the lols are on chelsea at the moment and it's only fair that Chelsea gets loled at this much considering they're defending champions and a bunch of other unlikable things about them. There's been plenty of lolarsenal, lolpool in the past and there will be plenty more so let's just live in the present. Using that 8 game sample to start questioning things about the past decade not the way to go though.
Aids aside though not sure how much of this is on Mourinho and I'd say not much really. The one big thing I could blame him for is playing Ivanovic for this long. I can see giving him the benefit of doubt and a chance to get back to his level considering he's been a very productive player in the past but this much atrocity over 8 games is just too long. Other than that, nobody really knows what the problem is. This is pretty much the same team that dominated the league last year we are just seeing historically big drops in form from world class players like Matic, Cesc, Hazard and Costa has looked bad too (and i'm not talking about Ivanovic again). Those were the most important players last year and obviously if they go from great to **** it's impossible to play well enough. Do we really want to put their drops in form on TSO? Probably not. Is TSO totally excused from it? Probably not. It's not like (ivanovic apart) he's been really stubborn with formation, substitutions or team tactics. He's tried many midfields combinations, changed the CB pairing a few times dropping legend leader and has made subs early when needed. Whatever the answer to this mess is, we're probably looking at somewhere like mental fatigue, missing Eva or some silly intangible stuff like this. i dunno.
Eventually if he doesn't go with the Baba-CB 1 - CB 2 - Azpi lineup this can only mean a few things :
1) Ivanovic has compromising pictures of Jose's wife
2) Baba is looking worse than me at football in training
3) TSO not #1
I was saying this in August in the transfer thread
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Ivanovic is still solid and I suspect he ran hot with goals the last season making him somewhat overrated. The way Montero tortured him vs Swansea is worrying, he's a bit slow and at age 31 it's not gonna get much better. I can see him continuing for a few more years at the CB position but i'd not want to have him as the RB for too long going forward I think that has to be Azpi's spot in the future. Speaking of Azpi I'm liking him less and less at the LB position. He's good defensively but going forward he's very limited, he doesn't have a good left foot and that is obviously hampering him, a lot of the times he's just trying to get rid of the ball to hazard and slows down the attack on the left side.
January window shall be interesting