Arjen Robben isn’t so sure about Jose Maurinho’s system:

If you play two or three matches and one match is bad, you are immediately on the bench and that’s not good. It’s bad for a player’s self-confidence because you can’t get a rhythm. The problem now is that if you have a dip in form or play badly then you are immediately replaced. I believe we should build the team round a fixed group and if the policy is to be continuous substitution then I don’t like it. I don’t know how the manager thinks but I don’t like that system.’

John Terry is running interference, looks like, but Robben is right. Maurinho may have too much money to play with here. You just can’t sit world-class talent, and the Blues’ second 11 would probably make the Champions League.

We’ll see if Jose can hold it together….

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