captain who are both sponsered by Addidas, in the same season our kits were produced by the same company.

Gallas left under a cloud and his no13 shirt was given to Ballack, who always wears that number!?!

Sheva picked up his usual no7 shirt.

I also think that Jose may have had his wings clipped in the transfer market after words with his superiors at the club pre-season, which is why we have only purchased free transfers, and spent money on Malouda with some of the money we re-couped on the sale of Robben.

Weither this is because Jose has said he can work without money to prove a point (I don't want any of the players you've bought me) or because his superiors don't want him spending money on players he may not be managing soon. That is another can of worms!

But seeing Jose and his staff on our 1st televised European CL game decked out in illuminous yellow Addidas tracksuits (obviously a new line in the Chelsea club shop) and T-shirts, when he would usually wear a suit, leads me to believe we have sold our soul and become the bitch of Addidas!

This is no longer the club I started supporting, we have become a shawdow puppet of clubs like Real Madrid on the CL merry-go round! When the trophy's dry-up they will be left with a soul-less club because they have alienated their true supporters in persuit of world-wide shirts sale dominence and corporates.

[Sofa Manager]

Honestly, and in my humble opinion, there's no such thing as a "Jos? player" and a "Roman player" or a "Kenyon player".

Roman, Kenyon, Adidas, Pukka Pies, may want to "impose" the player X or Y.

Roman may want sexy football.

Kenyon an Adidas may want shirt sales.

But ultimately, everyone has to be aproved by the manager.

If he didn't want them, 2 options arised :

1) Be coherent with himself and rescind the contract.

2) Be submissive and accept the players.

Wich one is Mourinho ?

I don't think any of them.

So ultimatley they're all his signings. With his stamp of aprovement.

They might have been "sugested"...that's a whole diferent story.

"Jos?, do you really really want us to get Gerard for ASTUPIDAMOUNTOF ? or can you - in alternative - accept Ballack who has been offered by Adidas?"

[BLUENUT]

1) Be coherent with himself and rescind the contract.

Or wait to get sacked which was rumoured last year, and have your contract paid in full

I magine he thought he could work with the tools given to him, it's not like they gave him Adi Akinbayi and Dean Windass is it? Well in hindsight.........perhaps it was Although he had to change his formation to accomodate them after winning 2 titles playing with 4-3-3!

Going by Jose's demeanour and body language, this is his last season as Chelsea manager. . He'll leave Chelsea with a big paycheck, having won every domestic trophy. His original confidence, swagger and spark seems to have dissapeared. I think he'll tell Roman to poke it and after the European championships in the summer he will take charge of Portugal's national side and have 4 years perparing them for the world cup. Thats my guess anyway.

[BLUENUT]

1) Be coherent with himself and rescind the contract.

Or wait to get sacked which was rumoured last year, and have your contract paid in full

I magine he thought he could work with the tools given to him, it's not like they gave him Adi Akinbayi and Dean Windass is it? Well in hindsight.........perhaps it was Although he had to change his formation to accomodate them after winning 2 titles playing with 4-3-3!

Going by Jose's demeanour and body language, this is his last season as Chelsea manager. . He'll leave Chelsea with a big paycheck, having won every domestic trophy. His original confidence, swagger and spark seems to have dissapeared. I think he'll tell Roman to poke it and after the European championships in the summer he will take charge of Portugal's national side and have 4 years perparing them for the world cup. Thats my guess anyway.

Looks like he took option 1 after all!

[Sofa Manager]

1) Be coherent with himself and rescind the contract.

Or wait to get sacked which was rumoured last year, and have your contract paid in full

I magine he thought he could work with the tools given to him, it's not like they gave him Adi Akinbayi and Dean Windass is it? Well in hindsight.........perhaps it was Although he had to change his formation to accomodate them after winning 2 titles playing with 4-3-3!

Going by Jose's demeanour and body language, this is his last season as Chelsea manager. . He'll leave Chelsea with a big paycheck, having won every domestic trophy. His original confidence, swagger and spark seems to have dissapeared. I think he'll tell Roman to poke it and after the European championships in the summer he will take charge of Portugal's national side and have 4 years perparing them for the world cup. Thats my guess anyway.

Looks like he took option 1 after all!

Exactly BN ! I remembered this thread and what I wrote just like you.

It only dignifies him I think. Coherence untill the end.

But still IMO doesn't mean he accepted imposed players.