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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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Date: 2015-12-17 03:58 pm (UTC)They're linking up with Ancelotti?
Date: 2015-12-17 04:00 pm (UTC)RE: They're linking up with Ancelotti?
Date: 2015-12-17 04:04 pm (UTC)i guess he might get bored when things are too easy. i do wonder how Bayern would manage with someone else currently. They'd probably still be doing quite well.
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Date: 2015-12-17 04:08 pm (UTC)I'm sure. bayern is an exceedingly well run club. They have good players, good scouts, a solid DoF, have money so they don't have to sell their best players (and can refuse funds when certain teams come calling).
But where would Guardiola go? Serie A, League 1? I can't see him coming to the PL at all, tbh.
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Date: 2015-12-17 04:14 pm (UTC)Re: RE: Re: RE: They're linking up with Ancelotti?
Date: 2015-12-17 04:19 pm (UTC)RE: Re: RE: They're linking up with Ancelotti?
Date: 2015-12-17 09:05 pm (UTC)RE: They're linking up with Ancelotti?
Date: 2015-12-17 09:27 pm (UTC)I'm not sure that he got along with the way Bayern is in some aspects very set in its ways. Supposedly he for example wasn't that fond of Müller's playstyle, but if Müller had left under rumours it was Pep's pushing him out, that would have gone really badly.
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Date: 2015-12-17 04:08 pm (UTC)Lord no!!!!!
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Date: 2015-12-17 04:14 pm (UTC)RE: They're linking up with Ancelotti?
Date: 2015-12-17 09:35 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-12-18 12:10 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-12-17 04:15 pm (UTC)xD
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Date: 2015-12-17 04:19 pm (UTC)Plus Guardiola will want to see the CL through as far as he can