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You've definitely got the wrong Vilas-Boas. For the amount of money you paid for him I would've defo taken the models.
 
It's not even that, it's the total lack of fluidity in our passing and movement.
 
You have been poor overall, but you've had some awful defensive lapses. If you'd been more solid at the back we'd be level.
 
Alcaraz said:
Scolari also had a squad that was arguably in their prime whilst AVB has an overage and tired squad that dont suit his attacking football philosophy

Plus he wont be sacked after this season, its well known that he and Roman have already started working on the squad for next season where we will be making a major push for all 4 trophies, we will doing a lot of business in the Summer I guarntee you that

Also we are the 6th Richest Football Club in the world, we have seen healthy revenue growth the past year
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I never said he would be sacked. You guarantee you will be challenging for all four trophies? Anyone can say that....

I doubt you will be doing a lot of business, FFP has got going now and Chelsea are losing tens of millions each year [not saying they're the only ones but still]. If they are going to take FFP seriously they won't be spending hundred of millions. That, coupled with the fact Ambramovich doesn't really want to be investing more, I mean, he's set the foundations he shouldn't have to continue investing £100m per year to keep the club running/ competitive.

Joel` said:
But then, how would AVB be doing if he had spent £100m in the summer? He has an ageing squad that needs a revamp. He's been brought in for the long term to stamp his philosophy on the team, not to come and win everything in his first season.
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I assume you're refering to Tezz being a Liverpool fan, think you should take notice of a few things:

1) We didn't spend £100m in the summer
2) Chelsea's spending in the Summer was probably more than Liverpools
3) Chelsea have spent over £100m this season. Think they spent about £70m in the summer
4) Liverpool's net spend is almost equal to the price it cost Chelsea to replace Ancelotti with AVB

I don't think AVB is ****, was just wondering what Chelsea fans thought of him. Just don't see why everything has to be turned around on Liverpool.
 
Awful, awful game by Chelsea today.

Worst I've seen them in a while, and they've not really been good all year.
 
I have tried to back AVB all season but now i have given up. Obviously not pinning all the blame on him because quite clearly its not all hit fault but the mistakes start with him. Everton have huge aerial threat so why didn't we play Brana Right back with Luiz and Cahill in the middle. Also why don't we try and move the ball from the back instead of Cech lumping it long everytime especially when we don't have a Drogba to win the ball in the air. Also most of our chances come from crosses which are being aimed at Mata and Torres (two players not known for their headering ability). I accept most of these are not his players but he keeps playing players he shouldn't so that is down to him. Personly now i think its time Roman pushes the panic button and gets Hiddink in asap and go back to basics.
 
I never understand AVB's subs. Been saying this for a while now, today's example being Lukaku in - Mata out. Mata was the only threatening player you had for most of the match, why take him out and switch to old fashioned hoofball? It didn't work at all, either.
 
CJACKO11 said:
I have tried to back AVB all season but now i have given up. Obviously not pinning all the blame on him because quite clearly its not all hit fault but the mistakes start with him. Everton have huge aerial threat so why didn't we play Brana Right back with Luiz and Cahill in the middle. Also why don't we try and move the ball from the back instead of Cech lumping it long everytime especially when we don't have a Drogba to win the ball in the air. Also most of our chances come from crosses which are being aimed at Mata and Torres (two players not known for their headering ability). I accept most of these are not his players but he keeps playing players he shouldn't so that is down to him. Personly now i think its time Roman pushes the panic button and gets Hiddink in asap and go back to basics.
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So we can keep the likes of Malouda for another year? What happened to giving manager time to build a squad?
 
To be fair, half the problem seems to be that Chelsea's plan of attack was give the ball to Drogba and he will do something amazing, or Lamps bursts from deep and taps one away. It was one dimensional sometimes, but it worked due to the quality of players. Now with Torres midfiring (and being a different sort of striker) and with Mata the only proper winger you guys have, it seems like tactically he's just not on the money. You look at Chelsea's first XI, and yeah some players arn't great, but by and large the players would walk into most other teams in the league - it seems that tactically they just arn't being used properly.
 
At least we know if AVB does go Hiddink is free.. I'm trying to back AVB but if we don't get top 4 things can really go downhill, sorry to bring Liverpool up again and not trying to cause arguments but we don't want to go the way they did.

Pessimistic head fully on.
 
AVB shouldn't be sacked this isn't his team let him build one imo and if it means no top 4 for a season or two then so be it.
 
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