Chelsea sack manager José Mourinho after disastrous start to title defence

[the4thjuliek.livejournal.com]

José Mourinho said his work had been ‘betrayed’ at Chelsea by the efforts of his players. Photograph: Jason Dawson/REX/Shutterstock

Chelsea have parted company with manager José Mourinho. The Portuguese returned to the club in 2013 and won the Premier League title last season, but having sunk to 16th place in the table, the Stamford Bridge outfit have dismissed their manager.

Mourinho’s side have lost nine league games this season, the worst defence of a Premier League title ever. The latest loss was to Claudio Ranieri’s Leicester City, 2-1 at the King Power Stadium. Afterwards Mourinho took the unusual step of criticising his players. “I feel my work is betrayed,” he said. “I worked four days in training for this match. I identified four movements where Leicester score a lot of their goals and in two of the four situations I identified they scored their goals. I went through it all with the players, you can ask them.”

After the defeat it had seemed a matter of when, not if, Chelsea’s owner Roman Abramovich would act, with the club in real danger of slipping into the relegation zone over the crowded festive period.

When asked after the Leicester defeat if he could hold on to his job, Mourinho said: “The only thing I can say is that I want to. I have no doubts and I think you know me well enough, three years this time, plus three years another time, that I am not afraid of a big challenge, and in this moment this is a real big challenge. I want to stay, I hope Mr Abramovich and the board want me to stay.”


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Shame half the team couldn't be sacked too!

[jesscp.livejournal.com]

Mou :( in his defence I truly don't believe all the blame for Chelsea's decline is on his shoulders. Cackling at how Abramovich clearly thinks getting rid of Mou will return Chelsea to winning ways, because he's going to get a reality check when the same dazed, tired and switched off players hit the pitch again.

I want to write so much more but I'm busy at work so inconvenient right now! but my parting comment is get rid of half of the first team who are only there to pick a pay cheque up, send Terry on his way to MLS because he is done in the PL now and utilise their youth academy for a damn change!!

RE: Shame half the team couldn't be sacked too!

[amor143x.livejournal.com]

Cackling at how Abramovich clearly thinks getting rid of Mou will return Chelsea to winning ways

i mean. it has happened. gladbach lost their first 5 games in the BL + 2 CL games and Favre left even though the club wanted him to stay. then they went undefeated in next 11 BL games without him. even beating bayern, but i don't follow chelsea or the PL so who knows really! lol

NOOOOOOOOOO

[jazzypom.livejournal.com]

Damn it! I have such conflicted feelings over Mourinho. A Liebestod if you will.

Love in that he's the one who seduced me into watching PL football, and even flirted with following Chelsea because of him. I bought an LG phone because he advertised it, and when he said that he was 'a special one', he was the shocking daub of colour against the grey haired, grey faced coaches of the game. Because of him, I started to understand what the notion of tactics was about, how Mourinho created a slight of hand with personality, charm and a good Aramani suit, to the honours that he racked up.

In the same breath, Mourinho hastened a death - he of the 'proven' over the academy talents, which hastened the distance of football from hometown lads to the professional disinterest of foreigners; of tying a big money spend to a team as much as a moral virtue. Himself and Abramovich turned the game from what it was to what it is now: the star footballer, the manager as cult of personality, putting media in the forefront of newspaper copy. The notion of tension and fireworks, although it quickened one's imagination, and fired up the red tops, just undid him in the end. Mourinho, I followed you from Chelsea, to Madrid, and back to the PL once more. I'll see you in my google mentions.

:*(

RE: NOOOOOOOOOO

[pullhimdown.livejournal.com]

In the same breath, Mourinho hastened a death - he of the 'proven' over the academy talents, which hastened the distance of football from hometown lads to the professional disinterest of foreigners; of tying a big money spend to a team as much as a moral virtue. Himself and Abramovich turned the game from what it was to what it is now: the star footballer, the manager as cult of personality, putting media in the forefront of newspaper copy.

I have a fuckton of conflicting feelings about the guy, but come on with the bolded parts. The guy doesn't care much about youth academies, that's true, but it's very disingenuous to tie him to big money spending on a team. How much money was Inter worth when he won the CL with them? The guy made a world class player out of Maniche, for fuck's sake. Maniche. Let that sink in for a moment. Blame him for everything else--the personality cult and the use of media is spot on--but that one's bullshit. He likes older player over youth team newbies and that's a lot that can be said for that, but what he did in Porto or Inter was not due to 'proven' talents. Older talents, definitely, but that was about it.

[the4thjuliek.livejournal.com]

Ugh, ONTD just rejected my post saying that it's better suited to a sports community :(

[aquaecolore.livejournal.com]

do they not recognize the drama this post would bring??

[ndobler.livejournal.com]

lol this week

[aquaecolore.livejournal.com]

well. Bayern might have an opening, i hear.

They're linking up with Ancelotti?

[jazzypom.livejournal.com]

I don't think Mourinho is a Bayern kind of guy though. But for real, why is Guardiola leaving bayern? Didn't he like the set up? They really catered to his every whim.

[peiro.livejournal.com]

Not sure if Marca are trolling or...? but Mourinho, el ideal para sustituir a Benítez (http://www.marca.com/futbol/real-madrid/2015/12/17/5672d89d46163fc81f8b458c.html) lmao such a mess.

As long as they don't come after Simeone during the summer...

[marsyke.livejournal.com]

Great idea! When it all went down in flames the first time,  the second time will be a success.

[blackjedii.livejournal.com]

Wooo won half my bet already!!

[sh3l8y.livejournal.com]

Lmao


He's a brilliant coach with wonderful career so far but his ego was out of control. Maybe he will be humbled by this a bit.


Edit: as a Madridistas I know we are supposed to hate Mou but he did both good and bad for the club. He kind of left it in shambles but it wasn't a disaster his whole tenure.

[the4thjuliek.livejournal.com]

Was it ever really in shambles when he left? I hardly think so. Chelsea's current state in shambles.

[blackjedii.livejournal.com]

The true irony being how Abramovich for good or bad refused to keep any coach BUT Mou and how Mou basically spat on Madrid in an attempt to get back to the one place he said treated him well

It would not be Chelsea or The Special One without epic levels of unnecessary drama

[givemedaughters.livejournal.com]

Bemused at some comments asking why he was sacked. 9 losses out of 16 fixtures, a point off the bottom three, no significant injuries to speak of, and the manager laying blame at the feet of everyone but himself. Sounds like Newcastle under John Carver, except it's the reigning PL champions. Abramovich has been more than patient with the shameful capitulation that has slowly and painfully unfolded these past months.

This is a recurring pattern with Mou. With each saga, the name of the club and the set of players involved are variables, but the name of the manager contributing to the friction and disharmony at the end is a constant. When the familiar red herrings get trotted out (a mole! the ball boys! the referees!), you to think to yourself "Hey, I've seen this story before!".

The players aren't absolved of any fault. But note how Hazard does OK for Belgium, Cesc similarly with Spain, etc. The only bummer, really, is that the Chelsea players are likely to start playing like professional football players again.

[lady-teazle.livejournal.com]

Totally agree. It'll be interesting to see who takes a chance on him next.

[givemedaughters.livejournal.com]

With rumors of Roma possibly firing Rudi Garcia because of the club's poor run of form, wonder if Mou fancies a return to Serie A...

Mourinho supposedly was beating the bushes in Serie A

[jazzypom.livejournal.com]

Earlier this season, so you might be right.

[the4thjuliek.livejournal.com]

I give up. Apparently, the image for my ONTD post which I uploaded onto my LJ account is broken. ananasonastick, aquaecolore, do either of you mind posting instead?

[ananasonastick.livejournal.com]

I hope they will approve mine. It begins with "Portuguese celebrities"!

God, I love the Guardian. They're having fun.

[the4thjuliek.livejournal.com]

We are now accepting suggestions for the perfect word to describe a scenario in which Mourinho is sacked while the top three clubs in the Premier League are managed by Claudio Ranieri, Arsene Wenger and Manuel Pellegrini.

RE: God, I love the Guardian. They're having fun.

[givemedaughters.livejournal.com]

Christmas

[enzobaker.livejournal.com]

He handled the situation at Chelsea poorly, including the whole thing with Eva . It seems he was not able to adapt to the current situation, and showed some inflexibility with team selections and tactics. Either way It may do him some good to humble himself.

[ananasonastick.livejournal.com]

He won't become humble. It's a mutual decision.

[meliadoul.livejournal.com]

While Mou did go off the rails the team wasn't trying to an embarrassing degree.

[ananasonastick.livejournal.com]

well, I hope they will continue

:P

[meliadoul.livejournal.com]

Thank you for all you have done for me. I owe you a lot and we will all miss you. Good luck in the future. pic.twitter.com/RQlOTFrtzU (https://t.co/RQlOTFrtzU)

— Cesc Fàbregas Soler (@cesc4official) December 17, 2015 (https://twitter.com/cesc4official/status/677533117415051266)

Fabregas is a waste of space this season. He should be saying sorry instead.

[givemedaughters.livejournal.com]

Don't hate the player, hate the game. Convinced that Cesc is to football what Petyr Baelish is to GoT.

RE: God, I love the Guardian. They're having fun.

[koyuki]

omg I can't believe I'm stuck at work as this is throwing down.

I kind of wanted Mourinho and Chelsea fans' despair to last longer but oh well. otoh I don't think the players are gonna get much better this season.

RE: God, I love the Guardian. They're having fun.

[the4thjuliek.livejournal.com]

I don't want Hiddink back because they did really well under him the last time.


Can't Brenda or Tactics Tim take over and get them relegated?

[lady-teazle.livejournal.com]

The Devil's Party: Blizzard article - part 1 - on why it always goes wrong for Jose in the 3rd year. (https://www.theblizzard.co.uk/articles/the-devils-party/)

I haven't read it yet, but just saw it on the Guardian's mbm of Jose-gate.

[pullhimdown.livejournal.com]

My very favorite thing about this is all the Benfica fanboys on my facebook timeline premature ejaculating all over the thought of Mourinho somehow replacing Rui "Vitória". A+++ for humour.

[untxi.livejournal.com]

lol @ the delusion.

[annoyanni.livejournal.com]

Oh my. I never thought this would actually happen.

[connorblond.livejournal.com]

I thought he was kind of sacred there! Never expected that to happen.

[ananasonastick.livejournal.com]

Breaking: LFP announce Bordeaux's Nicolas Pallois handed a three MONTH ban after allegedly shoving an assistant ref pic.twitter.com/LkdfXnUEgv (https://t.co/LkdfXnUEgv)

— Mohammed Ali (@mohammedali_93) grudzień 17, 2015 (https://twitter.com/mohammedali_93/status/677602440603136001)

[ananasonastick.livejournal.com]

Thierry Henry on Jose Mourinho: "I was expecting the sacking. They needed it to spark a reaction." pic.twitter.com/X1pLIa9o3c (https://t.co/X1pLIa9o3c)

— Squawka News (@SquawkaNews) grudzień 17, 2015 (https://twitter.com/SquawkaNews/status/677602929432391681)

[itsacoco.livejournal.com]

pls no

[ananasonastick.livejournal.com]

Imagine Mata's face if we sign Mourinho to replace LVG. pic.twitter.com/n2tyepR0bY (https://t.co/n2tyepR0bY)

— Man United Hub (@ManUnited_Hub) grudzień 17, 2015 (https://twitter.com/ManUnited_Hub/status/677599583321636865)

[itsacoco.livejournal.com]

i'm living for all these memes

[untxi.livejournal.com]

wenger was sacked by monaco.