David Luiz believes that Chelsea's season will be a "s***" one if they do not win the Premier League.

Wednesday night's 3-1 loss to Atletico Madrid saw Jose Mourinho's side crash out of the Champions League at the semi-final stage, with earlier exits in the FA Cup and Capital One Cup leaving just the league title to claim.

Chelsea are outsiders to win a fifth top-flight crown following recent losses to Sunderland and Crystal Palace but Luiz feels that a trophy is a must if the season is not to be deemed a failure.

"You can say it is a s*** season if you don't have trophies in a season at a big club. That is true," Luiz told reporters.

"We are a big club and we want to win trophies. We keep fighting in the league. We cannot win automatically. It will be difficult.

"We have many fantastic players and everyone wants to win trophies. It is normal when you sit at home and watch television to see Chelsea fighting for trophies.

"We need to be men and it is not always possible to win. The season we won [the Champions League] was a s*** season until the end and then we won two titles at the end."

Fernando Torres gave Chelsea the lead on Wednesday night before goals from Adrian Lopez, Diego Costa and Arda Turan saw the Primera Division leaders progress to the final.

Captain John Terry was seen in tears at the final whistle, an expression of emotion that Luiz admires as it shows a player's "personality" and "fight".

He continued: "Everyone is crying. Nobody likes to lose a Champions League semi-final - not just John.

"We have to remember we are lucky people who have the best job in the world. We have to respect that people at home do not have the same life as us.

"The most important thing is the personalities for me. We need to fight in many situations. This is sport, this is football. Everyone speaks about results but, in the end, you need to remember everyone here is human. Everyone gave their best all season. Everyone can make mistakes – that is normal - but you cannot hide yourself from any situations.

"I do my job every day. I gave everything. If there were many s*** games, when you didn't run, then fine but we gave our best in many, many games but sometimes it's possible to win, sometimes not."

http://www.goal.com/en/news/9/england/2014/05/02/4789600/chelseas-season-has-been-s-luiz

Luiz can say whatever he wants about what he thinks is a sh*t season and what's not, but he clearly has no idea what he's talking about. Here is Petr Cech in an interview with some common sense about our season.

“We’re not the favourites for the [Premier League] title. If we don’t win it, we will be disappointed but it was not the target. As the manager said, this is a process of him building the team he wants. We have made progress even if there are no trophies at the end to show for it. We have been looking for stability and in the last few seasons we have had a lot of changes of manager. It’s really important to start with one manager and end it with the same one. Now next season we can make an even bigger step forward. Whatever happens this season it will be even better next season because of the confidence we have gained and we will be in an even better position to fulfil our targets.”

Their season was good, similar to Barça season, dominated big confrontations in the league but lost consistence in some games.
They were contenders in Europe and England, what no team in England has been able to achieve. We cant judge a season only by trophies, a success story with a new coach needs time, Mourinho will show his strenght of building in transfer market and we will probably have to deal with Chelsea next year in final stages.

Edit : Lol V faster than me :).

@tiki: You actually also made a great point about Mourinho needing to still build his team in the transfer market. People think because it's Mourinho and we are Chelsea we can just win trophies. No, we don't have any world class striker and our pivot is only good with Matic.

I'd also like face Barcelona soon. Matches with them are always intense.

Yeah tiki_taka you are right. We can't judge a season by trophies. For example ManU had a trophy this year under Moyes and Chelsea didn't. Does it say ManU have been better than Chelsea? No.
Chelsea reached CL Semi finals. To be honest, I wasn't expecting that so it's an achievement for me.
Chelsea lost the League with Sunderland match. If they've won that game They were the favourites for League. I think; If you lost EPL just because of one match, you can say "maybe it wasn't a good year but wasn't a bad year either".

Only Mourinho can get away with not winning anything in his 1st season. Always saying Chelsea are not favourites so there wouldn't be any disappointment. If it was Benitez who have had this season, fans would be shouting from the rooftops for his resignation. Then again, Mourinho usually comes good in the 2nd season. Since he claims he is now with Chelsea long term, he's setting his team up for longevity. If things don't work out though, he is always welcome back to Inter.

@Wolfie: We'd shout for Benitez's resignation not because he didn't win anything, but because he's not welcome here. It's like having Mourinho as Barcelona manager. Sure he'll win trophies but he isn't welcome there.

@V Insert any manger.. Benitez was just a example.. But I get why he's not welcome. With the Chelsea/Liverpool rivalry and all.. BTW, how did that rivalry come to be ?

Wolfie got a point, Mourinho saying Chelsea are not favourites so there wouldn't be any disappointment. Saying one thing, doing another.I would give you millions likes if I could.

David luiz is talking without filters. Cech is talking like a politician, saying only soothing things. Chelsea and City were the two main favorites to win the title last summer, when all the pundits and press and us on the forum were talking about the league. Like Wolfie said, Mourinho has repeted all season long that chelsea were a malnourished little horse, and now people believe that. Mourinho got a world class squad that cost hundreds of millions, spent a few more tens of millions when he arrived and we're supposed to believe that they were never favorites. I'm not saying it was a poor season, but it is a disapointing one from chelsea's perspective.

Edit : disapointing IF they don't win the league

@Wolfie: I think any good manager, who's had no bad blood with Chelsea and a good CV would be given 2-3 seasons to win a trophy at Chelsea. Only if he keeps going far in tournaments, remains in the top 4, and isn't always inconsistent in his tactics, though.

As for the rivalry, it first started when Chelsea faced Liverpool for 4th place in the 02/03 season and we won (it's said Roman bought Chelsea after seeing that match). Later, it became just Benitez v Mourinho, which we thought normal since the old Mourinho picked fights with every manager he faced. It got bad for Benitez though when he called all Chelsea fans plastic. He had the full support of the Liverpool fans after that comment as well which led to some animosity between the two clubs. Controversial matches between the two also occurred many times in the Champions League and other tournaments. But the most controversial moment between the two clubs that completely peaked the rivalry into sheer hate between the two different supporters was that ghost goal in the CL semi-final that eliminated Chelsea. Had that been disallowed, we could have had a chance to advance into the final and faced Milan instead of Liverpool.

Take a look:

I can't seriously believe some people thought and STILL think Chelsea were always the favorites for the EPL. Why would we be the favorites when:

A) This is Mourinho's first season back.

B) Almost all his former players are gone.

C) He has to deal with the decline of the remaining old guards and handle the inexperienced players we start.

D) He had to suffer through an absolutely crap pivot for half of the season. And even when we bought Matic, we couldn't play him in the CL and also had another pivot spot left to fill.

E) NO WORLD CLASS STRIKER. Tell me where Liverpool would be without Suarez or Sturridge?

Mourinho was serious about us not being favorites this season. He was right when he said we were little horses, because we are. We are a team of young, inconsistent, inexperienced, transitioning players, with a few holes still left from departed old guards. We also had to juggle the CL, C1C, and FA Cup for a while. Liverpool didn't have to deal with tournaments because they were elimnated early and didn't participate in any European competition. City have better squad depth than we do and a lot of their players are in their prime or are close to reaching it. How can we be called favorites?

Is it because we are Chelsea and we have Mourinho? That's most likely why all the same comments about our season pop up. This a Chelsea squad built for long term, not short term.

@V No one could have predicted the rise of Liverpool, everyone was saying Arsenal were going to be shit, that Manutd would go through a transition period with moyes, and Tottenham being tottenham, Chelsea and City were the obvious favorites. Btw Liverpool are full of (relatively) inexperienced young players that stepped up big time this season. Allen, Sterling, Henderson, Flanagan, even Sturridge for whom it was his first full league season as a starter. Chelsea have the second biggest squad in the EPL behind City, and the difference isn't that great.

Sometimes you have to accept stuff, you are in denial my friend.

It hasn't really been sh*t. He just came, got to semi-finals of the CL, beat nearly/ every top 7 club in the EPL, bought some promising players for Chelsea's future, finished 2/3 in EPL and all in his first season in England for ages. You can't expect someone to do amazingly well straight away all the time.

Luiz can't really talk. But this is coming from a guy who thought Benitez should stay at Chelsea.

I'm sorry, I know this has nothing to do with the topic but I felt a sudden urge to post this.

@rama: It's weird, the Barcelona fans (and one Beskitas fan) can understand but the Arsenal fans (and one Inter fan) can't understand why this season isn't disappointing.

EDIT: Holy sh*t, that GIF is fantastic. Can't get enough of it.

@V - Oh, I know all about that CL ghost goal.. I thought the rivalry went back much further than that. So it was more a Mourinho v Benitez rivalry than a club rivalry then. Also, Abramovic actually wanted to buy Spurs 1st but Levi was really difficult to deal with so he just chose Chelsea instead. Haha, how different the fortunes of Spurs would be if that happened. ;)

Chelsea are one of the best teams if they don’t concede, and that’s what they’ve done almost all season. Unfortunately, if you don’t have the capabilities and qualities to change a game once you concede then you become one-dimensional, and that’s what they are.
I thought the tie with Atletico Madrid always favoured the away team in the second leg, because they are both teams who base their games on defence and, especially after the first leg finished 0-0, you always favour the away team because of the significance of away goals.
That’s how it panned out. Once the first goal went in for Atletico Chelsea just weren’t able to chase the game and force the issue because they don’t have that style. In the second half I don’t think any team could play better than Atletico did; the way they kept the ball, the way they controlled the whole of the pitch, their movement and passing, they showed attributes Chelsea just don’t have at the moment.
Chelsea were found out by a better side.

For some reason they don’t have the structure. Back in the day they had Claude Makelele to call the shots and dictate play, but at the moment they lack fluidity to their game, either by design or other factors.
I think the players are far better than how they have played this season—not necessarily in results but in terms of style and performances.
Costa will improve them, because he will score more goals, but he won’t change how they play football.Yes, he’s a better centre forward than the three they have at the moment, but in terms of playing style they need to have a look at the whole setup.
In defence, for example, they have a centre-back playing right-back (Ivanovic) and a right-back playing left-back (Azpilicueta) and as good as they have both been, nowadays it is so important your full-backs are comfortable on the ball. They play a huge part in opening the game up.It's these details that Chelsea need to reconsider.I think Atletico showed they what a good all-round team they are, they are not just a defensive side.
They were a joy to watch in the second half under tough circumstances and I think they proved their qualities.They are where they are on merit.They are so streetwise, and rarely give an easy chance away—and that can grind teams down because you wonder what you have to do to score a goal.

They remind of me of Rafa Benitez’s Valencia side in that regard. The Reds played them twice in the group stages of the Champions League in 2002— Reds were good at that time, but certainly not in Valencia league—and they came to Anfield and Liverpool didn’t even have a shot on goal, which basically never happens.

That can really affect you mentally, because you start to wonder if you will ever find a way to create a chance, let alone a goal.Real Madrid are a side that suits them, Atletico like to play against teams that come at them as Real will. Yes, Real’s attackers are brilliant, but without the suspended Xabi Alonso I think in centre midfield Atletico will have the edge, and that could be crucial.I fancy Atletico to beat their arch-rivals and lift the Champions League.

Point of view of Dietmar Hamman that i found interesting.

How about Hazard's comment? "Chelsea are NOT made to play football"!!!!!!!!!

Im sure both Hazard and Luiz were emotionally affected and didn't handle those journalists' interview questions well. And they shouldn't have done that at all. Good season or not, obviously there are frustration, disagree and issues in Chelsea's changing room!

Mou really needs to sort them out or it would be chaos again like it was in Real's last season.

http://www.goal.com/en/news/9/england/2014/05/01/4786998/hazard-chelsea-are-not-made-to-play-football?ICID=AR_RS_4

"Chelsea is not made to play football. We're good on the counter, a little bit like Real against Bayern."
I don't know better than Hazard or Mourinho of course but I don't think Chelsea are good on the counter as they think they are.
Mourinho is probably gonna restructure the team for the next year.

@tuan_jinn: Or maybe you're over thinking all of this.

1) Hazard's interview was spoken and written in French. BeInSports cut parts of the interview to sensationalize their article, and every other sports media followed them because it got them clicks (clicks=ad money), even though they all know they cut off a huge chunk of his quote. Here is the actual quote (if someone who speaks French here could translate, that would be great):

2) There are NO issues with the Chelsea locker room. In fact, it hasn't been this good since Carlo's double winning season. I don't mean to sound like a twat, but why don't you focus on your own team's issues behind the scenes rather than ours? It's probably worse over there.

3) This won't be another Real Madrid problem because our players don't have the full support of the club, media, city, and politicians. It won't be another nation vs Mourinho, it'll be Mourinho swatting some annoying flies in the locker room and replacing them with some worker bees (De Bruyne, for example)/

Here's a translation ( not perfect, but I hope it's not so bad)

I do not know what missed.
After scoring we had the match in our hands.
Maybe they wanted a bit more than us.
The match was intense, and beautiful to see, with a lot of opportunities.
I am sad tonight, but it's logic, and they deserved to qualify.
Chelsea is not made to play the game, we are good on counter attacks, as Real played against Bayern and we did it well tonight considering we scored.
But their goal in the end of the first half really hurt us, and we were not able to make the difference in the second half, it's often to me to make the difference alone, and it's not easy. It was a complicated game, it's a good lesson to us for the next season.