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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[jenny-jenkins.livejournal.com]

In real life, he'd be unemployable. In real life, his sexist comments this season (two of them) would have real consequences. In real life the "faggots" incident a few years ago would have had real consequences. In real life his persistent bullying of players (starting as early as his first tenure at Chelsea) would have real consequences. And other staff (at Madrid, at Chelsea) bullying incidents. For that matter, most coaches would be out of work in any other industry for their dickish behaviour. Take van Gaal and Victor Valdes. You try that in business (public humiliation, public shaming, ostracizing him at work) and see how long you stay in your job, asshole.

Perhaps real consequences are finally hitting one of these dicks; I think Mourinho's basically unemployable by any club he'd consider at the moment. But then, Perez is stupid enough. So. Who knows.