ontd_football | Chelsea sack manager José Mourinho after disastrous start to title defence

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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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!!

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

Oh it could definitely happen and like you mention, it has happened for another club. The thing is, if you look at the Chelsea players currently, there's no drive behind their performances.

Knowing just a bit about monchengladbach, those players were having a bad time but there was still the passion and drive to want to do better, doubled with the fact that the supporters would still turn up to every game and will them on. Both of those facts aren't the case with Chelsea on the whole.

Chelsea has rode the highs the past couple of years with their older players still being fast and fit, as well as new signings breathing life into the team too. But that was then and now either the experienced players have gone or (in Terry's case) aren't good enough any more. Even the bigger signings seem to be jaded with it all.

I would love (okay not love but wouldn't mind!) being proven wrong but Chelsea needs a clean sweep - flush out the jaded players, get some fresh blood into the team to actually start playing like a team again. Getting rid of just a manager isn't IMO going to solve all of their problems.

I think Gladbach were also severely impacted by the injuries as well. I love what Schubert's done for the team but Favre was just unlucky.

God, I hope Chelsea don't hire Favre as their coach.

that is very true about the injuries. start of the season seems like a lifetime ago. are there any rumors about who they want to hire?

Brendan Rodgers, Hiddink and Juande Ramos, lol.

Ha ha haaaa!!! If they get Rodgers.

Chelsea can do a LOT better.

Not really. All the great managers are either in other jobs or have bad relations with Chelsea. They're one point above relegation. I'd say Brendan is their best bet at this point.

Not that I'd tell tales out of school, but his last eighteen months at LFC was a clusterfuck. In addition, he doesn't really seem to know how to handle players who've won things. He's played players out of position, and plays favourites. Hiddinck is the better choice, tbh.

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but his last eighteen months at LFC was a clusterfuck.

Not defending Brendan in any way, but I hardly think Liverpool under him were as bad as Chelsea are now. Comfortably mid-table with an uninspired fight for top 4, but never relegation level. At this point, I think Chelsea would more than just be happy with an EL spot.

If Brendan Rodgers had stayed with LFC up to now, we'd have been circling relegation. Don't you remember how terribly Liverpool was playing from the last half of last season (6-1 defeat to Stoke) to early on this season? It got bad enough to the point where people were returning their tickets, and tickets weren't being sold. At least Mourinho brought Chelsea glory in terms of titles and silverware. Rodgers' second season with LFC was an outlier, and I think his man management is suspect.

They got Hiddinck. As much as I'm meh on Dutch coaches in the PL, better him than Rodgers, tbh.

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the odd thing was Gladbach got some major injuries after Favre left and it's only seemed to catch up with them the last couple weeks.

anyway, i'm not sure Favre would want to pick up a team in a similar situation he left Gladbach in. Well, hopefully.

Yeah, but with Gladbach it was short-lived. They lost the past three matches again.

Chelsea will get a new coach bounce, which is what they need. Then, I'm assuming that come January, certain players will go, and the same thing for summer. What's Hiddinck's attitude towards academy talents, do you know?

I wouldn't be surprised if one of the reasons (in addition to circling the relegation drain) why Mourinho got shown the door was his refusal to integrate academy talents. Chelsea has spent a LOT of money on the academy, and there's been whisperers that Rueben Loftus Cheek is angling for a loan and not wanting to sign a contract because he isn't getting any playing time. Also, Chelsea's loan talents have been doing decently well for their loan clubs (I think one is a forward at Fiorentina and he pushed them to the knock out stages of Europa).

Edited 2015-12-17 15:55 (UTC)

Setup. These players aren't there to impress... They should have kept people like Schurrle who WANT to win

Chelsea sack manager José Mourinho after disastrous start to title defence

Shame half the team couldn't be sacked too!

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You realllly don't want Brendan

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